Home Invasion

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

-Imelda Marcos

My god... It's actually opening, but there was no controls to the vault entrance on this console. It must have been opened from the outside! We could hear the loud screechy sound of the door being opened through the video feed, rotating like a disc to reveal a dark figure. The dark figure approached the vault, along with another, and another... And another. The vault's lights show the dark figures were in fact men, wearing various equipment. They seemed equipped with some kind of leather armor, dirty t-shirts and shin guards, but what scared me the most was the fact that they were armed with weapons.

They all wore something that stood out from their equipment however. They wore red armbands with two diagonal bars pointing right. It stood out because it looked much cleaner than their overall outfits.

Their weapons looked like they were in pretty bad condition, like they were used a lot. My heart started to beat faster, this can't be happening.. it's just a dream. I looked to my fellow officers, they're just as shocked as I am, their mouths wide open in shock.

"W-We need to tell the overseer about his!" said Leo. Suddenly the Vault alarm sets off, its only used when a big threat is in the vault. "I'm pretty sure he knows already" I said.

I looked at the monitor, I counted 27 armed men, weapons raised, moving into the vault. "Alright.. I count 27 of em, vault security outnumbers them 4 to 1. Lets call in everyone, armor up and confront them." I said.

"Keep in mind. We're the only officers in the force that has ever shot anyone before, these men... Look at them. Scars all around their faces, rusty weapons...Hell, I bet they even know that they're outnumbered, these men will be hard to beat.

Vance had a good point. I worry now that our force will be intimidated by the invaders.

"Let's stick with your plan though, we gotta do everything we can to protect this vault." Vance said.

We ran to the vault armory, along the way the overseer made an announcement on the PA system, telling everyone to stay in their rooms, and security to the armory. There we met up with the rest of the security force, most of them were trembling out of fear. I picked up a few more shells, and help organize our force into squads that will move in to meet the invaders. I met up with Liam, who was trying to calm an officer down before he had a panic attack.

"Ken! What the fuck man, is this shit really happening?" he said.

"I'm freaked out too, but it looks like they're not here on a diplomatic mission. Look, I need to trust you to lead a group of the force in there with my group, can you handle that?"

Liam nodded his head.

Vance was leading his group in front of us, my group behind him, and Leo was behind me. I couldn't tell much what was going on in the front. suddenly I heard some yelling then a loud bang echoed. I saw a officer fell to the ground as the bullet ran right through his helmet.

The image of gorey bits oozing out of the helmet sickened me, I froze up for a moment. I wanted to puke, but the loud bangs of gunfire snapped me out of it.

I signaled my group to move up, I take my aim and fired at the gunmen. I commence coverfire while Vance usually gives the fatal shot with his carbine.

I moved up for better cover, but while doing so I saw a metal object being thrown into the air by one of the invaders. A can? I thought. I was wondering what it was while I move into cover,

It landed near a group of officers when suddenly a giant spark of fire and shrapnel ignited. I fell to the ground because of the shockwave, a long beep sound bursted into my ears, I was hunched over covering my ears. As I recovered I saw the group of officers were now shredded by the shrapnel,

The firefight was going on to 10 minutes, and I see more and more officers falling while the invaders were still 20 strong. One of them charged toward the gunfire and turned to me, he used the butt of his gun to hit the side of my head.

I fell to the ground. But quickly recovered. I stood up, and caught the gun before we would bash my head another time, he looked big, before he could overpower me I elbowed his face and took the gun from him. I tried aiming the gun at him but then he just shoved me to the ground, making me drop his gun. As he went to pick up his gun I noticed my shotgun was right next to me, I quickly picked it up and fired directly at his face, which inaugurated an eruption of blood and brain matter to splatter all over himself and my face.

I didn't react, I was having too much adrenaline, I continued firing at them. About a half hour into the fight we seemed to be winning, as they were getting few in number. Soon they backed off, and ultimately we chased them away from our vault, We saw from the outside of the vault door was a dark cavern but I saw a dim light further down the cave. The overseer must have been working on overriding the damage Hark has done, because now the vault door began to close again. The invaders ran away as the door finally closed up.

Woah, puking now. well, I guess thats how my body reacts to victory. I was so pumped up in the moment, I didn't realized I've killed several men.

I never killed anyone in my life, and I never thought that I would need to. This should never have happened, What was going on in Hark's mind that led him to give outsiders access to our home? My hand's were shaking, I dropped my shotgun. I can never look at my hands the same way again.

I'm sure much of the force feels the same. I did a check on my group and the rest of the force. Leo is shot twice in the chest but nothing vital was hit. Vance's arm was hit and Liam had a knife wound across the left side cheek to his lower lip. I didn't noticed that I was covered in blood, most of it not being mine. I was virtually untouched.

Soon the medics came to fix up the wounded, which is nearly everyone, and to pick up the dead, which... Was almost everyone. Our hundred twenty strong force was taken down to a weakened forty by a 27 man assault, all in less than a hour. I walked to Liam, who is currently being stitched up by a medic. "How you holding up man?" I said. A stupid question if you ask me.

"Ith thith ahmph doin okehp"

"What?" I said.

"Oh, I had to numb his face in order to stitch his wound, he won't be able to talk for a while" said the medic next to him.

"Oh alright...I didn't think this had to happen. Look at this... A massacre."

Liam stretched out his hand and grabbed me by the arm.

"Heth manh, wef protehte ourh herm."

He sounded incomprehensible but I knew what he meant.

Liam gave me a half smile (because the other half was very numb) and gave me a thumbs up. Despite all the horror that's happened today that guy is still smiling. Liam is the kind of man that doesn't let something like this corrupt his heart. I wish I had that ability.

"I'm gonna check up on other things, I'll talk to you later" I walked off toward Vance.

...

"Leo's busted up pretty bad. Nothing important was hit but he lost a lot of blood." said vance.

"Leo may not look it, but he's a tough guy. I'm certain he'll pull through." I assured Vance. "I'm going to see the Overseer, I'll check up on you later."

Vance gave me a nod then looked to his medic who was stitching up his arm after removing a bullet that was fixed inside it. Before I went to see the overseer I walked to the infirmary, opened the doors..nope.

Turned right out in a instant. I saw enough. The infirmary was... occupied quite a bit. instead I went to my room. In the bathroom, I took off my Vest to find 2 bullets stuck within the chest area. Closer inspection on the bullets show that they were the same kind of bullets we use, 10 millimeter. The bullets that went straight through Leo's vest may have been something of high caliber,

All over the collar of my once clean shirt is drenched in blood that isn't mine. I took it off and threw it away. I looked at myself in the mirror. My slightly built body also had stains of blood, it must have soaked through the shirt. I also noticed that my black hair had taken stains of of the red liquid... I wanted to curl up and vomit again but my stomach had everything evacuated long ago...

Jesus, I couldn't look at myself much longer. I threw some water from the sink to my face and rinsed all the blood away. Afterwards, I went to the shower and try to keep my mind sane..

I put on a new uniform, and head towards the Overseers' office. As I walked into the office, I saw him scuffling over papers. I gave him a salute, "I was expecting you Meirson, please take a seat we have something to discuss about." He then stands up from his desk, walks to a console across the room and types in something that made the security cameras in the room that were glowing a red light turn off.

"We... Have a bad...very bad. Problem."