Love Struck Delusion
Chapter 66 – Was It A Good Thing?
Commander Drake Linnen's POV, Holding Cells, Pakistan.
I sat there in my chair wondering how long we had left till he broke. Raptor lost all his claws. We actually had Young bring a tray over to place them on. Ten nicely formed claws covered in blood and rubbing alcohol. Raptor himself nearly passed out twice from the pain. I figured by the third he would have said something at least. But all we got were more disrespectful comments and growls of rage. So far he impressed me with his ability to withhold information from the enemy. I wish he was G.U.N almost. I could use a man like him. Such a piety. But no matter. I had more ways of getting him to talk. I was not scared to push his limits. To be honest I always wanted to try this.
"You still with us Commander?" I asked Voltz as he slowly lifted up his eyes to stare at me.
"You don't look good. Getting tired? Just talk and this can all end." I urged him as he quickly replied.
"Like I said before. Fuck you Linnen. I'm going to kill you when I get out of this."
Young began to laugh as I looked to the fox behind him to urge him for the silver case on his belt. Handing it to me I asked.
"Do you know what this is?" I asked Voltz as he looked to it.
"This here is something we in G.U.N high command like to call Viper Venom. You may know about it from your past wars. I know for a fact Commander Reacher had some users in his command at the time. Now, Viper Venom is a drug meant to, in all honesty, help the user. But this dose I had made just for you. Needless to say it won't be helping you at all. So let me ask you one last time before I do this. Are you ready to talk?"
Raptor gulped while keeping his eyes on the shot in my hand.
"Don't you dare touch me with that stuff." He ordered me as I shook my head to reply.
"Sadly I can not. You proved to be too stubborn this far in. So now I'm going to make you burn from the inside out. Last chance. Talk!" I ordered him as I stood up to grab his tied up arm.
Raptor began to breathe heavily as I waited for any words to leave his mouth. But not to my surprise he kept silent.
"Fine. Then burn." I urged him as I gave him the shot. Placing the needle in his right arm, I injected him with the toxin. Raptor instantly began to shake in the chair as I pulled back to watch with Young and my men.
Raptor's POV.
It didn't take any more then a second for me to start feeling it. It felt like my fucking blood was on fire. Every muscle, every bone in my body felt like it was going to collapse. It was indescribable pain. I began to shake. I had to get out of this chair. I felt like I was melting.
"AGHHHH!" Letting out a scream of agony as Linnen and his men watched, I shut my mouth and tried to look around my body. I could feel something wrong in my head. My brain was moving it felt like. That or it as breaking into pieces. Something wasn't right.
Looking to my arms that were tied to the chair, I began to scream as loud as I could. My quills were melting and the skin underneath was starting to roll off my arms. Blood began to spill as I begged.
"MAKE IT STOP! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Immediately I looked away to begin breathing as fast as I could hoping it would calm me down even just a little. This couldn't be real. With the pain getting beyond immense, I felt myself passing out.
Commander Drake Linnen's POV.
Raptor passed out. We all saw his pain. The toxin we gave him probably made him see things that were not real. A little bit too much maybe, but maybe it will get him to talk now.
"Wake him up." I ordered the fox as he got another shot ready. This time we would give him the antidote. Placing the shot in his neck, the fox gave it all to him and pulled back slowly to wait and see if anything would happen. Raptor didn't move nor breathe as I grew worried.
"Is he alive?" I asked as my medic got around to his front to check for a pulse.
Getting nothing he replied.
"I'm going to defib him."
"Hurry! We can't lose him yet!" I stated as the fox got the defibrillator out from behind the table to drag it next to Voltz. Placing the paddles on his chest he shouted.
"Clear!"
I watched now standing up from my chair as Voltz's body jumped in the seat.
"Hit him again!" I ordered the fox as he went for a second round.
"Clear!"
This time as the shock went through, Voltz woke up with such a panic to ask.
"What happened!?"
Letting out a sigh I replied.
"You didn't die that's what. Now thank me and tell me what I want to know!" I ordered him as he tried to shake his head.
"Go fuck yourself! You should have just let me die!" He replied with such force as I showed him the shot again.
"Do you want another one!? Cause I will give it to you!" I stated as he quickly shouted.
"Keep that shit away from me!"
"Then talk!" I shouted back as he shook his head.
"I'm not saying a fucking word!"
Reaching for Young's M9, I pulled it off his hip to point it at Raptor's right foot.
"BANG!"
"AGHHH! I'm going to kill you!" He shouted as I aimed at his left.
"BANG!"
"AGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"TALK!" I ordered him as he began to cry in pain.
"Fuck you!" He replied through his tears as I tossed back Young his gun to stand up and approach the table.
Grabbing a nail gun, I came to Raptor's front to see him widen his eyes at the sight.
"Don't!" He begged me as I placed it on his left hand.
"BOOSH!" The nail could be heard going through his palm and hitting the metal on the other side.
"AGHHHH!"
"TALK!" I ordered him again as he had his eyes shut in tears. Moving the gun to his right hand I applied another nail to the chair.
"BOOSH!"
Blood was leaving almost every spot on his body now as I pulled the gun back to watch. Young slowly got next to me to whisper.
"Ease up. He's not going to last much longer if you keep this up."
Nodding my head, I put the gun down to order my medic.
"Treat him!"
Nodding the fox began to go to work on his feet first. The nails kept his hands in place now however as I asked him in a tiny bit of anger.
"Do you think your tough or something Voltz?!" Looking at him I saw he was too busy crying still to even answer me.
Looking to Young who was still next to me I ordered.
"Blade."
"What?" He questioned as I shouted.
"Give me your fucking blade!"
Handing me his combat knife, I approached Voltz as my medic looked up at me in confusion.
"I'm not afraid to hurt you." I whispered into his face as he slowly opened his eyes to look at me. I could see the pain resting in him as I brought the knife up to his view. Looking to it he begged.
"Don't. Please."
Giving him a smile I replied.
"Then answer my questions."
Gulping down his fear he replied.
"I can't."
Giving him a straight look I then replied.
"Then I have no other options. I hope you didn't like it much."
Raptor looked confused by my statement, but going to the tip of his left ear he was very soon brought to reality of what was about to happen.
"NO!" He screamed as I took a strong grip over it to begin slicing.
"AGHHHHHHHH!" Screaming for his life, I sent the blade clean through.
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Holding the upper half of the ear in my hand, I watched as blood began to spill onto his neck and down his chest. My medic immediately stood up as I pulled back to toss the ear on the tray along with the claws.
Handing Young back his knife, I ordered.
"Get him to stop bleeding and leave him here for the night. We'll continue in the morning."
"Yes sir." Replied the medic as I made my way for the door. I was mad to say the least. Voltz was pissing me off. My plan now was to let him rest tonight then go at it again in the morning. But tomorrow I'm going to finish this. I'm going to make him talk. Then I'm going to kill him.
Black's POV, Iraq Capital, Six Hours Later.
It was time to go. I was determined to get Raptor back. Killing Linnen would have to wait. By the time we hit them he'll be under lock-down in the Capital itself. It would be impossible to get to him.
Dressed in a uniform I never expected to be wearing in my life, I looked to my right to see Vector wearing his own rendition of Rebellion gear. It was almost a little funny in fact. We were not the Rebellion type. But all in all it was a nice change of look.
Grabbing a few clips for my RO933, I stuffed them in the pouches along my chest, to look back at Vector. His M4A1 was all set and ready to go.
"Go over the plan one more time Black." Urged the new girl who was coming along to be our medic.
Looking over to Misty who got an MP5 loaded I replied.
"We get dropped off a good kilometer from the canyon, hike our way over to the base, then rappel down to the bottom. Once we're down there we'll locate the pipe and make our way inside. From there it will be a good hour walk to the border and maybe another twenty to reach the plant. Once we're there we will exit the plant and make our way to the street and steal us a ride."
"What about civilians?" Questioned Archer as I looked over to see him strapping on a vest.
"Linnen has a curfew up in the city. Everyone will be in their homes unless their working or their part of G.U.N. Our cover will be just that. My team getting "tossed out" of the army is not made publicly known to most teams. Linnen tends to keep our kind of forces secret. So we should just need to flash our id and we'll be golden. Hell it will probably let us into the Capital if we're lucky." I stated as Wreak who was getting his M4 in check replied.
"Not in that uniform it won't."
"That's why we're bringing a few bags with us. One of them has some uniforms Marx found lying around for us to wear. We'll put them on and walk right in." I stated as he nodded.
"The other has the climbing gear we'll need to reach the bottom of the canyon." Added Vector as I agreed and looked back to Misty to ask.
"You ready for this?"
"I've seen my fair share of combat Black. I'll be fine. Just get me to the Commander so I can get him treated and watch my back. You do that and we'll have a solid chance at getting him out alive."
All of us continued to check our gear, but Archer stopped to ask a question. A very possible question.
"What if we're too late?"
Everyone looked up at him in confusion of how to answer that.
"We won't be." I replied out of hope as he then asked again.
"What if we're too late and he's already dead?"
"He won't be." Stated Vector as Archer shouted.
"God damn it! Stop ignoring the possibility and answer me! What if Raptor is dead when we get there!? What will we do?!"
Letting out a sigh, Wreak replied for me.
"We'll get him home. Dead or alive. But if he's dead, we'll come back here and figure something out. If I have to lead us I will. And you can be sure I'll do my best to follow in his and Shadow's footsteps and win us this war."
Wreak seemed confident. I almost felt assured. But I knew Linnen would beat us if we lost Raptor now. I saw it in his eyes when we last talked. He was determined. Wreak is just trying to live up to an example set for him. He's not trying to set it. We need Raptor. Like it or not.
Archer slowly nodded to Wreak and as I got the rest of the gear in order I asked around the room.
"We good? We ready to go do this?"
Standing up Misty replied.
"I'm ready. Let's do this."
"Wreak?" I asked as he smiled and replied.
"I'm good to go."
Dragging my eyes to Archer, I watched as he nodded to me.
"Your taking point. I'll watch your back."
Giving him a smile I looked to my side at Vector who was already stood up alongside me.
"Let's do this Captain."
"Alright. Then it's time. Let's get going. Dead or alive we're bringing the Commander home. Understood?" I asked around as everyone nodded.
"Fall in then. Let's get to our bird."
Taking the lead, I led us out of the armory and into the main halls. The recruits Raptor had taken in looked at us in awe. It was clear we were a special group of soldiers before them. They knew not to get in our way and I liked it. As we got outside and towards the chopper Mason had waiting, we stopped to be approached by him and Hunter.
"Good luck Black. Bring him home."
"Don't worry about it. We'll be back soon."
"Please bring him back alive." Begged Hunter in a sad tone as I looked into her eyes to reply.
"I promise."
Giving me a smile, I jumped into the bird with the rest of the team falling in behind me. Mason waved us off as the chopper soon left the ground.
If everything goes well we should be to Raptor in about three maybe four hours. I hope he can hold on till then.
That's it for this chapter. Let me know what you think as always. I'll have another one up tomorrow so stay tuned.
mT Shadow.