Woman's Will



You never get used to it, no matter how many times your in a blast zone, that first concussive sound and then silence.. And soon your ears begin to acquire this annoying little ring in them, its more of a high pitched hum really, but its all that you can hear for awhile at least.. She sees them but she doesn’t hear them, not at first, she can see Klinger, he’s yelling at Roxx and Cowboy, Twitch and Thump are pinned down behind a burnt out abandoned vehicle at the east end of the Broad street bridge, and Klinger, Roxx, Milo Tripper and Cowboy and returning fire at the attacking Reds, two feet away she sees her rifle laying there on the ground, the charge light is a full green, indicating that it is ready and waiting to be discharged. She touches it with her fingertips and pulls it to her, pausing only two seconds to look at the driver that she risked her own life to try to save, laying badly burnt in the street six feet away, he isn’t moving, more than likely dead, she thinks. She crawls over to the side of the bridge and surveys the situation, from here she can clearly see faint flashes of light coming from the reds firing position, slowly she can hear sounds begin to creep back into her consciousness, She is behind two steel support girders near the railing, she pulls herself up into a crouching posture and begins to return fire on the reds position, Klinger sees her at the same time that Milo Tripper does, and they both begin to focus their own return fire on the reds position. Roxx and Cowboy have repositioned themselves to a better vantage point and also join in on the full frontal assault. Samantha Bliss pauses to reload, and now the reds begin to fire on her, but she has chosen her cover wisely and their rounds simply spark and ricochet off of the steel support girders of the Broad Street bridge. Now she is standing fully upright, almost as if in total defiance, daring them to shoot at her. This is what she does, this is what Agent Samantha Bliss was seemingly born to do. She takes the heat for her team.. And ties it up in a neat little bow.. With a healthy dose of “Fuck You” and returns to sender.. In spades. She stands fully upright now, openly engaging the enemy, as team Alpha, now in full force begin to advance on the retreating reds, “Run you chicken shit bastards!!” They move slowly down the side of hill as they come off of the east end of the bridge, the reds haven’t fired a shot in several minutes now, and as the members of team Alpha move into cover formation they can see the extent of their efforts. Three reds lay motionless two others completely cut in half, three others still burnt to a crisp, Samantha Bliss approaches them and studies the layout of the out post. “They’ve been Watchin the bridge for sometime now, probably knew someone would come for the girl, they were just waitin.”
She crouches down and runs her fingers under a necklace one of the dead reds is wearing, clinching her fist around it she jerks it free and looks at it. “Spread out and pick up their trail.. They’re heading back into the corridor .. They have the girl.”

Cann's Landing.


They are 5.5 blocks east of the Broad street bridge making their way along the dark deserted streets of the Canns Landing corridor, all is quiet, as the move through the darkness and fog. She hears a click and then and faint hum in her ear piece soon followed by the familiar voice of the man that she knows only as “Lifeguard”.
“Easy Now Sam, we are picking up some really faint heat signatures that don’t appear to be human, my intel has it that they are underground but not too far under.”
She silently holds her hand up at the members of Alpha, and they all stop moving.
“Do you have a distance to the bunker for me Lifeguard?”
“Hold on Sam.. I’m getting it now.” a brief silence follows.
“1.5 miles southeast of your current position.”
“And your certain that there aren’t any humans with them?”
“Skywatch is saying that they aren’t human, but from what I’m looking at its almost like one of the signatures is a bit fainter than the rest, I suppose they could have a human with them.. Maybe your hostage Sam. I’ll make contact with you again when your making your final approach to the bunker don’t attempt anything until I feed you the specifics. ”
She motions for the team to fall back into formation and they continue on their way now heading southeast, the fog is steadily getting thicker, and when they turn the final corner and begin to approach the bunker she hears his voice again.
“You’re about forty yards out Sam, careful now, I’m picking up a new signature its bright now, they probably sent out a scout. Its definitely a red. He stopped moving right at the end of the entrance to the bunker, he is probably dead ahead of you, but we aren’t picking up any heat spikes on him, his temperature is normal. For a red, I don’t think he knows that your there, just be careful in that fog, you may trip over him. The bunker should be smack in the middle of Battery Park Sam. Good luck, I‘ll let you know if anything is coming up behind you.”
Twenty two yards in, they spot the red, he is standing in the open, near a square opening in the ground, definitely a homemade bunker. Cowboy and Milo Tripper move to the left and right to ready themselves to remove the easy target. An almost too easy a target.. She holds her hand up in silence and for a time they do not move, They had rolled right up and into a trap once already this morning, the reds have been full of cute little surprises all month long, this time she was going to be sure first.

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