Chapter Nine: The Survivor
Captain Peterson leaned against the back wall among a group of armed guards as he stared into the cell, his expression made of stone. He grinned when he saw how the prisoners were starting toget irritable.
Major Shadis walked in, Peterson and the other guards quickly stood to attention and saluted. "right, we're going to take each individual in for questioning, see what they know. " He pointed to David, "he's first."
Two guards escorted the restrained soldier up several flights of stone steps as the Major followed suit, smoking a pipe. "I know where we are now, we're in the Castle, not far from that forest right?" he was simply elbowed in the stomach and ordere to hurry up. Eventuallly, they reached what David assumed t be one of the top floors of the Castle where he was thrown into a room and isolated.
He turned and examined his surroundings: a small room with nothing in it, spare for a few rats escaping through a tiny vent. One of the walls was barred and he could see into the other room, which looked more like a n office as he realised where he was. He was in one of them Interrogation rooms, isolated from the questyioners but able to communicate with them. David had heard abouyt the Military Police using these rooms to question suspects, including the infamous "Kenny The Ripper".
"I want to talk to Major Shadis. You won't get anything unless I talk to Major Shadis." Seemingly clockwork, the traitor appeared in the other room, taking a seat next to another officer."alright Private David Bozardo, I want you to recall you experiences with the spec ops unit, from the begining, please." David sighed.
"I want to know why you're holding us here, for you experiments. we haven't done anything wrong. You sent out a request for soldiers willing to serve in your 'Project: Last Resort' I signed up because you said we were exploring where the 57th expedition ended." He scratched hishead. "My Brother, Aurou, was killed out here, so I signed up to find out more about it, for a sense of closure. I wish to knwo the location of the bodies of Captain Levi's Squad. You're not getting anything else untill I find out." he spat, sataring into the eyes of the officer sat next to Shadis. The younger Military Police trooper awkwardly turned in his seat as David narrowed his eyes on him, expecting an answer. The trooper stuttered; "t-the B-bodies of Squad Levi were recovered by us and stored for experiments." a tear ran down David's face as he put it all together.
"My Brother died here, one of those things killed him, and you're using his body for your experiments? what kind of sick people are you?" He looked back up at them, "we will leave this place alive, and when the Government finds out what you're up to, you'll no longer be fooling anyone, when the walls crumble around you as the Survey Corps come after you and hunt you like the rats you are, You'll have to tell the world that the fate of a great many heroes was not from titans, not from disease, but because you were hiding something out here. I'm right, aren't I?"
The door opened and Peterson stormed in, knocking David unconscious with and elbow to the face.
When he awoke, he was strapped to a chair in a large room, he looked up and saw someone else sat across from him, tied to another chairin the same way, but with a bag over their head. "Shaun?" the person shook their head as they sighed deeply. "Wait a minute, are you the survivor we were meant to recover?" The still anonymous soldier slowly nodded asShadis entered, doing up a tie as he grinned with evil delight. He crouched to David's face. "this is where you will meet your end, Mr Bozardo." The Survivor in the other chair strained as they recognised the surname.
Chances are, you have a few ideas on who the survivor could be. But prepare for an ultimate reveal coming either the next chapter or the chapter after. Stay Awesome!