Engage

Before Sunrise

Night. Helian was treating Filak's legs, he was getting better, and soon he would be able to walk properly again.

"You feeling better?"
"Yeah, thanks a bunch... Where is Simonov?"
"I think he went to bed."
"Ah I see, plus he was dead serious on going against his country -- he had no hold back on shooting them."
"All that's left is to make Saiga teach him English, and then he is gonna be a good operator."
"Yeah."
"Do you want to go sleep?"
"No, let's stargaze. Haven't done that on a "camping trip" for a long time."
"Alright..."

...

"Filak... Do you have any interest in women?"

Filak laughed.

"I do, but me talking and communicating with you and Orsis is the most interaction with women I ever had!"
"Hmph! I'll make you have more interaction with women then!"
"W-Wait what are you doing?! P-Put me down!"

Helian pulled him in the tent and slapped him a couple of times, letting him realize that all this time this counted as interaction with women.

Later, they slept in the tent. Rustling and talking could be heard. Filak opened his eyes and quietly grabbed his looted KEDR-B, and quietly looked out - 3 silhouettes.

"DONT MOVE!"

The 3 looked at the KEDR-B, and put their weapons down, as Filak crawled out. Filak grabbed his flashlight and shined it on them.

"Oh, it's you?! What are you doing here?"

Filak tried getting up, as Orsis came to him and helped him up.

"We found you, it seems."
"How did you find us though?"
"Drones - we spied on you during your "ambush"."
"Ah, a classic technique!"

Filak gave Damler a fist bump, and Saiga a handshake.

"Filak?? What's going on out there?"
"Wait, is that Helian?!"

Saiga peeked inside, "Steyr" already put her shmaska on, getting out.

"Oh, you're not Helian, are you?"

Helian stood up near Filak.

"I am not your "Helian" or whatever, I am Steyr, and I am a rogue lost soldier that-"

Filak snatched Helian's shmaska off.

"You're only Steyr for me, but for them you're the infamous Commander Helian."
"O-Oh..."

Helian blushed a hot pink.

"So that's where she went huh? She went on a solo and saved Filak? What about the third guy?"

Filak put the folded shmaska on Helian's head as she took it off of her head and went back in the tent.

"Oh, he's a guard we captured. He was the guy with the grenade launcher - says he hates his country and so began shooting with us."

Helian yelled out of the tent.
"SAIGA IS GONNA TEACH SIMONOV ENGLISH!"
"I was just about to say that I'm gonna teach him..."

Damler laughed a bit.

"Is the guy asleep?"

Filak nodded, adding: "I should wake him up, we gotta get back to base ASAP before any more russies come over."
"Well we got a jeep, so if you need anything to transport - we got space."

Orsis said, sitting down. Simonov woke up, and Damler gave everyone big backpacks that could fit all the stuff they looted from the destroyed base.

"There it is. There's our jeep, we parked it in foliage and then climbed up on foot, there we used our drone."
"Nice parking, Orsis." Filak said that with a smug tone.
"Thanks, but Damler was the driver."
"Ah, I see."

Everyone laughed a bit at that.

"Тут враги рядом! Я их слышу..." (There are enemies nearby! I can hear them..)
"Alright, get down everyone, enemies nearby."

Everyone got down in the bushes, hiding themselves. There was Spetznaz walking down, looking at the destroyed base and the destroyed jeeps with dead bodies. They were taking pictures.
"Do we engage them..?"
"No, they're spetznaz. Special forces. IF we engage them, we'll get blown up by an RPG in no time. We should just try to bail, there's a sharp right after this."
"Filak is making sense, as always. But I think Orsis should drive, she's good at driving."
"Alright, let's quietly get in."

Ignition, the engine revved up as Filak got in the turret, and turned it to the back side, and they drove out as Filak began shooting in order to make them useless against them.
"2 APCs, GET THE ANTI-TANK!"
"Orsis, drive around a bit and get away from our base! They can't know our location!"

Orsis nodded, turning on "Highway to hell" on speakers, as she began drifting as Filak and Damler fought off the Jeeps. Saiga was reading a book and Simonov was pretty amazed at how the people who didn't participate in anything were calm.

"А капитан Сайга, у вас так каждый день...?" (Captain Saiga, is your daily life like this?)
"Поверь, бывает по активнее." (Trust me, could be more intense.)

Simonov got surprised and sat back, as Damler next to him was peeking out of the window, and shot a rocket. The car shook a bit and a loud explosion was heard with a flash among the dark night.

"ONE DOWN! THEY STOPPED CHASING US! GET BACK ON TRACK, ORSIS!"

Damler got back in, laughing like a madman, as Filak also laughed a bit, Orsis did an another drift back to base.

...

"What the fuck happened here..."

The base was in ruins. There was a Russie flag among the rubble, waving lightly, as some spotlights watched it. Filak got off and followed Helian.

"Did we skip something...?"

Damler and Saiga got off, Saiga told Simonov to stay inside for his own safety...

"Hey, the dust is still up a bit, this rubble is fresh..."

They could see a person getting covered by a huge rock, he seemed dead.

"It's a soldier! Get that rock off of him!" Helian ordered, as everyone ran to save him, and performed CPR on him. He woke up, coughing.

"Private, you okay?!" Helian got him some water, and made him drink, as he stopped coughing.

"C-Commander... We got destroyed... Spetznaz bombing.."
"Where is everyone?!"
"Rubble... escaped, vault... I was caught and thought I died...!"

He slowly got up, but couldnt stand.

"Get him in the van, Saiga, treat him! We will try to open the vault."
"Vault? What vault..?"

Filak was left confused as to what the vault is.
Orsis turned to Filak, and began explaining.

"The shooting range is the vault. It's door closes and blends with the metallic surface upon emergency."
"Really now-"

Filak tripped, his legs were acting up.

"Oh! You okay..?"

Helian kept going, as Orsis helped Filak up, and held him, to help him walk.

"Shit, the morphine ran out.. We gotta find Walther..."

"Yeah, don't worry.. They're close."

Helian approached the hatch, which a small outline could be seen. It was all dusty, and a part of it was in rubble.

"This right here is our objective. We have to open this, or atleast get the people inside to open..."
"Mission, start!" Orsis yelled out, as she helped Filak get on the ground without spraining his legs, and keeping herself near him.