Everything is dark. Everything is silent. Yet I can feel my own being. I can feel the cool morning air and the warm sunlight. I can feel that now I'm sitting. And I can feel pain at the back of my head. I slowly open my eyes, at first everything is blurry, but I slowly regain my full sight back. I found myself locked in a cage or something. "What the... Where am I?", it's the first words coming out my mouth after I pass out. When I look to my sides, I see several other peoples. They didn't seems to be from my place though. They only wears black leggings with no top, a helmet with skull mask, and badly made gloves. They look at me oddly, maybe because I still wear the gas mask. I ignore them and I try to find where my weapons and gears at. And in front of me, is a crate, and on top of it, is my weapons and my gears. Two Tarkatans comes and checking at my stuffs, and one of them take the StG-90 I recently get as a reward, he checks at it like a baby gets a new toy. "Hey, don't touch my stuffs", I try to alert them, because they seems don't know anything about my guns, and I'm sure I haven't put the safety on. Those Tarkatans just looked at me like they didn't give a damn, and they just keep looking and touching all of my stuffs upon that crate. Suddenly, a voice tells them to go away, although I didn't understand the language, but I know this voice, this is the voice of the woman in pink that talk to me last night. The Tarkatans get away, and shortly after, the woman in pink appears before me. She gets closer to me, and when she is right outside the cage, she crouches. There is something odd with her, her eyes isn't like any person I've met, her pupils is long and slender like feline eyes, and the color of her eyes is orange, or yellow, it's quite odd, yet it's somehow beautiful. She looks at my being before she said "So, who are you, hmm? Are you, an assassin sent by the usurper to kill me? Or are you a spy, sent to locate this campsite and tells that false emperor so he can attacks me and my army? Or are you something else?"
"I have told you, I'm no one. I'm not an assassin, nor a spy. I'm just lost here, okay?" I reply her.
"So you lost? How did you get here at the first place?" the woman said.
"I was guarding at a tower on an airfield, then I saw some light at the jungle, I follows it and turns out it's some kind of portal, I get into then suddenly I'm here. I want to get back but one of your Tarkatan stops me and get me inside this camp" I said to reply her.
"Guarding? Are you a soldier?" she asks.
"I am, but not registered, more like militia. I'm a Sergeant, and also the leader of the Venom squad in my village" I said.
"So, sergeant. You're not from here aren't you?" she questions me
"Of course I am. But I'm on earth that's for sure" I stated in certain.
"And you also an Earthrealmer. Sadly, sergeant, this is not Earthrealm, this is Outworld" she said in disapproval.
"What? Outworld? Never heard of... Oh God... That Outworld? Damn it! I should've know that portal is an inter-deminsional portal!" I said with shocked tone.
"What is it, Earthrealmer? Afraid you can't get back from where you were?" She ask me with taunting tone
"What do you think? Of course I'm afraid of that!" I said in pissed tone.
Both of us just looking at each other for a moment, she look at every inch of me, while my sight just keep looking at her feline eyes. "I wonder... Are they always wears that mask on Earthrealm, or is it your real face?"
"This is just a mask, nothing else" I said as I regretted my decision that I choose last night
"Remove it, show me your real face" she said.
"Why should I do that? Is there any benefit for you of me removing this mask?" I ask her.
She stopped speaking for a while after I said it, then she takes a sai and she pointing it to me, closer and closer to my lower jaw until it's tip barely touches it. "I just want to see your face, in return I will show you mine. If you rejects this, I will give you to my hungry Tarkatans right there, they love human meat". My blood starts to runs faster as my eyes widened behind my gas mask. I can't do anything but do what she said. I remove my gas mask then I put it on the ground next to me. "Here, you see my true self. Is there anything else you want me to do?". She looks at me, with one of her eyebrows raised slightly. She slowly took her veil off with her hand, and as her veil goes down, she reveals sets of sharp shark-like tooth on her cheek, her cheek basically replaced by these set of tooth, and somehow, she has lips on the right place. I'm a bit startled in this sight of her true self, yet she seems also startled at the same time. "You're quite handsome, Earthrealmer. Yet I'm surprised that you didn't seems to be afraid of seeing my face. Tell me, why won't you afraid of seeing my face?"
"Why? Well, let me tell you something. I have seen faces far worst than yours. But you, you are the most beautiful creature and woman I've ever met. I think you're unique for some reason" I said with compliment directly delivered to her.
"Well, well, you also have such a good tongue. But do you think your mere words and compliment could save you from your death?" she said, making me nervous as I looked at her toothy cheek.
"No, of course no" I stated in disapproval
"No indeed... I remember someone who compliment me like you once in a while ago, unfortunately, he told the location of my camp to the usurper... So I kill him, I rip off his tongue from his mouth before I bite his neck till his head fall on the ground" she said, in attempt to make me afraid of her.
"You're one crazy woman, you know that?" I said.
She then leaves me and the other prisoners to guarded by several Tarkatans. The sun goes up, and it light shines the camp while it heat warm my body from the cold night air. I must get out of here, I must be stealthy, and I don't want to get caught by that crazy woman. Luckily, they left my knife with me, and I sit back, put my head down, and start to planning my escape. First, I use my knife or anything else to open this cage. Then I take all of my equipment and weapons with me. After I acquire all of my stuff back, I sneak into that woman, then I use her as a human shield and make them show me where the portal is. And finally, I'm back to earth. Now after I'm sure this plan will work, I wait for the right moment to execute this plan.
The sun has rises, and it seems that the activity around my cage is almost completely gone. There is only one Tarkata that guard the cages, and coincidentally, he has the key for these cages. I improvise with my plan, I call him "Hey. Hey, you. Over here", he approach me and speaks with a language I don't understand, and when he is really close to me, I stab his chest with my knife, and he died soon after. I took the key and open my cage, then I put his body inside and put him like how I sit back with my face facing down, then I lock the cage back. Then I throw the key to the guy on the other cage. I quickly took all my equipment and weapons, and head behind a tent to use my body armor and make sure all of my weapons is in good shape.
I had all of my stuffs back, and now, I'm heading to that woman, where ever she is. I know she is the leader, and I'll make her into a human shield. I slowly move from one cover to another within this camp, I keep looking for this crazy yet beautiful woman, whoever her name is. I'm start to losing hope of getting home after at least fifteen minutes of searching all over the place and still I can't find her. Then I see her, walking through the camp with two Tarkatans guarding her. I quietly follow them, waiting for the right moment and right place to execute my plan. Steps after steps I did like a ninja, and I still follow them through this Tarkatan infested camp, try to be as undetected as possible. But then I stopped when I see some Tarkatans heading towards me, quickly I take a stick that lying on the ground, and throw it to some bushes near them, and as I expected, they come to the bushes to see what's going on that bushes. While they inspecting that bushes, I sneak past them and quickly get into cover. I then quietly follow that woman through tents and crates, until they stopped at one spot, where no Tarkatans is guarding, yet they seems startled by something. I get closer to them and hide behind a tent, and when I can see what makes them startled, turns out it's the prisoner cages that almost all of it is opened except for one cage where I were being held. I bury my face in my hand, knowing this, I instantly pull my knife out, and breaking from my cover. I quickly stab one Tarkatan on his back, and then puncture the other one in the neck. Once the Tarkatans that guarding her is killed, I pulled my pistol out and take aim at her, she stands still as I aiming at her, but then two persons comes, it's the woman in yellow and the man in purple I see with her last night, and when she turns around, I take that chance to hold her neck with my arm like when bad guy trying to make their hostages a human shield, and I pointing my pistol to her head. "Stay back! Move one step, just one step closer, and her brain will be scattered all over this place!". The man move forward, but instead of shoot her, I point my gun at him, and he instantly stopped. But then, seeing my arm outstretched, she quickly bites my arm. I scream in pain, and In reflex, I hit her head with my left arm and take my right arm away from her mouth. I treat my wound with some bandages I had inside my body armor pocket quickly. "Well, looks like our prisoner has break free, and now he's trying to make me a human shield" the woman said before she clean her mouth from my blood. She added "What do you want?"
"Look! I just want to get out of here, okay. Show me where the portal to earth is, and we'll be on our own way!" I said, trying to convince her to let me go.
"Not so fast, Earthrealmer. I think you're quite tasty. I want to see how good you are in kombat" she said with a grin on her face.
"What? So you want me to fight you. Hand to hand?" I ask her.
"Yes, dear. Oh, and if you lose in kombat, you would be such a good dinner for my Tarkatans" she added before she put herself in fighting stance.
"I don't want to hurt a woman. But if you push me, then so be it" I said with readiness in my tone, I pick up my fighting stance.
Both of us look at each other and set up our fighting stance, ready to anticipate and react on any attack delivered by any of us. "You could just join my rebellion, and we can walk away from this kombat" the woman said. I keep watching every single move her body does, ready to do what is necessary. "Very well, if you didn't want to" she added before she charge me. She reaches me in no time, and she launch a punch with her right fist, and she hit my ribs because my reflex is kinda off at this point. She continues with a sweep kick with her left feet, instantly kicking me off the ground, she raises her leg, ready to puncture me with her boot and she launch her leg at me. I roll over to the side right before her leg hit me, I stood up and get myself to fighting position once again. "You moves quite fast, Earthrealmer" she said. I pull out my knife and held it firmly "You haven't seen anything, lady!" I said to reply her. In response, she pulls her sai out, and spins it on her hand like she is an expert of sais. I charge her and launch my knife at her, she blocks my knife attack with her sai, the clashing knife and sai produces a noise just like when two metal hit each other with great force. Without a delay she launch a punch directly to my face, making me to backed several steps away, and when I cover my face after she punch me with quite strong fist, she kicks me down, and quickly leaping upon me, she holds the sai with both of her hand trying to punctures me. As her feet touches the ground, her sai launches directly towards my chest, and in reflex, I stop it with my hand. Unfortunately, her sai went through my hand, it pains so much it's makes me screams in pain and my adrenaline rushes fast enough all over my body and my adrenaline become a natural painkiller. I realize that her sai is just a centimeter away from my chest, with the adrenaline that rushes in me and instinctively I push her sai away from my chest. She keep trying to push her sai through me, she tries to punches the sai, but before she does it, I kick her away from me. I stood up while holding my bleeding hand, I pull the sai out of my hand, and throw it to the ground, she takes it back with some magic, her sai just suddenly on her hand. In an instant, another wave of adrenaline rushes through my body, I start to see everything around me moves not as fast as before, like I'm capable to see in slow motion, but not so slow, I think everything I see is move slower one of a thousand second, not much, but it's slow enough to give me time to think of the best way to handle things. "Oh, your hand wounded. Could you use your knife properly now?" she asks, taunting me. "I don't need two hands to use a knife!" I reply her with an angry tone on my voice. I start to spin my knife on my hand, showing her how my knife handling is to make her think again to fight me, but I know it's now useless, since this is a battle to the death. My eyes looking at her, in attempt to find her weak points. I quickly charge my knife at her stomach, but she swiftly uses her sai to block my knife. She hit my inner elbow, then stabs my left shoulder with my own knife. "You can just join my rebellion. Every attack would've been rewarded with gold!" she said. I pull my knife from my shoulder, and I reply her "Screw your rebellion! And I don't need gold to attack someone!". Soon after, she tries to puncture me with her sai, but I quickly maneuver to the side, I grab her arm, then I hit her arm, making her to release her sai. When her sai is off her hand, I grab it then I quickly direct it towards her neck, but she's just too fast, she hit my arm and making me drop the sai before she hits me on my chest. She takes her sai from the ground along with me taking my knife that fell when I grab her sai. "I can't wait to taste your flesh. Is it sweet? Bitter? Sour? Maybe I have to cut your head off first" she said with the look on her eyes become more and more fearsome. "You won't even taste my blood! You crazy woman" I said in response. She swiftly move her sai directly towards me with fast move, and with my reflex, I use my knife to block her attacks. I see a gap where I can put my worst strike, and quickly I shift my knife from my right hand to my left and strikes her body. But she moves too quickly, my strike only hit her left arm, leaving an open wound on her arm. Without delay, I sweep one of her feet with my kick. She fall to one of her knee, and in reflex, I punctures her thigh with my knife, then pulling it out with my right hand and slice her stomach.
After the attack I've done to her, she fall to the ground and she holds her wounded stomach and thigh. I could see pain from her eyes, but then, she looks at me, and she said "Do it. Finish me. I have lose in kombat, and now I deserve death". I take back my rifle and pistol that were dropped on the ground, then I walk up to her, holding my bleeding shoulder, then I point my knife at her, "I could easily slit your throat open, lady. But still I am a human with sanity still intact. Instead of your life, I want your service, just this one service. Show me the portal to Earth, then we will be on our own way" I said to reply her, I put my knife on it sheath, and soon after, I extend my arm to her, a sign of offering help. She looks at me with a shine on her eyes, and she takes my hand. I get her up, but soon after she got up, the wound on her thigh from my knife make her to fall forward, but before it happens, I grab her and carry her on her arm. "Now, show me where that portal is" I said.
"As you wish, sergeant. This way" she said before moves into a direction, and it makes me also moves to the same direction as I help her walking.
All of the sudden, from behind us, countless amount of peoples comes from the jungle and attacks the camp. The Tarkatans quickly charge them back, and the fight started fiercely. Arrows flew around from behind the charging forces, and one of those arrows, hit her right on her leg, making her screams in pain and immobilized. I'm about to leave her here, but she passes out, and a voice in my heart urge me to take her. I quickly carry her on both of my arms and moves quickly into the portal. I keep running as fast as I can with her on my arms.
We finally managed to get out of the portal and return back to the Earth. But like the old saying, out of crocodile jaw and into the tiger's maw. When we got out of the portal, there is a fierce gunfight close to the portal, there is some jeeps from my village where some of my comrades are taking cover in one side, and a bunch of pirates taking cover behind trees in the other side. I run behind a jeep close to a guy who also taking cover, I ask him "Hey dude! What the hell's going on?". The guy turns to me, and he turns out to be David, my bestfriend and comrade. He said "Yo, dude! Where you've been, man? And who is she? She's quite... Well... busty".
"Hey, watch your words. It's a long story, now give me a sitrep" I reply him.
"It's those terrorists, they're trying to take over our airfield. Again. But we've repel them from the airfield up to here" David said.
All of the sudden, we hear something from afar, it sounds like a plane, or a helicopter. It's getting closer and closer, and now it's above us. I can hear rotor blades of a helicopter spinning swiftly on the sky, but the jungle canopy blocked my sight from that chopper. I don't know who has that chopper. Military? Terrorists? Mercs? Those questions in my mind finally makes me asks David, "Who the hell has that chopper!?"
"If I know I would've told you since then!" he said with stronger voice so that I could hear him beyond the noise of the chopper's rotor.
Suddenly, from above the canopy, ropes coming down to the ground, and with it, at least six more terrorists rappelling from the chopper to the jungle below. My buddies fighting those terrorists harder, looks like these terrorists are the experienced terrorists, especially with the way they fighting, they shoot and take cover like a trained soldier. I put the woman onto the jeep's bed along with me who also get onto the truck bed, and I start to put suppressing fire to where those terrorists are taking cover right now. "David! Get to the driver seat! I'll cover you, get us out of here!" I yell to command David, he quickly do what I say, and in no time, he flattened the gas pedal and take the jeep with us away from the battle zone. As he drive the jeep along with us away from those terrorists, the sunlight shines upon us as we entered a road where the canopy didn't completely blocks the sunlight. And when the sunlight shines the jeep, I noticed an RPG with several rockets inside a slightly opened box behind the driver's seat. I quickly get closer to David and ask him "Hey, where'd you get this launcher?".
"We stole it. From a pirate warehouse yesterday. It's heavily guarded but we finished them off. Such a shame you didn't involved there, they had some top notch gears" he said, while keeping his eyes on the road, focusing on driving the jeep.
"What'd you got then?" I ask him again, curiously.
"Oh, man. You won't believe it! We got .50 cal, 240s, Vector .45, C-4s, Claymores, and three whole crates of boozes!" he reply me in excitement.
"And not to mention that we also had captured an LAV" he added.
I was about to say my disappointment towards him, but suddenly I heard chopper chasing us from the air fast. It starts to shoot us from the air with machine gun. The bullets strikes us, but it only hit the ground around the jeep. The canopy of the jungle gives us some edge in avoiding that chopper's gun. I quickly grab the RPG, put a rocket into the muzzle, and take aim, but the moving jeep and the dirt road didn't help me at all. "Dave! Get this jeep steady!" I yell at David so he can make this jeep more stabilize and easier for me to shoot down that chopper with this RPG.
"I can't, okay! This ain't asphalt! It's hard to do it! And shot down that damn chopper!" he yells back at me.
"What the hell do you think I'm doing right now! Just make this crappy jeep steady!" I said in high tone as I still hardly trying to make my aim right.
"Hey! This is my jeep! Respect it!" he yells and also warn me at the same time.
"I don't give a damn! Just get us out of here!" I reply him as I keep aiming at the chopper. I can feel it's the right moment. I pull the trigger, and the rocket launches. And it's miss the chopper.
"Did you get it?" David asks.
"No, I try it once again. Hopefully this rocket will make that chopper a history" I said as I put another rocket inside the muzzle of the RPG.
I keep trying to balancing myself in the jeep as it makes the way out of the jungle. I hold my breath and shoot the chopper. The rocket fly away directly towards the heli, while I hold my breath as I hoping that rocket would destroy or at least take down that heli. And Boom! The rocket hits the tail of the chopper, and as it starts losing balance, it's went down while spinning around, just like on the Black Hawk Down movie. And in excitement, I raised my hand in the air and yell "YEAH! GET SOME BABY! WOO!".
"You got that chopper?" David asks while driving.
"Yeah! That chopper is nothing but pieces of scraps now!" I said, still in excitement.
"Oh, wow! I didn't know you could do that!" he said, his voice sounds like he's a bit surprised.
"Yeah, training with real guns and playing FPS games helps me a lot" I reply him, proudly.
The chopper descend as it starts to burn from the tail, and when it hit the ground after chopping off branches of the trees, it explodes and a large fireball coming from the crash site like a Michael Bay's movie. The explosion cause a noise that both of us can even hear. "Holy crap! What the hell is that?" David startled when he hear that explosion. "That's the chopper! We did it, bro! We f***ing did it! Woo!" I reply him with excitement in my voice. And after that, we go directly into the village along with the other peoples in jeeps that were fighting near the portal where I came in with the woman in my arms.
We finally reached my house after a while, I get down and carry the woman with me, while David go somewhere else with his jeep. I rushed inside my house and brought the woman inside my room. I put her upon my bed, and leave her there so I can get my medical supplies. I quickly get all of the stuffs I needed from my first aid box, and then rushed into the woman again, I put some antiseptic liquid on her wounds, then I wrap her wounds with some bandages, I also pull out the arrow that still sticking on her leg and give it the same treatment as the other wounds on her body. And I also put some antiseptic liquid and bandages at my wounds, especially my shoulder after I took off all of my top. After I've done applying the medical treatment on both of us, I walk out of the room to let the lady rest. I clean my face and some parts of my body from the dirt that gets me, and when I'm done, I lay down on my couch and starts to relaxing my body after quite a bit of an action lately. My eyes slowly gets heavier and heavier, and my body getting harder to move. I let myself drown into a nap.
"ALEX! ALEX! ARE YOU HOME!?" a sudden voice of a boy awake me from my nap like an ambush.
I quickly get up, rushed to the door and open it, and in front of me, is Timmy. This 8 years old kid always somehow disturb me when I had something important to do. I rubbed my eyes then I said "What is it, Timmy? Can't you see I'm REEAAALLLLY NEED some nap right now?".
"Well, I do, but will you play with me, or at least borrow me your phone for me to play?" he said, trying to put a begging look on his tiny little face.
"I can't play with you right now. But I'll let you play my phone" I said as I take my phone from my pocket.
"Give it back to me at 4, okay?" I added.
"Yes, I will. Thanks, Alex!" he said as he go away with my phone on his hand.
I get back to my couch and trying to take a nap again. And this time I can get a peaceful nap after quite a rough day of fighting a woman with incredible fighting skill and take down a chopper. As my body relaxed, my mind slowly drown into the deep sleep. I'm ready to face whatever awaits for me, after I awake of course.