Chapter 8:
Even with the weight of the supply crates that Dark agreed to take for the AD, he and his team were able to make their way through the inner city, to Dallbow, before the sun began to set in the sky, Flagg's death taking a heavy toll on the psyche of each team member in its own way. Few zeds were around after the latest outpost victory, so traveling to Dallbow required almost no ammo. However, on the return they did pass through two more AD/BD battle grounds, the pavement sticky with the blood of the now half eaten soldiers of the war.
As the police station came into view a sigh of relief came to the team, their speed quickening as each member desired to get inside away from the infected and the chill that began to creep through the streets as night began its approach. Dark, watched as Jill knocked at the door, Virgil answering and looking at them with a blank expression before he grumbled, "You had better have my pay." Scott gave a laugh as him, Sean and Dark set the crates inside, Virgil closing the door behind them, "Nice to see you too, Virgil." said Scott as he patted Virgil on the shoulder.
They moved the boxes to the upper level, an area that had once been used as office space for the officer's of the real DPD before the outbreak, but now was filled with ammo and food used by the new inhabitants. "So where is Pantz? He normally is glad to get door shift." said Dark as he descended from the upper level into the lobby were each of the team had pulled up a chair, and gathered around several six packs Scott and Sean had loaded their pack with. Virgil gave a laugh as he pointed towards the bunks and said, "The moron is dead drunk, been that way since last night." Dark could not help but laugh as Sean tightened up and said with a disappointed sigh, "Damn, you didn't tell him were my stash was, did you?"
Dark and Sean eventually got Pantz in a sober enough state to sit with them as Dark began to explain of the events that took place in the outpost, of Z's assassination, Carnal Sin's aid in the Junkyard, the AD's request for help, and finally Flagg's death. The news of Flagg hit Virgil hard, he had been Flagg's best friend and mentor since they brought him out to Dallbow the first time. Virgil did not shed a tear but simple sat there cold and silent, a gear had broken in him. "Sometime tonight Jake will be sending some men to pick up the supplies, so we should have them ready soon." said Sean trying to bring life back to the conversation, it worked, slightly.
Sure enough half an hour later, in the dead of night, came a knock at the door, Sean and Jill got up to answer the expected arrival. They opened the door to find two of the red hoodie clad AD soldiers, as well as Captain Awesome standing outside, they handed over the ammo crate and in return Captain Awesome handed Jill a walkie talkie before he said, "Give this to Dark, so he can always reach us if he needs us. Or if he just wants to talk to someone. That works too." Jill gave a chuckle as she closed the door, and returned to the mess hall area where the group laughed with each other of a dinner of ramen.
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Silently through the streets of Dallbow walked Reznorock, a man of average height, strong build, gray-green eyes, with long dark hair. He was dressed in the standard BD uniform, the BD mesh, under a black leather trench coat, a gas mask covering his mouth. He did not wear the helmet or the goggles, he preferred his enemies saw his face before they died. Behind him were 5 BD agents, followed by close to 35 Fenris Fang soldiers. In his hands Rez, carried a rifle, Rebellion was its name, and from its barrel, came death. After Blaqk had sent him the info on the DPD, he had brought it before Arch Lord Vora X., who then initiated the invasion of the small territory. The list of objectives had been as followed:
1. Post Snipers inside the eastern portion of Dallbow to make way for a possible BD post in the area, a task that had already been accomplished.
2. Attack the Dallbow OG outpost, capture all inside and destroy the AD supplies, then wait for further instruction.
Rez was now down the street three blocks from the dimly lit Police Station, and made a gesture for the army to stop, then made another gesture, each of the BD agents taking their set troops and fanning out for the best attack plan, as he stood and got prone, aiming with his rifle, and waiting, it was sure to be a fun time.
Dinner was winding to a close as bullets screamed through the boarded windows and the metal door of the entry hall, each of the DPD members ducking out of the way just in time, each was quick to reach for their weapons, flipping the table over for cover, as Dark shouted, "Jill, Pantz, your with me! Virgil, you play backup for Scott and Sean, I want to you to shooting these guys from the top level!"
The team soon dispersed as they ducked behind cover, preparing for the incoming enemy, shocked to see, as the front door was kicked in, that it was Fenris soldiers.
7 soldiers, lead by a BD agent entered the apparently silent and empty lobby of the DPD station, the BD agent saying from under his gas mask, "They are here somewhere. Find them, Rez ordered to have them alive. Shoot to ma...." but stopped as Dark, Jill and Pantz jumped out from behind their cover and fired into the BD agent, watching as he dropped to the ground, a heap of bullets and armor. "Die you bastards!" shouted Dark as he pumped his Spas 12 and fired again, knocking down a Fenris trooper with the spray. The remaining soldiers were quick to dive for cover, one more taking a hit from Pantz, who unleashed hell with his duel Luger's, quickly ducking under cover to strap the empty gun in and simply draw another full gun from his many holsters. Jill heard a clicking sound and looked down, someone had thrown a frag-grenade into their position. "Shit!" she shouted, as she hacky kicked the grenade into the bunk room, her, Dark and Pantz being blown forward as it went off in the other room. Jill quickly rolling as she landed and delivering two shots to a Fenris trooper who had risen from cover and taken aim at Dark with his AK 47. Dark, however, landed hard on his side, and rolled away to cover near Jill, Pantz on the other side of the room, hiding behind a small desk.
Sean and Scott had made it too the offices above and were sniping out the poorly boarded windows at troopers who attempted the run for the front door. Sean going to town with his M1 Garand, as he brought down Fenris after Fenris with his deadly and rapid aim, shouting out loud, "Who wants some! Who wants some!" Sean's call being answered as he heard a whistle, and looked to his side, a BD agent had launched a Grenade into the building, and written on the grenades side was the term, "I Do." "Bastard...." said Sean as the grenade went off, blowing him out the window through the wooden boards, landing on the street below. He knew at least three of his bones were broken and he couldn't see out of his left eye, but he did notice that he was now surrounded by Fenris troops. He smiled as he spat up blood, flipping off the BD agent with the Grenade launcher before he said, "Bite me." A Fenris trooper put a bullet in Sean's head soon after.
"Get away!" shouted Virgil as he dragged Scott away from the gaping hole in the building, quickly grabbing his M1911 with his non katana hand and firing it into the crowd of Fenris troops who were pouring into the whole from the roof. Quickly Scott and Virgil his among the crates and cubicles that filled that level of the outpost, hiding and watching as the FF soldiers came right to them, Scott firing his rifle, the bullet going through the head of one soldier and into the eye of the one behind him, quickly rolling back into a cubicle after the shot was fired. Virgil then sprung out from behind a crate and slashed at two more solider with his katana, bringing them down and shooting the last one with his M1911, before he and Scott had to stop fighting and surrender, The FF had them in a cross fire.
Dark awoke from being unconscious outside the station, the FF forcing him, Jill and Pantz to surrender after they too were caught in a cross fire. Dark looked up, next to him was Jill, Scott, Virgil, and Pantz, off in the distance he saw Sean's body. The Five DPD members were surrounded by FF, four BD agents, and the man they recognized as the legendary sniper, Reznorock, him standing before them, and making a gesture with his hand, the FF and BD agents parting as another man came from behind the BD army to approach Dark and his team. This man was tall with a muscular build, his skin was deathly pale, and his hair was light blond and long, the side burns shaved away, and a tribal tattoo over his right eye. He wore what seemed to be the standard BD armor, over which a black leather trench coat was worn, his black military pants and polished black leather boots letting him stand out as someone of importance. In his hands he held a sledge hammer, with three cryptic letters carved into the head, on his back was strapped an M60 and a Hawk-MM1.
This man was the leader of the Black Dragons.
This man was Arch Lord Vora X.
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