i give my life, not for honor but for you (in my time, there'll be no one else)

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What a thrill
With darkness and silence through the night
What a thrill
I'm searching and I'll melt into you
What a fear in my heart
But you're so supreme!
I give my life
Not for honor, but for you (snake eater)
In my time, there'll be no one else
Crime, it's the way I fly to you (snake eater)
I'm still in a dream, snake eater

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"Alright boys! Here's what is happening", Captain Hasar calls out to the lieutenants, who are still grumbling about their sleep cycles being interrupted.

He stands in the far corner of the briefing room, paying only half attention to her.

"Mavericks attacked the research lab at Barren Island and currently they have control of it."

He pauses. Barren Island taken? This could be interesting.

"The Mavericks are also holding the Major hostage. Your mission is as follows..."

The Major as hostage, eh? Surprising. The Major was the strategic type, not built for combat but she could hold her own. The tactician of Repliforce, the left hand of both General and Colonel. Must have taken a powerful mechaniloid to take her down, Hasar personally trained her and she had bested him before in his element.

Hasar then directly addressed him: "Lieutenant Red, you and your boys are to infiltrate the lab from outside the volcano and find where the Major is being held and extract her."

Red nodded his acknowledgement, before the next lieutenant was given their orders.

That's how he ended up in the carrier, thinking about the Major, no, Signas again. The Major and Signas where two different people. One was more calculated, and one was less guarded in the company of others. She took great care to separate her job and function from her personal life. But to Red, both mixed together in a way that made her...unpredictable at times. It fascinated him, how she could switch her demeanor in a second.

His second-in-command broke his thoughts through the carrier's intercom, "Sir, we're 26 klicks from the touchdown point."

"Thank you Ky," He then called out to the rest of the unit, "Gather around everyone, this is how we're doing this..."

Several minutes followed before Ky announced that they had reached the island that housed the laboratory. There was a specific reason as to why only three underground units were dispatched, rather than the main Repliforce units. The research that went on in this lab is considered illegal by the Global Human-Reploid Council. The scientists, security guards, and other personnel live on the island permanently. The only people to visit and leave the island alive are the top reploids and the head scientist of the 'force: General, Colonel, the Major, Captain Hasar, and Doctor Redwing.

For all the rest of the world knows, Barren Island doesn't even exist anymore as it sunk to under the sea near the end of the second Maverick war, caught in the crossfire between the Hunters and the Mavericks, or so the Council thought. Fast forward a few years when Repliforce scouted across the Indian Ocean for base locations and discovered that Barren Island wasn't completely gone and now they have a hidden island of their hands. Research into the Maverick virus and its causes and effects, as well as possible suppressants is carried out, without the Council's knowledge, of course.

Red closed his eyes. He knew she could take care of herself long enough for them to get to her.

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Ficlet split into three parts because i can't spell

originally posted on ao3 so check me out there, handle's cherno_alpha