DoomTrooper - Run Billy Run - Cornered Prey

 Billy had been on the run for an additional day and a half since he escaped capture at the mall. He had thought once he had reached the city, he would be able to ditch the fucker tracking him. Every time he thought he had lost him; he'd hear that fucking massive tank in the distance. It was like the bastard was toying with him. Herding him. It was almost supernatural how this guy could find him. 

Billy found the city to be as broken and abandoned like the mall. Building had been destroyed. Bombed, burned or shattered. The few people he saw were worse off than he was. Last night he came across a guy hiding in the back of an old store front. Billy could see the flickering light of a fire and the smell of cooked meat. Billy managed to sneak into the store and surprise the guy. The man was small compared to Billy. He asked the man what he was cooking. The man had told him the food was his and Billy should get the fuck out. Billy could see the fear in the guy eyes even as he hefted and old pipe to protect himself. 

It was not match, even hungry and tired, Billy easily overpowered the man. Billy’s felt his anger bubble to the surface, and he worked the guy over good. Billy didn’t recognize what the guy had been cooking but he was too hungry to care. He ate it. Billy found some old canned food and he at that too. When the guy stirred Billy went over him and started to strip him, but everything he tried on was too small. Pants, shirt, shoes. Nothing fit. Billy’s rage and fear erupted, and he took it out on the only living soul near him. Billy’s fist was about to pound into the man’s face again, he heard it. The sound of that engine. The rumble of those massive tires. The fear in Billy’s gut quenched his rage. Billy left the man still and unmoving near the dying fire. 

That was last night. He'd been on the move ever since. The fucking tracker had always been just a block or two away. North or south of him, in back or in front. Billy didn’t realize it, but he was being herded. It been hours since he last heard the vehicle, but it had also been while since he saw anyplace clear for him hide. As Billy he turned down an old abandoned street Billy saw a crumbling old overpass. There were lot of old trailers and storage containers amidst the crumbling structure. Walking closer Billy saw and old train car stuck under the overpass behind the trailers and containers. Finding a safe way through the rubble Billy quickly made his way back to the old rusty train car and he found the side door open and car pretty much empty except for some old empty boxes and barrels. If he could just rest for a few hours. Sleep. Billy looked around to see if there was anyone around. There wasn’t. Billy climbed up in the old train car. Moved the boxes around to block an easy view into the train car and curled up on the train car floor. Exhausted he fell asleep. 

The sound of the massive engine could barely be heard in the distance. If Billy had been awake, he might not have heard it. But the sound of the engine stopped. Billy would never have heard the door open to the armored vehicle. Nor would he have heard the heavy armored booted feet crush the rocks beneath them as the Predator went to find his cornered Prey.