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12-20-2009, 09:28 PM
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That Others May Live pt 2
Hit&Run belly crawled up the slight hill, careful not to disturb anything that would roll down the other side giving him away. The sun had been up for three hours, he wished it wasn’t so bright. At the crest he slowly lifted his head until he could see over. Below him was a fairly steep drop that ended at the edge of a road. The road curved, the curve being where he was at. The forest was dense and could not see down the road, either way, too far. The curve of the road looked like some explosions had gone off, some of the trees were knocked over or had pieces missing. A decent sized crater was down the south end of the road about thirty feet back from the curve. What looked like marks made by bullets lined the trees on both sides. A battle had taken place here.
Pieces of what looked like burnt metal were down near the crater. It wasn’t a large pile, would have probably been a van or something of that size before it was torched, Hit & Run figured. The wreckage was still smoking, not much but enough that the faint smoke had been what had indicated to the rescue party that they were near the coordinates.
It looked empty, no one around. But Hit & Run wasn’t too sure. Better safe then sorry.
He watched the curve, looking both directions, for another couple of minutes. Nothing stirred. He crawled back down the little hill and made his way back the 100 feet or so to where the others waited. They were gathered under a couple of pine trees, not visible from the air and in a dense enough forest that if someone walked by twenty feet away they wouldn’t be noticed.
He crouched down in the middle, Lifeline and Manly facing him, Muskrat and Airborne watching the surrounding forest, facing out but close enough to hear and whisper.
“It’s a curve in the road. Battle happened, mostly shooting by the looks. Big hunk of torched vehicle. No sign of our boys or any bodies period.”
“Captured,” Lifeline asked.
“Hope so,” Hit & Run replied. “Need to get someone down there to do a better check. See if we can figure out which way these people took the team.”
“And who they are,” Manly added.
“That too.”
***********
Hit & Run returned to the spot overlooking the curve. He was there for ten minutes or so before he saw movement to the south. Muskrat was slowly making his way down the road. He had gone a couple hundred feet down thru the woods and entered the road well away from the curve, and hopefully anyone that may have been hidden. The others had stayed behind at the pine trees.
Hit & Run watched intently, waiting for something to show that Muskrat had been spotted. Nothing. Hit & Run was starting to think that there was no one here. Muskrat, moving from tree to tree, had finally arrived at the crater. He bent down and gave it a through look over before making his way to the wreckage. The smoke was gone. Muskrat looked around and grabbed a stick then started poking thru the wreckage.
From where he was, Hit & Run couldn’t see what Muskrat was poking at, but something had grabbed his attention. Muskrat worked at it until he grabbed it and quickly dropped it on the ground, shaking his fingers. Must have still been pretty hot.
Muskrat spent some more time looking over the wreckage before making his way towards the curve. He approached it caustiously, weapon ready. He stopped at a tree and examined it. He pulled his knife from it’s sheath at his ankle and dug at the tree, trying to pry something out. He got it out and examined it in his hands, then put it in a pocket and continued towards the curve of the road.
It was half an hour later that Muskrat signaled Hit & Run that it was all clear. Lifting his head up more, Hit & Run did a quick survey and planned his way down. Couple minutes later he was standing next to Muskrat looking at some tracks that headed off to the north.
“What do you make of this,” Muskrat asked reaching into his pocket and handing Hit & Run a shell casing. “Odd caliber huh?”
Hit & Run studied the casing. It definitely wasn’t anything that the Joes usually used, but didn’t look like something from any of the rifles Cobra commonly used either. He’d seen something like it before but where…
“What do you make of these tracks?” He asked crouching down.
The tracks were about two to three feet apart, and about 6 inches wide. Not that deep indented. Wasn’t anything heavy that had made them. They were barely noticeable. From up on the hill Hit & Run had never seen them.
“ATV maybe,” Muskrat said looking around. “Would have needed something to remove any bodies and prisoners. What surprises me is that there’s only the one set of tracks.”
“That is odd,” Hit & Run said standing up. “And by the tracks, it’s not a big one. Think someone had come back and cleaned up?”
“Most likely. No footprints and I made at least four spots people had been positioned. I figure they were here, left and some came back to clean up and remove the bodies. Notice the lack of blood?”
“That’s true,” Hit & Run replied walking over to a bullet marked tree and running his fingers over a dark stain. “There’s blood, but not enough. Whoever cleaned did a very good job.”
“A thermite grenade took out the wreck,” Muskrat said still looking towards the north, he indicated the smoldering wreckage with his arm. “Quick and hot.”
“Surprised the trees didn’t catch.”
“The ones near the wreck are wet. Someone was here and wet them down and kept them wet for awhile. And the wreck is still pretty hot.”
“So they’re not that far ahead of us.”
“Probably not,” Muskrat said. “I’d figure an hour, two, tops.”
“Good,” Hit & Run said. “Let’s get the others and head out.”
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