I carried Reba like I did before and ran towards west, looking around for any place that could help. I hear cracked howls of dogs and sharp barks from wolves. The farmlands had this aura of disturbed chaos. Ecosystem invaded each other with spiking borders braking. Roads have dead cattle laying the streets, some shot and axed. The air was moist and nearly windless, and the sky was cloudy.

Reba muddled while observing my running, “I-I knew you were strong but this is like, something from a movie. How?”. Trying to think of a good answer, “Modification? I don’t think I am a perfect clone of who ever my parent is. I’m the shortest out of the six but the fastest.”. She added, “And its not natural for people to have glowing eyes.”. I giggled, then Reba said with a deep tone, “Stop, its creepy.”.

I arrived at this small village, a couple of houses and stores, it was bleak and some windows had bullet holes. I asked Reba, “Do you have any idea what could have happened here? Would the military or agents or those monsters been hunting escapees here?”. Annoyed, she said, “You just answer your own question.”. I replied back, “I’m asking you.”. She just shouted in a weak voice, “Shut up.”. I stated, “Jeez, I’m usually the quite song here.”.

I put Reba down safely on the side walk, I told Reba, “I’m going to try to search for a hospital, so they could maybe fix your legs.”. She was silent.

I took my phone and looked at the map, there was no signal. I then look around for any place that could have a paper map, then I heard wolves, but they were close. I told Reba, “Oh we gotta move Reba.”. She was still silent but was well awake.

I lifted her back up and made my run still towards west, as I turn on an intersection, a pack of wolves jumped on me, I backed away, and another pack came from behind. They were very feral, their eyes were crooked and bloodshot. They were wobbling and making circling motions, they were violently confuse and some even attack each other for brief moments.

Reba said with fear and lack of confidence, “Look, um. I don’t know what to tell you.”. We were near a store so I threw Reba high up to that roof. A wolf charge at me barking and I spiralled kicked in the face. Its left eye was crushed and the wolves start to run at each other. One ran to me, I jumped on it and grabbed a ledge on the store, then made my way climbing the store to the roof top.

I said to Reba, “Are you okay?”. She said, “Buttercup, you are so damn strong, you just thrown me up a roof.”. I happily replied and giggled, “Thanks.”. She told me in this serious tone I never heard from her, “None of this is funny. We have animals going wild, there a conspiracy of a lone Canadian soldier on the loose and you are here giggling like we are in some fairy tale adventure. I know you are super strong and just steam roll everything that comes in your way but my fucking legs are broken and, whats with you?”. I said in a sadder voice, “I’m sorry, I just like being with you or wait... That didn’t come out right. Um, you know, your my best friend and I just...”, then she interrupted, “Just pick me up.”.

I lifted her up and made my move. As I walk to the other side of the store, I saw a green armoured car. I moved in a way where Reba could get a clear vision of the car and ask her, “Hey, do you know what model that is, who it belongs to?”. She signed, “Its pitch black, I can’t see.”. Realizing that she can’t see in the dark, I jumped on top of the car, then put her on top of the car. The wolves were attacking each other, some even eating each other. Dogs came out and joined the fray. I quickly try to open the track but the security alarm sounded, freaking out the canines. Reba shouted, “You fucking idiot.”. I defended myself, “I wasn’t sure, its just out here, the soldiers here could all be dead.”. Reba just said in a careless attitude, “Just get us out of here.”.

I broke the glass with my punches then try to unlock the door from the inside, but wolves were slamming themselves to the car, some getting knocked out. Reba screamed, “What are you doing you fucking idiot?”, I replied while trying to find the lock, “Sorry, I’m trying to get clues.”.

A bleeding dog came up to me and tried to bite my searching left arm, I quickly retracted it. Needing to relieve stress, I grabbed the dog by its neck, choking it, took out my left knife then stabbed its stop. Its cried out and struggled, then I teared to the nose and finally slashed out inward, it felt good. The dog fell down dead.

I kept on searching and found the switch, then unlock the door. When I opened the door, I heard gun shot fired at the to of the car, a little startled I looked and see Reba firing at the dogs with her rifle. I focus back on entering the car.

I jumped into the car, close the door, crushing a wolf’s head as it tried to enter in, I kicked it out then close the door again shut.

I looked around, I saw a steering wheel, a communication bay, a rifle that looks like the MRX-32 rifle but I know it isn’t, maps with red Xs and circles marked on it and controls for the various functions of the car. I turned up the comm-bay and heard command teams giving orders and checking statuses.

From the comm-bay I heard people speaking, “Border patrol 4 is on their way for routine exchange.”. It seem this was from the US-Canadian borders as New York state was boarding Canada. I saw a piece of paper with numbers on them with one point of interest, “Main Base. 00 0375124.”. I typed those numbers to the comm-bay. I heard two guys talking to each other, one light and had a light general American accent and another one with a Middle Eastern accent. The American accent said “I’m seeing wild animals everywhere Stafakar. I really think you should get out of there. I scout the rural area and found no subjects in the area. Just infected farm animals.”. The Middle Eastern accent stated, “We have been in every area but the NO three o six facility, but I don’t think we will infiltrate it just yet, they must still be on top alert as they and the US government have ordered their underlings to clean up her mess. I need to focusing on finding those K clones. I don’t know what she will be doing with them but whatever it is, its not good.”. The American voice then warned, “Stafakar! There is a third listener in the car. You gotta go back.”, Stafakar shouted, “Hello, what are you doing in my vehicle?”.

I turned off the comm-bay and got back up top of the car. The wolves were gone and same with the dogs, it was silent and Reba was keeping a sharp eye was posing her rifle. I tried to not startled her, “Okay, I think I found your person of interest. This is the Canadian soldier’s car and I think he may be arriving here.”. Reba didn’t budge but she said, “Good, you will lock him and I’ll interrogate. Do you know what they are doing?”. I explained, “They are search for a person, a woman who is getting the K clones.”. Then I speculate, “I also heard him mentioning that this was her mess, was she responsible for the breach? Why is she looking for us, is she the original or a US operatives wanting us to go for an assassin mission?”. Reba replied, “Maybe both.”. My body shrived with fear, I started to shake, the mere thought just brings a dreaded feeling of anxiety.

I mention to her, “Well the soldier, who’s name is Stafaker by the way, is looking for me. I myself don’t know why he would want to find us. Oh this is nerve playing.”. Reba tried to calm me down, “Don’t worry, just keep your eyes lasered.”.

While I keep my eyes scanning the fields, I see a human figure coming from the west road entrance of the little village, as I focus, I see the figure kneeling down and setting up a sniper rifle at our direction. I whispered to Reba, “There a guy sniping at us Reba!”. I point from where, Reba said, “Okay, hide, I’m gonna put my hands up and talk to him.”, I responded, “Okay.”.

I jumped down to the right side of the car, took out two of my knives and positioned myself ready to strike. I heard the rifle throw out from the back of the car, hitting the ground.

I waited, it was quite, I was ready, then I heard a light metal bang hit the car. I stand posed, I wanted to asked what happened but I didn’t want to blow my cover. Then this gas started to filled the air, then Reba started coughing, screaming, “Run!”. I asked “Why?”, the gas thicken, making me cough and tear up. At a blinking moment, I ran away from the car covering my mouth while coughing and my tearing eyes closing. I then tripped on a rock and fall down a down ward hill. I recovered, took my hands away from my mouth and opened my eyes.

The car turned on and I shout a rusty yell, “Reba!?”. I got up and made my way back up, seeing the armoured car’s lights on the Reba no longer on the roof. The car made its way going west, and a deep sunk of fear just hit my stomach. I teared up but was angry, I hold my knives tight and followed the car from a distance. I’m going to chase this car far away from presumably Stafaker’s sights, and if he dares lays his hands on Reba, I was going to cut every inch of his fucking skin to a canvas of blood.