Warfare's Final Frontier

Chapter 1 The End? Or Just the Beginning

"Have I not died?"

Looking around in visible confusion Baron Magellan (mah-jell-an) realized that he suddenly was not behind enemy lines but instead was in the middle of a large and dark hall filled with many other humans looking in sorry states. Some with a visible gunshot wound, some who had entire parts of their body seemingly smashed into concrete, some with impossibly small frames as if they hadn't eaten in months.

The reason for these people being here made sense, oftentimes you can see how you died. Suddenly, Baron frantically touched himself all over to see what had happened to him to cause him to die. Only to come to the horrifying discovery that he had a huge cavity near his chest.

At this moment he finally realized what had happened, he was in the middle of enemy fire, and when an enemy grenade suddenly found itself within his corps position. He decided to selflessly sacrifice himself and bear-hugged the grenade to save his teammates.

"Noooooooooooo" A blood-curdling emotional cry sounded out from a girl.

This voice belonged to the sniper of the team, a girl who had been ridiculed for joining what has been deemed a male-only occupation by everyone except Baron. She quickly proved everyone wrong when she consistently showed proper results over every assignment she was assigned to. Over the months the two had spent many lonely nights together behind enemy lines and gradually had developed feelings for each other. The two had just decided to give it a try when they got back to China from this deployment overseas. Her name was Roxi Blaze, and she had decided to enroll in the army when she had nothing else in her life.

Roxi Blaze (RB) "Come on Baron, you can't die like, NOT LIKE THIS" she screamed as she got to Baron's position, a couple of tears falling down her cheeks.

Baron Magellan (BM) "Haha" he weakly replied. "Looks like the heavens have other plans....for us" He continued

(RB) (sniff) "Stop talking... Medic, I need a medic" she urgently called out. Looking back at Baron "come on you can't die like this, you are amongst the best and brightest of the new Chinese generation in terms of strategies and leadership. You definitely can't die like this"

(BM) (coughing and wheezing) "Don't be angry my love, if there is a god then I will fight an army of them to return to you, please wait for me too...." He slumped over. As dead as a sandbag.

(RB) "Noooooo" She roared into the heavens as a demented expression appeared on her face. After letting go of her lover she threw down her sniper and ran to get an AK47 and bolted straight through the safety of their current position and straight into the heart of the enemy camp.

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Looking around Baron deduced that his current place was some sort of afterlife processing chamber for the dead souls. There was an endless sea of people in front and behind him and he realized that there wasn't anything else in his vision. The only thing he could think of to do at this moment was to just go with the current of the crowd.

He continued forward for what seemed like an eternity, he finally managed to get to the front and hastily approached the person working one of an endless number of counters.

(BM) "Hello, there I just want to know...." Baron started but was startled when he saw who it was.

"R-Roxi?"