(A/N) Heys guys merry christmas or at least for me. I hope you guys had a good christmas and if you feel like telling me just tell me in the review. Now without further or do onto the story.
Chapter 7
Only Human
We all get off the helicopter and I see Kenshi waiting. Johnny takes the lead and meets Kenshi. Me and Takeda were at the back so we really couldn't hear much of the conversation but if my memory serves me correct I believe that they are talking about the refugees. "After you."Kenshi let's everybody pass but me and Takeda. "I heard of what you two did and I am proud of you both. But you failed to work as a team but do not dwell on that." He said telepathically. Takeda sighed as he remembered of what happened. "Pretty hard not to." Takeda replied back as we were still talking telepathically.
All three of us walk to main tent or as I like to call it Sonya's Lair because she almost never leaves it unless she has to. Before we reach the tent I walk next to Takeds. "We may have got are asses kicked but at least you never faced your father." As soon as I said that I mentally faced palmed myself because I just remembered that he did and one. "Actually I have... and one." Even though I played as him through that part I have never been personally able to defeat Kenshi, he has always kicked my ass. We walk inside the Liar. Me and Takeda arrive just in time to hear "Sergeant Cage as you and your team were." Cassie looks bewildered but follows the order given by her mother.
You know I don't understand how Sonya could be so cold to her own daughter I mean seriously that's your own daughter. We go back a few feet so we can still hear the conversation. I really didn't care of what they had to say because I knew what was going to happen next. "Well that's good." I hear Cassie say. I look and almost mouth the words that come next. "Not now sergeant Cage." I hear Sonya say. I see Cassie's face drop, I let a sigh not really carry who heard me. Sonya looks at me but I don't care. They blabber on about it being the possible Shinnok's amulet and so on and so forth. I tone back after Jin is confused about who they are talking about. I answer his question, "I believe there talking about Kano."
Jin, Jacqui, and Takeda all turn to me. "Who?" Jacqui asked me. "Seriously you guys never heard of Kano?" They all shake their heads. "Really, you know leader of the Red Dragons, assassasain, A whore for money. None of them ring a bell?" They all shake their heads again. I just sigh and drop it.
I see Johnny walk past me. "I'll come with." He said to Sonya. "Go get a update on camp security from Colonel Flags." Sonya replies back to him. "Why?" Johnny asked her. "Because you won't be here." Cassie steps forward but Johnny puts his hand up to stop her. She keeps on standing there until I put my hand on her shoulder and softly turn her away from them and bring her back to the group. Johnny walks off and the team and I walk to Sonya. "Are we with you?" Cassie asked her. "No we need to confirm with Kotal Kahn Li Mei's story is true. You and your team are going to Outworld." With that Sonya walks away.
"Alright you heard her were going to Outworld. So grab what you need we leave in 60." Cassie said to us. Everybody leaves but me. 'Why would we leave in a hour that way to long to get ready' I thought but I follow the order. On the way to the to my quarters I pass Cassie's and I hear crying. "It's none of your business Jack, it's none of your oh fuck it." I said outloud. I walk over to her door and knock on it. "One minute." I hear her say through the door and long with of her trying to clean herself but being loud about it.
"Take your time." I said. And right after I said that I hear everything that is going on in there suddenly stop. another moment passes and i'm still standing there and at that point I start rocking back and forth on my heels. Another for moments pass and i'm still outside waiting on her to open the door, and that point I start getting some weird looks from the soldiers. Again another few moments pass and I am about to give up when I hear her door give off a soft click but she doesn't open it. I mentally debate whether or not to go inside or not. Going Going in wins over not going in.
I open her door and I instantly notice that her quarters are a lot bigger and nicer than mine and I feel a pang of jealousy hit me. "Cassie." I call out. "In hear." I hear her say softly.
I walk over to where I heard her say it. I find her in her own room with her knees hugging her chest and her eyes red and puffy. "What to tell me about it?" I asked her to see of she would tell me, but I have a suspicion of what it is about. "No not really. What are you doing here?" I take a seat at the edge of her bed. "I heard you crying and I wanted to see of you were ok. Also to scope out the place to see if there is anything worth stealing." That got a small chuckle from her. "Is there anything here then." She asked as she rubbed her nose. I look around her room "No not really."
"Are you saying that my stuff is not good enough for you to take." She said acting hurt. "You want me to steal your stuff that's new." We both laughed at what we were doing. There was a moment of silence between us. I hear sniffle a few times during the silence between. "I wonder what you must think of me right now." I look at her questionly. "What do you mean?" I was honestly confused. She got a little angry at me for asking that. "Look at me, i'm a mess a nobody should see me like this, especially my team."
I calmly got up from where I was and moved towards her. I sit next to her "Cassie what's the real problem." I replied calmly. "You want to know what is wrong with me!" She said with much more force than last time. "I do." I said still keeping composure. "Fine if you want to know then here it is. The reason why i'm like this because of what happened today, I failed the test given to me and my mother treats me like another soldier than her own daughter and she treats my father like a brand new recruit." Each word she said more tears flooded came out of her eyes. After she was done she took a long deep breath in. "Better?" I asked. "More than you know." I smile at her and I lean her head back against her headboard.
Cassie followed what I did and leaned her head against the headboard. "Thank you." She said to me. "It's what i'm hear for. That and to kickass." She laughed at that. We sit there for a few minutes in silence and I start wondering how much time we have left before we have to go. I look at my watch and I see I still have 45 minutes to kill. "Hey Cassie we have about 45 minutes before we leave." There was no answer. "Cassie?" I asked. All I get in return is soft breathing to my right. I look over to see her head resting on my shoulder. I didn't even notice she put head there, probably because of the armor.I'm faced with a few options here.
Option 1. I gently lift her head and set her down to wear she is laying down and set her alarm for 45 minutes.
Option 2. I wake her up informing her that we have 45 minutes left till we leave and then leave her alone. Ya we can just scratch that idea.
Option 3. I gently lift her head and remove my shoulder piece so she has a softer thing to rest her head on and stay here and wake up when we need to leave. I think i'll pick this one.
I lift her head up as softly as I can trying not to wake her and remove my shoulder piece as quietly as possible. After I was able to get it off I put her head back down as gently as possible. After I put her head back down I let out a sigh of relief to not have awaken her. That relief was by her moving her head from my shoulder and wrapping her arms and my chest and having head rest on chest. She was basically using me as a snuggle pillow. But I didn't mind it at all, infact I enjoyed probably a little to much as I felt myself becoming 'excited'. You see I never really had a girl do this with me so its all new. But no matter how much I enjoyed it I knew I had to stop it so I went to option 1.
I gently removed her from my torso and was able to lay her down on her bed. I look at my watch and I see we have 30 minutes left so I set her alarm for 30 minutes and leave as quietly as possible. I walk out of her quarters and I see that nobody is around. "What were you doing in there?" I hear a voice behind me ask. I turn around and I see it's Sonya. "Helping out a friend General." I said while turning to face her. "May I ask why."
"Mam I believe it is not my place to tell you, perhaps you can ask her." A frown forms on her face before she straightens back up. "Why can't you tell me Jack." She was starting to become pist. You couldn't tell by her voice but by her body language. "Because mam it is not my place to tell." I said back a little more irritated. "Tell me what you were doing in Sergeant Cage's room, that's an order." Ok i'm not the one to lose my temper but my opinion and tolerance for her is not very high at the moment. But she wants to know what I was doing in her daughter's quarters so there is a hint of carrying in her, so i'll let it slide a little.
"Mam like I said before it is not my place to tell. If you ask your daughter she may tell, it is up to her if she wants you to know. But I wouldn't do that because she is resting at the moment." I walk away before she can ask anymore questions. I get to my quarters and I see that my door is open, which is weird because I always lock my door. I pull out Shadow and enter my quarters. I get inside and I see that everything is the way is the same way that I left it and I don't like it. After I search all of my one room and bathroom I see that nobody is there and I still don't like it. I put Shadow back in in the sheath and I walk outside to one of the woman that is patrolling.
"Can I help you?" She asked me as I approached. "Yeah did you see anybody go into my quarters today?" She nods her head. "I did see General Cage near her maybe she did one of her random inspections." Didn't think about that. Sometimes does inspections to make sure we don't have any contraband she must have left my door open by accident and it would explain why I ran into her after leaving Cassie's. I thank her and I go back to my quarters.
25 minutes pass by and I leave my quarters to go meet the rest of the team outside of Sonya's Lair. I see that Cassie is the only one there. "Hey" I greet her. I decide to act like nothing happened. "We need to talk." She said to me. "Do we, I mean I would think that you don't want to talk about it. And how are you up I set your alarm for 30 minutes."
"You woke me up when you closed my door." I was a bit puzzled on that's what her up not me moving her or her snuggling into me. I do a quick look around to see if anybody else is coming. I see that were clear and proceed. "Alright you win let's talk. And before you say anything I am not going to tell anybody about what happened." I was hoping that it was one less thing to talk about. "Thanks but that's not it. What I wanted to talk about is that you saw me like that." I let out a sigh "Cassie look it's alright you are human just as much as I am and the next person ok. Sometimes we all just need to break down and let it all out ok." I said while giving her a reassuring smile and putting a hand on her.
"Thanks." Was all she said. "No problem, now I suggest we stop talking about because I can see the rest of the coming here, ok" She smiles back and she faces the team. "We all ready to go?" she asked them. They all nod. Cassie pulls a device out of one her pockets and a portal opens. I'm a little hesitant on going through it since i've never been through one. I walk up to it and put my hand in it and pull back out and I am glad I did that. I feel something heavy get on my hand through the portal, I pull my hand through and I wish I didn't. I pulled my hand out and I see a spider not just any spider but a spider the size of a basketball. "WHAT THE FUCK!" I scream as I shake my hand to get it off.
It wouldn't get off no matter how I shook my arm it get off. If anything I think it was crawling up it. I Pull out my hidden blade and i'm about to stab it but I hear a gunshot and and I feel some of it's inside splatter on my face. I feel it slump off on my arm. I open my eyes and I see it has a whole in it. To my right I see Cassie with one of her pistol's out with smoke coming out of the barrel. "Thank you so much." I say to her and she smiles at me. I want to make sure it's dead so I take out my hidden blade again and stab. After I am satisfied with it being dead. I push it off my arm and let it fall to the floor with wet slap.
"I think you need this." I hear Jacqui say to me as she hands me a rag. I take the rag and thank her. I wipe of my face and arm of it's insides and make sure i'm clean of it. "That was disgusting." I say after i'm clean. I look down on the ground to see where it landed I see there is a greenish line that starts by my feet and heads over to a cluster of containers. So it's still alive. I walk over to one over to the soldiers and say "I need you to grab everyman you can get and and every single piece of firepower you got and follow that trail. When you find it I want you to unload every clip you have into it and make sure it's dead. After that I want somebody to put it on fire and burn it to ash ok." The soldier nods and grabs several men and woman and follow the trail to the containers.
"Was that really necessary?" Jin asked me. I turn to him. "Cassie shot that and I stabbed it multiple times. And it crawls away without making a noise. That thing deserve to die." I really don't mind spiders I mean I used to have one as a pet before john crushed it. But a spider that big does not belong anywhere.
I calm down a little and get ready to get into the portal again when I hear gunshots coming from the containers. A few seconds later I see a soldier run out to a barrel and light the inside of it on fire. Soon after he did I see another soldier come out with it in his hands and it's still moving. The soldier throws the little bastard in the fire and I hear a loud screeching sound coming from the barrel but it stops as fast as it starts. Everything goes quiet and I let out a sigh of relief, but then the barrel start banging. "Are you fucking kidding me." I hear Takeda say behind me. The barrel really starts to get pounded on from the inside.
I had it with it, so I pull out shadow and over to the barrel. When I get there I kick the barrel over and I see it slowly crawl at hopefully close to death. I see that it is charred and all black from the fore and I see its wounds still oozing form where it was shot. I raise Shadow and hack it in half, but i'm not done. I step on both halves on crush them, it gave me a nice little crunch when I did it. I step off it and I see it is just mush at that point but I want to make sure it's dead. "You!" I said while pulling a soldier over to me. "Unload you clip into that thing!" He fires before I could finish my sentence. I guess he hates it too.
When i'm satisfied that it's dead I walk back over to the team. "Let's go." Was all I said. I walked into the portal before anybody. I get to the other side and I see where outside a city and it was big. I wait for everybody else to come through the it and the mean time to keep myself busy by keeping a lookout for more spiders. After a few minutes of no spiders and the team my mind drifts to what happened early. 'I wonder if anything can happen between me and Cassie?' I never had a girlfriend even though plenty flirted with me and hell during my junior year it was girls pick for the dance that we had. I politely declined them all. The reason why is because is something did happen between us I didn't want to bring her to meet my so called family. And if you're wondering if i'm still a virgin... I am.
But i'm off topic here. I mean what happened today between me and her does she just fall asleep because she was tired or she felt comfortable and safe with me. I'm probably over thinking it. I snapped out of my thoughts when I hear the rest of the team come through the portal. After the enter it closes behind them. "Keeping a lookout for more spiders." Cassie said while chuckling. "Actually I was thinking." I turn to face her as she comes to stand next to me. "Oh really about what?" She asked in a amused voice. I look into her amber eyes and give her a warm smile "Stuff" That was all I replied to her. I am not going what I was thinking.
"I hate to break you two up but we should get in with the task." Jacqui said. "Right. Alright guys let's get going." Cassie said as she was ordering us to follow her as she takes point and me following behind her and Jacqui to my right. As were walking to the city my eyes start to drift down to Cassie's ass and i'm watching it sway back and forth. I quickly snap out of my trance and bring my eyes my forward again. 'This is going to get tough.' I thought.
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(A/N) Heys guys what's up z0mbi3 here and here is chapter 7 and I want to kind of make the game part of the story last by filling in the parts that they don't show in the game. And again I hope you guys had a great christmas and again if you guys feel like telling me how it went you can tell me how it went by sending a new review. Thank you to my new followers of the story I hope you guys are enjoying it like I am. Anyways as always I will see you next time this is z0mbi3 signing off.
