I Never Forgot (A COD Advanced Warfare Fanfic)

Part 21-Leave A Mark-

~January 8, 2061~
Gideon's POV
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I watched as Irons left only minutes later Keegan walked in. I saw her face had a smile on it one that was masked by dark brown eyes and blonde messy hair. "Keegan" I breathed as she turned to face me "Gideon hi" her voice was sickly sweet and I knew that it wasn't the real Kee the one I've grown to love was gone. I saw the glint of metal shine in the dimly lit room "Why are you doing this?!" Ilona screamed at her and she turned to face Ilona. "Why? Why it's because I believe the world can blossom into something better without you mistakes getting in the way" her voice got louder as she finished her sentence.

"I'm not a mistake!" Ilona said and lunged at Keegan as I watched the guard pull Ilona off of Keegan with minor struggle. "See? that right there is a mistake!" she says dramatically and I roll my eyes. "Am I a mistake then?" my voice a false sense of hope "No and yes" she says walking over to me and poking my forehead "Don't" my voice had a little edge to it. She laughs and shakes her head "Gideon gideon gideon..." she giggles "You don't want to know what I think right now" her voice had craze in it I couldn't place. "Why am I a yes and a no?" I ask "Well because you made the mistake of fucking her" she points at a guarded Ilona "That reminds me" her eyes growing darker "I need to rid you of that mistake" she gives me a smile before coming over to me.

Keegan waltzes over to Gideon. "This will only hurt a bit" she says in his ear as she raises the right sleeve of his uniform revealing the stained mark of his tattoo. She raises the knife to his bicep where the tattoo was and pierce the skin making him take a sharp intake of breath. She continued to slash at the tattoo until it was covered in blood and when she was satisfied that the tattoo was removed she stopped. She stared at the blood that ran down his arm and felt regret about it as he winced in pain unable to clutch the wound because of his restraints.

She backed away from him and walked out of the door leaving the fate of Gideon and Ilona in the Atlas guards hands. Soon she heard gunfire and shattering of glass hoping that it wasn't Gideon who had received the bullet.

I was waiting for the signal from Ilona a simple glance would activate the plan we had stirring in our heads. She gave the signal and I turned around grabbing the gun from the Atlas soldier as he shot and I kicked him sending him flying into the glass and onto the floor. I pulled the trigger hearing the click indicating it was empty and chucked it to the side. Trapping the dazed guard under my knees and grabbing his head bashing it into the ground before snapping his neck making him lifeless. I undid the bonds on my wrists and rushed to get Mitchell out of the cuffs he was in "Get him out of there!" I ordered to Ilona as she freed Cormack from the cuffs.

Cormack wasn't able to stand on his own so Ilona helped him with walking but seeing as Mitchell was aware and alert and could walk properly he didn't need my assistance. "Just...leave me" Cormack said weakly "shut it we are all eating out of here" I say sounding mean but only to hide the fact that my heart and arm were aching. We go out into the hallway ducking behind cover, not being seen, and continued on our journey through to a control room. "Mitchell get on that console!" I yell at Mitchell who goes straight to the console. I hear that we've been noticed missing over the PA system and then the guards come in, I only had a pistol so did all of us except for Cormack, I shot at a guard while Ilona and Cormack made it out to one of the ways out of here.

The door closed and Ilona and Cormack were on the other side while me and Mitchell were stuck in this hellhole. "Shit we'll meet you at the exit. We'll find another way out of here! Go!" I say to Ilona and she nods and continues on to the exit. Me and Mitchell walk into a hallway Ilona trying to communicate but it came out as static and I only caught bits and pieces of what she was saying "Ilona! Shit we gotta keep going" I say to Mitchell who nods and we continue on with our journey through the Atlas research and prison base.

We clear out multiple units of Atlas soldiers until we found what Irons plans were. "This is fucking disgusting" Mitchell commented "Irons is insane" I say before moving into another room and clearing out that. We had made it to a WarBird now going to meet Ilona and Cormack and me trying to reach base. "Sentinel 2-1 thought we lost you soldier" I hear one of the people on the mic say "Listen Irons is planning to launch a Manticore attack in two hours!" I stared to lose control of the WarBird as and S.A.T was firing at it "Hold on!" I yell to Mitchell before impacting with the ground and debris of the WarBird. I crash into my injured arm "fuck" I curse out and hold my arm but I know I need to find Mitchell which wasn't a problem because he fell nearby.

I scramble over to him "You ok?" I ask and he nods but I jump back seeing an A.S.T crumble to the ground "Mitchell hit the manual punch out" he does and climbs in the suit. He shoots most of the Atlas soldiers in our way and I take care of the stragglers. We reach the exit to where we were supposed to meet Ilona as I contacted her before the WarBird had fallen. I hear a voice off in the distance and see Keegan running over to us and aim my gun at her as she gets closer. "Leave us or I shoot!" I yell "Gideon I-" she gets cut off when Mitchell opened the heavy steal door out of the way "Bye!" I yell and roll under the door but an A.S.T shoots at our A.S.T and Mitchell gets knocked over causing me to get knocked over too.

I grunt as I hit the ground and stumble over to help Mitchell up but hear an explosion behind me which sets me off balance again. "You alright?" I ask Mitchell walking over to him but seeing Ilona driving over to us. "Hurry up" Ilona says as we go to get into the truck "How's Cormack?" I ask "In the back I'll stay with him you drive" she orders and I jog around the front of the truck and get in. "Let's pray we're not too late" I say to Mitchell as I drove.