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After the other soldiers left, k-unit stepped closer to the sergeant
"Wolf, snake and eagle" the sergeant addressed
"Sir"
"As you are Cubs unit, I decided that it is in your best interest to have more insight on Cubs current status, medically."
Wolf and eagle nodded and snake looked relieved.
"Currently, cub is quite literally on the line between life and death"
A flash of shock passed over their faces before they professionally covered it.
"He is in a semi-coma but the problem is, it is not medical related. It's physiological, that's why the doctors are in complete loss of what to do. They have come up with the theory that he is in a deep sleep because his mind is fighting a battle, live
or die."
The sergeant paused contemplating, before continuing " I don't know and I don't pretend to know what the soldier has been through before he came here and I don't expect you too either. But I want you to remember that he is a member of your unit and it
is your duty to treat him as such. It is fully understandable that after" the sergeant paused again, trying to find the right words "today's events you may distrust cub and such but remember he is first and foremost your teammate."
The soldiers nodded but didn't say anything.
"You have tomorrow off and I suggest you think about your next motives. Dismissed."

The soldiers saluted and the sergeant left. Moments later, k-unit followed suit.

Wolf led his unit back to their hut and for the first time the camp was in silence. They entered their hut and the time read 1:03. Seeing as they had tomorrow off, they decided to try and understand the events of this evening.
They each sat on their respective bunks and eagle was the first to break the silence.
"What the hell happened?"
That was the question wasn't it.
After moments of contemplation, wolf spoke " we could deal with this like when we were in Iraq. Go through everything that happened and everything we know, step by step, until we can make sense of it."
The other members nodded and the lateness of the night was forgotten as they ventured on the their quest to solve the mystery known as cub. Little did they know, they didn't even have 5% of the story.
"So" wolf began "who wanted to go first"
"Cub was here roughly a year and a half ago. Trained with us for 10 days and left. He was good, amazing in fact and managed to keep up with us even though he was a first timer. He remained silent even though we bullied him. He kicked wolf out of a plane
and then disappeared " eagle started and wolf picked up the story scowling slightly at the mention of the incident.
"A month or so later, I saw him snowboarding down a mountain on an ironing board. He then led us through a private school which apparently had an evil head teacher. I got shot for him and he drove a snowmobile into a helicopter effectively killing the
head teacher and saving the world"
His other unit members stared at him but snake decided to pick up the story.
"A year and a half later he comes back to camp to train without having gone through selection. His name, age, medical history are all classified. He has a damn bullet wound right over his heart and is covered in torture marks. All his relatives are dead.
He is always on guard and He shows sign of ptsd. First seen when he lost control in combat training. He has nightmares and suffers from flashbacks. He is a damn good shot and does instinctive firing which is taught to assassins mainly. He lost control
when shooting and thought we were enemies. He managed to knock wolf unconscious with ease."
Eagle swiftly carried on " cub ran away and before we could go after him we were captured and woke up in the mess hall. Up until then everything made some sort of sense. After that I can't explain anything"
"The lets go through what we know" snake suggested.
"The assassins today were here for him"
"The assassins are from scorpia"
"Scorpia want revenge on cub"
"Scorpia want to bring down mi6 using cub"
"Cub works for mi6"
"Cub has apparently trained with scorpia"
"Explains why he does instinctive firing but the whole idea is just so absurd"
They all nodded.
"Cub knows Gregorovich" snake said
Eagle snorted. "That's an understatement."
"Scorpia managed to use gregorovich to blackmail cub into talking. I would say that they more than just knew each other if cub was forced to spill his secrets" there was an unexplainable bitterness in eagles tone.
Wolf noticed but decided to ignore it.
"Do you remember when cub attacked the assassins?"
Snake scoffed. "How could we forget? I have never seen a human so... humanless. He knocked 20 trained assassins unconscious with the speed of a machine and the agility and grace of a cat. There was nothing human in him."
Silence hung in the air.
"Until" eagle began "gregorovich stopped him. The same way the fighting image of cub was embedded in our minds, I don't think we will ever be able to forgot the cub that begged the assassin to stay with him. That wanted all that's going on to end. Cub
obviously has little left but it doesn't make sense that an assassin to be the only one. An assassin!"
"Do you remember when gregorovich was apologising to cub?"
"Or when gregorovich told us to take care of cub?"
"It seemed like gregorovich was Cubs some sort of guardian angel. Who in the world has an assassin as a guardian angel?"
"Did you hear what walker said before cub attacked?" Snake asked. " walker seemed to be saying that cub has no parent. Killed by his godfather." The more they remembered the less it made sense.
Wolf carried on. "Walker also said that gregorovich killed Cubs uncle. What kind of relationship does that mean they have?"

Silence hung in the air. There seemed to be a question they were all avoiding.

"What about us?" Eagle asked.
"What about us?" Wolf questioned eagle.
"What is our relationship with cub?" The question hung in the air.

Cub was an mi6 agent who was trained by scorpia. It doesn't exactly spark trust does it?
But then wolf remembered what the sergeant said.
"Cub is first and foremost a soldier" wolf echoed the words. "He is our teammate. Part of our unit." The words part of our family were unsaid but clear all the same. "We treat him like one of our own. We have only heard what he was forced to say and we
cannot come to conclusions about him without having heard the full story. He might be a spy and an assassin but he is also a fellow soldier and we need to treat him as such." Eagle and snake nodded their heads to show their full agreement. If they
weren't professional soldiers they would be giving round of applauses.
Wolf carried on. "He is unconscious Now and we don't know when he will wake up but until then we treat him how we wouldn't treat any other unit mate. We go visit him, we check up on him. Ask the doctors how he is doing. Once he is wakes up " if he is
wakes up hung the the air "we can question him. Until then we can't do anything."
The nods of heads was all that was needed. Minutes of silent contemplation later, the lights were turned off and the three soldiers turned to a thought filled sleep.
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