Chapter 4
"Clllllllrr!"
He didn't understand what he was hearing. It sounded so far off, that is was as if the other voice was in another country.
"ClllEErr!"
Maybe he meant to think 'another city'.
"CLEAR!"
A stab of lightning in his chest brought a strangled, frosty breath.
"Oh my God, he's breathing! The knuckle-head is breathing!"
Rainier was disappointed. He was in a soundless cocoon of warmth and familiarity and then the next moment he was thrust into a harsh world of pain and sound.
Oh God, the pain.
"Help me move him, we have to get him inside!"
"Anthony, are you crazy! Do you have any idea vhat Beau vill say about you bringing zhis... zhis SPY into our base?"
Hey now buddy, that spy had a name which happened to be... what was it? Who cares, because he was a human being just like these disembodied voices were.
He felt icy rubber slip around the trim of his mask and with a firm jerk, the rubber was gone.
"Don't remove the mask. Leave it till later, ya got it?"
Yeah, you tell 'em voice number one! Voice number two should'a known better, huh?
"He has been in zhe vater for a long time so-"
It was so hot. It was like a blazing inferno surged through his muscles and made his skin crawl with a heated itch. Something was seriously wrong since it was the middle of November and he knew the heated battle ground had been slick with ice and compact snow. Why was he so damned hot?
Yanking his arm towards the buttons of his suit, he painfully began slipping incoherent fingers around the first button.
"Woah, hey man, you can't be doin' that!"
He felt his hand being shoved back down to his side.
"We have to get him back before he strips and gets back in that freezing water like a moron!"
"I agree. You take hsss leeEggss..."
Oh God, it was back to the tunnel vision of sounds. He felt his mind slipping on the edge of consciousness when his legs were grabbed by strong arms.
That was the last of Rainier's memory as he was dragged through the ice and snow to the RED base.