-Chapter 5: Revenge-

I was the first one up in the morning, so while everybody else snoozed, I got up, cleaned up my sleeping supplies, stashed then in my pack, and tinkered with my blast armor. Crystal was the next one awake. I greeted her with a nod.

"How'd you sleep?" She greets me.

"Not bad, except for there was always a rock wedged in my back, no matter how much I shifted,"

"Sorry to hear that,"

"It's no big deal," I said, and went back to tightening bolts, cleaning and polishing the armor. Soon, I was satisfied. Next, I reloaded my rifle and checked that everything was working perfectly with it. I opened it up and cleaned and oiled the mechanisms.

"Wow, you sure know a lot about guns," She stated, interested.

"Yeah, well, I did graduate with full marks in the I.D.P.D. combat academy," I replied casually, like it was no big deal. "Hardly anyone else in the world is of my combat expertise. I know everything there is to know about guns,"

"Hah! Yea, right, lady. Ima gun god! Ur just a wannabe!"

"Umm, what exactly was that?" Crystal asked, confused, after about five minutes passed of us looking at each other, shocked.

"I don't know exactly, but we should wake the others before whoever said that comes back," I responded uneasily. We shook fish awake, who grunted, shielding his eyes from the bright sun.

"Hey, Melting, wake up, buddy,"

"Mph, five more minutes," He said, turning over in his sleep. I resisted the urge to grin.

"No, we gotta get moving. We can't afford to stay in one place for too long. We heard some strange voice talking about a gun god. We don't know where it came from, though, but it heard what I said,"

"Spooky," Melting said quietly.

"Yes, well, we gotta get moving,"

And with that, our party of four headed off into the desert to get revenge on the Big Bandit. Soon, the dark blue-ish ground of the camp gave way to sand, and yellow dirt. We began to see cactuses, and I knew we were headed in the right direction.

"It's so…hot…" Fish grumbled after an hour of walking.

"Lemme see if I can fix that," Crystal replied. She grabbed a cactus with her hard purple hands, which the thorns didn't hurt, and ripped off the top, to get at the water of the plant. She held it up, triumphantly. Fish greedily took a drink, as did everybody else. After around thirty minutes or so of walking, we saw out first life of the desert. A small, white maggot, which melting immediately destroyed with the grenade launcher he was carrying.

"Woah, don't you think that was a bit of overkill?" I asked, trying to keep from laughing.

"No way! I hate those slimy little things. They creep me out," Soon, we saw a large purple scorpion. It hadn't seen us yet, but it would if we got any closer to the abomination.

"Hold on, I got this," Fish stated. He drew his revolver, took aim, and quickly delivered six quick shots to the beast. It died with a teeth-clenching screech.

"Good shot," Crystal congratulated him. We trekked on, eventually reaching a bandit camp. There were bandits everywhere, but I didn't see Big Bandit.

"Okay. Here's what we're gonna do," I told our group. "Fish, you and I are going to be rushing in, I've got my armor, and you're pretty fast,"

"I can roll," Fish said, smirking.

"Good. Crystal, you and Melting are going to be behind us, taking out anything you see trying to stop us. Got it?"

"Yeah, but there's one problem," Crystal said hesitantly.

"And what's that?"

"I don't have a weapon. Whoever injured me stole my revolver,"

"Well, hopefully we can find one for you in this camp, because I don't have any spares," Fish and I charged in, killing bandits left and right, me releasing burst after burst of rifle bullets, and Fish going crazy with his trigger fingers. I heard an explosion behind me, and I smiled, knowing Melting was going to work. Soon, we were just hunting for bandits to kill. I stepped through a door, and Big Bandit was waiting for me. For some reason, my mouth split open into a grin.

"Finally,"

Big Bandit released a hailstorm of fire from his enormous machine gun. I dodged it, hiding behind a pillar, and released a few shots into him. He grunted, not fazed much. He took a running jump at me, somehow demolishing the pillar with just his body.

"Time to try out a new trick," I said as I pressed a button on my armor, releasing three portal explosions right on top of Big Bandit, doing devastating damage. Unfortunately, I could only do this once. I let out a scream of rage as I emptied the rest of my bullets into him, hating every last inch of his stupid, bandaged body. Finally, finally, he let out a grunt and keeled over. I walked over to his unmoving corpse, and kicked it a few times for good measure, then spat on it. Crystal, Fish, and Melting came in, who were watching from around the corner.

"God damn, remind me not to get on your bad side!" Fish stated. Crystal whistled in approval. Melting just patted me on the back.

"We're done just yet," I said pointing to the secret hinged wall where Big Bandit had come out of the first time.

"It looks like a sewer pipe of some sort," Melting said, peering inside. "We won't be able to see very well, it's dark,"

"Yeah, well, we gotta go in there and rid it of its contents, because they must've been in league with Big Bandit," I said. "Time to continue our quest,"