The 99th Platoon

(A/N A real *boo hoo* a real…*snooort* tear jerker. Such a terrible cliché but hey I'm only human. R&R or loose 'em.)

Chapter 12: Sweet victory; Bitter loss

Squeaky flipped some more switches and the mech blasted upward, breaking cement as if it were butter. They sped past the cafeteria, the men's room, the lab, other miscellaneous floors, Komiz and Tediz faces alike staring dumbstruck, when...

*CRASSSH krinkle krinkle krinle*

They appeared outside the cells. Sarge pressed a button and two massive machineguns popped out aiming at the Komiz guarding the cell.

"Seebaju to you my friends"

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The smoke cleared to show the still standing Komiz.

"SONS OF A...there still there?! Oh ho ho. Dey asked for it!"

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There was too much smoke to see. But...

*Oh nishi nishi gagagag! Ha ha ha!*

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No sound was heard other than the dripping of the fluff that smothered the walls.

"WWW. Shoot that cell door off"

--inside the cell--

Chael, Perceval, Michael, Stealth, Cartman, Pyst, Flatfeet, Viper, Gamer, Ender, CuMiT and Conker all sat in the cell miserable. No Sargeant, Oreos dead, Squeaky dead and WWW missing they had abandoned hopes of escaping. Then they heard the first crash. Then they heard a lot of gunfire. At this point, all past differences forgotten they huddled and said a prayer. But when the door blasted into the wall behind them, knocking the wall down and the wreckage falling a looooong way, it was almost brown trousers time. But the cherry on the cake was the mech that came in, walking backwards guns smoking. The platoon trembled as they looked at the hatch. It opened to reveal...

"Sarge!" shouted the platoon.

"Privates."

Out popped Squeaky and WWW. Ender ran up to Squeaky.

"Squeaky! Don't do that again to me you mother fucker!" laughed Ender as he had Squeaky in a half hug-half headlock.

"WWW!" yelled Viper. He ran up to the Tediz.

"I have found myself my friend," said WWW as he hugged Viper.

"But...where's oreos?" asked Chael.

"He's safe and is gonna be okay. Look I reset the explosives. We got one minute and a half to be far far away." The platoon, reassembled, now stood at attention but still eyed Sarge suspiciously.

"Privates. I ask one last thing of you before we go home. Trust me. I am no clone."

"Well how'd we know that?" asked Conker sceptically. Suddenly a Komiz hand that still gripped its weapon fired at Conker. Sarge leaped in front of Conker, the bullet hitting him in the shoulder.

Michael, being the joker he was couldn't resist himself, started to sing.

"And EYYYYYYYYE EEEEYYYEEEEEYYYEEE WIL ALWAYS LOOOOVE YOOOOOUUU OOOOOOO AAAAALLLLWAAYS LUUUUVAAA YOOOOOO!!!"

"Proof enough?" asked Sarge bitterly.

"Yes...Sarge," Conker saluted.

"Oh and Michael, that would be funnier under different circumstances, I'll fix that shoulder the minute we get out of here. Okay get in that mech it's the only thing that'll get us out of here in time. We can all fit in there with a little squeeze. Okay get in. We only got a less than a minute"

The soldiers and Conker loaded in. Just as Sarge was about to climb up and in…

*BAM*

The door to the room flew open revealing what must have been the entire Komiz army. Sarge started to slam the hatch shut.

"Sarge what the fuck do you think you're doin'!?" yelled Stealth.

"GO! NOW!" he yelled back as he slammed the hatch shut, his silver helmet falling into the hatch in his hurry to send his boys off.

"But..." pleaded Chael.

"That was a direct Order! Squeaky get them out of here and get 'em home! NOW BOY!"

Squeaky reluctantly started the mechs engines up. Sarge looked at the platoon. They all stare at him. He smiles, gives a salute then leap off the mech.

"What the fuck are you doing Squeaky!? You can't leave him!" Flatfeet yelled as he tried to punch Squeaky. Ender and CuMiT stopped him.

"We gotta leave," he whispered. The jets started up and the mech flew off. The soldiers turned to see Sarge punching Komiz after Komiz beating, kicking and biting. He was outnumbered. They swarmed over him. He tried to push them back with his one good arm. Bruised and bloodied the last thing the soldiers saw as the mech flew speeding over the ocean, HQ's choppers in tow, was Sarge grabbing as many Komiz as he could and running out the blasted wall, falling towards the jagged rocks 30 stories below. Then it was too far to see anything else.

"Sarge..." whispered the platoon as they looked at the receding island behind them.

Inaudibly Squeaky spoke to himself, "Sorry Sarge..."

20 seconds later the whole island exploded, as a pillar of black smoke rose from what used to be an island. The mech and the choppers kept on flying. Flying back home…