*cough cough*

*puff puff*

With the warehouse collapsed on top of them the stale air and ash started entering their lungs. Jonh starts kicking the metal sheet preventing his family from escaping.

*bang bang*

“Come on.”

*bang bang*

*cough cough*

“Daddy?”

“Just a moment, son.”

*metal breaks*

A gush of fresh air rapidly enters the shelves their were in. Jonh quickly grabs his son and Phyro and gelp them crawl to the outside. Followed by his mother.

“What about you daddy?”

“There are still wounded inside……I’am alright I need to help here.”

*cough cough*

Jonh pulls a wounded soldier from deeper with in the shelter.

“Let’s go buddy.”

*heave-ho*

“Ahhhhhhh!!!!! Ahhhhh!!”

“Just a little more! Let’s go!!”

*heave-ho*

The wounded soldier with bandages still bloody crawls out from the hole. Carefully and with the little she had to give Carol tends to his bandages and streatch him on safe space.

“Ahhhh!!!! Fuck!!!!!”

*unbandages*

*desinfects*

“Hang on…..I will patch you up.”

“Owen, go help daddy……mommy will take care of them.”

“Alright.”

The wounded soldiers pile up at the entrance os the hole. Owen soon turned to help carrying them with a suprising strengh. Followed by his example the less wounded soldiers started to carry the criticaly wounded ones.

*heave-ho*

“Sir, you need to stay put….and rest.”

“No need kid. I will help It too.”

*heave-ho*

At last Jonh finally crawl out the hole. He brushes of the dust from his gear and clothes and goes to help his wife.

*huff huff*

“Is there anything I can do, Carol?”

"See If you can catch some undamage supplies from the part that did’nt collapse.”

“Mommy I will help too.”

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“Them…..honey go and change the bandages from the soldiers.”

Carol gives her son a spare alchool bottle and some rolls of bandages she had left. With no futher a do the boy immediatily goes to do his job.

*faint bang*

“Fuahhh?”

*cough cough*

“(muffled) Phyro is that you?”

The little dragon hears the voice of Mike coming from behind a heavy metal columm.

“Fuahhh!!!”

“(muffled) Can you do anything to help us?”

The dragon tries to think what he could do. Melting through the columm would certanily lead to a full collapse. So using his slander body Phyro concentrates his high heat breath to cut chip from the metal sheet.

*sizzle sizzle*

“I think I got It, buddy.”

*bang bang*

*metal ting*

“Fuaaaah”

Using this method Mike snapped easily the smaller sheets of metal produceed by Phyro. In minutes Mike, Sam and Cris crawl out of the hole to meet with Jonh and Carol.

*cough cough*

*brushes off dust*

“I will help you with that.”

“Mike!!!……Sorry we were about to look for you…..but you see…..”

“I know…Hey you two get your asses over here!!!!”

With the team now assemble they started to help the wounded and stabilized them.

*step step step*

“Carol…..Find some supplies!!!”

“Great!!! Let me see them”

She brushes off the dust from them and starts to unpack and giving them to Sam, Mike and Cris. Jonh goes to talk to his son.

“Hey son!”

“What is It dad?”

“There’s a metal scrap on your kit.”

“Where?”

The boy starts to looking around his body until his father pulls out a pin like metal sticking out from his gear.

“Thanks dad!!!”

“Nothing son.”

Jonh places the pin on the gear of an distracted soldier.

“Hunter’s eye. This is vanguard requesting immediate medical support in the pinned location.”

“(radio) Roger that. Vanguard.”

As the afternoon descends into darkness. Jonh hears the faint sound of vehicles approuching their location. With almost no hesitation he signalizes to them.

*wave wave*

“Dad?”

“Don’t worry Owen I called them.”

*vrooom*

The lights soon approuch their location. The convoy made a perimeter and closed off the area for the safety of the rescuees. In no time the field doctors were overtaking Carol tiredsome work.

*grunts*

“Ah….Ahhh….”

*squeesh squeesh*

“Hang on there buddy.”

“Bring in the Painkillers.”

“Right away!!!”

The area soon became a field hospital since some of them could be transported back. Carol tkes the oportunity to get away from the crowd and return to her family.

*huff huff*

“Good job out there, honey.”

“Thanks Jonh.”

*sits down*

Owen shares his little canteen to his mother.

*gulp gulp*

“Ahhhh……Thanks sweethearth.”

“Nothing mommy.”

Jonh sits down onto the debris of the buildings. His wife leans onto his shoulder making him blush a little. Answering the kind gesture caressing her head. Filling out Owen and Phyro Too join the embrace.

*clears throat*

“Interupting something here?”

The family looks up to see Sam and Mike staring down at them.

“Huh…Just your head bigger than the sun.”

“Heh….But now seriously are you all alright?”

“Fine is a strong word but we are mostly unharmed.”

“Jonh call them did’nt you?”

“Off course Mike….It was that or we would be stuck here.”

“What about the-”

“I will think about It….Just not right now.”

“Just a reminder we have till 9pm to get into the boat.”

“I know.”

While the crew regroup their strengh Cris was trying to get a hand of a radio and to contact the sargent. Soon he came to a cobert and persuades the radio operator let him use It.

“What’s your clearency?”

“Tenent….Tenent Cris commander of the Vanguard platoon.”

“Just a moment.”

The radio operator talks to his superior explaining the situation.

*chatter chatter*

“I understand.”

He turns back to continue his conversation with Cris.

“You have a minute to talk.”

“Thank you, sir.”

*radio static*

“Tenent?”

“Yes sir.”

“Then proceed.”

“The encircle troops of the white house were almost wiped out we were forced to retreat northwards and we are now being support by another brigade that came to our rescue. What are the next moves sir?”

“(radio) The same. Since the way to the white house is already cleared I advise you to support the southern flank and regroups with the southern brigades to assult the armory.”

“I must informed you that the enemy had ambused us and the APC was desabled.”

“(radio) Then you have clearence to take a vehicle from this brigade and conclude your mission.”

“Yes sir. Roger that.”

“(radio) Godspeed Tenent.”

*radio static*

Cris thanked the Operator and goes to the commander of the unit. Explaining his situation the commander let him have a humvee for the ride.

“Would’nt It mess with the mobility?”

“Don’t worry tenent we are to stay put here until secound order……Well from what I heard until them The worst fight is till the east since we have alredy secured the white house.”

“How was this possible the almost the entire brigade is here.”

“I don’t just heard a rougue vehicle broke the stalemate and the army used the breached to secure the area.”

“Oh….I see.”

*vrooom*

Cris drives by the crew and stops in front of them.

“Packed up we have a place to go.”

“Then count me in, Cris.”