My name is John Cage, formerly Captain. I no longer serve under the Alliance Earth military as a soldier, or a leader. As of now, I am dead. I'm forced to confront my past and the events leading up to this moment as I sit here with a gun to my head. My dog tags lay on the ground next to me, I'm ashamed to look at them. The things I've done, the people I've killed. I deserved death more than any of them, and now I can give myself death. I hear their whispers, angry whispers telling me to pull the trigger but I can't... I want to savour this moment, I deserve the torment.
Some say that war is hell, but hell is war... I've cast my own hell over Mars and I sit here, punished, beaten and gone. Far gone now, to the real Hell, where a devil like me belongs.
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Mars on Fire
Science FictionThis is the prologue to a new story I'm going to do, about war. This is inspired by Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. About the realities of war and the effect it has on soldiers.
