Lithium and her boon companion Piss finished mopping the remains of Ratbutter's men. They began searching the bodies for any un-demolished valuables when they spotted a small feral child wielding a giant club. The child basically just said "Yarb" which they took to be it's name. Later Yarb proved to be quite eloquent, if foul-mouthed, with a remarkable grasp of grammar (sans ability to use the first person).
Upon meeting Yarb, Lithium fell to her knees and began worshipping the young girl. It turns out Lithium recognized her from the future. Lithium claims that Yarb will grown up to become The Colorless Queen, who rules White Castle as a utopia. She is also the ones who brought in an injured, aimless Lithium, and trained her to be the badass she is now. Lithium declared that they must protect the young child-thing. Piss found it amusing so he was cool with it.
Piss decided to recruit the remnants for the folks of Live Oak and get them to come be the new residents of the Piss Pot, including a few tough guys to serve as a permanent town guard. While the Maniacs got everyone geared up and ready to leave, Yarb took Piss and Lithium back to her hovel. It was a cave, lined with bones. She found that someone had stolen her radio and her chair (which is actually an old artillery shell).
A cave in trapped them inside so they had to crawl out the back way, through an underground facility-type room. They climbed a ladder up to hatch in the woods. While walking back to Live Oak they happened upon a strange robed figure, mutated from the zone. This person appeared to be an assassin from the future, sent back to kill a young Yarb. Time travel shenanigans! The assassin was dealt with quickly enough though.
The caravan finally was underway, heading back to the Piss Pot when they found a telepad in the overgrowth, attached to one of those giant polyhedron batteries. Lithium recognized the device as one capable of time travel (or something, maybe, it's all fuzzy to her). Piss decided to test it out, so he grabbed a "volunteer" from the crowd (which nearly caused a riot), flipped some switches, and shoved the young fellow onto the telepad. He promptly disappeared. Then a portal opened to a strange, alien dimension and giant fucking monster came through.
Things could've gone better.
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