End of Days

Saviour

"How can I stop them? Just over a month ago I didn't even know they existed! You must have me confused with someone else." I tried but their expressions told me they weren't going to give up on this dream easily. They had themselves convinced I was someone I wasn't.

"No, it's definitely you, you have her eyes." The one the leader called Sasha spoke again coming closer, her eyes taking me in, studying my features as if she was looking for something. Who was she talking about? Who's eyes did I have? I wish they would just tell me what the hell was going on I was sick to death of being in the dark about things.

"Hey, why don't you all just back the fuck up alright, we don't know you, you don't know us." Scott stepped forward, raising his gun towards the new people. I felt the tension grow even thicker, almost suffocating, and Earl began to fidget at the awkwardness. I also saw the unease in the expressions of the rest of my group. I wish things would just settle down for once.

"Why don't we all relax and listen to what they have to say?" Jennifer suggested and I nodded, at this rate we would end up firing on each other. Jennifer was a reasonable woman, she was the only one who seemed calm in this situation and I was so thankful she was here. Who knows how wrong this could have gone.

"Jennifer's right, Scott lower the gun we need to hear them." Scott looked at me disbelieving but, shaking his head, he complied. The people didn't seem a threat to us but I kept my guard up, never sure of what to expect. I took a deep breath before turning to face the other group that stood before us, ready to hear their explanation. "Go on."

"You don't know us but we know you Charlie." The leader spoke. "Do you know what they are?"

"Yeah they're evil government guinea pigs gone wrong and come back through some magical portal from their own fucked up reality." Nina spoke, some of it with a mocking tone earning a glare from Scott. Nina seemed to be on the offense to anyone, regardless of what they had said or done to her.

"So you found the portal then?" The leader replied and I nodded. I noticed him take a second to look over all our faces, assessing what we knew. "They were an experiment yes, the government developed them to fight but they didn't expect them to turn on those they were fighting for. They wrought havoc in the cities, towns, villages, basically everywhere they could reach. My group, Sasha, Eve, Zeke, Alistair, Ephraim and I were part of the second generation; it was an improvement, soldiers to fight the SOLDIERs. But even we weren't enough to stop the complete annihilation of the human race in our future."

"So you guys are like those bastards out there?" Scott growled, eyes narrowing at the people who had saved our lives, hand edging towards his gun.

"No, our generation had an improved method of advancement, not mechanised like the SOLDIERs but enhanced nonetheless." The one the leader called Zeke replied.

"Right, so they were developed, started killing everything, you guys were recruited to stop them but obviously that failed so they destroyed the world. I get that but what does all this have to do with me?" I was so sure they had mistaken me for someone else, there was no way I could have anything to do with them. I was wrong.

"Everything." Ephraim spoke with a distant look, almost as if he was remembering the past, or the future depending on how you want to look at the whole thing.

"The second stage of the project was the last stage, it was the last hope. It was started just after the original phase, an improvement if you like. They were altering the DNA of children with the hopes that they could be the future generation of SOLDIERs. When the SOLDIERs turned on the world they recruited those involved in the experiment to hold force against the SOLDIERs." Sasha added.