Author: So sorry about that, I didn't mean for it to take this long to up date.
Church: Hey, that was your fault for not doing as what you're told to do.
Tucker: Bow chicka wow wow.
Tex: Oh my god Tucker, if you say that one more time I'll fucking kill you and that didn't make sense.
Simmons: Why not do that now? That could save us some time.
Grif: Fuck this, I'm going to get a can of beer.
Doc: On with the story people.
Flashback many years ago...
When Caboose opened his eyes, he saw that he was in a big open field filled with wild life flowers around that area. 'This place, I know it.' Caboose thought to himself looking around to see if anyone else was there there too. "Lily brought me here once back when we were still in high school."
"Come on Michael!" A sweet female voice called out to Caboose from behind.
Quietly turning around Caboose saw it was a younger, yet beautiful, Lily standing a few meters away from him wearing a white summer dress while waving an arm to him and giving a peaceful/ cheerful smile too. Somehow remembering this memory, Caboose called back to her in a cheerful way he could possibly do at that moment.
"Lily! Don't run so far!" Caboose called back before he broke out into a all out run after Lily.
A peaceful laugh escaped from Lily before she started to run up ahead. "Come on slow poke! We're almost there!" Lily tells him then giving a another laugh in a more kind and loving way as she continued to run.
End of Flashback..
Once again, Caboose opened his eyes realizing it was yet another dream about his past with Lily and he was still in the jeep with Donut, who seemed quiet at the moment not realizing that Caboose was now awake. "How long was I asleep?" Caboose asked Donut starching out his arms and legs out to get rid of the numbness in them.
"About two hours." Donut answered not bothering to look away from the map (A/N: Where he got that will be a mystery) that he had in his hand. "We should be there in less there than an hour or so."
"Alright." Caboose said before turning grabbing his duffel bag and starting looking through it. "Here it is." Once again he took out the white box with the blue ribbon tied around it examining it carefully to make sure it was still in good shape. "Good, the box and the ribbon are still okay."
"Is that for Lily?" Donut asked when he saw the box.
"Yeah, I meant to send it to her but I wanted to give it to her in personalty." Caboose tells him before putting it away back into the rifle bag where it belonged. "I really wanted to give it to her on her birthday but I was sent to training camp before then so I never got the chance."
"How did you end up in the military?"
"When the war started I wanted to protect my family and Lily so I signed up much against to their wishes."
"That must have hurt them deeply."
"It did but they soon accepted it since it was my decision to join or not and then few weeks later, I was shipped out."
"But why do you act dumb when you're really are smart?"
"I miss Lily so much that I started to act like that to keep mind clean from all that sadness I have inside."
"In some weird way Caboose," Donut then gave a gentle smile. "I can relate to you, sometimes I would go to my room and listen to some music that helps me remind of my home back in Iowa."
"Really? That doesn't sound like you at all." Caboose tells him surprise before looking up at the sky. "I only have two, nothing more than that."
"What are they?" Donut asked when he heard this.
"Just pictures of me and Lily with the rest of my family too." Caboose answered before looking through the bag then taking out a photo. "Here, I left the another one at Blood Gulch."
Taking the photo, Donut saw a lot of women in the back ground before spotting Caboose in the front wearing the army uniform and a young female (Lily) standing next to him with one arm wrapped his one and her head on his shoulder. "Is that Lily? The one next to you?" Donut asked.
"Yup, that's her." Caboose said smiling a bit at the photo.
"The woman in the back ground, are they your cousins and aunts?" Donut asked again.
"No, they're my seventeen sisters."
Once again, Donut press on the breaks the minutes after Caboose had said that only causing him to hit his head against where the glove compartment was at in pure shock. "No freaking way!" Donut yelled in shock looking at Caboose then back the photo. "They can't be all of your sisters! That doesn't seem logically possible to do!"
"Well that proves other wise." Caboose tells him in calm and in pain voice while rubbing his forehead a bit. "I'm the boy that my family ever had so it was difficult for them but the manged."
"That's very impresses." Donut said before he started to drive again. "Did all of them like Lily?"
"Of course they did, there was nothing wrong with her other than being ill."
"Well that's good, I mean if my bother or sister was dating something that had an illness I wouldn't really mind at all."
"Weird, that's what my second oldest sister said to me right after she meet Lily for the first time."
"Which one?" Donut asked looking back at the photo. "You have to be more specific because you have more than three sisters man."
"The one next to Lily and me." Caboose answered pointing to an older women in the photo. "That's my first older sister, Emma, she's really nice and smart."
"Whoa, how old is she? In fact, how old are all of your sisters?" Donut asked again.
"Um, I honestly don't remember but I do believe that some of them are in their early thirties." Caboose said lightly sweat dropping at this before he realize something. "Now that I think about it, Lily might be still in her early twenties."
"She could be, I mean it's been four years since you last saw her right?" Donut pointed out. "Heck, she still might look the same too if you're lucky."
"People don't always look the same after so many years but I'll if Lily does look a little bit different." Caboose said while putting the picture away in his bag. "I just hope her personality hasn't change at all, that's all I'm hoping for and her for health too."
"I guess that does matter." Donut said before taking out the map from earlier and starting looking over it. "We should be getting there in-"
"Donut!" Caboose yelled in a fit of panic in his voice.
Donut looked up to see a gate up ahead of them, the he pressed on the break(s) making the jeep holt with a loud screech before almost hitting the soldier. "Whoa that was a close one." Donut comment before looking at the soldier, who looked a bit freaked out after almost getting hit by a car. "Excuse me, sir, can you open the gate?"
Snapping out of his trance the soldier looked at both Donut and Caboose before finally responding. "Hold on, where are you two coming from?" He asked them while eying their color armors.
"Outpost A-1, Blood Gulch." Caboose answered.
"Yeah we even brought some identification papers to prove it." Donut added before leaning over to Caboose' side and then taking out some papers from the glove compartment then handing them over to the soldier. "Here, this is all of them."
Taking the documents from Donut, the solder looked over the papers for a moment before handing them back to the light-ish red armor privet. "Hey, open the gates." The Soldier called out to the guard up in the tower then watching at the front gates started opening before looking back at Donut and Caboose. "Okay you two can go right in, take a right turn when you guys are going to bark your jeep."
"Alright, thank you sir." Donut said before driving in the main base then stopping looking at both his right and left confuse. "Wait did he say right or left?"
"He said right." Caboose told him while looking at the buildings they passed by.
"Okay." Donut simply said before turning to the right and found a building with other veachils before barking in a empty spot next to a tank, both Caboose and Donut then got out of the jeep sraching their limps out. "Finally, my legs were killing me from sitting for way too long."
"My neck hurts from when you stopped the jeep to hard... twice." Caboose added while rubbing the back of his neck before going to the back retrieving both of their belongings. "Now where do we go? This place looks huge."
"I think we go that way." Donut pointed to a near by door before they began to walk away from the jeep and out the door.
Once they were out side both slightly groans at the sight before them. "Dang, this place is bigger than we thought." Caboose commented while looking at every building he could see from where he was standing.
"Yeah it is, how we going to find the person that we need in a place like this?" Donut asked while failing to notice a guard walking next to them.
"Hey, you two, the Counselor would like to meet both of you right now." The Soldier told them making both sim-troopers jump a foot in the air.
'That was convent.' Caboose thought to himself still creeping out.
After that Caboose and Donut started to follow the soldier to a building then being lead to a room with a big screen on the wall before a man appeared on the screen. "Hello gentlemen." A dark skin man said before nodding his head for the guard to leave them alone. "Can you please introduce yourself."
"I'm private Franklin Delano Donut sir." Donut told the man then saluting.
"Private Michael J. Caboose, sir." Caboose said then saluting too.
"Thank you gentleman, both of you can drop the formality we are just trying to make you feel contestable as possible." The man tells them. "I am the Counselor, so please tell me why are you two here and not your post?"
Caboose gulped before stepping forward. "Sir, I must return home because someone in my family is about to die soon and I want to be there for them for their last moments."
"I see but what about you Private Donut? Why are you here?" The Counselor asked.
"I'm a close friend to his family sir so I also want to be there for their last moments too." Donut told him while being glad that he was wearing his helmet at the moment so the Counselor couldn't see face knowing that he was lying through his teeth. (Author: Donut looks like the type of person to lie at some point)
"Very well but I don't see the reason of to why we should send both so sudden." The Counselor said to them.
Caboose then took a step feather. "Please sir, we both have to go." Caboose pleaded the Counselor pressing both of his hands together. "She needs us both right now, what if this was someone you knew and was dying? Wouldn't you want to be with them on their final days?"
The Counselor said nothing after this as if he was in deep thought. "I'll see if there are any pilots available right now to have them take you to your distention." The Counselor finally told them.
Both Donut and Caboose looked at each other with a happy expression before looking back at the at the Counselor. "Thank you sir." Donut said in a happy ton of voice. "We promise to come back once everything has been... settled and done."
"I do hope both of you keep your word on that." The Counselor said before two guards came in the room again. 'Please follow them gentlemen, they will take you both to the Pelican that well take you home." With that said, the screen turned off.
Both Donut and Caboose then followed the two guards out having a smile escape them knowing they manged to convenes someone high up to let them go home for a sort time. All in all, they did good so far for only being their for about half an hour while letting one thing slip their minds. Their team mates.
Back with the rest of the Red and Blue teams, somehow they only made it half way from Blood Gulch to the middle of... some where still miles away from command. They were also still trying to figure out Doc's riddle from earlier but so far no one got it right or were even close to getting it right of the matter of fact.
"A gold fish." Simmons told Doc.
"No." Doc answered. 'They don't even live long poor little things.'
"A tiger." Grif said.
"Nope."
"A sheik." Tucker added.
"Nah-uh."
"A puma." Church added next.
"Not even close to that."
"A Freelancer." Sarge said trying not to look at Tex.
"Goodness no."
Everyone, expect for Tex, sighed in relief after hearing that but no one dared to look at the oh so scary (yet epic) Freelancer because they were dead scared. "Is it Lopez?" Shelia asked Doc somehow getting them back topic.
"No ma'am." Doc told her.
"The Covenant." Tex said.
"Holy hell no."
"Is it Church?" Tucker asked.
"No because he didn't stay dead the first time, no offense Church."
"Jeez none taken asshole." Church said with a hint of sarcasm. "Is it a... butterfly?"
"Nope."
"A rock." Grif said with no emotion in his voice.
"No but something close to that."
"A mountain?" Simmons asked next.
This went on for another twenty minutes or so because none of them could get the answer right... again. While back some where on Earth a young women sat in a Hospital room bed while reading a book unaware of the events that are about to happen in less than two days.
Author: All of you get! (Gets out both Red and Blue out of the room before slamming the door shut and then pushing a huge builder in front of the door) Okay, I'll make this quit. So here's the thing I need a Beta reader because the person that I normally go to when finish a chapter isn't are around right now. So can someone please help me out here, thank that is all.
