The Cells

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“FREEZE SMEG HEAD!! Smeg head why the Smeg’s.” Dante again shrugged it off.
The guard dived out of the way and began to dodge between crates while
reaching for his radio. Dante took aim and fired. “Smeg missed.” * Dante
looks at the camera and again shrug’s his shoulders*
Whoosh, fizz. Dante’s second shot was on target and not only took out the
radio but deflected off the radio and knocked the guards rifle to the floor.
“Not bad for 37 years with out practice hey?” Dante called after the guard
who now had his arms raised in defeat.
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Who: Dante.
Where: In the dark side passage of the Aeron Range room.
When: Quite late in the evening.
“Charlie, this is Dante, do you read me. Over?” Dante walked slowly up to
the guard and picked up the radio and pocketed it. “Get down on your knees.”
He growled as he muscled the Aeron into compliance. Static came back over
the nano’s in Dante’s ear. “Damn it. Where is the robot being held?" Dante
snapped at the Aeron. The captive shrugged his shoulders and looked away.
Dante raised his weapon to the guard’s head, “Where is the robot being
held?” The Aeron tried to look bold but it was obvious he was struggling.
“1………2………You have till the count of 5. ……3………4………fi…” Dante was interrupted
by a the Aeron almost exploding into tears, and muttering something about
holding cells. “Easy tiger, no need to cry.” Dante slung his weapon back
over his shoulder on to his back, again it clicked into place. He bent down
to comfort the now booing Aeron who had nearly covered the floor in tears.
“There ther…”
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Something hard hit Dante on the back of his head. Dante was just conscious
to see the now not so booing Aeron, in fact he was grinning from ear to ear.
Dante hit the floor with a muffled thud.
<A unknown amount of time later>
“OOOH Man, that hurt.” Said Dante sitting up and rubbing his head. “Charlie
this is Dante, do you read me, over?” Again all Dante could hear, as he
pulled his finger out of his head, was static. Dante stood up and began to
pace the darkened cell he could hear talking out side the door. Dante
quietly snuck up to the door and put his ear against the cold metal door.
“That droid has been nothing put trouble shouting something about ‘He’ll get
me out and he will kill you all just you wait!’ yea he’s been bloody
annoying.” The footsteps faded away till they were gone. Dante took the
chance to have a peek outside. As he looked through the small window he
could see his rifle and both pistols, plus all the stuff that had been on
his belt hung in a glass locker in front of his cell. Dante again heard the
footsteps coming down the corridor. Dante crouched behind the door again
listening intensively. They stopped right outside his door. “Where’s he
gone?”
“Okay, open it up and search the room, carefully, this guy is huge.” Dante
slipped into the corner and laid down pretending to be out cold. The lock
turned and two smallish guards walked into weapons raised. The first spotted
Dante in the corner. “Ahhh look at him sleeping, he’s not so tough.”
“Careful I reckon he could be a tricky one.”
“No way, look at him.” The first guard poked Dante with his pistol. At the
speed of light Dante had snatched the pistol, risen to his feet and had the
first guard in one arm as a human or Aeron shield. While pointing the pistol
at the second guard. “Freeze.” Shouted the guard. Dante noticed that the key
was still in the lock. He started edging his way towards the door. “I said
Freeze.” Dante switched the pistol from pointing the pistol from one guard
to the other. “Don’t let him kill me Bill. Please help me, come on mate you
know I would help you.” Sobbed the guard in Dante’s arm. Dante was now in
the doorway. He threw the first guard into Bill and slammed the door locking
it as he did so. Dante fired of two rounds into the lock on the glass door,
breaking the glass and not the lock, then retrieving his arsenal of weapons
and utilities. “Charlie here I come.” Laughed Dante as he strapped on his
belt and placed his pistols back in their holsters.
<To be continued>
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