I walked unnoticed through the halls, my feet moving in absolute silence. My focus where everywhere at once. On everything at a single time.
This mission would be the one to get the Chancellor discovered. It would be the last Kenya block taken out before the tower fell, and the whole this rested on my back. I had to seem loyal until the officers here catch us. I had alerted them we were coming already, so they were waiting for us, but if I did anything but my best the Chancellor would know.
The hard thing is, there's none guarding the room. That means I have to kill someone.
I walked up to the labeled door and pressed my back against the wall.
"I'm outside of the room. Should I attack?" I questioned the communications room hopefully.
"Yes. She will be in there."
I let out a slow breath before holding my gun up and kicking the door in. The heavy wood door flew off the hinges and clattered loudly to the floor.
I glanced around the room. It was almost identical to a prison cell. There was a bed in one corner, and a sink in the other, but nobody was in there.
"She's sneaky. Check the bed, but don't leave the door open. Get Delta for help," the Chancellor's voice growled angrily.
"Delta is preoccupied. Everyone is making sure no guards approach my position."
"Flip the bed and shoot," she demanded.
I winced as I slowly walked over to the bed. It was made with green and white striped blankets. There was a single pillow at the head of the bed.
I reached down and grabbed the metal headboard and yanked the bed over, sending it clanging against the wall.
There was a young girl curled in a ball on the concrete floor.
I aimed the gun at her head which was tucked carefully under her arms.
"Don't hesitate. Shoot now."
She glanced up slightly and instantly I felt something pang in my chest.
The girl ho looked up at me looked exactly like Sigma, but just a little older and with a black hair.
"Sigma?"
She looked up at me.
"DROP THE GUN," a soldier barked behind me.
I turned suddenly and ducked as a bullet ricocheted off the wall noisily.
As the soil diet jumped and covered their face I lifted the gun up and shot, hitting them directly in the chest.
"End her. Now."
Voices chirped in my ears as I pointed he gun at her.
"Please," she whispered staring at me with the same sea foam eyes as Sigma. Even her cheeks had the same pink shade.
She bit her lip as my hands shook. I could kill, don't doubt me. I could kill and I have killed. I've just never had to kill my friends. I had never had to kill someone I knew well, and had watched grow up.
She put her hands up over her face and shook as she pushed her back against the wall.
"Wait... please," she pleaded.
"Take of your helmet? I'm not... trying anything. I just- I just need to know. Know who it is," he voice shook almost as much as her body.
I slid my gun into the holster and slowly pulled my helmet off my head and rested it on the ground in front of me.
A smile lit up her face. Her lips peeled back to reveal her teeth as she reached slowly up and touched my face lightly with her finger tips. My fingers clutched my gun tightly.
"Janie," she breathed touching her lips lightly.
"Can you tell her... me... the one who- who looks like me? Can you tell her... tell her that her other half says hi, tell her Ellie says hi," she pleaded. The smile left her face as I crouched and lifted my helmet from the ground.
I placed it back on my head and slowly pulled the gun out.
"It's not Sigma," I hissed to myself. I pinched my eyes closed and pointed the gun at her head. My hands shook as I let out a slow breath.
"Please. Please can you just tell her? Tell her to... to find my family. You will make it out I promise just tell her to find my family. Ple-"
Her words were silenced by a gunshot. My gun clattered to the floor as her body laid, disfigured by death, on the concrete floor.
"WE ARE GETTING OUT OF HERE. ZETA ARE YOU STILL FREE?" I heard Psi yelling into my headset.
I sniffles before responding.
"Yeah I'm still here. Are we getting out?"
I heard static on the other line as my brain processed his sentence. We had succeeded. Delta had been taken custody of when I pointed her towards the cafeteria. Hopefully Iota had been taken in as well, but help had arrived too quickly. Too quickly to get him too.
"Yeah. Meet in the courtyard. I'm holding them off but they don't seem to be shooting. There's a helicopter."
"Coming," I barked jogging out of the room.
I left behind the girl that looked exactly like Sigma. The girl who had sounded like Sigma. In a few years Sigma might look like that. In a few months even. How would I be able to look at her everyday knowing... knowing that I practically shot her? I shot someone identical to her. Not only that, but she hasn't finished her sentence. I hadn't even let her finish her sentence.
I stepped into the courtyard and saw the helicopter landed.
I glanced at a bunch of guards aiming guns at Psi who was looking around.
I signaled to the guards with two fingers a small circle as I jogged towards Psi.
"Zeta they aren't shooting. Why aren't they shooting?" He grabbed my arms as We met halfway across the courtyard.
Suddenly bullets started shooting from the guns. I knew that they weren't aiming for us, but Psi didn't.
I hurried him towards the helicopter. Although I knew what life out here was like, and I wanted him to be free, I also knew that if we were rescued he would be killed, and so couldn't do that to a person that everyone needed much more than they would admit.
I shoved him into the helicopter as a bullet ripped through my calf.
I crouched and grabbed my leg tightly. I pinched my eyes closed as the stinging pain spread through my lower left left.
"ZETA," Psi held his hand out to me.
I slowly reached for it and pulled back when a gun sounded and the Bullet hit the helicopter.
Without warning the helicopter jolted and took off, leaving me in the dusty courtyard as Psi reached for me.
