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A Year in a New World

It was cold, and dark. Right now that was the least of my worries, because not 3 hours ago my squad was ambushed. Ambushed! How do you get ambushed as a Special Forces Operative. It happened so fast; there was a rustling in the bushes and then gunfire, almost instantly after that I was slammed to the ground from behind and knocked out by the butt of someone's rifle. I had no idea where I was when I woke up. I heard a metal door creak open followed by a deep voice commanding a few people to ready. The voice seemed somewhat electronic, like there was a voice filter or something making it sound abnormal.

"Take him out of the cell, power up the reactor! I want everyone on standby in 15 minutes for the test!"

After that I heard the sound of metal sliding on metal. I was hoping it was the door opening, ready to jump at whoever this idiot was who thinks they can capture a Spec-Ops Operative. My hopes where fulfilled, but not in the way I had hoped. The door opened slowly, while screeching the entire way. When it finally finished opening my eyes adjusted to the blinding light. I was too weak to move, and forced to stare at a coward with a black ski mask and forest camouflage suit on, standard military issued outfit; except the ski mask of course.

"Not one to talk face-to-face are ya?" I asked in a dry 'smart ass' tone. I could definitely tell I was dehydrated and under nourished. They must have kept in this cell long enough for me to become weak. What I asked was only responded by a slap in the face from the stock of an AK-47. I was knocked out, again, but before that happened I analyzed the enemy I was facing. Sure, I have seen militia groups with AK-47's all the time but the ones these men where carrying had all sorts of attachments. Laser sight, flash light, holographic sight, even an under barrel grenade launcher. It was all the same attachments my gun had which only made me all the more suspicious and curious

I was woken in a white room about 10 feet wide and 15 feet long. One end had a semi-circle glass 'observation like' area on one end with a door in the middle, and a some circular mechanism about 8 feet tall, with all sorts of fancy gears and covered with what looked like metal plating but painted white. Everything was white, the floor, the walls, the roof, and the strange circular mechanism in front of me

"Good, he's awake!" I heard the deep voice again as the door opened and the man with the ski-mask came walking tore wards me as I lay on my side on the white paneled floor.

"Wake up Alex Regner, It's time to make history." He said in a calm, playful tone.

So many things going through my mind: Who was he? Where was I? What was this 'experiment'? What does it have to do with me? My thoughts were cut off by a sharp loud command.

"GET UP!" he screamed while kicking me hard in the ribs, which made my heart race. I forced my body to stand a very weak stance while still leaning against the wall.

"What do you want from me?" I tried to yell, but it only came out as a soft dry whisper. Being dehydrated really wasn't helping me negotiate anything. He still heard me and responded with the most obvious answer.

"To listen to my command!" he said in the loudest whisper he could possibly give into my ear.

"Start up the portal, he's going in 5 minutes!" he commanded back to the people behind the glass.

Portal? I thought to myself.

"What in the world are you going to do to me?" I asked in the most commanding voice I could give with a dehydrated body, trying not to show any of the fear and distress I was having at the time.

"Your going to be a test subject for my time travel device" he whispered into my ear while grabbing the back of my neck tight.

"Any specific time range sir?" Someone asked from behind the glass pulling and pushing all kinds of levers and buttons to start the portal. Which I now realized was the circular mechanism at the end of the room, which began to spin faster, and faster, and faster as it formed an aurora of all sorts of colors in the middle.

"Randomize to anytime that won't consume too much power from the generators" He called back in his playful tone from earlier. "As much as you probably won't believe me I don't want to kill you… yet. I plan to see if you can survive a year back in time. Therefore you will have your weapons, after you go through of course." he said squeezing the back of my neck harder and kicking me in the back of my leg, forcing me to kneel in front of the many flowing colors forming a circle that did indeed, look like a portal. I knew by now this guy was a lunatic, thinking that anyone can time travel was ridiculous, ludicrous. But only one question came to mind though.

"Why?" I asked, not trying to be too loud fearing being kicked again. Unfortunately he heard me, and pulled my head back violently so my eyes could meet his evil brown eyes.

"What better way to win wars than with weapons from the future! But the future takes so much energy to travel to, according my calculations. So we are going to test time travel to the past, which takes significantly less energy. If you come back alive, maybe we will let you go. If you bring something back satisfying enough to prove you where indeed in that time period. If not we kill you on the spot when you come back. But you will have your rifle and side arm with you, so don't worry about surviving too much. Bring me that evidence!"

"All set and waiting for entry commander!" The man behind the glass yelled excitedly.

"You ready Alex? You are going to make history. Too bad nobody will believe you, but you can at least know it for yourself… If you come out alive." He finished his statement and I was ready to be kicked into who knows what, but then a few more seconds past before he said "And don't worry about causing a space-time continuum by exposing yourself, because the fact that we are here in the future, means whatever is about to happen has already happened, so have fun! Just don't get yourself killed!" and with that, he kicked me into the portal and everything seemed to slow down.

My body from head to toe was slowly engulfed with tension. Now I definitely couldn't move. All I saw was white, pure white, and not matter how much I squeezed my eyelids shut all I could was pure white blinding me. It lasted a good 5 seconds before I saw black again. I knew my eyes where still shut but I didn't want to open them, because I felt the sensation of falling. Wind whipped past the side of my head, but it was only about half a second in the air before I landed on my right arm then involuntarily rolled over a few times.

I breathed in air, tasted dirt, smelled the dirt, and heard birds, but I didn't want to open my eyes to see where I was. I was alive, that was a start. I then heard the sound of metal clattering around behind me. I knew it was my trusty M4 Carbine rifle and P226 handgun. I have recognized that sound from the many times I have heard other people drop there weapons… dead. I lay there not moving, slowly feeling every muscle in my body come back to me. I immediately noticed I wasn't dehydrated, my mouth wasn't dry anymore, and I did indeed have my strength, kind of. Fear of the unknown is a terrible thing, and as much as I didn't want to, I opened my eyes and couldn't believe what I saw, I couldn't believe that everything looked normal. I was inside of a crater like hole in the ground surrounded by rock on all sides. There was a lake in the middle and a large tree with roots sprawled out all over the rocks on the side behind me.

I picked up my weapons and proceeded to explore the crater. I found the place strangely familiar, and I had no idea why. Maybe It was some natural wonder somebody showed me pictures of. Anyway, I walked around with much greater success than before I went through the portal. It must have rejuvenated me some how. I found a patch of charred dirt that was burnt to crisp in an oval shape, and still hot in some spots. I also found a small burnt out camp fire. With a half eaten, over cooked fish on a sharp stick. I didn't want to touch it, I had no idea who else had touched it before, and because of my new strength I didn't have to.

I heard a flapping sound that was getting closer, and closer. So I hid behind a rock using a shadow as my ally. Even though I still only had my forest camouflage suit, I only hoped I could stay hidden. I cocked my rifle and aimed, scanning the area for anything moving that was not the leaves on the trees. With a rock in front of me and the natural stone wall behind me I was able to focus on a foreword position with ease. Out of the sky fell a large black reptile of some kind, with scales, wings, a long tail, and a saddle, in which a boy was on. The boy was thin and tall with medium long brown hair. He was wearing some interesting clothing making me start to believe the time travel actually worked, He then hopped off the creature and lay back against a rock, taking a deep relaxing breath.

"It's nice to get away from everyone once in a while, don't you think so Toothless?" The boy said. Despite the strange name the creature did indeed have teeth as he growled over tore wards my position. I knew I had been spotted by this creatures superior senses. I had to reveal myself before this creature makes me. I slowly walked out from behind the rock pointing my gun at the creatures head using the holographic reticule in the center of the sight. The creature growled louder unfolding its massive wings halfway, ready to jump. I then ordered the boy to give me some answers.

"Who are you!" I asked looking at the boy and continuing my aim on the black creature.

"I think I should be asking that, what are you holding anyway?" the boy asked in a much calmer tone, noticeably confused and scared at the same time.

"Answer my question first and I'll tell you!" I shouted back, I now realized I was at least in a time where guns weren't invented.

"I'm Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third" he replied. I cocked one eyebrow thinking he was crazy.

"No, really, what's your name" I asked again hoping to get a real answer this time.

"That is my name." He told me.

"Seriously, I don't have time for this nonsense!" I yelled at him wanting the truth, I didn't plan on spending my whole day trying to find out a kids real name.

"My name is Hiccup and this is my dragon toothless." He replied, I didn't believe him. Even if the time travel worked it was ridiculous to think that a dragon existed.

"Prove it!" I yelled back. Not expecting him to actually do it by having Toothless shoot a blue plasma bolt over my head. I easily dodged it by ducking but was surprised by how he wasn't lying this entire time. That's when it hit me. I've seen this kid before in the theater with my daughter before.

"If I back down, will Toothless here not attack me anymore?" I asked.

"If you explain to me what that metal stick in your hand is-" I cut him off

"It's called a gun and it's not a threat to anyone I don't point it at!" I yelled back, anxious for an answer of approval, I just wanted to survive right now, and kill the jerk that put me into this world for his science experiment.

"Well, then stop pointing it at Toothless and he will relax, right Toothless?" Hiccup said, followed by a loud hiss from Toothless. I wasn't going to abandon my weapon no matter how much

"Toothless doesn't like strange people with weapons" Hiccup told me.

"I noticed" I said in a sarcastic tone while pointing my gun away from Toothless' head. Toothless calmed down and now turned around to go to the bed of charred dirt I examined earlier, he re-heated it with a stream of blue fire and laid down on it, guarding Hiccup. It was weird to rely on a kid to control his pet so it wouldn't eat me. Even if it did try to eat me, I had no idea how effective my bullets would be to it.

"So what's your name?" He asked me

"Alex Regner." I replied in a much calmer tone.

To be continued…


Thank you to Splicedcritic for helping me make Alex an authentic soldier.

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