Fight for the future
Side story: Seven days of glory
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
Authors note: Here's the side story, Hotaru and the others will not show up until the next chapter.
Arrival
An eighteen-year-old Adam walks with the two hundred strong militia he had fought beside since he was sixteen after he had escaped from Serenity, they had come to the aid of some people who had holed up in a fort, they had stopped to take a rest when an RPG goes off next to a building beside them.
"SHIT! TAKE COVER!" someone shouts as they all take cover and wait for the order to open fire when they see flashes of gunfire, Adam had taken cover in an abandoned house putting a magazine in his rifle he runs upstairs to a window and smashes it with the butt of his rifle.
"HEY ADAM, YOU OKAY?" Ricky shouts as he sees Adam open fire on an enemy position before he goes to check the rest of the house, in one of the rooms he finds a girl cowering in the corner, he goes over to her and slings his rifle.
Hey, what's your name?" he asks the girl.
"Yuki, what's yours?"
"Adam, let's get you out of here." He picks her up and she puts her arms around his neck as he holds her with one arm and grabs his rifle with his free arm they go downstairs and Adam kicks the back door open to reveal some enemy soldiers manning a machine gun post staring at him as he opens fire killing them all before they go out and rejoin the main lot.
Half an hour later the skirmish was over, they had been cut down to half of their strength head off to where the fort is, they stop on the outskirts of town.
"Is that a bar I see?" Ricky asked.
"It is my friend." Adam replied.
"Then what are we doing here?" Ricky said as some of them agree with him, they head off into town and to the bar, in the bar there are only a few sober people left standing when the commander of the garrison walks in.
"Who's in charge here?" the commander asks.
"The colonel is in dispose at the moment, same as practically everyone here sir." Adam replied to the commander.
"When the colonel sobers up can you send him to the garrison."
"Will do sir." Adam replied.
The commander of the garrison leaves and goes back to the garrison, whilst Adam settles down for the night with Yuki asleep next to him.
Day one
Adam gets a rude awakening by Ricky.
"What?" he asks.
"We got trouble, they're here." Ricky says making Adam moves quickly and grabs his rifle and Yuki before they run out, Adam places Yuki on a cart that's going to the garrison.
"I'll be back, I promise you." He says as he grabs his rifle before he runs off and joins the others behind a small wall as they waited for the enemy to pass, when they pass they stand up and open fire killing some of them before running.
"Go, me and Ricky will slow them down." Adam said.
"Cut, slash and run?"
"Oh yes." Adam replied slinging his rifle across his back and pulls out his knife, Ricky does the same as they hide behind a gate and wait, tow soldiers stand with their back to the gate as Ricky and Adam stand up and slit their throats before dropping the bodies and running.
Inside the garrison the defenders of it take up their positions, the commander watches as Adam and Ricky cut slash and run.
"What are those two doing?"
"Looks like cut, slash and run sir." Someone replied as they head towards the garrison.
"OPEN THE GATE!" the commander shouts as they get nearer "give them covering fire."
The people standing on the wall facing Adam and Ricky wait for them to get closer before they open fire killing the soldiers chasing them as Adam and Ricky run through the gates before they stop and get their breath back as the gate is closed.
"I'm never doing that again." Adam said.
"Me too."
The commander walks down some steps and walks towards Adam.
"Where is your commanding officer?"
"Over there with Yuki." Adam replied whilst pointing in the direction of Yuki.
The commander thanks them and walks over to the colonel and Yuki.
"Yuki, Adam's back, I've got to talk to the commander."
Yuki runs off to where Adam is and he picks her up.
"How many people do you command?"
"Originally two hundred, but we had a skirmish yesterday and got cut down to half our fighting strength so now including myself, one hundred and one." The colonel replied.
"I command one hundred and eighty-nine people, will your people fight?"
"I think so, you see that one over there, and the one with the girl we found him three years ago he had escaped from Serenity. His names Adam Aino, long before the war his mother did some modelling for the Sailor V games."
"COMMANDER WE GOT TROUBLE!" the sentry shouts.
"CIVILLIANS WILL SEEK SHELTER, MEN TO YOUR POSTS." The commander shouts as the civilians take shelter and the defenders run to their positions, Adam and the others run to the north wall and take positions waiting for an attack.
"Wait for the order to fire." Someone says.
Adam takes the safety off his weapon and waits for the order to fire, the enemy soldiers get to a hundred yards before they fire a volley into them killing the first line.
"They're just testing our capabilities." Adam said.
"FIRE WHEN READY!" the commander shouted as people started to fire soon the enemy retreats and they all cheer.
"Officers call in ten minutes." The commander says.
Ten minutes later.
The officers stand around in a room, "here is our situation, help will not be coming we hold this position for as long as possible and the actual battle cannot start without her main troops."
The officers leave and go back to their people.
"So what's the news?" one of them asks.
"Help won't be coming… get some rest boys, it's going to be a long day tomorrow."
They go and find places to bunk down for the night; Adam stands on the north wall watching the enemy camp.
Day two
The people in the compound were starting to wake up, Ricky sees Adam standing on the north wall and walks over to him.
"Couldn't sleep?" he asked.
"Nope, it's been three years today since I escaped." Adam replied, "Sorta ironic she'd show up here."
"She's not with them, c'mon we got some work to do."
They leave and go to work on a palisade between the gate and the barracks and place a few small field guns at regular intervals across the palisade and start piling shells beside the field guns.
"You know, there is the possibility we could all die?" Ricky asked.
"I know, but we fight to the last person." Adam replied as he finishes putting the shells behind a small field gun and wipes the sweat from his face.
"SOUTH WALL!"
Adam and Ricky grab their rifles and run to the south wall and take up position when the order is given they open fire.
"NORTH WALL!" someone shouts.
"We don't have enough men." Ricky replied.
"Take every third man from the south wall." The commander of the garrison said and someone runs to the south wall and takes every third man off the south wall to the north wall.
An hour later
Everyone is giving positions to defend; Adam defends the palisade on the west wall along with Ricky and a handful of others.
"This bites, I came here to fight not to defend a rundown school." Ricky said whilst sitting down on the firing step.
"Hey man, calm down could be worse." Adam replied.
"How so?"
"We could be fighting in open grounds." Adam replied.
"I don't see how that could be worse?" Ricky asked.
"It could and you know it."
"Yeah, you're right." Ricky replied.
"Ain't I always?" Adam asked.
"There was that time…"
"Okay, maybe I'm not right a lot of the time." Adam replied.
"Well it's getting dark, who's on watch?" Ricky asked.
"You are." Adam replied as he settled down for the night as Ricky started muttering things.
Day three
Adam wakes up and finds Ricky leaning on the palisade asleep when an enemy field gun fires a round and it lands just short of the palisade waking everyone up as people run to their positions and return fire with the field guns, they fire them into the enemy ranks as the enemy ranks charge at them and they open fire with their rifles.
"Shit, they're getting too close for comfort." Adam says as he fires his rifle at one of the enemy soldiers as he tries to climb over the palisade; Adam drops his rifle and pulls out his knife and stabs the first one that tries to climb over the palisade and Ricky uses the butt of his rifle to club them to death and hitting them in the face before they retreat.
"That was too close for comfort." Ricky replied.
"Tell me about it." Adam replied as he searches the bodies of the dead soldiers they had killed as they tried to climb over the palisade.
"What's going through your head as we're killing them?" Adam asked.
"It's either us or them."
All together Adam and Ricky had found knives and pictures of the families of the soldiers they had killed along with ammunition.
"Doesn't it ever make you think we're killing family people?" Adam asked.
"Like I said, us or them."
Once they've cleared the bodies they sit down at the palisade and wait for something to happen other than that they were drinking and smoking.
"Think I've drunk myself back sober." Ricky said.
"I'm surprised you've still got a liver."
"I'm surprised that you've still got lungs the way you smoke." Ricky replied.
Adam finishes another cigarette before pulling out another one.
"Must be something I inherited, you ever heard of the sailor scouts?"
"Yeah." Ricky replied.
"You see my mother was one of them." He replied as he lit his cigarette.
"What?" Ricky shouted.
"My mother was Sailor Venus."
"That's so cool, oh hi Yuki." Ricky said.
"Hi Adam, Ricky."
"Sorry if it's a little bloody around here." Adam said.
"It's okay." Yuki replied cheerfully.
"So Yuki, what have you been doing?" Ricky asked.
"Playing with the other kids."
"We've been killing and collecting heir possessions." Ricky replied only to receive a punch from Adam.
Hours later
It had got dark and Adam was on watch when someone walks up to the palisade.
"Halt! Who goes there?" Adam asked with his rifle trained on the person.
"A message for the commander of the garrison." The person said as he threw a letter to Adam and walks off, Adam wakes Ricky up.
"Huh… wha…" Ricky said.
"I need you to keep watch for a minute, I got a letter for the commander of the garrison." Adam replied as Ricky stood up and took Adam's place as Adam walks over to the commander's room and knocks on his door and the commander opens the door.
"Yes?" The commander asks.
"A letter came for you sir." Adam replied as handed the letter and the commander reads it as Adam walks away and goes back to his post.
Day four
Adam wakes his friend up by kicking him lightly.
"I'm up! Where's the fight?" Ricky said.
"I think you should see this." Adam replied.
Ricky stands on the firing step and looks out to see the enemy had moved closer.
"They're getting way too close for my comfort." Ricky said.
"Tell me about it."
"I'd rather take my chances out there." Ricky said.
"I don't like being holed up in here as much as you do." Adam replied.
They sit down and Ricky pulls out a bottle of tequila and takes a mouthful before passing it to Adam as the commander of the garrison walks over to them.
"No more of this for anyone." The commander said as he took the bottle away from them and walks away.
"Got anymore bottles?" Adam asked.
"Of course." Ricky replied as he pulls out another bottle.
Later
Adam helps Ricky to stand up.
"You really have to cut down on drinking." Adam said.
"Hey, you've drunk as much as me." Ricky replied.
"Remember who my mother was?"
"Oh yeah, I forgot." Ricky replied before he passed out.
Adam sighs and puts him down before he goes off to get something to eat.
Day five
Enemy field guns were firing shells and they were landing in the compound, the civilians had taken shelter and the defenders were returning fire, Adam was passing shells to the person firing the palisade field gun and throwing the empty shells away and Ricky was firing his rifle at the ones that are getting too close before they retreat.
"I WANT A BODY COUNT!" The commander shouts.
Someone runs to the commander's room to give him the report.
"Fifteen injured, five dead, morale high." The person said.
"Morale won't do us any good." The commander said.
Adam runs to the infirmary when he hears the news about his OC and finds him sitting on the floor with a rifle-attached to his leg to keep it straight.
"I just heard colonel." Adam said.
"How many dead?"
"Five, but none of our lot." Adam replied before he left to go back to his position.
"How is he?" Ricky asked.
"A broken leg." Adam replied.
"They'll probably put him in a room."
In the commander's room, he and someone else stand around a table.
"I should give them a choice, stay or go."
"Shall I assemble the men?"
"Yes."
The other person leaves and assembles the men in the compound when the commander comes out.
"I'm giving you all a choice, you can either stay here and die or leave and die another day… but I will stay here and fight. Anyone who wants to stay will cross this line. I believe that each one of you will give them a crippling blow." He said as he drags the butt of his rifle along the floor and stands on the opposite side of the line, the first to cross the line was Adam, Yuki and Ricky before others started to cross the line leaving one person standing on the opposite side.
"Ah hell, if I'm going to die I'm going to die fighting." He said before he crosses the line and the commander looks at everyone.
"Thank you all of you." He says to them.
They all go back to their positions and wait.
Day six
During the day the commander stands on the north wall watching as the enemy builds siege ladders.
"This doesn't look too good sir."
"Break out the booze, we're going to have one last party." The commander replied.
The person standing beside the commander runs off and returns to the compound with a few dozen kegs of booze.
"ALRIGHT YOU GUYS, HAVE FUN!" the commander shouts before the commander goes to his room and Adam follows him and knocks on the door.
"What can I do for you?" the commander asks.
"They've arrived haven't they? Serenity's elite troops." Adam asks.
"Yes they have, you should go enjoy yourself."
"I'm not much of a drinker sir." Adam replied.
Day seven – early hours of the morning
Adam stands watch walking up and down the palisade when he sees shadows running towards them.
"HERE THEY COME!" Adam shouts as he lowers his rifle and fire, Ricky runs up to the palisade and pulls out his pistol and fires six shots before he gets shot in the head killed instantly as they are attacked on all four sides, on the north wall the commander of the garrison was telling his men to try and keep the off the wall, they eventually manage to get over the east wall and the north wall.
"BEHIND US!" Adam shouts taking some of the men from the palisade and they kneeled behind a barricade they had made and fire, in the infirmary Adam's OC lies on a bed facing the door with a rifle in his hands and his knife beside him as they break through the door and he fires his rifle before it jams, he throws the rifle at them before he goes through his knife only to get bayoneted.
Outside
"FALL BACK!" Adam shouts as he fired the field gun they had turned round and put it behind the barricade before he runs into a room where the civilians are.
"Looks like this is the end you guys?" one of them said as they stood in a line with their rifles held like clubs.
"You stay here Yuki." Adam replied before he goes back to the line.
"Heh." One of them said before they charged into the enemy ranks fighting to the last person.
Later
The battle was over and everyone except Adam was dead, he was forced to his knees and his hands bound and put in front of a bayonet squad. They had tortured the girl he had saved eight days before killing her.
"I should warn you, I'm a screamer." Adam tells them as the general motions for them to start.
"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Adam shouts before they stop close to him.
"He is to be spared." The general said before they leave and Adam stands up to look at the destruction that had been caused, throughout the seven days they had killed many enemy soldiers before they had attacked and Adam goes to bury the people he had fought beside.
Authors note: Sorry it's taken so long, this was co written with Maxwell. R&R
