The Virus

chapter one

July 2076
Old Mexico

Silence....that's it. That's all. Nothing. Well exept for tanks annoying snores. I was going to say something to him about it but then remembered what happens to weasel so I dicided against it.

I looked at my watch 1:23 am. I never really understood the 24 hour clock so in secret with the help of scrap was able to use 12 hour instead.
"Hey twitch comer a sec" the voice made me jump. "Scrap?" I asked "what are you doing" "I need to show you something" he replied. I got out of my bunk carefully trying not to wake tank. Last time I woke him up I had to give up my food rations for a week. "Do it again and it's a month" he snarled. I successfully got out of my bunk and walked to scrap.

"What did you want to show me" I asked. He looked at me with the look he always has when he's up to something. "What did you do this time" I asked with a concerned look on my face. "You havent eaten in awhile...there's a deer awhile away from here walking distance bring your sniper and silencer" he said. so I put the two together and went back to scrap about half way across camp I bumped into someone I wish hadn't.

"The fuck are you doing out here" sarge snarled. Sarge really isn't a sarge but he's sure an asshole so that's what we called him. "Umm well you see I saw a deer and I didn't eat in awhile so.." I was cut short when I looked into sages eyes. "Your not on night watch what where you doin out here" he yelled "if you don't give me the truth I'll teach you a lesson" my mind was racing. No one likes getting into trouble with sarge not even tank and he's twice as big.

"Well if you want the truth" I said "I was in bed but I heard a noise outside of the bunker and me being curious went to go check it out and saw a deer and dicided to go hunt it for tomorrow's dinner" sarge looked me up and down trying to see if I was lying or not. Guess he dicided not to argue anymore "well been awhile since we had decent meat" he said. This is true because all we've had was spam and corn. The corns good but the spam was over done and over cooked it was always burnt you'd have to be first in line for any good meat. "Make it quick" he said "and tell scrap that if you are caught again he's in trouble" I was taken be surprise "but...how...how did.." I stammered couldn't get the words out " I saw him come get you I dicided to stay low and see what's going on" and with that he turned and lefy into the bunker to work on his hummer.

"He knew about me getting you?" Scrap asked. We where walking down a road towards the deer. "Ya it surprised me too" I said. He slunched against a tree. "are we here?" I asked
He chuckled a bit "not even close" he reached into his pocket and grabbed a carton of cigarettes and offered me one I took it. "We still have a while to go" he said as he handed me a match "so let's take a break" I took a puff and felt a little better. My wife dosent know I smoke she thought I quit. I feel bad for smoking behind her back. "I told sarge I would bring it back with us for tomorrow's dinner" I said. Scrap looked up at the sky.

"Not a bad idea getting sick of spam"
My stomach growled. I looked around as we smoked and saw something In the distance it was a camp fire. "Scrap look at that" Scrap spun around and the color drain from his face "can I see your rifle for a sec?" I handed him my rifle. He looked and he handed it back. He looked at me and handed me my gun a reached for his ak-78 not really your standard gun really just a modded one extended clip suppressor many more "radio camp.....actually no don't do that let's take them out quickly and efficiently" he said. We quietly ran towards the base. I suddenly stoped in my tracks and crouched. Scrap turned around and looked at me "what are you doing comon" I looked up at him "night watch...look" he turned and crouched as well. "How many do you figure is there" he asked. "Probably about five" I said "might be some in the trees" he looked around "take em out" I looked at him surprised "how their to close together" he looked up at the sky "ok then we will just attack take I'm by surprise" I scouted the area with my scope "no theirs to many to surprise we will have to take them out without our guns" he nodded his head and we moved forwards luckily three of them fell asleep we took out the two that where awake then we took out the one asleep. For some reason scrap was packing explosives. "Really scrap where did you even get those" he looked at me shocked "get what I dint have anything. Here place these around the outer side of the camp" I did what was asked. As I did so I saw one of the guards but he was still breathing. Scrap didn't kill him. He looked at me and said "help me" his eyes started to water. "please kill me u don't want the flames to torture me" that's one of the terrors of war they don't tell you about. I grabbed my knife. "I'm sorry" I said quietly.

We walked away from the camp and scrap looked at me and handed me the charge. "Here you do it" I pushed the remote back at him "no you do it" he shrugged "alright well he go's" he pressed the button and the entire camp was gone. We walked back to camp. When we got there sarge came running out "you too ok?" We where taken by surprise he never asked that. "We heard an explosion" Scrap smiled "Ya as we where heading towards the deer and saw an enemy camp so we took em out ain't that right twitch" I looked down "Ya right" I walked back to my bunk and laid down ready for the morning to come.