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Jack slipped on his jacket, grabbed his rifle, and a small bag filled with grenades, basic survival gear, and a first aid kit, and ran outside. He got out of the apartment, and saw pure anarchy. There were civilians there were civilians running in all directions while screaming in fear, buildings were on fire, and there were some wounded civilians on the street. Jack caught one of the bystanders.
"Whats happening?" He asked.
"There was an attack!" The woman said. Jack let her go, and she ran for safety. Jack went to the source of the fire while keeping his rifle trained. He saw a madman chasing a woman with an axe on hand. Jack raised his rifle, and delivered one clean shot to the head putting the man down. He saw another man, but this man was sprinting, and making rabid animal noises with what looks like a bomb strapped to him, the man sprinted towards a building, and jumped through the window, and the building exploded. Jack ducked down, and covered his head. He stood back up, and examined the scene.
"What the hell?" He asked himself. He has seen men run up to things with a bomb strapped on them before, but they did it for a significant reason. The one he just witnessed made no sense.
More of them came in waves, so Jack set his rifle to full auto, and began to lay some pain.
Jack burned through his fifth mag before he could get to the wall. There was a huge hole on the wall, and carja soldiers were doing their best to hold of the attackers with bows, and arrows. Jack looked around, and until he found Erend.
"What happened here?" Jack asked him.
"I don't know, they just appeared out of nowhere. The first one came in with blaze bombs strapped to their chest, and kept coming until the wall was breached. Then more of them came with other weapons," Erend explained. Jack surveyed the situation.
"Get men, and barricades down there!" Jack ordered Erend, and he nodded. Erend made gave a signal to one of the soldiers, and he rallied more soldiers. They grabbed anything in reach like sacks full of things, chairs tables, and even fallen debris to create a blockade. Jack climbed down to support the men at the bottom. He set up at the middle, aimed his rifle, and began firing. Jack emptied his bag of explosives, and pulled the pin on each grenade, and threw them.
Jack later realized that he was running out of ammo, and he wasn't the only one. The carja archers arrow supply also began to run dry, and more, and more hostiles piled up. Jack needed to think of a different solution. He saw a hose pumping up water to douse the fires, but Jack also saw a bunch of blaze barrels. Jack took the hose, and disconnected it's water supply, and reconnected it to the blaze barrels, and threw the hose to the top of the wall, Jack climbed up, and put the hose on the edge of the wall. He turned the valve, and the hose began spitting blaze, he took out flip lighter from his pocket, and brought the end near the current.
"EAT THIS SUCKERS!" He yelled to the incoming men. Jack lit the blaze, and it turned into a flamethrower. Jack turned the end of the house to aim it from side to side, as it cooked the attackers. The attackers were frightened as the wall of stone protecting the city of meridian turned into a wall of fire. Their numbers dropped rapidly, and they all retreated. Jack noticed they were retreating as the blaze supply has gone dry. Jack put the hose down, and looked at the city. The battle was over with victory going to the carja, but the scars were still there, and there were a lot of them.
Dawn break.
After last night's attack the city of Meridian was in total lockdown. No one was allowed to come in or out. Carja soldiers roamed the streets in formation while on high alert.
Jack walked the streets of Meridian trying to find Erend. He came across a lot of wounded people just laying on the side waiting to be treated, Carja armed patrols, and people running around with buckets full of water trying to put out the fires.
Jack eventually found Erend in a tent with some other men.
"Erend," He called out."Said you wanted to see me."
"Yeah I did come here," He said. They went outside, and Erend began.
"The job I told you about was to hunt down this guy," He said.
"Who is this guy?" Jack asked.
"We don't know, we only know him by the Damned, He's responsible for the bigger crimes, the guys you busted before were just the little guys, this guy is the big one, He also leads a new super-bandit group called the The New World order, and that group is the one responsible for the attack last night after we found their logo on one of the corpses of the attackers. One of our spies infiltrated sunfall which is the capital of The New World Order. Our spy came across him, but he was wearing a mask so we couldn't identify him, he followed him to a room where there were a bunch of guys mixing up some components, and turning them into little berry like objects in different colors, but what happened next was shocking. They tested it out on a person, and whatever those thing were it somehow has the ability to corrupt people," Erend explained.
"Okay so what's in it for me?" Jack asked.
"Our spy has located more places where the berry things are made. Your job is to find those places, destroy them, gather intelligence, and if possible track down the Damned, and kill him or arrest him," Erend said.
"Okay i'll do it," Jack said.
Erend gave him a map of the locations of places where they create the berry things, and Jack was getting ready. Erend told him that he'll pay Jack a ton of money if he accomplishes it, but Jack told him he didn't need to do that. Jack felt like he needed to do this for all the people that was lost last night, and not for the money. Jack went home, and stocked up his gear. He grabbed a small backpack and filled it with explosives, survival gear, and medical gear, he stocked up his grenades, refiled his magazines, cleaned up the barrel of his rifle, fixed up his pistol, and he was ready to go. But before he left he removed one of the floorboards of his cabin, and took out an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket launcher with seven extra shots he kept in a separate bag: four high explosives, and three armour piercing, and one thermobaric shot. It was one of the 'goodies' he kept for later. After he made sure he had everything he needed he was on his way.
Jack was back at the desert. He came across a bandit camp so he decided to clear it out. After he took out everyone in the camp he went searching for anything he could use in the camp. But he didn't know that one of the bandits was hiding in a bush, and waiting for Jack to make a mistake. Jack put his stuff down, knelt down, and started digging through a chest. The bandit carefully got out of his hiding spot, and slowly and quietly approached Jack as he cluelessly kept digging through the chest of stuff. A figure stood a few meters away with a bow. The bandit pulled out a knife, and approached Jack, once he got into knife range he retracted his arm, and waited for a moment. But before he could stab Jack an arrow shot his knife of of his hand. The impact of the arrow made a sound which alerted Jack, but the figure loaded another arrow into her bow, and shot the bandit in the head. Jack rolled over, grabbed his rifle, and hid behind a boulder. Jack took a heartbeat to identify the person before putting his rifle down.
The figure also put her bow down, and revealed herself.
"You never seem to get yourself out of trouble, do you?" Aloy asked, and put her bow behind her back.
"Yes, What the hell are you doing here?" Jack asked.
"I heard about what happened in meridian so I started my own man hunt," Aloy said. "What about you?"
"Same thing you're doing," Jack said as he picked up his stuff.
"You're going after the Damned?"
"Yeah, and by the way I got this, so you should go home or risk getting yourself into deep trouble," Jack said, and began to walk away.
"I'm coming with you," Aloy caught up with him.
"No you are not," Jack said.
"Why not?" Aloy asked, and Jack stopped.
"Look I appreciate it that you want to help, but where i'm going is full of crazy stuff you can't okay," Jack flashed her a smile, but she just stood there with her mouth wide open. That talk offended Aloy a little.
Aloy put her hands on her hips.Girl rant incoming…
"Excuuuuze me, but I happen to have experienced crazy things also! I am perfectly capable of handling myself so I am coming with you, and you can't do anything to stop me!" Aloy argued. Jack couldn't say no to that. Jack took the RPG from his bag, and gave it to Aloy.
"Hold this," He said.
"What is this thing?" Aloy asked.
"It makes things go boom, so don't mess with it," Jack said, "now c'mon we got a long way ahead of us."
They started heading of to one of the locations stated on Jacks map.
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