CHAPTER 7 Gathering Place
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The trucks with the survivors arrived to the trailer park, now converted into the base of the resistance, the Corporal, along with the survivors came out of the trucks, and he reported with an officer
"Reporting, Sir" the Corporal said
"You have brought a bring number of survivors, well done Corporal, now let me handle this"
"Yes, Sir" He answered
The Sergeant approached the survivors and said "I am Sergeant Walter Days, and I want to know if anyone of you has received military training"
"I have" one of the survivors answered"
"Where" the Sarge asked
"I am a Corporal of the Army National Guard"
"Very well Corporal?
"Lewis, Stan Lewis"
"OK", and the Sarge shouted to one of the soldiers behind him "Corporal, inform the Mayor that we have someone form the National Guard here"
"Yes Sir" he responded, and went to see the Mayor
The Sarge continued "And the other question is, how many of you know how to use a gun" And twelve of the thirty survivors, including Tony the journalist raised their hands
The Sarge seemed disappointed by this, but he only let escape a small sight. Pointed to Beast Boy and another conscript and said" You two, bring that boxed over there" Both nodded, and binged the boxes, inside of it, was several M-16 Assault Rifles and 5.56mm magazines. The Sarge told the conscripts to grab one rifle and a magazine
"This is the M-16 Rifle, it uses the 5.56mm ammo, and fires a three burst round, to loaded, you put the magaz-"
From behind a Corporal shouted "Stan Lewis, the Major needs to see you" and the weapons instruction ended quickly for Stan
He runs through the middle of tanks, trucks and mortars, until he found the improvised command post
"This is Lewis, Major", the Corporal introduced him
"Pleased to meet you, the Corporal said that you rave the rank of Corporal in the Army National Guard, and since we need all military personal we can, I promote you to grade of Lieutenant, and I put you in command of the conscripts that have come with you, a total of thirty men"
That was too much for Stan, he was not on duty for three months, and he didn't prepare himself to act as an officer "It would be easy to give the grade to any other officer" he tough all that, but the could only said "Excuse me Sir, but.."
"That's a solved thing Lieutenant Lewis" The Major interrupted
Stan gulped, and hour ago he was just another survivor, and now the was an officer
"Now I m going to give you attack plan, so you know what we expect from you, In ten minutes we are going to advance into the city, first will go an M-1 Abrams tank, then you and half of your men" he explain this as he drew the plan on a sheet of paper, "then another tank and the other half of the squad, finally 100 meters behind a Humvee with soldiers with a radio will inform of the situation to us, the main force 500 meters behind"
Suddenly Stan understood why he was promoted, he and the conscripts where the most expendable troops, we are going in the front in a some kind of experiment and the soldiers behind us will inform how the invaders kill all of us, the Major saw in his face that the had understood "Don't judge us in a bad way Mr. Lewis, but in this situation a trained soldier has the same value as a General in normal times, the only advise I can give you now, is to try to kill all invaders that you can, before they kill you. You have to reunite with your troops and explain the situation"
As Stan returned to where the rest of the conscripts where , Raven heard some of the conversations between the conscripts, they where very similar to what happened to her and Beast Boy, houses completely closed because of the cold night, and the suits where the ones who bought in case of a terrorist attack, although one or two survivors have adapted a scuba suit, but now they all wear military chemical suits and helmets, but what surprised her most was how anonymously all looked behind the gas mask, some maybe business man, other workers or retired persons, and now the have to fight all together, while days before she and the rest of the Titans where the ones charged with the protection of the city. Her thoughts where interrupted when Stan arrived and explained the situation "I have been designated to be the leader of this group, so we have to combat all together, first I want you to make a row" so they make a row "Now" ,as he counted to the middle of the row "from the beginning to him" as he pointed at one conscript "will be the first group, the rest will be the second"
Raven has noticed that Jinx was on the second group
Then Stan explained how they are going behind the tanks
The Corporal Wilson came and said to Stan "The Major give to order to begin the advance"
"Understood" Stan answered
"LET'S GO" The Corporal screamed
Over the horizon the first lights of the day began to appear, the group advance slowly in part because the dead bodies and car wrecks obstructed the way, and in part, because they knew that they are going to a sacrifice, and the death condemned never walk too fast