Chapter 3

Rocks and Tank

Cate

Of course, we were still stuck behind the rock. We crouch down behind that stupid rock for longer than we should have or wanted to.

"My God, doesn't that thing ever run out of bullets?" Church finally said.

"At this rate… no," I responded.

"You know, in hindsight, we should have brought the tank," Tucker said.

Church then looked to Tucker. "Hey, Tucker, what good is a tank gonna do us if nobody here knows how to drive it?" Church snapped.

"Yeah, I can see how hiding behind a rock a much better strategy is," Tucker responded sarcastically."

"Well, yeah, but...," Church stammered, but stopped and sided realizing, he had no comeback. "Oh man, I guess I gotta give that one to ya."

I had literally no confidence in those two or even me doing shit about it. "We're going to die behind this rock." I just repeated in my head.

R.C.

Here, I was shooting a one spot on the cliff, hoping to hit someone. "Simmons! R.C!" Grif yelled over the gunfire. I stopped but Simmons kept firing. "SIMMONS!" Griff yelled louder. Simmons finally stopped and jumped down from the gunner. "Man, that thing is loud."

"WHAT?" Simmons yelled.

I finally jumped from the passenger seat and met with the other two. "Can someone NOW tell me what going on?!" I yelled.

"WHAT?" Simmons yelled.

"Jesus," I said as I flinched to Simmons yelling. "Not, you, him," I gestured to Grif.

"Look," Grif said. "All you need to know we're gonna sneak around back of the rock and get'em out."

"OKAY!"

Grif finally turned to Simmons. "Keep it down!" he yelled at him. "Jesus. Let's go before they figure out what's going on," he instructed. Simmons and I just followed. Hell, it shouldn't take that long for them to figure it out.

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"Hey," Church whispered after he stopped peeking from behind the rock. "They stopped firing."

Tucker and I both stood up and exchanged looks each other, then looked back at Church. "Why are you whispering?" Tucker asked, saying what we were both thinking.

"Uhm... I don't know," Church said still whispering.

"It's creepy, stop," I said crossing my arms.

"Shove it," Church responded yet still whispering.

R.C.

We stood there standing at foot of the cliff at a dead end. "Aw, crap," Grif groaned. "I don't think we're gonna be able to get around this way. Grif then turned to me. "Hey rookie, is there another way around?" he asked.

I raised my eyebrow. "How the hell should I know?"

"You go that photographic memory shit; don't you remember the cliff?"

"Dude, I haven't gone three feet from the base, I haven't even seen the cliff!" I explained.

"Didn't look out the window when you got here?"

"That's in the air! I'm on the ground! Toss me 50 feet in the air then ask me!"

Simmons then looked to Grif. "Tell me again, uh, why did we get out of the jeep?" he asked.

Grif then looked to Simmons. "Well, I guess it was this or sit there and watch you shoot rocks all day long."

"Well at least that was fun," Simmons countered.

I groaned as I started to turn. "Screw it. I'm going back to the—" I froze. I stood face to face with a tank.

Grif and Simmons seemed to notice me going quiet cause they turned around too. "Hoolyy crap," Grif exclaimed a little freaked out. "What in God's name is that thing?"

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"Hey," Church said as I was looking from behind the rock. "See anything?"

"No," I said still looking out. "Just the jeep, I think they left it."

"We could just take the jeep," Tucker suggested.

"Tucker, don't be stupid," Church said as he looked at the jeep now too.

"No, they're not, look: they left the jeep. They're gone."

"Well, I don't know about this. It seems pretty fishy," Church responded actually.

Heck, he wasn't wrong, but I wasn't going to stay behind this rock for the rest of the day either.

"Yeah, well," I finally said. "I'm not staying behind this rock either."

"Yeah," Tucker agreed.

"Alright screw it," Church said. "Let's go get it."

R.C.

We just stood there for a while with the tank right in front of a good minute and… it did nothing. It just stared at us... I mean if tanks could stare… could they?... Clever girl.

"Why is it just sitting there?" Grif finally asked what I was thinking.

"Just trying to mess with our heads," Simmons answered. "Let's get back to the Warthog."

"Yeah, how we going to do that?" I asked as gestured to tank. "With death with cannon over here."

"We go on three," Simmons answered. "One,"

"Wait," Grif stopped him. "Wait. On three? Or three and then go?"

"On three," Simmons and both said.

"It's always faster to go on three," Simmons added as if it was obvious and… okay, it was.

"Okay, okay. On three."

"One," Simmons started counting. "Two." I started to get ready to move. "Three!"

We both turned around. There was Grif running to the jeep and he was pretty close. Honestly, I wish I would have thought but not now! "Damn it!" I yelled pissed off.

"Oh, you back-stabbing cock bite!" Simmons yelled equally pissed off.

"Firing main cannon." Before I could even respond, the tank fired a shot. Just barely hitting Grif, hit the jeep and flew into the air.

"Son of a bitch!" Simmons and I both yelled freaked.

"SON OF A BITCH!" we heard Grif yelled. We then tank start to move. We then ran like hell. We didn't need to count!

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"Son of a bitch!"

"Nope!"

I was about to hit the bottom of the hill when Church was near the jeep. The jeep exploded. I wasn't even thinking about moving forward and wanted to go back to the stupid rock.

I was already up with Tucker by time Church came up running. "Hey dude, the jeep blew up," Tucker stated.

Church and I just glared at him. "No kidding. Thanks for the update, Tucker," Church snapped sarcastically.

R.C.

Boom!

"Shit!"

Boom!

"Damnit!"

"Must go faster! Must go faster!"

The tank was shooting at us and Simmons, Grif, and I were running like hell to stay away from that thing. We finally hide behind the rock and I was peeking but making sure that tank didn't see me.

"Hey, I have a great idea," Simmons started sarcastically. "Let's get out of the jeep, and sneak around the back of the rock."

Crash! Boom!"

The shoot the rock and I quickly hide back behind the rock. I then glared at Grif. " Yeah, great plan you idiot!" I yelled. Granted, I was made about the jeep blowing up and nearly dying. I was also upset cause was even making one small fire. Hey, if I'm going out, I'm going out happy.

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Church finally peeked over the edge after the explosion went cause I sure as hell wasn't going to do it again.

"Hey guys, look at this, man," Church said, getting our attention. "it's the other rookie! And he brought tank out to scare off the reds."

"What? No way!" Tucker exclaimed

"Huh? I guess he can drive a stick," I added.

Church then ran out to the safety of the rock. "Hey, rookie!" Church yelled out. "Good job man! Why didn't you tell us you knew how to drive the tank?" The tank then turned around slowly facing Church. " Yeah, that's right, it's me, Church! What's going on, man!" He continued, unknown what was going on.

"Wait," I said looking at Tucker, still behind the rock. "The tank being looking at—" I stopped, realizing something. "Uh-oh," I said.

"Firing main cannon."

"Uh-oh," Tucker said hearing the tank.

Church, too late, seemed to realize it too. "What? Oh, son of a bi—"

Boom!

Church was blown to kingdom come! He flew high in the air and landed on cliff sprawled out.

"Holy shit!" I yelled in shock.

"Fuck!" Tucker yelled as he ran to Church's body and I quickly followed. Church, are you okay? Talk to me, Church!" As he yelled at Church's body. He then looked over to tank. "You shot Church, you team-killing fucktard!"

Tucker then turned to me. "Can't you fix him?"

I glared at him He had to be kidding. "What? I'm not doctor or medic! I'm. a. mechanic!"

"Is that like a type of doctor?"

"Only if he was an engine or car! Or freakin' engine robot!"

Suddenly Church started violently twitching. "Tucker! ...Tucker!" with hoarse yet at the same time whiny voice.

"Church! It's going to be okay, man."

"No," Church whispered hoarsely. "Ah... I'm na, I'm not gonna make it. Tucker, there's something I need to tell you."

"What is it?"

"I just want you to know." Church then paused, dramatically, I might add. "I just want you to know, I always hated you. I always hated you the most."

I frowned. I both was surprised and expected him to say that EVEN when he's dying.

"Yeah, I know you did," Tucker replied drily. "Now hurry up and die, you prick."

"Okay. Hierh! Blueah."

He was dead. Church was dead. I did not expect this to happen my first day… that was a thing. Oh, what have I gotten myself into?

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