User blog:Tesla Man/WikiLost - E12 - Exodus

Welcome back to WikiLost everyone! I'm really excided for this episode, mainly because I planned this episode out even before I planned out the very first episode, so it's great to finally get to it. If you want to read this episode but not be entirely confused by what's going on, I suggest checking out my recap page, It has summarys of each episode leading up to this one, so you don't have to read 11 long stories. So, for those of you who are caught up, let's get to it!

Month 3

Lucidus left, ending his tenth visit to the camp. In total he killed two people during his visits, and hurt enough tents. The camp was in ruins after two months of the Four Star visits, people were starving, and half of the camp was on the hunting team and fishing team, the other half worked on collecting fresh water. Jason had awoken two weeks ago, his paralysis didn’t settle well with him. His legs had shut down from extensive nerve damage form the gun shot. He was wheelchair bound, the origins of the chair was never told to him, but ‘It’s from the plane’ was enough for him though.

Captain had tried to start a project of paving the roads with thousands of pebbles from the shore to make chair travel easier for Jason, but there was nobody to help, the need for food stopped progress on it.

Jason looked towards the levee in the bay, ten people were out with nets fishing, five more pulling in a net of fish. Eight people were out hunting, and the other twenty were working on water or too young or old to work. Negative approached him. He had gotten used to the fact that there was an enemy on his side, originally he wasn’t, but now he was okay with it.

“Captain’s holding a camp meeting in an hour at the campfire before it starts raining, you might want to hear what he has to say.”

Jason nodded and wheeled himself away, following the smooth path that Captain and Nick had made for him before trying to fill it with pebbles. Jason was very limited in his travels. He could only go from his tent, to the injury tent, to the campfire. Nick wanted to expand his range by adding more to the pathway, but he was constantly on hunting duty, so the opportunity never came up.

After an hour of sitting in his tent writing a journal, Lexi knocked on a support pole in his tent to let him know the meeting was starting. Jason rolled himself backwards, turned, then rolled out to the campfire. The whole community was gathered, Captain had made sure of it.

“It has been two months” Jari started “since we have been ravaged on a weekly basis. Our food is taken from us, two of our own people” He pointed at the cemetery a few hundred yards away “And the dignity of our women, because they want to keep us grounded here. Ladies and Gentlemen of the camp, over the past two months, our friend and ally Negative has provided guns for us, and a plan. 10 miles away there is a camp which is run by a small group of scientists from Community. We need to leave this place as soon as we possibly can and head there, I know some of you will be afraid, that if they know where we have gone they’ll surely kill us, but if I can train you, if WE can train you,” He lifted a hand to Negative “There’s not a force in the world that kill us.”

“We need to leave overnight, we have torches ready, and so those of you who wish to come with us, please come to the front.” Negative lit her torch in the bonfire.

About twelve people stood, followed by 6 more, making a company of 18 individuals.

“Okay.” The captain looked at the 12 to 15 people still sitting. “Grab only what you need.”

Barry stood up and walked over to the Captain. “And what about us? What about those that want to stay? Are we supposed to deal with Four Stars on our own? Are we supposed to feed their entire army for them? What do we say when they ask us where you all went?”

“That’s up to you my friend.” Captain looked back at the camp one more time. “You’re the leader, that’s your call.”

Barry looked back at Jason who was at the back of the crowd.

Captain began walking, followed by the group, and Barry ran up and grabbed his shoulder. “Fuck you mate. You leave us here to die, and you turn your back on us like that?” Barry’s eyes filled with tears. “I thought you were looking out for us brother.”

“I am.” Captain looked caringly into Barry’s eyes.

“Then what the bloody hell are you doing here?”

“I’m looking out for those that are willing to take a chance.” Barry looked at the people staying behind in the camp. Jason, Barry, Lexi, Ashley, Nick, and others. Nick stood up and grabbed his backpack and walked over to the group.

“You’re asking us to take this on faith, then I’ll trust that God has a plan for this group.” Nick looked at Barry. “And a plan for you to.”

Barry had tears rolling down his face and he backed up and sat down on a log and put his head in his hands.

“Captain Vaan Der Laan?” Jason spoke up, the first words he mentioned in the entire night.

The Captain looked up at Jason.

“You take care of these people, they are good people.” He scanned his eyes through the crowd. “Do not fail them. You are a wonderful leader. You keep them alive and Mr. McInnes here will provide these people with the same courtesy.” Jason rolled his wheelchair over to Captain. “Godspeed Captain.” He ended with a casual salute.

“At ease.” Captain smirked, a twinkle in his eye showed true emotion and sadness beyond what he was used to.

“Alright, we need to get there before midnight! Grab the crate and let’s get a move on!” Negative shouted, and the men in the back lifted a plastic crate full of weapons.

Captain led the trek. The sun reflected off of his short scraggly beard and the stands of white hair above his ears under the edge of his captain’s hat. His uniform was dirty but straight, and he lifted his torched and began the walk along the beach. The new camp was ten miles away, but he knew once he got there, the old camp, Barry, Jason, and the rest, would always be closer than that.