Chapter 24: Rescue
After escaping his would-be captors, Rock proceeded to head back to the river bank. He noticed some talking in the distance, so he hid and moved through the bush and came up on the water. Where, to his relief, the Lagoon was still there. "Thank God… it's still here" Rock whispered to himself. It was then that he saw some soldiers coming out of the hull of the boat and looked like they were ransacking it.
Rock waited patiently and made his move. He rushed the soldiers, grabbing one from behind and putting him in a headlock. He reached for the soldier's arm and made him fire his rifle at the two others, just as they were getting ready to shoot. "Thanks for the help asshole…" said Rock before stabbing his hostage with his knife.
He proceeded to climb inside the Lagoon and looked around. "Shit, those guys really trashed the place…" he said while looking over the broken pieces of glass and ransacked storage area. Rock looked opened a compartment to the Lagoon and we see a room filled with enough guns and grenades to outfit an entire rifle company.
Rock grabbed two 1911s and holstered them. Then he grabbed an MP5A2 with flashlight, scope, and two magazines taped together jungle style. And finally, he grabbed Remington 700 sniper rifle with night vision scope and fitted it with a silencer.
Rock headed up to the cockpit and sat in the driver's seat. "Alright… think… where could they be headed…" wondered Rock. He spread out a map of Burma and saw that the river cut right through the country. "Alright, they managed to find the hand-off location in short time… Which means… that their base must be somewhere around here…" calculated Rock while tracing and circling key spots on the map. "And since the river cuts right down the middle of the country… Then that means that their probably spread out" said Rock while looking for another spot on the map.
"They probably take their prisoners to a holding area… so they could get to them no problem… without having to worry about them getting away… HERE! The swamp…" said Rock while circling the location on the map. "That's about three clicks out from here…" said Rock. After finishing his research, he sat in the driver's seat and tuned on the boat. The Lagoon roared to life and revved forward, full speed ahead.
After driving for a few minutes Rock started to notice some flashes and sounds in the distance ahead. He looked at the map and realized that he was getting close to the holding area in the swamp. So, he anchored the boat and jumped off. He stepped into the swamp water and stealthily made his way through.
After a few more minutes of walking he came up on a pig pen, but what caught his attention was the massive bamboo cage dangling above it. And as he took a closer look he saw what he came for. "Dutch…" Rock whispered, he quickly made his way to the side of the cage and jumped into the pen. He lowered the cage to the ground and opened it. He pulled the Black man's body out of the bamboo prison and carried him back to the Lagoon while making sure that the didn't run into any enemy forces.
Rock set Dutch's body down in the passenger bay, but when he turned on the lights… it was a sign that he needed to start panicking. Dutch was bleeding from a few gashes in his head and a cut in his stomach, he also felt that a slight jump from his captain every time he touched his leg, meaning that it was broken.
Rock quickly grabbed a medical kit and gave the man a quick dose of morphine and pain killers. He grabbed a spool and some needles and began to stitch up his wounds. The entire time he was healing the black man, he remained incredibly calm. After finishing, Rock got up and let the medicines work their magic, but before he could leave he was stopped by a faint sound.
"R… Rock…" was all he heard, he turned and went back to his captain's side. "Hey Dutch… yeah… it's me…" is what he said and the black man slightly turned his head and looked at the Japanese man and said, "… Thanks… you… saved my life…"
"Don't mention it. Listen you gotta stay here and rest, let the medicines take effect. Besides, your nowhere near ready to fight. So just stay calm and relax" said Rock until, "But…Benny… Revy…" said Dutch through wheezes and breaths. "Don't worry… your just my first stop, I'm gonna find them and kill every one of these cocksuckers, for thinking they could hit us…" said Rock in a determined tone.
"But before we go I gotta ask… How come it was only you in that cell… where are the others" asked the Japanese man. "Don't know… probably… taken to their compound… they just through me in there… and just took them" said Dutch in between breaths.
"Then that's where I gotta go, meanwhile you stay here, try to gain your strength back, and don't worry… I'm gonna find them" said Rock trying to reassure his boss. After that Dutch fell asleep, Rock walked out of the room and into the driver's seat.
All the while he had a determined look on his face. No, not determined… angry. How dare these sons of whores think that they could attack his crew. How dare they think that they could take and torture his friends. Well he was not gonna let this slide. He… was gonna kill… every… last… one!