Fight for freedom
Chapter 6: Midnight raid
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
Amelia sits behind the south wall writing in her diary as Reiko looks at Amelia as she continued on writing, on the west wall the senshi stand on the ramp looking at Adam as he gets some sleep with his sword next to him.
"He looks so peaceful." Mina said.
"PATROLS IN TROUBLE!"
Adam bolts upright and grabs his rifle and runs down the ramp past the senshi and to the main gate and helps to open it as the patrol run in and the people on the gatehouse and the north wall open fire before they help Adam close it. "I don't like what we saw." One of them said.
"What's that?" Adam asked.
"A big fucking gun, possibly a twenty five pounder."
They hear a whistling sound before an explosion in the compound showering people with dirt and concrete, "IT'S A BIG ONE AND IT FIRED FROM HERE!" someone shouted from the east wall and everyone runs over to the wall and see the field gun being carted away before they all go back to their positions.
"We're going to have to do something about that."
"Midnight raid." Adam replied as they went back to the west wall before Smitty goes and gets some of the mercenaries together whilst Adam goes back to sleep as Mara wonders what's going on and Reiko tells her. Meanwhile the senshi sit in the hall bored when Trista walks in.
"How is everyone?"
"Bored." Serena replied making Raye look at her "you're always bored" Raye replied making Serena turn on the waterworks as the others sighed as Trista leaves, outside Adam talks to the people going on the raid.
"Okay, no rifles or other heavy weapons, take only side arms…"
"What's the plan?" someone asked "fifteen people will make up the team to destroy that gun, at dawn double load it and fire it, the rest will run interception." Adam replied before they all leave and find a place to bed down except Adam who goes back to the west wall and sits down.
"Smitty, I want you to take charge of the gun crew, I got business to take care of in the camp."
"Will do." Smitty replied.
"You need me, I'll be somewhere." Adam said before standing up and walks away and goes inside the school in the direction of the hall and walks in making the senshi look at him.
"What brings you here?" Serena asked as Adam leaned on a wall "to spend some time with my mother and her friends." Came the reply from Adam.
"What's going on?"
"Me and a few others are going on a raid tonight." Adam replied as he sat down.
"So Adam, what have you been up to since we last saw you four years ago?" Amara asked as Adam walked over to the senshi "fought in every major campaign in the mercenary war as seen on the back of our jackets." Adam replied as he took off his jacket and shows them the back of his jacket.
Where was the first battle?"
"The battle of Nagasaki, we went muzzle to muzzle with the enemy. Lost a lot of people on both side no one won." He said before continuing "if I make it out of this I'm not going to be answering another call to arms for a while."
"So son, got a girlfriend yet?" Mina asked enthusiastically.
"I'm a soldier by trade and nature."
"Don't say that." Serena said as Adam looked at her, "this is something I never told anyone, we got a few months of once so I went back to the refugee camp I grew up in once I had heard it was moved back into by people. I got there and saw buildings and people so I went for a closer look and saw everyone had been murdered and it had become an outpost. My home was empty once more, after I killed all the soldiers occupying the camp I buried all the civilians and re-supplied then went back to where we were camped."
"I'm so sorry." Mina said
"We continued to fight our way here, although we hoped to end this war ages ago."
"Hey, we're veterans of the Sailor Wars." Serena said proudly.
"I'm a veteran of the Serenity war and soon to be the mercenary war."
"I bet you got some tales to tell." Amara asked curiously. "I got a fair few to tell." Adam replied.
"Tell us then." Serena and Mina said cheerfully making Adam sweat drop.
"Okay, I spent a lot of time on the frontlines."
Flashback
Adam runs down a trench, jumping over the dead bodies as people are firing and dying but he keeps on running even as an enemy soldier jumps into the trench and pointed his rifle at Adam but Adam gets the first shot in and carries on running until he gets to the command post.
"Orders are to pull out and blow the trench." Adam said.
"Okay, spread the word."
Adam leaves and spreads the word; half an hour later the trenches are full of enemy troops before the trenches explode.
End flashback
"That was one of the minor battles."
They keep on talking long into the night until Adam checks his watch, "gotta go." He said before leaving and going outside and finds the raiding party on the east wall ready and waiting before he goes over.
"Smitty, picked your fifteen yet?"
"Yep, so lets get going." Smitty replied before they lower themselves down the wall and head off into the camps, Smitty and his lot head towards the field gun as Adam and his lot head off towards the centre of the camp planting flash bangs in the ground. Adam takes out his knife and sneaks behind a guard and stands up and stabs the guard in the artery in the neck before he drags the guard away and motions for the others to follow, at the gun Smitty and his lot had taken care of the gun crew and double loaded the gun.
"Now all we can do is wait."
Elsewhere, Endymion sits at a table in his tent looking at a map when his granddaughter walks in making Endymion look up at her.
"What is it?"
"You never told me why father killed mother."
"He murdered her at the battle of Tokyo." Endymion replied before a soldier walks into the tent as Endymion and his granddaughter talk.
"Has my wife been freed yet?"
"Not yet sir, they've got enough weapons and ammunition to last a small siege." The soldier replied before Endymion motions for the soldier to leave before his granddaughter leaves and notices someone planting a flash bang into the ground before he stands up and reaches for his revolver and turns round pointing it at his daughter as she looks at him "go." Adam said making his daughter leave before he goes back to what he was doing before moving on.
Dawn
Adam and his lot wait for the signal; at Smitty's end he looks at his watch and fired the gun before they make their getaway waking everyone up.
"That's our cue, get ready to light 'em up." Adam said as they see people leaving their tents, "NOW!" Adam shouted as someone pressed the button on the detonator making the flash bangs explode before they make their getaway. When they get back to the school Adam goes to find somewhere quiet to think, namely the roof.
"What's up with Adam?" Amara asked.
"Don't know."
"Why don't we find out?" Serena asked making the senshi look at her "no, he'll come down when he's ready." Hotaru said "I hope so." Meanwhile on the roof Adam pulls out his knife and looks at it thinking of all the people he had killed with it.
"I can see all their faces." He muttered to himself as he puts his knife away and leaves the roof and goes back to the west wall.
"What's up?" Smitty asked.
"Nothing."
"Don't lie." Smitty replied making Adam glare at him, "look, nothing's wrong." Adam said.
"Look, I still don't believe you, and I will find out."
"You want a broken jaw?" Adam asked.
"No thanks." Smitty replied as Adam picked up his rifle and slung it over his shoulder and waits for something to happen.
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