War in 6 days ( part II )

Gunshots were resonating at his ears. In all the buildings around him people were targeting him, a rain of bullets was falling on him but he was too fast for them to attain him. Although he could stop somewhere safe or directly penetrate one of the buildings to counter-attack, he didn't do so as he knew there was something more important to do at the first, and going directly for the counterattack would have probably wasted his time. [I have to do it quickly, the others may not be able to resist for too long] he recalled himself.

What Jamal wanted to do first was to determine the number total of the group of enemies who came to kill them and he thought the best way to do so was to roll around by attracting their attention for him to draw a perimeter of their action zone and by counting the number of times he was shot on he could estimate an idea their number and establish a plan. After 2 minutes of rolling along the streets, he arrived at, what seemed to be, the limit of their zone of action as the frequency of the gunshots decreased considerably. Jamal suddenly turned back, opened the bag at the back of his motorbike, pulled out a rifle, assembled and after loading it he aimed at the ten people at the windows of the buildings in front of him who were still shooting at him even though it was obvious they couldn't reach him from where they were with their small guns.

Jamal started shooting at them, reloading the rifle when it ran out of ammunition and one after another, they were falling from the spots they were. In only less than ten seconds he killed them all. " Ouf, it was difficult to think with some much noise around, " he sighed, once he brought a bit of calm. He looked at the street forward, in the direction of where he came, " I have rolled for almost 3 minutes from where Don's group is until here, so considering the speed I had, I must've covered about 10 km, " he started to count while starting on his motorbike and beginning to roll toward the nearest building, " if I take it as the diameter of their action zone they must be covering a perimeter of 30 km, at least, which must count in its area a large number of buildings and houses, I guess, " he got down from his motor and penetrated the building. He pulled the shotgun on his back, held it ready to shoot, and stepped forward the hallway. As he was walking through, he got spotted by one of the enemies, and from there, even more, of them, started came to him furiously, weapons in hands and he just shot them down one by one.

It seemed that they were getting ready to attack his new comrades as he surprised them while they were equipping themselves, [ they were surely about to go lend a hand to the other group Don's crew are battling with. Or maybe they intended to come to get me ] he thought while he was leaving the apartment after killing all the guys who were inside [ yeah it's surely that, they wanted to chase and kill me ] he concluded before penetrating another apartment. He continued like that visiting apartment after apartment wasting no more than 10 seconds per apartment, running through the hallways, and going up the floor after floor until he cleaned up all the tenement.

" With this one, they were 15," he said after he shot on the last guy, he left the apartment started running down the stairs which was more like jumping one level after another, " so if I establish the calculation like that they must be no more than 20 in every tenement by counting the guys on the windows, " he reached his vehicle while he was still calculating, he started it on and headed for the next building. " Knowing that it took me for about... " he paused to recall it "... one minute and a half to eliminate them, I must take almost *hum* to get rid of them all so actually *hum* before I go lend a hand to Don and his team " he suddenly stopped the motor and thought " that is too much time, they may not be able to keep it up until there, " he looked away to the direction where he left his new friends " I must go help them first " he finally decided before he turned and rolled at full speed to go quickly join them.

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" How much time it has been? " Axel asked her teammates worried about Morice, while she was leaning on the cowling of the pickup shooting at the enemies hidden behind the walls of the buildings in front of them, " he started losing consciousness, he need help right now or otherwise... he won't last any longer, " but no one responded anything. She turned to Donald and yelled " chief! "

" What do you want me to say, don't you see we are surrounded?! Completely trapped by those fucking bastards! All we can do is waiting for Jamal to... " Brad cut him at the moment he heard the name of Jamal " oh please chief don't be so naive! What one man can do against all this army in front, he knows he can't do anything, so he abandoned us here where we will all die and if he is a little smart he must have already run away to return to his peaceful city, " he shouted.

For a moment, they remained silent meditating on what he had said, only the noise of the shooting exchanges was interrupting the thread of their thoughts, they were starting to fall into depression and lose all hope of survival when Sania burst out laughing. If they were not all busy shooting at the outlaws, they would have surely all turned to gaze at her.

" Why are laughing? " Did you lose your mind and became crazy? " Brad asked her, confused.

" I'm laughing at you, " she responded, " didn't you realize how much you are jealous of him? Always criticizing him and insulting him, didn't you notice that it is just jealousy and envy? " she spat.

" What are talking about, I'm not jealous of that coward, " Brad denied.

" You see? You can't talk about him or just hear his name without spurting curses. You're jealous that he is so amazing as the stories said and you call him a coward and lie about him that he ran away because you cannot stand the fact that it's actually what you would have done in the same situation, " she said to expose him.

" I said that because it is what it actually happened! " he shouted as she got him mad, " he abandoned us here to save his life ".

" Really? " she said ironically, " so why is he, right now, rolling in our direction while diverting the attention of our enemies? " she said with a large smile, her sights still hung on the enemies before her.

As she said that, they all turned their heads, caught by the roar of the engine of Jamal's motorbike. He was coming towards them at high speed, with one hand on the handlebars and the other hand holding a Glock with what he was shooting at the enemies placed on the windows of the buildings. At every 20 meters he passed, at least one of them would fall off from their spots until he eliminated all those who were on the way. Then, he packed back the gun in its sheath as he was rolling toward the other group which was on the ground, they were no longer attacking Don's team but were targeting him instead.

He dropped the handlebars to pick up a Kalashnikov from his bag and, once he was near enough, he jumped out from the motorbike sending it to go crash on a group of outlaws, then held his weapon forward and started shooting at the rest of them. By looking at him, the manner he was killing them was like looking through a video game, he was too fast and too accurate as every second, or rather every shot, someone would fall on the ground. In just a few seconds he had already finished the first wave while the second one did not have the time to come out from the houses and the buildings, as he killed all at the moment they stepped out from their hideout.

For a moment, there was no more movement, not a single sound either, and even though there were no enemies around Jamal remained in position, immobile with his Kalash still forward him. Sania stood up slowly and checked around if there was any problem, she was about to leave her hideaway to run toward him but he stopped her before she could make a move forward and made a sign to her to stay where she was. She looked at him confused as there wasn't any enemy remaining and just ignored his advice and walked toward him.

" Oh god, are you kidding me? " Jamal sighed while shaking his head exasperated when he saw her walking toward him while rolling hips, thinking maybe it would seduce him. He ran toward her and as he was coming Sania spread her arms and attempted to hug him, but it was not that he wanted. He took her by her hips with one of his arms and tackled her on the ground to dodge a bullet shot at her, then he quickly stood on his knee, oriented his weapon in the exact direction where gunfire came from and shot at the sniper who didn't have the time to hide back behind the broken car near him.

" 44, now it's done, " he declared, finally relaxed, while standing up and tending his hand to Sania to help her get back on her feet. " You... counted them? " she asked amazed. " Yeah, it's much easier like that, " Jamal responded while they were joining the rest of the group, " even though I have expected that there would be more, I didn't think that you would kill so many of them " he turned and showed them a one his happiest smile, " you did a great job, " he said to Don while holding out his hand to him, but the latter, just like the rest of his team, was too stunned to reply, he stayed there gazing at him as if he was looking at a man coming from fiction until Carl pushed him with the shoulder to get his mind back, " ... oh, yeah thank you, we just tried our best to survive," he said while shaking his hand.

He gazed at them again before he noticed that something was odd " where are Axel and Morice? " he asked a little bit worried.

" Here! " they shouted from the other side. They all ran to join them and they found Morice laying on the ground, " he got shot on his thigh " Axel explained, " I tried my best to stop the bleeding by covering the wound with bandages but he needs help immediately ".

" OK, you must have some doctors at your base capable of dealing with emergencies like this, right? " Jamal guessed and they confirmed it by nodding, " so put him in one of the pickups and bring him to your doctor, " he proposed.

" Did you already get rid of all the enemies? " Don asked, amazed.

" Hmm no, " he replied sincerely " but on my way to come helping you, I had the time to open a passageway by killing their shooters on the windows while I was following the road with no barricades so if we assumed it as the right way it should be okay, " he explained.

The two men Brad and Carl lifted Morice to the car and laid him on the seats. " OK two of you should go with him, " Jamal said to them while pointing the car, " one to drive and the other one to keep sure he doesn't lose consciousness ".

" I will go with Axel, " Don told them before he turned to Jamal a worried look " but are you sure the way is completely safe? "

" If you want I can escort you with my motorbike and make sure no one will trouble you on the way, " he proposed to reassure them.

" Yeah it would be nice, " Axel said while she was getting in the car in the side of the copilot to go watch his friend.

" Wait " Daphne stopped him, " why can't we all go with them, moreover, if we are many to accompany it will be easier to protect them ".

" I don't think so, " Jamal directly rejected her idea, as everyone was glancing at him again he went on justifying himself, " excuse me for being too forthright but none of you is actually able to shoot accurately from a car in motion, you wouldn't be able to protect yourself even less protecting them and I'm not able to protect you all from both front and back attacks. No, the better would be for the rest of you to wait for me to escort them, clean up all the zone, and then we can go back together ".

" But it won't be the same danger for us to stay here? " Carl asked.

" Not at all because this zone around us is safe for the moment, furthermore, Don and I shall act like a bait which may lead the rest of them away from you ".

" OK so enough talking we must go now before it's too late, " Axel pressed Jamal.

" Yes you're right, " he replied her " Don, you can go ahead I will catch up to you soon ".

The man nodded and got in the car while Jamal was running in the other direction to go pick his vehicle, when he passed near the rest of the team he advised them, " stay on guard in case enemies attack you by surprise, see you later, " then he rolled in the direction Don had taken a few seconds before.