Violet walks toward Tex who is working on Sheila. Violet growls, "Hey. Texas." Tex turns to look at Devil and Violet as they rush to her. Devil chuckles evilly, "Haha, this is gonna be great." Violet balls up her fist, "What the fuck gives you the right to tell Church about Tucker and me?!" Texas stares at her friend for a bit then she shrugs carelessly then continues working on the tank, " I didn't mean to New Mexico, it just sorta slipped out." Violet's hands ball up, slightly shaking in fury. "You're a real bitch, you know?" Violet yells fiercely.
Tex glares at Violet, "Woah. Woah. Woah. You're the one who's becoming softer. Tucker, Caboose, this damn mission you've been on for years. You care about every single one. It's going to get you killed."
"You know why I care! Because they remind me of our friends!" Violet snarls.
"Oh, well if their just like your friends then are you going to abandon them like you did to Vermont or Oklahoma or Washington? You going to bail on Tucker and Caboose like you did to them!" Tex growls harshly.
Devil coughs awkwardly, stepping backwards to get out if the way of anything about to happen. Violet grabs a hold of Tex's armor plate and slams her against the side of Sheila. "Shut the fuck up Allison." She growls. Suddenly the tank starts to purr, showing she had come back to life. The machine raises her cannon and says, "Thank you for activating the M808V Main Battle Tank." Devil's eyes widen, "Oh shit, we got trouble." Violet let's go of Tex. Tex glares at V, "I already know about your guys' plan, I'm not fucking retarded New Mexico. After this I'm gone, you understand?"
Violet snarls, "Go fuck yourself Texas."
Tex jumps into the tank, ignoring her friend. " Remember what I said New. You can't be weak, you have to show that you don't care about them or else you'll lose them like you lost Carolina, Washington, Oklahoma... Vermont. And I really don't think you want to go through that again." Violet stares at Texas in despair as she watches her friend roll off in the tank. Devil straightens up, "You can always stop her Violet, you have your armor... the freelancer one."
"Just let her go... she's not worth our time.." Violet mumbles. Though in her aching heart, Cin Rue knew Tex was right... She was growing to close to the simulation soldiers, especially Tucker. If this kept going she would go through the same thing she did so long ago.
Violet and Devil rush up the hill to Caboose and Tucker. "Did you call in to Church?" Violet ask the two blues. Tucker shakes his head. New Mexico groans, "Once the Tank was fixed you were supposed to call Church to tell him." Caboose suddenly becomes very fidgety, he begins to jump slightly up and down, "Oh, oh, oh, Tucker please, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker, Tucker, please-" Tucker rolls his eyes, "Yes, you can be the one who radios Church"
"Who cares who radios him. Just get it done." Violet snarls harshly. Tucker tilts his head, "V... are you okay?"
"I'm fine." She replies coldly. "Now hurry it up Caboose."
"Okay!" Caboose exclaims, still very excited. " Calling Church. Come in Church. This is your close, personal friend, Private O'Malley."
All three soldiers stare at Caboose. "O'Malley? You said your name was Caboose." Tucker asks, completely confused. Violet narrows her eyes. Caboose shakes his head, "I never said that, you guys did!"
Devil says, "But you have said it. Remember?" She then says in the worst Caboose impression ever, " 'Hi! I'm Micheal J. Caboose.'"
"Yeah... and if that's not your real name, why didn't you correct us?" Violet asks, suspiciously.
"Because I didn't want to be difficult." Caboose exclaims. He then turns on the radio. "Come in Private Church. Do you copy. Soldier unit Tex has the armor vehicle situation rectified. Okay. We require verification of your... mission...ness." Caboose quickly clears his throat. "How is your progression?"
The radio replies with a two second sound of static, "Caboose! Nadie aqu est escuchando m!"
"That voice... is that Lopez?" Violet mumbles. Lopez's voice continues talking, "No mas puedo hablar espaol!"
Caboose looks at Tucker and chuckles nervously, "...He says he wants to talk to you."
Suddenly there's a huge boom. "Oh fuck." Violet sighs. "She's already there." Caboose looks through the sniper rifle to look at Red Base as they keep getting hit over and over by Shelia. Tucker crosses his arms and pouts, "Okay, I'm getting really sick of asking people what's going on through that sniper rifle." Caboose cringes slightly with every blow, "Church is getting mad at us." Tucker groans sarcastically, throwing his head back, " Ohhhhh. Well that's a nice change of pace."
"Huh... that pink girl is saying something? And yelling?" Caboose says.
"Pink girl? You mean Donut?" Violet asks, astounded. She grabs the rifle out of Caboose's hands rather harshly and looks out to the Red base. Donut then throws a grenade. It speeds through the air, straight toward the tank. Tucker follows the grenade with his eyes, "Man, that girl's got a really good arm." Violet's eyes widen, "Its going to hit-!" The grenade lands inside the tank and boom! The tank flies up into the air then crashes down. New Mexico let's out a gasp. In the distance, Lopez is running toward the tank. "Dios mo, no!" He yelled. Lopez yells out, " Tejas, Tejas!"
"Crap. Church is gonna be pissed, and now he's got a body to kick our ass." Tucker says. Violet shakes her head and begins to walk down the hill. Devil frowns and follows her. Tucker watches them go then he looks at Caboose,"Come on Caboose, let's get back to base."
"I told you, my name isn't Caboose..." Caboose snarl, his head sharply turning to Tucker. His voice gets very low and deep. "My name... is... O'Malley..."
Violet spun around to face Caboose when he says that. That was not Caboose, she concluded. Violet refrains from saying anything. She slightly touches Tucker forearm lightly, "Come on guys... let's go... It's over." She says softly. Tucker looks at Violet and goes after her as she continues down the hill.
It took awhile for Caboose, Devil, Tucker and Violet to get back to base. By the time they got there, Lopez... erm... Church was already there. Holding onto Tex's body tightly. " Necesitamos un médico" Church says. Devil itches the back of her neck, " Voy a llamar a uno inmediato"
"Wait... What? You speak spanish?" Tucker asks.
Devil ignores him, "I'm gonna go call in a medic. And New Mexico... I would put on that armor of yours, something bad is going to happen... I can feel it, you need to be prepared." Violet watches Devil walk out and calling into Blue Command. Something bad is going to happen... I can feel it. Zeta repeats in Violets head. Something bad...
