Sorry for the delay, revision and exams going on, and the fact that I had a short writer's block, but here is part 3 of chapter 4
edit in the last part: The point were it says "She grabbed the M16 Rifle away from Tarios and placed it on one of the wooden drawers", the M16 Rifle shoud have been a SP22/M2. Little mistake
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A long way from here (Part 3)
Meanwhile, in a large prison, Vankor and Valken sat patiently waiting for something to stir. They were in a small, concrete cell. Two beds, a sink and a shelf were the only things in the cell. Only a couple of rats scurried around the cell, completely oblivious of the two Sligs, both lying on a bed. “We need to get out of here” said Vankor quietly. “Well, we can worry about that later, as there is pretty much no way we can escape” replied Valken looking at the bars of the cell gate. A soldier patrolled past the cell and then past the other cells in the block. The soldiers never eyed the prisoners as they didn’t want any trouble stirring. They knew that nothing was going to happen for a while. So they would have to just sit and wait, and wait, and wait.
Tarios however couldn’t wait as he was being dragged to a new part of the hideout. The room was pretty blank but again had a few bits of furniture around the room. The most important bit of furniture in the room was a small wooden table with a TV on top of it. Two Sligs, one orange and the other turquoise, were sitting on a yellow couch facing the TV and a black Slig was sat on a wooden stool. “Guys, we’ve got ourselves a straggler” shouted the scarlet Slig shoving Tarios towards the three. They all looked at him until the black Slig stood up. “C’mon, Garia where’s your manners” said the Slig looking at her. “Oh yes” she said scowling back at the Slig. The Slig only just smiled. “My name is Garia” she said to Tarios, “and this is Kemi”. “How ya’ doing” he said to Tarios. However, he didn’t respond. “This here is Yarza” he continued pointing at the orange Slig; he gave a simple hand gesture to show his gratitude. “And this is Skye” he continued pointing at the turquoise Slig. The Slig just said nothing and looked at the TV. Then suddenly, cracking sounds came from the TV and a fuzzy picture came up on the screen. “Look, something’s coming on” said Yarza pointing at the TV. Everybody, except Tarios, gathered round the screen and waited for the picture to come into view. After about 10 seconds, a picture of a Vykker in a black suit came into view. “We now have direct conformation of two disruptors in our midst” the Vykker said, “recent reports showed some attacks around the D District and the S District. You are advised to subdue the attackers on sight, and then bring them to your nearest CP station. Do what you can citizens of Outpost X16, the future of our futures counts on you”. The transmission then faded away into the empty screen it was before. Yarza, Garia and Kemi all looked at Tarios who had sat down on a wooden chair at the back of the room. “Well, we know we don’t work for the oppression, but we might want to ‘quiet’ you down before you create a bit of a stir outside” said Kemi smiling evilly at Tarios. Garia and Yarza got Kemi’s hint and started to advance towards Tarios. “Fine, if you want me out, then I can go out” said Tarios standing up looking worried at the two advancing Sligs. “Oh no, we could use you in this operation” Kemi replied looking calm, “as a punching bag and target practice”. Just as he said that, Yarza slashed at Tarios who stumbled from the blow. Then Garia sent a blow towards Tarios who this time fell to the ground. Kemi kicked him in the stomach a few times to force the wind out of Tarios. “You do make a good punching bag” said Kemi sarcastically, “let’s try and work on putting up a fight”. He slashed downwards with a hard blow and smashed Tarios’ visor. Yarza then kicked him in the stomach with another hard blow. Tarios screamed in pain with each blow as he felt blood trickle down from his wounds and mouth. “Stop!” shouted Skye surprisingly and abruptly. The three attacking Sligs stopped and looked at Skye who had stood up from the couch and walked over to them. “What are you going to do about it, eh” shouted Kemi, “report him to the soldiers and then we get arrested ourselves”. “No!” she shouted back, “we are going to help him. He can be of help to us in the future – not as a punching bag or target practice, but as a good rebel”. She shoved Garia and Yarza out of the way and picked the blood covered Tarios up into her arms. “I’m gonna take him to the spare room where the mattress is”. She continued, “Then we will sort things out using no violence”. “Alright then, be my guest and alert the whole oppression” shouted Kemi. “I won’t and he won’t either”, she shouted back, “their probably too dumb to know that we are here. And more to the point, I think making him ‘quiet’ down was probably loud enough for them to hear”. Kemi just said nothing after that and Skye carried Tarios to the spare room.
When she entered the room, she laid the limp Slig on the flat mattress and looked at his wounds. “How are you feeling?” she asked calmly. Tarios moaned slightly trying to say a word. “Never better” he muttered with a slight smile. Skye slightly chuckled at the comment and tried to tend to the wounds. “Just try to relax” she said taking a small pot with some special cotton wool in it. She dabbed a bit of wool onto a wound on his chest. “Why did you get me out of that mess” Tarios muttered out with a bit of slight coughing. “I just didn’t want to see you being beaten up by those jerks” she replied still tending to the wound, “It was just thoughtless of them to attack you like that”. “Hmm, I call it invading someone’s territory” replied Tarios. “Well, looks like we are going to have to get a new visor” said Skye looking at the cracked screen on his mask. “Good” replied Tarios, “The de-steaming system to stop the visor steaming up was just starting to break up”. Sky slightly chuckled again and tended to more wounds.
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