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All through life I lived a life that most would think it is great, lots of freedom, little to tie me down, very few commitments, but in reality deep down I was miserable, lonely and felt that was made a hermit in the middle of a city, being ignored and abandoned by all those that once were my close friends and family.
This sort of life tend to make people think hard about what really is important in life, work to live or live to work, simple right? Well not so simple since I made the colossal mistake of joining the new black ops group within the Marine Corp. I know you would probably want to know what we do and what is so awful about it, but trust me, there are things better left not mentioned, for security purposes.
While I do complain about the long hours, the very few hours of sleep, the horrible food, and the constant glares from those in the unit, it turns out I was perfect for it, in a matter of six months I was one of the best of the entire unit, no problem too big, no job too difficult, and of course this made the others in the unit extra frosty with me.
Their hatred of me got so bad that I usually Work Alone, that is right, I do the mission by myself usually. Well not so bad, nobody there to screw things up to make me look bad, no one to slack off and leave me to carry the load, and no need to go and find an idiot who was taking a leak and got captured by the enemy.
I really got comfortable with my way of living, and the possibility of death was not really that horrible either, I killed plenty and I seen plenty of ways for people to die, you could say death was my constant companion, always with one hand on my shoulder whispering look over there, that should be fun.
"Captain Hector Flores, your work had bee exemplary in the past six years, truly you are a treasure to our division, others in the unit might complain like there is no tomorrow, but we don't really care about the whining of crybabies, we value results, and you always deliver said results."
I looked at the man while standing at attention. "Sir while it is nice to be appreciated, I sincerely doubt that is the reason why I been called to your office, Sir, could we please talk about the assignment, that way I can begin the mission."
He laughed and looked at me with a smile, "A man after my own heart, you are right there is a bit of a situation here, we heard thanks to Intelligence that there is a terrorist group that wants to steal the new experimental performance enhancement serum from the lab and lab storage facility."
"Initially we were going to send you to test that serum, but we can't have a terrorist of that scale gaining what some would call a super-soldier drug, so Captain Flores you will set off tonight and be dropped off via stealth airdrop, you are to go to the lab, and secure the location. Should the terrorist be present leave no survivors."
This means the terrorist are already on their way, this is not a secure location mission but my typical clean up mission, no survivors what really means is no witnesses of the absolute screw up that let said terrorist gain access to a super-soldier drug. Like I said nothing out of the ordinary from my usual missions.
Some call me a hired killer, some a ruthless assassin, and some even call me the boogeyman as a joke, never found that funny, if I was honest with myself I was a cleaner, that is all I am, a man that is sent to clean the mess that someone or some people caused that they don't want the civilians or their sheep to know about it.
"Yes, sir, I will leave immediately, it will be taken care off. By your leave." I was waiting for the man to leave and that is when I walked towards the place where the black plane was waiting for me, I took an airdrop backpack and jumped into the cargo compartment of the place. It really used to be the missile loading bay, but who am I to complain, a weapon is a weapon no matter what you call it.
As soon as the door of the compartment closed I could feel the rumble of the engines warming up, and then the friction of the plane taking off, I know this plane is fast so it will not take me long to get there, I closed my eyes trying to go over the building layout in my mind, and as I finished going over my entry plan the light of a red light turned on, I grabbed the cord in my pack and as I did the doors came open and I was dropped while the plane flew off.
The parachute worked just fine, and thanks to it I managed to land in the predetermined location, one hundred feet from the location of the lab and lab storage, this was better than I expected I better thank the pilot by inviting her out to a nice meal. She will refuse yet again, but at least the invitation shows how grateful I am of her piloting skills.
As I landed on the clearing and began to walk towards my destination I put on my goggles, and began to do as I was taught, scout, analysis, determine the plan, and eliminate the threat. The supposed terrorists were very well informed of the place, they walked as if they actually owned it.
The main force was focused inside the building and corridors, they knew someone would come, they just didn't know from where, and because of this, they made certain to cover as many entry points as possible, all except one, the roof. Using my climbing gear I climbed up the wall and finally got to the roof.
The sight was something I never expected most of the roof was glass, it appears they don't even bother looking up, as I saw what I assume was the leader giving orders to begin loading barrels I knew I had very little time to act. I took my weapon and began to fire at him, and concentrating on the people that had weapons once he was down.
Shot a grappling hook into a pillar near the body of the I would think now dead leader, and slid downwards taking care as many of the enemy as I could, I have to admit they did manage to land their fair number of shots on me, had I not been wearing armor I would more than likely lost consciousness from the pain and fall to my death.
The barrels were leaking thanks to the holes from enemy fire, and we began to fire against each other, the chemicals solution in the barrel it seems was combustible while under pressure, I could see sparks as the substance was ignited by the sparks that the gunfire hitting metal surfaces.
I have to secure the place and make sure nobody makes it out of this place with anything or else, these people will use it to make I don't even want to imagine how many innocent people die. As the last of their forces went into the building I shot incendiary grenades, this causes the liquid that I been bathed with and all the one surrounding the enemy to burst into flames.
The barrels exploded and caused all the solution in the air to burn up, no traces of the serum was left, and thanks to the fact that most of the thing I got bathed on was easy for me to cover, I avoided getting baked like a turkey, the enemy was not so lucky. I touched my earpiece and reported the lab was secure and the enemy been dealt with.
As soon as I told the pilot this I felt an immense pain go through me, it felt worse than if I was on fire, it felt like I had been hit by lightning and not only once but several times, I felt nothing as I touched around me trying to maintain my balance, I saw no colors, and I could not hear anything.
Everything turned black and white and I could see some people running towards me with a gurney to apparently take me to a medical facility, the pilot looked almost hysterical and one of the medics did his best to hold her back. Why is she acting this way? Katy and I never got along, and every time I tried to patch things up between us always blew up in my face.
The pain in my chest told me it would not matter, to think that seeing Katy crying would be the last thing I would ever see before I kicked the bucket. The cold that I felt made me think I been dipped in liquid nitrogen. As I was thinking this everything went dark.
As I had my eyes closed I could not see anything, all I know is that for some reason I am being pushed around a lot, kind of uncomfortable truth be told. Next thing I know I am getting pushed hard in one direction and before I could even open my eyes, someone held me upside down and smacked my rear hard enough that it would make anyone cry.
"Thank is a healthy set of lungs on this cub ma'am, I would like to inform you that you had a healthy baby boy, here let me hand him to you so you can see your baby." Next thing I know something pointy is being placed in my mouth, and for some reason, I just began to suck on it. "As you can see the baby is rather hungry, what should I put down as his name, for the record?"
What would be my mother simply smiled, "Leo, my son's name will be Leo. Don't worry son, I am here for you, even if your father could not live to see you when you were born. I still can't figure what was that monster that attacked our home. It destroyed so much of our nation, I don't even know how the other clans are doing."
It seems I was reborn into this new life, well I had all my knowledge and experience from my previous one, and one thing I carried with me was this never-ending hunger for knowledge, so as soon as I could walk that is exactly what I did. I began to try to decipher the writing, to others, it was simply me trying to learn to read.
I did my best to take care of mother, and even managed to make a friend or two along the way, my first friend was Tygus, the guy never seems to have a limit on the things he wants, some would call it being greedy, I call it trying to compensate for emotional trauma, I mean my friend did lose both of his parents in the attack that killed my father.
The second friend is Panthera, she can be a hard person to get along with, we argue as many times as we agree on things, I swear my mother finds this funny, she laughs whenever she sees that we don't agree on something. I still have not figured why is this funny to her?
My studies have gone well, and I pushed myself hard enough that most of my classmates are even a decade older than I am, no, can't stop. Knowledge is power, and I need more should that monster attack our world again, need to perfect our defenses or that thing will kill us all.
"Leo, what are you doing?" I looked at her and could not help but to smile, "I am studying something I should remind you, your mother wants you to do as well. Come on Panthera I will help you with your math homework as soon as I am done with mine."
"All you do is study, for crying out loud, you study so much that you skipped I don't know how many grades, but if you had taken it easier, we could have been in the same class, instead I don't get to see you that often, and when I do, you tell me to do more homework. I thought my mom was a slave driver."
I pulled her closer to me and she smiled for a brief moment, "Come on Panthera, why don't you tell me what is wrong? What you don't trust your boyfriend?" She looked away and I think she was blushing since he had both her paws on her face. "It is just that in your class you have so many cute girls, it makes me worry that they will try and steal you away from me."
Are you kidding me? She is a bad mood because she is jealous? Well, that certainly is new to me. I touched her paw which made her look at me and without even thinking about I kissed her lips, "See, you have nothing to worry about. I could say Tygus is trying to steal your heart away, but I trust you, and I know you are as faithful to me as I am to you."
Little did I know that I would have little to no chance in using all that knowledge I acquired from my years of study, the monster would attack every five years, almost like a hungry beast searching for its favorite prey. Little did I know that when I and my friends finally became of age, I would finally know who it is the thing we call the monster all throughout my childhood.
The monster was a person, his power was immense, and went through the defenses I came up with like a hot knife through butter. He took upon his ship, a large pyramid-shaped ship, darker than a starless night, all the surviving members of the Tiger Clan, Panther Clan, and my own Lion Clan.
That is when I met the monster, the fiend that killed my father and by the constant fear and stress also caused the death of my mother, the monster was a large person, a sorcerer by the name of Mumm-Ra who we who were taken from our world were forced to treat him as Lord or he would kill every one of us.
It took years of me and my friend Tygus to work through many trials to achieve our respective ranks among the forces Mumm-Ra commands, I was the Commander of his forces, I direct our other division officers when they are deployed, Tygus is the command of the air and space forces.
"So Leo, I gather you have finally gotten used to your new post." I looked at the large man dressed in what most would call bandages with some old armor over them. "Yes my Lord, everything is operational so far, the new interface has stabilized and now I have better ability to coordinate and receive feel information from our units and from the scout drones."
"Are you sure? I am no mere mortal, I can practically see the anger and rage you feel towards me covering you like a cloak. I will be here in the command center with you, so to make things more efficient is there some reason why you feel that way about me?"
I can't believe he would ask me this, "Besides the fact that my world is in ruins, and you murdered my parents, friends, and even a young lady I was planning to marry?" He honestly began to laugh as he heard me as I told him something that he considered a joke.
"Well let's go through them one at a time, shall we? Your world would end in ruin because your family's rule was more focused on making the populace happy rather than securing continued rule, they would have been removed eventually and your world would end up in even worse conditions than what I did."
"I went peacefully to talk to your parents, my goal from the very beginning was to gain your clan and the Tiger Clan's cooperation, foot soldiers and a few to be officers in my forces, I explained why this was necessary and my goals, your parents attacked me, so in defending myself they died."
"The friends you mentioned were part of the troops your parents used to try and kill me, to steal my technology and anything else they considered valuable, and you potential blushing bride, actually she would be willing to slip poison in your cup during the reception, and once you are dead she said she would be the new Queen of your world and if I granted her eternal youth, she would be my concubine, so for your benefit I eliminated that threat to your life."
"All in all I did a few things because I needed to defend myself and for your benefit, yet you feel anger and rage when you should be grateful. My ultimate goal is to bring order and peace to the universe, Leo, I hope that this explanation can make you see, you are better off being the commander of my forces than you were on that viper's pit I rescued you and your people from."
I said nothing just focused on the interface and tried my best to control my emotions better, the reports showed that the pyramid was nearly done with the modifications for extra personnel and the machinery were getting ready to finish the first line of vehicle support. He can say any excuse he likes, but nothing will let me forget how my parents die, not went I see it every night when I go to sleep.