All We Know

Nashville, Tennessee was a different place then it had been some eighty years ago. In 2090, it had become a highly technologically advanced society complete with a staggering rate of crime and brutality, a city that had reflected the trying times of America. People became fearful to even leave out of their homes, afraid they would succumb to the evils that stayed outside of their doors. Police were no help. If they weren't already corrupted by the virus aptly named Evil, then they were to afraid to do anything against the humans who had been infected by the Evil Virus, becoming monsters in themselves. But not all those infected by the Evil Virus became monsters. Some became heroes. Some became gods.
A young, red headed boy with spiked hair and the body of Zeus stood on a five mile roof and stared at the carnage below on the street. His heightened sense of sight made him able to catch a glimpse of the 2090 version of Jesse James shooting at a giant lion human hybrid monster complete with a gang of other jungle cat hybrid monsters all housing a set of snarling teeth dripping with hungry saliva. The cheetah hybrid woman moved at incalculable speeds, claws scratching at the young, urban man's clothing. His knees buckled at her monstrous velocity and the sheer force of her claws. He summoned shoulder rocket launchers and blasted at the other, slower jungle cat hybrids, but the tiger hybrid clawed at the missles, causing them to explode midair. His smile threatened the young man's calm. The Blacc Panther hybrid was the stealthier of the gang. He sensed something was amiss, so he took to the darkness the alleys offered and made a ghost of himself. The lion hybrid sniffed trouble when the panther hybrid became a mere illusion but before he could react, he received a sniper tranquilizer to the chest, making him sleepy on impact. When the other jungle cat hybrids saw the king of the jungle fall victim to the powerful tranquiling agent, their eyes grew to size of golfballs. The next to fall was the cheetah hybrid. She fell behind the young urban youth and the tiger hybrid simply stood in shock as his mouth hung open, showcasing his vicious set of teeth. He was so surprised that his group of jungle cats had fallen and he was the only one left. The eye of the tiger had appeared on his face.
The tiger hybrid roared shaking the pedestrians who watched from the sidewalks and windows of the busy Nashville streets to their core. The citizens watched as te tiger hybrid rush the youth with a burst of adrenaline unknown to normal humans. Two unknown white girls came up behind the urban youth with assault rifle like weapons shooting full blast. But the tiger knocked those high speed tranquilizer with his vicious claws and grew closer and closer to the young man, but he smiled, showcasing courage byond belief in the face of a monster. Instead he formed an 'x' with his forearms and made pistol signs with his hands. Two guns with four barrel holes and one square barrel to house the barrels materialized in his hands and with a smile, he aimed it at the impeding tiger hybrid and fired the high calibers pistols. The gas pellets that left the barrels was ten times the potency of the tranquilizers that filled the lion and cheetah hybrids, but the tiger was still running full speed toward his assailant. The urban youth stood still with a vigilant face, knowing when the tiger hybrid least expected it, he would fall. And sure enough when the tiger hybrid's claws were close enough to maul the young man, it simply fell to its knees with its eyes closed. Then it fell face forward on the young man's shoes and the two white girls came running from behind the cars they took cover behind. His best friend came running to his side, "You okay Gun Man?"
His smile was enchanting and it made her feel as though she were the only woman in the world. "Yeah I'm okay, Lady. Where's Baby at?"
"Right here!!" An excited voice came behind Gun Man and a beautiful young woman with precious eyes and an innocent face appeared by the side of Gun Man. Both of the ladies were equipped with beautiful smiles and assault rifles.
Gun Man returned their smiles. "Chevy should be on his way to pick us up. Hopefully the J.C's stay sleep until he get here."
"What about Blacc Panther? What are we gonna do about him?" Baby Gun asked, voice full of curiousity.
Gun Man looked around the city lights and answered, "Nothing we can do until he show up. You know when the Panther disappear, it's hard to find him ya' heard me."
The ladies laughed, knowing that what he said was true. Then the laughter stopped when Lady Gun spotted a troupe of armored flying men with armaments almost as scary as the flaming skull insignias on their helmets. The man on the roof with the flaming red hair spotted them too. He watched the armored party fly down on the group of vigilantes with mannerisms that read vengence. He looked down on the group and waited for his chance to jump into the fray.
"Look Gun Man!" Baby Gun yelled. "I don't think they came to play nice, baby."
An angry scowl formed on Gun Man's face and the anger that came over him caused him to place his two pistols together. The two pistols began to morph into one large weapon and turret arms popped out of the bottom of the new weapon that formed in his hands. His anger resonated from his voice as he shouted while massive bullets rang out of the large tripod automatic death bringer, "I could've sworn we just saved the city from the Zoo Crew! Why the polices always acting as though we the criminals!?" His bullets continued to miss the armored policemen who moved with the speed of buzzing bees. They moved in a horde with their own assault rifles shooting at the vigilantes below. Gun Man continued to release his anger, venting his rage with bullets. "Feel my hatred!!!!!"
It was time. The red headed man who stood on the roof watching was now tired of watching. He took a step back, ran two steps forward, and took a dive of destiny. For a moment, all of the stress from the world was gone. All he knew was a feeling of falling. That was until he fell on top of one of the armored policemen, causing him to nosedive straight into the fight. When they landed into a car, the vehicle and the armored policeman exploded into a furious explosion, but the red headed man rolled away unscathed and faced Gun Man with a hardened face. Gun Man returned his look with one that asked the question, "Who are you?"
At that moment, bullets whizzed through the unknown red headed man, giving him the appearance that he was ethereal, but in reality, he moved with such quickness that no bullet shot from the armored policemen's guns could touch him, causing the bullets to fly toward Gun Man. Gun Man dodged the bullets and ran into his tripod, causing the tripod to shift into a more mobile Gatling gun. He slid onto the wet concrete, letting loose the bullets from his weapon into the police officers. The red headed man watch the other policemen wrangle up the jungle animals who had reverted back into their human forms, all but the tiger hybrid, whose tiger tenacity still made his body fight off the tranquilizer effects even while unconcious. Both the red headed man and Gun Man knew that police custody was a fate worse than death.
The captain of the police troupe stepped forward with his assault rifle and loudly ordered, "Stand down, freaks!"
Rebelliously, Gun Man answered back, "No you stand down!", and he continued to fire rounds from his gatling gun. Lady Gun ran closer to the policemen with her assault rifle in an attempt to get a better shot, while Gun Baby climbed on top of a car and turned her weapon into ones similiar to Gun Man's tripod to clear the policemen away from the Jungle Crew. She didn't know why but her sense of justice told her that it would be immoral to allow the Jungle Crew to fall into the hands of the corrupt police officers. As she shot, Blacc Panther came out of hiding, releasing his fury from the shadows, pouncing on the nearest police officer. It was an all out war. Vigilantes and Evil infected creatures alike against the corrupt police officers, and watching this made the red headed man question who it was he should help. It was total carnage and he had jumped in the middle of it.
Gun Man looked at Blacc Panther with a look of wanting. Blacc Panther saw the need to help him in Gun Man's eyes. Just at that moment, Chevy swerved through in a large, souped up Box Chevy. Blacc Panther gave Gun Man a strong glare with his bright yellow eyes, and mouthed, "Go."
Baby Gun was the first to jump in the car, hanging out of the front seat window to help clear out the policemen still gathering up the zoo animal hybrids. They returned fire at the car and Chevy exclaimed when several of the bullets scraped his beautiful, candy red Box Chevy. He pressed one button and a metallic armor appeared all around the car and the bullets that followed the first wave met resistance as they bounced the seemingly impenetrable shield now around the car. The car's tires screeched as he went to pick up Lady Gun from off the gun. When he stopped beside the car Lady Gun stood on top of, he poked his head out of the window, and with Baby Gun providing cover fire, he yelled, "Get yo' ass in the car girl! They still shooting at my ride and I ain't appreciating what these bullets is doing to my Chevy. The tripod shape shifted into an assault rifle. She provided further cover fire as she entered the car, mimicking her sister-in-arms, and climbing out of the window to thin out the police officers.
Once the police officers figured out that it was futile to shoot at the vehicle, they switched their targeting sights to Gun Man, who was still firing his Gatling gun at any target that held an insignia of a skull on its helmet. The bullets were getting closer and closer and just when it seemed that all hope was lost and that Gun Man's luck had ran out, Chevy swerved the large car in front of Gun Man for protection. Gun Man turned that same Gatling gun into two massive revolvers that held twelve bullets instead of six and fired into the policemen who were attempting to kill Blacc Panther, sitting those policemen on their behinds. Gun Man jumped in the car just as Blacc Panther roared, "Go!"
As soon Blacc Panther wasn't looking, he caught a tranquilizer round to the shoulder blade, falling into the arms of a police officer. The police officer took Blacc Panther into the air and most of the police officers followed suite with the rest of the Jungle Crew in tow. Gun Man shook his head, knowing that the Jungle Crew was in for a universe of pain and a world of hurt.
But two police officers stayed behind to battle the red haired man. He just smiled and waited for the two police officers to advance.
On the drive back to the hideout, Chevy hit the dro blunt and asked Gun Man with the smoke exiting out of his mouth, "Man who was dude with the red hair back there?"
Gun Man shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't even much know, dog."
Chevy hit the dro again and passed it behind him. "You think he survived them polices?"
Baby Gun interjected, "Heeeeeellllllll yeah! You should've seen him. He was dodging them bullets like they was nothing. It looked like he ain't even move, but them bullets moved right past him. Bout hit Gun over here."
Gun Man laughed and passed the dro back up to Chevy, "Man shut up. I ain't think ya boy was that fast man! But dude was doin' it fall. Straight busting heads, he came in the squabble knocking on them polices heads man. Straight doin' it. What took you so long anyways man, we been waiting on you?"
"You know I had to get fresh in my 3G."
Baby Gun looked over at Chevy and replied, "I see you. Dressed in my clothing line. You sexy now boy."
Chevy smiled, "You know I gotta support my people. Plus yo' clothes be the freshest."
"Yeah, you know you keeping the hood fresh baby."
"You know I wouldn't have this money if it wasn't for you believing in me, setting me up with a little money and Lady Gun taking them pictures of the models in my clothes."
"Well you know Lady talented like that."
Chevy passed the blunt behind him. "Man y'all all talented. Y'all each got y'all own thing going on. Gun Man got his writing thing taking off, making movies and whatever. Lady got her pictures in every major magazine and Baby got her picture in all the magazines as some kind of fashionista. But I ain't got nothing man. I be feeling like a sidekick, wondering what my purpose is."
Gun Man hit the blunt and asked him confused, "What you mean, dog? Yo' purpose is clear. We helping people. Police ain't doing nothing for 'em. We all that stand in the way."
Chevy shook his head in disbelief. "I don't know about this superhero business man. I mean the people who we help don't even appreciate everything we do for them. But we good though. We got money, all our families straight. What we gotta do for these people for? As far as I'm concern, I feel like these people should just do for them, and we should take on our old motto. Ain't none of our business."
Lady Gun shook her head in disapproval. "That ain't cool, Chevy."
Chevy answered back. "Okay so y'all tell me. What y'all do this for? Help me understand."
Gun Man exhaled the smoke and played with his immature chin hairs. In a moment of clarity, he smiled and answered, "That's all I know, homie. This is all I know."