Alex swiftly pulled the door up and looked around hoping that the creaking noise it made didn't attract any crawlers. She signaled the rest of the group to follow her.

"Hello?" Danny called out. There was no answer so he led half of the group (Darren and Anna)to the shed in the back while Alex's half (Bent and William) looked around the main room.

Alex ordered them to loot the place and be careful of crawlers. Everyone spread around the main room looking for anything useful. William noticed a sound come from the closet near the corner of the room. Stupidly, he opened the door without readying his weapon, and found the barrel of a gun pointed at his face.

"Place your weapons on the floor, hands to the sky, and turn around." A firm, gruff voice demands. William places his knives on the floor and raises his hands over his head. He turns around to find his the rest of his crew in the same position as him with guns pointed at their backs. Masked men pressed guns at the backs of his other two teammates.

"What are you doing here?" Another gruff voice asks.

"Erm, I'm Alex, this is our crew. We, uh, this used to be our base and we found radio signals coming from here so we thought we'd check it out." Alex managed to squeak out.

"Why were you looting?" The man demands. His tall dark, looming figure towered over the kids.

"We, uhh..."

"Answer me!" The man yells.

"We thought no one was here so we..." she stops not knowing what to say.

"You stole from us." A fourth, fatter man finishes.

"What? No! No we didn't mean it like that."

"You calling me a liar, little girl?"

"No, I'm not. And don't call me a little girl." Alex replies in a stern tone.

"What are ya gonna do about it then? huh?." He mocks her and uses the butt of his gun to hit her on the head.

"Oww!" She groans in pain on the floor. Bent can't take it and runs to her on the floor.

"Get back up, boy!" The third man says in a deep southern, redneck accent.

"Why did you hurt her?" He screamed at the second man.

"Shut your ass up before I shoot you." The first man threatens.

Two more people come in with guns.

"Bastard! You fucking bastard!" Bent yells at all of them.

"That's it." The redneck says. He shoots Bent in the leg then reloads his gun.

Pain shoots through Bent's leg as he screams in agony. Alex in still unconscious on the floor. William has his hands pinned behind his back by the closet man and is too stunned to say anything. Blood started flowing from the severe wound, with everyone not caring about it.

...

"Was that gunfire?" Danny asks his group.

"Sounded like it." Darren replies.

"Follow the sound. Anna you cover us from the shed since you have the sniper rifle. Darren, you and I go in through the back. Use your throwing knives. I got my crossbow. Go!" Danny orders quietly.

Danny and Darren sneak to the back door opening it slightly. to get a decent view of the three.

"Oh my God. Bent's bleeding." Darren whispers. Danny adios Anna.

"Anna, it's your time to shine. Take a shot at the guy holding William. Make sure it's fatal."

"Roger that." Anna replies. She positions her rifle and aims at the closet man. In a matter of seconds, the man falls to his knees and onto the floor as blood drips out of the hole in his head.  With quite the shock, the whole room was alerted with everyone brought to self defense mode.

William takes advantage of this and grabs the knives he dropped earlier. He throws it at the fat man. The knife ends up jammed in his neck and he chokes on his own blood.

The redneck points his gun at William.

"Put your knives down or I'll blow your brains. All of us will."

William places the knives on the floor and kicks them over to who he assumes is the leader, the tall guy.

One of the men who walked in earlier took the closet man's place and pins William's left arm to his back.

"Aghh!" William yells. The man dislocated his shoulder.

"You might wanna let go of his arm there mister." Carlito's voice echo's throughout the garage.

Carlito calmly walks into the room with his weapon shifting targets at fast paces.

"Who the fuck do you think you are?"The tall one yells.

"Put down your weapons and raise your hands."

"Heh, tough talk for a fellow with a small cock."

"And someone with nothing to lose"

The tall guy signals one of the survivors to take him out, knowing he is an ally of the others. And by surprise, one of the survivors fought him and he resisted as long as he can to make sure his part of the group takes position.

He was overpowered and the survivor took both of his arms and pinned it by gripping it tightly, making Carlito unable to fight back. The tall guy slowly walks up to him and bursts with punches to his face. Being beat up badly, blood started to show from the impact of the punches. They force him to kneel to the floor and continues to beat him up.

"You should've never tried idiot." The tall man snickered as he points a gun to Carlito's head.

At the last of his strength, he called out the signal for the group's arrival.

"SAMSON!"

The tall man lands a final punch to Carlito, shutting him down.

With quick response, Samson; along with Ash, Missile, Keiran storms into the room taking out the guard pinning Carlito.

"What the..."

"Step away from him" Said Samson pointing his weapon with a sinister look.

"No, you get back or he's dead..."

"You're outnumbered" just then Carlito regains consciousness and was about to attack the tall guy, but before so, the tall guy takes out a small butterfly knife and stabs him by the shoulder.

"Ow fuck!" He yells. Samson rushes to his side, "Carlito!", Ash slits the redneck's throat as Danny and Darren come in with Anna following right behind them.

Danny aims his crossbow at the man who broke William's shoulder,

"Wait, no-" Danny cuts him off with an arrow to the head.

Everyone looks at the last man.

"Wait wait, I didn't hurt anyone, these idiot just took me under their wing two days ago. I wass just here to look scary and some other stupid shit." He puts down his gun and raises his hands to surrender. He gestures to Bent, "I'll even help with your guy here. I didn't hurt anyone, Hunter just told us to put on our masks and get the guns. Here you can take mine." He slides the gun over and unmasks himself.

He looked a little shorter than the six other men and his black hair was ruffled. He had a fit figure and his most special feature were his bright blue eyes. Something very rare in the Philippines.

"How do we know you're not tricking us right now?" Samson asks with the most defensive stance while guarding the fallen ally.

"I fully surrender, and I have no one else to work for."

"I still don't trust him." Danny aims his crossbow at the man.

""Danny wait!" Yelled Samson as he grabs the weapon.

"You really trust him?" Just then Alex regains consciousness.

"Alex!" Danny yells at shock.

"He said he can help with Bennett, and right now he is our priority, he's losing too much blood. Exsanguination seems more likely than getting infected." Alex says while getting up and rubbing her head where the man hit her.

Danny looks at his suffering friend and finally gives in.

"Fine"

"Thank you, now let's all get them to the base ASAP." Samson covers Bent's wounds with sanitized bandages.

"Guys, weapons down. He's coming with us but he stays secure." Alex announces. The group slowly lowers their weapons and Alex helps him up.

"Look, I trust you but my group doesn't. They would've shot you right then and there if i didn't have anything to say about it. I'm pretty sure you owe a name to us" Alex whispers to the guy

The guy gave her a crooked smile and replied "I'm Silver"

Alex led him to the van, "Well Silver, I'm assuming you can shoot. If most of our base likes you, you stay. So make a good first impression."

Silver gets in the back, first row. "I'll be sure to to that."

The group loads into the van with some riding on top so that the injured could lay down. They travel to the Base where Carlito and Bent get treated.

...

While Bent is running through intense treatment on the other room,Samson walks into Carlito's room where his shoulder is bandaged,his bruises treated and he's propped up in his bed with pillows.

"Hey, You good?" Samson asks.

"Yeah, just a little shoulder pain. I wonder why." Carlito chuckles at his own joke as Samson applies a little ice to Carlito's shoulder. Carlito sucked in air through his teeth trying not to bother Samson as he helps.

"Don't worry, let it out, just don't move too much." Samson says to Carlito, while the treated friend turns his hands to fists in pain.

"What you did was really brave there, y'know." Samson added..

"Thanks. I got shot though." Carlito tries a shot at dark humor but fails and earns an eyebrow raise from Samson.

"I actually honestly thought you'd die out there. Six burly men with guns sound terrifying." Samson gives Carlito a half smile.

"I can take them down..." Carlito mumbles

"I'm actually glad you don't believe the 'every man for himself'' concept"

"I'd never."

"Promise me you'll stay with us safe and sound always, I already had my traumas in family, I can't lose you too."

"Oh ye of little faith." Carlito sighs.

Samson applies the ice to Carlito in silence for a while until he notices Carlito fall asleep.

"Well that's enough for today. Goodnight, Carlito." Samson stares at Carlito for a couple seconds and fixes his pillows,before leaving to take care of The Trio's dog, Rocket.

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