Ezpata's World

As soon as I open my eyes, a strange man attacks me with a parasol. I quickly sidestepped, as he was trying to bring the top down on my head. I grabbed the parasol, but he decided he wanted to have a little tug of war. It ended when I extended the knife in my boot and kicked him where the sun doesn't shine. With the parasol in hand, I shoved it through his stomach, making sure to hit every major organ I could. One doesn't leave these things to chance after all. I lifted him up above my head while he was still impaled. I extended the parasol then; causing his body to explode into soccerball size chunks.
"Ew.", I said, "Things got a little messy.". I looked around. Upon doing so, I immediately regretted it. This was a trashed bar, with bunnies on fire and a bunch of meth-heads running around. Well, they looked like meth-heads; what with the way they moved. Then one of them threw up on my shoes. I grabbed a kitchen knife and stuck it in his left eye. I left him there, screaming and writhing around in pain. You don't fuck with my ensemble.
I walked outside. Things were just as hectic. I was starting to think all of New Cambodia (a place I invented and kept around) was high on meth. Oddly enough, the bus was still running, despite all the looting and general insanity of the place. The door to the bus opened, and I look to see Charlie Sheen in the driver's seat.
"Charlie! How's things? I haven't seen you since we burned down that forest!"
"Well, if it isn't ol' Ez.", he said with a grin. "I'm fine. Trying to get out of the city; gonna see if there's anywhere safe left in New Cam."
"Wait, Zuzen (the city I was in at the time) isn't safe? Why not?"
"Jesus, you don't know?", he looked at me incredulously. "You're in charge around here, and you don't know?"
"You know, you can start explaining any fuckin' time."
"Get in."
While driving, Sheen explained that some kind of otherworldly terror had come from some place called "The Distance". It had been terrorizing all the cities and towns before Zuzen. It had appeared in the east as some kind of dark cloud. People had gone to investigate, during which what seemed like an army emerged from the cloud. Horrific things, armed with all manner of hideous weaponry. Like a plague, they'd swept all the way to Zuzen, which is about halfway across the whole of New Cambodia.
"Hold on.", I'd said to Sheen at one point, "New Cam has it's share of badasses. There's Kurt, Leo, You, Ark, Lynn... hell, even Abel and Stalin. Why did none of them do anything to help?"
"We tried.", Sheen said, "But there were just too many, man. We couldn't hold the line. We killed so many of them, but there weren't enough of us to keep them from spilling over into the rest of New Cam. We almost lost Lynn too-"
"What the fuck?!?", I screamed, "I told Kurt to keep an eye on her! And Leo too!"
"Relax!", he yelled back, "She's alright. Those things almost overwhelmed her, but Ark and Leo managed to get her out of there. At that point, it was agreed that we couldn't do anything to stop it. We headed back to Jonestown."
"I s'pose that's where we're heading now?"
"Yup yup."
We didn't talk for the rest of the ride. There was really nothing to say. I was still a little pissed about what happened to Lynn, and he was probably still angry I blew up about it. After all, Lynn had proven she could handle herself.
We were fast approaching Jonestown. It was an old, stone fortress converted into a city. A while back, I had cleared the town with Leo. It had been the stronghold of Kaiser, an old foe long since dead. Sweeping the streets hadn't been that difficult. As per usual though, I had to put up with Leo's too-calm demeanor. Seriously, the guy can rip three mean in half, gouge a man's eyes out, and then stomp a man's jewels until they pop and never change his facial expression. He always tried to give me tips on my philosophy too, like he was my own personal Socrates.
We got out of the bus at the front gate, as the streets were a little narrow for a double-decker. The gates didn't open at first though. About three minutes passed. What was Cal doing? Cal operated the gates, and didn't do this often.
"Cal!", I shouted up at his window, "What's the hold-up?".
No answer. I muttered a few swears under my breath, and kicked the gate down. It fell with a very heavy thud. I thought I heard a few screeches then. I stopped and listened for a few seconds, but I didn't hear them again.
Sheen and I walked into town. The first thing that struck me is that no one came out to see what had happened with the gate. The thud was loud enough to hear for a long ways, it seemed, but there was no one at all. The streets were empty. Jonestown isn't densely populated by any means, but there was absolutely no one.
"Sheen.", I said.
He answered, "What?"
"Was Jonestown evacuated?"
"No. There was no reason to evacuate it. When I left, The Distance hadn't even reached Zuzen yet.". After a second he said, "Something is definitely not right here."
I nodded in agreement. I heard the screeching again then, and a trashcan nearby fell over. We continued on, at a faster pace this time. Sheen didn't have to say anything for me to know he was just as creeped out as I was, and I suspect he got the same feeling from me. We pressed on in silence.
Eventually, we reached The Corridor. A secure base for refugees I created just in case something happened. I made a Corridor for every town a while ago. I could only hope the one in Zuzen was alright.
The security of Corridors couldn't be better. Seventeen twelve inch thick steel doors, laser turrets, cameras, mines, robo-guards, you name it. We passed through every security checkpoint, and finally made it to the control room. Leo was watching the monitors.
"Yo.", I said to him.
"Hey. How was the trip over?", he replied, in that odd tone of voice. Leo was a white guy with dreads (I know, you think it's the mark of a tool, but it works for him), a scruffy beard and generally looked like a hippie. He was anything but.
"Not important. What happened to the town?".
He turned around in his chair, "What do you mean?".
I just looked at him for a second. "What do you mean 'What do you mean?'? Jonetown is completely empty; devoid of life almost!"
He looked at me quizzically, "Really? We didn't hear anything down here."
"Wasn't it on the monitors?"
"There aren't any cameras on the outside that connect to here."
I was about to say something, then that statement actually hit me. Why had I not built cameras outside?
Sheen cut in on my thought. "That seems like a rather glaring design flaw."
I looked at him, "Don't remind me."
It was then that I could feel myself waking up.
"Looks like I've got to go guys. Hold down the fort while I'm gone."
And I was up.