Gunslinger Girl Shadows of war Ch. 20 Memory lane massacre
A/N: I do not own gunslinger girl and only my ocs and this chapter will reveal an important piece from earlier chapters
Looking through the safe seeing the torn stock on the M14 he rubbed the wood, well what was left of the wood, as the weapon had been wrecked from a fight to defend a compound in the deserts of Iraq when he had been a soldier and the weapon had been given to him from his father. As Petra and Noel walked in the two girls smelled gun oil and a faint voice singing and they instantly recognized it as Rolland the headless Thompson gunner. Turning around holding the weapon he looked at them and said
"Damn thing took me through hell and back and you can even see the sand blasted metal and what is left of the wood but I was serving in the desert and the base I was serving in was a special operations forward operations base but the plans all went to hell" as he slid the worn bayonet lug in his hands as the gun rested on his knees. As he looked at them he said trying not to cry
"It was my dad's and had already had a worn look to it but when I got to the unit I chose the M14 and had a 417 as a backup as my role was designated marksman" and he sat back and thought about the wind whipped sand and he was shouldering the rifle and as his buddy Jason showed up he said
"Let me guess sand sand and more fucking sand?" and before Jason said anything a mortar landed right inside the wire and they all hit the deck and Jason who was the SAW gunner said
"No I was going to say that we were fucked so why don't we-" and midsentence he ate a series of rounds to the chest and legs but the body armor spared him death and he could sit move as the base had a large group of nationals who had fled there for escape from the terror groups that were trying to take over the area. As the commander looked at Jason he said
"Get the noncoms and get them the fuck out of her and we will end this shit as soon as we can" and Chris snapped back to reality as the story played out in his mind "as Jason started to move the CO looked at me and said Wrangler you are in charge if anything happens to me and right as he said that the bullet…. It tore his throat open and ripped out his spine as another round went right through his eye he was dead before he hit the ground" and he squeezed on the bottle of coke he was sipping on trying to get a grip. Looking at them Richard walked in as they were next door neighbors he brought in the blades and took over the story saying
"I had just heard wrangler here was in charge of the unit which was the 'devils fangs' and he had maybe sure we had the orders and he saw the rags moving on the wire and he yelled out "commence fire" and we all dumped the ammo into the area but soon we ran out of ammo" and he looked at the blades and smiled as the rust and bullet holes he said calmly
"that was where these babies came in because it became knives and fists all in the midst of that fucking sandstorm" and he smiled as they both said
"Well it was all fun and games till Richard went with the mercs and I was the only holding the line" took down 15 more using a variety of means till the fucking shit storm got deep enough that it was time to leave" and Richard sat in quiet letting Chris say the rest of the escape. "I had been on my way out and well I made it to the RV point and I was covered in blood, sand and gun oil and saw that Richard had been stabbed and turned on by the Mercs which to me was the funniest shit ever" and Noel and Rico who had just walked in asked
"Why the fuck did he do that?!" and Richard gave a slight smirk. As he went to pick up the story Jean Walked in and yelled
"Get out on the fucking range now" as they had a variety of close-quarters tactics they had been taught and the tactics would be used on a later raid because they would be in a target rich environment and the kids had said they would to get Jean off their backs that day. Walking out Chris slammed the 14s stock that he had been rebuilding into his abdomen and yelled
"Richard bring your blades because Ill have Claes give you cutting things" and he smiled grabbing both blades and a shotgun. Sliding a loving hand onto Noels shoulder Chris pulled a coyote mask down and said
"Damned if you don't but damned if you do" and he had agreed to train her and he was wearing a set of clothes made in the ninja style with Kevlar sown into the clothes and a assassin like armor he had made for himself with titanium plates that could help the jacket move freely and defend against weapons blows. As Richard came down with the blades and a bottle of cleaning fluid that Claes remarked
"reeked of gasoline and most likely is" and Richard proved her right by setting the liquid on fire to help burn of the rust and start to weld the bullet hole shut. Smiling Chris told Noel
"Give me one good effort in the kill house and Ill tell you more about the adventures of Richard and I" and she nodded thumbing the hammers back on both revolvers before she kicked in the door and Chris heard the 357 barking and she had finished the course in a few seconds slower than what Chris had just gotten to and he said half-jokingly
"Kiddo if you don't slow down you are going to make me look bad" and she pulled up a seat and Chris smiled and yelled
"Richard you mind getting your fucking ass over here?" and then said
"The mercs had turned on him as they thought he had been one of them after donning the garb he'd taken off the closest head shot which of those there were plenty and he crawled away. When they found out he was stabbed but that wasn't the end of it because when I got there he was made to tyr and kill me so as he severed the stock I fired" and Richard Picked up the story saying
"His bullet slammed into the blades which I had to cross to prevent his armor piercing round from doing any damage but it was stopped by my vest and as they turned away we made a silent pact to kil them all and they lasted about all of 8 seconds which if I do say so was a new record" and he laughed as they had just explained through the day the story of how they met. As they sat there after the range time Chris grabbed a polymer black forearm and slid it over the barrel and was pleased to see a tight fit. As he pulled it off to clean the Barrel he saw the bayonet lug was the same and he fire treated the barrel and rebuilt the rifle quickly and made sure it was like EBR format. Meanwhile Richard was teaching Rico the old art of bladesmithing as he heated the blade welding the holes in the metal closed and smiled saying
"I wanted to keep my old friend up and running again" and he then punched the hole away because as he put it
"It just fucking looks cool as shit" and Chris had the same thought as he had Carbon fiber crisscross X pattern showing he said
"Looks better than when I got it from my dad and Its time to show off" as Katy hugged him and said
"Dad would be proud of you and Richard for rebuilding your signature weapons and even improving them" as she saw the groove for the under barrel mount and the vertical foregrip had been attached so it could eb easily removed and the boys stored them away and Chris and Richard laughed and said
"Maybe we will get the shot to put the new weapons in action don't you think?" as the orders from AFO Raider came down and they were requested again and the fun would begin as they got ready for another day of chaos and Chris said calmly
"While we pack up Im gonna get something to eat and he walked into the kitchen which was darkened and he heard rustling as a bag was put over his head and Alex saying
"your not supposed to be in here yet" as they were putting the finishing touches on stuff for his birthday which they all laughed was 6/23.