"Yeah, until I run into some one else anyway," Tyler joked placing his hand on the back of his neck. "Do you need any help with anythi-" he was cut off by the ground suddenly lurching under them. He stumbled, and almost fell over. "What was that?"
Kat fell over from the ground, she got back up and said, "I-I don't know?"
"I was gonna ask if you would like a ride?"
Tyler placed his hand carefully on the lower of his back where he kept his glock. "I don't really have anything I need to do today, thanks for offering though," he let his arm go back down to his side. "That felt kind of like an earthquake, didn't it?"
"Uh, yea yea it did." She said looking down at the ground and then back at Tyler.
"That's a bit uncommon here isn't it?" Tyler commented. "I'm sorry, I have a bad habit of over thinking things. It was probably just a small quake, and we don't need to worry-" The ground lurched again even harder than before causing Tyler to stagger and fall into the side of Kat's car.
Sorry I didn’t answer I’m SO busy this whole week
Kat fell backwards, she then got up and brushed herself off, “Hey! Your going to pay for that!” She screamed.
(It's fine!)
Tyler didn't have time to respond. He was knocked over again by the ground lurching again. This time it started shaking and it didn't stop. The shaking got worse and worse, causing things to start falling over, and large cracks to start appearing in the ground. Tyler reached out and grabbed Kat's hand, pulled her down, pressing against the car and covering her head. The shaking continued without slowing down.
Kat was to in shock to realize what was going on, so she stayed protected by Tyler. She didn’t know what else to do so she started crying. “What’s happening!?” Her voice shaky.
something must be wrong this is NOT an earthquake! she thought to herself.
Tyler wrapped both his arms around her head and held it to his chest. He had his legs pressed against her car door and his back to the rest of the car. He'd positioned them in a way that they were covered from most falling debris and anything that did fall on them wouldn't hit Kat, it would hit himself. The shaking mixed with the screams of people, things falling apart, and car alarms all going off, made it impossible to really distinguish where they were and where anything else was. Then slowly the shaking began to die off, until it was silent again.
Kat froze trying to tune out everything, scared for her life. After everything stopped she got back up and look around then at Tyler.
“T-Thanks.” She said wiping her tears away, “Are you ok?”
Tyler was up as well, shaking the dust off of himself. "Yeah," he mumbled. Then he looked around at the city. "What the hell happened?" There were buildings that had just collapsed, there were cars halfway in giant cracks that had formed during the shaking, and there was fire in several different spots.
(ok sorry for not responding I'm done with my very busy week so I'll be able to respond more)
"I uh I don't know." She said looking around. She swung around, she sighed in relief. "My house repairable, its actually pretty intact." she looked over and saw a collapsed building and someone being crushed by the rest of the building. She ran over to the woman. "Tyler help me lift this!"
(It's totally fine, I completely understand that.)
Tyler ran over and began helping Kat get the debris off the woman. "Are you alright ma'am?" his whole demeanor had seemed to change. Instead of shocked and panicked as most people would probably have been in this situation, he was more focused and calm. Almost like he'd been train to handle situations like this.
"T-thank you." the woman gratefully said, "What happened?"
Tyler looked around and shook his head. "I don't know, but I plan on finding out."
"Lets go see if theres anyone else who needs help." She said to Tyler, "Will you be ok on your own while we help others?" She said looking a the woman
"Yea. I should be fine. My name is Grace by the way." She smiled
Tyler pulled out a small notebook from his back pocket, and began writing something down. Then he tore out a piece of paper and handed it to Grace. "Ma'am, these are directions to get from here to an underground shelter. If you can, and or want to, I suggest you get there." Then he turned back to Kat. "Yeah let's go see who else needs help."
"T-Thank you." Grace smiled.
They walked over to the buildings yelling for anyone else that needed help. "I don't hear anything." Kat said with a sigh.
Tyler looked around, and sighed. "There were people in there," he said. "And there is noway they made it out of there before the building came down."
"Yea… My uh my mom works here.." She said looking away.