Azotus IX... Ex-Collosean Prime Minister and Ex-Collosean Heritage Party (CHP) leader. Seven years ago, his rule came to an end after the bloody Second Collosean Civil War, when the rebel forces routed the Collosean Armed Forces (CAF) in the national capitol of Titania. Azotus IX and most CHP members in leader positions were arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned without a trial. The prison they were sent to is the Ionian Detention Center, located in the Ionian Jungle in Boetia Provence.
It was 10:00pm, the guards were doing their usual routine of going through all of the cells, ensuring every last prisoner was accounted for. "Smoking kills, you know..." Azotus IX smirked as one of the prison guards walked by.
"So does my pistol. Get back in your cot." The guard only looked long enough to make sure he was there. Azotus IX complied willing, knowing that it would only be a matter of time before he was out of this hell hole.
Recently after Osafune III was elected, nearly 500,000 Paramilitary soldiers were pushed into federal service as Army, Navy, and Air Force servicemen. Before this, the Army had contained under 90,000 soldiers and the Navy and Air Force was in even worse shape. The Boetian Paramilitary was in charge of the Ionian Detention Center, and after this move by the Prime Minister, the average number of guards on the complex dropped by over half.
The prison cells were just were barred like in older prisons. Slowly but surely Kapodistrias V, one of the stronger inmates, had been working the bolts out of his cage door. It has taken nearly a week and he his fingers had become a tender, cut-up pulp in the process, but he was finally near to getting the last one off of there. The whole thing was a miracle. When asked about his bloody fingers, Kapodistrias V had basically said cut them when he fell during recreation and later reopened the wounds. Amazingly, the guards believed him. What was even more amazing though, was that they hadn't noticed the missing bolts on the cell door yet.
"Come on, Kapo!" whispered one of the other inmates. They were all on the edge of their cots in anticipation.
"Got it!" The bolt came off, and Kapodistrias V gently laid the door down so that nobody could here it.
They all knew that the guard on their ward always slacked off at night. He would often go into the office where the cell keys are kept and dozes. Kapodistrias V sneaked his way from his cell to that office and sure enough, the guard was fast asleep. Kapodistrias V slowly nudged the door open, making sure not to wake the bastard. There were many screens in the room showing all of the security camera feed . His own cell was on the 2nd screen from the left, and he just couldn't figure out how he was spotted removing the bolts before... You could see in all of the cells as plain as day. We lucked out getting a guard like this he thought. The guard was sleeping in a wooden chair facing the screens with his head cocked to the right. His silenced pistol was laying on top of the desk in front of him on a cloth. He must have been cleaning it when he dozed off. It sure was a god damned miracle; everything was going better than planned.
Kapodistrias V picked the pistol up slowly and checked it for ammo... It was fully loaded. He turned with it, put it right next to the guard's temple, and fired. He fell out of his seat with a thud and Kapodistrias V was now free to move around the office as he pleased to get all the cell keys.
With all of the cells opened, it was time to move on to the other five wards. All five were handled in the same manner; Kapodistrias V would wander around, a competent guard would come down, scold him, and prepare to escort him to his cell and Kapo would pull out his pistol, shoot, loot the body for his gun and ammo, and then proceed to the office to get the ward's keys. After hardly any time at all, all of the prisoners were freed.
"Amazing job their Kapo, I know I made you my Deputy for a reason!" exclaimed Azotus IX.
"Thank you, but we're not out of the woods yet you know."
And he knew... The hardest part has yet to come. Paramilitary soldiers patrolled around the complex constantly and they would have to avoid the machine guns in the watch towers. Thankfully for the prisoners, there was an armory in the complex that housed the rifles and ammo used by the Paramilitary.
"It's pretty muggy out tonight, isn't it?" Private Nafplion I turned to his patroll partner. "Yo, you awake over there buddy?"
"Shut up, you see that?" he said and pointed off at a window in Ward A.
Nafplion I followed his finger. "I don't see any--" Bullets started raining down on them from the window before he could finish the sentence. "Holy shit!"
The two fired up in the air. They knew that the fire had to be coming from their fellow soldiers, but the fire never let up. Nafplion I's partner fell on his back with a bullet hole in his chest. "Dammit, come on Corfu!"
Nafplion I picked up his fellow soldier and began to make a run for saftey, but then he too was hit in the back as he was running.
After hearing the shots, spotlights immediately came on all across the complex and soldiers began running to where they were heard. The first soldiers to arrive were taken by surprise by the prisoners and were also shot and laid lifeless on the ground now. Fire was exchanged by other soldiers who were in route and saw what took place.
Ward A was behind other buildings on the complex, so the machine gunners were unable to give support. While all of the attention was focused on that ward, prisoners snuck up on one of the Watch towers and caught the soldiers there off guard. They manned the machine gun and opened fire on another tower, also killing the soldiers there. Two of the towers were out of commission, two more were left. Those two opened up on the one taken by the prisoners. Again while their attention was elsewhere, other prisoners snuck up and took control of those towers.
The remaining soldiers were now at the prisoners' mercy. Most had been gunned down and stripped of their equipment as the prisoners made their escape into the Ionian Jungle.
