WPRT. Ch 3 Liberation, Wild West
Aaron:
We both ducked down before they could see us. We needed a battle plan.
My sister started first with her thoughts.
"I don't understand, I thought if we're on another planet, maybe even a different galaxy, there would be no humans?"
That was a was a question for another time.
"Let's focus on the task at hand." Jo comprehended what I said while I brainstormed.
I needed another look.
I told Jo with my hand to lay low.
From what I saw it was a simple camp setting, but on a bigger scale. There were guards at every corner of the camp and two patrols. Electronic equipment in the center of the camp almost looked like cooking equipment, due to the animal corpses near them. The prisoners were being pushed into tents. The more I saw of the camp, I realized there were no women or children with the masked men, only a few human children with their parents. This is a war camp. Not just some bandits, or "Raiders".
Then I saw something coming in the distance. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It is what I could only describe as a floating ship coming in at high speed towards the camp. It was dark brown about eighteen feet long and eight feet wide with railings around the top and fins in the back, obviously to steer it. The most intimidating part about this craft was the big gun in the front. This seemed like something out of a sci-fi apocalyptic movie or Star Trek.
I held off my opinions as the craft moved in to the camp and came to a halt. I saw that their cargo was more people, and as they were moving more people into the big tent, someone ran out of it. A kid that looked about sixteen running to get out of the camp, most likely to get help. I heard yelling inside the tent telling, mostly "NO" and "Come BACK " But, before he could even make it to the edge of the camp. One of the robed things grabbed him and pulled him to the ground. The "thing" screeched loud and brought his club down on the kid's face. You would think he would stop, but he didn't. He just kept pounding the kid's face in. The last time the humanoid hit him, I heard a sickening crack, and a loud crying sound inside the tent saying "No". That monster just killed a kid without a care in the world. They can't get away with this. But what can we do. It's just me and my sister vs who knows how many.
Come on, you're a Shep, you can do this thi-.
Suddenly my thought pattern changed.
I can't believe it. Those idiots.
They left the craft unguarded, and lessened the patrols around the camp. Leaving the tent entrance with the prisoners with two guards. Most of the garbed creatures entered a tent on the other side of the camp.
It's too good of a setup, nobody is that stupid, right?
Well, I had a plan now.
Lord willing, we could pull this off.
I moved back down to where Jo was.
"Well, how bad is it?"
"They just brutally murdered a kid with a club, I think it's safe to say they are bad."
Jo had covered her mouth when I told her about the kid. She looked to be even holding back a tear.
"What, but… how can they DO THAT!"
"Because it's easy, look, I don't like it as much as anyone else would. But now is not the time for why, just action. And I know how."
I motioned for her to follow me low to the top of the hill. Then she saw the body of the kid being dragged away, and started crying. I covered her mouth and pulled her back down.
"Hey hey, calm down, it's alright…. He's in a better place, shush…. It's alright."
It took about a couple of minutes to calm her down, but she was still upset.
"Alright, I will just tell you the plan from here. It has two parts, one person is going to sneak in the tent and liberate it of prisoners. While the other one will take over that craft and its gun to cause chaos. Most likely that will be me, seeing how you are now. I think I will be on the gun."
Jo looked at the ground as I was saying it, but looked up with a calmer attitude and nodded confirming she understood what she needed to do.
"Good. Now, when we sneak in the camp. We will need to bring our stuff with us, and be armed." I started to dig around looking for the guns. "I don't think their armor is bullet proof, due to them not having that much metal, except for their heads."
I took out the double barrel and handed her the ammo for it.
"Ok, you know how guns work, I showed you at the range. With this, just aim at the lower chest to hit the target."
"Right."
"Take what ammo you can take out fast for reloads. Keep the rest in the bag. We don't want you to lose them."
I took one last look at her.
"Well, wish me luck. Lord willing, I will see you soon."
Then I went to go do my part. I took about three minutes to get over on the other side. The hardest part was avoiding the patrol of about four armed guards. They weren't spread out like they should have been. I just had to keep low to get to the "boat." As I got closer. I observed the creatures more.
The masks they wore could only be described as bug like. That creeped me out. I finally made it to the boat. And I climb on board and had to duck in fast, due to the slow patrol coming by. I waited about another minute before rising. As I did, I saw,what the boat had in it, nothing but a small chest in the back, a podium, that I assume is where the steering is, and a big gun in the front.
The gun itself was interesting. It had a long barrel like a machine gun, but I couldn't see any ammo port on it. But I assumed it was primed and ready to go.
I wonder how it fires? Only one way to find out.
I holstered my colt and put my hands on the handles of the turret. It felt fine to hold. I turned it right and left a little to see how fast it turned.
It seems to be in order.
Now to see if it has a safety or something. This knob looks important.
*zzzzZZZZZ*
"Ok, LET'S DO THIS!"
*PEEEEEW!* …...*PEEEEEW!*
It fired like a weapon from The War of The Worlds, with a steady stream of light. That first shot took out one of the guards to the prisoners tent.
The first shot caught me how it fired from there, and its capabilities seemed like a high powered hose. The Second shot I fired was more effective as the patrol came over towards the boat to see what what happened. All four were mowed down.
Then, the last tent guard started yelling something and started running from his post. It didn't matter if he held his ground or not, as I shot him right there. However, things started to escalate as the creatures started pouring out of the big tent on the other side, each with a weapon in hand. All of them were finding cover from my line of fire. So I started taking them out as fast as I could. This went on for about a couple of minute, which seemed longer. Then I heard a gunshot in the prisoners tent.
I guess she is is freeing them now.
Then not a minute later, a group about 20 people ran out of the tent charging at close by creatures arming themselves with the weapons they carried. It started to become easier taking them out as they tried to move to different cover. But we could still be overwhelmed as we were still outnumbered.
"COME ON, we NEED to get out of here!"
I saw my sister among them. Leading them over to the boat. She now had two weapons on her, the one I had given her and one of the rifles the things had.
As the first person climbed aboard I asked a serious question. If he answered no, we were in trouble.
"Can you drive this thing?"
