Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ragnarok online I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make and the characters that I will create. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
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Chapter twenty two: Dawn of war
Ten minutes after Juliet told to Atsuko, Layla and the others what happened they are in Benji's office hearing the whole story again. "So you didn't saw him dying." Atsuko commented. "I said that he was taken to some unknown place, but if by now he hasn't contacted anyone it is likely that he is dead." Juliet replied.
"Unless I see his corpse at my feet and watch it rot he isn't dead." Atsuko said seriously. "Trust me I know Benji and fought besides him longer than anyone else here, he isn't dead." "She is right." Layla added. "Unless we see him dead he isn't dead, more than once he proved that he is stubborn enough to not die." The others nod agreeing.
"And how we know if you aren't here just to spread a lie about this to make us lose our concentration and lose the incoming WoE?" Haruka asked eyeing Juliet. "Just because you said that you fought with him doesn't mean that you did."
"So for whom the bell tolls?" Juliet asked to Haruka. The blonde wizard looks in silence at the knight, all the others are looking at Juliet in the same surprised way, and Helen is just confused at it all. "For O'Neill." Atsuko answered. "Then time to march is on." Juliet replied.
"What is going on?" Helen asked confused. "What bell? What O'Neill?" "This is a password." Atsuko answered. "Benji made us learn this, a way to identify allies that we never saw." "So if she knows it…" Helen said. "Then Benji taught her." Layla finished.
Layla turns to Juliet and looks at the other lord knight. "Which means that either he told you that as ally or you tortured it out of him." Haruka said suspiciously. "As if I would be able to get the right one out of him in that circumstance." Juliet sneered. "He would give me a fake one, the one that would lead you to capture and torture me."
"You do have that one too?" Helen asked to Atsuko. "Well we do have plenty of enemies." Atsuko answered with a wry smile. "Anyway that means that Juliet said the truth." Atsuko said to the others. "Benji is missing and we have to assume that he can't be here for the battle."
"And this is another reason why I am here." Juliet said. "I agreed with Benji and we became allies, at this moment I have five guilds worth of lord knights and knights ready to battle and defend any castle or castles." "You have four hundred knights?!" Haruka asked shocked.
"Wait a second." Helen said looking at Juliet's neck guard. "Is that the sigil of the Diamond order?" "Diamond order?" Haruka asked confused. "What is that?" "It is a rumored order of knights who refused to serve the king, they are knights just in name and skills; they weren't ordained knights." Helen answered. "At least as far the legend goes."
"Our order refuses to serve a king and fight for his politic reasons, we want the freedom to fight and defend our homes and not a king's personal interests." Juliet said seriously. "Those are the principle of our order."
"And why pledging alliance to Benji? Isn't that against your order's principles?" Layla asked in a flat tone. "Excuse me, I might not serve a king but I am not stupid." Juliet replied. "I will do whatever I can to keep me and my order on Benji's good side; I don't want to find myself on my knees while he rips my head and spine out of my body."
"That reason is as good as any." Atsuko commented with a nod. "Yeah, Benji can be quite scary." Erika added. "At least that confirmed my suspicions that he was the headhunter from the news." Helen commented casually. "You are sure that he is good?"
"Yes he is good." Atsuko answered. "He is just pending to chaotic." "I would say diabolic." Juliet commented. "I saw plenty of killings before but he really takes things to a whole new level." Haruka and Makie chuckled dryly, it was fault of their world and the movies there, they knew from where Benji had the idea of tearing heads with spines.
Someone knocks on the office's door and then Ami's voice said. "My sister is here with her friend as well some other friends for the allied guilds." "Isn't this a bit too convenient?" Haruka asked confused. "Unless." Atsuko said walking to the door and opening it. "Benji said to you come today didn't him?"
Mana and Shina frown at the sudden question. "Yes he did." Mana answered. "Before we left he said to us to all meet here after we placed our luggage in the castle. Why?" "Just for the record did he tell you to come here today?" Layla asked to Juliet. "Yes, he said that until noon today the castle would be empty." Juliet answered. "What is going on?" Haruka asked confused with the whole situation.
"This is a war meeting." Helen said understanding. "All his allies, friends and people who he trusts are here two days before the WoE day, enough time to plan an effective battle plan with the combined forces." Atsuko nodded confirming. "And Benji didn't tell us a thing since it would be a needless concern during the vacation." Atsuko added.
"Fine but why those two knew it all along and haven't told us a thing?" Haruka asked while pointing to Mana and Shina. "I bet money that Benji told them to not say a thing." Erika commented. "Right?"
"Right." Mana answered with a smile. "So what is going on? Who are the new faces?" After a detailed explanation Mana looks at Juliet. "Well I guess that we have no choice but make a defense plan by ourselves here, after all this is the first place that he will come when he comes back."
"Why you are so certain that he will come back?" Juliet asked to Mana. Shina chuckled softly and Mana smiled. "Trust me honey, Benji is resilient." Mana said almost sneering the lord knight. "He walked for over one week in the Sograt desert without any kind of food or water, surviving by killing monsters, eating their flesh and drinking their blood. If he did that before becoming a novice now that he is a powerful multi class assassin cross it would take lots of abuse to kill him, the kind that we give to am MVP."
Shina nodded agreeing, so does Atsuko and Layla. "Well as long he doesn't get himself in trouble I don't see how he would die." Helen commented, the others frown at her words. "Come on you don't think that he would do something stupid in a foreign land, do you?" She asked to the others.
"Well it is Benji who are speaking about." Atsuko said a bit uneasy. "Yeah, the one who single handed invaded a fort to rescue a total stranger." Haruka added. "Who fought with the golden knight without even bothering to learn the power of the enemy." Layla added. "Who single handed stole one castle in his first WoE." Erika said. "Who mauled, killed, tortured and inspired terror in an ancient noble family in one night." Juliet added seriously.
"Well it will be a long wait." Atsuko commented. "Yeah, Benji will get in all kinds of trouble I won't be surprised if he shows up with another guild following him." Mana added with a nod. "Or with a kingdom full of enemies chasing him." Juliet added. "Or the church." Erika pointed out. "There are rumors that Benji is the devil incarnation on this world."
"I am so proud of him!" Mana exclaimed in a mockery of maternal pride. "My little boy is rumored to be the devil! Killer of thousands! I am so happy!" "With that kind of influence I am not surprised." Layla whispered to Atsuko in a dry tone. Atsuko nodded agreeing. Shina covers her eyes and shakes her head, exasperated at her long time friend.
"He is that bad?" Helen asked surprised. "Well he can be worse than that." Atsuko answered with a wry smile. "Trust me you don't want to see him angry." Juliet, Mana and Shina nodded agreeing. Helen smiled dryly at her answer.
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Ten minutes and few introductions later
"We need to build a strategy." Atsuko said to the others. "But we don't know the castles all that well." Alexis pointed out. "And that is why Benji keeps me around." Makie said pulling three large sheets of paper rolled together from her inventory, and then she opens them over Benji's desk.
"Maps?!" Mana exclaimed surprised. "You actually mapped the castles?!" "Benji doesn't keep me around just because my lack of clothing and pretty face." Makie said in a teasingly tone. "While structure engineering isn't my specialty I can make maps and blueprints from buildings given enough time on them."
"I thought that he kept you around to make him weapon designs." Haruka commented. "That too." Makie replied. "Anyway back to strategy." Atsuko said studying the maps. "Our priority is to defend the Silver Moon castle, it is our home and the place where he will return to, the other castles aren't important."
Layla and the other Seiryu's legions guild members nodded agreeing. "Hey we bought Bergel from you." Morrigan said lightly annoyed. "We will defend it too." Mana said to her companion.
"Now the White Eyes was given a one month break from the WoE because the death of our former leader, it would be unfair to us to be attacked while we are suffering structural repositions." Shina said with a smile. "So the White Eyes don't have to worry about defending our castle since for this month is out of limits."
"And that leaves us able to help out our allies." Mana added. "What happened with the old leader?" Alexis asked confused. "Well she had an accident involving a rope and angry guild members." Mana commented. "But that isn't important, Sia our new leader, who is silent over there." The girls look at the priestess that barely introduced herself earlier. "Agreed that we should give our aid to our friends." Mana continued.
"And my five guilds are here with the same reason." Juliet said. "This gives us a total of nine guilds." Atsuko said seriously. "That is seven hundred and twenty members in the total, but only seven hundred and seventeen fit to fight taking out the children in our guild and Benji who is M.I.A."
"And we can distribute between three castles." Layla concluded. "Two hundred and thirty nine defenders in each castle, it isn't a bad number." "However more than half of the main figure is composed of knights and other melee classes." Atsuko pointed out. "Sharing and splitting our caster and archer classes between the three will be tricky, and our basic strategy is blocking the entrance by the gate with area spells, a rain of arrows and then wiping the remaining ones with melee."
"We can work around that." Shina said. "Then White Eyes and our oldest allies have a sizable number of casters and archers in our ranks, so does the legion, it won't be all that hard to find balance between the three castles."
"It is true but, here in the legion we aren't used to fight in the WoE." Atsuko replied. "Our members don't communicate much in combat, because training and drills they all know what to do and when to do with out need of commands, making harder to the enemy to foresee what is coming next."
"That also prevents a good interaction with allies." Shina nodded understanding. "Two days isn't enough to get them used to team combat." "But it might not be needed." Layla said. "If we place one mixed guild on each castle backed by at least two knight only guilds, we can balance everything."
"However there are five guilds only with knights." Mana pointed out. "And four mixed guilds, but yes we can balance things out." "If we place archers in these positions in Bergel, casters on these." Atsuko said pointing to five different locations on the map. "Melee fighters in front of the casters by the gate, the castle will be defended, and we might even be able to fight in turns."
"That would be really good." Alexis commented. "But what about the other one?" "There is sniping points here and here." Makie said changing the maps and showing the locations. "And we don't need to go over the ones here." "What about supplies?" Shina asked.
"We have plenty of those." Layla answered. "Ammo enough to fight for three months, status arrows, lots of pots and foodstuff, don't even get me started on equipment, each girl build her own locker filled with their favorite weapons as well their favored WoE ones."
"Benji's closet is bigger than the kitchen." Atsuko commented. "Based in what I saw him using it must be at least that big." "Considering that he has bombs I am not surprised." Juliet commented. "We will use them too?" "No." Atsuko answered seriously. "They aren't like normal attacks; they will hurt everyone including allies." Juliet nodded understanding.
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After one hour they agreed in a plan of defense, but Alexis was really opposing to the last option emergency back up plan, last time that Erika cooked she saw her nana and she was dead for twelve years, but even protesting loudly, she couldn't make Layla and Atsuko budge of that idea.
With a sigh Alexis leans against the kitchen wall watching Erika selecting the ingredients for her weapon of mass destruction, she wasn't going to cook it, just leave things ready, and if things get critical during the battle a catapult would be ready to be fired, loaded with a cauldron with the contents of the demon summoning that Erika called cooking.
All the other girls were told that Benji was traveling, helping a friend in an emergency, it was too soon to let them know that they have no idea of where Benji is and if he will return or not.
In Benji's office Layla and Atsuko are dealing with an important issue. "I am not leading." Atsuko said to Layla. "I know well how I am liked by some of the girls, you are here since the beginning, you are better to lead them; you already have experience in doing so."
"You are Benji's favorite." Layla shot back, she didn't want the responsibility and knew that she wasn't all that far from the truth. "You are the favorite." Atsuko replied. "At least guild originated, and being one of Benji's favorites makes me even less suited to lead the guild."
Layla had to admit that Atsuko was right, some of the girls really disliked Atsuko for being so high ranked in the guild when she was the newest member, not to mention sharing Benji's bed. "Hey there is a girl in the gate, she is really dirty and wearing some pretty filthy and old clothes." Karen said while entering on Benji's office. "And?" Atsuko asked confused.
"Well normally taisho gives her something." Karen answered, it was part of the routine, every Friday the girl would come to the castle and Benji would give her a parcel of something. "Well I guess that it is okay, Karen you tell her that Benji is traveling and won't be able to give her what he normally does, give her some money for food and clothes." Atsuko replied, if Benji was helping the girl so she would do the same.
Karen nods and leaves the office; stopping by the treasury she picks five thousand zenys, enough for clothes and food. At the gate Karen finds the girl waiting in the spot where she left her, resting against her tall walking stick. "I am sorry but our leader is in a journey right now." Karen said in a gentle tone. "Here is some money; it should be enough for you to buy some new clothes and one week worth of food."
"Thank you." the girl said while reaching for the offered bag, Karen notices that the girl missed her hand. Karen holds the girl's hand and places the bag on her hand. "You can keep coming here in the usual day; we will take care of you in his absence." Karen added. "Thank you for your kindness." The girl said with a bow.
Karen wonders why Benji was taking care of the girl like that instead of sheltering her in the guild, but seeing the girl tapping with her odd looking walking stick on the ground while walking gives to Karen the answer, the girl was blind, unable to fight and evolve as an adventurer, even common work might be too much for her to accomplish.
On the way to Amatsu Junko blocks the path of the girl. "Hey little lady what you were doing at that castle?" She asked after she stopped. "Miss I am a poor blind girl, my miserable life was made more comfortable thanks to the kindness of the man that commands that castle. Every week I am required to go there to get new clothes, food and medicine to make my existence more endurable, but my benefactor is traveling now."
Junko felt pity for the girl, she was very skinny and dirty, she couldn't believe that Benji wouldn't give the girl enough food to eat, so there was something else that made the girl so thin, since she also said medicine Junko concluded that it was an illness. "Sorry for barging." Junko said pulling two gold coins from her pocket. "Here some money for you to clean up and have some warm food."
The girl accepts the money, with a thankful bow and words she resumes walking to Amatsu. "This isn't right, Benji wouldn't travel so near of the WoE, and something else is going on." Junko muttered walking back to the woods surrounding the path to the castle. "Benji left few days ago and didn't returned, he is too stubborn to die so he must be missing in some unknown place."
Now sure that no one was around the blind girl let out a long sigh and stretches up. "I so hate playing the sickly girl role." She said standing up straight. "I guess that both suspicions were confirmed now." She brings two fingers on her lips and whistle loudly. "Kiba!" She called after whistling.
A large black wolf runs at her direction, on his back two adapted saddle bags, the wolf halts next to her. "Good boy." She cooed rubbing the wolf's head, she places the money bag inside one of the bags on the wolf's side. She places the walking stick in a proper holster on the belts holding the bags on the wolf and then rides on the large creature. "Kiba take us home!" she called holding on handle coming from a sturdy leather leash. The wolf barks back and bolts away to the woods around the trail.
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Atsuko was starting to get really worried; it is in the hour before the dawn of war as Benji thought in calling the morning of the day of the WoE, and no sign of Benji, the girls learned about Benji's journey in the previous night, the only thing between a fully crushed morale was Layla recalling them of how well they fought without Benji in their first battle and that repeating the feat would be much easier now.
Still the hit in the morale was there rather visible, it impressed Atsuko to see how Benji's absence affected them, even when he was shut in the Emperium room in the first day of the WoE the morale was high, the girls knew that he was there, now it was different.
Atsuko knew that Benji was idolized by most of the girls of the guild, but the sheer change of morale when he wasn't there shocked her, how his reputation made all the girls, herself included fight much harder with much more ease, it was disturbing to see how the fame of being a mass killer made every one of his allies feel so much better when fighting.
Layla would lead the front line of the guild, Erika took Benji's place in the Emperium room, she was given a provisory leadership of the guild, enough so she could access the treasure room and to use the guild leader skills. Atsuko know that in the other two castles every one is as tense as they are in the Silver Moon, she can only hope that they can defend the castle long enough so Benji could return from wherever he was and find his home just as he left it, and get a massive scolding from everyone.
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Scorched sand as far as the eyes can see, massive dunes with deep valleys between them, a horrid sight of lifeless desolation, without even a single plant or shade as far the eye can see, any life there is quickly drowned by the ever moving dancing sands moving at the flavor of the hot breathes of the wind.
Under an improvised turban made out of a long stripe of clothe Benji cursed. "May my desert folk ancestors forgive me but I so hate deserts… they are hot…they are dry…they try killing me…" adjusting the tall collar/lower face mask of the muffler shaped top of his ankle long cape, as the turban the fabric is brown and torn in the edges.
A sword hilt and guard are exposed on his back with everything else under the cape, on his right hand his cast spear posing as a walking staff, the only visible part of Benji is his eyes, everything else is covered by at least one layer of cloth, protecting his skin from the scorching sun and preventing the loss of moisture.
Benji knew better than removing layers of cloth in an attempt of making himself cooler, he knew both by seeing on TV desert nomads with clothes covering their entire body, as well genetic memory from his Lebanese ancestors, and lastly the fact that he feels cooler wearing a shirt when topless in a hot day, adding those factors Benji kept himself well wrapped in fabric, successfully lowering his temperature when compared to the environment, but he would really like that his sunglasses weren't broken in the battle.
Without his shades Benji couldn't warp away from the desert, the teleport skill wasn't working, not to mention that the shades would really make easier to Benji to endure the strong light of the desert's sun, though the turban was casting some shade on his eyes as well with the high collar protecting it from the sand, but was nowhere the protection that would be given by a pair of functional sunglasses.
"At least this time I was more ready than the last time." Benji muttered while pulling a bottle from his inventory and taking a small sip of grape juice, even thought he wasn't ready for desert conditions, the food and drink items that he was carrying as well the potions would provide him with water and food for many days if rationed well.
He had already expended five days in the desert, he still had enough for more, of course recalling some survival manuals and tips that he red in the past Benji was using empty bottles to collect his urine, as disgusting as it sounds, with the proper technique he would be able to extract water from it, and he knew how to do it, Benji knew that just throwing away that moisture would kill him sooner if he is unable to find the way out of the desert before his potions and juices run out, with that method he might be able to last longer in those unforgiving lands.
End of the chapter twenty two:
Author explanation corner:
Password: I needed something that wasn't well known in Rune, since I was with 'For whom the bell tolls' from Metallica in my day that I wrote that scene it became the first part of the password, the second part is because I like Stargate SG1, my cable just got Sci-fi channel and they are showing it, so I decided to pay some homage to that, besides Richard Dean Anderson is MacGyver, and I love that show when I was a kid, he disarmed a bomb using a feather! He rules! Ahem back to the explanation, O'Neill is most likely to be a total inexistent name in Rune, so it is a good second part to a password. The third part is from 'For whom the bell tolls' lyrics, and is used to acknowledge that the counter password is correct.
Well it is more like a passphrase that has the same value and function of a password, but is more secure, in this case the system is not based in the computer password/phrase system, but in the old password/phrase used by soldiers in the battlefield to identify the allies.
An example is having a password in this case 'apple', the counter word is 'shoe', so the person speaking is an ally (in most cases), but a second soldier arriving ten minutes after the first gets the same password 'apple', and the soldier answers 'pie', that one is a enemy, and thought that the counter was a word related to the password, so the guard will kill the offender in sight.
Based in the amount of 'enemies' that Benji and his guild might have made, as well the fact that Benji has a certain number confirmed enemies, the password/phrases are something to help Benji as well his friends to tell who are deemed trustworthy by other guild members and who isn't.
Juliet, her guilds and the diamond order: After most of the night together fighting Lacey's lackeys Benji felt that Juliet was someone trustworthy and decided to 'enlist' her as well as many of her order as possible. A reputation as a mass killer is something helpful to ensure that the most weak willed of the group will stay away, as well keep the others aware that betrayal isn't nice and if he learns, well they made the math and thought that having Benji as friend would be good for them.
Juliet is a high ranked member of the order, she does command a entire castle of the order in a region that won't be named (first to not place them in the official RO world map, second I don't think that I can't come with a nice name for the god forgotten place to place the order's castle.), there are few more castles that I won't number now (still haven't decided on the size of the order).
After consideration with the other leaders, the order grand master and council, the order decided that a healthy alliance with a famous (infamous for some given the Seiryu's Legions reputation as well Benji's personal reputation) guild would be profitable for the order in terms of allies in time of need, as well to train their own members and strengthening the sisterhood.
Benji gave to Juliet an Emperium stone that he had laying around (killing MVPs and other mobs does tend to give out Emperiums sometimes), so she could start her own guild with the girls of her 'branch' of the order (I might throw more than just knights and lord knights in the mix there), with backup from the order she was given more personal for form the total of five guilds to help Benji with his needs (not those, no hentai with an entire order of female knights, fighting on the WoE).
Meeting after the end of the 'holiday': With the next WoE day coming closer and without much improvements since the first Benji wanted to discuss strategy with the few allies that he had in order to come up with defense plans to protect his castle, and if possible the second castle on his possession, since keeping it for a long time it will make the guild reputation climb even more, and sometimes a good fame can be a really good shield, as well a good attractive to fame seekers.
Without Benji there to preside the meeting Atsuko and Layla took the reins of the meeting and with the aid of the others organized a good battle plan with the available assets (guild members, items and other useful stuff). Benji did planned more than what was show in the earlier chapters, as show in this with Makie showing detailed blueprints from each castle, allowing them to make plans and assign positions without having to visit each castle.
Erika's food: Well Benji did bring up that Erika's food could be used as weapons; the girls are despaired so having an emergency plan helps them to feel safer. Morale is something really amazing, it is said that a soldier even when physically fit after suffering a injury can't fight when not feeling able to fight, that is because he lost his confidence and his morale, it could lead to his death if forced to fight.
It is an also known fact that famous leaders, heroes, soldiers and others 'personalities' make an army fight better by knowing that, that particular person is there fighting at their side or leading them, that person's fame boost the morale of the troops as well shakes the morale of the enemy.
Here is the same, Benji have a reputation of being a unstoppable, immortal, merciless, cold, cruel and ruthless killer (some said by the jealous, scared and the others, bad talking Benji, I don't know the exact term for that kind of people in English, but I think that is something like 'big mouth'), and all that adds to rumors and mouth to mouth tales spoken by others who will add things and make the tale even 'bigger' to impress people.
All that gives Benji a really impressive reputation, the kind of reputation that makes people not want to be on the opposing side from the one that he is fighting on; and that makes the people on his side feel encouraged in the same proportion that it discourages the enemy.
So without Benji there around seventy percent if not more of the morale and morale boost effect is lost, even with Layla and the others with considerable reputations themselves with them.
Alexis was almost killed by Erika's food so she holds a very personal trauma against it, the nana was just an extra thing.
Guild leadership and related stuff: Since this is 'real life' the whole system is more flexible than in the game, so in certain circumstances, some other member of the guild can be nominated as temporary leader in the absence of the real leader or in the case of a coup, insanity of the leader, removal of the command for other serious reasons (tactical, military or any other possible and valid).
The temporary leader has access to the guild skills and in the story the treasury room key to enter in the treasury room to collect the guild treasure items. In the White Eyes case there was first a coup, them execution and then the election of a new leader among the ranks, that led to a change in the guilds structure with the change of leadership. So they were given a free pass for the WoE to allow them to restructure themselves. Not that was really needed.
Blind girl and the wolf: Secret.
Junko: More secret.
Benji's time in the desert: Coming soon. As well how his sunglasses broke in the battle and where he got around a five by seven meters big piece of brown fabric and the fate of his enemy.
Survival tips explanation: Urine is made mostly of water as well several toxins/chemicals that our body expels. In the desert with no water source anywhere near saving as much liquid as possible might be the difference between life and death. By saving the urine Benji can using rather simple techniques extract the water from it to be used to keep him alive.
Here a simple example: placing a flat metal bar (knife, sword, anything) over the neck of the bottle in a angle and holding it there with a string or anything else (lid, cork paper), placing a clean and empty bottle bellow the lower end of the metal bar, the hot sun will make the water evaporate from the urine, the metal will make the steam condensate and the water will gather there, the drops will move down the bar and eventually fall on the clean bottle (the use of some lid, stopper, burying the bottle on the sand or any other means to prevent that water to evaporate is advisable).
Eventually most of the water in the urine will be cleanly transferred to the clean bottle becoming drinkable (distillated water), of course this method takes time to work, but is quite easy to make, considerably effective, and when paired resting during the hottest hours of the day and traveling few hours during the night it will increase Benji's chances to survive.
I am not an expert in survival, I just know what I red in books and saw in survival shows, and as well some common sense and knowledge gained by asking to friends who were in the military as well some knowledge in other areas that can be used in that situation.