By Ryan Senior

Chapter 1: Canals

“Warning Civil Protection team Alfa 6, units spotted in sector 9 Delta” Boomed Overwatch

Over the combine radio Leon had, he had stolen it from a sleeping combine cop when he was younger.

“Ok guys we have to get moving, Now” shouted Leon as his team of men started to pack up what they were eating quickly “the meeting spot is just round the corner there we will be safe and Barney can tell us what to do”.

Leon and his gang of thirty-six men and women had been travailing since dawn through the canals to get to a meeting spot were Barney wanted to talk to him about an upcoming mission, but after just a ten minutes they had been found by one of the Civil Protections scanners and now they had to move more slowly through the canals so they don’t get detected.

“Just a few hundred meters up here and were there and then we’ll be…” Leon had no time to finish his sentence as he saw a combine gunship slip into view in the distance and it was heading straight for them.

“We have to go NOW!” he said the last bit with such force that the nearest people jumped in fright be for hearing the recognisable sound of the gunship heading their way.

Every one ran down the passage they had been following they turned the corner and were met with a new challenge… Civil Protection was there waiting for them fifty in all, they had bunkered down on the top of a pile of rubbish… it was a trap and they had fallen into straight into it, as soon as they saw the gang of rebels Overwatch gave them the command to open fire.

The rebels all knew what to do and hid behind the nearest object and returned fire upon the cops, but Leon knew they were outnumbered his men were tired and only half of them had SMG’s the rest had pistols, the cops on the other hand all had the stranded issue SMG and an AR2 Bunker gun, all around him his friends were wounded or dead and as he watched the gunship come closer by the second there was nothing he could do…

“Sir were stuck here and were losing men fast” Zac shouted over the sound of gun fire “if we don’t do something were all dead”.

Leon popped his head round the old piece of bridge he was behind and shot at the cops, he took out four before he had to hide as he heard the thud of bullets into the rubble then there was silence and he heard the cops running and shouting then “BOOM” he heard the sound of grenades ”but that’s not right” he thought to himself “none of us have grenades” he dared to look and saw the cops nearly all dead only five or six were alive but they were dying he then remembered the gunship And shouted for his men to get moving up the canals “Go Go quickly get the wounded and carry them we can’t be far off now the person that through that grenade was probably from the resistance ”.

“Sir should we grab their weapons” said Sarah “we could use them later”.

“Good thinking, you three” said Leon pointing at three men standing around next to him doing nothing “go with Sarah and get all the weapons you can find, as well as that mounted AR2”.

Sure enough just round the corner was a bunch of rebels standing outside of a big drain entrance the first rebel who looked like the leader was in his mid twenties and had a scar over his cheek.

 “You’re a bit late” said there leader “we were expecting you an hour ago”.

“Sorry but we really can’t talk now there’s a gunship on the way…but thank you for saving my men from those cops” replied Leon as he moved into the tunnel.

“Ok, Help get his men inside feed them then let them rest a bit” said the leader of the group as his men replaced the grate over the entrance “you’ll need to come with me Barney wants to talk with you, oh and by the way welcome to substation 6”.