The drawf sized imps rushed across the barren landscapes having caught wind of some travellers who had been dumb enough to try and travel without frames or even a vehicle.
As they rushed, they stopped hearing something thundering it's way towards them and their blackened eyes stared at the monster of an recreational vehicle bulked up to the brim charging at them while a crazy Eyed lady sat in front hands tightly gripping the wheel.
"Hey Kenny, I see some small fries you think they going to that distress call?" The woman said as she turned her head as the RV came smashing into the imps watching as some splattered against her windscreen as she switched on the wipers.
"I hope not. Those idiots were dumb enough to leave the city with some crappy RV instead of us. Are we that expensive, Annie?" Kenny would ask from the seat next to her legs propped up on the dashboard and relaxed in his seat even as the bulky wheels of the RV crushed the imps to a bloody pulp.
" Don't ask me. Ask Ed back there. They are the one who talks with our clients. I just focus on making sure this beauty stays an awesome took of destruction." Annie would say as she returned her focus to the road as they kept up their speed racing across the almost desert like land around them.
"I think they are busy doing their daily mods or something. I swear, if we were still in that age of people worrying about gender we would have been cancelled 29 times over with how often they keel switching." He said as he would move to check the back seeing Miguel seated in the lounging area reading his books as the tight fitting priestly garb that he wore only making Kenny smirk at how stuff has changed.
As they quietly travelled, Kenny would move to head to grab a bottle of water as he checked his wrist switching on his hologram map as the continuous beeping distress call that he had heard since the last hour was still doing its job. Directing them to where hopefully some remains or if they were lucky enough, people were still alive, perhaps with a missing limb or two. Surviving the wastelands with crappy gear was a surefire way to wind up dead and in a losing fight with a demon or worse yet the gut of a devil. He shivered at that last idea.
He swung open the fridge as a hand reached from his side grabbing a juice bottle as Ed smiled up at him dressed in a rather lazy pair of slacks and oversized shirt.
"Afternoon, Ken." They said as they walked towards the lounge and seating themselves beside Miguel who ruffled their head before returning to their books.
"You took a long time in there. You sure that stuff you're using isn't demon infused or something? I thought Chem-Tech was better at their craft than that."
"Bah, I'm no longer allowed to spend my free time as i wish. I was looking for the right feel today, okay? Its not my fault that my mind likes being annoying. And you should be instead thanking me, you forget who got those special cigars that you like. I almost got kidnapped you know." They said as they poked him on the forehead before slowly draining the bottle of its contents.
"Yeah Yeah, but it's not as if you are always as slow as that. Are you getting sloppy at body modding?" Kenny said with a smirk as Ed simply gave him a wicked smile.
"Why, you wanna sample the goods?" Ed said as a swift karate chop slammed on their head as the androgynous mortal rubbed his bruised head.
"You gotta stop that before-
"Kenny! I can see the smoke. And I see a few demons. Mid Tiers by the way." Annie said as Kenny rushed to the front as he could see a few people trying to fight back against tall demons armed with what could be called demonic version of otherwise basic melle tools.
"Miguel! It's time to get to work!" Kenny would say as he moved over to a large closet that took up considerable space in the RV and watched as the doors swung open as the power armour inside quickly move to attach itself to his body as Annier tapped at the many buttons lined on the middle of the dashboard as the space above Kenny opened up as He onto the roof of the RV and took a running start as he leapt onto the fray as the demons turned to focus on him.
The biggest of the group came charging at him with a massive warhammer swinging in his direction as the power amorous glowed as he jumped over aiming us finger at its face as red energy collected at his tip and blasted at the demon. Its head moved to dodge as as it kept up the speed of its swing attempting to send him flying as his legs glowed before he was sent flying into the air taking the attetion of the demons and the few people that remained.
"May the Lord Of Fists be blessed!" A voice shouted while the towering behemoth that was Miguel came into the fight as the bulky gauntlets built into his power armour charging with speeds that lost humans woud ne baffled by as his fist came smashing the demon as its face exploded into bloody chunks.
The other demons stood stunned as they watched their boss be so easily killed however before they could even realise what had befallen them, gaping holes appeared on their heads as Kenny landed atop Miguel's shoulder with a smile visible through the visor of his power armour.
"Now, tell me, how was out performance?" Kenny asked walking over to the people that had just narrowly escaped becoming food or worse. He looked the group over or what was left of it as the number of half destroyed corpses. He sighed.
"What the hell took you so long!? We almost all die-
Kenny slapped the man who was shouting st him as pointed to the corpses.
"People did die! How many failures will it take you little shits to understand? You cant weather the forces of the wasteland alone for gods sake. Do you realise how lucky you were that we were so close? You," He said pointing to another of the group" How many people did you start with?"
"Huh! Uh-uh-uh 20, sir." He said in a rush.
"So only 6 of you remain. And what class was your vehicle?"
"Tier 3."
"You got tricked." Kenny said as he walked over the rubble that was their RV. He could see the signs of wear and tear that most would have missed.
He tapped his helmet as he switched on his comms.
"Annie, call for a Fed Drone. Report attempted illegal travel and likely smuggling of slaves. Also, tell Ed to bring their handcuffs. Not the kinky ones" Kenny said as the man he had slapped froze at the Mention of slaves.
"What are are you talking about?! We weren't transporting slaves! We were trying to escape that horrid city and the underbelly of evil that exists there. You-
Kenny grabbed the man by the face as he looked him dead in the eye.
"Buddy, these corpses are malnourished. I can quite literally see the bones clinging to flesh on these folks. I've been out here long enough to tell a human trafficker from a person fleeing. And your guns are too good for a bunch of runaways." Kenny said as Ed walked over with several handcuffs in hand.
"Do you know who youre-
"Shut up! I've heard this shit more than a hundred times already! I've been dealing with punks like you even before the apocalypse okay? I don't care who you work for!" Kenny shouted as Ed would be lifted up by Miguel to handcuff the more taller folk who refused to lower their wrists.
"I-
Kenny forced the man to his knees as Ed walked by to chain him as a glowing chain appeared attaching all of them together.
"Now, you shall be transported to a guard post to be sent to your proper place, jail, if you didn't know." Kenny would say before his helmet mal beeped and showed something to his right as he raised his head and sent a blast of energy at an imp watching as it fell to the barren ground.
Kenny hears his comms switch on as Annie answers "Fed Drone here in 5 minutes. Also, I see some activity coming from the east. It seems we might be getting some big people coming in or we are about to fight an Arch Devil."
Kenny would look and see a massive fortress of an RV come treading it's way to them. While his team's RV was no 2002 small RV, the one coming towards them was truly colossal even among Warship RVs. It was almost impressive and he knew Annier was foaming at the mouth to look at every nook and cranny.
He raised his head at the other massive trailers that were attached to its frame and he knew that this was definitely going to be an under the table order.
As it came to a stop kicking up large clouds of dust, Kenny watched as a massive door opened as a set of stairs unloaded themselves while a woman in a business suit came out followed by several people in power armour.
"Mr Kenny and Company. You're a very hard man to find." The woman said as Kenny looked over at her guards. They were armed completely with weapons that looked like they could give a devil a run for its money.
"I don't exactly see why Chem-Tech would want to walk all of this way for me and my team. Ed didn't take something they weren't to, right? Also, Miguel, please go load up our troublemakers in the bad room." He asked looking at them as they seemed to shrink under his glare whilst Miguel moved the traffickers over to one of their trailers, the smallest of the three that they had.
"No, at least, not now. Our CEO wishes to speak with you. We have some important cargo that we wish for you to transport."
"Fine Fine. I can assume you've already played the proper channels correct? I dont want to have to deal with some bullshit from the Feds." He said as the woman simply nodded.
"Please get to Hydro-Core as soon as you can. We shall be waiting." She said before moving to get right back into the massive fortress of an RV.
"I swear, one of these days I'm going to find some island to buy and spend the rest of my days drinking." He said to himself as he felt himself getting poked before turning to see Ed holding up a black box recorder.
"God, who are these rookies. Didn't even take out the damn recorder." He said as he took the item into his hands as something suddenly arrived before him, a small drone not any larger than his head. He handed the black box recorder to the drone before watching as it zoomed back to its base of operations.
"Annie, I think we got another big one on our hands."