Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Chapter 28

Please tell me when will this end. Lars' Reign of Terror is going successful as he has killed the Prime Minister of China. The first bullet hit Lars on the shoulder by Stephen, the second bullet was shot by Lars to the Prime Minister. We were behind a pillar as there are at least 20 of Lars' soldiers shooting at us, from what I could see 7 police men and S.W.A.T soldiers dead. The good thing is there are no passerbys or people around the area.

"Whatever you do, don't be stupid and don't let them shoot at you." Dan checks and he gets shot at the shoulder.

"Says who." Heber moves to the next pillar.

"Are you okay?" I go near Dan as he is not showing any sign that he's hurt.

"Hell yeah. This is just a simple bullet and it's no big deal." Dan follows Heber to the next pillar.

The soldiers and police are doing good as there are less of Lars' soldiers. An exoskeleton soldier pass by me and I use my nunchuck to knock him out, smacked him right at the face. The next exoskeleton soldier pass by me and I smack him again at the head with a nunchuck but the third exoskeleton soldier expected me and he deflected my nunchuck strike. He looks like a trained Martial Arts person. He is using Krav Maga as his self defense, it's pretty good, if you have a weapon but he doesn't.

"Go easy on me." I do a strike stance.

The soldier doesn't talk but uses mostly his legs as an attack and his hands as defense. He does a kick and I block it with my hands. I was preparing a counterattack when, he uses his other foot to kick my leg and I fall down. As soon as he is about to kick me on the face, he was riddled with bullets until he falls down beside me dead and has his blood on my clothes. When I stand up I see Heber push me out of the way as bullets nearly hit me. As Heber pushes me, the right side of my body feels a sudden pain as we land.

"Ah, shit." Heber holds the right side of his body as I see blood coming out. "Fuck."

I remove his hand as I see two bullet holes on his shirt and it's bleeding pretty badly.

"It's fine, it's fine." He continuously says to me as I get my handkerchief to cover the blood coming out of his side.

"Are you sure?" I remove the handkerchief and I see my hankie all bloody.

"Yeah, I just need to stay out of the fight first." Heber puts his hand back at his side.

We are behind a stone sculpture and I take a peek and sure enough they are coming to where we are. 4 exoskeleton soldiers are coming towards us with different guns now.

"There are 4 of them coming here. Now with different guns." I go back down to take cover.

"Give me your other gun."

I give him my spare gun and I load mine. All I have now is just a gun and a nunchuck.

"You go behind there." Heber points to another stone sculpture near us. "Then take the two out while I'll handle the other two."

I run and hopefully they didn't see me and two of them pass me. I quickly pull it out and I smack both of them while there's still one more left and he's fighting Heber. Heber can handle that guy, so he's fine but I don't know where Stephen and Dan are.

I stand up and look around me and Heber pushes me down again.

"What's wrong with you? Are you not learning your lesson?" Heber takes cover.

"Sorry. I was just looking for Stephen and Dan."

"Rule number one during a gun fight, don't look for your comrades. Think of yourself first before your friends to keep yourself alive."

Well, I'm the complete opposite because I think of my friends first before myself. The gun fight is still going but it isn't as intense and dangerous as a while ago. I see Dan taking out the last guy before it was clear, but there are a lot of casualties and the Prime Minister is killed by Lars. We regroup at the front as I carry Heber towards the ambulance.

"Ah shit." Heber falls down but I carry him back up again. Dan goes near me to help with Heber and a medic comes near us to aid Heber.

"Where's Stephen?" I look around and Stephen is nowhere to be found.

"Hospital, I don't know what happened to him but all I know is that he's taken to the hospital." Dan and I enter the ambulance and we go to the hospital.

"Are you okay?" I look at him and his side is still bleeding. "Do you know what happened to Stephen?"

"I'm okay. No what happened to him?"

"I don't know that's why I'm asking you." I slap Heber's shoulder.

"I don't know but we'll find out. Hopefully it's not fatal."

Going to the hospital there are people running and ambulances going to the building. The Secretary of Defense is safe and he's only injured by Lars hitting him but he's fine.

As we enter the hospital the medics take Heber to a room to get the bullet out of his side.

"General." Dan salutes a man with a black mustache and brown eyes. The general has many badges on his uniform and he's wearing a cap, he does look a bit old but he looks like a person you don't want to mess with.

"Oh, Dan." Dan shakes hands with the general, I don't know if I also have to salute or do I have to do something. "I know where your cousin is, he's in room number 131. Just go straight and to the right, you will see his room."

It's odd that the general knows specifically our cousin's room and his only. We go to the room and we see Stephen's lower right jaw bandaged and covered.

"What happened to you?" Dan goes close to Stephen and looks at his face.

"A bullet hit my lower right jaw and fortunately it didn't hit my gums or teeth but it does need to be bandaged and taken care of for quite a long time." Stephen says. He could talk properly but it looks like it's hard for him to talk. "How about Heber? Is he fine?"

"He's fine, he has two bullets on his right side and they are removing it right now."

Stephen sighs in relief and he closes his eyes.

"You know what, I think I'll sleep. I'm tired with all of this army stuff and rest for a while." Stephen puts his hands at the back of his head as he yawns.

Dan yawns and reclines his chair as he sleeps. I also want to sleep but my phone rang again and I answer it. This time it says Unknown, I replaced Jason's number with his name so next time I know that he's calling or not.

"Yes?"

"Hello Ray."

I'm tired and sick of it when random people suddenly knows my name.

"Who is this?"

"Somebody. This is a warning call, there will be another attack somewhere in Minnesota and this one is even bigger than a while ago."

The caller hung up. Is this a threat? Or a help? I don't know what to do now.

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A/N

Finally updated, I wanted to have a break but since I had nothing to do I just decided to continue the book (^̮^)

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