Militia Force

Chapter 4- Day 1

I was on ship eleven out of twelve. After ship five they finally found out what I've been doing so there was more resistance. I am now suffering from fatigue and moving and responding slower than I should. "I don't think I could hold my own in another skirmish." I said to myself. I then felt multiple shudders along the surface of the ship and ignored it. Five minutes passed and I was two halls away from the engines but on the first turn there they were. 30 soldiers in ready position to take me down. I thought I could make a break for it but then I heard a gun's click behind me ready to shoot. This was it, I thought. Then I let fatigue's dark grasp take hold of me. At least all those secrets I carry won't be here anymore. I fell to me knees, my vision darkened and I hit the floor. Just after I fell is when I heard the bullets.

45 minutes earlier…

I woke up with a throbbing head and pain in my gut. As far as I could tell I was in the hospital with IV's attached to me along with any kind of vitals monitor you could imagine around me. What just happened, all I remember is getting out of the base but then the rest is blurry. Just then Colonial Hollows walked in.

"How are you feeling? We had to get METU on you along with life or death surgery. To be honest you barely made it through." I looked at him with a shocked expression. Now I remember everything, but one question remained. "Where's Adam?" I asked. He looked at the floor and said, "He left the Hopper to help assist taking down rebel ships but after the fifth one was taken down they realized what he was doing and we lost contact. The only way we know he's alive is due to the continuous explosions of rebel ships, but that's all we have to go by." "Where's my armor?" I asked, but before I could udder another word Hollows snapped, "NO! You need at least five days of bed rest there's no option for you to go we are sending in the "Miners" as we speak. Now get some rest Adam will be fine." He left the room. Get some rest, I mimicked. Sometimes he really ticks me off but one good thing came from this, I now know where my armor is.

I looked at the closet where Hollows looked when I asked about my armor and sure enough it was there. I quickly changed and realized that my helmet is no longer usable at the moment so I took the standard security military helmet and headed towards the "Miners" docking bay.

The "Miners" were elite breaking and entering soldiers but for space crafts. They launch from pods that have huge tectatanium drills on the top of them.

I snuck past multiple people including Hollows and made it to the bay. "Hold it!" a soldier yelled at me. His red and brown armor told me he was a "Miner." "I need to see authentication from you to even be in this docking bay." "Oh really," I said with a grin, "Then let me show you my authentication." As I said it I hit him square in three pressure points, one in the neck, one in the chest and the other side of the neck and he was out in less than a second. As I moved however the pain in my gut came back. This isn't good, I need to do this quick, and I can feel my wounds re-opening.

I took his ID badge and boarded his pod. As the door locked I checked around the circular inside. Let's see, there's a Campton pistol, standard 8P assault rifle, combat tazer knife and five grenades. I'll have to make do with them. Two minutes later the pod took off. Three minutes later all of us were in space hurdling towards a rebel ship. The drill started up but as mine was going through I saw other "Miners" pods drills slide off the anti-friction shielding and blast off into deep space. As mine finally broke through, it made a loud shudder and the same happened to the other "Miners. A total of about ten out of the 25 "Miners" made it in. I took all my equipment and left the pod and started my way through the ship.

I turned a corner and found three guards. "HEY! You big load of oafs come here and get me unless you're afraid…" I took off my helmet and continued, "… of a little teenage girl!" They were stupefied for a full 30 seconds then charged at me. 3, 2, 1.I pulled the pin off my grenade and chucked it into the middle guys gut and then… KABOOM! Three down, a whole battleship to go. Just then my head felt like someone was banging on it with a sledge hammer. I shook it off and continued down the corridor.

I was reaching another turn when I thought I heard guns clicking, ready to fire. I stood, back against the wall next to the corner and clicked my 8P rifle. I heard something fall to the ground and knew this was my chance. I rounded the corner and emptied my entire 56 bullet clip and took half of the guards out I then sprinted towards then with bullets missing and ricocheting off my armor the first guy I approached I took out with an upper-cut to the jaw then a sidekick sent him flying into his partner. I proceeded to take out my tazer knife and launched it at the rebel to my right. It cut into his shoulder and sent 50 megawatts throughout his body, I drop kicked the next guy then the last rebel shot at me and I thought I felt a bullet ricochet off my shoulder plate. I then ripped some of the rebel's mesh armor and shoved a grenade in it and threw in 10 feet away followed by an explosion.

Among the bodies I found the first one that was on the ground from the beginning. No, this can't be. It was Adam.

I checked his vitals. He was alive, thank god. I hefted him up and found his last detonator which fell out of his hand. As I turned I noticed blood running from my shoulder. Shit, that bullet made it through, and the wound across my stomach reopened. I then took Adam and proceeded to the ships engine to blow this place sky high.

Back at the Military base hospital section…

I was going the hall back to command ops when I saw a "Miner" walking through. "You there. What are you doing here I thought I deployed you." "You did Colonial Hollows, sir. But a military officer knocked me out and took my pod, sir." Why would a military officer do something like this? "Tell me this. What gender was the officer, what height and type of uniform?" "Sir, it sounded like a woman, she was about 4 foot 9 inches and different armor than most officials, sir." No! I sprinted back through all the doors. I was a raging bull at the speed I was going then I finally made it to the room I wanted. Sure enough, Sara was gone.

At the rebel ship…

We were almost at the docking bay with time running out. After I set the timer we ran into less resistance than coming in. There were three minutes left and I was losing to much blood with my head pounding and not sure if we would make it.

We reached the bay and hijacked a spearhead fighter.

A spearhead is a three person fighter that's triangular in front and squares off in the back with three thrusters on each side. There were square panels on the outside of the thrusters that fold out to a point to make wings if wanted.

Set the fighter in drive. Program destination. And blast off. We burst through the barrier and we headed toward Threshold Nova with a loud BANG behind us. We made it to the runway and as we were getting ready to activate landing the giant loud speakers went off. "ATTENTION ROGUE SHIP. YOU DO NOT HAVE A VERIFICATION ON YOU PULL UP OR BE DESTROYED." Shit, we can't pull up and get verification, it would take too much time. I looked over at Adam and saw my best friend who would do anything to keep us safe. I felt my expression grow soft then hefted him up again. The turrets aimed at us and I opened the back door to find that we are still 20 feet above the ground.

"This is it. See you soon Adam." I leaped off with Adam and fell to the ground. I hit the ground with a stunning impact as the fighter which was going at about 70 miles per hour was shot down and less then a second later I blacked out.

I had the weirdest dream. Weird because it was when I first met Adam.