ROBIN HOOD
A NOVEL BY DAN MONTY
PROLOGUE COMIC DRAWN AND WRITTEN BY
DAN MONTY
First published in 2021 by Killer Mule Books
Copyright 2021 all rights reserved
Text written by Dan Monty
Copyright 2021 all rights reserved
Cover and comic illustrations by Dan Monty
Copyright 2021 all rights reserved
This book is a work of fiction. Any relation to any persons living or dead is coincidental. No part of this book should be copied, sold, hired out or reproduced by any means without the prior written permission of the author.
By the same author
FROM THE DEPTHS
THE OUTLAW MADRID
WAY OF THE SWORD
INTO THE DEPTHS
Chapter one: Welcome to Sherwood
Three months later...
The rain came down from the skies in buckets, drenching the streets as a gang of punks in leather strode down the neon lit street, banging their heads to loud music. They were simple thugs, out on the town for the thrill – The next big rush they could get from chastising commuters.
The planet Sherwood was just one in a group of planets in the Nomad system. Another was Loxley, which had once been a thriving planet of cities and businesses but it had fallen into ruin after the legendary crusades; a great war between the noble religious knights that were brave enough to rise against the threat, and the machines; great machinations designed by man that had been programmed to defend the planets of the Nomad system from alien threats and nuclear war. The machines had over time become self aware, turning on their creators and using their intelligence to build great weapons and giant fighting beasts in an attempt to overtake mankind, replace humanity’s primitive biological design with machinery and mechanical monsters.
Thankfully, the attempts of the machines to overtake humanity failed, and on the battle-scarred planet of Loxley, a great war ensued. The towering structures were crippled in the destruction and now, Loxley stood as little more than a vast wasteland of city ruins and deserted homes. The cost of the crusades had been great.
Survivors had fled Loxley with the help of the hooded knights with most of them retreating to the forest moon of Sherwood.
The entire planet was a large forest, lush with thick wilderness. The centre of the forest had been excavated to allow the construction of a sprawling city – a giant metropolis of towering skyscrapers, flying jet cars and streets. The city was massive – thousands of towering skyscrapers lining the streets, creating a massive maze of steel and glass that stretched out as far as the eye could see and high into the sky.
The city housed over three billion people, and due to over population, drug addiction and high rent and taxes, over 22,000 people slept rough on the streets at night. Homelessness ran rampant and the government did nothing.
The ruler of the planet was King Edward the twenty fourth; a greedy and ruthless leader that cared more for the wealthy than the sick or the poor. The king was rarely ever seen, his work conducted in Nottingham castle at the very centre of the city. The castle resembled a giant tower of glass and steel, a fortified skyscraper surrounded by surveillance drones and patrolling Police cars which flew overhead.
The King appointed a Sheriff to act as both his watchful eye over the city, and chief of Policing and order. The Sheriff of Nottingham was in charge of everything, from debt collection, to Police and criminal prosecution. One thing that Sherwood had plenty of since well after the crusades, was crime.
The punks walked down the streets, placing their music speaker on a floating parked jet car. There were three of them; a muscular guy named Piggy, a short bald guy with tattoos named Chux and a female with a mechanical animal arm and a Face full of piercings named Candy, who picked up a pipe from the ground and strode over to a shop window, swinging the pipe in the air and shattering the glass.
Alarms rang out into the night as Candy reached into the shop window, retrieving a golden chain necklace. She laughed like a hyena, dropping the necklace around her neck. Piggy looked at her with a shrug.
“Ya gonna get the cops coming here! Dumbass broad!” Piggy said and Candy marched over to him, her hair in a crazy pink Mohawk. She seized piggy by the neck with her mechanical arm, lifting the man off his feet with ease.
“Yeah? So what? Those fuckers wanna scrub us out? Let them try! We nasty as fuck! We cut ‘em easy!” Candy said chuckling.
Soon enough, a flying Police cruiser glided over the street, a flood light igniting from its chassis. The light fell on the group of leather wearing punks and a robotic voice came from a megaphone high above them.
“This is the Sherwood Police Department. You have committed an act of property damage and theft under the theft and violence act, section 10435. This is unacceptable. Prepare for your arrest. Resistance will result in termination. Please raise your hands and get on your knees," the robotic voice instructed.
Candy stepped in front of her two friends, glancing defiantly upward and into the light. There, looking
