nestar | Somewhere Not Over the Rainbow

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Wyatt was right, a storm had come. In the space of ten minutes the sky had gone black, so Wyatt left the table to close up the barn.

“There's a light in here.”

Wyatt dropped into a crouch. Who the hell was in the barn?

“I don't see anyone, maybe they just forgot to shut it off.”

Wyatt peered around the corner of the supply closet door and felt his blood run cold – Longcoats!

Quietly, he took a shovel off the rack. These bastards wouldn't be taking him again.

One of the 'coats had already left the barn, so Wyatt had no trouble dealing with the one pocketing things off the work bench.

As he ran towards the house Wyatt got the shock of his life. The Roberts were on the porch roof and it looked like there was a group of Longcoats after them. Before he could take a step, Wyatt saw Emily push D.G. off the roof and into the swirling cloud. Hank put an arm around Emily's waist and then they too were gone. Wyatt stood frozen; no, not D.G., not again. An idea sprang into his head and he slipped back into the barn.

Wyatt's luck held as he reached the other side of the storm. Once the squad leader saw D.G., Hank and Emily jump into the storm, he had ordered everyone to get back as fast as they could. By the time Wyatt had changed clothes with the unconscious Longcoat in the barn most of the men had gone. Wyatt slipped through and quickly looked around for a hint of where he was.

Hearing shouts and weeping, Wyatt ran to discover a group of 'coats leveling a Guild village.

“You there!” Wyatt turned to face the man yelling at him and saluted smartly. “Prisoner march.”

“Yes, sir!” Wyatt said and hustled over to the line of Munchkins who had been roped together.

As they neared the castle, Wyatt began to plan. He would need to slip away before anyone asked him a question about his background. The first prisoners were being untied and sent into the main holding cell; now was his chance to hang to the back and make his way through the yard.

“Every man here, on to a transport. NOW!”

There was a rush as men jumped to their feet and quickly formed up by a line of trucks.

Maybe Wyatt's luck wasn't so good.

“Did you hear? Lonot's dead.”

Wyatt tried not to look too interested at the news.

“No shit!” the man next to him called out. “How did he go?” asked another from the back of the truck.

“Pissed off the Sorceress one to many times is how I heard it.” the man who made the announcement answered. “So now Zero's in command.”

“No wonder we're freezing our asses off.” someone replied “Zero would do anything the Witch said.”

“I hear that when she fucks him, he's the bitch.” A round of bawdy laughing broke out.

It had all gone to hell once Wyatt was inside the Northern Palace.

The order had been for the men in Wyatt's transport to wait in the main hall while Zero took his team to the upper levels. Five minutes later there was yelling and shooting. The next thing Wyatt knew D.G. was running past him, but before he could get to her a flock of Mobats grabbed her. Wyatt moved towards the door, hoping that he might get to her, but the commander from the truck stopped him.

“There's one more of this band missing. You five stay here and find him.” The commander tossed a set of keys to Wyatt “Get back to base ASAP.”

“Yes sir!” Wyatt and the others saluted.

Wyatt was happy to discover that the other men were big fans of doing as little work as they could. “This is the only way out, unless he's gonna dive out a window and into the ice.” So they set up by the door and waited.

It was about two hours later that Wyatt saw a shadow moving among the pillars. He quietly stood up and moved away from the group, circling around to where he had seen the shadow.

A dark-haired man was crouched next to a pillar when Wyatt found him. “Don't make a sound.” Wyatt said as he pushed his gun into the man's back. The man stiffened. “I'm a friend of D.G.'s.” Wyatt lowered his gun “The name's Wyatt.”

“Glitch.” came the whispered replied.

“Glad to meet you, Glitch.” Wyatt held out his hand. “Now let's see what we can do about getting to D.G.”