Bullet Casings Of Hell

Chapter 8: Operation Riot

   As we were dropped off far enough from the train station, we see red claw soldiers loading up the train with new weapons, ammo, rare minerals like gold bars, and important documents. We seen an open box car and waited for the soldier to look the other way and closed the door in time before departure. The trip was 13 hours away from our destination, so We decided to get some sleep and Nika volunteered to stay awake to keep watch.

   I went to the far corner from everyone else since I still can't trust them even if they wanted to help but my PTSD gives me possibilities that they could kill me or attack me when I let my guard down. An hour has passed, and Dasha was already asleep and so was Loona, but Krystal was still awake observing my mind to stay stable. I was already tired by the boredom during the trip and Krystal wanted me to sleep since she wants me to have enough energy to fight the Red Claw. I felt my eyelids heavy and trying to keep them open. Krystal them came and sat next to me.

"Stan, you should sleep." Krystal says.

"I'm fine." I answered.

"Stan please. You don't need to be like this. Please trust us." Krystal says as she wrapped her arm on my shoulder.

     I jolted by it, and she used her telepathic to keep my PTSD stable. I tried to get up and to avoid giving in, but she kept me seated next to her. I felt her soft fur touching my skin which gave me a feeling of affection but hid it away fast. I started to feel sleepy, and Krystal was making it hard for me to stay awake since her telepathic is trying to make my eyes close.

"Just rest Stan. You need it." She says as she made me lay my head on her lap. I finally gave in, and my eyes closed and drifted into the dream world.

    Nika chuckled a bit as she saw us asleep together while she peeked though the door to keep watch. Hours have passed and Dasha took her turn to watch while Nika gets a turn to get some sleep.

    As it was finally time to hijack the train, Dasha woke up everyone including me from our nap and opened the box car door. There was another train adjacent to the one we're on.

"Load up everyone, we have a train to take over." Dasha says as she jumped onto the adjacent train.

   The rest of us jumped and I hesitated since the gap between the two trains was a little wide.

"Stan, come on and jump already." Nika commanded.

   I jumped and made it on the platform. Loona decided to lead us as we started making our way to the locomotive. Loona opened the door to the box car and sees Red Claw anthro smoking a cigar while keeping watch. She pulled her knife out and stabbed him in the side of his throat. She signaled us to advance to the next car. There was some open ammunition boxes and we decided to take some to make sure we are prepared before proceeding. It was quiet and just then a Fox anthro jumped on Loona and tried to stab her. I hurried and pulled my combat knife out and stabbed him on the side a few times and stabbed him deep in his left eye which made him collapsed to his death.

"Thanks Stan. Come on, we got to keep going."

  We proceeded down and the enemy started firing at us already from the adjacent train and we hid behind some crates.

"So much for the element of surprise." Dasha said with frustration.

"Let's not stop here. Open fire!" Loona shouted.

   We opened fire back at the enemy soldiers and I fired my assault riffle killed one in the head. As I reload, A red claw jumped over the gap on the other train and tried to flank us. I pulled out my side arm and fired at him and killed him in time.