After a nap, Luis and Nat sat up to talk some more, feeling considerably better. "I remember helping Catori somehow... We took her to that woman you knew, remember? The Mexican?"
"You know that didn't actually happen, negro," Luis answered, a little irritated. "It was a dream, and it was chance that we both had it at the same time. But the river, the river took us outside the mine somehow."
"Right," Nat said, not convinced that it had been just a dream. "We'd better get going." The unusual pair stood up and began a long walk down the river.
Leo saw a couple of bandits drag his brother off. He shot a couple that were rushing towards him down the alley. looking ahead of him he saw a window, he ran and leapt through it...a weapon store. He shot the bandit inside and kicked a shelf over infront of the window before spinning and taking out the bandits that had come through the door. He ran over and kicked another shelf down in front of that. He was trapped in a gun store with an army of bandits outsdie, this was going to be fun.
0An old prospector came trotting into town on his ancient broken down old nag. He rode to the blacksmith, where he was greeted by Buddy.
"What seems to be the trouble, old-timer?" Buddy wondered.
"Ol' Bessy here's about plum outta gas, is all... her shoes aint made for all that hard ridin' I just did, cross-country from Old Hopeless..."
"Old Hopeless?" Buddy asked, the name unfamiliar to him.
"The old ghost town, few miles west of town, in the mountains. The original town of Hope, built as a mining town some years back...
the terrain was too unstable and the prospecting too uncertain at the time, so the whole idea of a town inthe mountains never really took... few of us stuck it out though, to try to make a go of it, before this place sprung up and atttracted folk away...
Now Old Hopeless is all-but abandoned, not much but coyotes and lawlessness up them parts now, except for me and a couple other families... and the place just been over-run with bandits, shooting up the town and taking over!"
BANDITS?! Buddy was concerned, certain that the Cavendish and the Scorpions had stumbled onto his secret WANTED poster-stash of money-train loot.
"Well, this is your lucky day, prospector.." Buddy smiled. "Not only can I fix up ol' Bessy's shoes for you, but, seeing as I'm acting Sheriff round these parts, I can have a look-see at the bandit problems in Old Hopeless... let me round up my deputies and we'll go have a look."
Buddy made way to the bar, had a conversation with Lily, then tracked Greg to the bank, tying up those loose ends, and kicking off the
Courtship of Buddy Reno ... first they had to rescue his girl!
~Don't worry by the time you arrive there'll just be a hunderd dead bandits and one beaten up me~
Leo reloaded again from bullets lying on the counter. He put a bullet between the eyes of another bandit that was crawling through the window. His hands acted as fast as lightning reloading and shooting. A grin covered his face and a bit of blood trickled down from just above his eye where a bit of wood from a blown open wall had cut him, he was doing pretty well.
~He's back and you're glad he's back...! Well I will be soon. On my dad's laptop right now~
Matt had been trailing Black Buffalo Bart's bandits for several days. Watching through the aim of his rifle he had almost smiled at the disagreement when they found the bags full of rubbish. Cavendish and Bart had taken three men with them and left the trail, leaving almost twenty men behind. The Buffaloes had settled down for the night, and Mattt had crept up to their campfire.
For several hours he had thought over how unlikely Cavendish would pay him for killing Bart, especially if he did the deed in front of his employer. But still the company wouldn't know of Cavendish's deception and Matt resolved to gain his bounty at a later date. He listened to the bandit talk, and reasoned that Bart would be back to meet up with his men. In the morning, as the men pulled up camp, Matt crawled back to his horse and rode after them, keeping them within sight as a dot on the horizon.
They had reached a town, although Matt could not see a name for it. Riding into the town at a leasurily pace he saw the confrontation between Wolfe and Leo, taking cover in the General Store opposite the gun shop. Watching as Leo took cover, he readied his rifle and loosened two of his pistols in their holsters. Resting the barrel of the rifle on the window sill he took careful aim on the bandits surrounding the entrance to the gun store.
As he had been taught he squeezed the trigger, the loud bang was rewarded by the fleeting sight of a man falling to the dusty ground as he ducked to one side of the window. Rolling onto his belly he looked through a small knothole as the bandits milled around in confusion. Satisfied Leo would have some time to prepare himself for the next attack he loaded another shell into the rifle.
~is this okay?~
~I say Hell ya! I HATE all the super-heroics, 1 lone cowboy vs an entire ARMY of bad guys, and the lone cowboy walks away without a scratch while 150 bandits, or an entire estate full of farmhands, or an entire Army division or even a small town population lay dead...
I've posted myself shot in the ass, blown up, caved in, deathly ill with fever, near drowned TWICE, near-hanged, nearly-Gatling gunned, in deep deep trouble at every turn and crying like a baby for my mommy, hunted and haunted by the likes of 3 or 6 men at a time, meanwhile across town, Greg, Leo and Catori are taking on entire armies and crushing them without breaking a sweat!
It's a nice change to actually read a 'behind-the-scenes of the miracle' post, and to realize, along with the super-heroes, that it really isn't all about their super skills, that there's probably usually always someone like Matt helping out somewhere, whether or not he ever takes any credit for the good deed...
I like that post... of course, this being unhosted, and you having stepped into Leo's story, maybe majority rules and maybe the majority of super-heroes disagrees with your and my stance on the subject... so...
but I say damn good to have Matt back, helping out like that, while Buddy is out of touch and recovering from all his latest dramas and traumas... ~
~Spike I figured you would have to get yourself out of your own mess, since you haven't really interacted too much with the rest of us while telling the story of Wolf and Leo. But, I still don't like it much... I don't like it when I'm left to start, run and end storylines either, since it's supposed to be interactive; I get it that not everyone can post every day or every hour to follow-up, but some folks don't post but once a week or less... hard to include them in any real story...
it would be nice to get involved in the Leo/Wolfe story, but you don't make it easy, so it's coll the way Matt came along...
any way, I'll probably be getting banned from this forum, if not the whole board or all the internet that the mod-gods can take away from me, before the end of this week, so, it was fun posting here while it lasted.
hopefully, you all had some fun too... ~
Originally posted by SlickRick69
~Spike I figured you would have to get yourself out of your own mess, since you haven't really interacted too much with the rest of us while telling the story of Wolf and Leo. But, I still don't like it much... I don't like it when I'm left to start, run and end storylines either, since it's supposed to be interactive; I get it that not everyone can post every day or every hour to follow-up, but some folks don't post but once a week or less... hard to include them in any real story...it would be nice to get involved in the Leo/Wolfe story, but you don't make it easy, so it's coll the way Matt came along...
any way, I'll probably be getting banned from this forum, if not the whole board or all the internet that the mod-gods can take away from me, before the end of this week, so, it was fun posting here while it lasted.
hopefully, you all had some fun too... ~
WHoa why are you getting banned Slicky? What did you do?