Ugly Wise Blood (Completed)

The Birthday

The Twenty Men left for Neaucape. They made all the essential arrangements needed for the execution of the plan. They were ready to capture the Capital.

Fearos, on the other hand, was also equipped with better artillery now.

They were in the testing phase. They had new launchers, new directional missiles, land mines, highly trained marksmen and some other old weapons were still being modernized. They were testing the developed arms. They had instructed the citizens of Neaucape to be cautious for the testing days. The Military Arms Division had selected a piece of land on which they will carry out the tests.

The members of the Arms Division reached the spot which was around three miles from Fearos. They had installed Land Mines in the ground for the first phase of assessing. The land was a slope. They would send a car down from the top, if the mines worked perfectly, the car would blow into pieces. So they sent a cart down, it was in fragments. The detonation was so big that, there was a sign which said 'Stop. Arms' Testing Ahead', which fell into the ground.

The members were impressed, they engraved another set of mines in the ground for the next round of assessment.

The four caravans were on their way to Fearos from the Port. They were heading to the Capital with full force, they took the shortest route. Unfortunately, the Military Arms' Division's testing land was en route to Fearos. The caravans were moving one behind the other. A few moments later, they heard a loud boom.

The Man driving the leading caravan, through a handheld transceiver, asked his fellow comrades, "Bitches, should we keep going? Or take an alternative route?". The last caravan's Man replied, "No, we can't now, if it's necessary, then we have to turn back around, go straight for another twenty miles and then take the right turn which goes through a small town called Jasonville, we cannot take a risk. Also, we took this route because it's the shortest and no major town or city comes on the way, in short, keep going, bitches". The first caravan's Man approved and said, "Yeah, good, let's keep the speed. Godspeed".

At the testing site, Mr Goch seemed quite happy with his mines, in a cheerful manner he said, "General will be very satisfied with the results, now install the big ones following the small ones and this time don't take the cart, take the truck Rudder E10 instead, I want to examine the impact on heavy vehicles. Test Run A3 subsection B: Rudder E10 impact level on the scale out of 5 to be noted. Gentleman, let it begin".

They installed the required pattern of the mines, they took the truck on the top of the slope and before the man atop could push the truck down, he heard a sound, of the dirt rumble and of fast-moving caravans. He turned around and saw four of them coming towards him with great pace, he didn't know what to do. So, he got aside to save himself. The dirt was on the caravan's windshields. They cleared a bit.

The leading Man couldn't see anything clearly. Hazily, he saw a truck ahead and a slope, before he could connect with his comrades, he could ram into the truck. So, he applied the brakes, but due to the dirt, he couldn't come to an instant stop, he skidded. The other drivers couldn't decipher what was going on. The first caravan slowed down a little and came to a standstill just before the Rudder but, the other caravans couldn't.

The other caravans also skidded in the dirt and they crashed into the first caravan. Collectively, they all rammed into the Rudder. All six vehicles fell down the slope. Mr Goch was pale, he thought only one vehicle will be pushed down the slope, but down came five. All those vehicles were in the air after the hit. All of the members saw it. Everything seemed in slow motion to everyone.

The drivers tumbling inside, looking to jump out of the window but couldn't due to small windows. The Four Men hidden inside each caravan had their world upside down. Two caravans got inverted. The rest two may land on the side and the truck will land straight up on the front. Just after everybody blinked their eyes once, the vehicles landed down on the slope's surface and on the mines. Boom. All black.

After a few minutes, Mr Goch woke up. He had dirt on his face and a cut on his forehead and hand. He saw around, he saw pieces of the vehicles burning, people charred. He couldn't hear anything, silence due to the explosion. He saw the Division's members and workers injured and trying to get up. He saw people burned to their flesh near the caravans. He stood up and somehow walked towards the bodies near the caravans. He remembered that he saw four people in the four caravans. Unaware of the hidden sixteen. He couldn't examine the caravans. He stumbles upon something, ahead burned down to the bones.

He ordered his workers to gather up the dead bodies. The workers injured too, did what they were told. The bodies were lined up. Mr Goch was stunned to see not four but twenty. He noticed four of them wearing trade worker's uniform and the rest were in the same uniform which seemed to him a military uniform.

There were also grains scattered. He was confused. Trade caravans, drivers, military people, grains and guns. Things were slowly becoming clear to him. He noticed a small symbol on each of the sixteen men's uniform. He went close, it was a flag. Above the symbol, there was written something. He was sat down after reading it. He was scared, confused, angry and everything else. His assistant asked him, "Sir, what is it?".

Mr Goch was sweating a lot, he gulped and with a blank face he replied, "Sancus Army of....". He stopped. The assistant asked, "Army of....?". Mr Goch replied, "Turnet".