Through These Eyes
Prologue: A Change of Life
"On my count, we're gonna' break the hell out of that place, torch it, free the P.O.Ws, and get the hell out, got it?"
"Got it Karen!"
Four years had passed since that day came…..
Four years had passed since Jack left the island……
Four years, we've been on various assaults and ambushes on those damn buggers….
"ATTACK!"
Four years…….wishing it would end…..
(Flashback)
It was the early morning of Summer 10th, 1940. As usual, Rick and I are hangin' out by the bench not far from the super market, talking about stuffs and about farm boy and how he's doing. Well, it all seemed to be an ordinary day, really…..until it turned out into something unordinary.
(Booms of Propeller planes)
That day, was the day we lost most of our friends….including my mother….
"What the hell's that?"
"Look at the insignia! Germans! What are they up to?"
"I don't know! Run for your lives!" The whole town panicked. Ann and her father, Doug, rush to the inn and slam the door. Mary and her family came rushing to both of us asking what the hells going on; Gray is with them, confused about the situation. Duke and Manna is just out of the park when they saw the Para-drop planes. The mayor is running around in circles trying to figure out what to do….and how to do it. Mom and Dad came out of the market….with a shitty look on their face. The photographer (I don't know his name, and I don't care) is with the mayor.
"COME HERE EVERYONE! HURRY!" We turn our head towards the figure waving his/her hand. It was the pastor and a few other harvest sprites. By the time we move towards the Pastor, we could already heard guys speaking in German, gunfires, and screams of those who're too late to reach us.
"ACHTUNG! Der ausbruch! Kommen!" One of the Germans located us, and is trying to call his friends. Just before he fires his gun, a gunshot came and killed him
"I better go to confession again after all this…." Kai was behind the Pastor, with a Colt M1911A1 in his hand
"C'mon! Get inside the church, into the confession box, and search for the switch that leads to a trap door! You'll be safe there! Go!" We ran under cover fire from Kai as one by one, we entered the church.
"UKH!"
"SASHA!"
"MOTHER!" My father and I turn our heads towards mother, who's struggling to get herself up after the fall.
"Go! I'll be fine!"
(Gunfire)
It all happened in a flash. Mother's expression quickly change as she fell down, streaming with blood. Behind, three Germans were smiling with their guns ready
"Got herr…"
"NOOO!" Tears starts running down my cheeks as I watch my mother killed right in my eyes
"ACHTUNG! DER FRAULEIN AUSBRECHEN!"
(Gunfire)
"What are you doing standing there? Get inside, hurry! I'm almost out of ammo!" I turn around and saw Kai fires his pistol again and again, scattering the krauts ahead of me to cover as my father and I head inside the church. I turn my head towards Rose Square and saw Ann and Jack running towards the beach. And I could see a few other German falschirmjagger is trailing behind them. As we enter the tunnel system, I know that I should swallow my sadness, and change my life.
"I knew this would happen….Thank God you guys are alright…." The pastor is the first one to speak as we gather in the oil lamp lit tunnel, in one of the rooms. I keep my head down, looking towards the soil as tears still running down my cheeks. Rick is there beside me, comforting me.
"Karen….you're alright?" I kept myself silence
"Father….is this tunnel finished?"
"No not yet, my daughter. Why?" Pastor Carter answers me who am still looking facing the dirt
"Let's get this tunnel finish as fast as possible…..and make hell out of their lives from underneath…"
"Karen….you're okay?" Rick
"No…….but I'm not dead."
This is my life….
My vengeance…
I'm Karen…..
The Leader of the Resistance Fighters of Mineral Island…..
This is my story….
