Fiction: Group 4
2:00pm, 1st January
I was surprised when it came to Ms. Lin’s convincing skills. Around half the village had come to our aid to
finally stop this entire problem once and for all. But I can’t help but feel rather uneasy about this.
All of these people just to stop one simple factory from polluting their land. There must have been more to
it, but if there was, obviously Ms. Lin wasn’t telling the full story to me. Mentally I slapped myself for not
asking her, but this wasn’t the time to start rethinking this.
Ms. Lin had turned her back on Vexus and I, holding one of my pistols in the air as she yelled out in
Cantonese towards the rest of the villagers. Again, I didn’t know what she said, but judging by the crowd
roaring with her, they obviously were with us.
I couldn’t help but smile as I had walked towards the factory’s entrance. Whipping out the keycard that I
‘borrowed’ from the guard on the previous nights before, and dragged it across the scanner. The same gust
of wind blowing in all of our faces as the doors opened.
There was silence.
A silence which had immediately been drowned in the cries of hundreds of villagers who charged into the
factory, arms raised into the air with their fingers wrapped around their weapons.
Vexus, Ms. Lin and I darted inside, the large line of guards which had been on patrol rapidly fired at the
villagers, whilst they jumped at them. Slamming hammers against their heads, thrusting spears into their
chest.
It was a bloodbath.
There was blood on the ground, the walls and on our faces.
We had shot a couple of guards which had tried to ambush us, Vexus was currently limping due to the shot
would on his leg, but surprisingly Ms. Lin didn’t have a scratch on her. For an old woman, she can handle
herself pretty well. Her face was completely focused on making her way up the stairs and onto the top floor
where the headman sat.
We had busted into the room in around four minutes tops; the distraction was working perfectly fine.
We had made it into the main area where a tall, man stood in front of us, a rifle in his hands. We just
needed to kill this man, and then everything was going to be over with.
I raised my caliber up, pointing it straight at the man’s head. “You have been targeted by Selim Alvarado, to
die in my hands for your sinful doing.” I said.
“Sinful?” he stated, staring right through me with dead brown eyes. “I had done nothing but tried to keep
this facility running to make those in the mainland happy.”
“What about the villagers here? Do you not care bout them?” Ms. Li said, pointing her own pistol at the
man.
He just stared, his finger pressed against the trigger. Before any of us could react two guards crashed through
the side doors, pointing their guns straight to us.
“Fire!” Our opponent screeched. And the sound of bullets flying through the air echoed from the walls.
Then there was black.
***
I, Selim Alvarado had woken up in the middle of the room, the numbness of my right arm had surged into
pain, I reached to feel for it but. It wasn’t there. I gritted my teeth, holding back tears of pain as I scanned
the room. Ms. Lin, the soldiers and the headman of the facilities were on the ground, both soldiers dead and
Ms. Lin as well.
The man stood up, a small grin on his face. “You’ve failed.” He said, pointing his rifle at my forehead with
a shaky hand. Until.
