The Mill

“So the Lumber Mill has prisoners?” I queried, she nodded before parking up with the Lumber Mill barely in sight we crouched down by the Peggie truck, “Nick don’t engage, there’s civilians in the outpost!” “What do you want me to do?” he queried flying over, “You still have Jerks with you?” “Of course Ash, what do you need?” the resistance fighter queried waiting for my response, “Nick, fly over the territory, I want to know of any outpost, radio towers, enemy strongholds, allies and any other weird shit going on hear, Jerks will update your map, also find me the Whitetail’s hideout! HUD’s you nearby?” “About half an hour away, why?” “Meet us head, me and Grace are going to check this out!” “Roger!” with that I looked up to see Grace crouching down by the tree on the small hill she spoke, “Why is him name Jerks for anyway?” “He owns the town record for eating the most beef jerky in 3 minutes. It’s not what your thinking which is sad because the Cult castrated him for not siding with them...” “Really?” I nodded before studying the area for myself heard Grace ask, “So we take this Outpost and free Jess what next?” “Simple, Jacob will hopefully be anticipating us to go East to the Henbane, by now he would know of us killing John and our minor but significant attacks to Faiths region. He won’t be expecting me here. We carve our way to Jess, with her intel on the ground and Nicks intel in the sky we can carve a path for our resistance to the Whitetail’s, before Jacob can realise what is happening we will have either taken outposts of his or destroyed some of his operations, if we’re lucky. The resistance in the East are providing rest bites to the resistance in the East!” “Hey Rook?!” Nick butted in, “Yeah?” I queried waiting for his response, “They are using Bliss to control wolves... these wolves are killing other wolves with little struggle...” “Find what’s controlling them!” “Yes Ash!” there was silence until Grace returning spoke, “Three snipers, two alarm bells and at least 6 alive prisoners, Jess is the most gobby with the last threat which to quote was “I going to fucking fuck Jacob’s ass with my knife you fucking Peggy fucks!” “I like her!” I laughed seeing Nancy climb out with her shotgun and me to throw my rifle with an silencer on, “Nice and quiet!” she nodded waiting for the command, “Grace you take the sniper’s on the roofs out, I take the one around the back out, after hearing the three gunshots, Nancy you will sneak around and work on the alarms. Grace and me will take one side each, after the alarms are out of action focus on freeing the resistance fighters!” Nancy nodded maintaining her position watching as we began to scale around and find a position to take our shot then after the three small *bang* shots that were barely hearable, we moved in. I started from the back taking out the Peggies who were preoccupied with a prisoner, one clean slice and they were on the floor before looking up saw the alarm tower’s light go off, I grabbed one of the body’s before throwing it took another Peggy out as I opened the nearest cells and signalled the resistance fighters to keep low and flank both left and right before breaking another’s left heard an smash from the second alarm tower before shooting down another target Nancy pressed the detonator take the mounted guns out before Grace threw a Peggy off the roof leaving one Peggy left holding his shovel looking at us, “Drop the shovel boy!” “And what? Kill me!” “Give us answers!” “Never!” “Three questions, that’s all it takes!” he nodded before lowering the weapon asked, “What do you you want?” “Why are people caged here?” “We have to separate the strong from the weak, if you are deemed strong you will go to Jacob’s barracks and be tested to see if you are worthy of his elite fighters or purely a sacrifice” “Animals controlled by Jacob?” “Judges these are the strongest of animals that are part of Jacob’s elite ****, controlled by towers and the bliss!” I nodded before turning back to look at the roads asked, “How is Jacob fairing here?” “The Whitetail’s Militia is small and have been **** to retreat back into their hideouts but Jacob hasn’t been able to finish them off. Instead he keeps making more super soldiers and more judges. It’s almost like an belt of never ending soldiers!” “Bullshit... for every super soldier he finds 4 more die!” the hooded figure spat kicking him in his jaw, “And their abilities don’t stop a bullet between the eyes from killing them!” I muttered, “You said 3 questions!” I nodded before signalling him to go heard him cry when an arrow landed through his head and now sheathing her bow the girl spoke coldly, “He would have told Jacob! The name’s Jess!” “Dutch’s niece, I’m” “The Deputy who killed John, I know who you are but I have other things to deal with then caring about introductions. I was hunting one of Jacob’s chief butchers but I was ambushed and he fled. I must find him before the trail goes cold, so you can either help me or get out of my way!” “Hudson stay here and wait for the resistance to arrive, I want a constant feed of what is happening here, Grace you’re with me!” Grace nodded throwing the old clip and reloading stated, “Let’s go!”