Why Change? (Straight furry story)

42. The Long Way Round

We arrived out the front, and I could see a line off to the right, I pulled up to the gate and said "Kennedy, the line is over to your right" I feel him get off better behind me, an I feel air hit my back. I take out my ID, and scan it, the gate opens up and I ride my motorcycle through, I knew exactly where I'm going. The office was about three hundred metres squared, and around one-hundred and fifty windows, making each cubicle around two metres squared. I ducked in to say hi to the warrant officer, he was there and he said "Sorry, I have work to do Carl" I left the building feeling happy and refreshed, I am going to have so much fun here.

"Alright, we are going to Purga, by foot" almost everyone in the line I was in groaned, because we were going to do a millitary practise with blank ammunition, smoke grenades and a fend-for-yourself attitude. I, on the otherhand, was exited, because I had never operated on a rifle range, and Purga was a millitary rifle range and a millitary 'battle zone', because of this, there were already live and spent ammunition on the grounds, meaning, if we find a stockpile of unspent rounds, we'll be invincible. We are to spend a week there, when we are given the order to 'step off' (leave the current location), my battle plan is already forming.

The details were bad, but the basic outline was simple, we get a map issued to us at the start, the 'game' gets explained to us. By the description, it's laser tag but the gun works as a rifle firing blanks which sends a message to the raycaster, and if the ray hits you, it'll send an electric jolt, 'killing' you. Your gun will not work when you are dead, so you have to go back to the rifle range, and get yourself 'revived' by someone in the eleven by eleven that is set up. we are let loose for our week of hell.

My strategy involves the map, first, find a clearing with a slightly sloping surface, and hope that someone set up there before, it's about two point five kilometres northeast from my current position, I'll have to go the long way round the hotspots. We have about an hour before we can fire, so I needed to get there quickly, and . We were all issued with radios as a safety precaution, and I kept mine on the left side of my chest, for easy reach, just in case. It wasn't long before I heard my watch beep, then gunshots.

I made it to a clearing, where I saw it, a millitary personnel's haven, stacks of ammo crates, ammo belts, ammo sashes, ammo magazines, and, what I have been looking for, a hootchie with cable and pegs, I picked up what I could carry, and went off into the deep bush, to make sure that nobody found me on purpose, I found a tree and climbed it. Purga was beautiful from up here, I decided to set up a contemporary camp, I managed to camp up here and even pick off some people in the process, Moving my location every time in order not to be hunted down. Soon, I was known as Hellfyre for a completely different reason.