Like a Bullet from a Gun

Back at the base camp on Earth, things were about to get very, VERY bad for Lt Col. Merit.

"Colonel Merit!" shouted one of the assessors. "There have been reports of you treating our faithful soldiers like crap! Would you like to defend yourself?!"

"They deserved what I said to them. They were a waste of space in the first place. And for when I treated them harshly, it was because I was trained like that. As my father always said, 'Hurt them inside to bring them higher on the outside'."

"We do not sincerely care about what your father once said to you! In this ripe day and age you are not allowed to treat out airmen in such a way. You should consider yourself lucky we did not reprimand as soon as we had found out about how you treated their squad. And to add to the suspicions, we now know that Piledriver and all it's squad members along with a Gunnery Sergeant are now MIA after their latest mission; which was the one you were in command of!"

"They are MIA? Huh. Did not know that. They deserved whatever happened to them anyway. I hope they all died in the most painful, slow and agonising way possible!"

The anger inside the assessor was building, and he couldn't take it anymore. Colonel Merit was charged with verbal assault against a squad of four, and to add to that they were all presumed dead. The hatred for Colonel Merit inside the assessor, he couldn't take it.

"Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Merit, I hearby reprimanded from USAF duty, effective immediately. You are to move out of this base by the end of this day, or we will throw you out. Understood?"

"Assessor?"

"Yes?"

The assessor had been looking in the opposite direction, away from Lt Col. Merit. When he turned to see Merit, he did not like what he saw.

He was holding a Magnum, inches away from his face.

"Surprise."

The assessor did not have time to react before Merit fired the shot, spreading blood and brain matter all over the wall behind him. Merit then got upi and made his way into the direction of the armoury.

"Hello Colonel! Having a nice d-"

His sentence was ended by a shot from Merit's gun piercing his ribcage, puncturing his liver.

"Agh..."

Merit walked past the dead body, and over to the armoury door control. He proceeded to type in the code and the door opened, revealing a cache of all types of weapons and ammo, each on individual shelves. He walked in, picked up a M249 SAW and some ammo boxes. He walked out, intent in starting his genocide. He did not have a reason why he wanted to kill people, he just felt like he needed to. He proceeded to gun down innocent soldiers by the tens, and he did not notice his skin, clothing and weapon were turning grey. His killing spree was only stopped by a guard in a sniper tower firing a bullet that penetrated his skull, sending blood and matter out of the other side.

Colonel Merit was now just a smouldering, grey corpse.

Name of Perpetrator: Charlie Brut Merit

Status: KIA

Description of Deeds: Verbal Assault towards Squad X-14 Codename "Piledriver", 24 Counts of Murder in broad daylight, responsible for disappearance of Squad X-14 Codename "Piledriver" after a failed teleportation experiment.

Punishment: None needed. Subject confirmed dead. Bullet penetrating temple exiting out 3 mm from trachea. Subject who fired the shot that discontinued Merit was released without charges on behalf of protection of fellow men.

Case Status: Closed