Day 1, August 18, 2005, 10:30 am. Whittlesey hospital
Harry weaved around parked and crashed cars and came to a screeching halt in the parking lot of Whittlesey Emergency Center. He grabbed his weapons and supplies and went into the hospital. Once inside it was busy, phones ringing, people running around, yelling, screaming, and sounds too hard to describe. There were people there with injuries ranging from small bite marks and scratches to entire limbs having been torn off.
"Damn. NURSE get me whoever is in charge here." Harry yelled at a short woman in light blue scrubs.
"Um... one second." She said and got on the phone presumably to page the person he was looking for.
"He'll be right with you... um could you please put the gun away?" She asked. Harry realized he was waving his gun around and the people in the waiting room were staring at him.
"Right... sorry."
He stood by the clerks desk for 5 minutes before raising HQ on his radio.
"Dan, come in."
"Yes sir?"
"How are we looking on manpower? Harry asked.
"I've got about 38 guys with me and we're heading over to the hospital, over." Dan replied.
"Bring the riot gear, and barricades. Pack up all he ammunition and gas grenades you can, over."
"We goin to war Harry?" Dan asked.
"I hope not... I really hope not... Put a hustle on it..."
A tall man that appeared to be in his mid thirties and of Indian descent walked up to Harry. He had black hair and was wearing light blue scrubs, a white jacket, and had a clipboard in his hand.
"Can I help you officer, we're really busy down here." He said.
"Listen uh..." Harry started.
"Allen."
"Right. Allen, we have a major situation, you see there is a large mob of rioters heading down to our little town and they're going to be coming through this street." Harry said.
"How do you know they're rioters and not refugees?" Allen asked.
"Well for one, they're attacking people and appear to be violent. We're setting up barricades along the street to stop them, I just wanted to warn you that we're setting up and it may get a bit dangerous in this part of town." Harry said.
"Well Officer... thanks for the warning, but I have too many patients here to leave."
"You do realize we are all there is right? There's about 500+ people with violent intentions making their way in our direction and I have about 30 maybe 35 men to stop it, there is no army coming to help us."
"Doctor!" One of the nurses called out. A man had just come in with multiple wounds to his neck area. Like his throat had been torn out...
"Look, thank you for your concern, but I really need to go. I'm sorry."
Harry burst out of the emergency center, slamming the doors in anger and tried his radio again.
"Comm come in, this is Harry, over."
"Harry readin ya loud and clear, this is Jake with comm."
"Where is Ross?" Harry asked.
"He's en route to your location with Dan." Came Jake's reply. Jake was one of the new recruits still at the station along with Ron.
"Alright, patch me through to the air unit."
"Will do... just a sec..."
"This is air unit 2, Jamie at your service."
"Air 2 do you still have a visual on the crowd, over?" Harry asked.
"Affirmative. Two groups of 200+ at least, are converging now and running along the road. ETA to Whittlesey about 20 minutes."
"Have that air 2, Comm, get on the radio with Ross and Dan and inform them of our timetable. Out"
Damnit...
10 minutes later...
3 SUVs and 7 squad cars pulled up on Harry's position. The streets full of activity as more and more people brought their injured loved ones to the emergency center.
"Where do ya want these?" Ross asked referring to the barricades
"Set them up across the road, I want this entire passageway blocked off. Road spikes, barricades, everything. And get use the bloody cars too!" Harry replied.
"You heard him!" Ross yelled. The men jumped into action and pulled their equipment out of the trucks and cars. Harry went back on the radio for a situation update.
"This is ground 1 to comm, I repeat ground 1 to comm. Come in over."
"This is comm, what can I do for ya Harry-err I mean ground 1." Came Jake's voice.
"Patch me through to air-2."
"Right away."
"This is air-2, Jamie at your service."
"Jamie I need an update." Harry said.
CRACK! One of the new guys drove a squad car into an SUV when he was trying to move into position.
"Get those damn cars in a row behind the barricades you bloody retard, where the hell did you learn to drive!" Ross yelled.
"Alright Harry, I've still got about 300 maybe 400 people heading in your direction. They don't look like refugees, they're on foot, ETA about... 3-4 minutes give or take." Jamie said.
"Alright tha---"
Before Harry could finish he could see large crowds of people in the horizon running in their direction and hear screaming, crying, and yelling. There had to be at least 300 of them.
ETA 3 minutes...
"ROSS!" Harry yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Take 4 of your best sharpshooters onto the roof of the hospital, GO NOW!" Harry said.
"Right, Charlie, Harv, Ken, Ian, you're with me, get a rifle and lets go!" Ross said. He and his chosen ran into the hospital to set up.
"Dan, get into the hospital and start evacuating people. I don't care what it takes, threaten them with your gun, just get them out of here." Harry ordered.
"Yes sir." And Dan went off.
ETA 2 minutes...
"Harry!" Eddy yelled at his father, pointing at the crowd. Eddy was his second in command now.
"Yeah I saw it Ed, get the men and set up on the barricades, do not fire until I give the order."
"SIR!" Another young man yelled out, pointing to the advancing crowd. His name was Jeremy, also new.
"I see it, stay in position and don't panic." Harry said.
The men were getting antsy now. Some looked hesitant like they were about to run away. There were about 30 men strewn out in a line across the street that lead into the town of Whittlesey. All had protective riot gear on, riot shields, gas grenades, and MP5s and C-7s standard issue.
ETA 1 minute...
"Ross come in, over."
"Yeah Harry this is Ross, I see them, god there are hundreds of them."
"I know, I need your men to start firing gas grenades at them, don't use lethal force until I give the order though, just gas 'em." Harry said.
"Have that Harry, if they don't disperse... We can't take that many--"
"Damnit Ross, just do what I told you, out."
"crssh.. ground 1 this is air 2, there is a group closing in on your position, over." Jamie said over the radio.
"I know damnit I see the---"
"No Harry, they're coming from within the bloody town, right behind you damnit!" Jamie yelled.
Harry looked up at the police helicopter buzzing above him. Then looked back and down the street in the opposite direction. He could see a crowd of about 50 people running towards the barricade. Shit...
"There are a little less than 100, ETA about 5 minutes give or take." Jamie said.
"Have that, thanks air-2, out." Harry said.
ETA 30 seconds...
The sounds of the launchers came from the roof of the hospital as Ross and his men fired CS gas grenades into the crowd. In the parking lot there were doctors and patients alike going back to their cars and Dan behind them.
"Harry, not all of the people would leave, some doctors stayed behind with the critical patients." Dan said.
"Don't worry about it, get on the line." Harry said.
Harry got out his loudspeaker and yelled through it.
"This is the Whittlesey police service, I order you to disperse or we will use lethal force." He yelled.
"I repeat, I order you to disperse or we will open fire!"
"AHHH!!!" Screams came from the hospital and some doctors and nurses came running out, being attacked by their former patients. Harry glanced back and saw the other crowd from behind gaining on him.
"I knew this was going to be a bad day..." He mumbled to himself.
ETA 20 seconds...
"OPEN FIRE! I REPEAT, OPEN FIRE!" He yelled through the loudspeaker then threw it down, brought his MP5 to his shoulder, and fired at the patients attacking the doctors.
BANG! BANG! ARRGHH! Guns firing and people screaming and yelling, explosions, launchers firing more grenades, chatter on the radio, it was anything but silence. It was the sound of war and we were shit out of luck...