Basque : Liberation
Chapter 21; Trojan Horse.

The acoustic guitar passages make the audience silently listen to the melow song that Melody will sing from the Pension stage.

...[.I have been asleep for a long time...

...On the other hand, the chasm is disappointed...

...Crying destiny...

...Sorry for this life]...

"Mel, you sing it. Your new song." Baskara murmured in the heart. Listen to it from somewhere waiting for time to come out.

...[.I never thought...

...Present someone like you...

...Everything is as destined...

...I admire your charm]...

Spotlights on stage dimmed focused to one corner of a person who sings while strumming a guitar. He was wearing a black shirt and makeup, with a mic stand in front of him.

...[.I want to stay with you...

...Being beside you...

...Even if I have to get hurt...

...Hugging you thorny...

...Don't turn away...

...You just need to breathe...

...I'll do it for you...

...I make you happy]...

The audience is lulled by the music that Melody plays as well as the sound and lyrics all combine to hypnotize everyone who hears it.

...[.I make you happy.]...

[*Note: The lyrics of the song listed are original works by the author.]

Melody stopped. All eyes were on him who managed to lure through his appearance.

Silent.

"Haikal is overwhelmed at the gate. Start your errands, Mel. We're using a backup plan. Lying about them using the detonator." The voice in Melody's ear.

"Hmmm.." Melody tests mic sounds. "Okey everything, just go straight. Watch what the cave will be sampein."

On the side of the stage several members of the organization started whispering. Realizing something that the one who sang just now was a friend of the demon who triggered the war, Baskara.

"Under the stage was a low-explosive bomb mounted at four points." Melody began to explain. "If it explodes, being able to knock the stage to the front side befalls all of you. Potentially making a fire also an explosion again."

The audience whispered to each other worried.

"The explosion you heard at the beginning was the beginning." Melody took out a box-shaped device with a timer. "The detonator's in the cave's hands." Melody. "Gua give me two minutes to disbarin' towards the gate to get out."

Time counts back two minutes.

The audience, namely students from first to third grade who have tickets running around in a mess in all directions trigger them to lead to the park in front of the gate to secure themselves.

Wijaya planned this to make the situation go awry using it as a diversion. However, the reality is not that easy until he has to do a lot of improvisation.

After seeing some members of the organization eyeing him from the side of the stage. So the melody burned a firecracker that let out a lot of smoke, throwing it around. Until he was covered in colorful smoke looking for an escape route.

"Woy don't run away!" Said a chasing committee.

Wijaya could not possibly put up a bomb because the Pension stage was kept tightly guarded by the committee, so he lied about the bomb to make a fuss to disrupt the formation of the organization while wanting to bring down the shadow troops.

Melody descended the side of the stage into bait. He managed to lure some people after him.

After hearing the detonation warning Melody uttered. So the members of the organization in the building A, B, C down make sure to bulldoze the intruder who managed to go up to the stage Pension.

Keni was panting towards Rengga on the third floor of D building. "We're down with the boss? He said there'd be an explosion on stage!"

"Bool!"

"Huh?"

"It was just a bluff." Said Rengga. "Reverse to your position!"

Keni looked at the astonishment. "No explosion, boss?"

"Is the cave face looking like a joke?"

***

The school gate was locked by a padlock that Pras only held. Members of the organization led by him were pushed back until they slipped into the sliding fence at the school gate.

Members standing guard at buildings A, B, and C had gathered at the school grounds to arrest Pension spectators who were forcing their way out of the school.

BLAM! THE SRAKK!

Haikal bulldozed all the enemies in front of him. The hundred men He brought many who had fallen, The members of the organization were clearly stronger because they had been trained to do something like this.

"Hold dyed! Don't let the pager be broken!" Pras Seru while beating.

BLAM!

The situation is getting worse. One hundred rebel forces against forty trained members of the organization took heavy casualties on the side of the rebel forces but managed to push the crowd close to the gate.

"Pette keeps getting to the pager! We can do it!" Haikal's cries burned the spirit of not losing.

***

Mata Wijaya noticed the monitor screen. "Lu can get out now, Bas. No one is guarding building B. You can cover the outer side of the building D's lobby."

"Whoaith my friend." Reply Baskara.

"Come, Bas!" Alvin

Then they came out from behind the rice box of the catering car. Alvin's eyes wailed to make sure, his hands directing that the state is safe and ready to lead the building D. They were wearing black masked clothes.

"All the shadow troops have entered into the enemy's defense. Time to do your last job." The voice in the ear of a catering car driver.

"Ready, Dan."

***

Flashback in the midst of the war.

At night, everyone has a song in their heart. Many of Melody's works are done at night. Singing at night is much cooler than in the sun. Calmer, quieter, like an animal at night. That's how it works. With the night view, the trigger makes magical tones that are able to amaze the listener.

Melody shook her head when she couldn't understand why she was so longing for Baskara. For him, Basakara is a guy who can make him calm. All the bitter memories seemed to be lost when they were nearby. And time was envious until it passed faster than usual.

Write again after picking the guitar slowly, thinking for a moment how much he loves his acoustic guitar. Although empty and hollow, it was able to fill his heart. A place to vent his emotions into a work to be heard by his dream boy, Baskara Mahendra.

***

Nowow.

BRAKK!

Melody swung her wooden guitar into the face of the delinquent who was blocking her way.

Time seems to slow down.

"It's all for you, Bas. I'll help you get justice here." Mumbled again.

The strings had been cut off, and the wood chips were bouncing off. He did so without hesitation, destroying his father's guitar, which had accompanied him when he was quiet. Throwing him towards a man who was heading towards him as he went down the stage stairs Melody ran towards building C opposite to building B where Baskara and Alvin were infiltrating.

He deliberately drifted away, distracting. Running fast and occasionally turning to make sure they keep chasing him also keep a distance to stay safe.

***

"There's a bomb! It's two minutes past." Tapping someone at the school.

"We were fooled!" Reply to another.

"Secure stage, we can continue the event." Firmly one member of the organization calms down.

"Yes really. Let's go back to the field."

Some onlookers cheered out in annoyance at the lies about the bomb warning.

No more crowds crammed in front of the school gates. They slowly walked back to the field that was still filled with colorful smoke smelling high.

***

"Jay. It's been a few minutes but the cave can't afford a jebolin pager." Haikal pressed the earbus button in his ear while speaking.

"Where's the condition there?"

"Half the cave team fell. Pras is trained for this situation. The cave needs a little more time."

"Navigator, Kal. Pull your troops back to the side as if blushing."

"I mean you?"

"Grad monitor!" Vijaya lugas. "We're using 'troya horse'."

"Every cave knows."

Haikal stepped back to take a position. Observing the situation from a distance. Ten strong-bodied men still stood firmly in front of the school fence, while his troops continued to try to break through.

"BACK OFF!!!" Haikal's yell of lying diverts. "WE REDHEAD! ALL BACK OFF."

"Huh? We've come this far." Tear a soldier. "We're backing out?"

"WE HAVE LOST! ALL BACK DOWN OR YOU DIE HERE!" Haikal again.

Some of his troops followed his orders. Dismissed approaching him towards the side of the gate. But some are still held back by heavy-bodied forces.

TIN TIN TIN TIN!

"RETURN!!!" Haikal again did not give up warning.

The infiltrating catering car had approached the school gate from the inner side.

TIN TIN TIN TIN!!!!

Some of the spectators left at the school grounds were in disarray seeing the catering car speeding towards the school gate.

Pras looked back. "Fuck!" Throw a little swearing and then drop to the side. Trying hard to avoid the crazy driver who ran himself towards him.

BRAKK!! THE SRAKKK!!!

The black rusted iron fence that became the protector of the collapsed school gate was hit by a catering car, slightly dragged until the car stopped by itself.

The driver also rolled over the kernet at the park, having dropped himself before the car hit the school gate.

Members of a burly organization fell into the rubble of an iron fence that was bounced due to being hit by a car. Then, the smoke started coming out of the hood of the car.

Haikal's eyes turned towards the school gate. Waiting for the view behind the smoke of the car. Ensure the path is open as planned. Waiting for the car to explode or not.

"Lu tell us to back off because there's gonna be that, boss?" Ask a curious.

"Yes. It's part of the plan." Haikal answered briefly. "Thank you for believing in caves."

The faces of the surviving rebel forces were mesmerized by their commander's card game.

Pras woke up wiping the dust on his arm. His eyes looked around observing the situation around him. Feeling stifling, when inhaling the stifling aroma of smoke. A sign that, He was defeated by bad circumstances that He could not prevent alone. Almost all of his guards were lying in front of him.

"It's enough time. The car's not gonna explode." Haikal is sure. "We broke in."

"Grad monitor!" Call Wijaya again.

"Right, the situation is as planned."

"Bring in the school! Ignore Pras if you can. Melody's in danger." Wijaya's orders are straightforward through earbuds.

Pras stood looking towards Haikal. His arms were firmly grasped, indicating he was going to get serious now.

"It can't be, Jay." For a moment Haikal's eyes were glared at Pras. "Gua will singkirin Pras first. Then it goes there."

Meanwhile Pras reached into his pants pocket. Grabbing his hape held by hand. Waiting for someone to receive their phone.

BLAM BLAM BRAK!

Several rebel forces ran towards Pras. With ease Pras bulldozed also slammed rough everything while walking slowly towards Haikal.

"They're not kidding, Han. We misjudged them. Please help the cave secure the school." Without waiting for Hansel to answer, Pras closed his phone. Throwing hapenya in any direction. His eyes were now focused forward.

"This fight is gonna be serious, Jay. Gua can't follow your orders temporarily." So Haikal's hand removed the earbuds from his ear, also threw it in any direction, to solve the problem in front of his eyes.

"Kal's.. Haikal's.." Wijaya shouted at earbuds but was no longer heard.

Haikal gritted his fingers. Also stretched his neck muscles.

"The cave's gonna start serious from here." Pras said intimidatingly.

An astonishing start. Both sides started to seriously play their cards.

***