"You know what I wonder?" Cole said, "Why the hell we're dragging a mummy through the jungle!"

"Because that mummy's gonna end the war."

Reaper watched in amusement as the two soldiers looked at Kraken with something approaching terror.

"S-sir-"

"H-hey sarge-"

"Gentleman," said Kraken, "That husk you've been slinging is Emperor Gia Long, died 1820, and he unified this country, before it split apart again. He was a symbol to the people, north and south, and a secret practitioner of the black arts. We get to the pick-up zone any minute now and we ship 'G-Long' back to Saigon, where he'll get resurrected, unleashing his terrible power on the Veit-Cong, and getting us home by Christmas."

Both men simply stared at him. Reaper had to suppress a chuckle.

"To be honest," Kraken sighed, "I'm not really sure I understand this myself-"

"Guys! It's not bacon, it's eggs!" Burne said excitedly as he ran up, "The guy says, 'We would but we need the'-"

He was cut-off quite suddenly by a bullet to the brain. Blood splattered everywhere and Reaper quickly aimed his gun in the direction of the bullets.

"OH MY GOD!"

"THY'RE EVERYWHERE!"

"ALPHA BRAVO! GET DOWN!" he heard Merlin yell.

Too late Reaper heeded Merlin's warning. Both he and Kraken were blown off their feet by the explosion. He knew he wasn't hurt though. All that had happened was that he had gotten his hat blown off. Pity really. Scrambling to his feet he saw Piccolo staring at the mutilated corpse of his friend.

"Jesus…Cole?" Piccolo murmured, in a daze.

"DUMBASS!" Reaper yelled, "GRAB YOUR WEAPON AND RETURN FIRE!"

"PROTECT THAT MUMMY!" Kraken shouted.

It was difficult to see who exactly Reaper was firing at. The problem was cleared up quite suddenly when he heard someone, probably Merlin, yell;

"Spiderholes!"

He turned around to fire at them. Quickly Reaper brought the one closest to him down. The world was swirling in a spray of blood, fire, and lead. Sweat ran down from his forehead and stung his eyes. They were in Hell and he was a devil destroying the souls that dared to come near him. He smiled.

"Piccolo! Pop a flare!" shouted Kraken.

At least the man had gotten into gear enough to be able to do that. As the red-flare lit up the sky Kraken muttered;

"Think you could cut a few of these guy's lines?"

Cocking his head Reaper frowned.

"They don't have any."

"What do you mean they don't have any?" Kraken hissed.

"It's because they're not alive. I think we've got some V.C.V's on our hands," grinned Reaper.

Kraken whipped around and shot one that was trying to rip out his throat. Angrily he shot at another one.

"Fuck this," he said as he picked up a portable radio, "Klaus? Where are you?"

"Codenames man! You gotta call me by my code name!" the voice on the other side insisted.

"Now Klaus!" Kraken yelled in frustration, "I've got more vampires then I know what to do with and two men down!"

"Roger Serpent!" the other voice said cheerfully, "Things got real hot real fast here, and it's a big jungle. Spirit out."

Kraken looked like he was going to try and strangle Séance through the phone. However, he was distracted by one of the vampires taking a piece out of Merlin's cheek.

"Sonofa-!" Merlin exclaimed.

"Merlin!" Kraken yelled as he shot the offending vampire, "Stay cool-!"

Soon Kraken realized that he was out of bullets and surrounded by vampires. Reaper wasn't but he liked the idea of slicing these things up better. It was so impersonal to just shoot them. Very slowly he took out the Vietnamese-style sword that had replaced his scythe in recent years.

Seconds later he was slicing in a flurry of limbs and blood. He was in the middle of it all again and once again he felt the hot adrenaline. It felt so good. It felt good to pretend that he was doing this to the Temps. He would be doing it soon. Perhaps in a few hours he'd have his revenge. The thought made him smile as he sliced one of the vampire's heads in half horizontally. Cool.

As soon as he finished beheading the last one he felt a shadow fall over him. He looked up to find a fifty foot mummy staring down at him. Apparently Gia-Long had woken up.

"So how would this have worked?" Kraken said in disgust.

A large explosion forced them to seek cover.

"My brother's an idiot," groaned Kraken.

"I couldn't agree more," Reaper said.

"You have a brother?" asked Piccolo in disbelief.

"Sarge!" Merlin said, pointing, "Up in the air!"

Reaper smirked as he saw Space fly through the air and sucker-punch Gia-Long's head off and into oblivion.

"He's got a couple," Reaper said.

As soon as Spaceboy touched down he saw the rest of the platoon train their guns on him.

"What the hell kinda-?" Merlin exclaimed.

Reaper rolled his eyes. These boys would shoot cans if they were in the air.

"Stand down boys. He's with me."

The two brothers walked over to sit on one of the dead Emperor's arms. Reaper then noticed that what was left of the platoon was looking at him, expecting answers. Sighing Reaper knew that the next few minutes would be very interesting, and very frustrating, indeed.

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"You done feeling sorry for yourself?" Space asked as they sat down.

Kraken shot him a harsh look.

"What makes you think I'm feeling sorry for myself?" he snapped.

Space gave a half-hearted shrug.

"Nothing much. Just you volunteering to go off with Mister Insane over there."

"I just needed to clear my head," said Kraken sharply.

"For three years?" Space asked as he raised an eyebrow.

Irritably Kraken drummed his fingers up against the Mummy's arm. His brother was getting uncomfortably close to home.

"It's nothing."

"Bullshit," Space said, "Because the thing is you ran away before we ever got to Vietnam. This is about Vanya."

Kraken's first instinct was to say something derogatory and try to stab his brother with anything. Yet, he felt too tired to try something like that. Instead he decided to try the truth for once.

"No," he sighed, "it's me."

Scratching the back of his neck he continued;

"Hell, she's never going to love me without those memories and I know it. I was always surprised that she loved me with them. Being out here makes you think though. I decided on something."

He stood up and Space followed him.

"I'm gonna tell her how I feel when I get back. It might not be right or normal for me to do something like that under the circumstances but-"

"Allison once told me that a normal life isn't an option for any of us," interrupted Space, "She said, what was it again…? Ah yes, 'Screw Normal'. It's worked pretty well for me so far."

Kraken adjusted his hat and glared over at his brother.

"Stop rubbing it in," he snapped.

Any reply that Space would've had was drowned out by the approaching helicopter.