The two pulled up to Ari's bunker it was around midday when they reached. They both jumped out of the car and ran to the front door luggage in hand, they were greeted by Bruce who smiled and said "Finally I have people to socialise with," they all walked inside, Joe took a seat by one of the armchairs while Mary followed Bruce to place down her bags. Joe took out his A-99 and inspected it, this was his fresh new side-arm and boy was he excited to use it, he modified it with a red dot sight, extended mag, square silencer and he got it a prestigious skin that the store owner called 'The Red Eye'. Joe Aimed it down the sights and then inspected the glittery skin "Dope" he said smirking.

But before he knew it Mary walked up to him and started to interrogate him. " Okay, now that we're here, mind telling me why you guys saved them?"
"Yeah, I did say I would tell you," Joe said holstering his A-99 "Now you see let's flashback 3 months ago...

3 months back...

"Okay, boys where should we head off to now? we've freed Dutches island, now we have three areas left to recapture" Ari said Frisking a dead cultist, and finding an SMG mag.

"Well, Dutch did say we should head off to Falls End, considering it's closer to us" Suggested Bruce.

"Well the thing is I'm more intrigued by this Faith Seed, it sounds like she'd be the easiest and possibly be a hottie you know." Said, Joe grinning "Or as Bruce stated we could head off to Falls End, I heard there was another hottie there" Joe's grin widened and he started to rub his hands.

"Joe! We're serious" shouted both Ari and Bruce.

"Damn, you guys had to crush my dreams of smashing hot women, ay," Said Joe pulling out his 1911. "Fine then you guys want a serious response why don't we head down to Falls End, then to the Whitetails, and The Henbane last because I'm guessing it's going to be the easiest out of the three"

"Thank you for a proper response, but you shouldn't underestimate the enemies you never know what they are capable of," Said Bruce looking up at the sky.

"Yeah, I guess that is true well are we all in agreement that we head off to Falls End."

"YES!" Shouted both Bruce and Ari

"Well, then it's settled we go to Johns region..."

Skip forward 2 weeks

"I want to go to Jacobs region" winged Ari "It's so boring here, it's just countryish, I want to head down to the mountains and wingsuit down, and I hear the whitetails had this chick with a bow who was related to dutch."

"Well I want to go to The Henbane, I'm so done with being captured over and over again,"

"You fucking pussys" Joe shouted "You either can stay with me here, or move to your own region but I'm going to pick where each of you goes. Got it.

"Fine," both Ari and Bruce said.

"So you choose to leave, okay, Bruce you go to the Whitetails since your probably the strongest one here, and Ari you go to the Henbane. Kay got it now fuck off." Joe said pointing towards the mountains.

The two men surprisingly accepted Joe's command and both got into an ATV the two then waved Joe goodbye.

Well now we flash forward 2 months

"Oi, fatasses I have a request to make," Ari said through his walkie talkie

"Yes, what is it?" asked Joe

"Well I was thinking we could befriend or not kill the three heralds"

"Why would you do that" Asked bruce

"Well you see we could use them for information about the father's plans, I know getting information out of them would be hard but it's still worth a shot"

"But what information do you even want?" Joe asked curiously

"Well if we charged right into his island we could be surprise attacked you know like he has full control of that island plus its small so they could rig it with explosives and such."

"You do make a fair statement," Bruce said "But we could launch an all-out attack with heli's and planes"

"Yes and what if they had AA guns hidden then we could be asking for a death wish"

"Bruce I think I agree with Ari mainly because we could learn more about the cult"

"Fine," Said, Bruce "But I feel like killing Jacob and John and saving Faith would have been a better idea. See Jacob and John know Joseph since childhood and basically would never betray him but Faith is their adopted sister and I've read notes that say there were previous Faiths before the current one, Rachael. And all previous Faiths died because they lost their 'faith' in the project, so I'm thinking we save just her and kill the rest. And considering how I was actually in a confrontation with her once she looked like she was free and happy but deep down I saw a scared girl who got herself into trouble. I remember vividly how she walked me up to the father when he was preaching to marshall and a few cultists but Rachael looked a bit fearful of the father."

"That was a good statement," Said Ari "But I still want to save all of them and then we can get info about each region and the perspectives of the father if they waste our time well we know torture methods to make them talk and even if they still stay quiet we kill them. Deal?"

"Yeah deal" Groaned Bruce

"Fuck yeah" Shouted Joe.

Present-day

"So yeah that was basically the story of why we decided to save the Seeds," Joe said smiling.

"Hmm, that was more of a breakdown of what you guys were doing throughout Montana, but okay I guess now I see why you guys save them"

"Yeah, Yeah," Said Joe excitedly "So what should we do now" They heard movement and then a click, the door swung open Joe leaned over to see what or who it was and well all he saw was his teammate Ari. "Ari! were here and I bought a friend"

Ari stared at Joe for a second before smiling and saying "Yeah kay I'll be back just gotta check on something"

"Okay!" Joe said eyeing at Ari's hand there was some type of videotape "Oi, Ari but what's up with that tape"

Ari stopped and stood silent for a moment "Well I can't show you the tape yet, and I don't want anyone to look at it, got it"

"Yeah, Yeah," Joe said tilting his head. He heard Ari's boots thump on the wooden floor, the thumps slowly fading as he moved. "Now that he's gone whatchu wanna do now?"

"I don't know? beat the shit outta John," Mary said tilting her head slightly.

"Nah, I'm too tired let's watch anime I found some CD's," Joe said with a slight grin.

Ari was walking towards the room where the Seeds were held but he was cut off by Bruce, "Ari where were you? and what happened to John I haven't seen him all morning?"

"Johns at the bottom of a mountain," Ari said smiling

"How did he... Did you kill him?"

"No, see I took him out to my special interrogation centre, and well I interrogated him but got no information so when we were heading out, he then bloody made a runner and I shot him in the leg, right, but little did I know he was near the ledge of the mountain where the little hideout was. So I heard him grunt and fall, I heard a crunch before a loud splat, I went over to check on the body and all I saw was him faceplanted onto a rock and swear brain bits everywhere."

"One thing I don't get is why did you interrogate him privately and why near the mountains, like mate he could escape and tell the PEGGIES about this cabin and your little 'interrogation centre.'" Bruce said backing away from the conversation, Ari could tell Bruce was annoyed.

Ari made his way to the back door and walked towards his bunker he opened the hatch and climbed down the ladder, he needed to hide his tape somewhere but where though, he looked around the small bunker it had a small bathroom at the very end of the room and bunk beds when you enter the bunker. "I guess under one of the beds but if I do that, it might break if someone jumps on it, but I did collect some random junk from my scavenger hunts earlier, Mabey I can find something that would be good to store this tape... Wait I have a TV down here with that VCR player thing Mabey I can hide it inside there and nobody would be suspicious enough to check there right?"

As clueless as he was he hides the tape inside a VHR hoping no one checks there, Ari thought before jumping into one of the bunk beds and lying there closing his eyes and thinking of what he would do next. But his sleepiness kicked in, seconds later he was fast asleep.

"Bruce, my guy," said Joe approaching him "Did out you see that VHR tape Ari was carrying around, swear that guy wants us to check it"

"Yeah I saw him holding the tape, but that really doesn't matter, Bruce said gesturing Joe to follow him outside. He opened the door and was welcomed by a chilly breeze, it was about nighttime, and they could hear the wind whistle and birds fly by. Bruce turned around and took a deep breath "So John died when Ari interrogated him... He told me John made a runner and fell off this cliff but I think he's bullshitting, I feel like he killed him, I have never trusted that guy. Dipshit said to save them, Dipshit just ended up killing one of them, for fuck sakes I just want to leave already."

"I want to go home too," Said Joe "But I'm actually having fun here too, so just make the best of the present, and I already know you hate Ari but for now just be friends and kill each other later on in life kay," Joe said chuckling.

"Fine, but I swear to god if he does something wrong again I'm not going to hold back, I know he might not have killed John but there's still a chance, and I'm leaning towards that chance of him killing John," Said Bruce stroking his 44. magnum "Alright let's head back before we get spotted by PEGGIE trucks"

"Those still exist?" Said Joe confused

"Yeah, I've seen a few drive past now and then, and I ain't bothered to attack them," Bruce said opening the door waiting for Joe to enter

"Thank you, fine sir," Joe said snickering.

"Hey Joe, we should do bro talks more often. Just like we did back in high school" Bruce said closing the door and leaning in with excitement.

Joe turned to look at Bruce with the biggest grin, "Ayo, let's have one when everyone is asleep. Let's relive old memories."

"Bet"

"Bet," They both grinned at each other

Faith was lying down on bed staring at the ceiling, inquisitive about everything that has happened in her life. That man's words in a way got to her 'why did she ever accept the father and this whole project' but she doesn't regret anything. Without going through everything she's been through she might have never been in this position, hell she could have been dead right now. Suicide, kidnap and the reasons kept flowing in her mind.

She got up and saw Jacob still cuffed to the bed frame, was he really that much of a threat, he looked dreadful and looks like he wants to commit suicide and that completely scared faith. She walked over to the door and opened it. She could hear Boomer barking and then loud voices all laughing and chatting. She silently crept over and peaked over to see what was going on. She saw Mary May seated next to a man with faded sides and curly hair with a full beard, his skin was tan and he wore yellow eyes and was built mildly. Across them was the same man who placed his arm on her, he had short sides and a long top that dropped to his eyes he wore a stubble with red pupils. The man was built like a tank his muscles were basically the size of her thighs.

She saw Boomer jumping around Mary and the man next to her, Cheeseburger was next to Big bicep man, and Peaches was chilling by the fireplace her gaze towards where Faith was peeking, but then the mountain lions gaze peered to the window where there was a bright light, and then a loud CRACK. The window was broken and everyone in the room was shocked and scurried behind cover the animals frantically growling.

Faith was on the floor shocked and merely paralysed, she looked towards the front door which stood high only a few meters from her, a loud thud came from it - 'Are we being invaded?' thought faith - the loud thud gave her the courage to run, she was already up and running towards the bedroom. She swiftly turned the nob and made her way inside, she pressed her whole body against the door panting frantically. She didn't realise it but she saw Jacob blankly staring at her. "So they finally came for us?" He said his voice cracking.

"What do you mean 'they finally came' who are they," Faith said slowly regaining her breath, and walking towards Jacob.

"Our people, we get to escape this hell hole and rejoin with the father"

"So you're telling me you got them to invade this place you sure that was a good idea? I mean these people already killed many of our people already and that too alone,-"

"I see you don't get it, we are invading them, this whole place is surrounded by countless men and women may I add armoured and pyros are also a part of this squad. Surely 3 people and 3 beasts cannot defeat an army."

"You make a fair point but what if we're caught in the hellfire?"

"That's fine as long as I'm out of here and with my brother again"

Bruce had his back pressed hard against the coffee table he pulled out his 44. magnum and peered over the table, he saw a pyro - who was holding a beer bottle, lighting the little fabric at the lip - "Get out of the room, Molotov" Bruce said picking up the coffee table and running towards the mini hall, he waited until everyone was behind him and placed down the coffee table by the door frame, everyone took cover behind it, a few seconds later a Molotov came through the window and set the room aflame, the flame rapidly spreading. "We head out through the back door, I assume that this place is surrounded so keep behind cover and have a fully automatic weapon with you guys, and lastly if we get spread out we will all meet up by the prison, okay enough talk spread," Bruce said holstering his 44. magnum and pulling out his MP40. "Oh yeah I'm going to grab faith screw Jacob, bastard probably caused this"

Bruce sprinted full force towards the bedroom, he kicked the door open and sprinted in. Without hesitation, he grabbed faith like a suitcase on one arm and shifted his MP40 on the other, he made a dash towards the back door and saw Mary and Joe both take shots outside, but Bruce could tell that it was ineffective. "Anyone have a grenade?" He said tapping his finger on the side of his MP40. The two stared at him gloomily and shook their heads.

Bruce didn't know what to do, he had a 50. cal sniper but it would only be useful for a while. The MP40 had a fast fire rate but its damage didn't do it justice, the recurved bow might be the answer it sounded crazy at first but it could work - Bruce had about 5 explosive and 2 incendiary arrows that was good enough to handle the heavies and the pyros, the standard PEGGIES would easily be gunned down by a 45. ACP shot. "I have a plan-" Bruce started to cough, the black smoke was alas taking its toll on his body "- I'll use my 5 explosive rounds to attack the heavies and then use my incendiary arrows to block them from charging us". Bruce cleared his throat and dropped Faith on the ground.

He pulled out the recurved bow and he frantically searched for his explosive arrows, when he finally found one he gently placed it in his bow, he leaned out a fair distance enough to see 3 heavies bunched up together, he scouted out at least 9, and 5 pyros so 14 special enemies and at least 10 footmen. Bruce pulled the string and muffled out a breath, he let go of the string, the arrow whistled as it made its way towards its designated target, once it did a thundering explosion followed, in the distance a few muffled screams of agony.

Bruce satisfied by his shot quickly found his second arrow, once again he places it into the bow and pulling the string, out went the arrow once again exploding with screams of sheer pain. Bruce was about to pull out another arrow until he heard a loud clap and then felt a strong impact upon his right shoulder, he got shot, by a sniper, but all Bruce could think about was where the sniper was he thought he had perfectly scouted the area. Bruce saw Mary apply pressure against his wound and saw Joe pick up his bow and taking the explosive arrow.

Bruce's vision was blurring but he could see that Joe was popping off, one arrow, two arrows, three arrows, and then he ran out of explosive arrows. But he ran to Bruce and collected the two incendiary arrows he lit them up with the ever-spreading fire behind them. Joe dashed and shot the arrows somewhere but Bruce was able to faintly hear fire from outside and the PEGGIES sounded frightened.

Bruce grinned happily that his plan worked, but then his vision blurred even more and blacked out.

1 week later

Bruce's eyes fluttered open, he pushed himself upwards but instant regret his shoulder let out a sharp pain causing Bruce to squeal. His head was back on the pillow and annoyed Bruce made a childish face and stared intensely at the roof, he had no clue what happened and the last thing he could recall was slouching Faith on the floor so he could take out his bow.

Bruce heard footsteps coming his way, he lifted his head up in anticipation to see who would walk by, he saw the Sheriff, Joe and Mary all come to greet him, it took him a while to render in the fact that he was inside a prison cell, so he was aided in the prison he thought. "Bruce, how do you feel?" Asked Sherif Whitehorse.

"I'm mentally confused but I feel decent," Bruce muffled.

"Bro you literally died for a week," Joe said towering over Bruce

"It's been a week?" Bruce said wide-eyed.

"Yes," All three said Bruce lifted his arms to cover his face but his right shoulder let out a stinging pain so he lowered them in annoyance.

"Oh, and Bruce you were supposedly shot by an ARC with a 7.76mm bullet instead of a 5.56mm so we assume it was shot from a PEGGIE sniper, and the bullet got your right shoulder and the bullet made its way towards the bone and let's just say its fractured so you now have to worry about a bullet and break wound. Bruce's anxiety grew, even more, he'd be useless when it comes to the final battle and he most likely wouldn't be able to fend for himself and on top of that, he can't fend for innocents.

"Who patched me up?" Bruce asked

"Dr Lindsey" Sheriff Whitehorse answered, "he should be on his way now"

"Okay good I want to ask him some questions and thank him, but did you guys bring back Faith?"

The three stared at him for a good minute before replying, "Yes, let's just say chaos broke loose, but it's been handled and she's locked up next door to your cell." Bruce felt relieved that she was captured, he was worried she slipped out of their grasps. This could be his chance to talk and interrogate her.

"Okay thank you guys, but not to sound rude but can you guys take your leave, I'm gonna go back to sleep while I wait for the doc." The three nodded and took their leave. Bruce felt mean for kicking them out, but he needed time to sleep before his intense thinking, he felt the need for more sleep, even though he slept through a whole week.

He grasped the thin blanket tightly and pulled it over his mouth, even though it was autumn the weather was freezing 'imagine how cold winter would be' he thought. He attempted to force himself to sleep but past memories would flow into his mind, the memories he wished to forget. But after his constant attempts, Dr Lindsey opened the cell door and walked in.

"Bruce," he said walking to the side of the bed, "Your shoulder of course has been shot, but the bullet had also shattered your bones, it was a communicated fracture, which means your bones basically shattered. So we had just enough supplies to nail the bones together and just so you know I'm not a doctor I'm a veterinarian so don't kill me if something happens to your arm." He froze and took a deep breath. "Try not to move that arm and it should take about 8 weeks to heal, possibly more. By the way, you should be grateful that Mary and Joe got an X-ray on that arm, without them I wouldn't know what to diagnose you with. So when you get time thank them." Lindsey used his middle finger to adjust his glasses "Anyways I have to go if you need anything come to my lab." The doctor sped towards the door giving Bruce a small smile.

At this point, Bruce felt useless, with this injury he wouldn't be able to help battle the PEGGIES, and he knew they weren't a big threat anymore but considering Jacob possibly surviving scared Burce. He laid on the bed thinking hard, but he realised that his injury is was supported by a pillow, Bruce felt even more stupid, he didn't even realise an obvious thing. All of his self-doubts led to him passing out.

Bruce's eyes opened and he was greeted by the moonlight, he slowly pulled himself out of bed, and as soon as he got out of the blanket he was met with a chill that ran throughout his whole body. After adjusting to his environment he realised what woke him, there were faint mumbles coming from a room near him. He quickly assumed someone was sleep talking, but he wanted to see who was creating the noise. So he dragged himself up and once again froze up from the cool night. He speed-walked towards the cell door he pulled the lock and then pulled the door, a eerie screech followed as he opened it. He walked outside and saw that basically, every room was empty except the one to the left of his own, so it was just him and Faith in this section it was certainly strange but he felt happy since he could easily walk over to her and interrogate her.

He once again heard her mumble something, this time a bit louder. The noise got Bruce to move towards her cell, he saw that it didn't have a lock on it, 'do they think she ain't a threat or they think I can stop her from running' Bruce thought opening her door the door surprisingly opened with ease and no noise. 'oh they probably have crazy defence outside the door or something' Bruce thought again. He walked over to her and squatted next to the bedframe, he was being extra precautions because of this fractured arm, bullet shot, sling thing.

She had her back turned on him, so he gave her a couple of pokes on her back. The first few times didn't distract her but after the tenth poke her body jittered and she rapidly turned her whole body around. When she saw Bruce's face she launched herself backwards in fear. "Sorry I woke you, you were just sleeping talking and it kinda scared me. So I came to inform you about it." Bruce slowly inched his way to a standing position, Faith just stared at him still holding the scared facade.

"S-sorry, just a bad dream, we all get them every now and then," She said when she finally stirred up some words.

"Yeah I get you, so, do you want to eat or drink anything? Because I feel parched and I think I'm about to go insane without eating." Bruce started to make his way towards the door looking back for her response.

She nodded but didn't tell him what she wanted. Bruce assumed she would eat what he would so he opened the door and searched the area, but out of paranoia he locked her cell. He looked around his surroundings and saw that they were in the second story and to his right there was a path that led to two doors one which was straight ahead of him he assumed it led downstairs, and the other which was to the right of the first door, Bruce guessed that that was like an armoury or showers. To his left, it was a long strip of cells and you could turn right to more cells, so basically he was surrounded by cells but if he glared over the rails he could see the bottom floor. Bruce took his right and he walked up to the two doors he pushed the one that stood to the right and indeed he was right it did lead to the showers but there was an extra door that led to the men's showers but he wasn't able to see it before, the other door leads to a set of stairs.

Bruce was walking down the stairs until he thumped his right arm against the door frame, he let out a loud whimper as his wound stung like hell, deep inside he was tearing up, but he kept striving towards his goal. Food.

Bruce had been to the prison once before so he knew the first story decently well, but before he got his midnight meal he went over to Dr Lindsey's lab to ask some questions and grab some painkillers. He entered the medical area that contained 2 beds but this time around they were empty, Bruce increased his pace and made it to the veterinarian lab, he opened the door and saw Lindsey writing down some notes on his notepad. Lindsey glared up and when he saw Bruce he put down his notepad facedown and got out of his chair.

"Bruce what is it that you need," his voice slightly cracked.

"I'm here to ask questions and I need painkillers to handle this wound of mine," Bruce said speedily walking up to his couch.

"Oh, okay let me got you the painkillers but I can give you a limited amount considering the raid that happened to the prison people were hurt and our medical supplies plummeted. But we're planning on scouting out some more." Lindsey reached towards the drawers of his desk, he pulled out a bottle of painkillers, Lindsey then shook out a handful and placed it inside a ziplock bag that he found in the same drawer. "Here it's about 7 pills use them wisely for now until we get a restock in meds," Lindsey said handing over the bag.

Bruce gratefully grabbed the bag, "thank you so much," Bruce started to fiddle with each separate pill. "Right now I ask you questions, I've been curious. But is the tap water here safe to drink?"

"No, the water has been contaminated with bliss, I'm not sure if you've seen it but there are bliss canisters that leak onto the rivers. So I suggest you stay away from tap water and rely on bottled or purified water." Lindsey said twiddling his thumbs.

"Okay, last two questions what can I get to eat here, and is Ari here?"

"Ari hasn't been here since he rescued the sheriff which was about two, weeks ago. And our food supply is quite limited at the moment we have enough to last us three days, Joe and Mary both said they will go out and grab supplies, and also clear out the PEGGIES in the place where our water is filtered."

Bruce grunted in anger "Anyways thanks for everything, I'm gonna go grab some food before I get aggressive." He got up and waved the veterinarian goodbye, where was Ari when they were raided, Bruce swore on his life to strangle the living daylight out of Ari when he sees him.

Bruce walked towards the cells downstairs, there he saw a few people most were inside cells asleep, but a handful was awake, handing out rations of soup and a slice of bread. "Er, hey can I get two bowls of soup,"

The man handing out rations glared at him "Once bowl per person sir." The man said handing Bruce a bowl and a slice of bread.

"Well the seconds not for me, it's for a friend, So would you be kind enough to get me that second bowl"

The man stared at him for what felt a minute before he said "Fine, but you better not be lying." He poured enough to fill up half the bowl and then topped it with a slice of bread.

Bruce took a while to figure out how to carry the two bowels, but then he used his right hand, it was awkward at first but when he got the hang, he was hastily moving towards the set of stairs that up led to his cell. When he arrived he placed down the bowl in his left hand and opened the door, he picked the bowl back up and sped towards the cell.

He once again put down the left bowl and unlocked the cell door, when he made his way in he could see Rachael was back asleep he saw there was a small chair in the corner of the room, he walked over and placed down the two bowls. He softly nudged Rachael, she muffled out a breath, and slowly got herself into a sitting position, she stared at him for a second before he handed her a bowl.

"I hope you like soup and bread," Bruce said as she slowly reached out for the bowl.

Bruce made his way towards the chair and picked up his serving, he also grabbed the chair and moved a tad bit closer to her bed. He let out a sound grunt as he sat down.

Bruce demolished his soggy slice of bread, then he slurped down his soup, it was still warm and tasted like pumpkin. 'So it was pumpkin soup, who woulda' known' Bruce thought. He peered over to see Rachael doing the opposite of what he did, she was much slower and looked like she was savouring her meal. It kinda made Bruce wanted to chuckle for some reason, he shook off the urge and cleared his throat.

"Okay, I got a question that I've been urging to ask." Faith stared at him and then nodded her head, "I take that as "ask away". So was Jacob behind the invasion of PEGGIES?"

She stared at him while slowly sipping down the rest of her soup, "I'll answer if you get me some water"

Bruce nodded and headed towards the cell door, but before he exited he turned and said "You better tell me everything kay..."

Dudes Note: So thing alas got spicy, this chapter was gonna be a boring get to know type of chapter but then it took a turn, definitely for the better but I cut the chapter a tad bit short because I want to get something out. So ja, and I will be going back to re-edit old chapters that have grammatical errors.