Chapter 21

Present – Ben – At Bob's country bunker

Something tugs at my attention and I order, "Stacy stop firing."

She stops and now there's very little firing at all going on - and most of it is from us. What the hell are the fuckers doing now? I call Bob on the radio, "Bob, I don't know why but they've stopped firing at us."

Bob questions, "I hope they aren't regrouping?"

I begin to scan the area with the rifle scope and notice for the first time that trucks are rolling past the road leading into the compound. Shit! The bastard banditos aren't after just us, they are after Texas! I order, "Bob, I think this is an all-out attack on Texas and my guess is we've put up a big enough fight they're going to ignore us for now."

Bob asks, "So what are we going to do?"

I reply, "Well, I think I'm going to see if I can't get their attention."

He questions, "Do you think that's wise?"

I answer, "Hell yes! If we end up behind enemy lines they can take their time to kill us."

I wait until I see another big assed moving truck then I put a couple of rounds into the engine and it stops (yeah, that's the great thing about the .338 Lapua - it's good for anti-personnel and anti-material). Then I begin firing into the back of the truck and this time it works just as I hoped...

Present – Major "MadDog" Murdock

We make our video pass, climb and head to the south when I look at the damn road and call, "Mother Hen this is Tango Uniform we have an issue..."

Mother Hen replies, "Tango Uniform report."

I reply, "Sir there are more vehicles headed into Texas all the time and some are beginning to disperse on the side roads. It looks like they are after more than Bob's Country Bunker. I would say this is another invasion of Texas."

Mother Hen orders, "Tango Uniform, get back here with the video ASAP."

We do a quick 180, head back along the road while making sure we film everything. As we get close to Bob's Country Bunker, there's a huge fucking explosion that shoots debris into the air. I call my wingman for confirmation, "T, I would say we've just been fired on."

He agrees, "Yes Sir."

I call Mother Hen, "Sir we have just received fire from the ground and request authorization to return fire."

Mother Hen replies, "Negative on that, you need to get back here with the video."

I reluctantly reply, "Yes Mother Hen." But then all hell breaks loose.

Present – Ben – At Bob's country bunker

Yeah, I blew the hell out of the moving truck, and it was massive! The trees were flattened for a couple hundred yards around the area, it blew I don't know how many banditos to hell, blocked the road with a shitload of crap and shook the hell out of the tower. But the biggest thing was that it got the banditos attention and we were back at war with them.

Stacy began firing the fifty again while I looked for targets of interest. Then something shocked the hell out of me!

Present – Stacy – At Bob's country bunker

Well, Ben blew up a truck and that got the banditos pissed at us again and they attacked. So I began firing the fifty again. I had seen the girls in the bikinis shooting some sort of bombs at the banditos with a big slingshot and it looked like a lot of fun. But then I had a more important job, and I really liked this big machine gun.

I was doing a great job when...

Present – Major "MadDog" Murdock

My threat assessment console lit up and I swore, "Mother Hen, don't you have anyone watching for bogeys?" Then I ordered my wingman, "Evasive maneuvers."

Mother Hen replied, "Sorry, they must have been below radar. You have permission to go weapons free."

Yeah we had four hostile aircraft on our six. We broke for the ground, started a tight turn and buzzed the hell out of the tower at Bob's Country Bunker. Then we climbed to see if we could shake these four bogeys.

Mother Hen announced, "Tango Uniform, be advised we are scrambling aircraft to assist."

Present – Ben – At Bob's country bunker

The damn aircraft buzzed us so close it shook the tower and knocked us to the ground. Right on their asses were four ... shit, four aircraft from the Mexican air force! I yelled, "Stacy try to shoot down the four aircraft following the leading two!"

She swung the fifty around fired a long burst and remarkably one of the Mexican aircraft began to smoke. How the hell did she do that? Sometimes she amazes me...

Present – Stacy – At Bob's country bunker

Ben wants those aircraft shot down - that's what I'm going to do. I figured it was like shooting skeet: You needed to lead the aircraft. Plus they were headed away from us which made the shot easier and since every ten rounds or so is a tracer round, I can see where I'm firing. At first I'm behind the airplanes, then I adjust a bit, and that plus some of Ben's luck and I actually hit one of the aircraft! It begins to smoke, turns and heads toward the south.