Disaster Control - Sequel to SS Odysseus

Chapter 8

Taking off quickly, we hurtled back to headquarters, Richard muttering wildly under his breath.

"God damn it... they have headquarters now. My head commander just sent a SOS message. The whole militia is being pulled out and travelling to Halifax now." He muttered.

Sighing deeply, he looked out the front window of the helicopter and his knuckles whitened as he looked upon the landscape below.

"This is not good... not good..." He kept on saying absentmindedly, until we landed in a forest.

"This is near our old area of operation." Richard said quietly, and we nodded in understanding, standing up and walking out of the helicopter.

"Stay quiet." Richard murmured, and we snuck along the path to the secret entrance, looking around carefully.

A few guards were stationed around the door, holding weapons, and they looked around.

"No sign of them." One of them sighed, and the other nodded.

"We get guard duty, while everybody else gets the actual action." the second one grumbled, and Richard tensed at this.

"I'll show them action." He said and stood up, shooting them each in the back.

"Richard!" Abby hissed, trying to pull him back down, but Richard was livid.

"I'm... gonna... kill!" He muttered out angrily, almost running straight at the door - he didn't only because Abby and Dylan were pulling him down - or at least trying. He was certainly putting up a good fight.

"Let... me... GO!" He roared, and he pushed Abby and Dylan to the ground, and he sprinted to the doors, kicking them open and running in.

"Oh god." Adira muttered from my left, and she too stood up and ran after Richard. Deciding it for the best, we all got up and followed suit.

"Where did he go?" Adira hissed to all of us, glancing around the headquarters.

POW!

Ducking, I swiveled around and saw a few guards running our direction.

"Shit." I muttered, and I quickly pulled out my pistol and shot one of them dead.

In a few seconds, the rest lay unmoving on the floor.

"Move." I said simply, and we all ran in one direction - away from where they came.

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"We are so, so, so, screwed." Kay said, sprinting as fast as she could, breathing heavily.

"I realized that." I snapped back, hurtling around a corner before continuing to run.

"Hands up, kiddo." A sneering voice ahead said, and I stopped running as the men drew closer.

"Any ideas?" I murmured out of the side of my mouth, and Kay sighed in exasperation. Pulling out two pistols, she shot the men coming towards us.

"Back-up plan." She said innocently, before smirking and walking off in the same direction that we were all running in.

Rolling my eyes, I ran after her.

"Where did Richard go?" Liam asked breathlessly, panting from the effort of running.

"I dunno." I responded, gasping for air at this point.

"But can we stop... sprinting?" Abby asked from a few feet behind me.

"Yeah. Just keep your guard up." I grunted out, and I kept on walking, holding my pistol in front of me.

BOOM!