M2 The Black Death

     The History Cowboy rode through time and got of his cougar. Looking around, he saw nothing unusual. No bodies, no threats. The Cowboy walked towards the treeline in front of him. It was about thirty yards away. His cougar lay down in the grass.
     The Cowboy was fifteen feet away when a man came running out of the forest. He was breathing heavily and had a gash across his chest. The man slowed down, dropped to the ground, and died. The cowboy drew both his pistols and crouched down. The bushes rustled and five huge men came charging out. They wielded evil looking weapons, crude and bent. The Cowboy fired six shots, three from each revolver, and killed them all in one easy, familiar motion. The cougar was now by his side.
     The Cowboy walked up to the man who was running. He had black and blue splotches all over his body. Open sores covered his face. The Cowboy leaped back and covered his face. The Black Death was in the air. He called his cougar and jumped onto it. They road off into the east.
     The cowboy had reached a town and gotten a room in the tavern. He slept and ate and cleaned his pistols. He also cleaned his rifle, a Winchester Repeater, and loaded it. But on his third night there, he noticed a blue mark on his arm. Looking more closely, it resembled the ones he had seen on the man before. He slowly took off his shirt, and to his horror, his body was covered with similar marks. He yelped and shoved all of his belongings into his bag, ran out to the stables for his cougar and was off in five minutes.
     He rode as fast as the cougar could carry him. Lights started to flash. A tunnel opened up fifty feet away. The cowboy road through it and was spat out Amsterdam Blvd. The hospital was one mile away. He urged his cougar forward, kicking it in the ribs (a thing he rarely does). He reached the hospital in three minutes. He ran to the front desk, showed the receptionist his TTI i.d card, and was put into intensive care. He was saved within the hour. His cougar was also treated for a cracked rib recieved during the run.