Redemption in a war

Chapter 10: Rescue

It's been two days and the Defender team has talked extensively about the next raid of the Oppressors.

Nexus immediately showed them the contents of the hard drive and explained what happened and why he needed to leave the base so quickly.

Rax especially was a bit upset that Nexus left Chronos at the base and with that, in the hands of Tronix but he explained that it would've caused quite a lot of trouble on both sides, especially since Chronos despised the Defenders. He would hate Nexus even more for bringing him here. Rax excepted that explanation.

Today they were having a re-briefing about the raid right before going out to fight.

"Alright, let's go!" called out a raspy, somewhat quiet voice after finishing the re-briefing, prompting everyone to turn to Red who kind of stood in the background.

Nexus turned around, putting both hands onto Red's shoulders and talking to him in a concerned way.

"Red, you're still sick, please go back to bed..you can't fight in your current condition."

"But I wanna fight!" Red croaked out.

"Red please.." Nexus begged concerned, pushing him gently towards the doors of the hallway that lead to the living quarters.

Red continued to whine while coughing his lungs out as if he's been smoking for 80 years.

After a short while, Nexus came back without Red.

"Alright, I've brought him to his quarters and told him to rest. We can go now."

"I wish I could stay just in case.." Rax said sadly as his medic instincts kicked in.

"I know Rax but you know that we need you in this battle." Onyx reminded.

"I do know.."

"Are you guys done yet?" whined the ever impatient Iocus.

"Yes yes, we can go." answered Rax with an annoyed huff.

"Alright, everybody, gear up!" commanded Onyx and everyone shot up from their seats at the table and grabbed whatever weapons they currently had, from melee to range weapons.

After gearing up, everyone, except Red, went to the back of the base which had a small garage, just big enough to hold the two jeep trucks, and everyone went to take a seat.

The first jeep was already full with Onyx, Rax, Ionix and Dionus so Prax, Nexus and Iocus opted for the other.

Iocus immediately went to sit in a back seat while Prax chose the passenger seat.

This took Nexus aback so he stopped suddenly and stared at Prax.

"What? Get in! We don't have all day!" Prax snapped, getting impatient himself.

"I can't drive.. I never took any lessons..." Nexus confessed.

"Seriously..? Didn't you drive one of the jeeps to the battlefield where you rescued me?" Prax asked in confusion.

"Yeah, I almost didn't make it though, so..." Nexus confessed.

"Get in the driver's seat Prax or I'll drive!" nagged Iocus, getting more impatient, and annoying, by the second.

"The hell you're not!!" argued Prax, remembering well what happens when you let Iocus drive...

So he immediately scooted over onto the driver's seat, letting Nexus sit in the passenger's seat and started the car.

Now that everything is settled, the team left the base towards the area where they'll find the Oppressors working away, leaving Red alone in the base.

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