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It was Thursday night. The day before the war. I went over to my second in command's house to discuss it. We figured we had better call the team leaders. There were four teams involved. When still in the planning stages, many were still skeptical that it would turn out, but as soon as I got the first flyer out to our team, people saw it was serious, and not just an unorganized, silly little game. This was war!
First, there was our team, The Water Militia, or the Green Team (because we would wear green armbands) and the second team, the Wraith Team, or the Black Team (because of black armbands). Two other teams were involved, an all girl team, know as the Blue Team, headed by one of our friends from down the road. The fourth and final team was headed by a guy named Steve, who thought it would be cool to be in it as well. So we had four teams.
We called up the Black Team's leader, Chris, only to find out he was backing
out!!!!!!!! (This also happened to Marauder 4) He said his
sister had to have surgery and he only had 5 people anyway, so his team
was out. As far as we knew, the other teams were still in.
I showed my second in command our newly made map from satellite images.
Then I went home.
Friday morning came, and the weather wasn't looking too good. I prayed
that the weather would be nice. It was misting, and I hoped it wouldn't
get any worse. It was a crisp 60 degrees outside. I started
to gather up equipment. I set aside a room in our house next to the
kitchen as the supply room, and that where I put the guns, clothes, etc.
Our house is two story and has a nice deck. The deck hooks up to
the kitchen. This was to be our base. My mom returned at about
1:30 p.m. with all the food for the event. I got dressed in green
clothes at 2 p.m. and sorted the first aid kit. At a little after
three, my second in command showed up with another one of the team.
Soon more and more people started coming. They unloaded their weapons
in the supply room. We passed out rank patches, and Greg asked for
a sewing kit to sew his patch on. People also brought tarps, which
were desperately need for the sides of the deck, since they were mostly
open. Throughout this whole time, it was still misting.
We tried to contact the team leaders on the phone, but to no avail. We
got our green armbands on and I told the rest of the guys that our S.I.C.
and I were heading out to meet the other team leaders at the stop sign
at the end of the street at 4:30 to start the war. Also we were to
escort the one girl on our team safely to our base once the war started.
This was our mission. I grabbed my Xp-150 and we headed out.
We made a stop by this girls
house that was on Steve's team and she said that she had stuff to do and
wasn't playing. She told us Steve's phone number, but we forgot it.
We had to jog about a half a mile down the road to get to the stop sign
in time. It was still misting heavily. We reached the stop
sign at 4:32 and took a rest. We saw a car turning the corner.
It was Steve! He stopped, said he had his team ready at his house,
and drove on. So basically we took that as war. The Team leader
of the girls team lived up the street, so we started walking back, and
if she was going down to the stop sign we would run into her on the way
back. A lady in a car stopped by us and asked about the war.
In the back of her car, we spotted a girl with a box that said Monster
on it. (She wasn't on our team) She was on the girl team (otherwise
known as the Blue Team). We talked for a minute then she drove on.
We went to the Blue Team leader's house, and her mom came out and we discussed
some things and then talked to the girl. We told her we would start
war with her at 5 p.m., but that we were all ready at war with Steve's
team.
Next we went up the road and stopped at the girl's house that was on our team. I rang her doorbell and she came out. We said, "ready?" and she said yes, so we escorted her back to our base, and filled her in on the situation.
When we got back to base, people were still getting ready, and we filled
everyone in. Some work still needed to be done to the base, so that
was a priority. Jeremy, one of our Captains, dressed in camo, went
on patrol around our house. Brian, our demolition Chief, was busy
rigging traps. Kevin and I piled logs against the hose connection
for it to be hidden. (It was on the ground and our base was on the deck,
one story up. Two men went on a recon into the forest next to my
house to spy on Steve (he lived deep in the woods). Jeremy,
Kevin, and another soldier escorted the girl back to her house because
she said she could get supplies. I wasn't to sure about it (especially
since we had so little information) so Brian and I kept an eye on them
to make sure the girl was ok. Then we headed up to her house as well
and talked to the guys that came with her. When she had the supplies
she came for, we headed back down the driveway (keep in mind it was pretty
much lightly raining this whole time) I heard a sound, and Jeremy, Kevin,
and a third soldier checked it out while Brian and I escorted the girl
back to base.
First recon team from in
the forest came back and then decided to head all the way up the street,
opposite the forest. Soon we heard back from Jeremy's group that
the girl team had 5-6 girls massing at the house of the girl on our team.
Then the girl on our team spotted someone hiding in the bushes. I
then saw them as well. They had a Monster with them. After
that sighting I never saw them again. As soon as word got back that
there were about 6 enemy soldiers nearby, a bunch of guys on our team immediately
grabbed guns and headed out. We had a scanner back at base and our
scout had a radio, because some of the supplies the girl brought back from
her house was a pair of two way radios in which one worked.
All of the sudden we heard
on the scanner, "TWO MEN." Then a few seconds later it said "WE NEED
TWO MEN!" We recognized it as the voice of our scout and immediately
sent two guys out to meet them. We head back o the scanner that he
saw them. The just a little later, again we heard, "TWO MEN!" so
we sent two more out. I wasn't quite sure what was going on, but
later both sides filled me in. The girl's team was up at the house
of the girl on our team. (about 5 houses down the road) Our Assault
squad met them started a firefight. The girls, realizing that they
were being overwhelmed, started to pull back, and were going to retreat
back to their base a few houses down, when, at the same time, our soldiers
returning from the recon were coming back down the road!!!!!!! The girls
were trapped!! When the recon team saw what was taking place, they
immediately joined in the fight and returned fire. With no way out,
the girls fought on until they were soaked!!! It was as unexpected as it
was beautiful!!!!!!
Soon the girls were completely
soaked, so they started suicide charges. Even though they were wet,
the just kept charging (I guess you have to admire their tenacity) and
back at base we saw our soldiers running back and saying "their coming!"
So then we yelled either "ATTACK!" or "ALARM!" Everybody picked up
a gun and got to their battle stations. We secured the homemade door
at the top of the deck where steps come up to it, and I manned the Water
Machine Gun. Soon, an enemy soldier came to the back of our base,
armed with an XP-110, and obviously completely soaked, but they were determined
to return the favor. A volley of water soon engulfed her, as well
as several water balloons. I started firing. She started to
come up the stairs! "Uh-oh!" I aimed right at here and just
kept firing. People soon were all around me, right in front of our
door blocking off the stairs, shooting like crazy. She came right
up the stairs but was stopped by the door and the unreal amount water being
released. It was a ferocious assault as she was being mauled by torrents
of water. She came right up to the door, but couldn't get in due
to the door and the insane amount of water being thrown at her!!!
She couldn't get in!!! I took the machine gun and put it through
the peephole I made in it and started firing it point blank at her.
It was too much for her, and she backed off!!! When she got down
to the bottom of the steps we took her prisoner. We also captured
her gun. She broke loose, and our men gave chase, but I told them
to stop, we had her gun! Wooohoooo! Our base had held!!!!!!! And
we got a gun out of it!!!! (And we kept it for the rest of the war)
The first recon team decided to go back into the forest for another try at spying on Steve.
When the Assault group came
back, I found out that the girl on our team had gone back to her house
because some immature guys on our OWN team started shooting her.
I was pretty angry about it. I called her up and apologized to her
and told her if she wanted to come back she could, but if not I would understand,
and I talked to the guy about it, that they can't do that kind of stuff.
We had a break and there was a small lull in the operations. But
it was a fine time to take a break, fill up guns, dry clothes in the dryer,
and take a look at the map. After a while we broke out the sack lunches
and MRE's and had dinner. It was still raining. The first
two man recon team with Greg and Collin was still out and had been out
for over an hour. I asked for volunteers to go on a rescue mission.
Jeremy was to head it. The got ready in about ten minutes.
I went out on the front porch, and looked to my left, and saw one of the
men in the lost recon team!!! He had come back, but we didn't know where
the other one was. Then when the rescue mission was ready to go,
we spotted the second guy coming back!!! He had been out for about
2 hours.
After everyone ate, I wanted to go on a recon. Besides, the rescue
team was all ready to go. About this time, the girl came back, which
was really cool. Before we headed out, I told my parents to take
care of her and watch the guys. Then we headed out, with Jeremy leading.
It was actually a nice walk. Yes, it was still misting. But
playing in the mist is really cool, because it's more real, more lifelike.
Real battles don't just happen on a nice sunny days, so it gave us a cool
feeling to be out there in the wetter weather. We spotted the enemy's
hideout. The house next to it is an ally of ours, so we came up through
that yard and hid in the bushes. Jeremy moved across their driveway.
This other guy and I were about to cross when someone came out of the house.
We had to remain perfectly still. He got in his truck and pulled
out of the driveway really slow. Then after he was gone, I
sent the other guy across, telling him to look in the lighted up garage
when the enemy base was. He made it across. It was my turn.
I started to move, and then someone came out of the garage, and looked
my way! I immediately dropped down. It was a good 150-180 yards away,
but I dare not move. I had with my XP-150, Ruthy. Then a car started
up and pulled out of the driveway of the enemy's house. They must
have going to get the enemy team leader (she was gone for a while to work
until 8 p.m.) so after the car had disappeared, I snuck over to where the
other two men were. We hopped the fence into the enemy's yard.
Then we had to hop another fence because we were in her horse's yard area.
Now we were next to her house. We noticed a hose, so we picked it
up. It had an on/off valve on the nozzle. Sure enough, it was
on. So if anything went wrong, that would be our back up. She
(the enemy team leader) actually worked at Jeremy's (our recon Captain
for this maneuver) farm, which was no more than 5 min away, so we had to
work fast. We quickly snuck up to the enemy's base, looked around,
and found two brand new XP-270s! We snatched them and went back around.
All of the sudden a car was coming, so we all dropped down behind a bush.
Once it was clear, we ran back to the fence, hopped it, ran to the next
fence, hopped it, and we were back in our ally's yard, we noticed a car
in the road, and it was our teams car!!! One of our guys was on patrol
in his car, along with several other soldiers around the car. Once
we saw them, we got real excited and ran straight for it. Then our
own team saw us and probably thought we were Steve's team (he still hadn't
shown up yet) and they started running! Some ran all the way back
to base, but most caught on that is was us.
When we got back to base, we held up the guns and yelled!!! It was a great
mission that was a total success. After that I stayed at base.
Two girls from the other team decided to come up to the base. They
were not armed; they just wanted to hang out, because they were pretty
much done fighting. Another girl, one of those girls' sisters, came
and helped fill water balloons.
It was starting to get dark (and still raining) One group of soldiers decided
to go look for Steve again in the forest. Here is what begins the
forest episodes. Nobody is sure what all was going on, especially
with the darkness of night and the fog rolling in. They were going
for quite a good time. They decided to play a joke and call for emergency
backup when they really didn't need it. So the two girls from the
other team came down with one other guy and went looking for them in the
forest. They were not armed, but had only flashlights. As I
later heard, the plan was to ambush them to get some excitement (you have
to understand, as of now, were the only team playing) Well, when the group
saw that they were not armed, they didn't fire, but instead made strange
noises. Then the girl with a flashlight discovered one of them, and
they came out of hiding. As far as I know, there was another group
in the forest as well. Well, one group came back and said they ran
into snipers and other unknown contacts out in the forest (big fib) and
so we put the base on alarm and I rigged up a trap at the bottom of the
stairs. Then one guy on our team decided to head out on his own in
the forest. Soon the other guys from the forest came back.
It had been a good time since the one guy had gone, and soon we sent out
a rescue team to go find him. About 10 min after they had been sent
out, the guy came back, but now we had 4 men out in the woods. Soon
they called on the radio saying that they were lost (I don't know if they
were joking or not.) they were out there a good hour. One of the
guy on our team who lived down the street got his car and shined his lights
at the entrance to the forest, and honked his horn (by now it is near 12
midnight) This went on for a good while until we saw them…coming from the
opposite way! They didn't come out of the forest, but from down the
road. Well, now that we had everybody, it was time to go inside and
settle down for the night.
Next morning, we woke up at about 8:30 a.m. My parents made us breakfast and we ate in shifts. After breakfast, we put on new or dry clothes and took a look at our base. Everything was still intact. We thought about what we were going to do today. Maybe go on more recons? Maybe split our team? Well, before any of that, we had a little something to take care of. We had a first priority mission: Get Steve! His team never showed, even though he said he had them all waiting back at his house the day before, and now it was time to pay him a little visit. This was how it was going to work: Kevin was to be the bait. He was going to knock on Steve's door and see if Steve wanted to come out and play basketball. Everybody else would be hiding at different points around Steve's house. Once he got Steve out in the open, he would give a signal for us, the rest of the guys in hiding, to converge on him and soak him, then run back to base. Kevin drew a map and everyone was assigned a location to hide at.
Steve's house is located on the next street over from our base, and is totally surrounded by forest. You have to think big here. In Virginia, the streets are easily a quarter mile away from the next one. We had quite a ways to go.
Everybody started dressing up in camo. This was going to be a stealth mission. We loaded up our weapons and as soon as everyone was ready to go, we headed out. We had with us about 7-9 guys, well armed, with 3 back on base. We walked through the field coming up to the forest, then entered the forest and took the left trail towards the next road over. Once we were almost at the next road, we stopped, and finalized the details. We would have one group circle around to come up on Steve's house to the right, and the group I was in was to take the forested area to the left. We gave the first group about ten minutes, then our group headed out. It consisted of four guys, Greg, Jeremy, one other soldier, and me. We made our way through the forest. This time there was no trail, but we were about 20 ft in the forest, going along a road. When there was a clearing, we crossed the road into another part of the forest on the other side. Now we were getting close. Jeremy and the soldier stayed near a woodpile and Greg and I kept moving slowly through the forest, around his house. We both had our Monster Xs.
As we were sneaking through, I caught a glimpse of two people standing near his garage. One was looking right at me!!!! "Hold it!" I said, and we both froze. It must have been his mom. She looked right at me for at least a solid minute, and then went on around the house. Whew! We were partially camouflaged by the forest, since we were about 30 ft. inside the woods. There was a small clearing before his house, which was his yard. It was about 30 ft. deep. Then we heard people talking. It was Kevin talking to Steve! We both spotted them and we moved ever so cautiously through the forest. All of the sudden, we caught glimpses of fast moving people in the clearing. The attack!!! We made our way straight to the clearing, battling our way through the brush, and when we got to the clearing, we froze. Everyone was just standing there talking!!!
There was a row of bushes
about 2 ft. high separating us from the clearing. Greg and I thought,
"What's going on??? Why didn't they attack?" Soon there were about
5 or 6 of our guys just standing around talking to Steve. I could
tell Greg was anxious to charge him, but I told him to wait.
We were not hidden, and people could see us. My second in command,
who was standing with the others said, "What are you guys doing?"
We didn't answer. We just crouched down there in silence. He
then called another one of our soldiers to come out. This was not
how it was supposed to go. This went on for about 2 min. We
heard some of our guys arguing, then shots were fired, and they were busy
shooting each other. Now was the perfect time to attack, with a distraction.
I said to Greg, "LET'S GO!!!!!!" and we lept to our feet and charged right
at Steve. Greg was the first to hit him, and then I hit him with
my Monster X modified with a 40+ oz. Chamber and a riotblast nozzle.
Steve was, from what I know, totally drenched, but we didn't stay long
enough to find out. Greg and I were high-tailing it outta there.
We ran back into the forest, on the trail, and found our way back to base.
I was somewhat disappointed that the rest of the team didn't follow through,
but I had the satisfaction of knowing that Greg and I got the job done.
After this we decided to
split the team up to make things interesting. It was about 6 on 6.
So we fired at each other and our group started backing off. We started
walking up the street, with the other team close behind. When we
got more up the street, We didn't see them anymore, but we spotted one
of the guys' car…he was looking for us! We hid behind a fallen tree,
but he saw us and stopped. We cautiously walked up to the car and
tried to get a few shots in when they rolled the windows down. Then
we saw the rest of the team coming down the street. We decided
to fall back across a huge yard into some bushes. They were slowly
coming up…we prepared to meet them head on. A huge water fight ensued
with everybody getting wet. I used my CPS-1200 shotgun, and it performed
quite well. Soon, the other team started to run out of water!
They started retreating. We chased them down a little ways.
We had gotten hold of a hose from the girl team leader's house (who was
now inactive in the war) and refilled our guns. I wanted to do a
quick strike while they were on the run, but they were all ready pretty
far down the street. We sent one man out. The rest of us decided
to go to the house of the girl that was on our team. We hid out there
for a while. Unknowing to us at the time, she was really defending
us and on our side, which was really cool. Then she told us, and
she let us use her hose. The enemy would send two to three man patrols
down the road to find us. One time they came, the girl went out to
meet them and distracted them quite easily. Greg would be at the
front of her house looking for anybody coming down the road. Kevin,
who was also on our side, decided to go spy on the base, which, we later
found out, was where they were staying. His mission was also to try
and get a spray nozzle for the hose. When they would sent a few men down
to find us, we would always send them back soaked.
After a while, Kevin returned,
I gave him conver, and he gave me our ewly-aquired nozzle!!! He also
said he tried to steal a huge piece of plywood from the base just to see
if he could do it, and then threw it down because they gave chase.
He went back again. More enemy troops were massing in the middle
of the street, and we went down to meet them. It turns out that the
enemy was moving there base because my mom turned the water off, so they
couldn't refill or use the Water Machine Gun! I went back to the
girls house. Some soldiers from the enemy came down. One tried
to steal the CPS-1200 shotgun, the Terminator. Another one ran around
where we were and hid behind a car. Soon, Kevin came
back up to our base, waving the Water Machine Gun! He had stolen it!!!!
That was pretty rad. Well, we heard that at 2 pm there was to be
a ceasefire for lunch.
So at 1:45 Kevin and I headed
down to the original base. We cleaned up the base area of trash and
broken water balloons. We ate lunch. More and more people arrived
to eat. We ate on the base deck, and while we were eating, one of
the guys from the original team that backed out and one of his friends
came and fired on us!!!! We immediately sent some guys after him.
They trailed him all the way back to his house where he went inside his
house and said we couldn't fight there. Then his dad came up, and
a few of our men had a talk with him, and his dad made him come out!!!
Then our team soaked him.
Around this time, we started
cleaning up. More and people began to leave. One more guy came,
and he had with him a CPS-2500. So from then on we kind of did a
base assault type thing where everybody was just getting wet and having
fun. We started to run out of water, so Jeremy and I went to the
front of the house where a water spicket was. No water. But
wait!! We snuck inside the house, and filled our guns up in the bathroom
tub. I set my Monster X on the showerhead nozzle. We
snuck to the other side of the door that opens to the base from the inside,
we opened it up and sprayed everybody!!! Then we ran! We went back
outside and caused some more trouble! Then people on base would let
us come up there and refill. We were not particularly well armed,
so I went up to refill, and I also refilled a whole bunch of guns, and
then stole them! That included the Monster X , the CPS-2500, two
XXP-275s and others! After that, we all went up to the base and just
had fun getting each other wet. One guy was getting really wet and
so he put a trash can on his head. I don't think that solved any
of his problems!!! Two girls from the all girl team were up there
too, and they were getting really wet. Soon, people's parents came,
and many had to go home, so we stopped.
We talked about what was fun and what could we do to improve it the next time. The DOMINATOR WAR was a huge success, not as much as what happened, but what happened due to what didn't happen. We were the only team out of four to play for the entire war. The only other team was the girl team, which played on Friday. I admire their courage for going up against overwhelming odds, and not to mention that most of the guys on our team were hardcore water warriors! Even though there was hardly anybody to fight, even though almost half our own team didn't show, even though is rained just about all day Friday, it didn't stop us. This war was a load of fun, and this war was definitely the start of something great. I can hardly wait for DOMINATOR WAR II, but first I'll have to go and buy some bigger guns!