Last Hope (12 page)

Sandra runs forward, sots two more men.
Sandra fire at target, kill it one target tries to move, Juan fire
but miss. Same target shot at Sandra but miss. Sandra moves to more
cover, fire at target with pistol, miss. Mandisa runs next to
Sandra, kill target. Once the target was killed Mandisa mock
Sandra. “Don’t lose your fucking head. How about I don’t save you
next time?”

“
Fine by me.” Sandra told
her as she reloads her weapon. As everyone gets ready to enter the
big room.

Song is still really weak and Juan is
worry by her. “You going to be all right Song?”

“
I’ll be fine, just tire.”
Song told him out of breath.

“
Stay behind the rest of us,
this looks like the last room.” Juan told Song as he opens the
door, found two heavy’s. One tries to move, Sandra shot at it, hit
but not kill. The heavy that Sandra hit, shot at her back, she is
hurt, not doing ok. She looks over to Mandisa who was staring at
her. Neither of those two said a word. Sandra fire back, killed the
heavy.

Juan runs up ahead a little bit, found
two swords, they both come charging after him. “Oh fuck, oh fuck!”
Juan fire and killed one.

Mandisa rush inside, rapid fire on the
other sword, killed it. “Don’t worry Juan, I am not going to let
them kill you.”

“
Thanks Mandisa.” He said
back.

The other heavy ran back a little.
Sandra has to reload. As she reloads she mocks Mandisa. “I am not
going to let anyone kill you, why don’t you two just fuck
already?”

The heavy decides to rush in front
front of Mandisa and Juan, Juan fire at the heavy, hit but not
kill. Mandisa fire, killed it. Juan couldn't fire back because he
was out of bullets and had to reload. Mandisa runs further inside,
spots a tank and a soldier. Mandisa rapid fire on the tank Katrina
fires at the tank. Tank moves closer to the squad, Sandra fires and
hits the tank. Sandra fire again, and was able to destroy it.
Mandisa fire at other target, miss. Sandra has to reloads Mandisa
falls back to reload as well. Sandra who notice that Mandisa miss
made a comment. “Whats the matter Wednesday? Losing your edge?”
Mandisa ignores Sandra’s statement.

Two more targets appear, Juan fires but
miss. Mandisa returns to her spot, rapid fire on her target, kills
it. Katrina moves up ahead, fire at Juan's target with a pistol,
hit but light damage. Katrina swaps to her rifle this time snips
her target but she could not kill it. Sandra moves up a little,
fires but miss. Juan moves down stares found an elite. “Guys! We
got an elite son over here, not the pilot kind either!” One target
try to move, Juan fire but miss, mandisa fire at same target but
miss.

One target shot at Juan but miss. Juan
fire at the same target, kills it. Mandisa has to reload. same
thing with Katrina and Sandra. One target moves right next to Juan,
Song fire but miss, target shot at Juan but light damage, Juan
killed target. Mandisa rush down stares, rapid fire on the elite.
She hit the elite, not kill him. Sandra rush down stares and killed
the elite. With the elite being dead, that was the last Son. “Is it
over?” Juan ask, as he look around.

“
Looks like it.” Katrina
told him.

“
Know what this means?” Juan
said with laughter as he looks at Katrina. “After battle
sex?”

“
Whatever.” Katrina told
him.

As they all got back to B.A.S.E the
whole place was cheering. Even Sara was. She got over being mad at
Sandra for lying to her as she was excited to see her back alive.
Commander gave a small speech to celebrate these five soldiers. “I
ask for the best of the best, and I got the best of the best. These
soldiers came back wounded but not dead. with a total of 22
confirmed dead Sons in one mission!” The whole place all cheer.
Sandra Jones, you earn your right as captain, for leading this
squad to victory. Juan Prezz. You are still new, and this was a big
mission for you but you pull through. You earn your right to
becoming a lieutenant. Song, great way of planting those
explosives. The base would not had exploded like it did if you were
not there. That is why you have earn your place as lieutenant.
Katrina. Your sniping skills are always the best. No one can hide
from you, so because of this, you are now a captain. Finally, the
soldier who has a total of 24 kills under her belt, and still has
plenty of room left, Mandisa. You killed the most on this mission.
However the number of kills is nothing to brag about. It’s how you
were able to save your fellow soldiers lives, and how quickly you
killed each target. Congratulations everyone.” The entire B.A.S.E
threw a giant party, and while many soldiers had sex afterwards,
there was one couple that was not happy.

“
Captain.” Sandra told
Mandisa in a snobby tone. “He should had gave you the Medal of
Honor after the shit you pulled.”

“
What the fuck is your
problem Sandra!” Mandisa shouts back.

“
You are my problem Mandisa.
The way you acted during this mission was way
unorthodox!”

“
It got the job
done.”

“
Yea, well what about next
time? What about the next five missions? How long with this tactic
work before it fails!”

“
I haven't died
yet!”

“
Yet! You will die Madnisa.
It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but sooner or later
Mandisa you are going to die.”

“
What’s your story Sandra?
Why are you in this war? What’s in it for you?”

“
Why am I in this war? To
not let this planet get the blown the fuck up you bitch that is why
I am in this war. Why are you here?”

“
So I can fuck me a new
soldier boy every wednesday, that is my nickname right? Lucky
Katrina is fucking Juan right now!”

“
You are so fucking dense
right now that you don’t see what is around you.”

“
You know what Sandra? You
are right. I fell for you after Igor died because I thought you
actually were a nice person. Turns out you never
change.”

“
What the fuck are you
talking about?”

“
I see it now. I thought I
made a friend but I don’t have any friends here. The only friend I
had is gone. So fuck you Sandra, I am moving out.”

“
You can’t move out, these
are our new rooms. The Girls Captain Assault Class
Barracks.”

“
Then I am going to be
sleeping with Kato for a little while.” Mandisa told Sandra as she
pushes Sandra out of the way.

“
Fuck you to you crazy PTSD
bitch!” Sandra shouts at Mandisa who had already left the
room.

Mission 17 Hexagon

In the boys barracks. Gary was sitting
in his room writing something in a book of his. “Sandra and Mandisa
have not been talking to each other or have been trying to make eye
contact with one another for a few weeks now. They act like a
married couple, or a couple of sisters and they are both mad at one
another because they both stold each other boyfriend even though it
turns out that the boyfriends they stole was gay and they blame
each other for that.”

As Gary was continuing to write Hugo
came inside. “What’s this?” He ask with laughter. “I never knew we
had a writer on base. or that you had a diary.”

“
Call it my last
words.”

“
That doesn't sound like
suicide talk at all.” Hugo told Gary with sarcasm as he sat next to
Gary.

Gary chuckle at Hugo’s words. “It’s
more or less my last words if I die on the battlefield. I want
someone to find this and to carry out what I have to
say.”

“
What do you have to
say?”

“
That the soldiers in this
war are nothing more than children with toys that goes
bang.”

Hugo chuckle a bit. “Speaking about
children. Not talking about Sara but Sandra and
Mandisa.”

“
Those two are the topic on
my next chapter.” Gary interrupts.

“
The soldiers have to have
someone to look up to in a time of need. Not Commander because he
does not go out there and fight. Sandra, Mandisa, and Katrina are
the three oldest soldiers in this place. If the elders start to
fight against one another, what kind of an example does that leave
the children?” Hugo pause for a bit then went onto a different
subject. “What’s in that book anyway?”

“
A montage of this place,
even Mandisa and Katrina fought before they became friends.” Gary
answer.

“
May I see?” Hugo ask as he
reach over and grab the book. “Chapter one, there was only four of
them. A strong leader, a funny brute, an easy going girl, and the
quiet one. Together these four became the elders of the X
Project.”

As Hugo continue to read the story,
Soto came inside looking for Gary and Hugo. “I need you two for a
mission.”

“
Sure thing.” Hugo said
putting the book down and following Soto, Gary close
behind.

Over at the War Room, Commander was
explaining what the next mission was going to be about. “After the
assault on one of the Sons basses was a success. I am not going to
expand the squad by adding an extra guy on the field. Katarina
Chepurnova successfully ran the first Pentagon Mission however we
still lost Harry Davids. This time I am having Juan Soto run the
first Hexagon Mission. I am sure you will do just fine Soto. Try
not to have one of my men killed. I want the rest of you to listen
to what he has to say and follow his every instructions. Magnus
Nielsen, Juan soto, Ronan Gary, Kato, Hugo Amiyah, chopra...good
luck.”

On the airplane Gary notice something.
“Hey Kato, isn't this the first time you and Soto are in a mission
together?” Kato was too shy to say anything. “Isn't that great? we
got a little family reunion over here before we all
die.”

“
No one is going to die!”
Soto told him.

Hugo gave Gary a little shove, with
laughter Hugo ask Gary a question. “What has gotten into you Gary?
first you are creating a story about how the X started and the
soldiers lives that are in it. Don’t know why you are creating this
because no one is going to read this because this origination never
exist in the first place. Now you are so negative. What’s going
on?”

“
Sorry Hugo.” Gary said with
a sigh. We were all there. Soto, and yourself when Chavez died.”
Gary took a long pause before continuing. “I am just having
flashbacks of that mission and-”

Gary quickly stop speaking when Hugo
put his hand on his shoulder. “No one could have done what you did
Roaman. You risk your own life to save his. You ran over to him,
got shot at three times, and you were able to stabilize him. If
that car did not blown up, he would be here in this mission right
now. Don’t blame yourself for what you did Gary. No one could have
done what you did. cheery up, I am sure Chavez would tell you the
same thing if his ghost is with us right now.” Hugo carried on with
his speech. “If you are doubting yourself Gary, then we are all
dead. The most important person in the battlefield is not a strong
leader. It’s you Gary. The medic. Only you know how to keep
everyone alive. If we get wounded out in field, we won’t know how
to fix ourselves. Be strong Gary, for all of us.”

Gary let out a faint smile. “All
right.” Gary look up to everyone who was all staring at him.
“Thanks everyone.”

As they touch base and land. Gary went
out first and found two heavies. Kato moves ahead, spots two more.
Hugo gets shot at three times,and was hit all three of those times.
One heavy tries to move, Kato fire at it, hit but light damage.
Soto look over to Hugo to see that he was in pain. “How are you
doing Hugo?”

“
I’m fine. It’s going to
take more than these asswholes to kill me!”

Chopra toss a grenade at one of the
heavys. Two heavies shot at Chopra, one miss while the other heavy
hit. A car blew up killing the heavy that Chopra hit with a
grenade. “We got weak grenades.” Chopra said with surprise. “They
can’t even blow up a car on impact.”

Hugo got shot at but miss. Kato and
Gary got shot at, light damage. Hugo took aim, miss a heavy. Soto
toss a grenade at a heavy that Hugo miss, hit but not kill. “Why
wont you just die!” Soto yell out freaking out. Out of fear Soto
blindly fire at the same heavy and hit the heavy again. Magun, who
sees Soto freaks out gets scared as well and blindly fire at the
same heavy, killing it.

“
That’s our leader?” Chopra
ask with a sigh.

“
That’s your brother.” Gary
said looking at Kato who only rolled her eyes.

Chopra got shot at twice, miss both.
Gary moves ahead, shoots at the heavy, hit not kill. Chopra fire at
same heavy, kills it. Hugo moves ahead, fire at other heavy, hit.
The same heavy retreats, Kato fire at it, miss, the same heavy toss
a grenade, kills chopra, Kato panics after seeing her friend die.
She blindly fire at the heavy, miss. However a car blew up killing
the heavy that she was trying to shoot at. Both Gary and Hugo gave
each other a stern look as they were surprised to see so many
soldiers freaking out on a mission. Gary moves to a wall, spots a
tank and a regular Son inside. The regular Son rush out at Gary.
Soto fire at it, hit but not killed. Gary fires at it, kills it.The
tank moves inside the building, Hugo fire at it but miss. Soto
moves inside the building, fire at the tank but miss. Gary fire at
the tank hitting it. Kato does the same thing but miss. Hugo took
aim again, hit the tank. Tank fire a missile at Chopra, kills her.
Gary freaks out, shoots at the tank, kills it. Manugn freaks out
shoots at Soto, miss. Hugo was astonish how everyone in his squad
had freak out in battle.