Plans

The four civilians were standing around the Humvee, waiting for the soldier's return. The soldiers walked to them and stood a distance away. A few minutes after that a red haired, female civilian walked up to them and began to chat with Daniels.

She has freckles across her face, which was very cute for a woman of her age, she seemed to be in her mid twenties. She also has hazel eyes and stood about 5 '4. Zane listened to their conversation.

"Are they dead?" She asked, seemingly frightened.

"Yes, all dead. Nothing to be afraid of." Daniels reassured her.

"Are you sure they are dead?" She asked again with a frown on her face.

"We shot every single one of them dead." He told her this firmly.

She let out a sigh of presumably relief. She seemed satisfied with that answer. "My name is Amy, thanks for saving us." She told him.

"Nice to meet you Amy, my name is Daniels." He replied back.

Just then the special operations team exited the mess hall. They had filled plastic crates in their possession, carrying them out to the Humvees. There were four crates being carried while the other three watched out for Pales.

They arrived and set the crates down and started handing out cans and MREs, to us and the civilians. The crates also had water bottles inside them as well, which were distributed.

Zane is given a can and MRE as well as a water bottle for his meal. They all sat down, except for three of the special operations soldiers, they kept an eye on the area looking out for any threats. Everyone began to open the cans with knives that the soldiers had. Zane had gotten beans for his canned meal, some of them got the same thing and others got ravioli.

Zane put the MRE in his backpack for later and he was a little jealous of the ones getting ravioli but it was food nonetheless, so he swallowed his jealousy, Zane had his can opener but he didn't want to reveal it to the group so he used a knife to open his can of beans. They all sat in silence as they ate.

It was Daniels who broke the silence all of a sudden as he asked, "So what's our plan now? What do we do?"

"We will rest here tonight, scavenge fuel and move out in the morning. We want to put as much space between us and the horde of Pales." Bellman told us with authority.

"Where are we going to go, our last sanctuary was overrun." Richards said with frustration.

"I heard Nevada has a safe zone still run by the military." One of Bellman's men said quietly.

"Oh yea? Nevada?" Richards asked angrily. "And how the fuck are we supposed to get there? It's miles away! It's on the other side of the fucking country!"

"Well it's an option at the least, we could check it out." Bellman suggested.

"It would take days to reach Nevada!" Richards exclaimed with frustration.

"Well I don't have any other ideas." Daniels said very quietly.

Richards went silent. Zane guessed he didn't have any ideas either, but with this we had a plan. A far-fetched plan but a plan nonetheless.

It may take days to reach Nevada and even then where would we look? Zane wasn't very enthusiastic about making a many day trip across the country so I asked: "Where would we go in nevada?"

"Area 51." Bellman said gruffly.

"Where's that?" Daniels asked.

"It's based in the middle of the desert of Nevada, if any answers are lying around it's there."

"Good idea." Richards mused.

"Well it wouldn't just be abandoned!" Carl said, looking nervous.

"No, it would not be." Bellman said, "But if any chance of a base existing is still out there it would be area 51."

"Alright so Area 51?" David asked.

"Area 51." Daniels confirmed.

"Alright let's gather food and fuel and go on a journey." Bellman said.

"We can help." Amy seemed to be suggesting. The four civilians seemed eager to help; among them were two males and another female.

The two males were tall about 5 '9 each, one was a black haired tanned man in his mid thirties, with a toned face and body. The other male was white skinned, fair to be exact, he was skinny and not very muscular, with a narrow face.

He seems in his late twenties, he also had blonde hair. They introduced themselves. The tanned man was Michael and the fair skinned man was Jarod. The other woman is in her early twenties with brown hair and a short build. She is about 5' 5 and has a slender face with a toned stomach. She introduced herself as Rachael.

"Well, just leave it to us." Daniels said very firmly, "We know what we are doing while scavenging." They looked disappointed, upset even to be told no.

It was about 5 PM at this point so the soldiers went out to scavenge the base before it got too dark. Two teams of three went to the mess hall and two teams went to the fuel depot on the base. Zane stayed behind to protect the civilians with the remaining last soldier of the group. It was one of the special forces that were with BellMan.

Zane didn't try to talk to him at all as groups of 2 came back with jugs of fuel, ammunition and food, they stored it in the back of the Humvees. Two hours went by and the sun was starting to set. The large group decided to sleep in the Humvees tonight with a shift each, to watch out for Pales.

He settled in the lead Humvee with Daniels and Richards as well as Anderson, their shift would be at 4 AM, it was about 8PM. Zane got comfortable and fell into a dreamless sleep.