A Mercenaries Fate

MIA...

Chorus 2561 0700 hours...

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dear chairman I would like to inform you of the recent events of the attack on crash site alpha. it was unsuccessful, the enemy were ready for us at a moments notice. we lost a total of 27 soldiers and 12 wounded in the firefight we recovered all we could attached to the file below is a list of our wounded/KIA and MIA along with a better detail on what happened during the mission.

back on the Torturous military personnel were working on their assigned jobs training the new recruits working on the warthogs, mongooses, and pelicans. other soldiers keeping watch over the ship engineers working on a new batch of weapons and gear. during the mist of this the ships chairman Mr. Malcom Hargrove was reading over the lists of soldiers that were on the message as Hargrove scanned the list two names stuck out to him that were in the KIA list. as the chairmen simply closed his eyes and sighed he placed down the data pad and walked from his desk were he was "F.I.L.L.I.S." Hargrove asked as he moved to the door "yes chairmen" the A.I responded as a icon appeared on the screen with numbers sporadically changing around the area of the screen "clear my Schedule something has come up which needs to be resolved" he said as he walked out of the room with hands grasped together behind his back "of course sir doing that now" the A.I said as the screen turned off leaving the data pad still on leaving open the lists of names of KIA and two names flashed on their being highlighted

SR-000613 Locus

SR-001539 Jana Celia

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Planet Chorus 2561 Crash site Alpha 10:56

on the empty battle field laid bodies blood and weapons. bodies scattered the ground rather they're intact or in pieces due to bomb detonation as military units scattered the place and medic treating wounded that survived the onslaught among the soldiers were a few standing over a body "damn...cant believe he's actually dead. L-like I mean we all knew it would happen at some point but...wow" one of the soldiers said as his helmet was off locking at the body on the ground "yeah I hear you, the guy upstairs isn't gonna be too happy about this" the other soldier said as he tapped the guy next to him common lets get to work" he said as the soldier strapped back on his helmet "wait what about the armor?" the soldier asked as he walked away "don't care leave it to the salvage crew its basically broken anyway" He mentioned as they both left leaving a suit of armor that had several peace's missing on the chest piece, forearm. and chipped helmet along with scared painting and a barely noticeable X on the helmet. but as the two left the body was soon dragged away by something unseen.

6 hours later...

'where... where am I?' locus found himself as he tried to piece together what's going on "Sam.."

a voice called out silently as Locus tried to move but was found to be unable to "Sam..." Locus heard the voice say almost like a whisper "hey Sam!" "what Felix" Came the voice from.... Felix but he was, different. suddenly everything around locus changed to a war-torn city with debris, blood, burns on the wall, fires to streets and building, and bodies littering the ground and the most notable two people sitting in a make-shift small fort made from sandbags and metal. as locus looked around he noticed what was in front of him the two soldiers Felix.. and Himself? 'what's happening' "What do you want Felix, and what have I told you about codenames, follow protocol." Locus grew annoyed with his partners antics of being reckless and oblivious to serious situations "oh common dude don't be such a pussy this war has been going on for over what 3 years now I'd figure you of all people would know when to relax a bit but I guess not. looks like I owe Sarah five credits now. Felix leaned back in his makeshift chair of rubble. as the convo was going on Present Locus was watching from the side moving his hands in front of the two 'why cant they see me. Is this, what life shows you before you die?' suddenly everything changed to a different setting, back at the temple of travel "can it be weaponized?" Felix asked curiously with Locus next to his side holding his sniper rifle "what!? No no no no no no! Well actually it varies really by weaponize really but more on that later from looking at its data and its history from what we could decipher from the text its some sort of portal a Planetary portal if you would meaning-" "meaning we could jump from world to world or something close to around the world like fucking Mario" Felix finished the technical soldiers sentence "well yes actually gold star for you but from reading what it says on the text it requires great amount of energy to function thankfully we have something for that" the soldier sounded exited from this "what you got some AA battery's or we talking Desal energy I heard that Dumbass sarge from those idiots can make a weather machine with that stuff" Felix mentioned that last part as a flashback peered in his head of the story sarge mentioned back at the canyon when he was undercover "try talking a fucking Arc Reactor iron man style power source" the soldier stated bluntly "well damn" surprising both the mercenaries then causing the world around locus to glitch and show him somewhere different. the portal the night he lost... his partner "FELIX GRAB ON" Locus said as he used his gravity boots armor ability to hold still as he held out his sniper for Felix to catch as Felix grabbed it while using his knife to support himself to Locus as he noticed he was slipping form the force "Locus I know how to Shut this down but its a one way trip I need to let go now or else your gonna fall trough with me!" Felix Yelled as Locus tried to pull his partner back "NO We are partners Felix I wont loose another good man" Locus struggled to pull back his weapon that was being used to hold Felix from being pulled into the portal "sorry Sam not this time buddy" Felix said as he removed his helmet as it was pulled into the portal as he stared at Locus "I wont be following your order this time and its Jaune by the way" He said as for the first time in a while he smiled genuinely out of happiness and not killing "I'll see you again... Friend" 'No... NO not again I cant loose again' Locus started to pant heavily as these moment played in front of him like some sort of torcher as everything around locus started to crumble and fall apart leaving him alone again surrounded by white, empty nothingness. 'no...I REFUSE' "Who the hell are you what do you want!" Locus shouted finally loosing it, as if fate was tempting him. ruining him "WHAT. DO. YOU. WANT FROM ME!" Locus shouted then fell to his knees 'this is it. this is what this is. I'm being punished, for being a soldier.... no not a soldier..... a monster' locus soon seemed as if he shut down and removed his helmet and threw it in rage as the metal helmet hit the empty ground leaving locus to hang his head low wondering what could he have done to prevent this. "really this is what gets to you damn your more of a bitch then I remember" Locus heard someone talking to him followed by footsteps as locus looked up to see who the voice belonged to only to see a kid with blond hair blue eyes and wearing medieval armor with a sword attached to his side "cant believe this you of all people get PTSD from this specific moment I'm surprised really" the boy said "what.. who, are you?" locus questioned as he looked at the boy that stood in front of him "how could you not remember me did you really forget my handsome good looks after all" the boy laughed from this as he placed his hands on his sides and smiled "Felix?..." Locus came to realize who was standing in front of him "well... not exactly I guess we never officially met my actual name is Jaune Arc. Short, Sweet, Rolls off the tongue, ladies love it. "Jaune said confidently only to be brought back down again when a persons hand was harshly placed on his shaking his body a bit "well at least WE thought back then" Locus and Jaune looked at who it was to show Felix in his signature colors. "gotta admit though we did get the ladies though not in our preferred way" Felix laughed to himself at the failed attempts to court the Schnee's heart. "what's going on why am I seeing both of you like this?" Locus asked as he stood up eyeing the two "well... that's gonna be a hard one to explain basically from the original explosion, shrapnel, and basically falling off a cliff to a hard earth ground, your body is well..." "your gonna fucking die man and what you just saw was your life's memorable moments being relived to put you at ease seeing the partner you had and seeing him go like that knowing he did something good brought happiness to you unfortunately that made you soft" Felix spoke the other half of what his younger self was getting at. after that the world started to flicker to black as locus felt pain in his side as he gripped it he pulled it away to see blood coming from it before he knew it his helmet was met with his face held by Jaune and Felix's hand "time to wake up Sam she still needs you" Jaune said as he showed a smile "go kick some ass Locus and while your at it put a bullet in Hargrove for me will ya?" Felix said as a grim was plastered on his face as his helmet was off. Locus took his helmet back and slid it back on locking it on "you bet I fucking will" Locus said as he looked at the duo "oh ho and the mans back now then..." 'wake up'