A/n Hello everyone! Got the second chapter ready to roll! This one just took a couple sentences to finish. This is as far as I had written on the laptop before I lost it. Hope you enjoy! -Haven
"Ugh…" I groaned as I pulled myself up out the water I had fallen into. I shook off the clinging vines and a headache that had fallen across me and pulled on my visor. I quickly scanned the area to see if there were any signs of Ceph nearby my location. Thankfully my radar did not pick out any Ceph signatures in my general area. After a moment of trying to remember how I got there I suddenly remembered what had happened earlier…
"Move move move!" shouted one of the CELL troops as they rushed past me at the Ceph ship that had just landed nearby the building I was in. I quickly ducked out of sight so that the CELL troops would not notice me. Thankfully it looked like they were to busy with the ship to look in the building. The reason I was hiding was that I had heard rumors that CELL was starting to cleanse anyone near Ceph landing sites. By killing them. I started to rush across the street from behind the building I had been hiding in. But when I rushed out I was spotted by one of the troopers in my rush across the street. One of them shouted, "WE GOT A RUNNER! BLAST 'IM!" But before they could fire on me a blast from a cannon on the Ceph ship knocked the CELL troops away. I was frozen solid in fear the cannon fired again and blasted the street in front of me. I let out a yelp of surprise as the street beneath me fell away and I fell into the hole. I hit the ground hard and blacked out with the sound of gunfire slowly dying out as I fell into blackness….
After remembering where I was I looked around to see if any CELL troops were alive in the tunnels nearby. I noticed one almost immediately. That is, I noticed the barrel of his rife against the back of my head. He yelled, "Don't move! Identify yourself!" I told him, "Easy there. My name is Carson Williams, I'm a cop." I hear a chuckle behind me and the soldier replies, "Sure, and I'm the president of the united states. All of the cops and military besides CELL were killed in the first attacks." I laughed and said, "Really? Is THAT what they told you?" I heard a annoyed muttering from behind me but the rifle was removed from my head and the soldier said, "Turn around slowly, no sudden moves." I sighed and obliged. As I turned around I finally got to see the one holding me up. He was a medium height trooper wearing the basic CELL body armor and helmet. He was also holding a SCARAB assault rifle. He was wearing a helmet so I couldn't see his face but I could imagine him looking me over. After a moment he said, "Well you sure don't look like a looter or a rebel. You can relax. But I'm still not believing that you're a cop." I rolled my eyes but lowered my hands. I suddenly heard some clanking noises from further down the tunnel so I hush-yelled, "Get down! Somethings coming!" He ducked behind a crashed car and I ducked behind a concrete divider that had fallen into the tunnel from the explosion earlier. After a couple moments there was a growl further forward down the tunnel. I quietly pulled out my revolver and tried to get the soldier's attention hissing, "Psst! Over here!" He turned to look at me and I pantomimed for him to count to three then hop up with me and lay down fire down the tunnel is the noises were from an enemy. He nodded, held up three fingers, then started to close them one by one. And as the third finger curled we both hopped up pointing our guns down the passageway. As we did so there was a screeching noise as a small hail of laser-fire zoomed over-head and I frantically ducked my head and hoped the trooper had done the same. After a moment of gunfire I noticed the trooper had been hit straight between his eyes. I looked down at the ground muttering, "Rest in peace kid..." I peeked around and it looked clear so I rushed over to the other side and pulled his assault rifle from his hands and gently pushed his body out of the way so I could take up his position. I tried to think of a way out of this mess. After a moment I realized the sounds were fading. The Ceph must have not noticed me...Hopefully that was the truth. But in any case I had to get back out to the surface. So I turned and heading into the tunnels, hoping to find a way out...
