Ch. 4
In the shadows off to the side of the bunk house, three Spartans crouched behind the bushes. With three quick hand signals, the leader sent his companions to look around. Each one was dressed in black armor, with their own personal color as the secondary color. The leader himself, moved closer under the cover of darkness, his battle rifle loaded and ready. When he made sure that none of the American soldiers were around, he risked an open comm to his comrades. "China, Spain, report."
"Spain here, All clear on the south side Japan." A warm male voice with a slight Spanish accent said over Japans Comm.
"No more on the north and east sides." China replied, with the sound of dragging accompanying her report. Japan and Spain both made their way over to China, who was crouched by the bunker door, reloading her rifle with stun rounds. "There was only one guard outside. They must not expect a raid."
"Or they're too stupid to care." Spain replied as he stopped next to Japan.
"Cut the shit. Remember our objective Spain. Get the kid, get out." When Spain glared at him, Japan sighed. "Fine, get your sister and get out. China and I will provide cover out here." With that, China moved to the door and took up a position on the left side. Japan held Spain back for some last minute instructions. "Try to get her to come with you willingly. If she wont, knock her out and run."
Even though Spain knew Japan couldn't see past his visor, he still rolled his eyes. Moving over to the door, Spain waited for Japan to take his position before opening the wooden door. Slipping into the dark room, Spain activated his night vision and waited for his eyes to adjust to the sudden change of his visor.
"You know you could have just turned on the lights…"
"Not now Beta," Spain said, ignoring the little blue A.I. as he appeared over Spain's left shoulder. "Find my sister. You've seen her enough in my memories." Once again ignoring the A.I.'s remark about dreams, Spain turned and made his way down the left side of the bunk house, while Beta went down the right. Stopping to look at one of the girls, Spain nearly woke up the entire house, but thankfully Beta had returned and kept him quiet.
Taking control over Spain, Beta tried to make him walk away from the young blonde, who was the daughter of the soldiers who killed his best friend. "Walk away Spain. Its not her." Beta said, knowing that the child sleeping before them was indeed the child of the murderers. When Beta finally got Spain to walk away, Spain had his mind set on interrupting a training mission and marking that child so that he could kill her at a later date.
Walking away, Spain nearly walked straight past the bunk where his little sister was sleeping. Kneeling down, he placed his hand over her mouth and woke her up. All she did was look up at him, so Spain released his grip, then reached up to release his helmet. The hiss of the airlock releasing seemed loud in the darkness. "I told you that we would see each other again, and I keep my promises Serena."
"Leo!" Serena whisper yelled, and threw herself into his arms.
"Agent Spain. Next patrol in t-minus 32 seconds. I suggest –"
"Shut up Beta." Spain replied as he stood up carefully. "Serena, we are leaving. I need you to come with us. But there is no coming back." She nodded, and released her grip around his neck, but instead took his hand and followed him out without another look behind her.
Loosing cadets overnight was a usual thing. It didn't matter to the DI, or to Dr. Hasley. Only the strongest would survive this program. Serena and a few other kids had disappeared overnight, and several had died, too many to count. There was roughly 50 of us left, and now we were being sent out on missions to test our ability to follow orders and adapt to new areas. All we were given were black jump suits, rope, and our objective. Along with being told to complete our mission with any means necessary. Little did any of us know that we were being watched by people with two different things in mind.