Project Battle Royale: A Gamelit Survival Book by L.S. Halloway

Author:L.S. Halloway [Halloway, L.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Savage Tiki Time
Published: 2021-03-04T22:00:00+00:00

14

Head’s Up

The whip crack of the Kar sniper rifle next to me did a number on my ears. It was loud enough to distract me from my temporary blindness. I may have been a little premature with my declaration of permanence on that front. The shapes of the world were starting to take form. A tree branch here, a boulder there. But The Drop and the dueling duos were gone. Oh, wait, I was just facing the wrong direction. Must have turned around while blinded.

Another bolt of lightning set off a cannonball next to my ear, oh, actually that was just Goemon shooting his rifle again. By that point I could see well enough to join the fray. The only problem being I was clueless as to which players were still kicking down there.

“Where?” I asked, raising the Mini through the white haze of my vision.

“Behind the rock. He’s so lit. I shot him but then I missed,” Goemon replied.

This was the moment I had been training my whole life for. Or at the very least the several months that we had been playing the game. I held my breath and found nothing to shoot but the backside of a boulder. He must have ducked behind it. I sighed out all the air at once, like a deflated balloon. Great.

“I take it he knows we’re here now.”

“Oh he knows we’re here. But he’s the last one left.”

“OK, so we just wait for him to peek and-”

Goemon fired again. In the upper right corner of the HUD, his name appeared next to the words Kar98 and GroovyChronic. Guess he got him. Don’t get me wrong, part of me was happy but man I wanted some action and that was my shot, literally. Ah, who am I kidding, my teammate deserved it. I had to look at the stupid flash.

“OK actually now he’s the last one left,” Goemon said as he pulled back the lever on the Kar.

“Are you sure?” I asked. Maybe I might just get my shot after all.

“Yeah, yeah, that was just his knocked buddy. I shot him in the toe, it was all I could see.”

“Ouch. Poor guy.”

“He was super hurt.”

A cloud of dust kicked up in front of us, and Goemon rolled behind the safety of his nearby rock. I would do no such thing. With the other player focused on Goemon’s location I had at least a second before the bullets got trained on me. I peered through the scope, happy to have a stationary target, and I forgot to hold my breath this time. I pulled the trigger and it did not matter. A message flashed across the middle of my screen with confirmation the shot was as accurate as it needed to be. I looked up at the action center of the HUD, just to see my name up there. There it was, Field with a headshot from the- what! How was that not a headshot? That is some BS right there. But, at least I got the kill, and it felt real good.

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