The Red Nights

" What is she saying? " Volga asked to Jeffrey, the one who was holding the walkie-talkie and was in charge of transferring the informations with the other teams, he repeated what he had heard Sania said through the walkie-talkie " she is saying that she is on the roof of her car and she is n.a.k.e.d " . Volga turned her head to gaze at him " What... what does it mean? " , the boy shrugged and added " she's also saying that she managed to draw Brett and all his men to Nelson's team, so I guess that... she achieved her mission. She is even on her way to join Nelson " .

Volga nodded with a neutral expression, she gazed again and shouted to him " stop blushing like an idiot and return to your position it's almost time ", the executed without holding himself to complain and regret silently to have chosen the wrong team to be in . She then turned to face her enemies standing on the wall which was surrounding their quarter.

It had been quite a moment Volga and her team was there but the outlaws didn't stop since there shooting at them. She was not worried because from where they were their bullets couldn't reach them . Their hideout was sure . " They are quite persistent though " she made the remark , " they must know that at the moment they would drop their guard we will rush inside and kill them all " one of her soldiers chuckled. Indeed the outlaws were surely hidden behind a long wall like the HQ of the three cities' armies but the entrance didn't look so sturdy though , it was a wooden gate looking easily breakable by a single strike of a car, different to the gate of Glenn's villa which was an iron structure wide enough to resist many shocks before breaking down. That was why they were putting so much effort into their defense because, as the soldier had said, they knew that it would be easy for them to break through into it .

" By the way, captain why don't we already engage our counterattack? It shouldn't be difficult to find a strategy to penetrate inside their or to draw them outside " a young woman on her side proposed " I know that the plan said that we should wait for Jamal to start the offensive but we know that his mission is the most difficult, he went with a very little number of inexperienced soldiers to intercept an entire army of outlaws. If we didn't know him we would already have said that it's impossible but we know he is quite extraordinary, however it clearly impossible for him to do it in such a short time, he would probably take long so can we just finish it by ourselves? "

She stopped waiting silently for her captain to give her a response, everyone was staring at them impatiently. Volga smiled at her " I heard you well and your arguments are legitimate ", she immediately added with a little higher tone as she saw her becoming too confident " however it seems like you're still underestimating him too much, you're from MontClay army so I can understand " she turned and shouted " Jeffrey? Tell me a good news " . The boy approached hustlingly and said " he said that he is near now and that he would enter directly from the back of their construction and his team will join him later, he also told us that no need for any signals if we see the occasion that means that the offensive already started and we should directly go ".

She then gazed at the woman before her " you heard that? " she nodded frenetically, her cheeks completely red " so get on your position, all of you, our attack must be quick and strong, don't let them the time to react " , they got in their vehicles and waited a short moment before the gunshots suddenly ceased , ahead in her convertible Volga shouted " let's go! "

They got out from their safe place and rolled toward the outlaws' edifice, Volga looked up and saw that the sentinels who were , few moments before, shooting them had their attention drawn away, like something was happening inside. She regretted that Sania was not in the car with her as she could have told her to shoot on the sentinels as long as they were just some immobile targets and so easy to kill. But she had this feeling long time as someone else did the job. She heard gunshots coming from her back and saw the sentinels falling down one after another, the shots were so fast that none could realize what was happening . After they were all dead, Volga glanced at her back to look for the reckless but still brave guy who did that. She saw, Carla, the same young woman who suggested her to start the attack without waiting for Jamal, laying on the roof of a pickup with a rifle in front of her. She moved her head from the weapon and waved her hand toward Volga with a large smile on her face.

" Such an intrepid girl " she chuckled while looking straight forward " I wish she was coming from Short-river and was in my army "

She accelerated, broke the weak wooden gate and passed through the entrance while all her was following her. They directly plunged into the action while before them was offered one of the weirdest scenes they could see in this war . The outlaws had lost their organization, some of them were after someone they couldn't see while the rest of them were running away from something they couldn't see. There was someone at the center of the chaos, their chief it seemed, who was shouting orders to his men, " he's inside! Go find him ! Bring me the head of this bastard! You, don't run away, return to fight! I will kill you all if you don't kill him ! ". The a large part who were still ignoring him, what was comprehensible as he was just wearing a bathrobe opened to his underpants, what was not very intimidating and thus not very suited to command.

They were so agitated that didn't even notice when Volga's team came in, [ What the hell does he do to provoke such a panic on his enemies? ] she would have wanted to wonder about that more as she was very interested but she knew they didn't have much time before they figured out what was happening.

" Alright, everybody listen to me I want four groups of four , two stay here on the floor to defend the gate and make sure no one leaves this house , the third group will go up to take the place of the sentinels and support the both first groups. Don't hold yourself to kill them . The rest will follow me " She ordered to them, she didn't have to select the groups by herself as she knew her men were quick to take decisions. Few seconds later the groups were already set . " OK good luck for you " she wished them before she added " Carla , you come with me, let's hurry up "

The girl nodded and the fourth group left, led by Volga and Carla by her side.

They ran on the left in the intention to go around the house. The outlaws were totally in the chaos so it was easy for them to kill them and pass , the chief of the outlaws noticed them though but it seemed like he was more preoccupied by the one who was inside than them, he was ordering his men to focus on this person and that they could attack Volga's team only if they came too close. Do not forget that the group of sentinels she had placed was covering their advancement.

They arrived at the back of the house and as expected they ran into what supposed to be Jamal's team, as he was not with them. They were standing at the entrance like they were lost without knowing what they should do. There was a tall woman who seemed wanting to organize the troop , as they were near they noticed Volga's group and their faces lighted up on relief.

" Don't you know it's very dangerous to stand like that in the middle of an attack, you would have easily ended killed " Volga reproached them " the enemies are many on the other side of the villa , we have blocked their escape from the front, so imagine what would have happened if they have decided to try by this side " .

" I'm sorry, I quickly to set up the troop so I didn't think about that " the tall woman said and even though she wanted to apologize her voice was too strong what pu ambiguity in her tone " after we finished our first mission Jamal and we were in our way to come when suddenly he came to tell me that he goes ahead, I think maybe we were slowing him down , but anyway he said that we don't have to hurry, that we will find and you will tell us what to do ", Volga calm down a bit, stroke her forehead and said " alright well , the battle inside will be very tough, so it's better if only the most skilled of you accompany me ".

" We may be only three, these two guys and I" the woman replied while pointing two men on the side. " It's not a problem for the rest of you , you will stay here to defend this exit don't let any outlaw escape from here, got it? " after they nodded she made a sign to the three volunteers to follow them and they left heading for the inside of the villa . " Carla, take the lead while miss Ilya will tell me all about what happened during their mission " she ordered while pulling the tall woman, named Ilya , toward her. Carla nodded and went to walk ahead of the group her kalash in hand ready to shoot on any outlaw she would see.

" Tell me everything since the moment we separated until you came here " Volga told Ilya who thought a little bit before executed " OK from there we headed for the emplacement Glenn... I mean our mayor told us, where we were supposed to intercept the army of outlaws who were about to attack our HQ. And even though all my friends and I were very anxious, Jamal was rolling serenely on his motorbike looking straight forward as if he has done this all his life . We didn't have reached the indicated position yet when he told us to stop , he said that road would be a better place for us to fight, so we did as he said. We placed ourselves in a manner we would more at ease to attack them and we even placed a watchman on the top of a building to warn us once the outlaws would be close".

" One hour later their cars were in sight, we waited for Jamal's signal before we started shooting at them, they immediately reacted by stopping and getting out from their vehicles to respond to our attack. It was when he started to walk ahead alone that we saw one of the most spectacular scenes we've ever seen. He told us to continue shooting but just we have to be careful to not touch him accidentally but our shots were more like just a distraction, it was him who was doing the real job. I noticed that each of his shots was equivalent to one death and despite that they were actually hiding themselves behind their cars any time one dared to put his head out even for one second Jamal killed him. One by one they were falling down, it ended up that only 10min after we started our embuscade the outlaws lost almost three quarters of their original number. When I saw that he had reached their hideout I ordered to my friends to stop shooting to not take any risk to wound him, he jumped over a car and landed where the outlaws were exactly hiding, few seconds later he came out his thumb high in the air as to tell us that it was all over . He came to us and told us that we must hurry and get in the cars, that we shouldn't waste our time and quickly join you. That's what we did and the rest you already know, we rolled until we were near here, he waved his hand toward us and told that he was going ahead and that we should find you to tell us what we should do ".

She finished her story at the moment they reached the back door of the house, it was broken what meant that someone forced it . Volga took a moment to consider and assimilate the story while everyone was staring at her waiting for the orders as they wouldn't dare entering in without permission. She finished thinking and told them " let's go " before she headed inside in first.