Chapter 7: Graveyard

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 Woody drives the Darla rig to the graveyard.

Jake: Holy shit....talk about creepy.

Woody: Yeah....goddamned Blood Hogs and Raiders piss, shit and cum all over these graves. They have no respect for the dead.

Kyle sighs.

Kyle: A lot of the soldiers who I served with were buried here...could've used those men to take down Kronos....would've saved us less casualties.

Kyle, Jake, Walter and Cameron step down onto the graveyard and begin to search the area for clues.

Cameron: Sir...I mean...Kyle...what exactly are we looking for again?

Walter: Clues, son...Olden said that these things came from here...so if we find something, maybe we can find their hive and kill it.

Cameron: Huh?

Walter: You know how you play with a wasp or beehive and you kept swinging at it and bees came out? Well, if you burn the nest, then the bees die with the nest.

Cameron: Well, what about the wasps?

Walter: Wasp and bees are basically the same thing, man.

Cameron: They are?

Jake: Kid, I have to ask...why do you ask so many questions?

Kyle:....let's split up...search more ground....Walter, you stick with me. Jake, Cameron, take the right.

Kyle and Walter separate from Jake and Cameron as both groups search the graveyard. After a long search, Walter stumbles upon a piece of Zeus Corps shoulder pad armor.

Walter: Zeus Corps? Yo, Kyle!

Kyle walks over as he and Walter kneel to examine the piece of Zeus Corps armor.

Kyle: Zeus Corps?

Walter: What do you think? Maybe a recon squad passed here and never responded back?

Kyle: No...there's no camp or equipment set up....

Kyle notices a camp site across from the graveyard.

Kyle: huh...

Kyle and Walter walk over to the camp site and search the tents, finding Kronos scientist lab coats and Zeus Corps armor.

Walter: Strange....Kronos lab coats. Zeus Corps armor...and no one...

A short pause, before Kyle walks over to a dead Kronos doctor with a diary in his hand.

Kyle: Hello there.

Kyle takes the diary and reads as the notes stating their survival of the past three years since their banishment by Kyle himself after the end of Kronos Industries.

Kyle: Walter....these guys are the same soldiers and scientists we banished, man...

Walter: what?!

Kyle: I'm reading a diary from one of the scientists....they were out here this whole time...they must've fled South and set up here after we put down Kronos....

Walter: Yeah..... look at the date. October 2031. One year after the war.....and these things...these Condemned must've taken them out....

Kyle: Hold on....looks like this guy was shot...fled in here and bleed out...and I just see him...coats...and armor...

Walter: So?

Kyle: So where are the other bodies? The other soldiers. Like Jackal....probably Barnes....We sent them all out here.

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