Chapter 5
"Bold" words indicate singing.
Lexi and Charlie stayed in Reno for another couple of weeks. Only the guilty and the stupid flee immediately. During their stay, Lexi acquired more supplies. For a while, Lexi was concerned about traveling with everything that they needed, but luck was on their side.
After the first week of their stay in Reno following the attack on The Silver Lining, Lexi won a brand new car in a poker game.
By the time that Lexi and Charlie left Reno Nevada, more than a month and a half after they arrived in the city, they drove away in a 2012 Nissan 4 door Sedan, and a cool 10 million dollars.
They drove from Reno Nevada, to the next Hydra base in Yellowstone National Park Idaho, where Lexi couldn't help but to wonder what was going through their stupid little heads, to put one of their bases on top of a SUPER VALCANO.
Upon arriving at Yellowstone, Lexi went about planning on how to deal with this base. She couldn't very well blow it up. That has the potential to cause a chain reaction that would cause Yellowstone to erupt. In the end, Lexi decides to do something similar to what she did to the previous base.
Lexi took the next couple of weeks to properly prepare, in both supplies and information. Lexi felt that she was as prepared as she could possibly be, given the circumstances.
All the while, Charlie seemed agitated, and almost reluctant to even step foot into this base.
She crouched down to his eye level and Lexi said, "Hey Charlie, what's wrong?"
Charlie had slouched, and seemed to curl into himself. And gave a strange look to the base in question and then looked back at Lexi.
Lexi looked at the base as well, and then back at Charlie, before understanding came upon her.
"You've been here before, haven't you?"
Charlie whined, and shifted.
"Hey, it's okay." Lexi opened her arms, "Come here."
As Charlie cuddles up to Lexi, she starts to run her fingers through his fur. They stayed like this for a few minutes.
Finally Lexi spoke up, and said softly, "You don't have to come with me. If you want to, then you don't have to. I can go alone."
Charlie jerks back, and gives Lexi a look. As if saying, 'Are you crazy?!' A stubborn glint entered his eyes. Charlie pulled out of Lexi's arms, and moved in the direction of the base. He stopped after a few feet, and then looked at Lexi like, 'Well, are you coming?'
Smiling and chuckling to herself a little bit, Lexi stood up and moved next to him.
"Together?"
Charlie growled at the base.
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On November 3, 2012, Lexi and Charlie stood before the camera once again in their disguises, as Patriot and Char.
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In Washington D.C., the Director of HomeLand Security. sat in his office doing the dreaded paperwork, when there was a knock on his office door.
He looked up, eager to have any excuse to put off the paperwork for another time, the imposing man behind the desk said in a commanding voice, "Come in."
Agent Fielding, an analyst, stepped into the office with an air of importance. "Sir, there's something that you need to see."
"What is it?"
Fielding walks over to the desk, gesturing to the director's computer, "May I?"
Upon getting a positive response, Fielding brought up Youtube, and went to Patriot's channel. Seeing that there was a second video posted, the director pressed play on the video.
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"What's up Freedom Fighters. I'm Patriot and this is Char, and welcome back to another unboxing video. Today, we're in Yellowstone National Park, Idaho. This particular base is about half a mile to the west from where we are at. Let's check it out."
Patriot and Char approach the base, just after nightfall.
Taking out the first couple of agents guarding the entrance was the easy part.
When they reached level 5, to stock up on some more ammo, Patriot and Char had to duck inside one of the rooms. Just barely managing it before the patrol walked past.
Patriot turned around, finding themselves in one of the security rooms.
To the right of the door was a table that was stacked with empty glass bottles, on the other side of the room, sitting at the computer terminals, were four guards.
Grabbing one of the bottles, Patriot and Char quietly snuck up behind them.
"Did you hear what happened in Reno?" agent 1 asked.
"'Course I did. Along with the rest of the world, you idiot." agent 2 gruffly replied.
"If Patriot were to show up, what do you think they'd say?" agent 4 asked.
"Well," Patriot said, causing the agents to turn around, "Being an American, I'd say something along the lines of," Patriot smashed the bottle on the first agent's head. Used the now broken bottle neck, to slice the throat of the second agent. Char had already killed the third one, by ripping out his jugular, so Patriot and Char tagged teamed to deal with the last one.
Once all of the agents were down, Patriot finished their thought, "Hold my beer and watch this."
Stepping up to the computers, Patriot pulls out the hard drives in the backpack, and plugs them in. Hacking into the hydra network, Patriot began to download more files.
"Easy, as A, B, C."
Char growled at the door quietly. The door opened to let in three agents, who froze before going on the attack.
Char charged and bit down on the agent on the left's throat, while Patriot pulled out the SIG on their hip and put three rounds into the second and third ones each.
"One, two, three."
Making sure that they had everything, Patriot pulled out the first charge out of their packet.
"Now I know what you're thinking. 'Patriot, what are you doing? You can't blow up a base, that's on top of a super volcano!' And you're right. I can't. The side effects would be devastating. But, have no fear. These are not boomboxes. These are fire starters. It'll do the same thing it did to the previous base."
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Patriot planted the charges as they went lower into the base.
After the last of the last charges on the lowest level was planted, Patriot said, "Taste the freedom," before hitting the button and starting the countdown. They both bolted for the door, as the song Fortunate Son by CCR played over every speaker.
Some folks are born, made to wave the flag
Half way up, there was a couple of agents stepping out onto the stairwell facing them. They were obviously reacting to the attack on the base.
Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand
The agents reached for their guns. They got off a few rounds, forcing Patriot and Char to take cover.
But when the taxman comes to the door
The fire fight only lasted a moment or two, resulting in two more dead agents.
Lord, the house looks like rummage sale, yes
Patriot and Char started back up the stairs, before more agents could come.
On level 3, Char stopped. He ran out of the stairwell, and down the hall. Patriot ran after him, finding him outside a lab door, and trying to get the door open.
Char got frustrated, and finally just rammed the door down. Shaking his head afterwards, Char then ran into the room. Following him, Patriot looked around the large room.
Along the left and back walls, were cages. All filled with animals. Each one holding more than they should. It was all unhumanitarian.
Char looked at Patriot, and whined. Scratching at one of the cage doors.
"Okay, let's make this quick."
Getting them all out of the cages wasn't the problem. It was getting them all out of the building before the song ended, that was going to be difficult.
It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no military son, son
Patriot got the last animal out of its cage, following Char as he led everyone up to the surface.
It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, one
An agent had just swiped their key card, and had the main door open to the surface. Only to be ploughed down by a stampede of a wide variety of animals. From cats and dogs, to eagles and parakeets.
It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, one
Patriot and Char jumped into a jeep, as the animals that they freed ran or flew into the forest. Patriot pulled down the visor, and the keys dropped down into their lap.
It ain't me, It ain't me, I ain't no fortunate one, one
Patriot and Char drove out of the base perimeter seconds after the last note was sung.
Getting back to their camp, Patriot and Char got out of the jeep and walked back over to the camera.
"Well, there you have it. Another base destroyed, and we are that much closer to freeing America." Patriot said.
Char barked in agreement. Happy that they were able to save those animals.
"As always, press that thumbs up, and hit that subscribe button. And don't forget to hit that bell."
"America"
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When the video ended, and the screen went black, Agent Fielding stepped around the desk to be on the opposite side of the director.
"Sir, what do you want us to do?" Fielding asked.
"Leave."
"Sir?"
"Fielding, get out of my office, before I suspend you for a month!"
"Yes Sir."
Fielding practically ran out of that office and went back to his desk. While thinking about the director's strange behavior. He shook his head to dislodge the thoughts swirling around his head. He sat down and finished up some last reports, before going home for the night.
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An hour after tossing and turning in bed, Fielding finally gave up. After he turned on his work laptop, Fielding setup one of his spyware programs. After he hacked into the director of Homeland's office computer. Making sure that his programs were expertly hidden, he closed his laptop. He was suddenly hit by a wave of tiredness, and Fielding put the laptop aside, laid back down, turned over and went to sleep.