Arisen

Prologue

2020 - 6 hours before The Flash
Toby Spark
Entry #1
Rushing around hurriedly they get into formation, prepared to lay their final strike on them. Their headquarters weren't that far from where Scott Base had been before it had been carpet bombed by the Legions Of the North. Now our final hope was attacking the heart of their empire, cunningly placed in the very crevice left by their bombshells. Hastily we move forward to the fortified walls Fort Chisel, keeping low as to camouflage with the packed snow and ice. The cold seeps through my winter standard military armour, I swear the cold gets in no matter what you try. I taste the dull plastic of the mic implanted on my back molar and hear the wind blowing at intense speeds even through my thick steel headgear. My visor flashes with plan objectives, maps of the fortress and it's surrounding terrain. That's the problem with these high tech helms, you have to focus on the field and the info on the visor, but most recruits spend weeks trying to stop themselves from getting sick from watching both screens and vomit through their helm, which isn't that nice. Suddenly a steely voice comes through my headset,
"Squad 1 in position move in and use lethal force if necessary, remember you need to get inside and destroy whatever they're creating in there, don't try to raise a red alert Ok this could turn this war around so don't screw up".
Then it's back to approaching the tunnels we've been preparing by the walls under cover for weeks, if we pull off this assault it turn this war around completely. My squad of five trail behind me as we sprint the last few meters to the tunnels. We pass through the squad out front who stiffly salute us as we descend down into the inky darkness. I hit the ground and turn on my integrated lights on my helm and combat suit. I usually complained about how stuffy these suits were but I was glad I couldn't smell what that thing in my headlights smelt. What the hell is that thing anyway, it's flesh is rotten and missing in places, limbs injured and some body parts completely missing. A sick acrid smell comes from it and it makes terribly inhuman groans and screams. I don't hesitate to shoot it straight in its ugly face. But it just pushes itself off the floor up and stares at me like nothing happened. It moves slowly but surely, staring at me with a grin Wait... There's blood on its teeth. What the hell is this. Cannibals. Some freak experiment. I'm so stuck in my thoughts I didn't notice it charge at us until it was 5 meters from me. So I kicked it and it fell down. I dropped the primed explosives in my backpack when I saw there was a thick horde erupting from the inky dark. Three of my team were already down as I desperately searched for my cryo grenades. There on my left thigh. I grab it, throw at its plug ugly face then hardcore
sprinted out of the tunnel, leaving all my explosives right under the wall. I didn't care then about the destination of the explosives, there was just too many. I shouted at the ground squad and pointed at them then out to the polar ice. I felt the explosion before I heard it, a bone shattering earthquake the pat sent off my feet and a good 20 meters forward. At least i'd out some distance between the tunnel and myself before it demolished the whole front of their hidden base. I never actually got to see the explosion though because by the time I started coming I was blinded by a great flash of light and there was that light. That light was so bright, and then I was drowning in the depths of unconsciousness.