Last Hope (4 page)

When the car blows up Estela moves to
the side of the building, throwing a grenade, killing one target.
Song moves closer but miss her target. Harry moves closer, next to
a car, fires at target but did not do a lot of damage. Song goes
out in the open and threw grenade, killing target. Her target was
right next to a car that she forgot that Harry was standing next to
when the car blew up killing Harry. Juan who got spook by the
explosion accidentally discharged his gun. Estela starts to freak
out by seeing Juan freaking out and she fires her gun randomly.
Hitting Juan but she did not do a lot of damage to him. Katerina,
after hearing a lot of gun noises and explosions rushes back to
their aid to see if they need help. When she came to she found Juan
bleeding, Harry dead and a blown up car. With two dead Sons. Song
was still in shock that she killed her own teammate.

Katerina, not in time for explanations
rushes over to Juan to see how he was doing. “Juan, you ok?” Juan
nod his head yes after he wiped away his tears, then gave her a
thumbs up.

Back in Sic-Mad Igor and Mandisa was
still talking about Katerina’s mission. “Doesn't, Juan seem a bit,
off to you?” Mandisa ask Igor.

“
Just because he can’t speak
english, doesn’t mean he does not know how to fire a
gun.”

“
Not that but the way he
acts, it’s like he is still a kid or something?”

“
I see what you are saying
Mandy. However I bet there is a story in there that you could
figure out though.”

“
How am I suppose to read a
story if there is no words being spoken?”

“
That’s the tricky
part.”

Back on the battleground the team of
now four goes to open another room. Song enters the back door, rest
in the front. Juan opens a door to find’s two more men. They
scatter, one shot Juan, he is not hurt that bad. Juan moves to the
other side of the door. Shot and kill target. Katerina moves next
to Juan, fires at target, did not do that much damage. She fires
again, same result. Song moves forward, killing the last
Son.

“
Good work everyone.”
Katrina told them as they all regroup. The last building is just up
ahead of us only a few clicks from here. I am going to go on the
roof and see what I can find from up there, no one goes inside
until I make the order to do so understood?” Everyone nod in
agreement and rush outside.

As all three of them got into position
Estella starts to hear noises from inside. “Hey ya’ll I got
movement from inside, watch your step.”

There are two doors, two people on both
sides. Song and Katerina moves into the building to find an
upstairs and another door that leads to the meat room. Juan opens
the door and spots two more, both he and Estella moves in. Estella
got shot at but miss.

Both Katerina and Song, after hearing
the gun sounds, burst open the doors. Katerina fires but miss. Juan
fires but miss. Estella moves to cover. “Now I love pork as much as
the next country girl but seeing all of these dead pigs, I might
become a vegetarian!”

One of the Sons shot through Katerina’s
cover and hitting her. She was not doing too well but she could
still move. Another Son shot at Juan. After being shot for the
third time he was no longer doing so well.l Song moves in closer,
but miss her target. Katerina quickly realises that she may lose
another soldier. None of her teammates are in safe cover. One of
them is hiding behind some dead pigs. So Katerina rushes out to
throw her ernade and she was able to kill the last two
Sons.

Back over at B.A.S.E everyone
congratulates Katerina’s team in making it back. Song, Juan, and
Estella never once said a word at how Harry died. Both Katerina and
Juan had to go to Sick-Call. Katerina will be there for eight days
while Juan will be in there for nine. Both Song and Estella get to
train i the Heavy Class.

“
You look like you got the
shit kick out of you.” Igor said with slight laughter as Katrina
was place right next to him.

“
At least I can eat real
food now.” Katerina said nack.

“
What’s that supposed to
mean?” Igor ask in confusion. Katerina handed Igor a present that
she got from Commander. “You gotta be kidding me, Sergeant? I am
not even a Corporal and we all started the same time.”

Mandisa was sitting next to both Igor
and Katerina. “Don’t worry Igor, your time will come
soon.”

A new guy enter the doors of Sic-Mad.
He also was wearing a Sergeant medal. He had a bouquet of flowers
as he gave them to Katerina. “A present to Alpha from Santa.” He
says with a smile.

“
Santa?” Igor said with
confusion.

“
Alpha?” Mandisa also said
in the same tone as Igor’s.

The new guy look up to see Igor and
Mandisa. “My apologies, my name is Steve Lee. I am relatively new
around here but quickly be climbing up the ranks. Everyone around
here calls me Santa, and everyone around here is starting to call
her Alpha. Because she is the most talented soldier so far, she is
the Alpha dog.”

“
Nice to meet you Santa, I’m
Igor.”

“
I know, Steve said with a
smile. “You three are the ones who went on the very first mission,
kind of popular around B.A.S.E.”

“
So what’s with the
flowers?” Igor ask.

“
Well.” Steve blush a
little. “I was wondering if you would like to go to the Soldiers
Ball with me Katerina. You don’t have to answer now, give it some
thought.” Steve did not wait for a response from Katerina as he
left Sic-Mad.

Once he was gone, he left Katerina
blushing and Igor laughing. “I like this guy, he has guts! What are
you going to do, Alpha?” Igor ask with laughter.

Katerina said nothing for a while then
she push the flowers to the side. “Not my type.”

Mission 6 Information

Soldiers have been going on missions
left and right and nothing is happening. Certain parts of the world
is more mess up then others such as North America, Mexico,
Argentina and Brazil. All of them are on the brink of pulling out
of here. Commander is well aware of what is going on. While
Commander knows what is at fault, he has been talking to other
countries, just in case the others may backout.

“
I like how everyone at
B.A.S.E are so calm while at the same time, everyone knows that
four countries might be pulling out of the X.” Igor says with a
sigh as he took a shot of alcohol.”

“
Cheer up old man, it’s not
as bad as it looks.” Steve told Igor with a smile.

“
Each time a country leaves
us, the doom clock get’s closer to midnight. I personally don’t
think that the Sons are that big of a threat to be honest. However!
Since they don’t have any color, as in uniforms. Identifying them
is hard. Even a civil war, there was still uniforms.”

“
Try not to sweat it that
much. After this, only four more days until the big
X-Ball.”

Igor gave a little chuckle. “I have
been meaning to ask you this Steve, but I couldn't because I have
been in Sic-Mad this entire team. Out of every female soldier in
this place. Why did you had to pick the hardest one?”

“
You are talking about
Katerina right?” Steve gave a little chuckle as he thought about
the answer a little. “I like a challenge. I knew she probably
wouldn't go, and if she did she would still be lonely. There is
something about a lonley girl that keeps all of her emotions to
herself that makes me want to, open them.”

“
Books that are close with
locks, should stay close with locks Sergeant.”

Steve just chuckle a bit. “What about
you, Igor Vasilyev? You going to take Mandisa to the
ball?”

“
Why would I do that? I see
her more like a little sister.”

Steve just burst into laughter. He
laugh so hard that he couldn't breath for a little while. “I wonder
if she feels the same way.”

Igor was confuse at Steve’s laughing
and kind of laugh along with him but with confusion. Igor then
stood up to end the conversation. “I need to get to the Hangar. I
got this mission to fly over to this train station and eliminate
all Sons that we see. It’s suppose to be difficult so to join me on
this mission is going to be Sakuro Kato, Sergio Soto, Hugo Castro
and a new kid, David Kelly.”

“
Good luck out there, and
watch out for Miss Kato out there.”

“
Watch out?”

“
Yea, I went on a mission
with her not to long ago. She is just like Katerina but she gets
angry at everyone. A simple pat on her back and she will throw you
on the ground type of angry. Don’t know what her background is but
I heard that she was in a mob, something like that.”

“
All right, I’ll keep that
in mind.” Igor said his goodbye to Steve as he headed over to the
hangar station.

As the team lands on the train station.
David quickly spots two men. “I made contact, positive ID on the
Sons, firing now.” David fires at his target. He hit one of the
Sons but he did not do a lot of damage. Soto fires at the other Son
but miss. One of the Sons, moves close to Kelly. “No you don’t, you
little shit.” Kelly pull out a stun gun and zap the Son. Kelly
quickly ties the son down in zipties. “We got you just where we
want you little shit.” Soto moves close to get a better shot at the
other son. Two more comes out, Soto tries to shoot at one but miss.
“You stay there, if you move I will kill you.” Kelly told the son
as he moves to help his friend.

“
Soto you idiot.” Kato told
herself as she rushes forward, killing Soto’s target.

Hugo moves to a box, fire at target
from afar with a pistol, he hits target, did not due a lot of
damage. One target’s disappears into the dark, another tries to
kill Soto, just barely miss him. Soto moves behind barrels, and was
able to kill the target that shot at him. Once the place was clear.
Kato walk over to Soto and slap him in the face. “Always remember
to stay in cover brother.” She told him as she moves forward with
the rest of the group. Soto said nothing as he moves forward and
spots two more.

Hugo moves next to another box, shoots
at target with pistol, hits but does light damage.

“
Hugo!” Igor shouts. “You
got a sniper rifle, why don’t you use it for a change?”

“
I can’t run and fire the
gun at the same time!” Hugo shouts back.

The original son that disappears,
reapers. Kato fires but miss. Igor, who was on the other side of
the train tracks kills a target with a grenade. Then another son
disappears into the dark. Igor moves ahead, sees the target that
disappears, kills it with a LMG. David was able to kill the other
target that Kato was firing at. Igor moves to a box, near a cart on
a train. The cart on the train just cave in on itself next to Igor.
Igor, being spook by the falling crate shot his gun out in fear.
“Igor, calm yourself, you are going to kill us all!” Hugo
shouted.

Once Igor realise that he was shooting
at nothing, he made his apologies and the team moves forward. “I
hear some more noise up ahead, keep your eyes peeled.” Igor told
his crew as they advance.

David moves forward, and was able to
spot two more men. David quickly fires and kills one of them. Igor
started to climb up on top of a train. The last son ran into the
open. Igor kills it with a LMG from above. “That’s everyone.” Igor
said once the target was confirmed dead. “Great work everyone, not
a single one of us got hurt. That must be a new record. David, good
job on stunning that one son over there. Now we can finally bring
him over to B.A.S.E for questing.”

“
Thank you Igor, just doing
my job.” David said with a smile.

In the barracks, every male soldier was
hosting a party with alcohol, pizza, and celebrating Soto, Igor,
and Davids win. Jordan made a little speech. “To the first ever, un
medical mission. Not a single soldier got hurt during this mission.
If that is something not worth celebrating then I don’t know what
is!” Jordan told everyone who took a shot of alcohol. “So David,
please tell us, which group of friends will you be training with
from here on out?”

“
Uh,” David did not want to
talk in front of everybody because he is shy. “The Assault
Class.”

Everyone moan loudly as they all gave
their money to Juan, who only smile as if he knew that David was
going to be in the Assault Class the entire time. “Now Juan is no
longer the only male in the Assault Class, good job David, you
deserve it.” Jordan says with a smile.

Jordan took another shot and this time
he was getting kind of wasted. “Let’s not forget that Soto here AND
Igor are now Corporals.” The room gave a little applause. “Not ONLY
is Igor a Corporal. He was in Sic-Mad for a record breaking 18
days. As soon as he got out, he went on the mission to get the most
kills with six kills in total in one mission.” The soldiers gave
some applause again.

“
Uh, thats how many I got
total.” Igor told Jordan.

“
I DON’T GIVE A
SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!” Jorad told Igor in a very drunk tone. “You are a
Corporal now, a mother fucking Corporal, so drink up and let’s
celebrate.” Jordan stood on a table to talk some more. “How about
we do this every time a squad comes back from a mission in one
piece?” The entire male barracks dormitory gave a cheer as they
drank some more alcohol then spent the rest of the night
partying.