Authors Note: So extremely sorry I haven't updated lately. My cousin is out of the house now and my celebrations for now are done and I will post so much in return for what happened. Anyway time to review the reviews from Bunnybuscus and Itz Rainin' Cupcakez. Thanks for loving the story Bunnybuscus you are really one of my biggest fans following this story sorry I haven't posted anything in a while I've been too busy but I'm trapped in the house now since it's thunderstorming really bad over here in New York! Itz Rainin' Cupcakez I know that Hoffman is command and Anya is control I've been writing my story's at night so I get extremely confused. I also forgot that Marcus doesn't become seragant until Kim dies and I'm extremely sorry for the mistakes. I only try my hardest to focus at night! Anyway this is chapter 4!

Chapter 4

Nicole

I ran into the nearest cover switching my cover to protect myself from incoming shots the enemy shot at us. Minh wasn't in cover and was getting pelted with bullets like cars passing on a busy highway.

"Minh!" I screamed "Get your ass in cover if you don't want to die!"

Minh was running toward cover until a squid-like locust caught up with Minh. The squid-like locust's name was RAAM, General RAAM. He's killed many COG soldiers in this war and is one of the most powerful allies of the locust army. He grabed Minh by the shoulder and turned him around so he could face his enemy. Minh shot at RAAM which had no effect towards him and Minh backed up from his enemy. For the first time, you could see fear in his eyes through his whole face, and then you knew that he was going to die. If you saw fear in a soilders face and eyes you knew he was going to die and you would mourn them before the blood would splatter.

"Nicole, what the hell are you doing go help Minh!" Marcus screamed at me and I understood why. He didn't know the face of fear a soilder makes before he dies, he hasn't seen it in a long time since he was trapped in a room only hearing the torturus screams of others waiting to die. I remember what it was like because I went to jail with him one time but got out through Prescott, who was my uncle until the war started. Then I couldn't consider him my uncle, actually I never considered him my uncle.

"Negative Marcus he is a very powerful enemy. Killing him is impossible, attempting to kill him is suicide. We need to fall back before he attempts to kill someone else," I attempted to explain to Marcus. But Marcus just looked at me as if I were an insane psychopath and ran out of cover to go help Minh. "Marcus get back into cover before you die," I screamed at him he refused and kept on running toward Minh to save him. But Minh couldn't be saved because RAAM grabbed him by the neck and smilled at him, gruesomely and slit his throat making blood spurt out like a sprinkler full of blood and stopping Marcus in his tracks. Once RAAM saw him he was almost about to become a victum until I ran and grabbed him by the hand and dragged him inside the mansion that was by us. I started shooting at RAAM until both teams Alpha and Delta were inside. Then I blacked out and had yet another flashback.

Flashback

"Here lies Austin Frederick Phillips and Aaliyah Jazmin Smith Phillips both husband and wife and beloved parents to Nicole Marie Phillips. They worked for the Collitan Of Gears with Adam Fenix and their brother Chiarman Prescott. May they rest in peace," my Uncle Hoffman said before taking a torch and lighting my parents bodies on fire. I couldn't believe they were dead, now who was I going to live with at the age of 8. They taught me all the survival skills to help me survive locust attacks since they came into random houses at random times. I was crossing my fingers I was going to either live with Marcus or Dom they were my best friends. I was hoping to live with Marcus more he seemed so lonely all the time with his parents avoiding him. But there was no way that I was living with either one of them.

"Nicole, youre going to pack your bags and live with Uncle Prescott," Uncle Hoffman said. I was very upset by this even though Marcus still lived right next door to me, Uncle Prescott made me feel terrible always whenever no one was around. He would always make fun of me or slap me in other words treat me like shit. I was scared to know what he would do when I lived under his roof. But maybe I could always talk to Marcus about it and maybe he could help solve the problem.

I took extremely long to pack my bags because of this and that he also lived 1 house down which was Marcus's house. I didn't want to leave the house so Uncle Hoffman allowed me to stay the night at my house before I went to Uncle Prescott's house. I asked Marcus if he wanted to stay over the house too as well as Dom and Carlos and there was no way they couldn't say no.

"Guys, I'm extremely scared to move in to my Uncle Prescott's house tomorrow. It's a big step for me," I said

"Big step? How is it a big step? You're just moving down 1 house and you'll still live next to Marcus," Dom said

"He…he abused me in the past when no one was looking," I said scared to move on with the story but started crying while telling it "He slaps me and calls me names and blames things on me. It makes me feel like shit!" I screamed as Carlos came and calmed me down.

"Shh stop crying Nicole you could always talk about it to Marcus because he's right next door and if he still does this to you then tell anyone you know and they will report it they will get the police lock him up and then you will be safe," Carlos said to me to calm me down which worked. He hugged me which made me stop crying and butterflies started flying in my stomach as well as my heart beating faster. He let go of me and I smiled. He could make anyone smile and it was impossible for him to not make anyone smile.

"Thanks Carlos I feel better now-," I stopped talking as I heard foot steps and laughs that sounded like the locust. "Guys shut up and whisper the locust are here hide somewhere and don't come out until they leave," I commanded them in a whisper. We all hid in different spots as the locust came up into my room to check out if anyone was there. I didn't know what possessed me to do something like this but at one moment I took a shotgun hiding under my bed and shot all of the locust until there were none left. "All clear," I said. I stood up and stopped hiding and it was all on video tape because of the cameras in the house. I took the video tape and threw it in a random place of my room.

"Now lets play true or false," Marcus said. It was basically a game where you had to guess anything the person said or did was really meant or not. "I'm up first," Marcus said "Nicole was extremely brave for shooting those locusts like that," he said

"Truth," Dom and Carlos said in unison. I had to deny, I wasn't that brave in my opinion the COG was braver than me.

"Dom and Carlos are right," Marcus said "Dom you're up,"he said. I wonder what this 6 year old had to say.

"Marcus is really mean," Dom said. We all obviously knew the answer was true. Dom looked up to Marcus, Carlos and me. We were his rolemodels.

"Carlos it's you're turn," Marcus said. I was wondering what Carlos was going to do for his turnand had butterflies in my stomach and the next thing I knew he kissed me on the cheek in which everyone except me replied false to that. Then Carlos said that it was true and I blushed as well as him and Dom and Marcus were confused left to ask a million questions the next day.

The next thing I knew I saw me and Uncle Prescott under the same roof as he repeatidly punched me for coming home late and the last thing I heard was him saying these words. "This is all you're fault you evil child! You're responsible for everything. Look what you've done to Sera. Are you happy? Because this is all you're fault!"

I woke up only to find myself wearing the COG armor I wore everyday the same style since I was 10. I felt exchrusiating pain only to see a bullet wound on my thigh. I cried in pain swearing left to right as Marcus was sitting to my right on the helicopter floor Dom to my left on the helicopter floor and Baird and Cole were sitting on the helicopter seats but looked just as worried as Marcus and Dom. Marcus and Dom were grabbing my hands.

"Calm down Nicole, sqeeze our hands when it hurts, okay?" he said which then after he mentioned it the pain came back followed by me tightly sqeezing both hands, screaming in pain, lifting my body up and swearing left to right. Marcus slowly helped me lower my body to the helicopter floor slowly.

"Nicole could you wait because we are about a minute away from the COG medic base," Marcus said.

"Yeah, yeah I could wait just stay with me Marcus, don't let go of my hand the pain is horribly exchrusat-" I screamed again over the pain. Having a bullet in you was no band-aid emergency, I had to get it removed, which isn't very pleasant.

"Okay, Nicole were here! Move," Marcus screamed at people "Don't worry Nicole the bullet will be out of you in no time," he said

"Marcus," I said very weakly then blacking out from the IV they put in me to make me fall asleep.

Flashback

I was dealing well with things between me and Carlos. We were in high school and about to graduate by tomorrow and that meant after tomorrow I would see Marcus and Carlos in the COG and had easy entry when I was 10 because of the tape I had hidden in my room when I was 8 and Uncle Hoffman was a general in the COG and when I was 10 I was a private and didn't work that much (they only shipped me out on the weekends and vacations of school and now I would be shipped out as a sergant with my best friend and boyfriend). So for one more time I went on top of the roof that I lived on and talked on the roofwith my best friend, like we did when we were kids.

"I can't believe were graduating tomorrow," Marcus said "Time really does go by fast."

"Yeah. And after graduation were all going into the COG army together," I said "Maybe we could be in the same squad together. I'm in Delta squad and I'll be a sergant by the time we get on the battlefield."

"So you'll be the boss of us if we get your squad," Marcus said

"Pretty much," I said "You wanna come and have a sleepover like we did when we were kids? Remember you live next door, Fenix. One jump of a roof and you're home."

"Sure," Marcus said. He jumped my roof and was over my house in an instant. It started raining "Ah" I said while Marcus laughed at me "Wanna go inside," he said I could've sworn I said yes a million times before we went inside.

"Oh my gosh I'm so cold," I said as he came over and gave me a warm hug.

"Come on lets go to bed," he said "We have a big event in the morning."

As we walked over to the bed I tripped on the bed and he fell down on me his arms on the bed restraining the both of us. We starred deeply into each others eyes and had a moment. The next thing you know I was on the bed kissing him and then we were under the covers with our clothes on the floor rather than on us and we both just made a big mistake that made our friendship awkward.

The next morning Marcus left early with a note on the table that said read me and I got changed into my Jessica McClintok dress and put on my gown and cap. I then read the letter:

Dear Nicole,

I'm sorry for last night, moments really suck and that was a horrible move that I did to your relationship with Carlos. I have feelings for you and I hope that last night or my feelings won't affect you and Carlos' relationship. Maybe we could be together in the future because now you obviously have someone who you love probably more than me. I won't mention anything about this moment I had with you because I don't want it to effect you're relationship with Carlos and my relationship with him too. I was dreaming about last night for a long time though and was happy that we could do it without anyone knowing. I'll see you at graduation-

I heard a knock at my door only to see Carlos approach me with a hug lifting me up in the air making me scream in joy.

"Carlos put me down," I said as he put me down and then welcomed me with a kiss.

"Hey babe how was your night," Carlos said and I didn't want to mention anything about last night and it was the last thing I wanted to mention but I managed to tell him "It was good."

"Awesome now let's go downstairs and have breakfast with Marcus, my family and you're family I have a surprise for you," he said as he pulled me by my hand downstairs to eat our graduation breakfast.

I saw what was our choices for breakfast and my mouth watered. I also saw many of Carlos' friends and my friends at the breakfast, which I didn't mind. I couldn't say Marcus' friends were there because his friends were Carlos' friends too. As everyone ran to go get their breakfast Carlos stopped them in their tracks saying he had an important question to ask me.

"Nicole I remember the first time I met you how I felt that one day we would be extremely close friends and that we couldn't be inseperatable. Then when we were closer friends in 4th grade I had feelings for you and asked if you would be my girlfriend and you said yes. It may have been playground cuteness because we didn't know what a real boyfriend and girlfriend were but counting our playground friendship we have been together 8 years today. When we really started dating and getting serious was when we were in 7th grade and minus the playground friendship we have been together for 5 years. Since we have been together for so long I wanted to know something." He got down on one knee and I knew this was it. Everyone was freaking out and I was shocked with my hands on my mouth when I saw the ring. It was a 1/3 carat diamond in the shape of a oval with two teardrop rubies on the left and right sides of the ring. "Nicole Marie Phillips, I love you, will you marry me?" he asked as I cried in happiness nodding my head yes and ran over to hug him as he held me in his arms. Everyone clapped even Marcus as he came over to us and said "I'm very happy for you two congrats you two deserve each other," he said with a smile forgetting the passion we shared last night.

"Thanks man. I also have a question for you too," Carlos said

"I hope you don't want to marry me too," Marcus said with humor making Carlos laugh

"Nah, I wanted to know if you could be one of my groomsmen for the wedding. I'd make you my best man but Dom has to be the best man he's the brother. The rules are rules sadly," he asked Marcus

"Sure," Marcus said with a smile.

I woke up in the hospital bed with Marcus, Dom, Baird and Cole waiting for me to wake up and whenI finally did, I asked questions.

"Marcus, what happened?" I asked looking at him with a tired face

"Nicole don't worry you just had to get a bullet out of you that's it. They put you under an IV when doing the operation and you don't know what happened because of it. You'll be fine," he said and pulled me into a tight hug.

Author's End Note: Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a million years! Heres a long chapter to make up the month I was away at CIT camp. I'm still alive don't worry! Should post more soon give me reviews so I can comment and I also don't want to make a series of wars 1-3 so I will make this a whole story about all the wars and what happens to everyone in between the wars. I will make more fan fictions when I have time I was just too busy this summer I might do one night of no sleep all story and another of sleep, sleep, sleep. This pattern will only last until school starts in September and will begin at the end of June if I don't have my counceler job then. Thanks for reading guys! Reviews por favor?(it means please in Spanish by the way practicing it for September!)