Day 2
"Clear!"
"copy that, Mike, search the squad their tags, we need something to bring home."
"Copy that"
I looked around, scanning for any hostile, I saw movement, something flashed out, and back away
"I've got movement..They're above us, ontop of the steps, behind that wall.."
"copy that, I'll investigate, you keep here and cover Mike"
"fuck no, you're not going alone out there, stay here, wait untill Mike is done.."
She growled at the name Mike obviously not happy with it.
"I'm done, let's get moving."
"Xandrell, you got my back..?" I asked
He replied shortly, looking down his sights, his vision frozen on the place where I saw movement
"Positive, go"
I ran forward, giving up cover, to come in a street, I heard a whistling sound, right infront of my nose, and immediatly rolled on the floor behind a broken tank.
"Contact left! Contact from above"I was in a crossfire, if I would move, I would be hit.
I heard Xandrell whispering through my comlink "Take this, throw it behind the wall" I felt something at my feet, it was a locus grenade, not live though. I pressed the button at top, and removed the pin, then threw it over the wall.
Boom. I got dazed by the explosion, but focused my attention infront of me."Xandrell, I'm blind, any visual..?"
"Dead ahead" I jumped out, and pulled the trigger, the gun had a slow fire rate, but packed quite a punch, Mike switched cover, and dashed towards me, taking cover next to me
"I'm dry, need reload.." I reloaded, and heard bullets pounding on the tank. I switched out of cover, and saw someone, and shot at his head, a few rounds. I saw the man falling to the ground. Switching back to cover, I panted because of adrenaline pumping through my veins, I heard Mike's shattered voice, crackling through my half-broken comlink."First kill, huh?"
"yeah.."
"You'll get used to it" I didn't think I could be able to get used to killing someone else.
"Second gun, behind the same cover where you shot your first one, I'll provide some covering fire, you dash forward" I nodded, and saw her loading her submachine gun, I recognised it, A mk. 2 'pinch'. High fire rate, low knockback, but hard to control.
She started firing, and I dashed forward, switching from cover to cover, Xandrell made a move aswell, and ran next to Mike. Providing covering fire aswell.
"Two guns to your left Mist."
{Shit..}"copy that" I aimed my gun to my left, and took two shots, then I just heard a click."I'm out, need backup fire to reload" Mike ran towards me, Xandrell almost running out of ammo, Mike reached me, and opened fire at the two hostile left to us. One fell down, the other aimed a shot at me shoulder, with a light plasma rifle, I felt my shoulder gashing open, the armor plating hanging Idly
"Shit, I took one.." I ripped the plate off and groaned heavily. "hurts like hell.."
Xandrell reached us, and sweared"Shit..I'm out aswell" He reloaded his rifle, took quite a while.
Still having Mike covering us, I reloaded, blood gushing from my arm{God..I'm happy when I get the hell out of here..}"Reloaded, switch mags Mike." I covered her, and kept shooting, untill I ran dry on ammo aswell "Realoading" I heard Xandrell"Grenade out." followed by a loud bang. We pushed onward, scanning the perimeter, and saw point B, a missile launcher we would need to hack. We approached it, switching from comver to cover. I heard a bang, followed by a thud, I looked back and saw Xandrell on the floor. "Xandrell! Oh fuck!"
"sniper! Get the hell on the ground!"
Mike let herself fall down, I jumped to the floor aswell, and was able to drag Xandrell in cover hoping to help him with nanites, she pulled me back. Her voice was calm, but soft, giving me a little bit of comfort, but the truth, remains the truth. "He's gone."
I grabbed his tags, and did them around my neck, we crawled onwards, knowing the sniper wasn't able to his us. We crawled to the objective, not scanning our perimeter, and met up with Epsilon, hidden in cover, because of the same sniper, I stood next to the commander , and connected with him, I whispered through the comlink "Mistaahh Juvenalis, Beta squad, combat Medic"
His voice sounded deep through the comlink "Glad you're here kid, we thought Beta was wiped out."
I nodded rather sadly "We lost Xandrell to that damn sniper."
"Condolences kid, who is the girl?"
"She's from Gamma squad, We call her Mike, Logistic expert."
"Here to hack?"
"Damn straight.." I groaned, and looked at my arm."she save when she will hack?"
"yeah, the missile launcher will take the bullets" I nodded."Mike, get up there, and hack the missile control."
"Copy that." She ran upside, and started hacking.
"Now wait half an hour, and the objective is done, if the other missile launchers are hacked aswell."
I grinned happily"Now, we wait. She hacked it, regroup at me, Mike."
"Solid copy"
Day 3
A voice started fizzing in my comlink, I wondered who it would be, then I remembered the voice, our briefing commander.
"Mission accomplished, get your gear, and wait for extraction in ETA 2 hours."
We cheered, happy that it was over, but still got the problem of the sniper on our hands, I turned to the Epsilon squad, and asked "Anyone here has shields that're strong enough to withstand three sniper shots?"
Everyone looked at me questioning, but no one gave me a response.
"Ok..We need to take the sniper out before extraction arrives, who knows what gear he has? He can call in an orbital strike for god's sake."
I sighed, was there no other option then waiting?
"We've got shredder rockets" The commander said doubtingly."Quintus, Certus, get the shredder's out."
They did as asked, and soon enough, I heard a voice again, crackling through my comlink. "Lock and loaded."
"Mistaahh." I looked at him questioning "Lay covering fire." I was stunned "What?! I'm Light armored, and wounded, one shot, and my head bursts open like a fucking overripe Moonfruit!" He groaned irritated "You're ignoring the commands of a superior?" Now I groaned. "No.." He replied, angryly "No who?" I grenched my teeth.{Bastard..} "No sir.." He snored statisfied "Indeed, now get to firing." I sighed again, and jumped up, Immediatly jumped to the right, a bullet razed through my stomach, I fell back down, bleeding heavily. "Shit, man down, man down! Stern, Freight, covering fire ASAP!" The two jumped up, and started shooting in the direction the sniper was, followed by two big bangs, then even louder bangs, I groaned, my eyes closing, I remember Mike sitting ontop of me, trying to reanimate me, followed by her voice through my comlink. "You'll be fine..Hold on, extraction will be there." Her voice was..Beautiful, and sweet. Last thing I remember was her slapping me, trying to keep me awake.
{Leave me..I'm tired..I'll wake up when we're of this fucking planet..} I coughed some blood up, then fainted.
Chapter 2: Welcome back..
"He"s awake!" I coughed some blood, and looked down, seeing the giant bandage around my stomach, I muttered the only word that I knew right now, how I felt and how I looked.."Shiit.." Luna sat next to the bed."Yeah..Kinda.."
I grinned, her mom always told me to watch my language around her. Screw that..I've got a hole in my stomach..
"How're you holding up Mist?" "Hurts like hell..But, I guess I'm fine..Did we won?" "We did kid.." The commander of Epsilon squad entered the room. "Fuck you! You got me almost fucking killed!" I raised my voice, and tried sitting up straight, but fell back down, groaning heavily, and blacked out again.
I opened my eyes again, it was dark. I looked around, no one was there..Was it a dream..? Am I dead?
This place felt..So..Empty..
There was only me..No one else..
Not Luna, not that shithead of a commander, even not other soldiers..Empty..
I stood up, still pained and looked around..Nothing, I groaned at the stomach wound, and suddenly saw a faint glow from somewhere to the back of the place I was in.
I walked to it, blindly, pained.
I thought of a movie I saw as a kid. It was something called like 'Horror'. I knew the scene, this is the place where those mutants show up, and eat one of the antagonists..He was alone.
I pushed through, and only saw a scramble pistol and a LED screen there. Nothing else.
I picked up the gun, and checked the cartridge."3 bullets" I mumbled. Then the LED screen.
There was one word on it, That send shivers down my spine. 'Escape : )'
I frowned, and mumbled again. 'That's a great welcome back..'
Delta Horizon
Blinded by light, a garage gate opened, three men entered, all three armed, all three pointing their gun at me. One of them yelled at me "Put your hands in the air!"
I did what they said. But something inside me, told me I needed to kill them, one of them approached. I let myself fall to the side, and shoot him through the head. His brains splattered on his comrades, he had no head nomore..
The second one started shooting at me, I jumped away, and shot him in the leg, then, in his head, my cartridge was empty, and there was one guy with a machinegun left..
{Shit} was the last thing I thought.
He took a shot at me, suddenly, the whole silo I was in faded in some sort of binairy code, I heard a female voice, robotic. "Simulation over, subject failed"
"What the fuck is going on here..?!"
"Easy kiddo, we're testing you..You prove quite the promise for the silver hand."
"The silver fucking what?!"
"Silver hand, we'll be training you, and you'll fight for the silver hand."
"And where did I sign up?"
"You didn't, head to your quarters, you'll find something that'll persuade you."
Another soldier showed me to my quarters, and opened the door.
I looked at him, he was blond and had a crew cut, he had light purple eyes, and was smaller then me."What's your name?"
"Xandrell" He replied dryly, ofcourse, he was cloned, he didn't recognise me.
"So, Xandrell..What's this all about, this simulation and stuff?"
"Negative, I've got no idea sir, talk to commander Quintus for explanation."
"shall do.."
"Oh, yeah, one more thing, get to the briefing room at 0830, not a minute later."
'Got it."
I was thinking, that son of a bitch, Quintus was the guy who got me here in the first place, and fuck..My stomach still hurts..
I went in my quarters, to a great surprise, I was Mike, screwing around with a dropsuit, and a gun, looking a bit like my AR.
"Mike?"
She looked up, and walked to me coldly, I frowned, then she hugged me.
I doubted, and didn't hug back, still having my arms spread as she dug her face into my chest.
"What're you doing in my quarters?"
She released me, and took a step back.
"The Silver hand gifted you with a Delta kit, made by the Qualians, it's made perfectly for you while you where in cryo-sleep."
"Cryo-sleep, how long?" I frowned, cryo-sleep, I knew nothing about it.
"4 years, like everyone else here." She replied dryly.
"What planet are we on?" I was getting more and more confused, more and more anxious.
"Stella" She said again, a hint of amusement was in her voice.
"Never heard of it" I mumbled a bit.
She grinned, and replied."I doubt anyone who isn't here did..This is the outpost of the Silver Hand, more precise, the Delta squad"
I got even more anxious."Damnit Mike, explain everything you know."
She grinned, and sighed playfully."This is the outpost, Stella, of the silver hand, more specificly, the Delta Squad, codename Delta Horizon."
"What's Delta horizon" I encouraged her to tell more.
"The special units of the Silver Hand, specialised in special undercover and supportive operations, their field of operation..Is everything. They use every weapon, and every way to complete their objective, you're not able to sign up, you're picked."
"And if I don't want to be a Errr..A delta squad member..?" I doubted how to call it.
"We call ourselves angels, and, you'll be terminated if you don't want to join us."
"Seems like I have no other fucking choice, what where you doing with the kit I got?"
"I was issued to upgrade the shield capacitators, and general other upgrades, as bullet resistance, it's made of a mixture of iridium plating, Aerogel and amorphous metal. The visor is made of Transperant Alumina"
"What. The. Fuck..that thing is just one walking bullet reflector..It'-"
"Light, and resistant to both extreme hot and cold temperaturs. We call this suit Nova mk. 1"
"And the gun?"
"Your AR, only ten times better, with, instead of conventional bullets, IM, and plasma shots."
"IM is..?"
"Improvised munitions, stick some sand in the cartridge, you'll shoot glass bullets. Snow is ice, and water..Just water, it packs a punch."
"Hold on..You say Mk. 1? Means there a-"
"Upgraded versions, yes"
"I'll be damned.." I whistled from surprise.
"Oh, also, you got a new nickname, Doc."
"Doc..? I get it.." I watched these cartoons as a kid, it was a very old medium, my grandpa bought one of a Qualian salesman, it was about a rabbit, Bugs Bunny or something, who always said 'heeey doc.' I grinned at this.
"Get some sleep doc, it's training tomorrow, and I'll think you'll like your suit."
"Guess so.." 4 years of cryo-sleep..Without me even knowing..Fuck..
Mike walked out, and I sat on the bed, and glanced at the dropsuit, I grinned.
"Fuckin' suit.."
Then I lied down, and fell to sleep.
How did I survive?
I remember waking up, 3 am. I went to the mirror and splashed some water in my face, nightmares. Again, I looked in the mirror.
A bit of stubble covered my skin, mumbling that it wasn't important, I left it like that, I ran ly hand across my left eye. A fresh scar, probably from the visor that bursted in my face.
How did I actually survive this?
I looked myself in the eyes, the purple, amethyst like, eyes stared back, I wonder why my eyes are like that. I never met anyone with the same eyes.
Except Mike.
Actually, except anyone else here..
Weird..
I grinned, and looked at my hair, a regular buzz cut, a brown tone, wich even underlined my rather pale skin more..
I heard my door opening, I saw yesterday on my Clockpad I had to wake up on 8 am..Not 3 am.
This couldn't be anyone here with positive meanings.
I looked up at the T-beams on the roof, and ran against the wall, push myself off it, then grabbed onto the T beam, then pulled myself up.
Whoever came in, would've gotten me on their head.
Mike entered, I dropped myself on her.
"shit, get off me" She sweared and cursed. I rolled off her, and grinned.
"What're you doing here Mike..?" I asked. She didn't reply, just walked towards me and kissed me.
I pushed her off, shocked, but also intriguiged and asked why she kissed me.
She didn't do anything but chuckle a bit, I guess she was toying around.
"Mike, get back to your quarters, I've got training tomorrow.."
"Yeah, fine, whatever" She just turned around and left.
I went back to sleep, and thought with a grin of my training suit.
Psionic power
My clockpad went off, and I jumped up, groaning a bit.
Xandrell's voice went through my head again"0830, no minute later."
I shrugged, and put on my old uniform.
I walked down the hall, and soon entered the briefing room.
"Ah, there's our new recruit."
I saluted him."At ease soldier." He seemed like a nice guy.
"Ok, listen up ladies and gents, we've got new meat here, Mistaahh Juvenalis, already got a nickname, Doc. Also, he's here, because his kinetic barrier withstood a locus grenade mk. 2"
I heard surprised mumbling, but I asked."With all due respect, but what the hell is a kenitec barrier?"
I heard a bit of laughing, and the briefing commander smirked.
"You don't even know you're a Psych?"
"Nope, I'm clueless sir.."
"How did you survive that locus, you think?"
"Ermm..Luck?" I doubted, how did I survive it..
"Hah! Luck?! No way, you were in the center of the blast, according to Whizzy.."
