A Gunpowder Rhapsody /// Chapter 3

An ant skittered across the ground. It was just another morning for this ant. It wasn’t even aware of the war that’s been going on for the past hundred or so years.

And suddenly, the ant was dead. Squished. Squashed. Flattened. Pancaked.

Ellie: I think I stepped on something.

Larry: Prolly a bug. Not a big deal, as long as it ain’t a landmine.

Ellie: Yeah, but I still don’t wanna kill a bug.

Larry: Hm.

…

Phil: How close are we?

Larry: To the mountains?

Phil: Yeah. Duh.

Larry: We ain’t even 3 minutes away from the bunker, dummy:

Ellie: Haha.

Phil: I already fear for my life.

Larry: You’re not getting captured. You have the suicide pills in your bag, don’tcha?

Phil: No.

Larry: Ah, shit.

Phil: Suicide’s a sin.

Phil was what you could call “religiously insane”. While the other 2 were also religious, Phil took it to the next level and almost all of his actions and words were religiously motivated. He says that for every man he killed, he would give their corpse their own personal sermon and eulogy. He believes that everyone involved in this war is damned, so he tries as hard as he can to redeem himself in the Lord’s eyes.

He wasn’t wrong for believing suicide was a sin, but he sure was a bit weird for believing everything is a sin.

Ellie: The entire world is at war and is never going to stop. At this point, daily life is a sin.

Larry: Let’s not get into this…

The three then entered the woods. The sun peeked through the trees, leaving small portions of the forest exposed to the light. A small, broken drone lay at the base of a tree.

Phil: …

Larry: What, what about the drone?

Phil: I remember a drone like that one.

Ellie: Are you getting PTSD again?

Phil: No, stupid. But it was pretty bad what happened. We had an outpost set up in the desert, and one of these drones came in and dropped a single grenade on the exact tent before it was shot down. Everyone in that tent except for me died. I saw a man’s skin be bur-

Ellie: Okayyy, that’s enough. I think we understand what happened.

Phil: It looks sorta cute when it’s not dropping grenades and scanning our faces so those government bastards can assassinate us after the war’s over.

Larry: Wait, they do that?

Phil: I want to keep it.

Ellie: What?

Phil: Maybe it’s not so bad. It was only being evil because it was programmed to be.

Larry: So what, you gonna keep it as a souvenir or somethin’?

Phil: Maybe i’ll let Quinn fix it and reprogram it so it’s on our side. It’s quite easy to d-

The drone turned on. The three went dead silent. The drone then scanned the three, and flew away.

It also took notice of the scanner in Larry’s bag.

Phil: I’m gonna die of fear.

Ellie: Relax… they won’t torture us for putting down one of their faulty robots.

Phil: Yes they will. I’ve seen people crucified for not following orders. War is religion to most people.

Larry: Let alone 2 people who managed to evade the military drafts assisting a deserter in destroying a faulty robot and hiding the evidence.

Phil: That’s… reassuring at all.

Ellie: Too bad we can’t destroy the tracker, or something. Haha.

Phil: Yeah.

Ellie: Wait, we actually can’t?

Phil: They’re near indestructible. And the reason they’re like that is because of people like us destroying war machines and hiding the evidence. May the Lord help us.

Larry: Okay…

Ellie: You’ve got a plan or something?

Phil: We run like hell and pray we reach the mountains.

Bro
Been
COOKIN'

That’s awesome

Nice!

WHERE CHAPTER 1???

May I suggest a Taser?

A Taser can damage the drone, and make it stop flying. Just be careful to not overcharge it.