Killed By Death

by mrcookieman36

I don't understand. I thought I was a normal average teenager going through a shit experience. When I thought my troubles where over, more just come piling on. I cant even explain it myself I went in normal, but then came out as a killing machine. Maybe these people could help i suppose, i mean its not like i got anything else better to do.

7. Chapter 7

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Chapter 7

Man I was such in a deep sleep that I didn't even noticed that someone was knocking on my door. Soon enough I should have known that Strike was at my door step, but then again I was asleep after all.

Strike stood there a bit annoyed at why the kid wasn't answering his door. Shit he better hurry morning physical training starts in twenty minutes. Sigh I bet he's still asleep, oh well better go and wake him up.

Luckily for her there was no locks step up on this kid's makeshift bunk. Strike enters in the kid's room as silently as she could while having a very large grin on her face.

Oh look at him on how this kid sleeps it's kind of cute. He almost looks like a small kid sleeping the night away with no worries, well that all about to change in moment's notice.

Strike started to play around for a minute with the kid, speaking to him in a soft voice to coax the kid to wake up. "Kid, Kid, it's time to wake up now."

Seeing that this was not going to work out, Strike just did the old fashion way by shaking the kid awake.

I start to wake up in much grogginess seeing with my blurred vision of Strike grining a me. I just ignored her and started to bat her away with my arm trying to go back to asleep.

"Come on kid wake up PT starts in fifteen." Geez did this kid just blow me off? "Ok I tried to be nice, but it seems that I have to play hard ball with you." Strike went into the kid's washroom to get a large cup of cold water to splash on his face.

When she dropped it on the kids face, he woke in an instant. Yet Strike wasn't done yet as she lifted up the kids makes shift bed to throw him out of bed as a final solution to wake his ass up.

If the cold water wasn't enough, Strike decided to toss me like sack of potatoes." OK, OK, I'M AWAKE." As I got on my hands and knees finally shaking off the sleep, Strike was crouching next to me looking at me with an amused look on her face.

"You say your awake now." I just nodded to her." Good then here let me help you up on your feet."" Ok go wash your face and get dressed quickly, I only got ten minutes left to get you to Pt."

I did as Strike said as I washed my face and got dressed in my all greens. I started to walk outside my bunk room to meet Strike who was waiting outside for me. As I made it out the door to see Strike, it was nothing but perpetual darkness everywhere with some lights here and there.

"What the, where's the sun, what time is it?"" Well Kid we usually start Pt around 0500 hours."" Huh, what, uh what is 0500 hours?"" Oh yeah I keep forgetting that your new and you probably don't know the lingo yet."" 0500 hours translate to 5:00 A.M kid."

"It's five in the morning."" Why can't you guys just to your Pt when the sun is out?"" Well kid if you haven't noticed already this place is a desert."" If we did our exercises in the morning we would be dropping like flies from the heat in thirty minutes."

"Good god it cold out here."" Were in the desert kid remember, it's hot in day and cold at night."" Besides don't worry about getting a jacket, you won't need it."

Soon enough Strike led me to what they called the parade grounds where pretty much all the essential personnel gather which consisted of the Joes and green shirts. At first I thought I was going with our respective cliques like green shirts here and Joes there.

Nope instead where all mashed in together. All in all it looked like a couple of hundred people or so I think, it could be more. The first thing we all did as a group was to go on a run of sorts. At first I thought I was going to be a simple jog to get the blood flowing.

I couldn't be more dead wrong than I thought; this wasn't a jog it was run. A five mile run according to Strike. I tried to keep up, but these dudes and chicks are much fitter than I am. Heck even the path was dark with very little light for me to see.

Shit I was getting tired quick as I started to slow down. Every breath I took in made my lungs ache due to the dry cold air hurting my lungs. Then it finally dawned on me, shit I think I'm lost from the group. I tried to look all around to see where they went, but how can I in this pitch black night.

So I just stopped to catch my breath and waited out here in the wilderness. I hoped and I waited thinking that hey they'll know that I'm lost and come and get me. At least there was no wind to bog me down as I stood there shivering a bit.

I look up to the all the stars in the sky, whoa that's looks so beautiful. Even the moon looking like a toe nail, it had that majestic look to it. I just let my mind wander when I was looking up to the stars that I didn't even notice that someone was coming up from behind me.

"Hey are you quitting on me kid!?" I got out of my star gazing phase and started to look around to see who said that. "Who's there?"" Are you quitting on me Kid!?"" Uh no, it's just I got left behind from the pack."" Then what are you waiting for?"" Get moving kid!"

I started to respond nervously to the voice." I don't know where to go mister, but if you come out and show me I'll do what you ask." All of a sudden I saw a flash of light hitting the ground near my feet. I could make out a silhouette of a rather tall man near me. Yet I couldn't see his face.

"You see that light over there as he pointed with his light." I started to focus on it as it was nothing more than a faint speck in the distance. "Uh yeah sort of mister."" Well that's where you going to, now get moving."

"Uh I don't know mister I can't see the ground how do I know if I don't fall down a hole or run into a cactus?"" The path is clear kid, NOW MOVE YOUR ASS."" Ok, ok, ok you don't have to yell."

I started to move it and lose it. I did my very best to run a little bit faster as I tried to control my breathing. All I know is that I don't want piss off whoever is behind me.

About ten minutes later I reached to where everyone was at. Of course all eyes where upon me as If I was the only person holding everyone back.

Shit I was so dog ass tired that I didn't noticed that I passed Strike. "Hey I was wondering where you went," Strike said in amusement to the kid.

I really didn't pay any attention to Strike as I started to collapse on the ground to get rest. Yet I felt some strong hands and arms pull me back up on my feet in an instant.

"Hey don't sit down or your muscles will start to tighten up on you," Strike exclaimed. At least Strike did hand me some bottle water, which I took in an instant and started to gulp it down.

"So are we done now?"" No that was just the morning warm up run; we still got a lot exercising to do."

And boy was Strike ever right about that. We did push ups, pull ups, sit ups, and all sorts of shit I never even heard of. Just when I though it couldn't get any worse, we had this obstacle course we all had to do. Shit I thought they were going to take it easy on me since it was my first day.

Instead they worked me over real good. I kept getting yelled at by this dude who wore like some mask that covered his entire face, but eyes. I suspected he was the same guy who yelled at me earlier when I was running with the group.

The Pt training ended when first light of the sun finally peaked up over the horizon. Soon enough I found out that it was like 700 am. Shit did we exercise for like two hours? Once we were done with Pt, I just started to head back to my room to lie down.

Of course Strike was ever persistent with keeping me on track that she actually stopped me from going to back to my room.

"Where do you think you're going kid?" Not really looking back to Strike I said, "Going back to my room to rest a bit ok." Strike caught up to me putting her arm around my neck and shoulder to pull me into a 180 degree turn.

"Oh no you don't, sorry kid but your forgetting about the most important meal of the day."" Besides I got to keep you on track with your antennary throughout the week."" My what?"" Your schedule kid, I got to keep you on track for the first couple of weeks until you get use to it."

"You can wash up after breakfast ok."" Geez Strike I'm sore all over, I got blisters on my hands here, and I think I got them in on my feet as well."" You got blisters, here let me see."

As we continue to walk Strike takes a look at both of my hands inspecting them for blisters. What I didn't noticed, is that Strike had a pin needle in her hand." Ouch what the heck did you just do?"" I did you a favor kid by popping your blisters.""Trust me you'll feel much better afterwards."

Now I got a new stinging sensation in my hands as well as being sore all over my body. We both finally make it to the mess room. I just got my morning breakfast of eggs and bacon and some red stuff to drink down.

Of course before I got in line, I made the excuse to use the restroom before hand. That way I could lose Strike in the crowd and find a table for me to relax and lie my head down to get a little bit of shut eye.

The good thing about that plan was that I was able to find a table for myself near the corner of the mess room. The bad thing was that my sleeping plan only lasted a good two minutes before I got yelled at again by someone who wasn't Strike.

"Mess hall is for eating not sleeping you get me greenie!" I pop my head up seeing in some blur vision on who it was. "Sorry man I was just closing my eyes for a short moment."

When my focus came clear it was that same mask wearing dude. As he started to take it off to start digging in." Oh shit I'm sorry mister." I just kept my gaze down not looking at his angry face. That wasn't the only reason either when I wasn't looking at this guys face. What hell was that stench? Good god it smelled like really bad B.O.

It finally dawns on me that it was coming from this guy. I made no attempt to let him know of the smell, while at the same time I just ignored it as much as I could while I tried to eat.

"You got a name greenie?"" Uh well mister my name is…."

"Oh there you are kid, I was wondering where you ran off to this time," Strike said jokingly to the Kid. "Uh you know me Strike being all wandering around," I sheepishly said.

Strike actually took the seat right next to me to block me into the wall so I couldn't escape." Good morning Beach Head how are you doing?" Beach head just grunted to Strike, but then continue to fix his gaze towards this new greenie.

"So answer my question greenie, what's your name?"" Well mister the priest gave me the name of Mark, but everyone else around here keeps calling me Kid.""Huh that name suits you well, being called kid."

"I was going to call you negative one, but I think kid is much better fit for you."" You tired and sore all over Kid?"" Uh yes mister."" Look at me when you answer me Kid and don't call me mister!"" You either call me Beach head or sergeant major got it!?"

I look up to see Mr. Beach head without his mask. His facial features look rough, especially with his shaved head with a light touch of dark hair on the top. He had very serious looking black eyes. "Yes Sergeant Major."" Now answer my question kid, are you sore and hurt all over."" Yes Sergeant Major I'm sore and hurt all over."" Good that mean's your working."

Strike on the other hand was just busy away eating down her breakfast, when she finally mentions to me to stop yapping and start eating. "Hurry up and eat kid, I got to keep you on track with your schedule ok." I didn't argue with Strike and just continued to eat my breakfast.

When we got done with breakfast, Strike allowed me to go back to my bunk to get showered and cleaned up. Right after that she took me to a familiar face. Only it was a class with Lifeline. It was about an hour long with fifty other people mainly green shirts like me about basic first aid.

I actually enjoyed it as it was very informative to me. It was mostly a visual aid class, which was fine by me since I think you learn a lot more that way then by reading. Anyways once that was done with, Strike took me to my next class/training.

Basically Strike dropped me off into this room which in a way looked like a gym to me, mainly due to the many mats I saw on the ground. Strike did however tell me that she would be back in an hour to come and get me.

Oh well I just started to stand here by myself for a few minutes, until some more greenie's like me came in. For the most part a lot to the other green shirts were friendly towards me. I did ask one of them what this is. It turns out that this was the beginner's course for self defense and be prepared to be used as a punching bag by the instructors.

It's a good thing that there were like thirty or maybe forty of us. So I had the bright idea of just hanging around the back of the middle of the pack, that way I couldn't be seen or much less picked on for volunteering demonstrations and such.

When the instructors finally made their way in, all I saw was one chick and two dudes. This chick looks rather young but not too old either. She was sporting some red hair of her own that would only go maybe like a couple of inches past her shoulders.

The other dudes where rather dressed in some kind of garbs that were weird to me. One was in all white; he looked rather Asian to me. The other on the other hand was in all black head to toe. He looked like he wore a visor that covered his eyes.

Soon enough the red head chick started to sound off to us greenies. "My name is Scarlett and this is self defense 101, but you'll all refer to me as sergeant is that understood?" We all in unison said," yes sergeant."

"And these two next me are Storm shadow and Snake eyes, but you will also refer to them as sergeant as well is that understood?" Again we all said in unison," yes sergeant."" Good now welcome to self defense 101."

I wasn't too sure if we were going to learn Karate of some shit I never heard of. Yet at first the instructors where just showing some basic take down moves to everyone.

I continued to watch from my vantage point of being in the back of the crowd, till I heard a voice talking to me. "What are you doing hiding back here greenie?" I turned suddenly around to see one of the instructors giving me a plain look on his face.

Oh shit it was that sergeant in all white." Uh I'm not hiding sergeant, I can see perfectly well from back here," as I responded quickly trying to sound like that I was not making any excuses." You're not a very good liar greenie."

"Ok whatever you say sergeant." As I kept my gaze off of him." I think I found a volunteer for Scarlett," as Strom Shadow mutters to himself.

I didn't pay attention to the last part, before I felt very strong hand grab my shoulder as I was shoved in front of the green shirt spectators and near the other two instructors. I almost lost my balance nearly falling flat on my face.

When I regain my composure and stance I saw a rather amusing look from sergeant red." Uh sorry sergeant I must have tripped on someone foot back there, I'll just get back in line." I quickly turn around to get back in line, when I was ordered by sergeant red to stop.

"If I didn't know better greenie, I say that you were volunteering."" Uh no that's ok I don't think I would make a good punching bag for you.""I mostly soft and squishy and I think I would break easily."" Don't worry greenie I'll go easy on you," Sergeant Scarlett said devilishly to Mark.

I just gulped knowing that I wasn't getting out of this one. So I nervously faced sergeant red. I stood there thinking of the horrible things that this woman was going to do to me." All right let's just get this over with sergeant."

"Now that's the spirit greenie."" Now what I want you to do greenie is to try and strike me down." I look at her a bit confused. "You want me to try and hit you?"" That's the idea greenie."" Wait I can't hit you?" "Why the hell not greenie?"

"Well it's because you're a girl, I can't hit ladies like you it's not right." "Chivalry will not win you any brownie points with me greenie; now do as you're told." I still felt very uncomfortable doing this, but I did as I was told to since I didn't feel like making any enemies here.

So I went for a right hand punch to sergeant red. As she easily dodged it by using my own force against me. As I turned around I tried again with my left this time. Only sergeant red dodged my second attempt to punch her in the face, but once again using my force against me, by not only dodging me completely but also tossing me to my back side.

Man I hit the matted floor hard as the air in my lungs just went out completely. I slowly tried to get up only to see that the other green shirts were wincing with their eyes at me. Yet I also knew that sergeant red wasn't done with me yet.

Sergeant red got me in some kind of arm lock that was painful as hell. I literally started to plead with sergeant red to stop.

"Sergeant I thought you said you were going to go easy on me."" Please I don't want to die on my first day ok."

Scarlett had a rather amused look on her face as she held this greenie in a complete advantage over him. "So you say this is your first day huh greenie."" Yes sergeant red."

"Sergeant red?, you know my name is Scarlett right?"" I do now sergeant thanks, but yes it is my first day."" You don't say huh, then again you do look rather young to be a recruit."" Yeah I get that a lot." "You wouldn't be by any chance that kid that hangs out with strike?"

"That would be me sergeant."" Huh looks like I got the kid in my class then."" Yeah that me the kid."" Well then kid, here's your first lesson, don't ever hide in the back of my class is that understood."" Yes sergeant."" Good now I'm going to release my hold on you and you better get back to the group in the front."

Soon enough sergeant Scarlett lets me back on my feet. I did as she said no questions asked. Thank god the hour was up as I soon left that class waiting outside of the room for strike to come and get me.

"Hey kid how was your self defense class with Scarlett?"" I think I make a good punching bag for her." "Hey kid don't think like that, sergeant Scarlett is actually a real good instructor." "Trust me kid she has a lot of patience with new comers like you."" Sure Strike if you say so now where to next?"

"Well normally we would take lunch by 1200 hours or noon to you kid, but since its 1100 I think I'll show you around a bit to like where the gym is and recreation room is at."" So we get to goof off for an hour sweet."

"Well since you have put it that way kid, I think it's high time that we both go to the gym for an hour workout."" Awe do I have too."" Well you said it yourself kid that you look like a string bean in front us, by getting a good workout everyday you'll most likely start to gain some much needed muscle on your body."

"Well you do have point there Strike."" All right lets go pump some iron or something ok, but take it easy on me ok."

We both left for the gym here at the pit to get a somewhat of an ok workout. Man the big problem I have with this place is how huge it was. I sort of asked Strike if they had like some map I could use to get my way around. Alas they don't since according to Strike it would give the enemy a clear advantage if there were a surprise attack.

Sure enough one hour passed on by quick as we both got done with our own workouts. As always Strike took me to mess to get some chow. Food wise they always served some good stuff. I actually ate a couple of cheese burgers while strike had a sensual salad of her own.

Come to think of it since I've been here for a couple of weeks at meal times I always see everyone else eat mostly green stuff. At first I wanted to ask a couple of questions about it, but then I kind of thought that maybe I shouldn't.

Everyone in here seems to be so content and I didn't really feel like ruing it by asking a bunch of trivial questions.

Soon enough we were joined by Tunnel Rat this time. "Hey kid how's life treating you so far," Tunnel Rat joked on. "I guess ok so far."" Hey can I ask you a question or two if you don't mind?" I sort of looked at Strike for approval in which she just shrugged her shoulders to me.

"Um ok what's on your mind Mr. Rat."" Mr. Rat, just call me Tunnel Rat ok kid."" Ok is there a question here then?"

"Yeah kid, so when you where in the orphanage did you ever partake in illicit activities."" Illicit, what does that even mean?"" Um it just means something illegal or wrong."

"Uh I don't think I did anything illicit there unless it was trying to get some extra food I suppose."" I mean why are you asking me these things?"

"Well kid I only ask because I somewhat fascinated with the criminal aspect of things like smuggling and making something out of nothing."" I'm a big cops fan."" I'm not saying that you in general are a criminal, but I just wanted to know if you did any of those types of things."

"I just find it rather interesting that's all." "Uh you know I don't really like to talk about my past especially when I spent my time at Novsky."" It just brings a lot of bad memories for me", as I look down trying to hide my sadness.

Strike just heard enough out of Tunnel Rat's insensitiveness as she just elbowed Tunnel Rats side to get him to stop. Of course Tunnel Rat got the gist of Strike's demeanor to stop asking question like that.

"Hey look kid I didn't mean to bring up something painful like that ok, um why don't you just tell how your day was so far."

I looked up to Tunnel Rat and told him of my first two classes. Soon it was the end of lunch when Tunnel Rat bid his farewell to me as I went with Strike to my next class or something.

Later on that day Strike took me outside near the motor pool area near the mechanics shop." So what are we doing out here?"" I'm taking you to your next stop."

"Oh by the way here this for you." Strike handed a fold piece paper to the kid." Uh what is it?" "It's just some orders for your next instructor." I started to open it; till Strike told me not to since it was meant for the instructor and not me.

Strike took me to the same motor garage from a week ago as she told me that she would be back in a couple of hours usually around 1500 hours or 300 pm to get me.

I was like well what do I do. All Strike told me to do was to head on inside and search out Specialist Cover girl and hand her the orders.

So I headed inside the machine shop, where there were already a couple of green shirts working on some of the various trucks and tanks I would guess. They didn't really pay any attention to me as I walked in.

They looked like they were busy with whatever they were doing. As for me I was just wandering about taking a gander of the large garage. Soon enough someone spots me as I stood there casually.

"Can I help with something greenie?" I started to turn around quick to see who was saying that. And sure enough it was the same chick from a week ago who tied me up, till Strike had to come a rescue me. She kept asking me the same question a couple of times as if she didn't know who I was.

Then again I do look a lot different since the last time I was in here with all that medical white I was wearing. Oh shit this chick is starting to get annoyed and little paranoid by not answering to her." Uh yeah are you Specialist Cover Girl?"

"Yup that's me greenie what do you need?" I still stood there kind of dumb founded with how this chick looked, but that all changed when she was snapper her fingers to get my attention." Oh yeah I almost forgot, this is for you."

I handed her the folded letter that was sealed with some kind of glue or it could've been tape. I wasn't really paying any attention to it.

Cover girl took the letter with a little of annoyance." Huh this look likes some orders that were just drafted."" It does say urgent and open immediately," Cover girl said to herself. Cover girl just sighed a bit as she went on reading her orders.

Take a few peeks at the greenie in front of her as he stood there. "Hmm looks like I'm going on a mission in a month or two, oh hey hawk approved me for some time off."" Wait a minute what is this?"" It says here that Private Mark the guy standing in front of you is your new assistant mechanic and driver."

"Ok greenie it says here that you are my new assistant mechanic and driver."" Wow really it says all that." "I'm afraid so." Cover girl than takes really good long look at her new mechanic.

"Huh you look kind of young to be a mechanic much less a recruit." I started to rub the back of my shaven head." Uh yeah I get that a lot."" It says here that your name is mark, huh that's weird usually Beach head would give you a number for a name."

"Yeah I guess I'm special I suppose," I say sheepishly." Well then private Mark I guess you're stuck with me."" So why don't you tell me a little about yourself, mainly where you went to school."

"School, like what do mean where I went to learn how to read and write?"" What, NO I mean where did you go to become an army mechanic?"" Whoa are you telling me they have schools for that."

Cover girl just gave an odd look to Private Mark, as if is he for real? "Uh huh." "Um do you know what that is?" , as Cover girl pointed to the MOBAT tank. "Looks like one of those tanks I heard so much about."" Ok, how about that over there," Cover girl pointing to the VAMP.

"Looks like a car to me Ms."" Uh yeah, could you wait here until I get back."" I don't see why not Ms." I thought to myself wow this has to be the easiest thing so far that I had to do today. Cover girl then soon left to go to her make shift office within the machine shop.

She got on her com to notify General Hawk's secretary to see if he was in his office. "This is Hawks office."" Uh yeah this is Cover girl here in Maintenance mechanics in need to speak with Hawk this is urgent."

"Well ma'am he is currently in a meeting, but I could let him know that you're trying to notify him." "Could I ask what the urgent message is?"" Uh no that's ok, do you know if he'll be done with his meeting anytime soon."

"Well it looks like he'll been done maybe in ten minutes."" Good I'll be over there in just in time just let him know that I'm coming is that understood."" Yes ma'am, but I should warn you he is very busy today."

Cover girl just ignored that last part as she hung up her com and started to dart towards. She was on a mission to get to the bottom of this. How could Hawk assign her a green shirt that knew absolutely nothing about simple mechanics? Was this a punishment for something?

Near the same time as Cover girl was on her way, Mark just stood there until his feet started to get tired as he made his way to sit on a couple of crates until his instructor came back. Just then the two mechanics decided to take a break and maybe to get to know of the new assistant mechanic a bit.

"Hey man are you the new know nothing mechanic here?" I started to look at the two other mechanics as they started to come towards me. The first one that started to talk to me was a rather young looking guy with some blonde fuzz his head. The other was a small guy sporting some light brown fuzz as well.

"I guess so; I mean I only got started today."" So your name is Mark huh, man you're luckily."" Shit the sergeant major would give us numbers instead of our names."" Like I'm 5472 and he's 5473." "Yet my actually name is foster, while he's Phillips."

"Well nice to meet you two then, why don't you pull up a seat." Both 5472 and 5473 took seats on the crates provided next to Mark. "Say Mark, you wouldn't happen to be that kid that's with Strike all the time."" I mean you look a little bit like him."

"Well to tell you the truth, yeah I am that kid."" In fact all the other Joe's including that mask wearing Beach head all call me kid." "I find it kind of insulting and demeaning."" No shit huh so you are the kid, cool."

"Word is between the green shirts like us, is that you have some mad skills on a rifle preferably long range."" How did you guys know about that?" "Well kid, we green shirts maybe treated as only support to the Joes, but we hear stuff here and there from them."

"Mainly Duke was mouthing off with dusty about your shooting ability." "Yet for the most part only a small few Joes know your specialty."

"So I guess they decided to stick you here with us grease monkeys."" Yeah what gives on that?"" Well to be honest kid, they send most new recruits to fill in the areas that are most needed."" Usually it's in areas like supply or kitchen staff."

"So how's this Cover Girl specialist?"" Ah she not that bad, she's actually kind of laid back for the most part."" However she does require that we work just as hard as we play." "Yet it's going to be kind of weird with you around, since I never ever seen her teach a person anything other than pt."