Chapter 22
We Catch a Ride out of Town
[Aria]
Everyone nodded
solemnly at Aria's statement. As cliché as it might have sounded, it was the literal
truth in this case. If they weren’t quick about executing the next few steps of
their plan, the aliens would catch up with them, and then it would be all over.
There would be no way out of being spotted. The aliens were not going to take any prisoners.
They crept out of the
bush as one, moving in a single file to reduce the chances of being spotted.
There was no talking, this particular plan hinged on precision and stealth. It was hands down going to be the
most crucial and most difficult part of their whole escape and they all knew
it.
They made a wide
circle around the compound, taking care to be out of the potential camera
range. They had no way to get exact measurements, but with the drone they’d been handed a decent map of the area and it was clearly marked where things were mostly out of sight from at least some of the cameras.
All they could do was move fast enough and hope to be spotted so briefly on the edge of a camera that no one thought anything of it. It was a lot to hope for considering all the aliens had to be on high alert, but the fact that there were the first group of humans to make it this far meant they had the advantage. They'd probably never expect them to know of the cameras.
They were slowly
curving around, looking out for the one place that had seemed like it would
make for a safe entrance, which was the back door. There were four doors into
the place, including the large bay door at the front, and then three small side
doors, well small by alien standards; they were still quite large for a human.
The ones on the side didn’t have guards but cameras and what looked like some
kind of biometric security lock and they were both probably for the officers.
The back door on the other hand, seemed like it was the one everyone else used to get in
and out because it appeared to always be unlocked. The problem, of course was
the two guards outside it, not to mention the cameras. They had, however, come
up with a plan to deal with at least one of those problems.
It took them a couple
of minutes to fully circle all the way around. It was a pretty big compound, so
even at a run; it wasn’t the quickest, especially when trying to stay among the trees and avoid detection. The doorway
in question soon came into view, as did the guard standing outside. It looked
like this particular one hadn’t warranted two guards that night. Aria wasn’t
going to complain however. One less guard meant their plan had a better chance
of succeeding.
With that thought in
mind, Aria gestured for them to begin the plan. Ryan hurled a large stick into
the nearest camera right on cue. She smiled. He’d made a good choice of stick.
It was just big enough to do damage the camera but small enough that the aliens could mistake it for a stray stick blown by the wind. And just as they’d hoped, the guard walked away
from his post and towards the jungle to investigate the sudden appearance of
the stick.
They waited for the
right moment and soon Kate had launched the next stick, taking out the second
camera. Aria smiled again. She had chosen perfectly as well. As if on cue, the
guard got a call on some sort of communication device. The guard barked
something back into it. That was what they were waiting for. There was no way
to confirm if what the guard said was what they had wanted, but they were hoping
that conversation was the operators of the camera asking about the currently
broken cameras and the guard reassuring them it was just the wind.
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