There's always been one thing I hate about skydiving. Landing. When your skydiving overall landing is the hardest part, but when you have a live animal strapped to your body it's even harder.
The ground comes charging towards me. I take a deep breath, and I hit the ground and roll. That went better than I thought it would. I look up to see Megan coming in fast to the landing zone. she hits the ground and comes off running. Show off. About three seconds later beans is flying towards me. He hits the dirt and abruptly falls on his face.
"Nice," I say from the boulder I'm using as a judging platform, " I give ha a 2 outta 10."
"Oh bug off." he says
Loki and I scout out the area around the landing site.
"All clear, for now." I say. "We gotta get moving I say Loki and I will take point beans your in the middle and Megan take rear." I order
"Who made you the boss" beans mumbles
"Okay what do you wanna do beans." I say, heck, he's just as authorized as I am.
"Oh I'm fine with what you said I just wanted to be in charge." he laughs
"You now technically he's in charge." I say pointing at Loki, he gives me a smile that makes us all laugh.
We run out of the landing area with me at the front, then beans and Megan covering our buts.
We're huffing it when suddenly Loki stops. My sense go into overdrive. Maybe if I concentrate I can hear something, I think to myself.
There's a rustle in the leaves behind us. We all hear it and Megan unloads into a bush.
"Cease fire!" I yell. Man it feels weird for me to be saying that.
She stops and looks into the bush. there's a guy full of holes with a sniper rifle, complete with a silencer, by his side. Idiot was trying to sneak up on us.
"Think this'll be useful?" Megan says
"Yeah take it and blow some ISIS heads off while your at it." I say.
Our objective for the mission was to eliminate the main encampment on this island and get the heck out. The get the heck out part is gonna be harder since our rescue is leaking fuel over the desert. We start walking towards the middle of the island where the base is located. After about thirty minutes of peeing ourselves as we walk through the jungle, we see a group of tents acting as a forward operating base for the terrorists.
"Ok, Megan you set up, me, Loki and beans are gonna go tent by tent and clear em out as quite as possible, you cover our buts if any of em come outside." I say.
We all nod then I head out to the left side of the base and Joe takes the right while megan hunkers down in the grass. This is never gonna work.
I enter the first tent, and two guys stare back at me with wide eyes. Loki jumps on the first one and I jab my combat knife into the other guys neck, its gruesome. After I'm done gagging I see that Loki has taken care of the other guy. I step outside and see three guys dead on the ground. Megan's pretty good at this. I go into the next tent no guys. Next tent I'm greeted by a fist to the face. I pull my knife to my chest as the guy dives on me. I see his eyes widen as his heart goes right through the knife. He's dead. Outside two more guys are on the ground. We should give her a sniper more often. Next two tents are empty. the last tent is next and it's the biggest, which means the most guys are probably in it. I signal Megan, whose somewhere in the grass, almost completely invisible. I see her jump up and run towards me. joe pops out of the last tent on the right side. I signal them that I want to go on three. We all pull out our M-9's and prepare for the fight ahead. Three, two, one. We burst into the tent and thirty guys greet us, half of them armed. Loki charges into the crowd.
"Cover Loki!" I yell as chaos breaks loose.
Loki jumps onto an armed soldier and rips the gun from his grasp. without thinking I shoot the guy whose right next to him with his sights set on Loki. I leap into cover and the firefight rages on.I shoot until my hands go numb, then I keep on firing. Finally all I can hear is the sound of our own guns, and I call beans and Megan off.
"Loki!" I call.
He pops out of the mess of bodies. Nothing moves. There is no sound. just silence. And that's how it stays for a while, all of our minds stuck in a state of silence.
