A/N: Hey everypony, yes here is a new chapter for you. It's really crappy, I'm sorry. I just finished this in like, under an hour, and I've been training so I can be a hell of a lot stronger for basic training for the army, so yeah. Other than that, I hope you all enjoy it. And remember REVIEW! REVIEW! REVIEW!

Prologue Part 2

By StormHoof

When I opened my eyes, I noticed the ground around me. It was black and charred. Grunting a bit, I slowly and painfully pushed myself up and looked around. There were pieces of debris from the Blackhawk lying around and most of the crash site was black and burnt. I got up and tried to steady myself. I looked down and Eddie and Erin were both lying there. Looking at Eddie, I wanted to die. He had one of the blades from the tail rotor, going straight through his head. Erin however, looked to be okay. I bent down and began shaking him.

Slowly he came to and looked up at me with dazed look on his face.

"Ugh, Erin, come on...Get up. We need...to hurry. Whatever hit...us is going to...be looking for...survivors." I said, trying to speak as the heat from the air burned my throat with each breath.

"NNNggghhh." he groaned. I knew he wouldn't be able to get himself up, so leaning down, I rolled him over, and placed my right arm under his right leg, then I reached over and grabbed his right arm with my left, and pulled him up onto my back. I straightened up and looked around me. I noticed that where we had crashed was mostly flat land, except for a set of mountains to the west. I remembered before we crashed, we were heading to the left of those mountains, which meant that was where the compound was. Knowing this, I figured our best bet would be to go to the mountains.

I walked for about an hour before Erin was conscious enough to know what was going on. He go extremely upset when I told him about Eddie. Him and Eddie had been the best of friends since they were in high school, and to know that he was gone now was almost too much for him to handle. Eventually he decided to try walking, which didn't exactly turn out well. His left leg was broken near the knee. The bone could be seen through his uniform, which meant compound fracture. If I didn't get him medical attention soon, he would bleed out.

We stopped in an area covered in brush as we heard the sound of a chopper from over head. He both hit the ground and automatically tried to conceal ourselves in any way we could. I pulled up a couple shrubs and placed them over us as we lied motionless. I watched as a chopper with Syrian markings flew over us. They made a quick sweep of the area and continued on. We waited a few extra minutes before deciding the coast was clear.

We decided to wait there for a bit, and while we did, I took my knife out and cut off a few strips of my undershirt and leaned over to Erin.

"Okay, Erin. I'm going to have to push the bone back in and set it." I said as I handed him my knifes sheath, "Here bite down on this."

I pulled up his pant-leg and assessed the damage. His shin bone was sticking our from the side at an odd angle. I looked it over and after figuring out exactly how it was broken, I started pushing on it. Erin grunted through the pain and bit down on the sheath. I carefully pushed the bone back in and after a few agonizingly painful moments, I managed to set the bone. I reached over and grabbed two shrubs. I took my knife and cut off the branches and shortened the stems so that they could work as a tourniquet. I took the pieces of my shirt and tied the two pieces of shrub to his leg to hold the bone in place.

"Alright, you all set?" I asked.

"Yeah, my leg just hurts like all hell. So yeah, I'm just peachy." He said in a straight tone.

"Jeez, you could ease up on the sarcasm you know." I said as I helped him back to his feet.

After walking for two hours we finally came upon the mountains. They weren't too tall, and there were paths along it's side, cut into it from years of water erosion. We walked up for a bit until we saw a cave. I pulled Erin in and we sat down against a wall.

"Whelp, this has been a shit of a day." I said.

"You make it sound like it's been a fucking joke! Eddie is dead!" Erin yelled.

"Erin, I'm well aware of that, but getting angry and raising your voice isn't going to help us right now. Ok?" I said.

"Yeah whatever."

"Well, I'm going to go scope out the rest of this place. I'll be back in a bit, and please for the love of god, don't blow yourself up." I said. I knew that when he got careless, things happened. Explosive things.

I walked out of the cave and began scaling the small cliff next to it. Once I got to the above ledge, I took a minute to locate all the hand holds and foot holds for the next wall. After about an hour, I made it to the top of our personal little mountain, which in retrospect, wasn't really that big. I looked around and noticed that there were dark storm clouds above us. I hadn't noticed them before.

Why are these here now? I wondered.

Suddenly, I heard a deep rumble and a saw a bright flash and then everything went black.

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When I opened my eyes, all I saw was blue sky. It was weird, one minute it's looking like a fucking hurricane, and now it's as clear as water. I looked at some of the clouds. They didn't seem to be moving, and they seemed a bit too puffy. I was about to get up, but every time I moved, I would feel a splitting pain go up my spine and into my brain. It hurt too much to be able to weather through it so that I could get up. I closed my eyes and slept, hoping that I would be able or, recovered enough to be able to get up.