Chapter 2: A fresh, new hell.

Section 8: The Base.

"I'd do anything for you, just like how you would do anything for me."

- Anna "Beetle" Spandein

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Current time, Iraq, Company academy 8, Siko Weston.

"Why?" As Siko follows Anna down a trial, the girl asked.

"Why what?" Siko replied back.

"Why did you change your mind and help me?" Anna stopped walking, and looked back at Siko, "I don't think my story was convincing enough for an unrelated person like you."

"Well, let's just say that I've got some personal beef with the 'Hunter'." Siko replied, "Uh, life and death style beef." He added on.

Anna scanned his whole body from top to bottom, trying to remember his appearance.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Siko feels a bit creeped out.

"I'm trying to remember you before you die," Anna replied quite seriously, "You don't mess with the biggest militia leader around here, especially when we are in Iraq."

"This place is a mess because of the ongoing war." She continued.

"Well, let me just say that… I am a lot tougher than what you expect." Siko replied with confidence."

"I hope that's true. Com'on, let's keep going." Anna said quickly, then continued to walk.

Siko followed right behind her as they kept on walking on the muddy road.

What they don't realize is that in the dark, a pair of eyes has been watching them from far away.

"What a shame."

5 minutes later, Iraq, Company academy 8, Siko Weston.

They stopped in front of a yellowish concrete building, it's quite tall as it has three stories.

There are no signs around the place, but it must be a special building that is important, or else the windows wouldn't be so clean.

Anna knocked on the door slowly, tapping a specific rhyme.

After about ten knocks, the door opened. What appears to be Yuri is standing behind the door.

Anna looked back at Siko, then whispered next to Yuri's ear. After a bit, he stepped away from the doorway and gave Siko a friendly nod.

Siko nodded back and followed Anna inside.

"Sorry, that was just a security measure," Anna gave an apology, "You gotta be careful sometimes."

"No need for an apology." Siko replied with once again a smile on his face, "Why am I here again?"

"You will see, here, follow me." Anna pointed at one of the doors in front of him. This place is actually fairly big, considering the first floor has at least five rooms from what he could see.

Current time, Iraq, Inferno Squad base, Anna Spandein.

As Anna lead Siko to one of the doors, she feels like all of this is unreal.

She has already prepared herself to accept failure this morning. Although she knows that her brothers wouldn't blame her for anything, she still felt hopeless and sorry. They have come so far and now this can't be it.

She was right, perhaps the family can exist for a while, all thanks to…

She looked back at Siko again, the man smiled again as usual. She has never felt so warm from anyone else's action, it feels like a smaller sun that is shining upon her from the side.

But it's still a very important time right now, she must continue.

Ending her thoughts, Anna opened the door for Siko, "Please, there is someone you must meet." She signaled him to go in with her left hand.

Closing the door, Anna feels so glad all of a sudden. She gained a huge smile on her face and quickly walked away from the door.

Current time, Iraq, Inferno Squad base, Siko Weston.

The room is a small office, and Siko is pretty surprised by who's sitting in the chair in front of him.

"Hello again, Sam." Olaf smiled at him and told him to have a seat.

Siko just feels butthurt at this point, he should've seen it coming, who else would be in charge of helping the Inferno Squad.

But that can only be his feelings. Siko nodded back at Olaf, he had gained a lot more respect in Siko's eyes from Anna's story.

"I suppose that Anna has managed to convince you hasn't she." Olaf continued, "So tell me, what did she do? Bribe? Or even some sexual promises?"

"Neither, I came for another reason," Siko sat down on his guest chair, and replied, "I want to mess with the man behind Alexandru."

"Oh, wow. That's pretty unexpected," Olaf seems surprised just like Anna, "But either way, thanks."

"You don't need to thank me for anything, I'm just doing this for personal reasons like what I said," Siko replied as he looked out at the window behind Olaf. There sits a giant field, where William and Tal from before are currently doing some sort of duel.

"Well, you know, keeping these boys running is hard these days," Olaf followed Siko's eyes, and a wider smile appeared on his face, "I believe that you have heard about their stories, yes?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" Siko replied, his eyes still on the duel outside.

"I remember you staring hated at me during the training, there's no way you would be so friendly all of a sudden," Olaf looked back at him, "But you know, I'm just aggressive especially to Americans..."

"I'm not American. Why would you hate them so much anyway?" Siko cut him off, but anger doesn't appear from Olaf's face this time around.

"Just FBI issues when they were called on me by the UN, the German government was afraid that I would leak info out. They considered me a traitor instead of just an escapee." Olaf answered his question, "Actually I think I'm probably more terrorist than traitor now."

"But hell I wouldn't leak any info or kill people for fun like what they said about me in the papers," Olaf continued, "I love my country, but my actions ensured that they would never love me back. But I don't regret it."

"I suppose so, it's not easy to lose someone important. I would probably have done the same." Siko replied, outside is still trading fists and kicks.

"Yeah yeah, anyways we are getting off track. Let's move on to the actual topic." Olaf said while taking out a cigarette out of his pocket but quickly threw it back as he looks up at Siko.

"I don't mind, it's just not healthy." Siko waved his hands and watched Olaf light the cigarette and put it in his mouth, then smoke came out.

"Thanks," Olaf took another breath of the cancer stick, "I'm used to these when I remember some of the difficult times."

"Alright now, we should really move on," Olaf continued as his face turns serious.

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Author's message: 05/17/2018

Hi! I hope you are enjoying the story so far, it has been fun for me to write and I hope it's the same for you to read as well :)

The story may seem farfetched as currently, I'm trying to bring something big up that may relate to the future.

At this point I'm still trying to get at least one section in each day, if not at least 5 sections per week. Sometimes I may do bonus if I still got time :P

Feel free to let me know if I missed any details in the comment section!

Thanks for sticking around!