Chapter 1 – Recruitment

"SalvaPot! Over here! Quickly!"

The sound of a familiar ally called across the war torn battlefield. SalvaPot looked up from his bunker to try and pinpoint the source of the voice. As soon as he lifted his head out of the bunker, a handful of shots whizzed past his head. He ducked down, his hands shaking. He didn't know this is what the war would be like.

Next to him crouched his squadmate, Zonic, who was also in a similar state of shock. Both of them knew each other in High School, and had been more or less "rivals" to each other. After High School, when SalvaPot announced he was going into the military, Zonic couldn't pass up the chance to show everyone how much better than SalvaPot he was.

Of course, neither of the duo knew what war was really like. It was a dirty, ugly hell hole. Once you got sucked into the battle, there was no way to escape, and soon the bunker madness would kick in. Sometimes, you were just out in the bunker, waiting for enemies to show up. You couldn't sleep. You couldn't eat. All you could do was wait and hope that you were able to get one of the enemies, before one of them got you.

Zonic crawled over to SalvaPot, muddy water splashing into his face as the ground was constantly rocked with explosions from far off battlegrounds.

"Who was that?!" Zonic yelled to SalvaPot over the bombing sounds.

"I don't know! I think it might have been –Horizon-, but I'm not really sure!" yelled SalvaPot.

Zonic's face drained of color. If the Sergeant Major was in this battle, then there must be some high stakes involved. Zonics hands started to shake, along with his head. He tried to keep them still, to hide his fear from SalvaPot, but he just couldn't do it. He didn't want to die out here. Not like this.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM* *SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

SalvaPot's and Zonic's vision filled with white. A dry ringing filled their ears, as they couldn't hear anything besides the horrible monotonous sound of white noise. It seemed as if their senses had failed them, and they were in shock for what to do. The duo flailed around, as they couldn't sense anything around them.

Suddenly, SalvaPot could feel the collar of his shirt being yanked upwards. His face was flushed, as his heart rate accelerated. This was it. He was in the hands of the enemies, and couldn't do anything about it. He struggled to break free, but it was no use. His captor was too strong for him.

He felt his arms being jerked behind him, almost to the breaking point. Something coarse was being wrapped around his legs, while his arms were also being tied up. He was still disoriented from whatever had hit them, so he was unable to even see or hear whatever was tying him up.

SalvaPot made one last attempt to break free, before he was struck unconscious at the hand of the enemy.

"Looks like they just grabbed two of our own, Lietenant General." said IntelliHeath while looking through his binoculars. IntelliHeath and the Lietenant General were hidden high above the action of the battlefield, deeply inside of their mountain bunker.

"If we don't do something fast, then we'll have even more prisoners we'll have to save." Heath said, a look of concern crossing his face.

Azula sighed and looked up from the giant map of the battlefield that was sprawled over a table in the room. There were multiple figures and models that adorned the map of the battlefield. Azula was currently over the GAF platoon, and as such, had to plan out and strategize the battle. Having 2 soldiers get captured wasn't part of the plan though.

Contact –Horizon- and squad's 3 & 4 on the radio, and tell them to intercept our kidnapped soldiers captors. We have to get them back. In GAF platoon, there is no man left behind!

"Right away!" said IntelliHeath as he jogged over to the radio and began barking orders to all of the squads on the battlefield. Azula frowned then crept back over the mini-battlefield. As Azula looked over the board, a piece that was larger than the others stuck out. It was that of a man with a cape and a sword.

"We're coming for you Marth. There is no way that you'll be able to escape us this time." Azula said, as the figure was slowly crushed between Azula's powerful fist.

"3…2…1… Let's Jam."

-Horizon- and the remaining soldiors of Squad 3 & 4 sprung into action. They had received orders from HQ to apprehend and save 2 soldiers who had been taken by the enemy. They had hidden themselves in the bushes, and were waiting for the enemy truck to pass them. Once it had finally passed them, -Horizon- let loose a frag grenade right underneath the vehicle.

All of the soldiers in the squads looked at –Horizon- with eyes of fear and panic.

"uhhhh… Sarge, I thought we were supposed to save our guys, not blow them up?" questioned ThisBeJason, while keeping his distance from –Horizon-.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that they'll be…" *KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*

The truck in front of the squads ignited into a fiery abyss of ignorance. All of the squadmates looked on in disbelief as they saw their own Seargent just kill two of their men.

"Hat's off everyone." Said ThisBeJason.

The scent of smoke and tears filled the roadway, as both squads took a knee in remembrance of two of their fallen comrades. Everyone looked at the smoldering truck, in terror, thinking what –Horizon- might do to them if they ever got captured.

-Horizon- rolled her eyes, and stomped over to the troops. "If everybody is done here, the truck that has our captured allies is coming around the corner!"

The soldiers all looked at her with a O_o face, and stayed still.

-Horizon- sighed again. "This was a distraction so we could sneak into the next truck and save our allies!"

The squads eyes filled with tears of joy.

"S-Sarge… This means you're not a murderer!" Shouted ThisBeJason.

ThisBeJason quickly jumped up and gave –Horizon- a running hug jump. As he barreled into her, she just sighed and stood still. The other soldiers quickly jumped up as well, cheering and whooping around. They all jumped into a giant group hug around –Horizon- who just sighed and used her hand to cover her face.

"Umm… What should we do?" said the driver of the truck who had just come across a group of enemy soldiers hugging in the middle of the road. The passenger seat soldier just shrugged and returned back to his magazine "WeekendGaf". The driver was confused. He honked once, but there was no response from the people in a group hug. He honked again, which prompted the soldiers to quickly turn around and make eye contact with him.

"I guess we lost the element of surprise" –Horizon- said glumly. She loved to surprise people. "Ah well, that's alright I guess. Everybody, CHAAAAAAAARRGGEEEEE!" The squads quickly leapt into action, promptly flattening the knocking the vehicle onto it's side.

While the others were busy knocking the vehicle over, ThisBeJason ran to the back of the truck and opened it up. Inside were 2 tied and gagged soldiers, which he recognized as Zonic and SalvaPot.

"Don't worry guys, we're gonna get you outta here!" said ThisBeJason as he hopped inside to untie them. As he started to untie Zonic, he didn't notice a menacing shadow which crept up behind him. ThisBeJason suddenly felt a warm, stabby sensation in his backside. He turned around quickly, and found that the stabbing sensation was him being stabbed!

He yelped in pain, and tried to reach to his back to pull it out. Try as he might, he couldn't reach it! It was perfectly in the middle of his back! He spotted the man who had stabbed him, and ran towards him as fast as he could. He put his head down, and rammed into his stomach at full speed.

"Ungh" said the assailant.

"AAUUGHHHHHHH" yelled ThisBeJason. He felt the stabbing sensation again, although this time the man in front of him didn't stab him. He turned around to see –Horizon-'s smiling face. She held up the knife that had been planted into his back, and quickly threw it at the enemy soldier behind him.

"Sorry I didn't give you a warning Jason" she said. "I figured that pulling a knife out of someones back was just like pulling off a bandaid, and that you're supposed to do it quickly." Jason laughed a little bit, then fell to his knees. He had lost too much blood.

"Don't worry Jason! Help is almost here! I'm gonna get you and the other two soldiers out of here in one piece!" –Horizon- said, while kneeling down next to him. The last thing Jason remembered, was the GAFicopter arriving and pulling him out of the truck. Jason, along with Zonic and SalvaPot were then placed into the body of the copter. Jason reached out for the sky, before he lost consciousness.