Bambi Diamond and the Bandit Camp
It has been months since Bambi fully restored her human consciousness removing those devilish implants from her head, then crawled out of that nightmare of a lab only to find herself inside a prison where automated weapons were shooting down unliving abominations again and again.
She survived through all of that.
She single-handedly cleaned the whole prison, made it into a fortified base and pieced together what she called the Rollin’ Castle, an armored apocalypse RV to scour the land around.
She saw through even worse things, when she explored an abandoned facility where otherworldly, mind-numbing monsters leaped out of rips in the very fabric of reality.
It had been months, and she hadn’t see another single fellow human being, yet. One still alive.
Then she found the camp.
A wooden fort of some sort, with tents and wooden buildings inside. Hard to describe the hope she felt in finally seeing other humans there: the moment of elation that came with the knowledge she wasn’t alone.
Then the two standing guard at an entrance came running at her. Wielding a maul and a machete. Sneering and yelling what they would do to her after beating her. She had stood there motionless, in shock, for what seemed an unending moment.
Then her hands moved following what had become a well-honed istinct, and a crystal-like blade flashed out of her wrist…
She kicked the last scrap of wood into the deep pit. The fire was burning high already, as she turned to gaze at the now empty wooden fort. She had pondered quite a bit about whether it would be better to burn it to the ground, to avoid it becoming a lair for scum like these again.
In the end, she decided to give it a clean up and leave it as it was. There could still be decent people around who could chance upon it and find refuge inside.
People who hadn’t lived through an apocalypse just to plunder, torture and kill their fellow men.
She turned again, facing what had become a roaring fire. The stench of the dozen corpses burning filled her nostrils.
“Burn in Hell, motherf###ers”, she said with quiet bitterness.
