It's been a while but I had a lot I had to deal with. But i should be able to get a couple more chapters out now that my break is slowing down. And im sorry to report that those who submitted oc's that they will play a small short and minimal role in my story. But i just couldn't work them in to playing a big part. Will be mentioned throughout the story though.
Jay's pov
Chapter 3
The old fire sparks a new light.
I sat in the dark room with my eyes closed thinking back on an old forgotten memory. When I could sense the black monitors light up with the Charily and Lima company descended to the earth. I looked at the one HUD display that concerned me the most. Jackson. Though he displayed nothing but improvement, I could tell that this new soldier that the training had built was a soldier built on a bad foundation. He took the pain he left on earth and buried it. He only uses it to push him self harder. Yet he has not taken the pain and turned it in to strength.
As this all went through my head I saw Percy turn off the safety of his rifle, and run out of the pod as the door fired off of the pod. Percy and his squad took off their helmets and put them on the ground. A small smile crept to my lips as the view of charily company switched to the hidden ones I had placed all around the mock planet. They laid their helmets on the ground and picked hid a bit back. It took roughly 15 min for lima's assault group to walk into the trap. And charily emerged out of seemingly no wear and took out lima silently with no bullets. They then rushed to take out and over whelm limas defences. Which is one of the best laid planes I've seen in a while. But you know what I love about the best laid planes? When they get shot to shit.
So as they arrived I typed in a code and the ground of limas small mock base started to have small explosions. Simulating a broken arrow air strike. In addition three members of charily company were "hit" by the explosions and pinned down in need of rescue from the remaining lima cadets. Percy looked at the objective flag. And at his fellow team mates. I sat back and looked to see what the former hero would do.
Percy's pov
I looked at my team mates that were pinned down. And knew that if this was a real combat situation I wouldn't have time to think, so I pulled an old seaweed brain classic move off the shelf. With my ears ringing I barked out at my remaining team mate: "secure that flag and fall back to the LZ! Vinc! Your with me! lets go get our friends out of this mess!" I say with a grin and race over to help our team mates. As I dove behind cover right beside Adrina who was the only one in semi fighting shape "Hey lovely weather we're having." I say jokingly. As i take my med rec med kit and stat going through the motions of patching her up. But she wasn't in a joking mood.
"Just foam me will you?! We haven't won yet!" she yells at me. so I fill her wound up with the bio foam, but just as I finish I feel a hot rush of air around use and before I can scram to get down. The ground vanishes from under us. Well in reality it crumbled into the under part of the base.
"Charily sound off!" i yell.
"Rosilina!" she yelled over the volley of fire being exchanged. non to happy that she's still 'injured'
"Adrina." She says standing up and checking her ammo.
"Hanna!" she says trying to lay still as Vincent tries to work a crushed training bio foam can.
"Vincent!" he calls out chucking the can into a pile of rubble.
"ok team we are going to..." but my sentence is cut off by Lima firing on use. Looks like they were sent down here too. We all took cover. And i saw the way out. But some one would have to stay and give covering fire. "Ok... Vincent! I need you and Adrina to take Hanna and Rosilina and fall back to the LZ i'll cover you! On three!" i said looking at them with eyes that said this is not up for debate.
"One.." they all tensed as they got ready to move. I placed my left hand fingers at the edge of the ledge.
"Two..." they all took a deep breath. Well I quickly popped a pin on a flash grenade and tossed it.
"THREE!" i yelled. And that's when things all came together in a perfect storm. They all turned and ran up the concrete floor that had formed a sort of ramp. Well the flash bang exploded in a bright white phosphorus light as I popped up jumping over cover and began firing on the blinded enemies. Their were three of them, that I could see i winged one, one dropped into cover and I fired at one as they fired at me. my round hit them but they fired a fake rocket. I jumped to the side and went through a wall the was partly struck by the rocket seconds after. I sprawled on the ground and was getting up when a foot kicked me in the rib. Sending me flying.
"Your team may win Jackson but that doesn't mean i cant enjoy royally fucking your shit up! So come on get up!" the Lima team leader yelled. I got up lightning fast and tackled him off the ledge we were on into and trough a table.
"you know what i don't like about you Dob's... your a pussy and a shity fighter. I say sending a hook across his face. But he flipped me off of him. He went to kick my face but I blocked but still felt the sting form his combat steel toe boot hitting my forearm. But I ignored it and jabbed with my right arm throwing my shoulder forward first then letting my momentum carry me as my right foot bounced a little. Setting up as i hit him harder with my left hand. And then he back up, even though he had blocked the punches. But he knew if i got to close id hip toss him. But this is what id wanted all along just as he was about to shuffle back one more time i picked up my right leg and twisted my hips putting all the force and momentum behind the kick. And hit him square in the jaw. He crumpled to the ground. It was at that time I saw the computer set up. And the Intel on the screens.
"my eyes scanned it and in this mock battle situation this was 'vital Intel that had to be set to HQ immediately' and that's when I say the timer for the bases self destruct counting down. I began furiously uploading the 'Intel' to 'hq'. Just as the link was sent the timer hit 5 seconds. I smirked and whispered "Axios" and I head aloud beep. And Dob's got up. And looked at me.
"Damn Jackson you got balls of steel and a hefty right kick." He says smiling with blood in his teeth. A true son of Mars that one. We both laughed and stepped through a black portal that appeared.
We both stopped dead when we came through to the other side. The commander stood there cold cool and calculating look on his face. Far from the feeling I got from him last time I saw him on my first day. "Dob's." He said nodding. "Jackson... a good performance, id like to have a word with you once you and your team mates have celebrated. Your dismissed gentlemen..." he said and turned and walked away.
"well Percy i hope you've written your will. Because I don't remember the last time Sam talked to someone in his office." Dob's said as he patted my shoulder then left to his bunk.
I shrugged it off and went to join my team. we cheered at our victory, congratulated one another, and once we settled down I slipped away and went to talk to The void commander. He wasn't in his office which was small considering. But he was on the observation deck. It looked out to space and all that we protect.
I walked up and came to attention. "sir!" I said. Firmly well saluting. He waved it off.
"come Percy stand with me." he said gesturing beside him never taking his eyes off the milky way. Which from here was noting more then a small bright light to the west. Seeing it so far away, sent a pang to my heart. Out there is all i had ever known. My old broken life, my father, the gods, and Annabeth.
"tell me Percy. When my father brought you here almost a year ago, what did he bring you here to do?" Sam asked eyes glued to the vast void of space.
"to be your second in command sir." I say puzzled.
"When we are alone call me Sam Percy. And yes. But you need to train to be a void trooper to do that. And im afraid to day you failed my test."
"but Sam we completed all tasks?" I said puzzled.
"yes. But i need you to be both a leader and a soldier... and sometimes the leader doesn't get to bring anyone home... don't get me wrong Percy. The out come of that drill was exceptional. But you saw that one of you wasn't going to make it back. And you decided that person had to be you. A leader commands his troops. And that means sometimes you have to sacrifice peaces." He said solemnly. He blinked for the first time since we began talking.
"i... I just acted. I didn't think..." i say at a loss of words.
"It's a hard lesson to learn Percy... so you're going to have to learn it the hardest way... Im reassigning you." He said turning to me with sadness in his eye. He handed me a file. "Report to Alpha Drop Company. Call sine crimson... they'll suit you up. You're stepping into some big shoes Percy. Your their new squad 2IC (second in command.) good look trooper. Feet first." With that he dismissed me. And I left. Shocked. I knew better then to argue. My team was sad to see me leave. There were some touching good byes. But I was entering a new chapter in my life as a void trooper. No more training. Now it was the real thing. I was a crimson member now... and that was something to stop and think about.
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