Kris stared at Rapps in disbelief before he bolted out of the mess hall running towards the medical center.
He burst through the door looking around frantically until his eyes rested on a figure sitting up in a hospital bed. A soft smile spread across his face.
"Sven.." Kris rushed to him and wrapped his arms around his brother, tears streaming off his cheeks. After losing his sister, it was nice to have his brother, conscious and in his arms.
"Hey Kris." Sven said. His brown hair was messy and he had stubble on his face. "Hey don't get all teary eyed on me, I'm fine."
"It's just.. I've missed you bud." He wiped his tears off. "Welcome back."
"It's good to be back. Now where are the girls?" Sven asked. Kris's face went blank.
'What should I tell him? Yeah our adoptive sister is dead and her sister is somewhere out in the middle of nowhere for some reason.'"Well they uhm..."
"Sven!" A happy, yet teary voice came from the door. The two men looked up to see their mom and Cliff standing in the the doorway. Bulda rushed to the bed and Kris stepped away so that their mother can embrace her child.
"Oh my baby!" She cried. "How you feeling? Tired? Dizzy?"
"I'm fine mom, really."
"Okay good." She then slapped Sven on the shoulder. "Now don't you scare your mother like that again. I swear you children are going to be the death of me." Bulda said as she stepped away from the bed and Cliff had the chance to hug his son.
"Uhm..guys this has been great but I kind of need to go take care of some..."BOOM!
The whole building shook.
"What the hell was that?!" Sven asked. People outside were scrambling and screaming when another Boom! was heard and the building shook again. Rocks from the canyon started falling down as the walls shook.
Kris rushed outside of the medical center to see what's going on outside. He was met outside by Rider and Rapps trying to keep the people calm and leading away from the falling danger.
"What the hell is going on?!" Kris asked as he approached them.
"We're under attack. The Order is bombing our entrance trying to get in. The blast doors have been activated but I don't know how long they will last."
"They found us? How?" Kris then thought to himself before saying. "They followed us. That's why they didn't shoot us when we stole the Jeep. We lead them right here."
"Okay now we know how but now we need the what now. What a are your orders?" Rider asked.
"My orders?"
"Your acting general now that Elsa's gone. You're in charge now." Rapps said.
"Right uhm... Get all the towns people out of here. Have some soldiers take them to the southwest bomb shelters. Then the remaining soldiers will stay keep the Order at bay until we have all the people out. Where's Olaf and Red?"
"There helping the people get out a house that was starting to collapse." Rider answered.
"Okay Rider, you go get them and get as many people out as you can, then meet me back at the base. Start getting the soldiers and their gear ready. The oldest recruits are going to take the people through the tunnels with a few senior soldiers. Recruits between 15 and 16 each can receive weapons and move out with the town people." Rider nodded and stared running to find Red and Olaf.
"Rapps, you and I are going to help the people here in the medical center and then you'll go with the towns people..."
"Oh no, I'm staying here. Dr Robinson and the other medics can go through the tunnels. I'm staying here and fighting."
"Alright, we'll help the people out of the medical center and meet the other back at the base." Boom! "We'll have to hurry. We don't have much time."
BOOM!
"Sir the door isn't budging." One of the soldiers called.
"Well fire again! Come on men this is built like a tuna can! Surely our advance artillery can break through this!" A small spritly shouted grabbing the young soldier by his collar, bringing him to his level.
"Sir, this facility is more advance than what you give it credit. Isn't there anything other way we could get in?" The soldier asked fixing his collar.
"That would take up too much of our valuable! Besides we have them exactly where we want them. If you can't open this tin can with our normal weapons, than use out the new project."
"Sir, it's untested. If we do use it and it doesn't work as it's supposed to, we risk killing everyone in that base."
"That means less work for us. Now hop to it boy, get the weapon." The soldier glanced nervously at the shorter man. "Is there a problem, boy?"
"No, no problem, sir." He stepped away from the man and got a black case out of the vehicle close to them. He brought it closer and took out a weapon about the same size as a RPG-28 rocket launcher. It was quite heavy as he lifted it up aiming at the big metal, blast proof doors.
He took a deep breath. "Fire when ready." the man said. The soldier hesitated. "I said fire!" Still the soldier remained motionless. "Are you refusing a direct order?! Give me that!" The small man was livid, his face became red as he marched to the soldier and took the weapon out of his hand, or tried to since it might weigh more than him.
He readied the weapon and pulled the trigger. A blinding blue light blasted from the weapon, knocking the short man a few feet back. The soldiers gasp.
"What? What is it?" The man asked as he quickly sat up, straightening his glasses. He stared in disbelief at the door because there where the big blast proof doors had once stood, only laid dust of disintegrated metal and rubble. "See, I told you it would work." He stood up and dusted the snow of his coat. He turned to the soldier, "We will discuss your insubordination later. Move in!"
The building shook with every hit the base took. The lights flickered and small bits of ceiling and dust was falling down.
Kris and Rapps were hurrying through the halls telling everyone they come across the head to the southwest bunkers.
They finally arrived at the mess hall where most of the Resistance soldiers, who have not been tasked with protecting the civilians, were gathered and readied their weapons. There was an unrest under the soldiers. Some sounded unsure and afraid. Some have never been in a real battle before.
Kris clears his throat nervously. He doesn't like talking in front of crowds, that was usually Elsa's job.
"Can I have your attention please... As you all are aware The Order has found us and is trying to get into the base. Most of the towns people have already been evacuated and the blast doors have been activated but they won't hold forever... Uhmm.. we have to be ready for anything that comes through that door... This is what we have been training for..."
"Where's General Winters?" One of the soldiers asked.
Kris's face looked grim and it took everything in his strength to stay professional.
"General Winters is sadly not with us anymore. She was killed during an ambush on our last mission."
Everyone went quiet and a wave of sadness moved across the room.
BOOM!
A huge explosion shook the entire canyon shook, some stumbled and others fell. A voice came over the intercom system. "Main door has been breached. I repeat the main door has been breached!"
"Their here! Move out!" Kris yelled.
Sorry about the short chapter. The next one is taking more planning than I thought it would, so I wanted get this part of the story out just to let you know I'm still alive :)
Until the next chapter