Chapter 7: Preacher's Capture
Warren, Tractor and Gil were crouched by the same bush where they had spied the walls of the military camp. There had been another undead assault in the past few hours on the walls and there were currently soldiers burning the corpses outside the wall. There were no civilians outside of the wall at the moment, as they seemed to be forced to stay inside.
Warren looked through some binoculars over the camp zooming in and out of things that caught his attention. They had seen a chopper leave before the undead assault on the camp but they were waiting to see exactly the choppers were kept. If they were to assault the camp with just the five of them they'd need to know where they were as they could be used to cause diversions and explode.
They heard the rattle as a chopper as it approached the floodlight lit camp.
"Here they come" Gil observed. They all looked up into the sky as they heard it descend towards the camp. Several soldier sat on the door of the chopper their legs dangling out of the helicopter. They all said a silent prayer to themselves that one of the bastards would slip and fall to his death.
As the chopper descended people in the camp ran back and forth preparing for it's landing.
Warren zoomed on the chopper as it slowly touched down and its heavy engine switched off and its rotors began to slow. The soldiers hopped out of the chopper except for one who dragged what appeared to be a man's legs out. He tugged with a bit of effort and the torso was exposed soon followed by a young looking soldier holding the top part of the body.
"FUCK ME!" Warren gasped zooming in on the person they were carrying.
"What?" Tractor asked.
Warren couldn't speak his voice had gone from the shock and he handed the binoculars to his friend. Tractor quickly focused in on the body they were carrying.
"PREACHER!" he exclaimed.
Gill gasped at the shock and quickly grabbed at the binoculars and looked through them at the knocked out man.
His body covered in scars from the wounds he'd collected over the past few weeks some fresh blood trickled down the front of his head from a fresh wound. He still had his crucifix necklace on and he Gill could also see some of the religious tattoos on the man's body. He looked very much like a religious fanatic, which he was, but he looked almost dead which wasn't normal for Preacher at all.
"We've got to help him" Gill said passing the binoculars to Warren again.
"Fuck knows how though" Warren sighed.
X
Axel struggled to lift the man look out of the chopper, Scope had helped him get him out of the chopper and he was forced to lift the man by himself.
The man's body was covered in wounds and tattoos depicting his obvious religious stance. He looked like a celtic warrior from a movie almost if it weren't for the modern combat trousers he was wearing. Axel had been told to take him to the mass cells, which he would. They were underground under the manor house. The prisoners were all kept there, as they were closer to the labs then.
As he struggled with the man he made a vow. This man and everyone else in the cells would be let out soon. He wasn't going to leave now without having helped this people escape soon.
He walked through the entrance of the manor house where the receptionist nodded to him and opened a huge metal door that led down. He struggled down passing soldiers and scientists alike then after about ten minutes of winding corridors he reached the mass cells. He slammed the button on the outside; he also flashed a smile to the two guards.
The door slid open to reveal about thirty people all in a huge cell, the room betrayed the clean white corridors of the labs. This looked like a room that had simply been hollowed out of the ground and it was a dirty cave. The people inside flinched at the sudden intrusion of lit. They also gasped thinking yet another of their number would be taken away to be tested on.
Axel placed the man on the ground and with a quick look around the dirty scared people he left, closing the door behind him.
X
"Preacher's alive?" Whisper asked from the inside of their cave were Warlord and their supplies now stood together.
"He seemed to be he looked unconscious from a distance" Warren said.
"If he's alive then that might mean others are" Gill added
"I wouldn't count on it too much" Tractor said killing the mood "he could well have been the only survivor."
"Well either way he's alive" Rayne added she added a sly smile afterwards.
"Looks like we've got ourselves another reason to get into there." Warren added grinning.
He had a plan.