Fuse Chapter 3 Summary

How It All Goes Down

El Capitan (New)

  • Back to the always-entertaining shenanigans of El Capitan and Helmud.
  • Helmud saved El Capitan's life in Pure, so now El Capitan lets his brother fiddle with things to test him; he gave him a knife recently, as if to say, go ahead and kill me. It'll be easy.
  • Oh, what a jokester.
  • Today though, Helmud is shaking more often than not. That's ominous.
  • While outside, El Capitan hears something: a group of Special Forces. Recently he's noticed that the Special Forces aren't as strong and creature-like as the last ones. It seems like they're programming has been rushed.
  • Psst, probably because it has been.
  • The group he sees runs away, but when he turns around he finds a skinny, very human looking one. This one is fresh out of the oven.
  • It pops a dagger out from its toe—El Capitan thinks he's about to get gutted—but then it draws a message in the dirt.
  • El Capitan reads it: "Hastings."
  • Uh oh. We remember Hastings. He was Partridge's roommate from inside the Dome.
  • Hastings also draws a cross, similar to the one at the end of The Message.
  • El Capitan follows Hastings (we're just going to assume it's Hastings) through the woods. They arrive at their destination, which has a view of the Dome.
  • Outside the Dome, El Capitan sees people arranging timber on the ground. It looks like they're building a fire.