Survivors of the Horde

Chapter 11 - "Freeze!" - Taeh

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Okay on with the chapter now.

"Jesus christ! That hurt"
"Holy shit are you okay?" Faith asks then looks out the broken window. She flinches as we watch the man hit the ground below.
"Yeah Faith, I'm fine"
"Here, you're bleeding" Kireina mentions. I look down at my arm, he managed to slash at my arm a few times, luckily he hit my arm and not my wrist. Kireina goes over to his bag and searches for a few bandages. "Aha!" She pulls out a wrap of bandages and I get bandaged up.

BANG, a loud boom fills the room, Kireina and Faith scream. "Hands in the air!" I hear Ace yell, She locks eyes with me and drops her gun, she and starts running towards me. Caught up in her excitement, she jumps and tackles-hugs me, we hit ground and let out a loud grunt as we hit the ground she squeezes me tightly even on the ground. "I thought you were dead!"
"What?!" She gets off of me. After looking around at everyone around us she looks embarrassed. She 
She says in a soft voice, "I was scared I lost you" I stand up and give her a hug, a nice proper one. She cries a little into my shoulder. She hugs me tighter. "The thought of never seeing you again was too much for me." She squeezes me even tighter, it's hard to breathe like this, I feel like I'm being crushed. She lets go, I realize that I didn't even think of that, we had barely woken up when we got attacked.

"Y'know if you didn't push him out of the window we could've interrogated him" William teases.
"Ahhh shut up, not like we could've tied him down anyways, he have no rope"
"Y'know there's a fuck-ton of stuff a few floors down, probably about 50 or so backpacks"
"Wait really?"
"Mhm"
"Shit get me down there"

"Yeah, yep.... alright, looks like everything is in here!" I let out a quick thumbs up.
A door opens, "Hey what's going on in here!" I hear a man yell from behind me. Before I can even turn around a loud bang fills my ears, I turn and see him fall, Ace is standing to my right with her gun pointed at his head. Everyone jumps. I hear everyone let out a "Holy shit" or an "Oh my god"
"Holy shit Ace!"
"It was him or us"
"What?! You could've just shot him in the leg or something!"
"No, look in his hand." She points her gun towards his hand, "It's a gun, I couldn't risk losing any of you"
"Holy shit, you're right" 
"Now be careful, there might be more coming" Ace warns us all.
A sound emits from his body, "James why did I hear a gunshot are you okay?"
"Oh fuck a walkie-talkie" William points towards James's hip. 
"I repeat, James are you okay?"
". . . . ." All of us look around at each other. No one knows what to do.
"Alright I hear nothing from James, could someone please go check on him"
An Australian accent answers, "Oi boss, you sure? Ya know James has a secret stash of booze somewhere, could just be him messing around, trying to scare us, he's a dumbass"
"Just go check on him"
"Oi cunt, if you're just trying to scare me, I'll skin you like a fish"
"Dammit now that Aussie bitch is going to come up and find James" I say frustrated.
"Maybe we can use him" Ace suggests.

A few Minutes Later

I hear the door handle start to open, I spring into a state of hypervigilance. I hear the door swing open.
"Oi James? You in here?" He takes a few steps forward and in near synchronization I sneak around the corner and squeeze my bat at his throat and Ace steps from around the other side of the door and shows him the inside of the barrel of her gun.
"Ah fuck off with this. Alright what do you want? Food? Weapons? Boss man hears of this and you all are dead."
"Drop the gun!" He hesitates. "I said drop it! I'll shoot you I swear to God" he drops his gun, I kick it towards Ace. "Who do you work for?" Ace let's out in a demanding tone.
"Well that's complicated"
"How the fuck is it complicated?"
"I hate my boss as much as you do!"
"Oh really let's test that" Ace sounds like she'll blow his face off at any second, "Who do you serve? Who the fuck do you support?"
"The Liberty council!"
"Who the fuck is that? And how are they related to the Blue legion?"
"Wait? You don't know?"
"What?"
"The Liberty Council has been fighting the Blue legion for months" We all look around in confusion? "And I'm not going to hurt you, at least let me breathe properly" I look at Ace for approval. She nods. I let his neck free from the grips of my bat.
Ace's tone gets considerably lighter, "Alright, yada yada, what is the Liberty Council all about?"
"Well they're denouncing the authoritarian Blue Legion. Liberty Council believes that the Blue Legion should release they're prisoners, as most of them have committed no crime in the eyes of the Liberty Council. They're treated horribly and almost unethically"
"Shit, we're just after them because they almost killed then" Ace point at Faith and then William.
"Well I hope this only motivates you to join the Liberty Council"
"How would we do that?" William asks.
"Well there's a recruitment center in Detroit, they haven't gotten this far west yet"
"Detroit? That's like if Chicago was homeless and on crack" Kireina cracks. We all laugh a little. I see Estella glare at William.
"So Detroit? How do we find it? Detroit isn't exactly small" Ace inquires.
"They took over one of the casinos, just go around you'll find it"
"Hmm, what do we do once we get inside?" William asks
"Well they're should be someone near the door, just ask the wanker there, they'll help ya"
Ace leans towards the guard, "So how exactly are we getting out?"