Base Camp
"There it is up ahead," Stephanie said as she pointed to the power plant. We continued to drive closer until we were about three hundred meters from the entrance. It wasn't like other nuclear power plants though. Only the smoke stack was visible above ground. All the buildings were stationed below ground. They said it was for heating and cooling cost reduction, but others believed it was to power secret experiments. I guess not all conspiracies were theories.
"What's that?" David asked over the radio. I looked up ahead and saw a little black dot. I thought nothing of it, but when I saw a line of black dots I got a little worried. As we got closer I knew something was wrong.
"Oh my gosh!" Stephanie exclaimed as she put her hands over her mouth, "it's those men from the cars we ran into earlier on the highway. I instantly slammed on the brakes. The other three cars stopped too. We got out of our car and met in front of my SUV.
"What are we going to do?" Katie asked, "we have to get inside there."
"I don't know. We'll have to think of a plan, but we can't do that here. They might have spotted us and be preparing for attack," I said, "we need to find a place where we can stay and get some decent sleep. Then we can make a plan in the morning."
"Sounds good to me," Melanie said. Everybody else nodded in agreement. We hopped back in our cars and drove off down the road.
"There's a little house up the road a bit. It was just an old couple, there shouldn't be anyone there," Tome said as he woke up in the back seat from unconsciousness.
"How do we know it's not a trap?" I asked smartly.
"Because how would I know where you guys are going?" he replied. He made a good point, but that didn't mean that I trusted him.
"Fine," I said. We drove along until we came to an abandoned house. We jumped out of our cars and approached the house with our guns raised. The couple must have been out when they disappeared, because the door was locked. David raised his shotgun to the lock and fired. We opened the door and entered the first room. We walked through all the rooms and yelled clear when we saw that there was no one in there, just like in the cop shows.
"Okay, I think that this should be our main base. It's not too far from the power plant or Area 51," I said. Everybody nodded in agreement.
"Then I think we should set up some fortifications," Stephanie added.
"I saw a back hoe out back. I could dig a ditch around the perimeter," David suggested.
"There were some boards out back. I could board up the windows and other doors," Matt suggested.
"And I'll make all you big boys some lunch," Stephanie said with a dirty smile. She headed out the door to the trailer to get some food.
"I'm going to make beds for all of us," Katie said.
"I'll go and make out a plan," I said.
"Do you want me to help?" Melanie asked.
"Sure, if you're not to busy," I said. I mentally slapped myself for saying that. Why wouldn't she have time were in a life or death situation.
"I think I'll be able to squeeze this into my busy schedule," Melanie said with a laugh. I laughed too. I had always liked Melanie. I was only dating Stephanie because she was the cheerleading captain and I was the quarterback for the football team and it was an unofficial tradition of the school that they date. We sat down with paper and pencil and began to figure out what we were going to do.