The Truth About The Universe : The Coup | TATU |

12 : The Deserters

Higson also took his shotgun and shot another guy who was with him, soon we saw 7 guys running down the hallway towards us, "GO GO GO! RUN!", Sam yelled. I carried Texas on my shoulder like baggage and ran like hell skipping 3 steps on the escalator which was already moving.

I heard the men start taking shots, Higson had helped Vadar get up and run, we reached the ground floor, more of them show up.

"DOWN, DOWN, BEHIND THE SEATS! LET'S GO!", Sam yelled again. I ran and then pounced on the floor laid Texas beside me, unhooked the M16 from my backpack and started shooting the 3 guys behind us. Killed all of them in 3 rapid successions of burst rounds. Sam and Higson were shooting the front guys, while Vadar....

"What are you doing start aiming that M4 at them, we need to get out of here!", I said with urgency.

" I... umm... sorry.. ", Vadar replies, then stands up taking shot, kills 4 of them, standing beside each other.

"NICE", Sam yelled.

They were shooting, but not aiming, something was wrong, they weren't shooting to kill us, this was suppressing fire...

A moment later Texas, Higson and Vadar fell down,I looked around to see 3 guys grappling down from the ceiling of the airport, which was above the 3rd floor... "That's it boys! Calm down now! We don't want any more people hurt or killed.", one of them yelled. "You killed around 10 of us, we killed three of you, not equal, but we'll have to make do... now which of you is Preak, eh? Hopefully not one the three we killed, hehe", he said after he reached the ground floor.

They were dead? How were we so careless? What are we.... everything went blank for a moment, it was white, not like when I'd go unconscious, I could move and feel, I just couldn't see or hear, I was being dragged around...

***

I heard Enter's barks they were soft, I was thrown somewhere, somewhere with a cusion, I was in a car, our van? Soon I regained sight and could hear.

"Sorry about that, should have given you a heads up, I had a flash bang, Iused it, covered myself so we could escpae, used a smoke grenade too, shot wildly, stuck the trigger and threw the gun in the opposite direction, I didn't know I could outsmart them... at least the 3 of us and Enter got away, I'd already taken Tyler on my back and dragged you along with my hands.", Sam said as he drived. I was in the passenger seat, too shocked to say anything.

"I know you might be thinking, how'd I manage to think and execute all that in an instant?", he said.

"No... No I di...", I said but he interrupted me.

"I do not know how either! It's funny right? Some kind of power surged through me! It was really weird and exiting, it was like someone was guiding me! Have you ever felt like that?", Sam asked.

"Ugh, I don't know, maybe?", I said, my head still a mess.

"You don't look so good... do you feel alright? I think you should rest a bit...", Sam said.

"Yeah, I think I should rest for a bit... Where are we headed exactly... ", I asked as I started to climb out of the passenger seat, to the back of the van.

"To Bonge, you know to find the president... we've nowhere else to go do we...", Sam said.

I somehow regained my sense and it hit me... "Wait, we left everybody else there?! He said he killed three of ours? Who was he, and are Vadar, Higson and Texas really dead?!", I exclaimed.

"Yeah... we should be content having our lives, that guy who killed them, he asked which one of us was Preak, I think, its related to the dark web, because it was your phone through which we used the dark web first, well it could be something else too.", Sam said.

"No! No! Stop the car... turn around! We have to help them, I mean are you sure they're dead?", I said with urgency.

"They... they looked pretty dead to me alright!", Sam yelled.

"Stop. The. Car. Vadar is my brother, I am not leaving him.", I said almost breaking down. He kept accelerating. "You need some time to cool your head, Preak... ", he said.

He was right. I laid back in my seat and though of the good time, before the Coup...

***

The men the robes came back, it was that dream again...

"Let's get started! Let's get to building our new home on Nexus 23!", one of the men shouted.

"Nexus 23? What is Nexus 23? And where is this?", I spoke, I just thought that but it spelled out.

"Sorry, Preak's a little... he's a little out of it, he's not feeling well, the explosion must have shaken him up a bit", another one of them standing beside me said, he was the one who was crying in the last dream.

"We should make a bed for him, for he is the one who led us, he is the one who showed us all the way!", the first man said triumphally. "Get to building a comfortable place for Preak!", he said.

I must've done something great before I ended up here. A few of them walked out of the bunker, someone supported me to get out, there were three men standing, one of them was the one who gave the orders, they put their hands foward and a strange light exited from their palms, which blinded me... everything was white...

"Ah so that's where your phone was!", Sam said as he turned the flashlight off. "Oh did you wake up?"

"Yeah... what are doing with that flashlight, and why were you looking for my phone?", I asked.

"To check the dark web one last time", he said. "The we'll throw this phone away, its just my theory that they are tracking us using this very phone."

"Ugh... fine, but first, where are we right now?", I asked.

"Orma, we are back where you started.", he said.