#at the end where she talks about that event black diamond put on to revive gal......... makes my lil heart hurt

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Chapter 2 Ripped

Hi Pals!! This is Chapter of a zombie series named Ripped.

Summary Of Series: Follow Neveah on her journey to find her brother and father in a world filled with the dead. Quick-thinking, fast decisions, and mayhem is just the beginning.

Summary of Chapter: Neveah may or may not have gone into the ditch

Trigger Warnings: Blood, Death Mention

Words: 1439

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I wake up in the cabin, bright yellow light from the sunrise streams through the dust-filled windows. I tilt my head, the blood from the Sprinter that killed Phoebe has soaked into the black wooden floorboards. The events of yesterday come flooding back to me.

We were both so sure of our plan, I go get fruit because I already got the wood, she set up the fire, and she cooks the deer me and her killed together. It was so simple, yet everything went horrifically wrong. Setting up a fire is even dangerous now. Tears brimmed my eyes as I choke back a cry, it wasn’t supposed to be like this. Nothing was supposed to be like this.

She never told me where we were headed, and for good reason, we were in Washington before, and we have to get to Georgia. Georgia is on the opposite side of the country, but it’s not as if it’s just across from Georgia, it’s diagonally across. I didn’t even think we were going to get out of Washington alive. But we did, and Revival, he left notes. Notes everywhere so I could track him. I’d recognize our sigil anywhere. A black diamond with a vertical line drawn straight through it.

When we were little, that sigil meant everything to us, we would always draw it on our binders, our school work and just about everywhere else we could. It was our way of saying, ‘I got your back,’ without actually saying anything. We didn’t need Phoebe’s map of the states, all we needed was mine and Revival’s sigil. He puts it every 64 miles, along with a small, ripped piece of a map of where he is headed with a star on it where the next sigil will be.

I take a deep breath, one, two, three, I sit up and get out of my sleeping bag. Today is going to be beginning, I know it is.

I do all the essentials, from getting everything packed up, checking off everything on mine and Phoebe’s crumbled up list of items, double checking, and then loading everything into the truck. The truck that I don’t know how to drive. I sigh, Phoebe gave me some lessons, but I still suck at it. At least there are no laws anymore so I can screw up as much as I need to, I just can’t crash.

I step back into the cabin one last time and look around at everything, making sure I didn’t leave anything behind, and to take anything that would be useful to me. After one last swoop of the place, I jingle the truck keys in my hand and go over to Phoebe’s grave.

“This is the last time I will probably ever see you, Phoebe, I’ll keep you in my heart forever.” I kneel down to the stick with the yellow ribbon. I put my fist by it and gently nudge it, “Pound it. I’ll miss you.”

Tears threaten to drop again, I stand up and wipe my eyes and go back to the truck. I have to get to Georgia. That’s where my brother is headed. I am not as excited to see my father, he has a lot of explaining to do. I want to punch him the face and pull him into a hug but then punch him in the face again.

I shake my head, just focus on Revival. I know he’s still out there, and I will find my twin brother. I will see him, I know I will.

I get in the driver’s seat of Reg, the old pick-up truck. He is as ancient as time but works as if he was brand new. I and Phoebe named him Reg because he looked like he needed a name, and when vehicles have names, Phoebe said that people tend to take care of them better. I can believe that after all, it’s just me and Reg now, well, me, Reg and the open road, if I can figure out how to use him again. Before the world collapsed into raging flesh-eating monsters, father was teaching me and Revival how to drive, we only had one lesson with him before everything descended into anarchy.

Phoebe’s map is curled into a cup holder, I take it out and put it on my lap. Her handwriting is scribbled all over it. Her handwriting looks exactly how she talked, disorderly and everywhere. Just yesterday we were talking about how she was super excited to meet my brother, she only ever met me and my dad when we were in Washington.

Revival was looked at by another doctor, I forget their name though. The doctors seemed to swarm all around Revival, and I never quite understood why. They were interested in me but not nearly as much as him. All I really remember is the doctors running test after test. I and my brother were always put to sleep, and they never told us why they kept running all the tests, and when we asked about it, they said they did it to everyone. I didn’t believe them, but they only ever told father everything, which I found suspicious, and just as I was about to take the papers from their file-folders, the hospital got overran with those monstrosities. That’s when we escaped on the helicopter.  

I shake my head, stop thinking about Washington, think about Georgia.

Georgia. Georgia. Georgia.

I pull out the ripped piece of map that Revival left me from my green jacket pocket, it’s highlighted in blue on what route they are taking. Phoebe’s map is highlighted with where we should go in pink. Phoebe always made sure that we had two maps at all times, just in case we ever lost one, we would have the other with the directions on it. She was always preparing for the worst.

I put on my seatbelt, adjust the seat and pull it forward so my feet can reach the pedals before turning the key. I take a deep breath, I’ll remember how to do this. It’s just like riding a bike. It begins to roll forward, I slam on the break and it jolts and everything shifts in the back of the cab. I begin to sweat. That made a bit more noise than I wanted to in a silent forest. I look around and listen in, there are no growls or screeches. I double check to make sure that both of the doors are locked. They are.  

I put my hands on the wheel before ripping them away, everything is fine. Everything is fine. I just got to take a breath, one, two, three. I put my hands on it again and curve the wheel left, towards the highway.

How do I shift gear again? Oh, I remember, I do this, and then that, I move my hands and my feet and everything instinctively falls into place again and the truck begins to move, I tap on the gas and it moves forward. I smile, it is like riding a bike.

I pull out of the dirt road and on to the highway, the sun shines and birds begin to sing. The sky is as a blue as can be and there is not a cloud in sight. It’s almost as if the world hasn’t descended into a complete chaos with the dead roaming the streets. A sign pops up from the side of the road, sixty miles to Oklahoma, I’ll make it there in an hour or so if there are no obstacles on the road.

I slowly press harder on the gas, I am soon I am flying down the highway. All there is on both sides of me is flat, overgrown farmland as far as the eye can see. I smile as tears fight their way out again. The absence of talking is louder than the truck’s engine.

I am truly alone.

I straighten up in my seat, just focus on the road that awaits me. The road that needs my focus is the one that I am on, not the one that ended. Look forward, not back. Present and future, not the pa-.

My eyes widen as three small, puffballs sit in the middle of the road. I swerve off the road and into the ditch. I press the break and collect myself. Did I just see, what I think I just I saw? My heart pounds as I look back.

Out of all the things that I expected to see today, this isn’t one of them.

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Three Weeks Worth of Reviews in One Post

So....yeah. Not packing the most amount of time this week, so I figured I would do these up quick and get my general opinions of the stuff I read this week out there. Especially cause a lot of it was really great.

Amazing Spider-Man #29 & 30: Both of these issues are very fun times, even if 29 is mostly just a bit of a moment to help display clearly where MJ and Peter sit in their current relationship. Which is....mostly on each others’ side and doing their best to always try and improve. With the fun twist at the end that Peter was going to make sure that they always tried to stay together by asking MJ to marry him. The side effect of this story? It gets MJ out of New York just in time for Absolute Carnage to go into full swing, with issue 30 occurring alongside Absolute Carnage #3. Pete hides away Eddie’s kid and Normie Osborn before fighting against the Cletus Kassidy-pretending Norman Osborn, while we get to see Kindred during his visit to Ravencroft to grab Mysterio as he talks to Norman. And how he displays this level of familiarity with Norman and Peter that begins to narrow his possible identities, while we keep cutting to Norman beating down Peter, with the comic ending with Norman triumphant over Peter. All of it is a heck of a show and the art is a lot of fun to look at, while managing to convey some great emotion at times. Fun times all around, still loving Nick Spencer writing Spidey.

Absolute Carnage #3: VENOMIZED HULK!!!!!! BEATING UP GOD-CARNAGE!!! AS THE LAST PANELS!!!!! Look, I cant sell people on Absolute Carnage more than it sells itself. This is a story that is good, epic, and amazingly arted that it does you a disservice to be missing this series or Marvel’s other event series during this current time.

Powers and House of X #4-5: Speaking of other event series, here is Jonathan Hickman’s.....honestly? I’m gonna call it his magnum opus. The story is so great even for the less informed on the X-Men, but knowing exactly what a turn this entire event has created, the level of cult fanaticism and fear that it puts into you about mutants due to seeing what is occurring within the entire Krakoa continent under Xavier’s.....honestly I’d call it regime, gives it even more impact. There is nothing crazier than seeing the evisceration of the X-Men during House of X #4 and then seeing the almost horrifying ceremony that surrounds their revival in House of X #5, not even getting into villains like Apocalypse showing up on Krakoa due to their entire place matching what they wanted for Mutantkind. The 6s for both series cant come soon enough, and Im certain they will rip this entire event wide open.

Justice League Dark #15: The fight between the JLD and the Injustice League Dark begins as the seeds of discord that were planted last issue take root. We get to watch as Kirk Langstrom does his best to become more ‘monstrous’ to hide his insecurities and transforms himself into a monster straight out of John Carpenter’s The Thing, Wonder Woman and Zatanna begin to mess with the Black Diamond of Eclipso which Circe is searching for and puts Wonder Woman into a place that she is likely to be attacked by a remnant of Hecate, and Swamp Thing is turned into mulch when he ends up becoming noticed by the new Guardian of the Green, The Floronic Man Jason Woodrue. And it all ends with Klarion and Solomon Grundy forcing a creation of Heacte’s into submission, a creation that literally looks like a reaper. And the art conveys this horror so well. I donèt make that The Thing comparison lightly, because it looks like the kind of thing that Junji Ito would have nightmares about. I am so excited to see where this goes.

Ironheart #10: This is a comic that is definitely on the line for me from purchase on day vs actual subscription, but I enjoy Riri under Eve Ewing’s writing, the whole thing is fun and interesting to see, and even if there are a fair number of guest heroes, Riri always feels like the main focus who these characters are supporting in places she isn’t strong in. Plus, the ending here with the tease over the Ten Rings matched with Luciano Vecchio’s art mkaes me really wanna see what comes next with Riri.

Justice League #32: This comic felt so epic to me that the big reveal of a hero coming to the Justice League’s aid had me humming the one superhero theme that always comes to mind when the heroes arrive to save the day, the Avengers theme. I dont care if that IS crossing companies, it was the only thing running through my mind because of how good a moment it was story and artwise. And getting to see the Justice League in past, present, and future all unite to face down their villains and use everything that have (along with some help arriving for most of them) to actually succeed in beginning to push back the villains.......it just feels so rewarding after 30 issues of the heroes and villains exchanging very equal blows that kept each side scrambling in order to keep the upper hand. Also, getting an ending moment where I was cheering the ANTI-MONITOR ON FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING was just such a moment of pure build-up and subversion that I was in awe. Please.....go read the No Justice miniseries and the entirety of this. You wont regret it at all.

Batman Curse of the White Knight #3: It’s Sean Murphy continuing to write his story as the Batman crew begin to slowly learn what exactly Azrael is and what inspired his attempted destruction of Batman last issue. Which results in more than a few shifts as Bruce reveals his identity to Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya, Batman and Harley attempt to get some information out of Joker before giving up and just investigating Arkham again to find more stuff about Lafayette Arkham and Bekkar, and finally Gordon retires from the GCPD and lets Renee take over as Commissioner. Which is good....because Gordon goes out to talk to Batman and finds Azrael, starting a street war between Azrael’s followers and the cops, eventually ending with Harvey shot and Commissioner Gordon....dead, thanks to a greatsword through the chest and a 10 story drop. Please read. Highly recommend, especially with how all killer, no filler the story and universe Sean set up with the original story and this story are. You will either enjoy the hell out of it or despise it. No in-between.

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FaMniversary IV Reivew (Spoilers...Obviously...Scrubs <_<)

Alright… wait what am I doing and where is my webcam.. Wait what… I can’t do a live reaction?? Then how the fu- *sighs* forget it I guess I’ll just type… *sighs*

Hello there whomever is reading this. I have a lot of names in this community but for the sake of it just call me Ryan as I will be reviewing “The Biggest Show in WWE Games yet” FaMniversary IV. First off you really have no idea how pissed I was that I couldn’t watch this live let alone live react to it I haven’t done one since Survival but hopefully by CyberFaMday that’ll change but I guess if I can’t do what I do best might as well do the 2nd best thing and that’s write a whole review of this 5 hour extravaganza… that may or not come out before the Fammy Awards. But in all seriousness keep your hands and feet in the ride at all times as a bit of a disclaimer if I come across rude or bashing or “hating” I’m giving my genuine opinion of the show as a fan of the overall show and probably couldn’t even fathom the work that goes in to make a show like this from graphics, matches promos, etc. Its insane what you guys have managed to pull off and keep going. So if I say something that either didn’t really clear up any questions you may have had as you read or just feel like hitting me up and share your own opinions on the show you can reach me on twitter @RyanRazors2k16 depending on the timing I may answer it asap or after a day or 2.

Alright no more distractions! LAdies and Gentlemen This is the FaMniversary 4 Review!!

Kicking off the show with the Tag Team Turmoil match now going into it I thought it was just the 4 teams Britmen, Skilled Foundation, The Mafia, and the Resurrgence but come to find out the were other teams which I didn’t mind at all although it was obvious the 3 teams were the main focus on but adding Bryan Vore again was hilarious and letting the Review competition winner apart of it as well was a nice touch for the guy. Once The SF came in that’s where I believe “business picked up” with the story telling aspect and tag team psychology with The SF targeting Mexi’s leg which would come in handy later on to bite him in the ass as they were able to eliminate the Skilled Foundation but then had to deal with The Britmen and that was a freaking clinic after the regular performance we’ve seen out of the tag division since the Fammy Awards I knew it was going to amazing performance out of the Resurrgence if only it was a legit tag match between them it would’ve been even better but I hope there’s a rematch between the 2 teams sometime soon Mexi’s leg came back to bite him and they were just spent so of course Arik and AC would pick up the win but damn it was a hell of a fight. I usually do ratings but I’ve never really rated FaM shows before so I’ma just leave that be and if someone wants my rating yall can just DM me or something.

The Next Match was Darren Dastardly vs Frisco and personally this was a match I felt needed to be really really good considering the Rumble match felt extremely weird and rushed to the finish I really felt this needed to be a banger… aaaand it was good, better than the first match but it still felt a bit off to me because the match itself was mix between not just these 2 trying be full fledged member of FaM and also the overall rivalry between these 2 while I do think they did a decent job on trying to balance those two stories in the match I still felt more could’ve been done and I feel there could’ve been a better finish than what that was. In a ladder match it gives you the opportunity to use the ladder as uniquely as possible and I felt the finished could’ve been more creative and this match stood out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the matches on the card except the 7 on 7 between Cushnie and G&P & The Straight Edge Triple Threat hopefully something will change in the future I put those guys matches on a certain standard because of the matches I’ve seen from in past outside of FaM and knowing that FaM is whole other beast when it comes to matches I thought the matches in FaM would be even better but so far it’s felt either rushed or just not doing enough to make feel that excitement I get when I watch FaM. But again this is just my thoughts most probably liked it for what it was but from knowing these guys I know they’re capable of doing better. But good job nonetheless on the match.

Moving on to The Straight Edge Triple Threat match it was decent match. It had a typical psychology of a triple threat and had some really great moments especially with Sanders, Andy winning was too easy of a guess but it made sense at the same time so not much to be said on that.

We move on to the next match that I believe kinda revived the show for me a bit after the last 2 matches and that was Pandurhino vs Roberto match was just perfect to me honestly sparked back my excitement for the show is just what we needed and the match was just insanely entertaining by the way shout to who edited that fucking dive of the stage that was fucking insane. I like how after all that carnage from that match Darren found a loop hole and practically stole the Hardcore belt like a real heel. So that was a nice touch.

The Next Match on the board to follow up that awesome match is 1 of my FaM favorites Anarchymus vs Element. This match looked to be very interesting from the jump. Element being well.. Let’s be honest Diesel if he had quads and Anarchymus Russian Strong Style Cesaro I expected this match to be strong hitting and a little bit of big man little man psychology and it was exactly that with some early on targeting of the leg of Element and alot of hard hitting moves from Element in response this was really a Superman vs Superman match up that I enjoyed alot definitely a rewatchable match and I’d even say Title Match OTY for FaM in my opinion My personal favorite match of the show so shouts to them.

Alright soo the next match was… something else to say the least Darin vs Sean Nova… for a number of reasons I say this. First of the little intro for NoVa’s entrance was actually pretty cool. Now the match itself… I can’t lie I was caught off guard I was actually expecting a more drawn out match but nah I got Goldberg vs Brock at Survivor Series with the overall match being (and I timed it) 1:02.99 like holy damn I wasn’t even mad just like Goldberg and Brock I was laughing my ass off so yeah that was a cool moment glad to see NoVa confirmedly back in FaM now holding technically the equivalence to the IC title he held in the Cyber FaM Championship

Next Match on the board is GuNNz vs Rafazo now this story sparked my entrance from moment GuNNz returned and made Rafazo look like a “PUSSY” (If you read that in his voice Cool points for you) anyways I liked the rookie vs vet concept between these 2 and that finish was perfect honestly because in the sense Rafazo didn’t beat GuNNz but GuNNz beat himself.

Now this next match’s result was highly predicatable due alot of what was going on not only in FaM but outside of it from what I’ve heard and honestly as far just FaM concerned it didn’t surprise me since I’ve said from the jump Gin was going to be a big over character due to the fact of the character is unique and stands out it's obvious fans of FaM would be highly invested in Gin. Vikel has been champ since the title arrived so it was obvious in my opinion that she was going to lose it regardless of that little thing that happened with Vikel on twitter or whatever that situation was. Eve… honestly I don’t know why Eve couldn’t get the belt besides again Gin is arguably more over but even then in my opinion I wish Elle would’ve got in to this match because I felt it would’ve been a good culmination for Elle to become champ after all she’s went through but apparently there was a “bigger picture” that we would learn a little later. Now to talk about the actual match I actually enjoyed it the flowed well and there wasn’t really any dud moments to make it look bad also quick nit pick if you go to 2:51:19 on the show IN MY OPINON I think that crossbody edit could’ve been done a bit more clean I’m just saying that’s probably my one and only nit pick as far as editing for the show that I saw that bugged me. But anyways the match was great the finish was alright like how Vikel was protected and didn’t get pinned. Again only wished the result wasn’t predictable but it is what is. I have nothing against Gin always been a friend of mine so congrats on becoming Diamonds Champ.

Next Match is definitely in my opinion The Match Of The Night Black Heron vs 2 Twisted Merk now I had a good idea of how this match would go at least the ending because I had a feeling Eve would play a factor but they teased what I was thinking so well played there. Every moment felt like it had purpose

And it was definitely crazy shit implemented into this long drawn out story between these 2 and show how much they would torment each other putting the match stipulation “I Quit” on a whole other level. It was the perfect match to me from start to finish. Absolutely loved it if you could imagine my face / reaction to when BH kicked his eardrum in you would’ve been dying of laughing because I was hyped as hell shouts to my B-day twin Alex and shouts to 2TM and whoever else involved with making that match awesome.

The Next match I’m not gonna lie I didn’t really care too much for this was filler for me to settle and process the BH vs 2TM match the 7 on 7 between Team Cushnie vs G & P just didn’t get my attention. I watched it but it was just more of a “*shrugs* It’s there” type of match for me although I did get a kick out of that finish with Wrestle Talk honestly if you ask me G & P should just be apart of the tag team division I’d be a lot more entertained if they were doing their shenanigans for something that matters instead of little feud with Cushnie.

Now… The Co-Main Event for the FaM Championship The Rematch… Bury The Hatchet Part 2 Nic Virtue vs Cameron Bash. Now before I get into this I just want to say this. I’ve never considered Bash as babyface. Ever. Its nothing against Bash himself its just how I feel about the Bash character. It just seems more bluntly obvious he’s playing a character that you want to cheer but not exactly transferring that way that is considering how much you know about the CAW history and whether you’re a casual or hardcore fan / observer of the overall community. Nic on the other hand outside of twitter disputes has always looked like a babyface in his matches and the few shows he was on. The thing that made BTH so interesting was the fact that the story was so heated and from my point of view Bash was the heel in this and Virtue was the babyface. The thing with this match was that there wasn’t much story draw to the match besides just giving people a rematch that people wanted to see and that they respected each other but I feel they missed an opportunity to have a turn specifically for Bash because going back to my last few statements I’ve never looked at Bash as babyface and at this point Bash feels like a forced babyface so for him to have turned during those time periods of building up to FaMniversary but again this is just how I feel about it.

The match itself was for sure amazing without a doubt definitely was match to remember with the psychology the story the were telling but honestly I wished Virtue won only because after everything I think it was obvious Nic was brought in for this but my question would be why not give him the belt. Outside of him not wanting it or just wanted to get that match out of the way to “retire” or continue just on a new chapter for him. Who knows there’s a lot of unanswered questions with that finish which might’ve been the point for all I know for it to get answered some time later. But regardless it was a hell of a match Great work.

Now The Main Fucking Event… Rom vs Ranik. First off… Holy. Mother. Of Shit… that fucking match was brutal as fuck There was a lot of story going into this match and after seeing Ranik vs BH and then following it up with Rom winning the rumble and knowing everything that was in stake for this I really didn’t want to see Rom lose but it was really up in smoke to where this would really go and I’m glad Rom won and the match itself was just fucking insane in every way of the term being used with this match. The crazy no selling, the actual selling, the crazy reversals and edits I think me and the guys always described Ranik like a Big Boss you’d face in the Final Battle and every match he’s been in has felt that way. So when Ranik finally went down it meant alot towards the overall power grip story for Rom for the last 3 years. So with that being said Awesome Main Event. Even afterwards the moments where Rom collapse and couldn’t get back up was just perfect after a match like that.

Now to talk about what transpired after all of that… this AWOL thing I’m not against it at all as long as its now another power struggle story mainly because it’s been an ongoing story for 3 years so I would hope we’d go on a different direction basically looking to be a big tweener group and I only say tweener because they had babyfaces and heels attacking heels and babyfaces so its now 100% clear on which side their on if anything it seems like they’re on their own side hence why I say tweener. They attacked BH, GuNNz,Andy and Eve whom are safe to say are face now attacked Vikel, Rafazo, Ranik Sanders and Killswitch who have been the heels sooo it’s clear the agenda and it seem to be in affect just have to wait and see at this point where that goes Cameron being the head honcho of it doesn’t surprise as again I’ve never seen him as a babyface and if this is the closest I can get to him being heel then for now so it shall be.

If you manage to make it all the way to this point you are a hell of a person and must be a good reader or took lots of pauses and or skimmed through but regardless thank you for reading as I shall return someday to my Live Reactions I will leave you with this lengthy review of FaMniversary IV did you agree or disagree with anything I had to say comment or dm me my twitter is @RyanRazors2k16 and if you’re fascinated with the way how I think of shit like this you might like my podcasts on my youtube channel I’ll be sure to leave a link for that somewhere but anywho Shout out to everyone that worked on the big ass show definitely worth watching over and can’t wait to see what happens with the product from here. And on that note I’m Out! Peaces!

~RyanRazors2k16