Chapter One
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The Showdown
As the group made their way through the rubber of the destroyed city, they found a small path through the middle of a ruined bus going towards the Kremlin. The path was oddly clean and the windows are boarded up, odd place for a barricade it almost seem to be trying to prevent something or someone to shoot through it.
‘’Hold fast, you see the windows on the bus?’’ Hammer Will said as he signals the group to get down.
‘’Yeah, what about it?’’ Fire Tan asked.
‘’Why would they board it up? There is a while towards the actual palace, It doesn’t feel good something is wrong.’’ pausing for a second Hammer Will turns around and tells Red Glare to scout it out.
‘’Just go in there and check it out!’’ Hammer Will said as he pointed his gun at her.
‘’Fine.’’ Red Glare grunted as she slowly walked towards the bus and as soon as she stepped into the bus.
A sudden siren started as the doors on the bus somehow slammed shut trapping her inside the bus.
The group rushed up to the bus, but can’t see what’s happening inside, they hear the surprised gasp of Red Glare followed by a gunshot *Bam* and a sound of impact. They hear the painful cries of Red Glare on the other side.
‘’SHUT UP!’’ Fire Tan shouted, and it seems she understood that and quieted down.
‘’We have to open this up!’’ Fire Tan said worried. Mr. Tommislav nodded in agreement.
‘’No Way! You are not going in there, whatever, whoever there is dangerous and I can’t risk YOU, and the group.’’ Hammer Will shouted as he blocked the entrance.
‘’She is dying in there, she is a comrade! We need to help her what happened to leaving no one behind?’’ Fire Tan cried as she attempted to push Hammer Will away from the door.
Hammer Will held but soon decide to let go, ‘’FINE! I’ll go in but you stay out! Civilian come with me!’’ He said as he pointed at Tommnislav.
Hammer Will stood back and fired a few rounds at the door, with a popping sound the alarm stopped. He bashed through the door and grabbed Red Glare by the hoof and dragged her outside. Just then a bullet pierced Hammer Will’s Hind leg. Tommislav tried to fire back.
‘’Damn it!’’ Fire tan cried as she ran into the bus firing at what seems to be someone in one of the towers up inside the kremlin. She pushed all four of them away from the window and crouched down. Now they are trapped in the interior of the bus any movements towards the door could result in them getting shot now they know what the bus is for, the outer windows towards the outside is boarded up while inside the windows are open and once the doors close the sniper can pick anyone off inside the bus with ease.
‘’7.62x54R FUCK!’’ Hammer Will said as he covered his wounds with his gloves.
‘’Stay back!’’ Fire Tan called out to Ms. Tommniov who is standing outside the bus terrified.
‘’Civilian make sure she doesn't bleed out, I didn't do this to retrieve a corpse!’’ Hammer Will yelled. Tommislav crawled towards Red Glare’s Body she had been shot in her torso.
‘’Agh! I’m gonna die aren’t I?’’ Red Glare Whimpered with a weaken voice.
Tommislav tried to patch her up, but it is only able to stop the bleeding.
‘’Are your organs functional?’’ Fire Tan called out, ‘’Try to breath softly and don't move!’’
Hammer Will crawled to the edge of the door, using his harmonica he sees a glare on what could be on the left side of the kremlin. ‘’left side around 500 meters, can you make the shot?’’
Adjusting her sights ‘’I’ll try.’’ Fire Tan replied as she shift herself into position. ‘’Semi, Auto or bolt?’’ she asked.
‘’We’ll see.’’ Hammer Will said as he grabbed his coat and thrown it into the lines of fire, a few shots pierced it.
‘’Damn it it's a Semi or Automatic rifle.’’ Hammer Will said.
‘’Distract him!’’ Fire Tan said as she gotten ready to fire.
Hammer Will stacked his ushanka up on a seat and as a shot rang through the air the ushanka fell. ‘’NOW!’’ he cried.
Fire Tan leaped up and aimed to the left side of the Kremlin, a pony crossed her sight, a round was fired, a miss as she ducks down a round missed her by an inch.
‘’Wait, that was how many rounds? One hit Red Glare, one miss, three on the coat, one on my ushanka and one almost hit you. That’s 7 rounds if he is using a standard 10 round mag he should be out, he won’t risk reloading as that gives a chance for the opponent to hold him down. So three more rounds and it’s your game!’’ Hammer Will said as he blind fired at the pony’s location, he retaliates and misses. Just then Tommislav jumped up and emptied his magazine at the palace. A shot pierced his thigh.
‘’AGH!’’ he cried in pain as he fell to the floor. Grabbing his thigh and trying to stop the bleeding, ‘’Please don't puncture a blood vessel or something!’’ he whimper.
In that moment Fire Tan decide to follow up and fire, she fires but again with no hits, just then she realized that the pony wasn't on the left! The shine was just a glare off a window and the sniper is actually on the right side tower. With a quick aim she locks him down, and ducks, the sniper empties his last round and also goes under.
Fire Tan stood up looking at the window where the sniper was suddenly a figure was seen on the move going down the tower, a shot puts him down. A flood of relief busted into her heart as she saw the pony go down.
Just as the group scrambled for the exit they realize that infantries are moving towards them, they scrambled and tried to leave that's when they realize that there are too many wounded to outrun them with 3 wounded out of 5 its impossible to outrun the chasing infantries.
‘’Damn it, we need to hold them off!’’ Hammer Will called out.
‘’With what? We have 3 pistol and a rifle, they have an army!’’ Fire Tan said.
‘’Not ONE step back! Take position we’ll take them at this door!’’ Hammer Will called out. ‘’Civilian keep an eye on the skies and we’ll take care of the rest.’’
The group tense up even the injured was given weapons if it came to it. Red Glare isn’t looking better. She tries to stay awake by talking to herself.
‘’Skies are blue, the cities are grey and I- I’m…..’’ Her weaken voice showing her time is numbered if no help arrives.
Just then a Pegasus flew above them, dressed in full combat gear he looks down and throws a grenade just as they hear the other soldiers reach the opposite side of the bus, they were waiting for the grenade to go off.
Hammer Will grabbed the grenade and thrown it at the Pegasus, a blast in the air knocking him out of the air just then stallions rushed through the door, Hammer Will bashed into two of them while Fire Tan just fired along with Tommislav and Tommniov. among the chaos some-pony dropped a flash bang and with a flash the cluster of ponies now dazed in the panic Hammer Will shot them down with an assault rifle he taken off a soldier’s hand, they didn't expect resistance like this caught with their pants down and disorganized they scrammed back towards their fortress.
Hammer Will ran up fired a few more shots then proceeded to count their spoils of victory also capturing the Pegasus that was knocked down by the explosion.
‘’three assault rifles and plenty of ammo and flak vests, no wonder the marekov didn't do anything to them, with that bastard there we might have our self a bargain tool.’’ Hammer Will said as he began to gather the weapons and supplies.
‘’Are you okay?’’ Fire Tan asked.
‘’I’m fine, take care of your friend there’’ Hammer Will said as he pointed at Red Glare.
‘’This is going to be a tough day.’’ Fire Tan thought to herself as she walked towards Red Glare.
It’s going to be a tough day and it isn’t over yet.