Ed looked at the briefcase. It was in there. He sighed and turned around and reached for the pistol in the backseat. You could never be to careful in this part of the desert.
“You should make an auto turret,” he informed the little bean man sitting on the dashboard. “I’m a little insane,” he muttered, sweeping the road with rugged blue eyes.
The Blaze Torrent. The words seamed powerful, he thought, and remembered the stories the elder of the settlement told the young’uns. He could remember the gravely old voice, a monotone, yet interesting, too.
“A global nuclear war swept the earth, destroying most civilizations. The mobs of diseased humans discouraged the startup of most new civilizations.” The voice dissolved into a hacking cough.
“Sorry, where was I? Oh that’s right. The Fendaosso Virus. The virus dissolved the bone calcium, so the victim dissolved into a gooey mess. The Portuguese were the first to contract Fendaosso. Mass burning stopped the virus, but looters and bandits still run wild today.”
Ed was shaken out of his thoughts on the storyteller. A explosion popped the back tire. Ed had been expecting it, but it startled him. He gritted his teeth and floored it.
“Give it,” grunted a deep voice from a blow horn. Ed checked the rear-view mirror. The image of a hot rod scrambled together with scrap metal and machine guns angered him. He tossed a grenade out the window, grabbed the suitcase and dove out the door and punched the detonator. The car exploded in a giant fireball as Ed smiled. A flaming doll flew out from the fireball.
A figure appeared in the pitch black smoke. The figure of the man was a goth, a bruiser with a pink mohawk.
“I am the Pink Pinkness, also known as Bonecrusher!” “Okay,” sniggered Ed, “try to say it three times fast.”
Bonecrusher mumbled a couple words and Ed striked with the briefcase. He delivered a crushing blow to Bonecrusher’s ribs and he didn’t flinch. Bonecrusher grabbed Ed’s head and squeezed. Ed rammed a jackknife into him. Ed crawled away and unlatched the latches. He then opened the black leather briefcase.