A.N. - I own nothing except the random names/ shade/Leah. Please R and R!
WWII
Corporal David Koons threw a hard uppercut towards the solider that had mouthed off to him. When it connected he knew the guy was seeing stars. So far the other man hadn't gotten any good hits in. Some to the stomach but nothing to the face or that was easily visible. David was about to go for the knock out when the first lieutenant showed up.
"Corporal Koons! What is going on here?" He barked looking at the dazed man.
"This solider was mouthing off to me and I told him to respect his commanding officer, Sir, but he wanted a fight so I gave him one. David answered respectfully even though he just wanted to knock out the still dazed disrespectful solider.
"Okay but next timesomebody better get me to take care of it." The first lietentint said and took the injured solider to the infirmary.
After they had left all the men crowded around David.
"Wow! How do you know how to fight like that?" Asked one.
"Are you a boxer?" Another asked.
They closed in tighter and tighter which made David nervous. You see everybody has their secrets but David's secrets were deadly. If they found out he'd be ridiculed, beaten, and thrown out of the army and banned from the armed services and no man would want to marry her or take her in. If they found out her other secret (of which she didn't fully understand yet herself) they'd just do experiments on her. David had to guard these deadly secrets with his life if necessary so when the men crowded him he got on edge enough to kill.
"Woah! Stay back! Get back I said!" He yelled to no avail. He was on the verge of going over the edge and throwing punches when guys started flying away from him. It was his best friend in his platoon and his brother, John Howlett and Victor Creed.
"Now he said get back!" John growled. The men stopped where they were but didn't back up.
"I said get back!" John roared for his friend.
They all backed up a few steps. Then John grabbed David and took him below with Victor bringing up the rear.
"Thanks. I'm not that good with people." David said once they were in a private room.
"Well you've saved me plenty of times so it was nothin." John said.
"Well we do have some questions to ask. Don't we John?" Victor mentioned giving his brother a look. David hated Victor's eyes. He didn't trust Victor at all. He didn't smell right. However, his brother John was trustworthy, smelled good, and pretty damn good lookin. That's the only downfall of pretending to be a man, if you like one you can't falter at all. If they think you like them then you're an outcast because you're gay and if they find out you're a woman you get constantly hit on, you're not able to fight, and you get kicked out of the army.
"Oh, uh I'm sorry if these seem weird or personal but we need to know. We think we've met you before. Have we?" He asked.
"I don't think so." David lied. He knew he'd run into these two in other wars, or at least their fathers and grandfathers.
"Ok then its settled Victor!" John snapped even though he wanted to ask David more personal questions.
Victor didn't look happy with David's answer.
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"Woah! Woah! Woah!" David said to his small platoon. He knew they could free this concentration camp if they approached it with the right strategy.
"Now I'm gonna walk up there by myself and act like I'm surrendering. When the dogs attack their handlers you attack. Not a moment sooner, got it? John's in charge while I'm gone. Don't let any prisoners out until I say and all the Germans are dead." David told them.
He walked up and the dogs barked, growled, and strained at their leashes. The Germans came out and encircled him once he put his gun on the ground and put his hands on his head. They moved in to restrain him and his eyes went from green to silver. Suddenly the dogs turned on their handlers and David picked up his gun and with the help of his platoon shot every German and took over the camp. They went to the gates and noticed the top was bent over like someone had tried to pull it away. They also noticed that unlike all the other camps they'd freed instead of metal walls, doors, and fences they were all wooden. There was almost no metal anywhere to be found. Where there was metal it was extremely misshapen and mangled. They went into the men's side of the camp and were sickened at what they found. The men looked like walking skeletons and were living among dead bodies that hadn't been collected yet. There were mountains of bodies waiting to be burned and the stench was almost unbearable. However one young man caught their attention. He seemed to be almost magnetic. He had a small metal ball that floated around him as if it did whatever he wanted.
"It's okay," David said gently, "We're here to help. You're free now. Are you hungry son? You want some of my bread? Here it won't kill ya." He pulled out some bread and offered it to the boy. "What's your name?"
"Eric Lehnsherr and yours?" he asked.
"David Koons can you do me a favor? Can you help me take care of these people until our back up gets here?" David asked him.
Eric agreed for the sake of his people.
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When back up arrived David and his platoon moved on to the next concentration camp but unfortunatly a German got to him and he died and that is why we're having a memorial for the American hero today. The great David Koons. David Koons whose body is somewhere in an unmarked grave but whose deeds will never be forgotton.