"Lets go lets go their right behind us." Josh yelled as he and Sherry laid down cover fire for Kenny and Terry. "Watch your ammo." He yelled as he loaded his last magazine into his M16A2 (Today's current M16.)
"I'm out." Sherry shouted as she dropped her M16 and pulled her Smith & Wesson .45 caliber handgun from its holster.
"Mike Jack ammo report." Josh yelled.
"I'm on my last mag." Mike shouted as he started firing to cover Josh and Sherry's movement.
"I have half a mag in my weapon and 1 spare." Jack yelled through his 3 round bursts.
"Terry and Kenny ammo report." Josh yelled as he ran past them.
"Last mag." Terry yelled.
"I'm out." Kenny yelled pulling his .45.
They continued laying down cover fire as they made their way to the LZ until they were all using their handguns and were running low on ammo.
"Ok we're gonna have to make a run for it lets go." Josh yelled and they all started running as fast as they could for the LZ.
They ran for almost a mile when Mike and Sherry fell behind by about 30 yards.
"Lets go Sherry or they will have to leave us." Mike yelled as they tan through some trees.
"Right behind you." Sherry yelled out of breath.
They kept running for another 50 yards until Mike was hit in the shoulder sending him to the ground.
"Mike!" Sherry yelled running up to him. "Come on get up."
She helped him to his feet and they started running again. Sherry ran behind Mike to catch him if he fell. As they were running a bullet passed through Sherry's right leg and she fell dropping her .45.
"AARRGG!" She yelled as she fell.
"Sherry!" Mike yelled turning around to help her.
As he was pulling her to her feet a bullet passed through his lower abdomen sending him to the ground next to Sherry.
"Mike are you ok?" Sherry asked crawling over to him.
"For the most part yes but now we aren't going anywhere." Mike said loading his last clip into his .45.
"We're gonna have to wait for the others to come back." Sherry said.
"Yea where is your sidearm?" Mike asked.
"I dropped it I don't know where it is." Sherry said.
"Look out." Mike yelled and fired 4 rounds from his .45 dropping 2 Germen soldiers.
"I hope they get here soon." Sherry said pulling her KA-BAR fighting knife. "Let the next ones get on top of us then kill them so we can take their weapons."
"No problem." Mike said as he took aim at 2 soldiers.
They watched the soldiers as they came closer. When they were about 30 feet from them 3 more soldiers came through the trees.
"Ok fuck it kill them all." Sherry said.
Mike fired 5 shots killing all the men as they approached.
"Well that's it for the ammo." Mike said dropping his .45 and pulling his KA-BAR.
"Ok lets hide and wait for 2 of them to pass us then take them down." Sherry said.
"10-4" Mike agreed.
They hide behind some trees and weighted. They stood there for a minute when 2 men walked past them slowly. Sherry put her hand over one of there mouths and stabbed him 6 times in the back until he went lifeless. Mike grabbed the other by the mouth and pulled his head back and sliced his thought and pulled him to the ground and stabbed him in the chest. He reached for his weapon when an AK.47 butt hit him on the back of the head knocking him out. Sherry turned around at the sound of Mike hitting the ground and saw 2 Germans standing over Mike. One of them was holding an AK.47 by the barrel and was in mid swing the stalk of the rifle hit her in the side of the head splitting her head open and she fell to the ground.
Josh and the others arrived at the LZ and stopped at the opening of the tree line.
"Its about time we got here." Josh said breathing heavily. "Sherry give me the radio." He said holding his hand behind him. "Sherry radio."
He turned around to look for her.
"Where is Sherry and Mike?" He asked looking around.
"They must have fallen behind." Kenny said.
"Ok lets wait for 2 minutes then we'll go look for them." Josh said.
They sat inside the tree line for 2 minutes then they headed back the way they came looking for their 2 missing friends. They quietly walked back for about a quarter mile until they came to the spot where Mike and Sherry made their last stand.
"They have been captured." Josh said.
"How do you know?" Jack asked.
"Here are their things." Josh said picking up their helmets and knifes.
"What are we gonna do?" Kenny asked.
"I'm not gonna order you to come with me but I am gonna go back for them." Josh said.
"Sherry is my sister I'm in." Jack said stepping forward.
"I'm not gonna let you two have all the fun I'm in." Kenny said.
"I'm the medic so its my job to go but I would even if I wasn't." Terry said.
"Ok then lets go." Josh said and they headed back to the prison camp.
They headed for the camp at a fast pace picking up the weapons of the men that Mike and Sherry killed. It took them an hour to make it back to the camp.
"Where are the prisoners?" Kenny asked.
"I don't know." Josh answered. "But that is our 2nd objective first we have to find Sherry and Mike."
"So what's the plan?" Jack asked.
"Jack you and Terry take the left side of the camp. Kenny you and I will take the left side. If you see an enemy use your knife to kill him if you have to lets not let them know we are here this time."
Josh and Kenny snuck in the camp and started looking in each hut on the camp. They found Mike in a hut being tortured. There was only 1 guard on the door and Josh silently took him down with his knife and silently came up behind the guy that was torturing Mike and slit his thought.
"Where is Sherry?" Josh asked as he and Kenny untied him.
"I-I don't know the-they took he-her away." Mike said weakly.
"Ok lets meet up with the others maybe they found her." Josh said.
They meet the others in the middle of the camp in the open.
"Sir there's nobody home." Terry said. "We checked all the huts and we only found 3 germens that are getting cold under the huts where we stashed them."
"There is 1 more building we need to check." Jack said. "I saw it as we were sneaking in the camp its up on top of that hill."
"Ok then lets go." Josh said.
They got to the building without running into any Germans.
"Ok room sweep alpha." Josh said. "Kenny and Terry you sweep left Mike and I will take the right. And Jack you sweep forward and high."
"10-4." They all said.
"Ok go go go go." Josh yelled and kicked open the door.
They swept the room left and right up and down.
"Clear!" Kenny yelled.
"Clear!" Jack yelled.
"Clear!" Mike yelled.
"Ok lets search the place." Josh said and they all went different ways.
Mike searched the offices. Jack and Josh searched a large room. And Kenny stood outside a room that still smelled like spent gunpowder. He kicked open the door and swept the room. After his sweep he stood in horror at what he saw.
"Hey over here." He yelled still staring.
When the others got to the door that he was leaning up against he was wiping his mouth after vomiting.
"In there." He said pointing his thumb at the room. "Oh God there must a hundred of them."
The others entered the room and saw a pile of bodies in the room.
"Oh my god they executed them." Jack said in horror.
"OH GOD NO!" Josh yelled.
There on the top of the pile of bodies was Sherry. She had been shot in the chest three times. Josh reached over the bodies and pulled her down and fell to his knees crying.
"Sherry no please don't die." He cried. "Please open your eyes please."
Terry ran over to her and checked for a pulse even though she knew there wouldn't be one. She was already cold to the touch.
"Josh she is gone." Terry said with her eyes filling up with tears.
"No she can't be gone." Josh cried.
Jack fell against the wall and sank to the floor and cried.
"Please God take our friend Sherry as far away from here as you can so she could know peace oh Lord. And as we remember let her forget so she can be young again amen." Terry said crossing herself.
Kenny came in and picked up the radio that was at the bottomed of the pile.
"Bravo Two Zero this is Bad Karma over." He said.
"This is Bravo Two Zero go ahead Bad Karma." A voice said.
"The camp is secure there are no germens in the area." Kenny said.
"Roger that Bad Karma do you have any casualties?" The voice asked.
"Affirmative Sherry Walther." Kenny said lowering his head.
"Roger that Sherry Walther is KIA." The voice said. "The bird is inbound."
"The LZ has changed pickup is in the yard of the camp." Kenny said.
"10-4 see you in 20 minutes Bravo Two Zero out." The voice said.
Kenny shut off the radio and set it down.
"Someone help me." Josh sobbed as he pulled out his poncho.
Kenny and Terry lifted Sherry gently up and set her on the poncho. They picked her up by both ends of the poncho and carried her out into the yard and waited for the chopper.
Linna's apartment
"Soon after that we all left the army and went out separate ways." Josh said. "But when Boomers started going rouge we got back together to see if there was anything we could do, thus the Crimson Knights were borne again. Sherry is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery Texas."
"And you never fell in love again." Linna said wiping a tear from her eye.
Josh put his arm around her and pulled her close to him.
"That's not true, I love you." He said and kissed her on the forehead.
They sat like that until Linna fell asleep leaning on Josh's arm.
