School has started back for me so new chapters will become more sporadic. Also another shout out to panda8785 for helping me edit my chapters. Thanks panda!
"Hey rookies?" Tucker questioned, walking on top of blue base.
"No," I answered coldly, leaning against one of the 'pillars' that stood atop of the metal structure.
"You don't even know what I was going to ask."
"What ever it is it was probably going to be perverted."
"You don't know that," The aqua soldier countered.
"Uh yeah we do," Michele spoke up, looking away from her book she was reading to give a glare at Tucker.
"Well I was going to ask if you could help me get all this black stuff off my armour," Tucker defended.
"Your arms work. Do it yourself, or you can get Caboose to help," I pointed out.
"Ugh fine," Tucker said disappointingly.
"Come in Blue Command. This is Blood Gulch Outpost Alpha. Do you read me?" Tucker attempted to call command.
"Ok. You armor is clean," Caboose said, exhausted.
"Did you get all the black stuff off?"
"I think so," Caboose dropped his soot-covered rag.
"Hello! Command! We need help." Tucker started, "I don't know what the technical military term is for it, but uh, we're pretty fucked up down here. We need men!"
"The military term for it is 'we need backup'" I spoke up, laughing along with Michele.
"No, not like that. We need more men to help us..." he responded to command, giving me his favorite finger, "Yeah that got blown too... Yeah, we know... Sixteen days!? That's almost two weeks!"
"Two weeks and two days," Michele and I commented in sync.
"I like the in an hour one," Caboose pipped up.
"Yeah," Tucker agreed with Caboose, "me too. Roger that Command. We prefer the quicker solution... Whoever he is, make sure he can fix a tank."
"What's a freelancer?" Caboose asked, confused.
"Freelancers are independent, they're not red or blue," Tucker started.
"Their just guns for hire for who'll fight for who has the most money," Michele finished, walking towards the ramp that lead into the base saying, "I'm gonna see if there's a med-kit or something inside."
"Yeah I'm gonna go too," I said, making the dumbass decision of leaping off the base sending a fresh wave of pain throughout my body.
Walking into the blue, metal structure, I noticed that Michele was having trouble with her armour, "Hey, you need a hand?" I offered.
"Yes please," she responded, taking off her helmet showing her sparkling brown and blue eyes.
"What?" she asked, referring to my look of awe.
"Uh nothing, what parts do you need taken off?"
"My upper half." She looked a little embarrassed.
"Ok," I moved to remove her gauntlets first.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Shoot."
"Why are we here?"
"What do you mean?" I laughed softly.
"I mean your not part of red vs blue, either."
"So you have known?"
"And obviously you do, too."
"Yeah I do..."
"But why do we have amnesia?"
"I don't know, but I hope we didn't forget too much."
"What are you girls talking about? Tucker intruded.
"We were talking about how you're perverted son of a bitch," I responded harshly.
"Alright. I can take a hint. I'll leave," Tucker said, walking out of the base.
I inspected Michelle's injuries as I treated, sealed, and wrapped them individually. Not wanting to hide my curiosity, I questioned, "How did you get these wounds?"
"I don't know," Michele responded, sadly, "How 'bout you? Do you have any injuries?"
"I'm sure I do. Every part of my body is aching with pain," I replied, shifting my weight to lessen the pain in my right leg.
"I could look at them for you," she offered.
"Thanks but I'm fine for now."
"You sure?"
"Yeah I'm sure," I assured her, putting her torso armour piece back on.
"Come on we better get on the roof before Tex gets here," I suggested as I finished putting all her armour back on.
"Yeah I think your right," she responded, giving me a smile.
I thought Tex (Allison) would be taller, if not buffer, than she actually was. I guess being an android means you don't need to be tall or buff to kick ass. I have a few inches over Texas and I was buffer than her which made me a little relieved when she showed up. She was still a little scary though.
"That's basically it, Sir," Tucker spoke to Tex, who shot at Caboose, "They have five guys over there, and a big jeep."
"And your flag," Texas and Michele said in sync, which made me nudge Michele in the arm.
"Your flag? It's your flag too!" Tucker almost yelled.
"What she means is that we are not officially on blue team since we don't remember anything. For all we know, we could have been forced to come here. I know I would have to be." I reasoned, defending Michele.
"You never change," Tex mumbled, throwing a grenade at Caboose which I punched midair towards the center of the canyon.
"Tex," I said getting a little mad, "I don't know how it's been at your other bases but we don't blow up our team mates JUST FOR FUCKING TARGET PRACTICE!" Tex backed up, caught off gaurd.
"Who the hell does she think I am a cold blooded killer?" I thought within my mind.
Michele motioned for Caboose to come over to us while Tex went to go talk to Tucker, who kept giving me side glances. Michelle spoke in a quiet tone, "You ok Caboose?"
"Y-yes I think so..." he said sheepishly, "Freelancers are scary" he continued.
"Make me mad I can be scarier," I growled.
"Then I won't make you mad," Caboose replied, he sounded frightened.
Tex started to walk towards the enemy base until Tucker stopped her, "Where are you going?"
"Red base. Kill everyone; get the flag back," she responded, sounding like a robot.
Michele nudged me and motioned over to where ghost Church stood, looking furious. She started to get up to walk over to him before I stopped her and whispered loud enough for her to hear, "We need to stay as inconspicuous for as long as we can."
Church started walking over to us saying in a deep voice, "Blue team flag returned."
Tucker jumped asking, "What? Who said that?"
"Sorry, I did. I must of had something in my throat."
"Oh hey Church what's up?" Caboose questioned, obviously a little nervous.
"Caboose, I'm not here for small talk, ok? How did you guys get your flag back?" I started to doze off so I didn't hear all of the conversation, "What was the one thing I told you guys the last time I appeared?"
"That Sidewinder is cold?" Caboose said confidently.
"Not to let him get involved ." Tucker spoke up.
"Right, and what did you do?"
"We let him get involved."
"And not just a little involved, but how involved?"
"Very, very involved." Caboose lowered his head looking sad.
"Uh, hey Church? Tex just got captured," I chimed in.
"Shit," the light blue soldier sighed.
