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I woke up sometime later. I had a head ache from hell. Dominic and John were standing in the front of the truck engrossed in the map we were using to drive by. They had it spreed across the hood. I looked around and could see we were parked on some side road with large trees and bushes all around us. I looked behind us and could see the other two trucks parked behind us with no one in them.

"Your awake!" I heard John say.

I turned back around and looked at them through the windshield. "Where are we?"

"About forty miles from that field we were in. On a side road off of the main road." Dominic said.

I opened the door and tried to get out. As I leaned to get out I felt the seat belt tighten up around my waist. I looked at it dumbly. I didn't remember buckling it.

"I strapped you in!" John said from the front of the truck.

I nodded and unbuckled it and stepped out of the truck. I looked at my arm and noticed it had a dark black and blue bruise in the shape of a hand on my forearm. I flexed my hand and grimace as I felt pain shoot through my arm. I inspected it some more to make sure there was no skin breakage and found none. It hurt but I didn't think it was as bad as it could of been.

Walking around the front of the truck I stood next to John who had Dominic on his other side. "So where is everyone else?" I asked.

Dominic looked at me with a smile and pointed back behind the trucks. "Their checking out a farm house over there!"

I followed his finger to where it was pointing and could just make out what looked kind of like a barn through the trees. "Why are they doing that?"

"Their checking it out to see if its safe to stay there tonight." John said.

I felt my head start to hurt. "What do you mean the night?"

"We only got a few hours before dark and we didn't want to be caught out in the open when the night comes." Dominic said.

I looked up in the sky and could see that the sun was starting to get lower, and wondered how long was I out. "How long was I out?"

Dominic smiled again. "about four hours" he reached around john and clasped me on the back. "You got lucky and we all thought it would be a good Ideal if we just let you sleep."

I took a deep breath and said thanks to them and started to walk around a little to stretch my legs. As I came around the back end of the truck looking at the ground I felt a rifles barrel pushed up against my forehead. I stopped in my tracks and raised my eyes but not moving another muscle. A man in a camouflage uniform and paint stood in front of me with his rifle pointed at me. I turned my eyes to look back at the other two only to see two other men behind them with rifles at there backs.

"How many others are with you?" The man in front of me said.

I stared at the barrel of the rifle pressed against my forehead and stammered "nine I think."

"What do you mean think?" The man said pushing the barrel a little harder against my head.

"I don't know what you mean!" I raised my hands a little. "including us?" I kind of wave at the other two.

"Put it down Corporeal!" A voice came from behind me.

The rifle went down immediately and the man in front of me backed off a couple of feet. He still had the rifle pointed at me though.

I felt a tap on my shoulder "Sorry for the surprise."

I turned around to face the man behind me. He stood about my height and had the same kind of clothes as the others. I could make out what looked like captains bars on the front of his camo parka. At least thats what I thought the emblem meant. From the different army movies I've seen over the years.

"Thats OK!" I said "You can't be to careful these days." I smiled a smile I didn't feel.

The man looked at me for a second. "Thats very true." He waved to the others and they backed off Dominic and John. "What are you doing here?" He asked.

"We were looking for a place to stay for the night." I said immediately. "We were on our way to get some supplies and didn't want to get caught in the open with nightfall."

The Captain just nodded like thats what he thought then extended his hand out to me. "My names Captain Wes Oliver of the 306th special operations group United States Army."

I reached out and took his hand. "My names Kyle Weathers" I paused to think of where I was from. "Of the Hornbeck Ranch."

Oliver nodded and said "We can put you up for the night in return for some supplies and some information." he smiled "All of your other buddies are in the barn under guard until we could contact you."

I wasn't surprised by this for some reason but asked "What kind of information?"

"O! You know! Where all the good hang outs are. And the good looking woman." He smiled and half laughed. "And the Doc might have a few questions for you." He waved us towards the farm house.

I nodded and started in that direction. Then I asked "Doc who?"