The Red Nights

Volga was the first one to wake up. She got up from her sleeping bag and looked around her while she was stretching out, seeing that she was the only one awake and it was about time to go to the battlefield she decided to play her role of chief and to go wake his men up .

[ Where is he? ] she asked herself. She had walked almost around the whole store, waking up her entire troop when she realized that she didn't see Jamal nowhere. She even made another round thinking that maybe they crossed each other but she just missed him while she was focused on someone else . However the outcome was the same and instead of finding him she met with Sania and Carl at the back of the store. They didn't notice her approaching as they were hurriedly putting some stuffs in their bags . [ Maybe it's because I've pressed them to quickly prepare themselves ] Volga guessed .

Anyway she decided to not care but rather go ask them for Jamal. " Hey guys " she said when she came enough close to them, they got up surprised as if she just caught them in a middle of a crime, " are you okay? " she firstly asked.

Sania coughed " Oh yeah, we're alright, it's just that we're a bit surprised " .

" Yeah I see it " Volga said in a tone of curiosity, " anyway didn't you see Jamal somewhere by any chance? I've been looking for everywhere in the supermarket but I couldn't find him ".

They both glanced at each other as if they were agreeing in the answer to give.

" It's said that you've spent the whole night watching this " Volga said to Jamal who turned his head to look at her , he smiled and turned it back to stare at the horizon " you would have made such a great knight . But it was quite foolish, though we didn't risk anything inside " , they were on the roof of the supermarket and Jamal was in front of her while she was talking, sitting carelessly on the bal.u.s.trade .

She stepped forward to stare with him the sun which was rising afar . " Why didn't you ask me to pair up with you to guard this place? " she resumed " You know that the nights... are not safe, and you also know that this today's mission risks to be quite long and people have to be fully operational for that. Especially you . What would happen if... " she didn't have the time to finish as he cut her by doing something weird.

Jamal rolled on his back and jumped on his feet and finished his gymnastic move by stretching out his body " as you may see I'm not wounded, not even a single scratch on my body " he said while showing his body to her " and I'm full of energy, ready to go kill some villains so stop worrying now and let's go rather focusing on our preparations for the battle " with those simple words he made her calming herself a little bit.

She quickly examined him and effectively there was no hint of tiredness " well you win but the next time don't do that alone " she finally said.

" Got it " , then they headed to the exit to take the stairs and going down meeting up with the rest of the crew .

Minutes later they were all in their respective vehicles rolling toward where Jamal had said the fight was. The latter was as his usual with Volga in her convertible leading the five cars of the army, the only difference now was that they were accompanied with Sania who was sitting quietly in the backseat even though initially they had thought of another person to join them.

In fact the plan was saying that when they would be near the zone of fightig they would separate into three groups with each group a specific job to do.

They were now close enough and had to start executing their plan. Firstly the support group. It was composed of two cars so two teams and each team count four people which had to go in first ahead to clear the places where the barrage group had to stand or make sure they were safe . They then left their cars and rushed into the different buildings around them, their guns in their hands, hopefully there was no outlaw inside them so while they were all standing in the posts assigned, what means staying at a window of the building from where they could reach any enemy in the street, they contacted the other groups to aware them that the places were secured.

After receiving the message, the barrage group composed of three teams of 12 people escorted Jamal's group, the intervention team, inside the zone of fighting and then they separated again to go blocked the streets to not let the chance to any of the outlaws to escape. That was their only mission, they placed their cars in a manner that would obstruct the ways and then stayed behind with their weapons loaded in case the outlaws appeared they could shoot them. And the support group who were high on their spots could help whether the enemies were too many for the barrage group to handle.

Then came the stated intervention team composed of only Volga, Jamal and Sania, who would be the ones to really confront with the outlaws . They would fight them directly from their backs while the allies army continued to fight them from the front, what should make easier and faster to crush them .

" Bring the car close to the them " Jamal said to Volga earlier before they separated with barrage group, he was pointing out the pickup on his right " I need to take my motorbike "

While she was approaching her car to the other one she asked him " is it impossible for you to fight without it or you're just doing it to give you a certain style? "

" It gave me a great speed and a good mobility when I'm fighting on it " he paused and smiled " but it also for the style " . He jumped from the car to the back of the truck where his motorbike was tied solidly, he released it , got on it and jumped out from the pickup to roll beside Volga, while they were accelerating toward the sector where the noises of the gunshots were coming from.

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" Fire ! Fire ! kill me all those sons of bitches! " Nelson, the commander of the whole army , was still shouting some what he called " words of encouragement " to his men while they were shooting at the enemies in front of them, even though most of them couldn't hear him because of the noises.

They were there for quite a moment but that time he was particularly excited as, since few minutes before, the fight started to take a different turn from its usual. Normally they came on the battlefield at an early time like this, they shot at each other with the outlaws while hiding themselves behind walls or wrecked cars like they did now , until they saw the sun falling when they flee back to their HQ to come back to the same place at the same time the day after to do the same thing. The battles used to be quite monotonous where they could lose only one or two men in one week .

However this time there was a change Nelson noticed, they were progressing he would say . There was no more a balance of forces, they were dominating the outlaws . They were going forward while the enemies were falling down , killed by their gunshots. Although he didn't know the reason of that sudden change he couldn't care about it too much, for the moment the priority belonged to the action he was in, " move forward, don't even give them the time to breathe " he continued screaming.

At a moment while he was reloading his gun he received a call from one of the captains commanding a little troop of soldiers somewhere away in the battlefield, he took his walkie-talkie " yeah what it's going on there Pat' ? ".

" I call you to ask the same question, here it seems that the outlaws are quite weak, we are advancing quite easily, so I wanted to know if the situation was different there ? " the man asked.

" Yes I see , here too we are going through the same situation " the commander responded him .

" What happened to them ? Why are they such weak today? "

" I really don't know but we shouldn't complain, listen continue to kill them as you've done until now but just be careful to not move forward too much or too quickly we don't know whether it is a trap or not " he advised him.

" Got it , thank you I will tell the same thing to the other captains " the man said before ending the call.

" For god's sake what is it going on? " he sighed and asked to himself. He shook his head to try getting rid of any negative thoughts and he returned back to the battle.

They were totally penetrating in the outlaws ranks and they were still no any clue that they had settled a trap, on the contrary Nelson could see now why the combat was such easy. The outlaws were actually fighting another opponents coming from their backs, he immediately called Pat' to seek for a confirmation of his analysis and effectively there was a third unknown troop which had joined the battle.

" Who are they chief ? " Pat' asked him, in reality Nelson had already a little idea of who they should be but he needed to be fully sure before affirming anything as he didn't want to mislead his entire troop on only an impression, " I don't know either, just continue focusing on our current opponents and don't try to establish any connection with the other group until I have confirmed their identity " then he hung up.

[ I have the feeling that we , and this new group, have surrounded the outlaws and if it's that so I'm pretty sure that situation has been plotted by them] and just after he had thought that they received a strange visit.

One of his men came at him in hurry to tell that they saw a woman who was holding high a white flag running in their position, [ a woman with a white flag? ] he found that really odd , however he stood up shouting at all his men to not shoot, he followed the other guy to go see her when she reached them. People around her aimed their guns toward her even though she was carrying only a white flag and his weapon was hanged in her back where she couldn't reach it without getting shot before and thus that meant that she was actually unarmed .

" Drop your guns, all of you " Nelson order to his soldiers when he arrived, he stopped in front of the woman and said " I'm Nelson the commander of these guys and I you are member of the army which is actually helping us dealing with the outlaws. So who are you, why are you doing this and should we consider you as a potential enemy? " he calmly said.

" Nice to meet you, I'm Sania effectively I'm belonged to this new group, we came to help you to finish with the outlaws and with this war you're going through, and for that I would need your full cooperation. You can be sure that we are not your enemies at all " Sania explained with a serene voice without a hinch of fear .

" How can I be sure you're not lying? " Nelson said what was a legitimate question to ask , Sania thought. She put her eyes on his and said " we are with Jamal and it's him who has sent me " .

Everyone around had a look of surprise hearing this name, except for Nelson, this one was more relieved than shocked, [ as I thought, it was effectively him ] . " And what do you want from us, it looks like you are controlling the situation? "

" Not exactly, it will be long to explain and we all don't want wasting time so hear me out. Jamal, the rest of our army and I had been able to gather in a located place, even though they are not so many, they have still a bigger number than we have. So we would want you to join forces with us and when I would give you the signal to charge them with all your strength and your soldiers and then in this single powerful attack we will wipe them out in once. Do you agree? "

" Is that Jamal plan ? " the man asked while still thinking about it .

" Yes, he said that they are already down and disoriented and we need just a single blow to make them lose all hope " she said.

He stayed quiet a short moment before raising his head and shouting to his soldiers " well, listen to me, we will now prepare ourselves to give to those bastards our final hit , so raise your weapons and your guns high in honor of our upcoming victory " , they then all screamed in a one voice. He took his walkie-talkie and explained the plan to his other captain.

" Well , we are now just waiting for your signal, miss Sania " he said to her after he finished, the latter picked her walkie-talkie and said " they are ready, she then started to give the countdown " OK, five... four... three... two... one... " they were all in position their hands carrying their guns, she shouted " GO ! " .

They all left , running at full speed forward toward the outlaws while screaming with all the guts. The enemies turned a little and saw them coming from their back now , then they saw another group coming from their left and another one from their right but they couldn't do nothing to counter as they were already busy with those coming from their front , they were completely lost and the result was that all got killed without none of them could shoot a single shot.