The Doorway Into The Unknown

        During a long day on Earth, a military patrol was slowly progressing in the desert wastes of Iran. There where just 2 members Jake Smith and Blake Sherman. Blake is the calm and decisive type in combat, he always tries to be a trickster or a sneaker. While his combat partner Jake is a leader. Jake is very specific with every order he yells out. Both on the other hand are specialists in arms and melee combat.

Jake and Blake are patrolling away from their base. Hoping to find something to do, Blake decides to "explore" a canyon they found on a recent trip.

When the two arrive at their deserted destination that is filled with shrubs and fallen boulders, the military partners start examining everything that didn't fit in including strange rocks, broken branches, and pieces of medal.

Blake's attention was caught by a sudden movement which hid behind a boulder a few feet away from him. "Psst!" Blake hissed quietly towards Jake while making the hand signal for "Come". Jake readied his sidearm while Blake clicked the safety off his rifle. The two slowly moved towards the boulder that hid the sudden movement. Blake was focused only on trying to make the least noise possible, but the crunching of sand and small rocks were impossible to cover up. Blake was point-blank with the boulder slowly moving around its circumference. He quickly jerked around the boulder and started to hear a sharp aggressive hiss. He looked down and found that a rattlesnake was curled up rattling its warning sound.

Blake turned sharply to a loud noise of scrunching rocks and sand. He was shocked to see that Jake either fell or was knocked out. Before Blake could walk over to see what happened he felt 2 sharp fangs piercing his leg. He collapsed in pain, hollering loudly in agony as if he had been stabbed and was bleeding out, but this was worse... Venom. To his surprise he started to hear loud scrunching once again. A squad of military forces repelled downwards towards him and his unconscious partner. The soldiers where not american. Blake didn't know who's side they where on so he pulled out his combat knife and cut the snakes head off. He was ageist the wall of the tight canyon. In a jolt Blake tried to stand up with his semi-automatic ready to fire. The pain was to great and once again fell to the ground sliding on the wall of the canyon. The figures where closing in on him from both directions. He fired 2 warning shots off on both sides of the canyon.

A cylinder looking medal object flew into view and landed just a foot away from Blake. Flashbang! He jolted to grasp it. He successfully managed to grab it and tried to throw it away. It was too late, the flashbang exploded in a burst of sound and light. He felt sharp pain in his hand as he realized that the shrapnel of the grenade cut his hand up. The second he was able to see, he saw a squad hovering above him. He jolted into grabbing his sidearm. One the the solders shot the sidearm straight from his good hand. Another reached into a bag he had and pulled out a sharp needle and approached the dazed American. The same one to have shot his pistol walked up to him with his AK-47 and butted Blake in the head, rendering him unconscious.