A/N: so I'm probably going to screw this up guys. I'm sorry if I get shit wrong. I love the games, hell yeah, but when it comes to focusing on the background of the storyline for the game my brain just goes...bluh. so yeah sorry. ok yea I know I screwed some shit up with the whole loomis thing but trust me ill kill him off soon so please just go along with it I swear itll get better xD
and thanks for the reviews already! c:

xxx- tay


"Join Delta Squad? Are you kidding, Cole? We can't have this.. thing on Delta Squad with us!" Baird exclaimed, jumping up and motioning at me. I feigned hurting, and then rolled my eyes, "As if I want to be part of the COG."

"So you're a Stranded?" Prescott asked.

I whipped my head around to glare at him. "I most certainly am not."

"Then what does that make you?" Dom asked me.

"I dunno.. a Wanderer or something?"

"Wanderer?" Baird scoffed. "Wow, you get weirder and weirder by the minute." I rolled my eyes and shot a glare at Cole for the idea of me joining their little squad. He simply shrugged and turned his attention back to Prescott, a questioning look on his face, waiting for an answer.

"I suppose.. Considering how great of a soldier her sister was, perhaps if she can prove herself she can stick with Delta," Prescott finally said after a long pause. Baird let out a loud groan behind me and I whipped my head around to glare.

"Wow, you complain a lot." I called to him, shaking my head and looking back ahead of myself. "I've got nothing to prove to you or anyone el-"

"You will accompany Delta Squad to deploy the resonator." He said, "and if you are successful in surviving that mission and keeping the majority of the team alive, you will stay on Delta Squad with the others. You leave in one hour. Dismissed."

"Wa-"

"Dismissed!"

~.~.~.~

I let out a sigh as I packed a new clip into the Lancer they gave back to me, and pulled both Juliette's old COG tags and my new ones around my neck. They clattered slightly as I shifted, putting my helmet and mask back on. I tilted my head upwards to get a look around and laughed when I saw Cole arguing with Baird. Standing up, I walked over to them, and saw that Fenix was also standing there, trying to give instructions and failing because of their arguing. Dom simply stood next to Fenix, watching and laughing.

"Hey," I said, motioning them apart. "Chill."

"Okay," Fenix began, "Lyle will be with us for a little while. Lyle, you know the four of us, so there's no need for introduction. Let's go."

The older man gave a slight nod, although didn't say anything or make a change in expression. I nodded back, and listened as he directed us to the King Raven that would be dropping us off by the Lethia Imulsion Factory. I strapped the belt around my waist as I sat one of the seats. Baird sat on my left side, Cole on my right, and Fenix across from Cole, and Dom beside him.

I gripped the handle of my Lancer, a bit nervous myself. I glanced around at the rest of them and saw their eased expressions, and hoped they couldn't see my terrified face through my mask.

Sure, I was used to fighting and shooting, but I'd never had a purpose in doing it. Now we needed to deploy a resonator, and I needed to keep myself alive and hope that not everyone else dies.

"You ready for this, little rookie?" Cole asked me, giving me a slight nod.

I tensed a bit and shrugged. "Apparently."

Baird scoffed beside me and I shot him a look. "What was that, Damon?" He cocked his head to the side.

"That was the sound of me not believing that you're going to survive any of this." He answered with a smirk.

"Sorry to disappoint, but I'll survive." I sneered.

"Well if you're anything like your sister.." he laughed.

My eyes widened and I turned my head back to look ahead of me. "I don't think you know when to close your mouth, do you?"

"Why, what are you going to do? Shake me to death or something?" He scoffed again, referring to the fact that I was so scared I was shaking slightly.

"Enough," Fenix butted in.

I ignored him. "You know, a bullet to the head usually kills a person."

"No shit, Sherlock, thanks for the useful information that no one on this thing kn-"

"Baird!" Fenix snapped. "I said that's enough, both of you."

"Wow, who the hell died and made you my father?" I asked him, rolling my eyes and slumping back slightly in my seat, thinking for a moment and trying to calm my nerves. What he'd said about my sister had gotten to me quite a bit. I kept playing over thoughts about Juliette in the back of my mind, spacing out until I felt Baird push me forward. "Come on," he said roughly, "ya can't sit there the entire time, we've got places to go."

I jumped slightly, then realized we'd landed and unstrapped the belt, picking up my Lancer as I stood and started to step off the KR. I glanced back to notice the funny look he watched me with. He seemed confused or a bit weirded out.

"What, Corporal?" I snapped. "Ya can't just stand there the entire time, we've got places to go." Then I turned around and began to jog over to Fenix, Dom, and Cole, who were directing around with their hands and talking.

"Where to next?" I asked them, walking up. Dom motioned towards a few trees. "They've dropped off a Centaur somewhere over here but they're unsure exactly where at," he spoke.

"Well then why don't we go find it?" I suggested.

"Wretches. Boomers. Locust. Creatures. Monsters. Things that will kill us, Lyle," Baird rolled his eyes at me as he walked up.

"And if we stand here long enough, something will come along and kill us," I answered, ticked off at him already for the day. It was growing dark outside, which meant it'd get dangerous out faster.

The loud screeching of a creature made me cringe sharply and I watches as a glowing Wretch scrambled up a tree, only to jump off the branch near us. Dom was quick to butt it in the head with the end of his Lancer and I let out a breath of air I hadn't known I was holding in. The King Raven began to pick up again, taking off into the air. It wasn't here to stay, sadly, and now there was no going back on my deal with Prescott.

It took a moment, but then the Wretch promptly exploded, splattering its blood everywhere. I gagged slightly, shaking my head and looking at the others. "Are we going to find the Centaur or not?"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, fine," Fenix muttered, beginning to walk past some of the trees and into what looked like some woods. The rest of us followed suit, guns readied in case we needed them.

"Over there," he pointed, and we saw the giant hulk of metal, sitting there doing nothing. Jogging over, it opened up and we all slipped inside.

"Who's driving, because I'm not," Dom said. I shook my head, "me either."

"Well I ain't doin' it!" Cole exclaimed loudly.

"You can count me out. I'm only hear in case of repairs," he shrugged, taking a seat in one of the many, Cole sitting beside him. Fenix took the wheel and started the Centaur up, with Dom sitting beside him. I sat away from them all, falling back into my thoughts once again and screwing around with my Lancer, occasionally checking it over and over again to see if it was loaded, which it always was.

" 'Ey, blondie, what's up?" Cole called up to me, and I couldn't even hear it at first- well, I could, but it didn't click in my mind until a minute or two later, when Baird added, "yo, what's your problem?"

"Nothing." I didn't look at them.

"Well, something's on your mind." Dom piped up now.

"Yeah, a lot of things are on my mind."

"And they are?" Baird questioned, his tone annoyed.

"Why do you even care?" I asked, now turning to look at him. "Are you gonna bring up my dead sister again? Tell me I'm going to end up like her? As if the sheer fear of all of this wasn't enough anyway, you had to go ahead and remind me that I'm probably going to die." My voice was calm for once, and I saw his eyes widen slightly as I said it all, then turned ahead of myself again.

Everyone was silent for a while, until bullets started smashing against the metal sides of the Centaur.

"Brumak!" Fenix exclaimed, stopping the Centaur. We were near the Imulsion Factory already.

"Great. Just great." I muttered, standing out of my seat and grabbing my Lancer. Cole, Fenix, and Dom had already left, but Baird stopped me by grabbing my shoulder.

"Listen." He said.

"What do you want?" I snapped, glaring at him.

He opened his mouth to speak, and then promptly shut it. And then opened it again. "I didn't mean you're going to die."

"Yeah, well that's what you said."

"But that's not what I mea-"

"It doesn't matter. You're probably right anyway." And I yanked my arm away from him and went outside to help defend against he Brumak.