A felt a cold dusty floor underneath my feet as my body collided with the moving surface. I felt a chill run down my spine as I looked up into the sky above us. Smog all that covered the sky was smog. The night air was cold on my face as I looked up to the others who were all standing around gathering items and unloading all their equipment.
I stood up and looked over at them, they all seemed to know exactly what they were doing. When I hadn't the slightest clue. I took my pistol out of its holster and checked my clips to fit in with the other guys. Everything seemed to be… in order.
"Shh" Isaac suddenly sprang to alert and signalled for the others to get down on the ground, we all agreed. Staring at the commander as he shuffled forward and took out his binoculars, I was shitting my pants. What the fuck was wrong with this place. We had landed in a smothering hole it would seem. There were tree's all around us, they were beautifully green, it just wasn't right. In the distance we could see houses on fire and a whole village just burning, and we were sitting in a hole with beautiful green tree's surrounding us. "Two hostiles, carrying a body".
"Holy shit" I heard Henderson's mutter into his gun. We hadn't expected to run into this trouble to so early in the mission. But we had been briefed that there would be a trouble. The incident had to be contained and we were the people on the inside who had to make it happen if things got out of control.
"Ok, this is the deal" Isaac whispered and turned around. He took a area schematics out of his bag and folded it out in front of all five of us. The town was quite large for a rural town. "The church is the main point, its right at the back of the town, some way up the mountain" Isaac pointed above us, and sure enough a small mountain region at the back of the village showed as it did on the map. "Our mission is in there. We don't know what's happened to these people, why they have suddenly taken to this madness" Isaac spoke the truth; nothing had been mentioned in our brief.
"Weren't they supposed to be all fighting each other though" Johnson spoke and sent a cold shiver up my spine, and most likely the rest of the men.
"The two hostiles I spotted just down the road don't appear to be attacking each other, they're working together for some strange reason, a reason we need to figure out" Isaacs cold eyes looked all over us. We all understood. "Ok, equipment is in the bag, we all have communication with each other" He tapped the headset that was in his ear, we all had one installed and could contact each other.
"If we get separated" Suddenly everything was still and it came over me that this mission was the real deal, and there was no going back now. "We regroup either here or at the front of the church" We all understood. Standing up I looked down the road to see if I could see anything, only a smouldering village, but on the road there was two men. On the one man's shoulder was the corpse, it was a woman. I couldn't identify any other features, only that she was in fact…a corpse.
We moved out suddenly following Isaacs command and I kept up with the others, moving from bush to bush in covert. Isaacs however moved quickly over to the two men who stood talking casually with the body on the one's shoulder. We could feel the tension as Isaacs moved over to them. He walked over as if a casual citizen with his double barrel shotgun on his back. The two men turned around and looked at him. I froze with horror from the bush. You could hear Isaac faintly talking.
"Hello, I don't suppose you could direct me to the church?" The two looked at each other before the one dropped the corpse on the floor and turned around to look at Isaac. Their eyes, something in their eyes showed that things were going to get ugly.
One of the men pulled out a knife from his hip and went to lunge it deep into Isaac, a rage hell bent over his entire body. But there was a gunshot and he fell to the floor with a bullet wound in his head. I turned to my left and there was Abraham with a sniper rifle, monitoring Isaac's negotiations. "Your partner has been shot by my team, I am a government official, you will relinquish all weapons or you shall be shot" The other man looked insane. He looked as if he wanted to kill as all and dance in our blood. But this was something not far from the truth.
The second man advanced on Isaac but did not pull out a weapon. Suddenly he spoke "Woe unto them that are with child" his voice was low and growling, he then lunged out a grabbed Isaac by the collar, before he slid to the ground with a bullet in his head. Isaac looked shaken.
"Move now" Isaac shouted over to us "The bullets will only attract more" more? Where there more? Holy shit! What had we gotten ourselves into? As we started to move suddenly we heard shooting from Isaacs berretta behind us, I was the only one to look the others where running through the trees. The two men whom had just been shot were getting up again and were crawling towards Isaac's feet. He was shooting them, and finally they both stopped. My collar was pulled and we were raising through the forest, through the large wooded area outside the village, tree after tree. All I could see was our feet and gunfire from behind. Isaac was covering us as we ran.
Something was chasing us and Isaac was holding it off. I turned to look if I could make it out.
"Move, NOW!" Abraham spoke for the first time in the whole mission as he grabbed my collar once more and lunged me forward. We were running so fast, until finally the shooting stopped and we were out of a safe distance from the front of the village. "Down" Abraham spoke to rest of us as we jumped to floor and loaded our pistols. There was a faint running. We all drew our pistols on the creature.
It was Isaacs, and he was covered in blood.
