Ch.25

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"And then Donut will use all our grenades to bombard the base, while we move forward in an advanced cover-fire formation."

"Got it. And nobody hurts Sister. That's my job."

"Why does Donut get to stay on the sidelines?" Simmons asks

"Because, he's got a great arm. Heh, he coulda gone pro."

"It comes from years of tossing."

"And as discussed, in the event that we are cornered and no other options exist, Donut will make sure to save at least four grenades, one for each of you. And two for Grif."

"Anyone have a preference of Frag or Sticky? Tell me now, I don't want any complaining later on." Donut asks us

"Frag. No, wait, Sticky."

Grif shurgs "Surprise me."

"It doesn't matter."

"I'm gonna change back to Frag." Simmons says changing his mind

Donut truns to Sarge "Hey Sarge, have you thought about calling for reinforcements? Like when we called for the ship."

"You mean the ship that crushed you while bringing more blue soldiers?" Grif looks at him for a second "Yeah maybe we shouldn't do that."

"It's worth a shot. They owe us one now." Sarge turns around

Radio sounds:

as Sarge speaks there's an echo in the cave "Come in Command. Are you there? Vic, are you there? Come in! Is this thing on?"

"Does anybody hear that echo?"

"Yeah, we're in a cave Simmons. Caves echo. Duh. That's how bats navigate."

"Yeah Simmons cave naturally do that."

"No, it seems like it's coming from back the way we came." Simmons starts walking off

"Simmons wait." I jog to catch up

When I catch up to him I start to hear a voice that sounds like Sarge really close

"Oh, yes, I'm still here, Vic. We need help!" He shouts

"Sarge?" Simmons asks

"Simmons, is that you?"

"Yyyes?"

"Hey, Simmons did you find the voice you heard?"

"What the- Price your there too, did you two work at Command now? When were you promoted?"

"We don't work at Command, you called me here. It looks like this monitoring equipment is interfering with our radios. Or something."

"Diabolical. Well get yer keester back here. Red Command is useless."

"There's a newsflash."

"Shut up, Grif."

"Did that order come from Command?" Grif asked sarcastically

"In fact it did. And they also ordered my foot to report up your ass on the double!"

On the screen we see Sarge runs across and beat on Grif

"I can't believe I donated organs for this fucking war."

We finally make it back to the other

"Shouldn't we rethink this plan?" Grif looks to Sarge

"Why?" Sarge asked

"Well, now that Simmons and Price has both cut us off from Command, we're attacking the enemy base with no support." He explain

"We didn't cut us off from Command." Simmons tells him

"You interrupted the radio transmission!" Grif shouts

"No we didn't. Whoever Sarge was talking with was already down in that cave. We just walked up and started talking to Sarge in the middle of it." I said

"What the fuck do you two think interrupting means?" Grif asked

"Can it, you three."

"Yeah, you're givin' me a headache." Andy says

"Andy, is that you?"

We turn to see andy

"No, I'm the other talkin' bomb. Francis. Pleased ta meet ya, ya dickhead." Andy sracstley says

"I thought you were busy helping the enemy."

"Nah, they didn't need me anymore Apparently that revived guy learned enough alien language to get by. And then it was 'what have you done for me lately?'" Andy tells us

"Hey, what was that deal they were talking about when I was all drugged out?" Grif asks

"Grif, I'm prouda you. Admitting you have a problem is the first step."

"Fuck off, Donut."

"Baby steps, Grif."

"That new alien is here to find the old one, and he revived the blue guy to help him. But then somethin' happened to him. I don't know what; started actin' all, funky."

I tilt my head "Acting funky?"

"The alien revived him."

"Yeah. They don't treat life and death the same way we do. Fact that little guy that everyone thinks-"

"We don't have time for this. Let's go, men." Sarge turns to leave

"Wait, take me with you!" Andy shouts

"Andy, we're going into battle unmanned, low on ammo, and with no support. What use could we possibly have for a bomb?" Sarge asked him

"I could always act as a lookout... or a spy... or a chef? Or you know, you could always, use me as a bomb.." Andy says as we walk away

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