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Death By Corrosion V1, E2: Tell Me More
Posted By: Kurt Cobain<DeathbyCorrosion07@yahoo.com>
Date: 30 September 2003, 12:18 AM


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      "I already told you everything I know." Keyes winced in pain, his leg had been hurt pretty badly. " I mean it, I really do."
      Now, why don't I believe you, you want to know why, because people like you are LIARS, L-I-A-R-S, with a big S. Now tell me the truth before I have to make you. No, okay, then we do this the hard way, but when you go to the infirmary don't tell them I didn't warn you, OKAY!" The officer, Detective Kenneth Keen, a 6 '1 man, with black, short hair, and blue eyes jumped from his seat, and lunged at the man, Nathan J. Keyes, better known as Nate, or Big Keyes' boy. Keyes, lifted his arm, to protect himslef from the tired, and angry detective.
      A cop walked in, and saw Det. Keen pummeling Private Keyes. "Hey, you get off him now! Don't make me mace you." The officer of the law ran up to the fight, and grabbed Keen's fist while he was raising it to punch again. Keyes' mouth was bloody,"Listen Keen, I don't like you, and hardly anyone else does. So if I find out you do this agian, I will personaly put you away for 5-10, and i'm serious. If you do that again, and someone gets hurt, I'm gonna bring you down, and maybe have to kill ya, that will be the day, won't it." The officer walked out of the room, and Det. Keen got off of Keyes.
      Keyes slowly got up, and back into his chair. "Why, why did you sign up for this job?" Keyes wiped the blood off best he could with the handcuffs on. "Tell me, if you don't I'll make sure they kill you."
      "Who's THEY, a gang? Listen pal, I don't have to tell you shit. I signed on this job because I would have gotten fired if I didn't. Tell me, who's this THEY group?"
      "A group of people who callk themselves DEATH BY CORROSION. I've heard they get the job done, and haven't gotten caught yet. They would waste you in a second, from what I've heard. So don't tell me you'r not telling me shit, or else your end will be soon. Okay, pal, Beck wasn't the only one with good connections."
      "What's that supposed to mean? You were smuggling drugs weren't you, weren't you. Yea, I've heard that term before, connections means your getting the stuff, the drugs, right. Refresh my memory."
      "That's not what it is, it means we were getting... okay we were smuggling drugs. We didn't think they'd catch us, but they did, they caught us, and they almost killed us. We forged checks, we stole identities, we did whatever we could to get them. They almost killed us, It wasn't worth it."
      "Now we're getting somewhere, tell me more about this murder."

FLASHBACK

      Okay, then we're doing it, right." Ripley nodded his head. "I'm going to hell for this I know it, but I'm still doing it. Prison is worse then Hell."
      "Are you even listening, we killed Beck. His father has 13 of the 20 shares in Earth City. That means he's got a shit load of money. If we don't come up with a good story we ain't gettin anywhere but prison, and even if we do, we still have no chance. This is stupid, we shouldn't even try. I'm not doing it." BLAM. Private Ellis fell onto the ground, a bullet chipped his skull, and entered his brain.
      "How many people are you going to kill before this is over? You can't keep doing this." Ripley raised his gun and aimed it at Private Keyes. "Go ahead, it won't make much a difference, we're all going to get the penalty, even if we're only accused of being partners in it. That's three murders,not to mention one of the victims is a Sergeant in the military, and the others are Buck Privates. That doesn't help, that only makes it worse."
      "So your saying one more death won't do anything. Then why don't I just make you that 4th victim." Riply aimed better, and BLAM, fell onto the ground. Keyes, held his smoking gun. He fell onto the ground also, a bullet wound it his chest. Ripley also fired.
      "Shit that hurts! Can I get some help over here?" Charles, Ray, Ellis, and Jenson came to help. BLAM,BLAM, Ripleys gun fired twice. He sat with his gun aimed at Keyes, but luckily Ellis was in the way. One bullet entered Ellis' right leg, and the other entered his back. He fell, grabbing his leg.
      "No way, that can't be, I told my wife I'd be home soon." He winced in pain. Blood ozooed fast out of both wounds. "The bullet, it hit my femaorl artery. I'll be dead soon, tell my wife I died saving you, she'll be plea..." his unfinished words disaprd, along with his life.
      "You were a good man," BLAM, a bullet hit Keyes right ankle,"shit, that hurt. He fell, and grabbed his ankle.He wrapped his bandana around it, to stop the blood flow, and add pressure. BLAM, he ducked heard Jenson cry out. "No," he jumped at Ripley, and managed to take the gun away. He pointed it at Ripley, along with his gun. Ripley took a step, "Don't even think about it, if you move a fuckin' inch, if you even breath, I will fuckin' waste you, and make sure they never find out your were evn born. Dental records don't have shit on me, you got that!"
      Ripley tried to jump at Keyes, but ended up with twelve bullet holes in him. 7 to his head, and the rest indented in his stomach. He crumpled to the floor, and was dragged and left outside. Keyes, reloaded both guns, and put them away. "Okay, we need to radio in, NOW! Where's the radio, shit, Tolkien's got it. Ray, go get it." Ray marched to Tolkien's dead body, and came back twelve minutes later, with Tolkien standing behind him, a gun to ray's head. "How'd this happen? You're dead, you're dead, this can't be, you're dead."
      "No, I was pretending, something you should've remembered, it was part of the training, the only reason I chose Beck is because he's gay, and im HOMOPHOBIC. Where's everyone else? Tell me Keyes, I need to get them back before it's too late." Keyes didn't answer, and Tolkien let Ray go. "Where are they Keyes? Where's Beck, Ripley, Ellis? Do you know where any of them are?" Keyes pointed outside, and Tolkien walked out to look, he walked back in. "What happened, is Beck dead too?" Keyes nodded yes. "Shit, this is bad, I'm gonna get blamed for all of this. Unless, I'm not alive, yes, that's always an option."
      "What is?" Tolkien lifted his weapon, put the barrel in his mouth and fired. BLAM, "NO! Sergeant Tolkien, no, what about us." His brains painted the walls, and he fell to the ground. "Grab the radio transmitter, and hand it to me." Jenson finally managed to get up, and di that. "StaticHello Bravo, Bravo 22, are you reading?" There was a long silence, then an answer saying yes. They radioed for help, and they said they help was on the way.
      "Okay Jenson, I'm gonna lift you up, then I'm gonna carry you to the checkpoint." Charles and ray stayed behind, "I'll pick you up later." Keyes picked Jenson up, and started the 2 km march to the checkpoint, when he finally made it there, he set Jenson in there, where he was taken care of, and he hopped in. "Go over here," he pointed, and went back to get Charles and Ray. When he got there, neither of them were there, and Beck's body along with Ripley's were missing. "No way, where could they be, they couldn't have lived, at least not Ripley. How could they be gone. Fly around the area, maybe we'll spot them.
      "Wait, I see them," Keyes saw Ripley and Beck carrying Ray, and Charles. He then noticed that they stopped. He saw Beck walk behind Ripley, pull out his gun and, "No! Don't do it, Beck. It's not worth it, No!" BLAM,BLAM,BLAM, Ripley fell to the ground, headless. He then saw Beck set Ray down, BLAM, and then Charles BLAM. They both twitched, then it was over. "No! Beck you goddamn bastard, I'll kill you. I'll kill you, Beck." He then saw Beck look up at the helicopter, and fire three rounds BLAM,BLAM,BLAM-PING,PING,PING. Keyes waved the helicopter away, and then it flew away.

END FLASHBACK

      "So you think this was all a setup? Interesting, but I still need to know more." Keyes pulled out a gun, and pointed it at Det. Keen.
      "Still need more, get me the hell outta here, and I'll tell you all about it!"

TO BE CONTINUED





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