Sorry I have not published in a while I have either been sick or too dang busy so I hope you like the new installment and please review.
The next afternoon I sat on a branch of one of the trees that ringed Home Tree and I watched the clan go about their business whether it
was fishing, hunting, gathering, or even just sewing it felt relaxing to see everything semi normal at least. Ever few minutes I looked at the
sky just to see if there was a gas trail, I did not see one till late afternoon. When I saw the gas trail I jump off the branch and hit the ground
running, I searched Home Tree till I found Tsu'tay and Niterie, they were in the same place together just talking. something was going on
that I did not want to know about right now there were more important things going on. I slowed my pace and walked over to them when
they looked at me I said to Tsu'tay "I saw the gas trail from the shuttle it will land within three hours, if we leave now we can get their
within two and half hours and be there ready and waiting." Tsu'tay nodded I told him to wait by the Dire horses and that I would join him in
a minute. After he was gone I turned to Niterie who was standing silently eyes downcast, I walked over to her and pulled her against my
chest, I rested my cheek on her head as I said "This is just a scouting mission no one is going to get hurt yet. We will be fine you don't have
to worry." she nodded while her head rested on my chest. I kissed her hair and said "I have to go I will be back soon." She let me go and I
left her standing there alone.
As I had told Tsu'tay we made it to the edge of the forest that stood before Hells Gate in two and a half hours. We waited in the dense
foliage that was close enough that we could see the soldiers when they landed a half hour later. When they landed we had to wait a few
minutes before the troops started pouring out. There were about three hundred soldiers there and they were not low ranking either. "Oh
crap we are going to have a hell of a fight on our hands." I said Tsu'tay asked why my heart sank as I answered "Tsu'tay you see the
clothes that their wearing their called uniforms each rank in the human military has a different uniform. those three particular uniforms that
these men have are high ranking. The sent in army commanders, Sharp shooters, and snipers. You know what a commander is but the
other two are probably confusing so I will explain. A sharp shooter is a human who can shoot something or someone at the exact area on
the target that they want the bullet to hit while standing nearly seventy paces away. A sniper uses a little different tactics a sniper hides
where you can't see them back on earth they would use buildings and high places hidden where no one could see them, they use a sneak
scope which is a magnifying glass that will enhance the thing your seeing from far away so much that it would be like you looking at me
right now. Once the sniper finds it's target he shoots and the person is dead on contact. And this particular combination of soldiers sharp
shooter, snipers, and commanding officers is a deadly one. we are going to have to be cleaver if we are going to defeat them with minimal
losses to us." Tsu'tay just stared at the soldiers and nodded we stayed for a few more minutes I was glad that I had destroyed all of the
communication devices and everything else that the RDA used to scan and look at Pandora and anything else they could use against us
when I came back here a few months ago with Niterie before we left I destroyed everything in Hells Gate. I noticed that they brought no
AMP suits so those would not be in play. It would be only guns it looked like all they brought with them was automatic hand guns and
machine guns no sniper guns or anything else. That would give us an advantage because our arrows had longer range then their guns. After
we saw all we needed to see to know what plan we had to take I said "All right we gathered all the information we can lets head back to
Home Tree and make a plan I have the beginnings of one so lets head back." We climbed back onto our Dire horses and took the shortest
route to Home Tree. Once we where home Tsu'tay and I went to an area inside Home Tree that was for war meetings It was a huge alcove
big enough for almost seventy people. At first it was just Tsu'tay and myself but after we had a plan we got the others who would be leading
different strike teams from the ground and the air. By the time every one had gotten to the alcove we had four different leaders for the four
different strike teams. When everyone was settled I began telling them the plan "Alright here is the plan, Tsu'tay you will lead one strike
team strait on at the humans bombarding them with arrows to keep them busy, while I lead the second strike team into the trees and we
will rain arrows down on them from the trees, Pa'lay You will lead one of the air strike team you will have Ekran's take on the snipers who
most likely be hiding in the brush you can either shoot them with arrows or have your Ekran take them into the air and drop them from a
high altitude so that they will die on impact with the ground. Sal'ain you will bring your strike team in from the rear of the humans while the
other three strike teams are keeping the sky people occupied you will sneak around them and when you are behind them stay hidden as
best you can and fire arrows at them from behind. This is the plan we are going to use because it will confuse the sky people's ranks and
they won't know where to shoot because we will be coming at them from all sides. Does anyone one of you have any questions?" no one
had any questions on what the plan was so I said "The we will use this plan tomorrow at noon that is when they will most likely be in the
forest searching for us and we will surprise them."