The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 38

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The Guardians - Season 1 - Episode 38

Lucas heard the phone ring
and he picked it up;
“You’d better have good news
for me right now”

The voice was a little bit
hesitant to talk and Lucas felt
fear rise inside him and with
that, anger and disgust.

“Talk to me Dimmit”
“Sir, someone just fired at the
helicopter sent to get the
Nigerians and it went up in
smokes”

Lucas felt the world stop and
his blood for the thousandth
time that night grew colder
than ice. His face went white
and he could have sworn that
his heart stopped beating for
some seconds. As much as he
wanted the president, he did
not want her dead mostly
because she was his escape
ticket and holding her could
help persuade the Nigerians
from bombing him but if she
died, things would get really
crazy as they will just attack
out of revenge and not a
motive to save her.

He spoke back into the radio;
“Was the Nigerian president
in the helicopter before it
exploded? And who fired on
the helicopter in the first
place?”

“We don’t know who fired,
we just know it went up in
smokes and the explosion
was heavy. But whether the
president is alive is something
we cannot answer. We just
know that the helicopter was
on the ground for a while. We
suspect that she was on
board before it was blown.

But one thing we are sure of
is that at least one of the
guards is alive because we
heard some gunshots from
where they are.”

“Okay. Send in a team and see
if she is alive and when I
mean a team, go through any
bodies you find so you can be
very sure. Is that clear?” Lucas
said.


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Michael found himself lost in
the smoke around him and he
could feel some get into his
lungs. The smoke was not as
thick as it was and he could
begin to see just his front as
first and then it increased. He
moved in thedirection of the
screaming and he walked
steadily towards it. He saw a
figure sat down and still
screaming. He lowered his
rifle and walked towards the
person who appeared tobe a
woman. He heard her screams
turned into slow sobs and
Michael Stretched his hand
and said;

“Madam President, it is going
to be alright, I am going to get
you out of here”

The figure raised her head
and Michael saw that it was
not the President but her aide.

Herdress was covered in
sooth and her face was
blackened by smoke. Michael
thought of leaving her but he
could not bring himself to
leave her go so he told her;
“Take my hand; it is not really
good to be out here in this
smoke. Let’s move you
somewhere where the air is a
little bit fresher”

She stretched her hand and
he took it and held her up
strongly as he walked slowly
backtowards the clear air and
where he left Dare. On getting
closer he saw figures sitting
downwhile two stood above
them. He walked closer and
saw Izu, IBK and Shade with
the President while John and
Dare stood watching over
them with guns drawn. He
stepped closer to find that Izu
had pointed his gun towards
him and he said;
“Stand down soldier, I am a
friendly. Madam President, are
you okay?”

The president nodded and he
said;

“I thought it will be cool if you
had your aide with you right
now” as the aide walked
towards her and they hugged.

Michael looked at his team
and knew they were the only
ones who survived. He said;
“First of all, Shade, where are
we on communications? I
noticed that those are down
so get working on that. John, I
can bet those Tetuans are not
going to wait around for
much longer so how do we
get out of here, IBK, you are in
charge of ammunition
inventory now, I want a
report of how many guns
were have left and Izu, you
get to be thepresident’s
primary guard let’s get this
done fast. I would not like to
be visiting a Tetuan cell which
will be where we will end if
we arenot careful and Dare,
keep watch.”

They all got to work as Izu,
told Michael what he guessed
had happened.

As they were about getting
the President on board with
Shade and IBK on both sides
of her, Izu had the aide beside
him and then suddenly they
heard a shout telling them to
get back amidst the gunshots
and they walked back as the
helicopter rose a little intothe
sky, they saw three guards
run towards them and the
helicopter pulled back and the
RPG rammed into it and it
exploded and fell back into
the three Two DSS and one
DMI agents running towards
it.

Michael felt sad for the loss
but he knew they had to move
on and he called out;

“John, what are you saying?”
“We could go through the
street around the corner and
hope they are not really
patrolled. If we pass through,
we can go through the
backyards ofthe houses along
them and hope to cross
thelines behind us to the
camp or we can keep going
and see if we can get a truck
to take us far out and we can
get a phone from there”
Michael looked and saw IBK
holding some rifles.