South of Adam's Ranch, Southern edge of Hope County, Montana, USA…

Junior Deputy Rex Stevens drove frantically up to the makeshift Resistance encampment, the last Resistance holdout in Hope County after the Peggies had overrun the bunker on Dutch's Island.

"Hey, you're back, Deputy- " Dutch began.

"No, we have to get out of here!" Stevens exclaimed. "The Peggies are coming here in force! Big-time! We have to retreat while we still can!"

"Uh, maybe a little too late for that!" Sally Lee warned, pointed to Eden's Gate helicopters converging on their position, and long columns of Peggie vehicles heading from the direction of Adam's Ranch.

"Alright! Everyone to the cars! Bring everything you fucking can!" Dutch gestured authoritatively. "The technicals and anti-aircraft guns will hold them off. You'll oversee the defense, won't you, Rex?"

"Yeah, sure…" Rex said grimly, slinging his assault rifle over his back and switching to his sniper rifle. He trained the bead of his scope on the nearest approaching helicopter, waiting for it to come into range.

"Fucking planes!" Sheriff Whitehorse shouted abruptly. Seconds later, machine gun fire raked across the camp, and several unfortunate Resistance members screamed haplessly in pain as they were cut down. Two AdjudiCor FBW-2 propjets streaked overhead.

"Damn it!" Wendell Redler turned his M45 Quadmount, trailing the Peggie fighters with anti-air fire. One of the them exploded, the engines tearing away from the rest of the fuselage. The other Resistance fighters with air defense capacity- mostly M2 Browning machine guns, and even a Soviet-era DShK machine gun- opened fire into the sky as well. Bullets pelted the second AdjudiCor, ripping holes in it until the stabilizers tore off and the plane went into a tailspin, trailing smoke.

Meanwhile, Rex was focusing his gun on the approaching helis. His first shot took out the gunner on the lead helicopter, and his second blasted the pilot. A third shot stuck the tail rotor of the second helicopter, and it spun out of control. "Take that, you bastards!"

Dutch and _ were hastily dragging all the dead and wounded onto the trucks. When he was done, he shouted, "That's enough! Let's get the hell out of here!"

A line of Resistance vehicles sped off, their drivers putting the pedal to the metal as they escaped pell-mell, Peggie trucks in hot pursuit, and the anti-air guns still chattering away on the backs of Resistance technicals.

With outside help not forthcoming and the Peggies' iron-fisted rule consolidating around Hope County, the last remnants of opposition to Joseph Seed's diabolical cult began the haphazard retreat out of Hope County… and the battle of Beaverhead County was about to begin.

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24 years ago, on June 17, 1994, African-American football player O.J. Simpson was arrested after a highway police, for he was wanted for the brutal murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Unfortunately, due to a poor, flawed court system and political correctness, he managed to get acquitted for his crimes… which he promptly admitted after his acquittal.