Mist

Survival Rate

We make it out of the prison with no trouble. Serdityy knows they'll track some weapons and items, so he throws them on the ground. He keeps some supplies that he uses to build a makeshift radio and contact nearby service bases. After a long period of running and him connecting to many bases, he signals us to follow. We run as much as we can to the Vendetta base near here. From what Serdityy knows.

We travel fast and naked. Serdityy cleans our trail and makes us roll in the dirt a lot. The Empiric human soldiers here seem to know how to get away properly. They all sound like Serdityy.

When we finally make it to the base, they're in mosh position with shields as the 1st wave. Serdityy scans all the shields, locks on one, and sprints towards it. We have been walking all day in the cold, wet ground, naked. How can he still have the energy to sprint? We all try to catch up to him. By the time I get to him with my bad limp, most of our group is spread across the field. All the shields move and let us through...

We are welcomed and given clothing. One by one, we're put in white rooms in order of how mentally messed up we look. Like if you're shaken up, you're put at the end of the line. If you're preventing yourself from blinking because of sights you've seen and scared of any sound higher than a decibel of 8, you're the first to go in the white room.

I was shaken up, so I don't go. I receive intensive care that made me go to an even happier place than when I was hitting that lizard man. Serdityy doesn't receive any treatment because he wasn't shaken up at all or injured. It kind of confuses me.

I soon learn that Serdityy is the best of the best. He has been in more prisons than everybody else in Empiric history and escaped all of them. He knows every building design from every species. He knows how many guards are in the place depending on the planet, size of the base, and what they're dealing with in war. He knows each and everything they inject or do to humans by heart. But that isn't even his job, he is just a normal military officer.

I learn this from the Empiric human sitting by me in the care ward. He tells stories like how Serdityy broke out of a prison once that only held him. He likes to get captured for the sport. He hasn't been tortured in 30 years because he's really good at acting like he got tortured or escapes before he even gets tortured. He's amazing.

The doors of the care ward blast open. Serdityy barges in and laughs confidently. Then, he lifts his hands to the air in triumph and everybody in the room cheers; even the ones who can't cheer try to show some type of cheering. He's dressed in a weird general outfit. It's grey with multicolored dots his arms and odd golden patches adorn his shoulders and wrists. His belt is also golden and he's sporting fancy boots.

He takes stock of the room and shouts, "Does anyone know where I can find a Warrior human who talks in third person a lot?" The Empiric human soldier points to me. Apparently, I do that. He rushes up to me, grabs my face, and yells "Wow! You made it! Those doctors told me it was a risky procedure; only 1% of people make it!".

"I just took pills," He sits down next to me and says, "So... what do you think of me?" I thumb up. He looks at me, confused. He leans in and whispers (so closely that droplets of spit hit my cheek), "I pulled some strings, and I'm bringing you to the biggest base in the land of Misty. I'll meet you there because they need a miracle. Since you survived that procedure, I think you are my miracle!"

I whisper back"...Why?"

He smiles, "Because I was told by my higher up I'm supposed to send the best men I have to the base. And I don't like you." I stare at him, confused. I remember him peering angrily at me a lot of times during the breakout. Apparently, he doesn't like my humor or my ideas about how in the universe it's possible to have a water source that tastes like cheese. No, he didn't like those strange ideas. He's super smart, the type of smart where stupid humor is annoying. But, he also has a caring heart and cares for people. Including me, even though I annoy him.

He moves my bed and I squirm around in pain trying to get out. He says, "A huge fucking force is coming to this here place, so guess what?" He leans closer and says, "I'm going to get caught again, this time hopefully finding someone who's nice enough to say their name," before pushing me into a hallway. Several armored humans grab my bed. I gape at them as they wheel me to a decently sized airship and push me in.