full_metal: (thousand yard stare)
Rita Vrataski ([personal profile] full_metal) wrote in [community profile] applesaucedream 2015-08-01 01:17 am (UTC)

First Avenue is a wreck, just like every other street, but at least this stretch of it is quiet. Rita was able to ensure that much before her spare battery gave out, forcing her to abandon her suit on the sidewalk. It stands there like a piece of modern art in front of a caved-in shop and the remains of a canvas banner, shredded in such a way that it now just reads DANGER. Hilarious.

She can see it clearly from where she's holed up, in a second-story flat across the way. All she has now is her side-arm and a few grenades. Enough to take out more of the enemy. Enough to take herself out, too, if she has to. What are the odds of her getting out of this alive?

When have the odds ever concerned her?

For now, she watches the street below. It's littered with bodies that lie where she dropped them, most no longer moving, one or two still twitching or groping in automatic reflex. Immobile enough to not be worth a bullet.

She was so close to making it to the bridge. God damn it.

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