Guards
The guards looked at Woodrow, then at each other, surprised by the young boys offer of Whiskey to them. Most of them felt like this was a way to try and seem all friendly and inviting, though, so they weren't sure they should trust it. Well, they trusted the Whiskey itself, but should they really get all comfortable with the people that had come into their base unexpected like this? The leader may have been fine with it, but some of the guards weren't. A couple of the men looked tempted to take Woodrow up on his offer, but most of them stayed their ground, keeping their weapons pointed towards the group, to make sure they didn't do anything. None of them said anything, except brief whispers to each other.
Electra
Electra followed Josh to wherever it was he was taking her, very alert. She was still armed, so if he attempted anything, she could defend herself. She wasn't entirely sure what she was doing, wandering off with him alone, but he wanted her to follow and she wanted to follow him, as well. Probably because she preferred the idea of getting mad at him alone than getting mad at him around all of his men, and her own group. She felt like that could possibly end badly somehow. His men get jumpy, and shoot her thinking she was going to hurt him. If she acted threatening to him alone, it would likely go better than being surrounded by the others. She didn't want to erupt it into some big fight between her group and his group because both sides possibly got antsy and started shooting at each other.
As soon as Josh slowed to a stop outside of one of the buildings, where there were two guards outside of it giving Josh a nod as he approached, Electra started pressuring him for answers. "Where is my sister?" She asked, looking determined. Why she asked where her sister was, and not her entire family, who knows. But she didn't care how stupid it may be to ask as the first thing before Josh was even able to talk to her about stuff, she wanted to know, despite the fact she didn't really expect a real answer. All he did was scoff and chuckle in response to her asking him questions like that already.
"Where the hell is my sister?" Electra asked him more sternly this time, looking angry at him because she had this feeling that it was definitely him that had taken her sister. That he had probably kidnapped her. Maybe the rest of her family, too. As bad as it sounded, that was what she hoped for. It made it much more likely that they could all be alive still, over them just being killed from the get go during the attack.
"I'm sorry to inform you Electra, but she got killed about a week ago. You're a bit too late. I'm sorry. I'm sure you've been waiting to find her alive for a long time now, but you were too slow" Josh said, and he started to smirk, making Electra clench her fists and want to punch Josh in the face. Repeatedly. "She became too emotionally damaged to be of any use to us anymore. She was completely broken inside. You could tell that she was only really partly here anymore, and it made her no longer useful as our little slave. But she was quite useful while she lasted. Running around doing our bidding, and being the sexual relief for the men when they needed it. We all loved her. It's a shame, really" He smirked even more as he explained things further, seeing very well that Electra believed every word of it.
Unsurprisingly, it made Electra pissed. She looked really angry, and clenched her fists even tighter. Without even thinking it over properly, and how stupid of an idea it was, especially in front of the guards, she whipped out her sword and charged at Josh, wanting to stab him repeatedly until he dropped dead. But Josh wasn't entirely stupid, having expected her to lash out at him for his comments. She was rather predictable. Easily angered teenage girl. He had known she could be easily angered since before they had attacked her home, having known her before then when they had been scouting the place and pretending to be nice. And now she seemed to be even more so, so he was using that as a way to piss her off and make her useless to fighting him, or any of them. And it worked. He grabbed her arm with the blade, keeping it away from himself, and as she tried to punch him with the other, he grabbed her other arm. The guards nearby became on edge, but Josh gave them a nod to show them that he had it under control. But even though he had a hold of her now, he needed to make her drop the blade, because she wasn't about ready to just give it up, struggling against his superior strength. He took a firm grip of her arm, and bashed her fingers into the nearby buildings side, which was made of rather strong, rough materials. As hard as she still tried to hold onto it, she only lasted through him bashing her fingers against the rough material 2 times before she let go of her sword, it clanking to the ground. You could tell from the pained look in her eyes while he was bashing her fingers that it definitely hurt her, and now that they were open and bleeding, the air stung against the wounds. But she did her best to ignore the pain, anyway.
"Nice try" Josh said, yanking her arms around, shoving her against the wall, and putting her into an arm lock. "But you're so predictable. You get angry, and lash out. Too easy. I was hoping you would be better than that after 2 years" He said, shaking his head lightly, despite the fact she was being pushed against a wall and couldn't see him. "But I guess anger gets the best of everyone sometimes" He said, roughly pulling her away from the wall, then pushing her forwards, while still holding her, towards where the guards were and into the rather empty building. Electra actually seemed to be a little scared now. Where the hell was he taking her, and what the hell was he going to do to her? She shuddered. The thought of another attempted rape 3 days after her last, or worse, an actual rape, made her scared, but she tried to keep her senses straight so she could get out of it if that was in fact the case. She didn't even try to squirm free, knowing it was a waste of energy. She just walked along with him until they were a ways into the building, away from the front door.
Once they had got to a certain point, she stopped suddenly, which made him shove her in annoyance at her trying to play games with him, but before he could really do much beyond that, in the bit of a break she made herself, she kicked him in the kneecap, effectively making him let go of her. Now that her arms were free, she looked a bit relieved, but she knew this wasn't quite over yet. She smashed him in the face and then followed that with a kick into his stomach, making him fall over. She quickly pulled out her dagger and got down over him so he couldn't try and move away from her, and now he was the one with the scared look, while she had a sadistic, vengeful look on her face.
With Josh pinned down, attempting to get up but being stuck enough, she stabbed the dagger into his hand, making him cry out in pain, but apparently they were far enough away from the front door now that the guards didn't hear a thing. "That's for attacking my home" She growled, following those words by stabbing his other hand. "That's for separating my family" She growled again, and yet again followed that by stabbing him somewhere else, this time into his arm. "That's for killing my sister! And probably my parents, too!" She shouted in anger. This time, she stabbed him in the stomach. He was already in excruciating pain, and trying to break free so he could cover his wound to make the air blow on it less, and to stop the bleeding, but it was hopeless, and he was starting to slowly bleed out. Especially after she stabbed him into the stomach. But he was still alive. "That's for using and raping my sister!" She shouted, twisting the blade around to make the pain worse. He was pretty much frozen in shock and pain to do anything worthwhile, or reply to anything she was saying, but she didn't care. This time, she followed her twisting of her blade with stabbing him repeatedly in the stomach, about 5 times, making blood splatter onto herself beyond just getting all over her hands. At this point, he was pretty much dead, but that didn't stop her from stabbing him 10 more times in the chest, guaranteeing his death.
When she came back to more of her senses, she looked a little horrified at what she had done, and quickly jumped up to her feet, looking down at the body with multiple holes seeping blood out of them, all done by her. She was certainly glad that he was dead, completely fed up with the asshole and knowing the world was a better place without him, but that didn't change the fact that she was still in a bit of shock at what she had done. It also changed the events of today, and she had this bad feeling things were about to get uglier because of this. She had killed the leader of these people, in their own base. That wasn't exactly something that was going to go over well with the others.
She gave one last look at Josh, lying there in his own blood, before heading towards the door and formulating a plan on her way to deal with the two guards watching the door, who hadn't heard a single thing. Like she had hoped, she managed to get far enough away from them to be out of earshot before she attacked him. Now she just hoped she could take on the guards, without them shooting off a single gun to bring attention her way. She decided that the quick and abrupt approach would probably be the most likely one to end well for her.
Taking a deep breath, she gripped her dagger tightly and burst through the front door. One of the guards turned her way, expecting that the leader was coming back out after he was done with whatever it was he was doing, despite it being rather quick. But before he could realize that something was off, and the leader was nowhere to be seen, he found a blade slashing across his throat, making him choke to death on his own blood, unable to say any words and falling to the ground. Before the man even managed to finish falling to the ground, she moved onto the other guard, who was very alert that something was off now by the noises going on next to him. He shouted something, but not loud enough for anybody else to hear except Electra, and pointed a gun at her. But it was too late for him to actually accomplish anything, and Electra grabbed the gun firmly, keeping his finger off of the trigger so he couldn't attempt to shoot at her or alert anybody else, and eventually managed to yank the gun free from his hands. As soon as he was disarmed, he looked a little freaked out, and Electra bashed his head rather hard with the end of the gun, knocking him out onto the ground. For good measure, she hit him a couple more times, not caring if it killed him or not. She glanced at the two people that she had defeated, then put the gun into safety and dropped it down onto the guys head, following that with walking off without a second glance at the people she defeated. Quickly though, she hurried up her pace to a running speed, to get back to her group and tell them that there was a change of plan due to things not quite going how she wanted them to.
"We have to leave. Now" Electra said quietly to the first person that she approached, which was Drake. Though, she looked nervous and antsy enough about something to alert the others, and spoke loud enough for them to somewhat hear her. The guards, while alert, didn't seem to immediately notice anything wrong about the fact that Electra kinda just came back without Josh. And was covered in blood. "There has been a change in plans" She told him, looking over at the guards nervously. Drake could probably guess that something had definitely not gone the way it probably should have by seeing that she was covered in blood, and it didn't look like she had any major enough injuries for it to be her own. The only real injuries she had other than maybe some minor ones was her bleeding knuckles on one of her hands.
Guards: After Electra Got Back
"Hey! What are you doing?" One of the men who was keeping watch of the rest of the group while Electra wandered off with the leader said. He said that to Electra, despite the fact there was nothing really specific and noteworthy that she was doing, other than talking to the others hurriedly. The reason he asked that question was because of her wandering back alone, covered in blood, because she couldn't exactly just hide that and expect to get out of here without them noticing. And she knew that, but she figured there weren't many options for her to do at this point.
"Where is Josh?" He asked her, and Electra wasn't sure how exactly to respond without escalating things. But saying nothing would escalate things, as well. "He gave me no other choice but to kill him after our conversation went sour" She told him, on edge, ready to strike out if something happened. She figured the honest, truthful approach would be the best bet at this moment. Things were likely to get ugly, no matter what she said, so she figured she'd give herself some satisfaction by telling them that she had killed their leader.
And as she feared, things were in fact about to escalate. The guy who had asked her what happened first, in response to her saying that she had killed their leader, was pissed, and wanted to get revenge for their leader by killing this stupid girl that had come into their home with friends and had caused so many problems already. So in his anger, he whipped out his revolver like he was in a western movie, but that was a mistake on his part, because Electra was prepared and was the faster one to draw her weapon, quickly pulling out her own handgun and shooting the guy in the stomach, then in the chest, killing him instantly. This of course set off another chain of events with the other people watching them, and the others in Electra's group. Another one of the men, for seemingly no reason at all, drew his weapon and fired a shot in Cathal's direction, instead of Electra, who was the one who drew her weapon first on this side of the shootout. The man quickly regretted that decision when he got shot in the head by Electra when she caught a glimpse of him shooting at Cathal, but she hadn't been quick enough, because the shot had already been fired from his weapon...
Liliana
Liliana let out a gasp when she heard the gunshots go off, and not distant, far away ones, either, but gunshots going off right inside the military base. She really hoped it wasn't her sister now, because she was fearful that she had just been executed on the spot. Though the shooting didn't really sound like an execution shooting, because the shots being fired came off as pretty sporadic. She bit her lip, having the distinct feeling that she probably wanted to get out of here even quicker now than before.
"That doesn't sound good..." Liliana said, and she went and grabbed what appeared to be a frying pan inside their area. She went up to one of the windows and peaked out of it, and saw a few of the other lingering men wandering off in the direction of the gunshots. But the guard standing at the front door remained where he was, deciding that he should stay because a close off encounter like this was a perfect time for all the slaves to attempt an escape if he wandered off. If things were unsteady inside the whole place, things could get ugly. He had a feeling it was the fault of the stupid newcomers, and he still wondered why they were let inside in the first place.
"We can try and make a break soon. It looks like they're all getting distracted, except the man in the front..." Liliana said. "But not yet, just soon" She added.
Colin
Colin listened to the story that Mr. Cowden told to him about where he and his daughters used to be, and how the two of them that he apparently ended up hanging around with he barely knew, and got two daughters from them. He realized that he had a point, and maybe being practical strangers wasn't such a big deal in this society anymore like it may have been back in the day. Not that it was entirely a big deal back in the day, either, but he felt that it might be even less so now. Things were different. People were different. It changed the entire culture of the world again, and he was beginning to think that he should just accept that and stop living in old world ideals of what was considered to be "normal", or the right way to do things always. He needed something different in his life. Maybe something...good. Just a change from the normal loneliness he has gone through lately, and this could be it. Even when he patted his gun he didn't seem unnerved by it, understanding completely, and nodding his head. "You're right. You're completely right" Was all he said in response to everything he had just said about his little story.
Colin nodded his head slowly to what Mr. Cowden said about how him leaving would complicate things, but his nod seemed to be a bit grim, like part of him really didn't want to leave. A bit strange or not, these people were the first to really show him any sort of kindness in a while, and he couldn't help but appreciate that. And having people to stay with he knew could be good for him right now, to help him keep his sanity which he knew he might slowly lose over time being alone for so long. He listened to what Mr. Cowden said next about helping him and reasons why it would be good for them to, and he almost disregarded his help at first before he carried on further, but by the time he was done, he fell silent for a bit before being able to form a response to what he said.
"Yeah, okay, you guys can help me..." Colin said after a bit, admitting that he could probably use some help with this if he had any hope of getting his family back. "Whatever it is you need compensation for, I will do my best to try and help you with whatever it is" He said to the part where he said he wasn't a foolish man, and that there would need to be compensation for this. "If you need help with something in return, I'll help you. You guys at least deserve that for offering to help me" He said sincerely.
