infected days.

bandit assault

"wait-wait-wait- you guys have a helicopter?" asked Sam

"technically, we HAD a helicopter. it was running on fumes so we set it down, quite far away, but if we know where some fuel is we could refuel it" corrected Shelby, crossing her arms

"believe it or not we actually have some" commented one of Sam's group, Riley, the pilot "we raided a abandoned military camp a few weeks ago, woodwyn neither knew we had it nor had a need so we didn't give it to them"

"fuck" commented jerry, suddenly remembering something

"what?" asked Sam

"where we landed, john has people there. they're bandits, robbing and killing any one who passes. even if we sneak in they'll hear us when we take off, they could shoot us down"

"well..." started Sam

"well?" asked jerry

"you and I are very stealthy. do they have a compound?" 

"they definitely have a camp, a well defended one" muttered Shelby

"right. jerry, you and i will sneak in, do some sabotage, get ready to cause some mayhem,   Shelby, Riley, and  Alexander will get to the helicopter. get it ready. defend it if things go wrong, fly us out if they go right"

"I'm assuming this plan involves a lot of explosives?" commented Riley 

Sam winked "when you don't have the numbers you have to have the plays" 

"oh god this is going to be Ottawa all over again" muttered Jerry

"hey- no one died in the Ottawa strike... no one who wasn't supposed to at least" responded Sam defensively 

"let's just hammer the kinks out in this plan, so that we don't repeat that... adventure" jerry noticed shelby giving him a curious look, and simply responded with a 'tell you later' type glance

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Shelby leaned forward in her seat, Samantha and Jerry had gotten out of the car a little bit ago, and Alex had taken the rest of the squad the long way to the helicopter to avoid being seen, hopefully they didn't have scouts.

Alex parked the car and grabbed his assault rifle, Shelby grabbed her rifle and got out

"nice parking job" commented Riley, glancing up towards the helicopter on the roof

"thanks. i learned to fly smaller birds, but she wasn't too much to handle" responded Shelby 

"I almost wish I had started on helicopters" commented Riley

the group started to climb the fire escape to get to the roof as they talked, Shelby helping riley haul the  heavy fuel canisters up the stairs. there wasn't nearly enough fuel for a long flight, but there was enough to take off and get to the fuel depot that they had set up nearby =

"what did you fly?" asked Shelby, striking up some casual conversation.

"A-10 thunderbolt" said Riley proudly "best damn jet there is if you ask me"

"A-10... I'm not that familiar with jets to be honest"

"it's also called the warthog. she's a fast fucker with the biggest damn gun you've ever seen strapped to her nose" explained Riley  

"built for ground support, air to ground missiles, big ass mounted gun, can even drop bombs" added Alex "had one save my ass during my tour in the middle east, they're a beast, not really built for dog fights though"

"but, I figured it would never hurt to learn to fly a helo in case I needed to for some reason, never actually flew one, but I ran enough sims that I'm confident enough to be your Co-pilot" said Riley.