Hide And Seek (Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022)

Day 1 | Captured

Setting: [REDACTED], Eastern Ukraine

Altair and her friends are packing up their stuff, and getting ready to drive on out to the evacuation routes.

Altair: And we're all finished! We just need to get into the car and we're free!

Fomalhaut: Hey Altair; What makes you think we can make it out of here alive? There's Russians everywhere we look!

Altair: Sure, There's Russians everywhere, why don't we try to sneak out of here?

Fomalhaut: Ok...I'm warning you though. It will be a while before those Russians have snuffed us up...

Baby Fomalhaut: Mommy! I'm thirsty~

*Fomalhaut would shush her child; she hears footsteps. Huge, thundering footsteps.*

Altair: Ah shit....

*Altair would walk towards the window, and saw something she immediately dearly wished she never seen that.*

Fomalhaut: What's wrong, Altair?

Altair: ....Russians.

Fomalhaut: R-Russians?! Are they soldiers?

Altair: ...Yes, they're soldiers. But they look towering... How tall are they, like 15 feet tall?! No way in HELL would Russia have soldiers THAT big!

*Altair would closely observe them, but would shut the curtains in fear and speedwalk away.*

Fomalhaut: What happened?

Altair: We need to leave.

*Altair would grab Fomalhaut's hand and rush her and her other friends out.*

Fomalhaut: What's wrong?!

Altair: One of them had red eyes. Another had purple. One had yellow, and the fourth had green.

Altair: They also had these broken horns on their heads!

Pinkii (Aphrodite): The hell?! Are they mutated Russians?!

Altair: Shhhh~ You could draw their attention!

*Altair would start to panic; She heard the Russian conversations getting louder and more suspicious.*

Altair: C'mon everyone, follow me.

*Their feet lightly pit-pattered on the ground, but they quickly stopped to see what was behind them.*

*Dense fog had set in, but they saw 4 huge figures, all showing their colored glints in their eyes.*

Altair: Everyone! RUN!

*They all started to run away in panic, as the huge figures ran after them, making huge crumbling sounds.*

Altair: Don't look back!

*Fomalhaut would look back, they were nothing more than 40 feet away!*

Fomalhaut: RUN!

*Fomalhaut would trip over a metal piece, and struggle to get up.*

*Altair, hearing Fomalhaut's despairing cries, ran to her and helped her up.*

*They started to run away again.*

*Strangely, one of the figures teleported in front of them.*

*The group of ten would stop to a halt in fear.*

*The three figures would slowly corner them.*

*One of the figures walked slowly over to them, with his assault rifle in his firm grip.*

???: Well well. Look at what we have here. A couple Ukrainians trying to escape this disgusting country.

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The Russians loomed over the 10, but they couldn't see their faces. They was too high into the fog. The morning sun provided them with a comfy, light yellowish glow.

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*One of the Russians would growl a booming chuckle, which could mean one thing.*

???: What do we do with this group this time?

???: I've got a good one.

???: Go ahead, brother.

???: I think we shoot them in the head again, yes?

???: No, no. That's too easy. I want to prolong their suffering this time.

???: I'd use my knife but...*gasp*

???: Xa! I've got it!

???: Classic Deneb. Always got the "I got it!".

*The group cower in silence, the conversation goes on. Later, a glowing sign rained down purple dust-like particles.*

*The group start to fall unconscious, and one by one, they start to collapse.*

Now...The fun part begins.

To be continued on Day 2.