Revenge

Darkness. That's all that I felt. It surrounded me; enveloped me. I'm an awful thing. I don't deserve to be called a person, I'm a monster.

The voice came to me in my dreary prison, goading me. Telling me that I deserved my revenge. That my past was too tragic to bear. That is something that is true. Karyn, Tim, and Jacob didn't deserve it. I didn't deserve it.

I was sitting in our camp, Karyn was curled up beside me with her head resting on my lap. Jeff, the unit's comic relief sauntered over with a mischievous smile on his face.

"Oh! Taking it to the next step now are we!" he said looking at Karyn and me, "I thought that she wasn't comfortable with that kind of stuff!" He smiled at me once again.

"Oh shove off Jeff! She's just tired..." I say punching him in the shoulder. She deserves a rest, she's only 19 after all.

Jeff walks off looking for another target for his jokes and quips. Tim and Jacob walk over with their guns, Jacob smiling like a maniac. "We got a mission boys!" Jacob says excitedly as he twirls his knife which he named Emily.

I nudge Karyn while telling her that it is time to get up. She lazily opens her eyes, blushing when she sees where her face is. she smiles and gets up, slinging her M16 over her shoulder she sauntered to the M2 Browning that was mounted to the vehicle. "Are you ready to kill these motherfuckers!" she says smiling wildly bringing me my own smile.

"Well we have a spy, named Disford, on the inside of the camp telling us where we need to go." Tim says smirking slightly. "He'll tell us what to do."

Me and my squad drove wildly over the tarmac seeming to hit every single pothole. "Damn Jacob could you drive on the rode for once" I say grinning. "Oh Ha Ha!" he shouts right back hitting another pothole. As we neared our objective. Turrets on the outside of the enemy base open fire upon us, making pinging sounds on the approaching vehicles sometimes getting a lucky hit on the gas tank sending an unlucky squad ablaze. Wait a minute! The spy! He said that this area would be unguarded!

"TRAITOR!" I roar as the buggy explodes in a flash of metal, fire, and fiberglass and everything goes black.

I woke to Karyn dragging my unlucky ass from under the scorched buggy. "Oh, fuck!" screams Karen as she sees Jacob, with a .50 cal bullet wound on his right lung. She rushes over right away, being a combat medic, she decided to tackle the worst injury first.

"This is Delta Squad! I repeat this is Delta Squad! We have a man down and another nursing a minor injury!" Tim shouts into the handheld radio, but it's no use. He is responded to by static.

Karyn digs out the bullet and puts pressure on his lung, lightly as to not collapse it. "Kar, I don't think I'm gonna make it..." Jacob gasps out, barely above a whisper. She starts to cry, that's not a good sign that means that she knows that he is right. Jacob reaches over to Tim and I and takes our grenades, and then cupped Karyn's cheek with his left hand wiping away her tears. "I don't blame you." Jacob says, the last words that any of us ever hear from him again before he ran out into the battlefield.

We peeked over our cover just in time to see him pull the pins of his grenades and jump in the trench. BOOM! The .50 cal fire ends with Jacob. We walk over to the trench, paying our respects to the body of our friend and brother, when we were ambushed once again. I felt a burning pain in my left thigh and everything went black for the second time that day as Tim's head exploded.

I woke up, as I recall, quite groggily. It was dark out and all across the battlefield the dead bodies of friends and enemies lay every ware. This was Disford's fault! I was gonna make him pay! I heard a small pain filled whimper off to my left, and what I saw broke my heart. I saw Karyn, her right arm was extended and she was squeezing the bullet wound on my leg, which had stopped bleeding thanks to her, blood was running down her face and coated her body from multiple wounds. Glistening could be seen from her eyes, showing that she had been crying. A twig snapped off to my left reveling that enemy soldiers were gathering up the wounded and herded them to the base. Then they saw us.

One of the younger soldiers, about 16, walked up to us nudging Karyn with the barrel of his gun making her cry out in agony. As quick as a viper I grabbed his AK47 and pointed it at his face. Almost instantly everyone else pointed their guns at Karyn. Those bastards, I wince knowing that I can't possibly take them all out, so I give the gun back and hold Karyn in a protective embrace. She was only 19 for God's sakes! They lead us to a prison cart where they drive us to the camp. One day, I will have my revenge!

I wake up with a crick in my neck. This was normal since being taken prisoner by the Experimentations, four months ago, as we call them. I smile at Karyn, she was already up and leaning against the wall staring in between the small bars in the small iron door. "Hey." I call to her, smiling faintly. She grins slightly.

"And I suppose that they didn't harm you as bad as they usually do?" she asks wrapping her arms around my neck linking them at the back of it. "It was only a shot right?" she asks, a little more concern in her voice.

Ever since we got here they started to experiment on us, trying to merge our DNA with other animals and plants. So far, it seemed that none of the experiments were a success, but eventually there started to be some side affects. For instance, I needed food less and less and eating plants began to become undesirable, and Karyn grew a small ponytail where a tail normally went.

I was going to make sure that Karyn lives, even if it is the last thing I ever do.

2 Months Later

"Ohhh, my head!" there was a musky smell in the air. In the distance I heard soft moans and cries in the distance from the direction of the operating room. Wait a minute, that's Karyn! And if the sounds and cries indicate anything of what I think it means, then someone is gonna get knocked hard! as my rage builds I feel my body getting bigger, more muscular, and with thicker bones. my vertebra changed, spines stabbing through my flesh along my spine making a trail of spines from the top of my head to my butt. I continued to morph until I looked like a giant Lycan. I ripped through the door like it was wax paper, and lumbered off towards the sounds, killing any guards in my way. When I got there my rage multiplied tenfold! Karyn was strapped down to the operating table, being repeatedly raped by the scientists.

"NOOOOO!" I roar, surprising the scientists as I start to rip them apart! Then things went south fast. Unable to subdue me by force they try to stun me into submission. By killing Karyn. Still crying from her harsh treatment to her they took a scalpel and raised it above her. Out of the corner of my eye I saw what the scientists were doing and I turned around just in time to see her get stabbed in the gut.

I sat in a pool of blood. In my arms lay Karyn barely breathing, on the brink of death. I gained a power from the vast experiments that the scientists put me through. I was going to pour my life force into Karyn. To save her.

I wrote a note and pinned it to her bloody prison shirt, and started to poured my life force into her. she opened her eyes and smiled, and I smiled back. I fell over backwards as I grew more and more distant. The last thing I heard was her hearty wail of despair.

And now all I hear is the voice talking to me. She is kind, I think that she is kind,

"Would you like a second chance?" ,the voice asks. I'm stunned. In all of our time together she has never asked something like this. This is just too much. With a second chance I could kill Disford! I could take my revenge.

"Yes" I say as calmly as possible.

"First tell me your name" the voice asks, kind of worried.

"My name, is Ditzy."