Chapter 9 - Umbara Part II
Warning: I skipped the part of the rest of the battle of Umbara and this chapter will be about the time after taking base. (And also, because I'm lazy sometimes XD)
Onika went to the room and cut the sleeves of her overcoat. Then she folded her overcoat and left it on a table that was in the room and left. Onika met with the battalion.
"Wow, Major. It's not always we see you without your overcoat." Hardcase said, looking Onika who was with her white tank top. "By the way, I liked your tattoo!"
"Oh... thanks!", Onika said.
Tup raged when Hardcase looked Onika without her overcoat, but he doesn't expressed his jealousy. Onika looked Tup and approached him, whispering in his ear.
"Calm down, honey. He's just commenting that-" Onika was interrupted by Tup.
"Commenting, right? I saw him commenting."
"Look, Tup. I want to keep our relationship a secret, so pretend you're not dating me."
"All right." Tup said, ending the dialogue with Onika.
Onika pulled away and went to the bedroom to change her bandage. Onika sat at the table of the room and stood with her back to the door. Someone covered her eyes with her hands. Onika ran her hands over the person's arms and smiled. Not to mention the name of Tup, she pulled one's hands down and looked back and...
"Tup." Onika said, kissing him.
"Onika. Can I help you change the bandage?"
"Yes. Take that medpack and take gauze, antiseptic and cotton."
"Right now, my dear." Tup said, kissing her and stood up from the table.
Tup caught the medpack and returned to the table. Onika took the bandage from her arm and left Tup clean her wound. Onika looked at him and realized that, unlike Kix, Tup cleaned her wound carefully. Both smiled looking to one another. Tup finished cleaning the wound Onika and made a new bandage on her arm.
"Thank you." Onika said.
Tup smiled and pulled her close, then leaned into her neck and smelled her perfume. Onika smiled. The bedroom door opened and the rest of the battalion entered. Onika and Tup quickly turned away and distanced themselves from a respectable distance. Onika got up and took the dirty bandage and tossed in the trash. Onika returned and heard the soldiers talking about taking the capital. She listened carefully to the discussion. Fives talked about the plan they developed.
"There is another option. We go ahead with our plan, and suffer the consequences." Fives said.
"You will be court-martialed." Rex said , sitting at the table and putting his helmet on the knee. "If it were up to me, and we had time and training, I would. But the truth is that you are not pilots."
"Come on. If Hardcase could drive those things, we all can." Jesse said.
"Yeah, but he was not really flying, it was more like 'avoiding falling.' We will be reached before we get close." Tup said.
"Not if we're in their airfighters. So no one will shoot us." Fives said.
Dogma entered the room.
"There comes Dogma." Jesse said, whispering to the other soldiers.
"What's going on?" Dogma asked.
"Err... Nothing." Tup said, giving a slight smile.
Dogma suspected that they were hiding something. Rex left the room and Fives followed.
Several hours later, at midnight, Onika was awake, walking around the base, when she saw Fives, Jesse and Hardcase.
"Hey, where are you going?" Onika asked.
"Major, please, if anyone asks where we are, promise us you did not see us, you have not talked to us and you do not know anything." Fives said.
"Got it, but I will take no responsability about what will happen. Went clear?"
"Yes, ma'am." Fives said, starting toward the fighters along with Jesse and Hardcase.
Onika went to her room and sat in a chair, having a bad feeling of what will happen. Onika put her hands on her head and began to have tremors. She ran from the room and went to the kitchen to drink a calming tea, then left and went to the courtyard of the base.
