The Young Fighters

CHAPTER 35

7:50 a.m.

Everyone was present for the fight between good and evil. Ready or not, they were ready to avenge Georgetown. They were ready to avenge Caden and Evan. They were ready to avenge the notorieties committed by Joel. Most importantly, they wanted to save Leah and Mila. It will all go down at Washington City and be remembered there.

"Joel," Lance spoke out to his commander-in-chief, "I got here as soon as I heard about the power outage." He was huffing from doing some running. "Do you think we're under attack?"

"No," He shook his head, "why do you ask?"

"Because I haven't heard anything from the sentries at the gate and there's been an explosion at the tunnels." Joel grew wide awake from what he was now hearing. "A nearby platoon heard the explosion and ran off to investigate only to see the tunnels filled with fire and smelling like burning gas!"

"Gas." Joel said to himself as he remembered. "I get it now." For once something went through his mind. "They must be back."

"Who?"

"What was the name of that town we attacked? We blew up their gas plant first before we lead that last attack. Georgetown?"

"Georgetown?" Lance asked.

"Yes!" That light bulb inside Joel's head lit up like daylight from hearing it. "We burned down their gas plant and they burned up our guys. They must be asking for a war. If they want one then they'll get it. We'll round everyone up tomorrow and get ready to burn the place until it's nothing but ashes." Joel started to become furious from hearing about the Tunnel of Death so much he started to swear out loud.

In the locked room beside Joel's rested both Mila and Leah as they overheard Joel by placing their ears against the wall. Both of them looked at each other in shock by what they'd heard. Hearing that the Georgetown Militia gave them both smiles to know they came back.

From outside came about a series of loud bangs followed by gunshots that made everyone in the building jump.

"They're here!" Joel said out loud. "Oh Hell, they're here!" He looked out the window and saw them charging from different streets towards him shooting his men. He looked over at Lance, his most trusted of all men, valuing his life of every other man's and told him to leave. When he asked where he'd go, all Joel told him was to leave. "I'll take care of this myself." In the mist of the fighting, Lance escaped through the advancing crowd and vanished.

The good guys piled up along the corners of the building that surrounded Joel's headquarters consisting of a bank and got their guns drawn. Snake looked into a window through binoculars to see what Liger saw everyday back when he was working under Joel. A collection of large tents all around the evil castle. All the bad guys crowded around with guns in hand and keeping warm around a fire, just like they always did. He took in a few deep breaths as he pulled out a few pipe bombs and a lighter.

"Once the bombs go off," He said to them in a loud whisper, "we go in guns a blazin' and we show them not to mess with us."

"Hell yeah." Jackson whispered.

"Rock and roll." Snake replied as he prepared himself.

Snake lit off the first pipe bomb and waited for the fuse to burn halfway down before throwing it across the street with a footballer's throw and landing next to a group of soldiers, hitting the asphalt with a loud ping. They took a last glace at it for nearly a second or two before a loud detonation cracking followed. Such a blast knocked over the baddies dead where they stood. Some even flying backwards. Snake lit another and threw that one along and landed next to another bad guy trying to pick it up and throw it back only to have it explode in his hand.