After a long night of running through the deserted country we finally arrived at the rebellion's base. It was made out of fortified silver, and had huge crossbows mounted and watchtowers. Around the area were various sun-scorched vampyre corpses, a few vampyre heads mounted on spikes, and after tonight around fifty (that Talon and I could see) of freshly slain vampyres.
"Who are you and why are you here?" I heard someone shout, and the sound of multiple guns cocking. Talon and I held our hands up, a sign of n peace.
"We're the sole remainders of the western quadrant. The rest of the quadrant are either dead, infected, or taken back to one of the vampyre cities." I replied, and heard the guns being moved away. There was a loud siren, and a hidden door opened up into the base. Talon and I grabbed the duffle bags even tighter and dashed into the base. A man stood there waiting for us, and I saw him smoking a cigarette.
"Whoa... Ash is that you?" He asked, and I grinned when I saw who it was.
"Hey Brit Boy how's it going?" I hugged him tightly.
"I heard you were dead!" He exclaimed, and the three of us walked deeper into base. Danny and I talked for a while, Talon walking behind us quietly. Finally we arrived in the war room, where leaders from the different quadrants were on chat.
"We are facing a new threat." I announced, and saw the leaders looking at me in shock.
"What's the newes issue Outlaw?" The leader from the Alaskan quadrant asked.
"The vamps are no longer attacking during the night. I lost my own quadrant last night after a surprise attack from a group of vampyres. But it wasn't really during the night; they attacked during the daylight hours." I heard shocked gasps from the different chats, and saw one woman faint.
"Outlaw, Talon could you describe the attack?" Another leader asked, this one from Egypt. Talon shook her head.
"We were just beginning to return to base when I got a message from Bandit. She told, no ordered us to not return and run away." Talon said sadly, and I felt depressed too. We let our quadrant down.
"Don't believe it is your fault. If Bandit told you to skedaddle the fuck out of there, there would be no questions asked. You two were her best fighters, and had better chances of getting out of there without being captured, killed, or infected." The leader from a quadrant in Japan said. We both nodded, exiting out of the chat.

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"Outlaw, why did Brit Boy call you Ash?" Talon asked when we were in our bunks. I sighed, running my fingers over the tattoo I had on my forearm.
"Because it's my nickname. We... know each other." I said, remembering the times that Andy, CC, Jake, Jinxx, Danny and I would go out and get fucking drunk as hell.
"How?" Talon crawled out of her bunk, sitting on the edge of mine. I rubbed my hand down my face, remembering the good old times.
"Danny used to be a really close friend to me... and my other friends. I used to be in a band. We had gotten three albums out before the..." Talon trailed off, tugging on the ends of her fading hair.
"I know we never got along, but since we're the only two left from the western quadrant could we at least try?" She asked, and I nodded.
"But that means no more hiding things. Okay? We come clean to each other about who we are, no secrets anymore." I said, and Talon nodded.