The Legion of Discord ch.6

The Legion of Discord

Chapter 6

Mus slipped into the chair, determined to steal the computer for a few seconds even though her sister had asked her not to. She would not be in the chair long however, as the sound of wood shattering caused her to jolt out of it.

"Ele! Oh my god, what was that?"

Mus rushed to the front hall as fast as she could… and then let out a scream as she beheld two of the most terrifying individuals she had ever seen.

They were tall, despite their hunched postures. They were dressed all in brown robes that concealed all of their features… except for their eyes, which seemed to glow red from beneath their hoods.

The first robed figure had Ele in his grip, with one hand covering her mouth. The second looked as though he was ready to do the same to Mus.

"Okay," Mus said shakily. "You just… you just, uh, put my sister down and back off, okay? I'm trained in… uh, hitting people really hard?"

The robed figure didn't say a word. It simply began to advance on Mus, shambling like a zombie out of an older horror film.

"I mean it, stay back!" Mus was up against the wall. "…Please stay back?"

"I'm sorry, but is this a bad time?"

That voice. That low Liverpool-accented voice. Mus would know that voice anywhere, and she felt a hundred times safer for having heard it.

The two figures turned around to find a certain pigtail wearing vigilante standing where the front door used to be.

The School Girl.

"I'm terribly sorry for dropping by at this hour, but I was wondering if you gents could help me out with something." The School Girl reached into one of the pouches on her belt. She pulled out a silver sphere, roughly the size of a baseball, and tossed it towards the figure that had been preparing to attack Mus.

The next thing Mus knew, there was a blinding flash of blue light, forcing her to cover her eyes. When she opened them again, Ele was safe, and the two hooded individuals were lying on the ground unconscious.

The School Girl grinned. "EMP bombs: gets them every time."

Mus ran over and embraced her sister. "Ele, are you okay? Oh, I was so scared!"

"Me too, sis. Me too."

The School Girl bend down to examine one of the bodies. She pulled back the hood, and what was underneath elicited another scream from Mus. Instead of a human face, there was a grinning metal skull, not unlike the Terminator.

"What the hell is that?" Ele asked pointing.

"It's called a shade," School Girl answered.

"They're robots!" Mus exclaimed.

"Well, only from the neck up." School Girl removed one of it's gloves, revealing a sickly pale hand. "Just like the others. You disable the mechanical components, and the organic portions undergo accelerated necrosis. Well, more accelerated."

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Ele asked.

"It means that it's body is going to decay and decompose very quickly. You'll probably want to wash your floor afterwards."

Mus made a face. "Ewwwwwwww!"

"More of them will probably come," School Girl continued. "We may want to leave this place right away."

She paused, and narrowed her eyes at the two sisters.

"But first… where's that backpack you were supposed to be guarding?"

To be continued