Shadow over the Frontline (Madness Combat x Girls Frontline)

Schrödinger's Grip

AK-74M POV

That stupid idiot! Of course he got himself killed! I should have stopped him! Why didn't I stop him! Ugh... I probably should find his body... send Shadow and Lockjaw the message after I make sure he's dead. He's a tough motherfucker so he might have survived.

I watch the trucks dump the bodies into the hole that leads into the abandoned subway... place is infested with ELIDs... I have to find him quick...

I look at the corpses being dumped as I finally see the familiar soldier in black that wears his glowing yellow shooting glasses. They're still glowing... this must be a good sign...

As all the trucks disappear I slowly walk to the hole and look down. I can't see the bottom... not good... how the hell do I get down there?!

I'm not authorized to be here... I don't have a lot of time before they notice that I'm gone... I need to think of a good excuse... and a way down there... hold tight, Qilin... I'm coming for you...

Qilin POV
Hours later...

I open my eyes and hold my head in pain. I'm feeling so dizzy... and my chest hurts... my breath... I think I'm dying...

Qilin: Argh...

I look around but to my surprise in notice that I'm on something soft... something... unnaturally soft...

I immediately sit up and hit my head... I was lying in a bunk bed and I hit my head on the bed above me...

Qilin: what the hell?

I get out of bed and look around... I recognize this place anywhere... my old barracks...

I walk around and look at my surroundings... I remember it all... so vividly...

I pick up the small doll of a grunt and inspect it. Raven used to have a doll like this... damn it! I kinda miss Raven... the best Recon I ever knew...

I close my eyes and see the shit that went down this operation...

I clutch the doll and start to hear voices... voices I'm all too familiar with...

Distant Qilin: you're gonna pull through! This situation is seriously FUBAR!

Distant Lockjaw: hold onto it, Raven! Damn it! Stay with us!

Distant Qilin: don't you dare die on me!

The way I held him in my arms... we were caught unprepared... We responded to a call from the regular forces... they couldn't handle a job facing the Nexus assholes...

We walked right into their trap... our intel was wrong... ambushed and caught of guard... incompetence... but not of the Recons that surveilled the area... my incompetence...

To save my teammate... my friend...

Distant Raven: it was an honor serving... with... you...

I vividly remember seeing the light of his eyes fade after I pulled his stupid goggles off of his eyes... it haunts me to this day... I could have saved him... if only I was a medic back then... if only I was a better leader back then...

I open my eyes and gently ate the doll back down where I found it. This is the fucking worst. I shouldn't touch that. All these memories... all that stupid shit... my head hurts...

I was so pissed when Shadow was assigned to me. How dare they replace Raven so easily? How dare they just replace him... I was so unhappy... so angry... he wasn't Raven and he would never be... but now he's my best friend... I'm glad he was assigned to me... I'm really lucky... so damn lucky... I treated him way too harshly... he didn't deserve that...