Untoten Kreuzung: Aftermath
Chapter 1
This is the right file, woo. By the way I got my internet back...well at least for this month anyhow, but that's okay, I'm just glad to be back.
Darkness. It was all that they saw and all that seemed to encompass them. The nausea of teleportation was rife about them, but the main concern was where they were now.
"Where are we?" Nikolai grumbled. The question they all wanted the answer to.
"Does anyone else feel like they can't move?" Dempsey asked feeling like he was restrained by some invisible force.
"Yes, I do. Are we paralyzed?" Takeo questioned in the darkness.
"Are we dead?" Nikolai added.
"I really hope not." Dempsey replied.
"Richtofen where did we end up?" Nikolai asked, but he got no answer from the German.
"Hey, Richtofen," he called and again with no answer, "maybe he's unconscious?"
"Oh, I do not think we are paralyzed." Takeo suggested.
"What do you mean Tak?" Dempsey asked.
A bright flash of light burned their eyes and they averted their gazes from the ceiling lights that seemed to spontaneously appear out of thin air. After adjusting to the lights they saw themselves strapped in chairs and looking around they saw no sign of Richtofen or Rune.
"What the hell is this?!" Dempsey questioned struggling with his bindings.
"It's called restraints, American, you should remember zhem vell." Richtofen's voice reminded from behind them.
Dempsey craned his neck to see the Nazi doctor who'd at this point been their captor.
"You son of a bitch, let us go!" he yelled.
"I'm afraid I can't do zhat. It's up to my superiors vhether to let you go or not." Richtofen responded.
"Superiors? What are you talking about?" Dempsey interrogated further.
"You three are being held in a secure facility in Siberia. Ze date is August 10th, 1939." He informed promptly.
"Wait….Siberia…why is that so familiar?" Dempsey asked himself.
"You've all been here before, und in zhis same room too." Richtofen answered. Dempsey's eyes widened as his late memory returned and all the experiences he'd faced when he was taken captive the first time by Richtofen came flooding back.
"You bastard! You brought all of this on us! What did you do to Rune?!" he screamed.
"Rune is safe vithin a separate holding cell." Richtofen answered calmly. A voice came over a speaker and ordered something in German.
"What was that?" Dempsey questioned.
"They've made a decision. I vill be back vith mein orders on how to handle you three. If I vere you I vould pray zhat zhey don't plan to kill you." Richtofen replied leaving the room through a bolt lock door.
The three sat in the restraining chairs and took in their chances. Their memories had been jogged and they now remembered this place and why they were here. They'd been the attempts of Group 935's super soldier project and they had previously had their minds wiped by 115. With their memories returned their hatred grew for Richtofen who'd also been the one to perform the experiment on them.
"If I live through this, I'll tear him a new one." Dempsey threatened.
"If, that's the key word." Takeo mentioned.
"Oh well, I least I die with vodka in my stomach." Nikolai commented. Whatever their fate was they would have to face it with courage whether it was death or not.
The bolt lock came undone from the other side of the door and it came open. Richtofen stepped through the doorway, and left the door open with his hands behind him.
"You've been given ze chance to live." He relayed. The three looked at him in surprise of what he'd just said.
"Zhere are very strict conditions though. If ve are to let you return to your homes, you must stay zhere." Richtofen furthered.
"You can't expect me to stay put at home, not with a war on its way." Dempsey warned.
"Ve can and ve vill, if you so much as leave ze country vithout our group's supervision you vill be shot und killed by ze German army or any able 935 member. Secondly, ve vill have to erase your memories again."
"Again, how do you expect us to remember to stay put if you do that?" Nikolai questioned.
"It vill be a controlled mind erase, now zhat ve've found out how much 115 it takes ve'll be conducting it as soon as you agree to ze terms I've just spoken to you."
The three shifted in their chairs and looked at each other. It was a choice between living a life of voluntary imprisonment, or facing certain death.
"I will accept these terms. My country will be part of the Axis anyway." Takeo came forward. Richtofen nodded and from behind him he pulled out a knife to cut his bonds.
Once freed Takeo rubbed his wrists and stood waiting for what was next.
"Ze rest of you, vhat is your choice?" Richtofen asked. Nikolai and Dempsey were quite, but Nikolai hung his head and sighed.
"I will agree." The Russian complied. Richtofen also freed him of his rope bonds.
The other two watched Dempsey as the defiance in his eyes was clear as day and he glared at the German who had the ability to take his life with a single word. It was a long mental stand-off between them; each stared at the other in the hopes of breaking their spirits. Richtofen had the upper hand, for he had nothing to fear from Dempsey if he was to try and fight still held by the ropes. The marine closed his eyes and turned away from Richtofen.
"Fine." He uttered in a dark tone. The German raised his eyebrows in surprise and cut him loose making sure to back off once Dempsey was free. Richtofen turned to the door, sheathing the knife and placing his hands behind him again.
"Follow me, I'll be taking you to get your memories erased." He ordered.
The three followed him down several corridors and past many more doors, some of which screams were emitting from. The room that they were taken to was bigger than the room they were in before and in the middle of it was a large contraption. It was like something out of a sci-fi movie involving alien technology, as indeed it probably was. There were seven head pieces all in indents around the machine.
"Take your places, und let's get zhis over vith." Richtofen ushered supervising them in case they tried to run. They took a place in the machine and other scientists from the other side of the room came and adjusted the head pieces onto them as well as restraints. After that Richtofen made his way towards the control panel and grasped the lever to activate the machine.
"Ready, Doctor Richtofen." One of the scientists informed.
He nodded, but before pulling the lever he took a last look at the men he'd fought with side by side against hordes of endless undead. He knew that he would someday meet them again, but he didn't know when.
"Auf Wiedersehen, mein komerades." He said before pulling the lever and starting their session of painful mind erasing.
Electricity crackled and the whirring of the machine played over the screams of agony from the three. After the horrendous ten minute process the machine stopped almost spontaneously and their screams stopped as well. They were unconscious and would be for the next three hours while their brains rebooted.
"Orders from ze top, zhese three are to be sent back to zheir homes. Erase all of zheir files in ze facility, und in ze database. Zhey vere never hier, und zhey vere never apart of zhis, get to it." Richtofen relayed to the scientists in the room before leaving himself.