forum Alien Apocalypse // Private

Started July 15, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Jay kept sleeping, curled up still. Leo was laying still, twitching sometimes as he dreamed.
(Timeskip? Also starting later today, i wont be on until Saturday. Idk if i already told u or not)

(Sounds good! I won't be on much either cuz I'm with a friend for a few days. And yeah timeskip)

Delia didn't mean to sleep as long as she did, but the bed was just so comfy it was hard to resist. When she woke up, the sun was already up and rising, which meant she had slept way longer than she wanted to.

Jay was awake, and out in the other section of the apartment, sitting on a ruined couch. He had his eyes closed, thinking. I should leave. I should leave. Safer for Delia.

Slowly, she sat up and yawned, rolling out of the bed and not even bothering to put on shoes as she grabbed her crutches and wandered around the apartment until she found Jay. "Mornin'" she mumbled and nodded in greeting, "How'd you sleep last night?"

(i will be afk starting now, btw)

Jay looked up. "Fine, I guess." He said softly, standing. "I'm…sorry about… everything." He bit his lip. "I can leave, by the way. If you want me to. I'd rather…leave, and try to keep you safe, then stay and end up killing you."

(K see ya!)
"No," She said quickly, yawning and shaking her head, "I want you to stay..but I won't force you if you want to leave." With a sigh, she shook her head again, "I'm sorry about last night, I had to think…and I know it's a suicide plan, but I think I could stop the aliens for good and keep you and Leo alive along with everyone else on earth." Delia left it at that, kicking at the ground with her uninjured leg and sighing, "Well, shall we go try on the clothes and be on our way?"

(i thought I wouldn't have cell service…but it turns out i do, so I'll be on, just less than usual)
Jay nodded slowly. "May I ask what that plan is?" He asked softly. "I promise the aliens won't know. They can't…read my mind or shit like that. The…programming only keeps me from killing myself, and when activated, forces me to…kill others." He wondered if she would catch the fact that the only way he could know it kept him from killing himself was if he had tried. He didn't really care either way.

(Oke doke! Sounds good!)
Delia shrugged, "Sure, why not. I'm going to go sit back in there to tell it though." She motioned back towards the room and headed back there, plopping down and pulling on her shoes to give herself something to do while she waited for him to be ready.

Jay nodded, and followed her into the room. Leo was awake, and was bouncing around on the bed, then jumped onto the ground, sniffing at Delia curiously.

"My plan needs some information from you to work though, like the ships layouts and things like that." She glanced at Jay as she started, swinging her uninjured leg, "Do you know anything about their ships?"

"Big." He blurted. "They're…big. I don't know much about the layout…I was kept in a cell most of the time. Except for…but that isn't important. I don't know where anything is located."

"Any information would help, anything to let me know where to search and where not too." She laid back on the bed and sighed, "My plan was basically to try to blow up the ships by turning them across from eachother and shooting whatever weapons they have towards the other ship. There's no way I would be able to survive, but I could potentially get others out and then blow that popsicle stand."

"The…back middle of the ship is engines. I think. On the left side of the middle, is the cells where i…we…the humans were kept. On the right was the…arena."

Delia looked over at him with a confused look, "The…arena? What's that?"

He swallowed. "Where they tested the…programming." he said softly, looking at his hands. His hands were shaking slightly, and he clenched them together. "They would…" He broke off, closing his eyes.

"Hey," She said gently, looking over at him and seeing his shaking hands, "If you don't want to tell me you don't have to. But I'd like to know." Delia sat up and scooted over to him, Leo jumping on the bed and following her over to Jay.

"They put those of us with the…the programming in the arena. It was simulated to look like Earth." He hesitated. "And then they would…activate the programming. We can't kill each other. Then…" He hesitated again, looking down at his hands. His voice died down to a whisper. "They'd set a bunch of…of normal people loose and…see how fast we could kill them." He closed his eyes. -blood everywhere oh my God- he swallowed. Leo whined, nuzzling him gently.

Her eyes widened and she thought about it for a moment, shaking her head and looking down at the mattress. "Geez…" She breathed, glancing over at him, "How….how many times did you have to do that?" Delia hesitantly put a hand on his shoulder, not knowing what to do with the new information than to have another reason to blow up the ships.

"I don't know. I lost count." He whispered, looking down at his hands, which were shaking again. He swallowed. "All of us programmed ones…we…" He bit his lip. "There was so much blood. Everywhere." His voice choked up slightly. "I'm sorry. I-I can't…"

"It's alright," She whispered, "You don't have to say anything you don't want to." Delia kept her hand on his shoulder and was silent, her mind whirring with ideas and anger and hate for the aliens along with a billion more emotions.

Jay nodded. Mom I'm so sorry. I'm so so sorry. He closed his eyes again. "You can tell us programmed apart from normal people by our looks. We have strange eyes or hair." He whispered.

She nodded, repeating the information in her head before nodding again, "I'll be sure to remember that." Her eyes flicked around the room and eventually settled on Leo as he tried to climb into Jay's lap. "One more question if you don't mind, do you know what the drones would do to me if they saw me? Would the bring me up to the ship? Or just shoot me?"

He hesitated. "I…don't know. I do know this. If they do see you…you're better off if they just shoot you."

"Would they get me up to the ships?" She repeated, looking towards him, "Please, Jay, I need to know if I can just go to the ships from them or if I have to go back towards my hou…the east coast."

(oh my word I am so sorry! I thought I answered!)

He stiffened slightly. "Delia, you do not want to go there. You have this heroic plan, but it won't work. They will lock you in a cell, with no escape. You will be one of two things: a murderer like me, or one of the test subjects that the programmed ones murder." His voice was slightly harsh.

(It's ok!)
"I have to at least try Jay," She persisted, a harsh edge to her words, "I can't just sit here and do nothing while humans like me are hunted like prey. Plus, I have no clue how long I have until your programming snaps on, so I'd rather die at least trying to save the idiots who live here than die in my sleep from you strangling me or something. I have to try. So please, will the drones get me up to the ship?"

Jay reached over, petting Leo gently. The small puppy leaned into his hand, looking up at him. "I…I'm sorry. I don't know." He said softly. "They might kill you, they might take you up. Either way…you'll die. Before you can ever even figure out a way to destroy them."

Delia shook her head and went silent, thinking over her plan and just ignoring Jay. She was sure her plan would work, it was simple, and all she had to do was escape from whatever cage they put her in to get it into motion. At least in her head.

Jay sighed softly. "You're commiting suicide if you do this." He said softly.

"Shut up," She grumbled, flopping backwards on the bed and rolling on her side so she wasn't facing him. Her mind was still racing and she didn't want to have to think or get mad and snap at the only person she was traveling with.