[IC] This Means War

[liah]

"We'll be alright. You go on ahead." Lyric said and I nodded. I got up, walking towards the gate, pretending like I was scoping the camp. As long as I didn't look like I was trying to break in, I could successfully get myself captured.
"Hey, girl!" I heard a mans voice. I looked up and forced a surprised look on my face. The electric fence was turned off and someone emerged from it, chasing me down. I began to run, but not as fast as I could have, letting the man tackle me to the ground. "And where did you think you were goin', Tilerian?" She picked me up by my hair. I groaned in pain, smacking him as an automatic reaction. "Why you little-" He punched me in the gut. I doubled over in pain, losing my breath and letting him drag me by the arms to the inside of the camp. "Get up!" He ordered. I stood up. Two more men came over and grabbed both of my arms, dragging me to who knows where.

[natcat]

“Kip!” A loud gruff voice came from outside of the tent and the man in front of me stood straight and tucked his knife into his belt.
“Sir, we were waiting on you to begin.” He said and for some reason I felt a bit better knowing what this man’s name was.
The tent flap was brushed aside as a tall muscly man with an angry face stormed inside. This must’ve been Pullman. Kip nodded to me in my chair and I made direct eye contact with the intimidating man as he snarled and walked over to me, looking me over.
“What’s your name?” He asked and without a second to spare slapped me across my face. “I asked you a question boy! Your name!”
I blinked in surprise trying to rid myself of the black dots in my vision. “Sam, my names Sam.” I spluttered.

[liah]

"Are you alone?" The man asked. "Where's the others?"
"The only person I was here with went missing. I can't find him." I looked up at the man.
"Oh then you're in luck. We pulled in a lad not too long ago." He smiled. After about a minute or two, I was thrown into a jail cell. I fell on the ground and scrambled to me feet.
"Check her for weapons, Donny." The man said. The one called Donny nodded. He patted me down quickly.
"Nothing. She's clean, Pops." He stood back. Pops scoffed, walking over to me and grabbing me by the front of my shirt.
"Sit down!" He picked me up and threw me on the ground. He pulled his leg back to kick me, but Donny stepped in the way.
"Go easy on her, Pops. After all, she is a girl." Donny looked down to me.
"Then get the girls so we can get this over with." Pops walked out, calling in someone named Ashley, Jen, and Rosey.

[natcat]

“Sam. Right, then why are you here on my land… Sam." He asked turning away from me as he walked over to a large desk near the back of the tent. He pulled off his jacket before glancing over his shoulder at me. "Well? You don't want this to be any harder than it already is, do you?" He dropped the jacket on the desk before unbuttoning his sleeves and rolling them up to his elbows.
"As you might have already guessed, I have little patience Sam, and I also have little time on my hands. I'm a very busy man. We're just gonna go around in circles until you start talking to me." He made his way back over to me.
"So tell me, why are you here?" He stared at me, waiting for me to answer. I only held eye contact before he clenched his jaw and gripped my shoulder tightly. Shoving a fist into my stomach, he leant close to my ear as I groaned. "You're not making this any easier for yourself."

[liah]

Donny eventually followed his father out, closing the barred door behind him. About a minute or two later the tree girls walked in. "Oh, look. We've got a present." A blonde girl smiled. She stared at me and I simply stared back. I had a plan. It wouldn't be nice, but it'd work.
"What is she doing?" A girl with bright red curly hair questioned as I sat down on the ground. I was taking off my boot.
"Who cares?" The blonde walked up to me. "Stand up." She ordered. I'd play dumb for a minute. "Now!" She kicked me in the stomach. I groaned and coughed, getting the wind knocked out of me. She came down to my level, grabbing the front of my shirt. "I said. Stand. Up." She whispered in my ear.
"As you wish." I groaned, taking the knife from my boot and stabbing her in the back. She gasped, looking wide eyed at me. She loosened her grip on my shirt let go, falling to the floor. Before her friends could say anything, I quickly got to my feet, steeling on of their guns and stuffing it in my belt loop. I grabbed the red head by the hair and kicked a brunette girl in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her for at least a minute while I took care of her friend. "Sorry." I stabbed her in the chest. She went down. The brunette was the last one to go. I took her out as quickly as possible, taking her gun as well and hiding it under my shirt.

[natcat]

Ten minutes had passed and I still hadn’t said anything, and Pullman was getting incredibly frustrated making me smile. I was I looked down at the ground, before leaning forward and spitting blood out onto Pullman’s boots. “You’re not getting anything from me, haven’t you realised that by now?” I muttered out and he heard me growling angrily. Sending me one last blow, I winced but tried to listen carefully as he turned to Kip.
“Take him back to the cells. No food, no water. Nothing. I want him begging for his life. We’re going to break him. Do whatever you want, I don’t care, but don’t kill him.” He said angrily. “I want him back tomorrow morning, if he doesn’t say anything then I’m done, kill him any way you like.”
Kip’s eyes glistened for a moment before he turned to me and smiled wickedly.
“Yes, Sir.”

[liah]

I looked down at my hands, shaking and covered in blood. I couldn't believe what I'd just done. But I had to. They were either going to beat me to death or just kill me. I couldn't chance that. I could hear groaning coming from behind me. I thought I'd killed them. Turning around, I looked at their faces. "You b-" Blood sputtered from the redheads mouth. They were all still alive. But just barely. I shook my head, walking out of the door and closing it behind me. Now I had to hide and some how find Sam. I quickly left the scene and found a dark, damp hall to hide in.

[natcat]

I was untied from the chair and tugged out of it, my whole body protesting as it was suddenly required to move again. "I'll be seeing you Sam." Kip said with a nod. "Might come and eat dinner with you? Sounds like a nice idea doesn't it." He asked with a tilt of his head, smirking at me again. The soldiers, dragged me out of the tent and all I could see was the dirt on the ground again as they dragged me back to the cells.

[liah]

I was hoping Lyric and Georgie were coming up with a plan to come and help us. If not, it'd be pretty hard to get out of here on my own. "What the hell happened in here?" I heard a man bark. "What the- Quick! Call the medics! Get someone in here immediately!" I began to hear shuffling and footsteps coming from all around. I assumed the found the three girls I left in the cell to die. When the place was clear, I could try to get my hands on a Jaxlor uniform, put it on and search for Sam.

[natcat]

“Wait, don’t bring him in here, we’ve got a couple of dead soldiers.” I heard a soldiers voice call out before dropping to a murmur as he neared us. I looked up and saw a soldier I’d never seen before look down at me. “Did you do this? Did you kill my girls?”
I frowned and coughed before answering him. “No, who?” I asked and he rolled his eyes and walked away.
“Wait a minute!” One of my guards called out. “What’re we supposed to do with him then? We had orders to take the prisoner to the cells and leave him there till morning. Nobody breaks Pullman’s orders.”

[liah]

I overheard someone talking. They'd found the bodies. They also had a prisoner. Could it be Sam? Peeking out from where I stood, I saw Sam all beaten up and bruised being carried in by some big men. I had the urge to say something, to let him know I was here to help, but I'd just give myself way. Quietly, I disappeared back into the shadows.

[natcat]

I sighed, tired of this, my body was aching and at the moment all I wanted to do was sleep. I knew I should be trying to fight them off, run and get out of here as quickly as I could, but I just couldn’t summon the energy. “Look, we’ll put him in the cell at the end, it’s far enough away and he’s too bruised up to anything.” The other guard said and the soldier nodded his head tiredly shooing us down the cold hall.
They opened up the solid door to my new cell and threw me in, closing and locking the door before I had the chance to sit up.

[liah]

I watched as the men threw SWam into a new cell and walked away. I waited a few minutes before coming out of my hiding spot and walking down the hall. Coming up to Sam's cell, I peeked in. "Sam?" I said quietly. "You alright?" I asked. I couldn't even tell if he was alive anymore. "Sam?" I whispered, this time grabbing the bars of the cell door and trying to get a better look at him.

[natcat]

I lifted my head slowly, half hoping it wasn't who I thought it was. "Daisy." I groaned as I turned to look at the door, seeing her standing there. "You killed those girls didn't you. God, what are you doing here? These people are insane, you need to get out of here." I said pushing myself into a sitting position.

[liah]

"I came to get you out. Now keep quiet before someone hears you." I took my knife out and began to try and pick the lock. After working with it for a few minutes I finally got the lock open. "See? Everything's gonna be alight." I walked in, carefully helping Sam to his feet. I knew he was in pain but we had to get out of here. I hadn't come up with that plan yet, but I'd figure it out soon. Hopefully Lyric and Georgie were on their way in.
"What happened to the Tilerian girl we brought in?" I heard a voice down the hall. "She's gone. She's the one who killed the girls I sent in." It sounded like Donny.
"Well FIND HER." That was Pops.
"Alright, I'm on it, dad. I- I mean, Pops." Donny's footsteps went in the opposite direction.

[natcat]

"Well that's very nice, thank you but how do you propose we do that? This is their camp, we're surrounded by an electric fence." I pointed out in a whisper as she helped me to my feet. Groaning in pain as I stood, I dropped my head tiredly and couldn't help but lean on Daisy with my full weight. I just wasn't strong enough to stand on my own. "Look I'm just dead weight, you need to get yourself out of here. We'll both be killed if you try to drag me out as well, you'll have more of a chance on your own."

[liah]

"Dude, I'm not going to leave you and I didn't kill those girls for nothing." I said. "Now we have to go. Just trust me." I gently lifted his head so I could look at his face. "Ok? We're gonna get out of here." I assured him. I wasn't sure if we'd both make it out. Or if we'd even be alive ten minutes from now. But Sam didn't need to know that. Slowly, I began to walk with him out of the cell and down the hall. If anyone was to come, I'd just shoot them. I had two fully loaded guns on me that I took from the girls. "Did you hear that?" I stopped, glancing at Sam then back ahead. It was the faint sound of an explosion.
"Get to the fence! Go! Hurry!" I heard multiple voices coming from all sorts of places. We needed to hide.
"We need to find a place to hide for a bit." I looked around, trying to figure out a spot where we could lay low.

[natcat]

“Over there.” I said as I pointed weakly to a large stack of wooden boxes that would hide fugitives behind them well.
I winced as she pulled me over to them and we ducked down behind them, resting for a minute until it was safe.
“Is there someone with you Daisy?” I asked trying to figure out a reason for the explosion.

[liah]

"I came in alone. Georgie and Lyric were outside waiting. Maybe they figured out a way to help us out?" I whispered. I heard another explosion, this time much bigger. The entire building shook.
"Those are Tilerians out there!" A woman yelled.
"How many?" Someone called out to her.
"About five or six!" The woman yelled again. I heard her swear under her breath and run down the hall. Everyone was headed outside to fight them off.
"As crazy as this sounds-" I started. "We need to go outside. They won't notice us with whoever else is out there. The fence is also down. We should go." I looked to Sam.

[natcat]

I closed my eyes, trying to summon the energy to do so and nodded to her once I felt ready. “Okay, let’s get out of here.” I said grabbing onto the stack of boxes, attempting to pull myself up, now more determined to get out of here. I gasped in pain but managed to stand up straight. With a smile, I looked down at Daisy.
“Well… are you coming?”