The Void: Frozen Threat

Frozen Fighter

"Gamma we have company!" I turn at Xavier's voice seeing two trucks driving slowly down the snow covered road. 

"Everyone let's go!" I lead my team down the rocky slope hoping from rock to rock until we reach the bottom. I sprint towards the road and I hear everyone following as I take my spot in the center of the road and I draw my gun pointing it at the first cars driver.

"Stop now!" I shout and the trucks slow down and pull to a stop in-front of us.

"Xavier on me, Everyone else stay put" I start jogging until I reach the side window of the truck and Xavier stands on the other side. 

The windows of the truck go down and I see a man in a black sweat shirt and a beanie looking at me with expressionless eyes. 

"State your business and why you came this way there is nothing out here for miles" I don't raise my gun at him but I do wrap my one hand around it tightly.

"We are just passing through we have sick in the truck behind us" His voice sounds convincing but he seemed to be acting weird so I reached in and opened the door motioning for him to step out.

"I told you were just passing through!" He stepped out of the truck and aimed a gun at me and instantly my whole squad clicked off there safety's and aimed at him.

"Put the gun down now!" I yell at him in a serious voice but he doesn't lower the gun so I pull out mine and put it under his chin and give him a cold glare.

"Put the gun down man no one has to get hurt here" Xavier aims his gun at the man to and before anyone can speak the man in front of me pulls out a knife and stabs me in the chest and I fall back stunned.

Gun fire erupts instantly and the guy who stabbed me falls to the ground blood dripping from his head onto the frozen ground. I look at the other car and see that the whole windshield was littered with bullets already and if anyone survived that they would probably die from blood loss quickly. As quick as it had gone down it was over and I grabbed the knife pulling it out of my bullet proof vest. 

"Sir you alright?" The newest of my squad Patrick walks up to me and I nod standing up with ease.

"Dang why you gotta have a knife?" I spit on the man's corpse with disgust and turn to see if we had any casualties I see nothing till I look at Xavier and see our team's medic kneeling beside him and I quickly run over to him.

"What the hell happened?" I look at the doctor and Xavier and see that Xavier is holding a wound in his chest which blood is gushing from even some has gotten past his hand which was covering the wound.

"The damn passenger shot him....I don't think he can make it" The doctor whispers the last part to me and I am instantly stunned.

"T-there is no need....to w-whipser....I know i'm gonna die...." Xavier struggles to finish his sentence and he smiles weakly blood dripping from his mouth.

"Help me move him outta the way so the guys can clean this mess up" I grab Xavier under his upper back and lift him while the doctor grabs his legs and we move him under a tree which has no snow under it.

"I'm sorry ca-ptain...I failed you..." Xavier's voice was only a whisper at this point and I started to feel guilty knowing this could have been avoided.

"No it wasn't your fault" I finish and look up seeing he has already stopped breathing. I stand up and walk over to another tree and start hitting it with my hands over and over again splitting open my knuckles in the process.

"What should we do now?" The medic asks me and I turn with the calmest face I could show him.

"Prepare him for burial...bring him back to camp and if you need help get one of the guys to help you...I'm heading back" I leave before he can respond and I head towards camp swerving around trees covered in ice and snow.

I walk by a tree with a yellow mark on it and notice that I'm crossing through one of the more dangerous paths to head back to camp. I just shrugged pulling out my knife and cleaning it while I walked getting closer to camp every step I took. I rounded a tree and heard groans to my left and I turned watching three Infected walk out of the dead bushes. I headed towards the infected and before I got there I tripped over a root and fell. I struggled to get unstuck and by the time I got unstuck one infected lunged for me but I dodged it and it fell face first on the root. I brought back my foot and smashed it's head in on the log. I then looked for my knife spotting it behind the other Infected and I began to think it was over as I backed up slowly. Just as the infected lunged for me two arrows flew over my head and took out the Infected and both fell into the snow turning the white powder a sickly red color. I turn around seeing Alex and One both laughing. 

"I swear you to are like brothers" I roll my eyes walking over to pick up my knife.

"No we just understand each other" One laughs a bit more and Alex just smiles 

"Hey I'm gonna go track that rabbit I'll try to wait for you!" Alex runs off towards the far bushes 

"Man I swear you guys are connected or something because your always hanging out" I look at One and he scratches the back of his head a bit and I frown knowing he was hiding something. I folded my arms showing I wanted to know what was up.

"Well here is the thing Alex and I didn't wanna tell anyone but were you know....." One was red in the face and I understood fully. Both of them were very strong and liked in the group but what he told me might offend some people because they both for sure had people who like them.

"Well I knew something was up but why didn't you tell me you to were gay for each other I would have understood. Truly I would have but it is still very shocking to find out two of your best friend like each other even if they were the same gender.

"Yeah I know its weird....hey wait why do you have blood on your shirt" He looked at my shirt where I had Xavier's blood on me and I shook my head slowly and his face changed to worried and concerned.

"It is Xavier's my squad was attacked and he didn't make it" Instantly One looked devastated that another person had died. I nodded before heading back to camp and when I got there I knew the news had reached camp because everyone seemed upset and some were even crying and I knew he was important to them.

I just walked past everyone and found my way into Rainy and I's room and found Rainy sleeping so I sat on my side of the bed not wanting to sleep.

"I heard" Rainy's voice sounded sullen and I looked at her seeing she had cried recently because her face around her eyes was wet.

"Yeah I couldn't save him it's my fault he died" I felt guilty still and then I felt Rainy hug me and we stayed like this for awhile until we heard fighting outside of the room.

"Stay here" I got up and walked towards the door wanting to see what was happening and when I looked I saw something that made my eyes go wide.

Multiple people lay on the ground Grant and the rest of the medic trainees were tending to them but I saw they looked sick and not just a normal sick...but deathly sick.