The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Chapter XVII

The German soldiers all lined up. They brandished their rifles. They gazed upon their leader who was looking down at them from his balcony. They turned around. And they marched out of the broken walls, followed by less than a dozen jeeps. In one of those jeeps sat Lukas and Hans in the backseat. There used to be hundreds of them before the invasion. But they were but they were reduced to just a hundred after the invasion.

The Four Horsemen watched on as the Germans took their plight. "And so begins the end." said Famine. "The end of everything." said Death.

The very first objective of the German soldiers was the eradication of the Russian's outpost. They traveled through the deserted lands. And as soon as they reached the camp, they did not waste any time and immediately deployed their bombs and brought the walls down.

After breaching the walls, the soldiers split into two groups. One group eliminated all the Russians' donkeys that was left in their cage and the remaining Russian soldiers that were left behind due to being injured. The second group breached the bunker and tunnels and abducted every women and children inhabiting the tunnels. Lukas and Hans were watching the whole eradication from their vehicle.

The whole camp has been salvaged and the remaining soldiers were dead. The woman and children were lined up against Lukas, still sitting in the jeep. One woman, Olga, was brave enough to curse in her native language and spit on Lukas while his men were restraining her. She was angry, even though she never saw what happened with her husband and son, she knew that they were dead at the Hands of Lukas and his soldiers. Lukas chuckled, seemingly impressed with her attitude "(She has spirit. I like her.)" he said wiping the spit on his face. This was not the second time he received such treatment. "(Twenty men will escort the women and children back to our outpost. The rest will continue forward.)" he added.

As ordered, twenty men were subtracted from the line to take the women and children back to their base while the rest proceeded to their next objective. "(Where next, sir?)" Hans asked. Lukas gave the question a little thought. "(The ones that are marching, search the area to fill our base. If it shoots and does not surrender kill it.)" he ordered. The marching soldiers separated themselves from the jeep. "(Where will we go?)" asked Hans again. "(To the Afghan's camp.) Lukas said. The jeeps then drove to where the Afghan's camp were located.

Andy and the others were preparing themselves for the worst. They load their guns and ready their melee weapons. Andy, Doyle, Carlos, Henry, and the two siblings were their second and last line of defense, with the children, Krista, and Mei took refuge in the living room . "Dito ka lang. (Stay here.)" Basco said to Dugo, patting the dog's head. The dog obeyed his friend's order and stayed with the tunnels' final line of defense. The rest went out to the shed. "All right, let's split up and remember our plan." said Ellen. They separated from one another and went to their posts.

Basco and the new recruits were standing by inside the shed. Basco had his bow and arrow, Daria had her APX, Raimundo had his Taurus, and Akira had his katana. Every minute that passes, they took a quick peek to see if there's someone coming from a distance, sometimes with a pair of binoculars and a telescope. They would take turns in taking a peek outside. "Do you guys do this more often?" asked Daria.

"When the Russians and Germans are fighting? Yes. For about five times at least." Basco replied.

It was Raimundo's turn to take a peek. He looked through the binoculars. He saw an army of German soldiers marching towards their direction. There were 30 of them. He put the binoculars away, went back inside and stood there like a kid who farted loudly in school. "Did you see something?" asked Basco. "Yeah. An army of them." Raimundo said. The rest were shocked by his answer. Basco took the binoculars from his hand and took a peek for himself. Raimundo was right. He retracted back inside "Everyone get ready!" he exclaimed. He and the new recruits went to their battle positions and they waited for the Germans to get closer.