Intro Chapter .5

Pain, All around you, inside of you, burning, everywhere. Why did it hurt? You open your eyes only to be greeted by death himself, a quick view of the greatest waste land you’d ever seen. There were bodies everywhere and with a sharp inhale you could smell the remains of humanity’s last stand. You slowly peek to the left and right, your neck sending a dull throb with every inch, your team had been blown clean inside a building, through a block wall.

You slowly start to crawl out of your bed of rubble, some way or another still alive, every muscle on fire, every bone feels ready to break, but 3 years of the worlds most intense training has left you ready for this, you slowly stand to your unready feet and begin to inch forward. The hole in the wall is mere feet away but feels like miles, you unsheathe your kesmi knife and glance out of the hole. Nothing is alive outside, no Red Squad, no T-98 thermonuclear device, no doctor Keshmir.

You put your knife away and walk back away to where your teammates lay, you check for pulse and find your two operators dead, Jsok with the knife still in his shoulder and burns all over his body, Nova was missing most of his head where a brick had fallen in the aftermath of launch.

Standing idly for a minute wondering what to do now that the world is ending you hear it, a low loud hum. It seems to be coming closer, you figure nothing could possibly make this day worse so you stealth back over to the hole and wait, it appears to be coming up north main street very rapidly. The sound really begins to wash over you as you glance toward the sky. You’ve missed the initial explosion but can faintly make out the orange mist that will melt the whole city like acid in just a few hours, you pray for the damned and glance back toward the street.

You begin to question if this isn’t all a big dream as a frigging white horse streaks towards you like its on a mission. As it gracefully swoops across the torn landscape you hear a strange voice, it sounds like a codec call in that its inside your head, but the voice sounds panicked, almost screaming. Do you want to live human, you have but a few seconds to choose. The horse is only 100 yards away and accelerating towards you rapidly, assuming it’s the horse screaming and theres nothing left now anyway you respond with a curt yes both verbally and in your head. You see something else now, a blue aura enveloping the horse, at 50 yards away you begin to feel weightless, like the start of the planes dive in 0G training.

You slowly begin to lift off the ground and can see a horn glowing on the horse, it streaks towards you almost too fast to track now, you realize its going to hit you, kill you, and you begin to struggle. But you suddenly feel like its time for a nap, as you slip unconscious the last thing you have time to look at is your brothers, the men you had trained, slept, ate and breathed with, the men you had failed.
Darkness