A soldier's story
"Well, I'll be dammed" The captain said, stroking his chin as we both looked inside the room, a small containment area, used as a storage room, we came here trying to escape the IDS agents, they would have given the armored division a run for their money if they hadn't found us first.
"Hey, Higgins, come'ere" Captain Trenton said, looking with confusion at an object in a corner. Beads of cold sweat ran down my forehead as I spotted the object, it was, without a doubt, a teddy bear… I've seen it before… in a picture, a small girl carried it. She was our target before this ordeal, which seems so unreal at first.
"We'll be in deep shit if we find the owner, sir" I quickly said, still scared of the new finding… The captain nodded and left the pink bear on the ground, "Let's regroup with the others and prepare to pull back to our base"
Our situation didn't bode well from the beginning, we were left far behind enemy lines, our mission was to capture a fabric and continue onward to their HQ, I knew from the start it was a bad idea, we've lost 5 men already, and we've been avoiding HMG fire and wartank rounds since then. We had a little break when we found another forward position. The lazurians were preparing to attack from a side after they avoided detection.
"Stop day dreaming and start firing, ya piece of shit!" What the…? The sudden bellow turns my attention back, oh fuck… Are those md tanks?
"Everybody, hold your position! The lazurians are getting in for the kill!" Is he kidding? We can't hold tanks! It's not like if we had bazookas or something. "Incoming!!" Joshua yells from the top of his lungs as a bright red shell comes forth toward us, all of us (only five by now) dropped onto the ground, as the shell comes blowing the wall off, I slowly look up, our cover is no more, and Frederick is crying in pain, darn it.
I roll to a side, bullets lift dust up as they hit the spot where I was lying moments before, I try to reload my gun, but my hands are shaking like crazy. I don't wanna die here!
"Look! The lazurians!" Captain Trenton beams his weapon in the air, and so do the others as a war tanks and two md tanks open fire, "Things are getting a little hectic around here, eh, guys?" That voice…
"Simons? What the hell are you doing in a lazurian tank?" The captain shouts
"You'd kill me if I tell you" He laughs at the radio, "Anyways, I gotta go, don't die out there!" The 3 tanks suddenly speed away, leaving us behind, I guess it wasn't some kind of rescue mission.
"Hey, cap'n, we can't get out of here, at least not without being shot in the ass, shouldn't we…" Gregory says as he looks outside, I quickly take a look through a hole made into one of the walls, there's no one out there, but he is right, moving out like this, we'll be sitting ducks. "Alright, let's find supplies and some sandbags guys, we'll secure the place and take a break"
"This is so fucked up…" Dennison suddenly murmurs, she looks troubled… I don't think she understood what she was getting into when she put on her uniform… She even looked happy when thinking of engaging in battle… guess war breaks everyone up…
I sit down and sigh, we've been here 4 hours already… it feels like so much more, it bothers me… we've searched everywhere, and yet… I feel like if someone was here… and that bear… ugh, I better keep walking, it helps me to relax.
Just as I walk by that storage room, I spot a silhouette, startled I quickly bolt into the room, there is nothing inside, my mind is playing tricks on me… again. I think, while turning around, however, a gun is pointed at my face, I leap backwards in surprise, tripping with some boxes. I grunt as my ass reaches the ground with a thud, I look up, just to find a weapon lying on a high shelf. Darn it. The guys would laugh if they find out…
Now… this is creepy… that bear was lying on the ground when we found it. It's now lying besides the machine gun, there must be someone here. I better tell everyone. Wait… maybe someone's playing me a trick or something. I bet it's Dennison, I think she doesn't likes me.
"Alright Lisa, get out now, the joke's over!" Shit… I must get out of here. I think and rush out of the room, I can't shake the feeling someone was watching me, that's why I thought it might have been Lisa, I must tell the others right now, we'll pull back, regroup and everything will be fine.
Before long, I find Lisa, she's found herself a comfy window from where to shoot IDS soldiers, "What is it?" She sighs as she turns around, sitting and then clutching her legs on her chest.
"Are you alright?" I ask with a little concern, she seems a bit too depressed…
"I'm… fine, now tell me, you look like if you had seen a ghost or something" She says, quickly avoiding talking about her. I sigh and scratch my head, I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable here, "Where's the captain?" Lisa slowly raises her arm and points toward one of the corridors, she reaches for her weapon and sighs again, standing up. "It wasn't such a good idea" She suddenly mutters as she turns around, "Huh?"
"Nothing, I'm just a bit tired, that's all" She is giving me that sad look again, I think I know what's wrong with her… even I wonder why I join the battle…
It's a bit too late now, though. Sighing in exhaustion, I turn around and start walking. I hope Lisa won't lose it before we get back
Is this place dark, I feel someone's watching me. Come to think of it, the place is too quiet, "Everyone! Come here now!" The hell if I think about that again, running a short lap, I reach a big corridor, with a big, wide window, Gregory bolts in behind me, and Lisa appears unsteadily from the other side of the place, scanning the area, we three finally spot captain Trenton, "Captain? What the--". "Shut up and get down!" Suddenly he hushes and we 3 do as he says, "Hey, where's Fred?"
"Wriggling in pain in a small room" Gregory answers quickly, with a smirk in his face, then he instinctively peeks through the window, the perplexed look in his eyes is a bit disturbing, since he is the 'I've seen it all' guy. "So, what's wrong?" Lisa suddenly asks, more like her usual self, I too want to know, but Greg is completely paralyzed, shit. "Captain, what happened?"
"Take a look yourself, just watch out" He suddenly says, rather calmly for being the one who screamed through the radio moments ago. I slowly take a look, little by little, my blood freezes as I look at the scene, those IDS bastards, they're stationed just 2 or 3 miles away from our position. Anti-air units, those things won't have troubles punching holes on us. And there are a lot more of things there, war tanks, bikes, recons, it's even bigger than a 'standard' attacking force.
"Get inside the structure, we'll build defenses near the center of this place and hope they only send infantry to check here"
"But why the hell are they here with all that?" Greg finally says.
"Maybe they're looking for something… or someone" The captain says again, sending chills down my spine.
"Alright, that's enough chatter, let's move"
It's been another our already, and Lisa says they're not moving, what the hell are they waiting for? "Hey, Scott" A weak voice comes from a room behind me, It's Fred, he is resting on a wall, we didn't take his weapon because if IDS reach here, he'll at least kill one or two of them.
"Fred, how are you feeling?"
"Like crap, my leg still hurts like hell" He says, we already put a cast around his leg, but it's not enough, blood is slowly gushing out of the bandage. "Relax, the morphine we gave you should start working in a few moments, we'll get out of this one" I say, trying to smile, but I'm just too tired. Fred only sighs, slightly shaking his head, and chuckles under his breath, it must be hilarious for him, I shouldn't be the one trying to make him stay awake. Lisa or Greg could do much better.
"That was lousy, man" "Yeah, I know, but it's not like I've done this before you know" Yeah, I was pretty much the only survivor in my team. Ever since we fought those raiders to help those town folks, pretty much everyone in my squad ended up with a bullet through their skulls. Kind of a curse or something like that.
"Shit, I think I saw something moving man!" Joshua says as he enters the room walking backwards. "Like what?" I only frown, this is so not the time to for fooling around "I don't know man, a little ghost girl, pale as the moon man, I could hear her giggle as she ran through the hallway"
"A small girl?"
"I don't know, the girl just appeared from a corner and ran, she even looked like… Oh my god…" He gasps in fear as he realizes, my heart skips a beat at the thought, the soldiers out there, they're looking for that girl.
"What the hell is that girl doing here?" I turn around, Fred realized it as well, and he frowns in surprise and frantically tries to get up, "Wait, what the hell are you doing?" I grab him and push him down, due to the pain, he only grunts as he hits the wall. "Dammit Scott, let me go, if we capture that girl, they'll send a rescue party, we'll get outta here!"
"Hey, you're right, I better tell the captain about this!" I try to stop Joshua, throwing my arm at him, but he just bolts out of the room before I can reach him. Shit, I don't think any force will wear the tanks out there. We'll get us all killed!
"You wait here!" I quickly shout Fred, and hurriedly dash behind Joshua. Damn it, I, too, want to get out of here, but those IDS troops out there will just tear down anything that comes into range, we're safe here only because of that girl, I still don't understand why, though. How did she get in here?
I see Joshua turning in a corner as I come into the corridor. What the…? I quickly stop, my eyes suddenly meet those of the little girl of the photo, I thought it was something wrong in the picture, but it seems she does have those inhuman golden eyes everyone was talking about, she looks so innocent, yet she gives off a weird feeling. How the hell did Joshua missed her this time?
"S-stop right there!" I shout, yet in vain, her giggles echoes all around the place as she gets away from sight, I quickly dash, trying to catch her. But to my surprise, when I come into the corridor she walked to just moments ago, I spot nothing, she just disappeared into thin air or something, or simply she is too fast…
I'm getting uneasy… This will get ugly in no time…
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