Agent New Mexico's eyes narrow. "New! I need help now!" Tex yells out as she was trapped between a concrete pillar and a huge tank. "Hold on Tex! Ill get you out of there." Agent New Mexico calls out. She clicks on her headset. "York, I need you to disable the gravity, now!" New orders. "On it, New." York replied instantly. New quickly enables her gravity boots. The tank that had Texas pinned up, move it's cannon toward her face. "New! Whatever you're gonna do, do it now!" Yells Tex. New's eyes widen but just in time York says through the static, "Okay, Gravity disabled." Suddenly everything around New starts floating. Including the Tank. Tex quickly kicks up the tank into the air as soon as it fires it's cannon, making the ceiling get hit by the missile. "Good job York!" New says happily as she hurries toward Tex. "Why thank you New Mexico." York replies, proudly. "Thanks New." Tex breaths, finally turning on her gravity boots. Zeta appears appearing out of New Mexico's green armor, "Hostiles detected, New Mexico,"
"Hey! Violet!" A voice calls out, then everything felt like time stopped. Tex didn't move and everything stopped floating around randomly by zero gravity. "VIOLET, WAKE THE FUCK UP!" Yells another voice. Everything finally appeared in front of me once I opened my eyes. "Fuck me..." Violet frowns and sits up. "Violet, are you dead?" She hears Caboose say on the other side of the bedroom door. "No. I'm not dead, I'll be out in a second." She replies. "Oh good, I did not want to be here alone with Tucker." Caboose says loudly. "Well hurry V, because we have to go do... military.. stuff." Tucker says. Violet chuckles. "Yeah, okay." She says. Violet stands up and stretched in her grey tank and black shorts. Violet hears her team mates walk off. "Zeta, buddy, you there?"
"Yes Agent New. What may I assist you with?"
" I need location on Texas." She says. Zeta says, " Ma'am, I could hack into her Freelancer equipment but Omega is blocking my hack."
"Damnit, okay. Thank you Zeta, log off for now." Violet says softly. "Very well." Zeta replies, disappearing.
As Violet was walking from the base's opening she saw Caboose scrubbing down Tucker's aqua armor making sure all the black stuff is off. Violet doesn't say a word until Caboose is finished with the armor. "Okay, that's the last of it, your armor is clean now." Caboose says, finally done polishing Tucker's armor. "Did you get all the black stuff off?" Tucker asks. "Good morning Privates," Violet speaks up. "Well good morning Captain!" Exclaims Caboose randomly rushing over to hug Violet. Violet coughs, getting the air knocked out of her by his tight hug. He was stronger than he looked. "Oh. Morning Caboose." Violet coughs with a loving laugh. She already loved Caboose. He was so cute! Caboose finally let go. Tucker looks at Violet. Violet was the first to break their eye contact. Something was off about Violet, and Tucker obviously knew so. "So, Tucker, what are we doing--" Suddenly she was interrupted by a series of "oooo"s. A transparent being in white armor appears in front of the three soldiers. "Tuuuuccckkkeeerrrr, ttttuuuuuccccckkkkkeeerrr," It said in a long, drawn out voice. Violet rolled her eyes under her helmet. Is the Alpha seriously doing this? Agent New... Alpha is different from what I remember, Zeta says in Violet's mind. I know Z, don't worry about it though, he is still the same Alpha you know, Violet replies to her companion. "What the fuck?! Who the hell are you?!" Tucker exclaims. Violet bites her lip as she tries to hold in a laugh. No way this is happening right now, Violet thinks. "Tuuuuccckkkeeerrr, ittttssss meeee Chhhuurrcchhh, I caaaammmeee wittthhh a waaarrrrnnniinnnggg."
"Your not Church! Church is Blue not white!" Caboose points out.
"Rookie, shut up man, I'm a freaking ghost! Have you ever seen a blue ghost before?" Church snaps.
Violet rolls her eyes. "Okay, what's your warning Church?"
"Woah, wait V, you're just chill about this?" Tucker asks.
Violet shrugs. "Ugh, okay you idiots messed me up, now I have restart." Church mumbles annoyed. "Tuuuuuucccckkkeeeerrrrr-"
"Is it necessary to do the voice?" Tucker asks.
"Yeeaaah, it's kind of annoying." Adds Caboose.
"Fine, okay here's the deal. I've come back from the dead to give you a warning about Tex. Don't let-"
Caboose chips in, "So what's the warning?"
"Shut up for one second, and I'll tell you." Church snaps.
"Oh, sorry."
"Seriously, man, I mean, I'm coming back from the great beyond here. You think this is easy? It's not. It's not like I just, you know just pop in and out whenever I feel like it, it takes a lot of concentration."
Caboose mumbles out another sorry, but Church continues to ramble, " I mean, it's bad enough that you killed me to begin with, but now I come back and I can't even get a word in edgewise, man." Caboose looks to the ground guiltily. "Hey, that's enough Church." Violet says, sternly, glaring at him. "Ugh, look whatever," Church exhales. "Okay, here's the deal-"
"Is this the warning?"
Violet chuckles at Caboose. Church balls up his fist, he was so obviously frustrated, "Alright, that's it, I swear to God, Caboose, your ass is haunted. When we're done here, I'm gonna haunt you."
"Yeah, you're even starting to bug me." Tucker replies.
"Okay, Tucker. You remember that I told you I was stationed on Sidewinder before they transfered me here to Blood Gulch, right?" Church starts to explain.
"No." Tucker scoffs.
"Sidewinder, isn't that the cold planet?" Caboose asks.
"Yes."
"Oh cool! What was that like?"
"It was cold." Church simply said.
"Wait? That's it? Just cold?" Violet asks.
"Oh, I'm sorry, what do you want from me, a poem? It's a planet made entirely out of ice. It's really, fuckin', cold." Church growls.
" Would you two just let him talk? Jesus fuckin' Christ." Tucker growls.
"Alright, well, one day when I was there, everything was just like normal. I remember, I was out on patrol with my partner Jimmy. That Jimmy was a real good kid, everybody liked him." Church says, finally continuing on.
"Do you think I was a good kid Church?" Tucker asks sweetly, making V smile slightly.
"Tucker, don't get jealous man, just listen to the story, okay? Like I said, guys were hanging around, waitin' for some action, bitching about the cold... Anyway, Jimmy was in the middle of telling me all about this girlfriend he had back home. And that's when Tex showed up. Private Mickey was the first to go. He was halfway across the base when all of a sudden he just started screaming bloody murder. Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head and beat him to death with it-"
"That neve-" Violet starts but stops herself. She was almost about to say 'That never happened.' Which she was right it did never happened. Just a story the Alpha made up in his head. "I mean... how is that even possible?" She says, saving herself.
"Yeah, how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible." Says the aqua soldier.
"That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming." Church explains. "Bottom line is: these freelancers, they're bad news, and Tex is one of the worst." Violet balls up her fist, trying not to snap. She says with subconscious hostility, " if he killed them all, then why isn't he the best?"
"No... I think the real question is why didn't he kill you Church, if he's such a badass." Caboose asks.
"To tell you I don't know why I'm not dead. Could've killed me at any point. But maybe it's because Tex and I have run in to each other once before."
New Mexico, does he know?, Zeta whispers in my head. No, I don't think he remembers he's the Alpha, Violet replies. "Where?" Tucker asks. Violet frowns and shifts in her place. They have been talking for a while so no movement have been really taking place. "You uh, you remember that girl I told you about back home? Well, let's just say that Tex is the real reason why we never got married. Guys, I'm fading fast and I don't know when I'll be back. Just listen to my warning: don't let Tex get involved here."
"Okay." Tucker simply replies.
"I mean it Tucker. No fighting, no scouting, nothing. You'll regret it--" In his last words he started fading out. "So, Tex and Church were after the same girl." Tucker concludes. Not quite private, Violet thinks. "I told you his girlfriend is a slut." Violet rolls here eyes, then suddenly she has a strong feeling of being watched. Violet twirls out her knife and whips around throwing it to where she felt the eyes coming from. Violet sees a black suited person catch the knife with ease. Violet grins large, "Tex."