Quint - The Longest Day

    I would like to start off by stating when, where, who, what, and why. It was the day before our 8th grade graduation. I was bored and very hot, so I went into town and rounded up a couple of friends. I will call them Hooper, Brody, and Vaughn. We decided that we were either going to get wet or get someone wet. Hooper and I went to a Family Dollar and bought 50 Birthday balloons to use as water balloons (This turns out to be important, beleive it or not!) I had my CPS 1200, Hooper had a XP 220, Brody had a XXP 275, and Vaughn had a CPS 2500 that had been glued to the 10x setting and leaked. I had been planning a water fight for a while and was ready to go.

     We set out for the cross country course, a 1 arce area very close to my house. Imagine it as a square divided into a rectangle on top and two squares on the bottom, with a thin rectangle on the right side. We played mostly in the rectangle ont the side (I will call it the war zone). It had a muddy creek bed running through it and was only about 60 feet wide and 400 feet long. The top was north and the bottom south. The was a house at southern end of the area, where Jake and Kasey were sitting on there house step with there girlfriends. Jake and Kasey were very popular, even though they were jerks. Our mission was to soak them.

     In the War Zone, we split into 2 man teams, while keeping in contact with our 2 way FRS radios (I strongly reccommened buying some, they are great for water fights.)Brody and I went along the right side, moving south in some high praire grass. Hooper and Vaughn were moving through the trees slowly, really wanting to attack. While this was going on, more people were arriving at the house. Bob, Chad and Adam all showed up. Once we were all about 30 feet away, we were spotted. We did not attack, as we hadn't brought any balloons with us and were far out of range. Everyone froze, and then I saw something that really messed us up. "Hooper" I crackled over the radio. "Jakes got a BB gun" "RUN!" Jake's only shot went clear us us, hitting a branch above our heads.

      Now we retreated, and actually continued this pattern of nearly attacking and running like rabbits three more times. However, the group was fed up. We ditched our guns in some high grass on the north side of the course, and walked one and a half miles along the eastern perimeter to the road. Once on the road we circled around back to my house. We stopped for drinks (Kool-Aid and 7-Up, not REAL drinks) and filled up 25 balloons. Each person took six, and we headed out.

      We had now been at this for 2 hours, and all of us agreed to a suicide run. We entered the course, hid some backup balloons, and made for their fence. There was a woodpile behind the fench which we hid behind. They were STILL sitting on the back steps when Jake noticed us. "HEY!" he yelled as he ran up to the fence. He wasn't thinking too much and was soaked by Vaughn point blank by a 10x blast. Now they were mad. Kasey kept aiming with the BB gun, although he never shot at us. It was a real threat at the time though. Hooper ran sideways and lauched two balloons at the girls, which hit them hard on the shoulders and didn't bust, leaving them with huge bruses. Oops. Jake was throwing handfulls of rocks at us, and we popped up and down, all the while shooting at him. Kasey was hit with a balloon, and then we started flat out, go for broke with the balloons. The girls were hit, Kasey and Jake were all wet in the pants, and we were hot and sweaty and dry. Walking back home after retreating, it seemed to me that our first water raid of the summer went well.

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