Chimera Project

I don't really have a name for this yet other than Chimera Project. I've been working on it for about a month now. For now I'll post part of the prologue and see how people react to it. But before that I'll give you a bit of the background on this story. I had a dream one night about this and it was a very spread out dream, it skipped a lot of parts or I just can't remember those parts. I normally have odd dreams like this but for some reason I liked this particular one more than the others so I began to write down as much as I could remember from the dream and I piled it together and I've tried to come up with a story for it.

Prologue:
Running in fear, screaming for mercy, and begging to god for forgiveness in those last seconds before death, these have become daily activities for those surviving humans of Earth. A constant unavoidable occurrence for those human everywhere, no place is safe. No longer do humans worry about things like 3rd world countries starving, or being on the brink of war, or tensions between civilians. Those days are over and long gone, not soon to return. Ever since that day, the Earth and all of its denizens have never been the same. No one could have ever predicted something of that caliber occurring on Earth. No one thought the annihilation of all life on Earth was possible till that day. The day that the reality we once knew died a painful death and the day the hellish reality we live in now was born.

It was the eve before the New Year of 2012, and all were celebrating and excited for the New Year. Many were getting drunk in anticipation for the New Year and the opening of the new space station that Italy had built, hoping to catch the first shuttle up there to celebrate the world entering into a new regime of peace. A war of inexplicable horror had just ended a month ago. The last of the world’s nations troops were returning home to their families. The New Year looked to be a year of peace and hope. One the Earth had needed for a long time. It was a night of new happenings among the stars too. For several new asteroids were thought to be caught by the Sun’s orbit and were to pass by Earth that night.

But scientists began to notice a strange occurrence in the asteroids a few hours before the ball in Time’s Square was to drop. It seemed as though the comets path had changed was closing in on Earth. But the governments of the world overlooked it merely saying that they wouldn’t reach Earth, they would only pass by it as planned but just closer than first thought. But they were unaware of the fact that the comets were actually adjusting their course to instead pass by the Earth, like first thought, but to actually collide with the Earth.

The world was in awe as the countdown had reached the final seconds before the New Year began. And right as the ball struck one second till, the world felt the impact of several asteroids landing on the surface of Earth some landing in the ocean, others landing all over the globe. The shock waves were massive but at the same time damaged nothing. The world stood in shock at what had just occurred. Children cried and held onto their parents, dogs snarled and showed their fangs, animals all over went berserk, all in complete fear, all while young adults to senior citizens knew nothing. Nature knew what was about to occur but had no time to ready itself of the inevitable onslaught that was to come.

The next day while people were drinking their hangovers away the World’s governments sent out researchers to the areas of the crashes. Yet found nothing for days, not even signs of an asteroid, as if they had disappeared into thin air. All that was left was the crater from the crash. The World was dumbfounded at the incident, but eventually was put behind them, but many still questioned what exactly had happened that night. Several months later, 8 to be exact and on my 17th birthday, the Earth was given the answer to the question it had been asking. What a horrible birthday gift Fate has given to me I thought.

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I'm still working on this story but thank you for taking time out to read it.

I have some time on my hands before I go to work today so I thought I'd post the rest of the prologue for anyone who's read the first part.


Part 2 of the prologue:
I watched as several ghoulish and horrible looking creatures ripped civilians apart on a live television segment on the first resolution to world’s energy crises being decided upon in Tokyo, Japan. They ranged in size from the size of a soccer ball to five times the size of a common tank. Most that had been seen that day on live television had fangs and claws sharp enough to tear through concrete buildings and tanks like they were butter. It was so easy for them to kill us that it was a full grown Siberian tiger playing with a field mouse.

They cut many people up into pieces and devoured them; some of them even skipped the first step of killing, and just swallowed them whole with their giant gaping jaws. It was like something out of a five star horror movie, except real. There were no special effects or dummies or computer graphics, they were real and so were the deaths of those people that had died that day. And over the next few days, attacks on cities all over the world aired on the television constantly. It seemed as though the death count never stopped but continued to rise with every minute that went by.

The horror the world felt was shared by all. Even in the onslaught, humans tried their best to band together and defend themselves against the creatures. For two and half months all of the Earth’s nations tried their best to stop the creatures but nothing seemed to stop the waves of their attacks. Soldiers would kill one and five more would replace it. They seemed unstoppable, many fled to the space stations hoping that they couldn’t reach them. Eventually the United Nations felt that the only way to stop the creatures were to use nuclear warfare on them. And so the ban on nuclear weapons was dropped and so began the world’s first victory over the creatures. But at a high price, environments were destroyed and many people died due to radiation. But we all felt that was fine as long as we survived.

All that mattered then was the survival of the human race. Racism, sexism, bigotry, all things that had once separated and kept humans apart disappeared with our need to survive. We began to feel over confident as the year was coming to an end, we again began to celebrate. It looked as though we had won; as the attacks had stopped even the creatures themselves began to disappear like they had before.

As the winter holidays came so did hope, hope they we had won and the world could find a way to recover. But again that hope was crushed. On December 24th, Christmas Eve, the news reported that the creatures had suddenly returned and several hundred million were on their way to cities and towns all across the globe. The world prayed that night, praying for victory. But Nike herself had chosen those creatures over us.

The world’s nations were all confident in their ability to win. And to prove just how much they believed that we could win, they had news stations near the battle fields airing live feed from the sites. At first nothing was seen, it was mostly just generals talking to the people assuring them that they could win. My family and I huddled together in the living room.

We watched as General Alexander, a tall heavily muscled and tanned fellow, spoke about how he had fifteen planes flying over every major city in the United States ready to drop atom bombs, hydrogen bombs and nuclear bombs at his command. I wasn’t sure what to think, all I did was stare at Alexander’s monocle and goatee and snicker. None of us knew what to think; we all just waited patiently, no one spoke we all just stared.

The fear was easily seen in each of us. And then we saw it the first live feed of the creatures in months. They looked just as terrifying as before but something was different. The creatures had new features as though they had evolved in those past few months. Many sporting new horns, thicker shells of armor, different colors from before and some even had new appendages like tails, instead of just being grey with various claws on them, they were as different as humans, all looked similar but not the same.

Something had happened and the world saw it. But did General Alexander care? Nope, he went on to say “Having different colors won’t stop our victory over those vermin”, and so with that being said he ordered the attack and destruction of all of the creatures. We watched as the camera crews switched over to the crews close to the planes watching as they took off towards the creatures. Bombs dropped on the creatures and we all watched the television not blinking, just waiting.

General Alexander was so confident that he opened a bottle of chardonnay and poured himself a glass, while chuckling and saying how superior we were. But the world froze as we watched in horror as the creatures walked unscathed from the blasts as though they were nothing but a breeze of wind. General Alexander was so flabbergasted that he poured the entire bottle into his glass overflowing it, his large jaw dropped in amazement of what he saw on the battle field.

I couldn’t help myself but to laugh a little. I mumbled, “So much for being a five starred general with several medals, your reputation just went to Hell, General.” But fear immediately took over afterwards. The last hope of humanity had failed, and as the world fell apart so did communication between countries.

No country was safe, not the United Kingdom, not Japan, not Australia, not even the once proud nation of the United States. And as the networks failed the last thing we heard over the TV was that the creatures had been given the name Chimeras for their rapid evolution, “A fitting name to creatures as horrible as these” I thought.

And the last thing that was heard was also the thing that destroyed what we believed to ever be our hope of defeating the Chimeras, the White House had been attacked and the President and all of his cabinet and officers were dead. The United States was without a leader, without representation. And that’s where Hell became a paradise to us. The Chimeras seemed to disappear again for a time, but hope was still lost. Gone to the wind, and none of us believed it would ever return.

@Ragtag

uh.. can you separate other words with space..? it makes me confused to read. it'll be better if you put a space,that makes me easier to read

Oh yeah sorry about that, I've been really busy lately with family and trying maintain my job. So I haven't been able to edit it much lately. But I went through a major editing process today and I separated everything to make it a lot easier to read. I apologize for the wall of texts, when I get inspiration for a story I get so preoccupied with furthering it that I tend to forget the spacing. =/

From now on when I post stories, I'll try to make them look cleaner.

thanks! now i can enjoy your story :D

Even though I don't know if anyone is even reading this I'm still going to post what I have to see if I can get people to read it. So here's chapter 1 titled The New Regime. Enjoy.

Chapter 1: The New Regime
As I read the diary, very slowly I began to scowl. I gripped the edges of the diary tightly, to the point where the sides began to crinkle under the pressure, until I heard the TV flicker on. In the second the TV turned on I had dropped the diary, pulled my rifle off my back turned around completely and was aiming my rifle in front of me, geared to kill anything that was out of place. My SG-35’s barrel was placed directly on someone’s forehead.

It took a minute for my adrenaline to subside before I realized that it was my friend Barry in front of me. Barry was 19 and a very odd guy in the sense that he had joined the organization around the same time I had but he came from a rich family and never really had any problems growing up, but yet here he was with me breaking into houses to look for anything that might be useful trying to ward off any chimeras for our next mission.

Barry continued to scream over and over “Wait! Don’t shoot! It’s me! Don’t fucking shoot, Ra, don’t fucking shoot!” before I realized that I still had my SG pointed at his head. Laughing I said, “Barry I swear, you have the worst timing for stuff. You’re so lucky sometimes, if you hadn’t been screaming your head off I would have squeezed off a few rounds into your forehead.”

“That’s not funny, Ra. I almost pissed myself, you ass. Now put your rifle down or at least pull the barrel away from my eye, I’d prefer NOT to see the bullet coming before I die.” Chuckling I said, “But doesn’t death seem welcoming in this day and age.”
“You’d think that death would seem like a playground compared to the hell we live in but I prefer living thanks.”
“Good answer.” I said continuing to laugh as I put my rifle back down. I picked up the diary I had dropped and handed it towards Barry, gesturing for him to take it.

“Whazis?” Barry asked.
“A diary, what’s it look like, fool? Read the last entry, it was written two days ago by a little girl who lived here with her mother.” I looked over to the TV while Barry was busy reading; Jarrod was on the news again making a speech to the public community on how he was going to help get rid of all the chimeras in Red Territory, of how he was going to unite all the territories and reform the United States to become president. “What bull” I whispered.

Jarrod was one of the dictators who took control over parts of what was once the United States of America. But now we were separated into six territories, Grey Territory, Blue Territory, Green Territory, Yellow Territory, White Territory, and Red Territory where we reside. Florida was no more; we were now part of the Red Territories’ domain. He had no actual motivation to unite the territories back into the United States or get rid of the Red Chimeras which resided here. He was perfectly content living in his safe little castle like groupings of buildings telling fallacies to the people so they wouldn’t try to kill him.

That’s where we stepped in, the Organization. We had no name we were just the people’s personal knights there to serve justice. Our aim was the liberation and the uniting of the territories. Our leader Alvis was a man of mystery. He was powerful and had great influence amongst the common people and even the rich. He was an orator like no other. He needed no physical weapons; his words could destroy the most steadfast of men without trouble. And yet we knew nothing about him, he was enshrouded in a mist and let know one clear it. But all of us in the organization were ok with that. None of us cared about his past or who he really was. As long as our goals were the same we’d follow him to the ends of the Earth, or what remained of it at least.

I turned back to face Barry as he whistled as he finished reading the diary entry. “Damn….that’s gotta suck. First her dad dies from a chimera attack on a weapons plant for Jarrod’s self defense army; and then two days after she writes this diary entry, chimera’s rampage through this entire subdivision killing everyone most likely. A damn shame.”
“A damn shame we couldn’t have been there to kill some of those vermin.” Yelled a voiced as both Barry and I turned our head to the door on the side; it was Rorrick who stepped through the door.

Rorrick was another member of the organization; he had a real serious grudge against the chimeras. But then again I’m sure I would too if my family had been in Tokyo the day the first sighting of the chimera. He was all that was left of his family. Rorrick was a middle sized man; he had pale skin, dark short unkempt hair and a scar that ran across the side of his right cheek he received as a present from one of the chimera on that faithful day. “Ah Rorrick, since you’re here, I assume the operation will start soon. Right?”
“Aye and nay, Ra. The operation will start tomorrow, but my crew and I are here because we’ve spotted a group of chimera on their way here.”

“Maybe they’re here for another meal” said Barry.
“Or maybe there’s a nest here, who knows? The point is Alvis thought you might need back up so he sent us.”
“Did you bring me some rifle ammo?” I asked.
“Well yes, but what does that have to do with anything?”
“It has plenty to do with everything; I don’t need backup now that I have more ammunition. Thanks for trying though, your crew can sit back and look pretty for all I care; in fact some of these ladies look very pretty, maybe after this I might have to ask one out for a date.” I chuckled to myself as I slowly walked by the three girls and winked at them. “Don’t be so cold ladies; it’ll hurt my self esteem.” I called back into the room as they snickered amongst themselves and waved goodbye to me as I headed up the stairs to the roof.

I heard the rumble of the group of Reds as they approached, stomping along and uprooting anything in their way. “Fucking bastards, tearing up the ecosystem, they’ll pay for that.” I mumbled to myself as I imagined them charging towards a destination as I had seen hundreds of times. “Eh uhm….Ra…” Barry tried to tell me while I stepped up towards the roof.
“What is it Barry, what’s got you so tongue-tied that you can’t spit it out?!” I barked.
“This!” Barry yelled while he grabbed the binoculars and shoved them onto my face, “See?! See?!”
“See what, damn it? I can’t see anything with you trying to replace my eye balls with the freaking binoculars!”

“Oh sorry, here take a look for yourself then.”
“I planned on it, thanks.” I said sarcastic tone, as I wondered what could have gotten Barry so riled up the way he was, “he’s been in combat as long as I have so he shouldn’t be surprised by anything” I thought to myself. But lo and behold I too was caught off guard by what I saw. Instead of just being a group of chimera in a pack, it looked more like they were here to siege a fortress, this entire subdivision would be turned into a war zone with that many Chimera. “Shit. I think there might be a nest nearby with so many active Red’s running around here.”

“What the hell are we going to do there must be at least twenty times the normal amount we deal with without having a problem and that’s normally a pack or two.”
“It’s true” I thought, “we only normally deal with eight to ten Chimera per pack here in Red Territory”, but this was beyond ridiculous. There had to be at least twenty packs of Chimera heading towards us. All of them ranging in size and rank from the grey and white soccer ball sized ones from the red and green colored super tank sized ones.

“This is bloody fucking ridiculous; I swear this shit can’t get any worse for us right now.”
“Barry quiet down, I need to think of how we’re going to do this, I don’t have a plan yet but we need to start thinning their ranks. Grab your rifle and the explosives.”
“Roger!”
“Oh and one last thing Barry.”
“Yes Ra?”
“You do remember the promise we made when we became partners in the organization right?”
“Of course but by bringing that up are you saying that we might die?”

“With those numbers it’s definitely a possibility, but we’ll do everything we can to survive right?!”
“Sir yes sir!” And Barry ran down from the roof to get what I asked.
“Barry, Barry, Barry, Barry” I mumbled to myself when I was sure Barry was out of hearing distance, “You know you’re a higher rank in the organization than me, so why do you call me sir?” I wondered to myself aloud.

“Ra sir, I brought my rifle and explosives sir!”
“Good set up point and we’ll begin using our sniper rifles, occasionally we’ll break away from sniping to use the RPGs and grenades once we’ve caused enough confusion amongst their ranks and we’ll keep them more towards the market section of the city, then we’ll switch to and fro from sniping to explosives to thin their ranks more. Kind of a simple plan but it should work on such barbaric creatures as these damn Chimeras.”

“Sir yes sir!” Barry yelled with a solute to me and quickly crouched down with his sniper rifle in arm, the butt of the gun into the nook of his arm to lesson the kickback from it, his ammo cartridge close to the edge of the wall where the holsters for the rifle were. There was no one better at marksmanship than me in the Organization, but Barry came close second. We made a great team. “If there’s anyone who can pull this off it’s you two. Definitely you two.” I thought to myself as I too readied myself to begin the sniping. My pride wouldn't let me call Rorrick and ask for his crew's help, not after the way I had acted so arrogantly.

“On my signal, ok?” I waited for a few seconds after Barry confirmed his orders to wait for the strike to begin. It was clear to me that Barry was focusing like he had never focused on something before. “Roger”, he finally replied. It felt like a millennium before the first Chimera came into sight in my scope. “FIRE!” I screamed and in that very moment 2 rounds were heard but 3 Chimera died.

Barry had cleanly placed a bullet through the head of one Tigby chimera, which had turned its head to see its ally chimera die right by it killing it on impact, and into a Rollaboar chimera millimeters to the side of it. “Haha that’s two points for me already.” Barry exclaimed gleefully.
“Ah shut up, you can’t keep a lead on me for long.”
“We’ll see if that’s true or not today. What’s the score up too again?”
“61 Wins for Me and 61 Wins for you. Now quit distracting me you ass.” Barry laughed at the sound of this, and I began laughing too.

Everyone in the organization thought Barry and I were crazy for betting our lives on a game like this, but we found it amusing and the person with the most kills for that said battle got all of their food paid for by the loser for a week. It was probably a very crazy idea, but we enjoyed every second of it. I snapped back to my senses as I heard Barry fire off two more shots into the crowd of chimera. “Haha two more for me; what’s the matter Ra? You’re in a daze but I’m not gonna let that stop me; in fact I’m going to take advantage of that.” Barry loved to laugh during our sniping routines; I have to admit it made me a bit giddy too.

Before I met Barry, when I was free lancing as a mercenary for higher, whenever I got into a fight my mind went blank and I just kept firing till I ran out of ammunition; but Barry’s insane laughter keeps me from going into that same daze that I had before I met him. “Hah you’re only ahead by 3! That’s not gonna be much of a challenge for me to catch up too. Watch this!” I yelled as I fired a bullet and watched as it flew straight threw three Rollaboar chimeras. “What the hell was that?”
“That was my skittles bihh.”

“Skittles?! Skittles?! Now that’s fresh.” Barry said as he began to laugh at my joke. We continued on with our game for the next few minutes as the crowd of Red Chimeras came closer.
I sighed, “I think it’s time we start using the RPGs and the other explosives.” “No way; right when I was about to win too.” Barry exclaimed surprised.
“Win? Haha. Now that’s rich, you win? Hah! Man Barry you should have been a comedian not a revolutionist or a soldier. You were miles behind me in points.”
“Na uh! I had 132 points.” Barry exclaimed in his very childish voice of victory.

“Ah. Barry, no can do my friend. You didn’t make the cut; I had 133 points this time. Looks like you’ll be buying me some Taco Bell after this next mission.”
“No way! Let me count up the corpses then, while you start using the explosives.”
“Alright sounds good to me. I just get to have more fun this way, while you’re counting up my victory I get to blow more of these vermin to hell.”

Barry and I used different types of ammunition but not because it was easier to tell who’s kill it was, but out of preference. Barry liked to use heavier, bigger rounds that I liked to call tank busters, made to pierce thick hides and break apart the thick shells that most chimera’s had. While I on the other hand liked to use shrikes, which were bullets made specifically for me. They were made to pierce the thick hides of chimera too, but instead of breaking and crashing and ripping through the hide in a very garish and barbaric method, my shrikes were made to cleanly pierce into the hides as quickly as possible and without a lot of trouble, the bullet holes left from my shrikes were very miniscule almost exactly the same size as the bullet itself, opposed to Barry’s tank busters which pretty much blew whatever it hit to tiny pieces.

“DAMN! You were right, you did kill 133 and I only killed 132. This isn’t over Ra.”
“I told you, you can’t beat me without me giving you a twenty point head start.” I laughed so hysterically that I couldn’t even aim the RPG straight.
“Ah shut up damn it, I’ll get more kills later, stupid explosives not counting for points.” Barry mumbled to himself as I fired a RPG straight into the back of a Beetbull chimera killing it and the smaller Herascorpion chimeras around it. As I reloaded the rocket into the RPG I watched as Barry fired off one rocket into a group confused Bearcat chimeras. Barry sighed, “It looks like we’ve got them so confused they don’t know we’re at.”
“That’s good, the longer we can keep them from finding our position the less chance of having the mission being canceled.”
“And less chance of us dying” Barry reminded me.

“Yes, yes, of course we can’t have that now. Hand me the binoculars really quick, something looks fishy over in that spot where you shot the Bearcat chimeras.” Barry handed me the binoculars and went back to work firing RPGs into the crowd of chimeras, killing more with each pull of the trigger. I looked through the binoculars at the area where the group of Bearcat chimeras had been just a minute ago; the remains of them lied all over the place. Pieces of antennae with chunks of flesh torn out laid all over the place, claws, teeth, and pieces of the shell were no exception and littered the area the street so much it looked like it had been painted red. Even pieces of the organs covered in blood were caught in some of the nooks and crannies of the buildings and some even went into windows, it was truly a gruesome site to behold, but I had grown used to seeing this sort of this long ago.

I continued to look for something that I felt was out of place some tiny thing that I kept overlooking. When a minute or two had passed and I was about to give up; I saw it, a crack in the cement from before the grenade had hit it. After the grenade though, the crack was bigger enough so that I could see what looked like a bit of movement in the hole. It was a risky idea, due to ammunition being scarce but I was absolutely positive that I had seen worker chimera, so I carefully aimed the rocket. I began to pray that I was correct, which was abnormal for me. As I finished the prayer for good luck, I pulled the trigger and braced myself for the knock back of the propulsion. I closed my eyes while it flew towards the crack.

When I opened them back up I saw the rubble and only rubble in what looked like a well made tunnel, I became depressed because I had wasted ammo on something that wasn’t a Chimera. Until I saw it, a grey worker chimera, I almost leaped into the air and started jumping for joy but I couldn’t, now was not the time.

“Barry, don’t you think the Chimera have been acting funny around here?” I asked.
“Yea actually I do. It’s like they’re playing defense instead of their normal offense it’s really odd. We’ve only seen them act this way when a nest is nearby.”
“And what if I told you there was a nest nearby?” I asked while becoming a bit giddy with amusement.
“Well I’d ask for proof and if you could provide me with actual proof I’d pay for your meals for another two weeks.”
“Well since you put it that way,” I said teasingly, I pointed to the tunnel I had made and laughed, “there’s your proof. Now you may bow before your master.”
“Ah, Ra, sometimes you just don’t cease to amaze me.” Barry said in ecstasy.

“Ah. Barry, Barry. It’s all skill. Now let’s wrap these mofos up and call in to report the nest.” “It’s been a long time since an extermination of a nest has happened. I’m feeling a bit giddy do you think they’ll let us join in on the fun?”
“They damn well better, we’re responsible for finding the damn thing.” I chuckled. Barry and I looked at each other and burst into laughter, tears beginning to swell up in our eyes from laughing so hard.
“Oh oh Ra, do you think we’ll get to see some mobile suits?”
“Barry, seriously, do you honestly believe the organization would allow some of our only mobile armored units to come here for an extermination of a measly nest? We don’t even know how big it is. I mean hell if it’s too big we may just send a report into the news stations to rile up the citizens and get Jarrod to do it himself.”
“Ah that’s no fun.”

“Yah I know, but what can you do? We’re fighting a war against man’s worst enemy, himself, and a creature we know nothing about. We have to be cautious if we want to survive at all. We should switch back to our sniper rifles; we don’t need them picking up on the smoke being discharged from the explosives around here. But wouldn’t that be fucking epic though if we got some mobile armor units sent here?!”
“Oh mos deff!” Laughed Barry, Barry and I both become ecstatic at the thought of the mobile armor units. Those things made tanks look like a musket from the 1500’s. They were amazing advances in modern technology.

Of course the army is the one who developed them, but that was right before the United States separated into the territories. At first the military thought they were absolutely useless except for looking tough, but once you get a proper pilot in one of them, they’re crazy good pieces of machinery, in other words, a perfect killing machine. At first the military designed them to run on gasoline but fossil fuels began to run dry a few years after they began building them. So the older models were trashed, scrapped and the plans for them were labeled obsolete. Now the mobile armor units run off of other resources like electricity or hydrogen gas.

The original look of the mobile armors was something close to a box that had legs and arms with a lot of weapons on it. But now they’re designed to look more humanoid. The standard military mobile armor unit had two main weapons a four meter sub-machine gun or two daggers, located on the side of the mobile armor’s legs, for when they run out of ammunition or when they need to fight in close range. The daggers are designed with a heating unit in the hilt so the blade can more easily cut through chimera hides, the heat decreases the resistance a lot but at first it wasn’t enough so they placed a rotor system into the hilt which made the blade shake in a controlled manner so it did more damage and more easily cut into the hides.

The mobile armors usually stand about twelve or fourteen feet tall. Much larger than a normal human, at first getting to the cockpit posed a problem because the only way you could do it was to be lifted up to the height of cockpit so that you could jump in, but the brains who designed the mobile armors thought of a way around this problem. They knew that it would be trouble getting into and out of the cock pit, so they designed a cable that dropped down from the base of the cock pit to the bottom of the mobile armors feet, at the bottom of the cable was a little place to hold your foot in place as you rose up to the cock pit or for when you were going back down to the ground. To activate the extension or recession of the cable you just simply needed to press the button on the outside of the cockpit or press the button on the inside of the mobile armor’s right leg.

“Eh! EH! RA! Snap out of it.” Barry screamed while shaking me violently, “Jebus, I swear you must be close to death or something, because you’re thinking waaaaaaaaaay too much today.”
I laughed in response to what Barry had said, “Shut up, I’m still winning and you know it.” “BY ONE! BY ONE FREAKING POINT”, Barry screamed.
“A point’s a point, you know that.” I chuckled. Barry began grumbling about it. I just continued to laugh and went back to killing chimera with my sniper rifle, pulling the trigger every few seconds.

“Ahaha, so how do you think we’ll handle the nest? Do you think the organization will handle it or will we leave a notice to the government and have them deal with it?” I said to Barry while trying my best to hide my excitement.
“I have no clue, Ra. But the Organization always thinks things through; so I assume that whatever option they choose they’ll have reasons behind it and a plan to follow it through. OH! OI! Did you see that Ra? I just killed two Bearzards, one bullet through both of their heads, and then after it went through their heads and shot off the tail to one of those buggers standing near them and took off another’s leg. How epic am I?!” exclaimed Barry.

“Ooh wow, it is pretty tough to get a two for one with those Bearzards. Those beasties are crazy; they look like a freaking cross fusion of a bear and a common gecko or something.” I commented.
“Big, ugly, furry, lots of claws and teeth, their stupid camouflage abilities and those weird tongues of theirs with the second mouths on them, those things are at least what? Three stars on the chart of known Red Chimeras right?”
“At least three stars Barry, at least, those things are hard as hell to track down and kill with their ability to rapidly camouflage themselves. They somehow always seem to get the best of normal recruits, we’ve had more fall to them than some of the five star Chimeras.”

“Tch, damn, I can’t seem to find them since I killed those two Bearzards and wounded the other two. I think they're hiding from me.” Barry said while sounding a bit depressed.
“Barry honestly, you should know by now that they’re just sitting their where they were before using their camouflage to hide so you can’t shoot, at least with your sniper rifle.” “You saying I should the explosives?”
“Hmmm Mayhaps, and mayhaps you get the points for the kills this time, but only this time.” “Really?! Yes! I’m going to beat you now.” Barry exclaimed excitedly.
“Hah, beat me? Beat me? Oh Barry you’re the funniest too bad you’re down by more than six kills now since you’ve been wasting your time trying to find those Bearzards.”
“WHAT?! You’ve got a six point lead?!”

“Yep, you should really focus on the situation more.” I laughed.
“Pssh, whatever you’re such a hypocrite. You’re always, always spacing out no matter where we are.” laughed Barry in response. He was right; I did space out a lot. It was a bad habit, but it was such a cozy warm feeling for me. It was like entering a state of pure Zen, truly enlightening. Nothing in the world could bother me in that state, which was why it was always so hard to get to come back to reality.

In that state, my mind was allowed to wander and do as it pleased while my subconscious controlled my body doing what it should be doing. It was a truly amazing thing to watch. You could always tell when I was in that state too, but only if you watched my eyes a lot. Barry tells me that the trick to knowing when I space out is that my eyes will actually lose their normal glow, and become dull like there’s nothing there. “Ra! Ra!”
“Huh? What? Did I space out again?”

“SHUT UP AND DUCK DAMN IT!” Barry screamed at the top of his lungs while he lunged forward and threw my head down just as large chunks of metal piping flew over our heads in an orange and red mixture of searing heat.
“The hell was that?” I yelled.
“That was what was someone’s propane gas left over in their house.” Barry said in his annoying know it all tone.
“Oh. Well why the hell were pieces of piping flying towards us then?” I replied back in an equally annoying tone.
“Uh. Well uh.”
“Yeah that’s what I thought. You did something stupid didn’t you?”

“It wasn’t stupid, the stupid chimera just happen to move away right as I used an RPG that just happened to be aiming at that chimera before it moved.” Barry murmured whilst looking down and pushing his index fingers together, the way he always does when he feels like a child being yelled at.
“Uh huh, well whatever. Shit happens, I’m alive, you’re alive, and it worked out. I’m still winning by the way.” And with those words Barry jumped right back to his usual self saying “Oh fuck you; I just saved your life right now that should count for some points.”

I laughed and slapped my knee in a joking manner “Yeah negative points if anything, you did the opposite of what earns you points.”
“Ah, shuddup.” Barry said defeated. I continued to chuckle as I reloaded my sniper rifle. There were only eight chimeras left, four Tigby chimeras, one Rollabear chimera and three unidentified chimeras.
“Tch, these things keep evolving, and just don’t die.” I mumbled to myself. And I thought back to the first time humans, at least the humans of Red Territory had invaded and conquered a Chimera nest.

It was a few months after the mobile armors had been employed for the first time in Red Territory history. We learned a lot about the Chimera by invading a nest, we discovered that there were three types of Chimera; they were similar to ants in the fact that they had a queen, soldier chimeras that defended the queen, went out and conquered more land for their queen and brought back food for the queen, they themselves would eat occasionally while out hunting for the queen’s next meals. Aside from the queen and the soldier chimera, there were the worker chimeras, which built the nests, brought the queen her food and maintained the brud. The brud are what Jarrod decided to name the batches of eggs that the queen laid. The worker chimeras were by far some of the strangest creatures the citizens of Red Territory had seen, they had three sets of mouths, one on its head, one on its back and one on the bottom of the abdomen. The worker chimera’s diet consisted of mainly rocks from what the dissection records said. They had one large eye in the middle of its head, almost like a Cyclops, and six jointed legs, like that of a spider, and the strangest part was its tail, which had at the end of it what looked like a giant glove which we assumed it used to drop rocks into the mouth on it’s back and move objects out of its way.

When the news’s crews came to interview Jarrod, it was reported that he and a select few of the mobile suit pilots had taken a worker chimera and the queen to a research lab to study, they were then asked to vacate the perimeter and head outside to where the second and third team of mobile suit squadrons were located as they believed there still might be some chimeras left in the nest who probably were going to going to be overly hostile due to the death of the queen. As the news’s crews were about to exit the nest, chimeras attacked the mobile suits and one reporter ordered her cameraman to record the footage, and so he did as they tried to escape and find a hiding place in the nest.

When the nest had finally been cleared, the first and second squadron of mobile suits had been decimated and the third squadron only had six of the twenty man squad left alive, and they were mortally wounded. When the military was cleaning up and the bodies and removing the mobile suits to scrap them, they found only one member of the news’s crews that had entered the nest.

Connie Barbossa had been found with the video camera feed still rolling a mere three and half hours after she had ordered her cameraman to record the attack. It seemed that Connie had killed herself by breaking a stalagmite off and stabbing herself straight through the front end of her skull near the temple, when they found Connie they found her hands were still gripping the broken stalagmite in her skull, her light brown hair was caked together with dried blood. Her daisy yellow jacket and pearl white button up shirt were stained with blood; it was undetermined whether it was her blood or a chimera’s; her matching daisy yellow skirt was torn and tattered, it seemed that she had run into some of the remaining soldier chimera before she killed herself. Her tan skin was had lost almost all of its color when they found her. It was a truly gruesome sight, so gruesome that the government wouldn’t let Connie’s family see her body. Out of respect for her they removed the stalagmite from her skull, gave her family compensation for their suffering and awarded Connie an honorary hero award which her brother accepted on her behalf.

There was an incredible discovery made on the video, the embryo of a chimera was shown. While Connie and her cameraman were escaping from the attack on the reporters they ran into a dark chamber with iridescent dark red lights. At first Connie and her cameraman believed that they were some sort of natural lighting that the chimera had created, but when she moved closer to the lights she began screaming at what she saw. When her cameraman moved in on them he began to shake and the camera had trouble getting a clear shot of what he was directing it towards. But once they had calmed down the camera stabilized and captured the image of a chimera inside of its egg, and as it focused onto the egg, the chimera began to exponentially grow and evolve. The chimera was shown growing horns and its shell. At the sight of this Connie and her cameraman ran in fear of it possibly hatching and them becoming its first meal, but as they ran away the camera caught one last glimpse of the chimera’s back and something on its back began to grow almost like an omen of something to come.

That was around the same time I joined the organization and somehow as a reward for me joining, the organization had obtained a copy of the video through some way and showed the new recruits the video. They continue to do this now as a measure to wean out those without enough resolve to fight against the chimera, to see who would be useful on the front lines and who would be useful in their movement to retake the government and reunite the territories.

As I finished walking down memory lane, I pulled the trigger on my rifle sending a bullet flying into the leg of one of the unknown chimera. “Hmm, these bastards are faster than the other ones. I wonder why?” I pondered out loud.
“Well you know the chimera evolve from creatures the Queen eats.” Barry said sneering at the outcome of his research of the chimera.
“Oh yeah? What useless information, how does that help me kill it?” I remarked. “Well uh. Uh. FUCK YOU RA! Why can’t you ever praise me for researching the enemy and learning about them?!”
“I simply don’t want too, that’s all. If I were to praise you for something like that, you’d want a cookie for every step you took in real life. Although it is interesting information, if you had come to the last meeting of the Organization you’d know that they told all the members of the Organization that.”

There was a pause between my comment and Barry’s. It seemed forever before he spoke again. “Shit really? I should really start coming to those meetings then.” At those words both he and I broke out into laughter.
“Hah yeah you really should. But let’s finish off these last three chimera and report to the Organization. They’ll want to see the new chimera and to form a plan for the nest.”
“Mmm good point.” Barry said as we began mounting our rifles to our shoulders. I peered through the scope and began focusing on shooting the chimera’s legs out from underneath them. It was much harder than I at first thought it would be.

The chimera seemed to move as though they knew we were aiming for their legs always quickly ducking behind fallen cement or pieces of buildings so that we couldn’t aim at their legs or their heads. It was too quiet for too long, neither I nor Barry had made a shot in a while, when it happened. One of the chimera began to charge toward our location, “It seems they’ve found us, you get your side and I’ll get mine.” I said in a cool collected tone. “Uh…which one is my side again?” Barry asked with a blank look on his face. I smacked my palm onto my face and slid it off slowly.

“You’ve got to be kidding me. We don’t have time for this.” I said in a tone that Barry could easily tell I was agitated. “You’re on the left side, so you should aim for the left side. You’re LEFT.” I at first said whilst trying to calm myself, but then I saw the unknown chimera closing in at an even faster pace than they first had.

“LEFT. LEFT. LEFT. Got it?” I yelled frantically.
“Sheesh calm down, I was just asking. Chill out Ra, you’re gonna have a heart attack with all that built up stress you’ve got.”
“Shut up, we don't have time for this. Just shut up and take the chimera down.” I growled. I held my other comment inside my heading saying it’s your fault that I’m stressed you idiot, and began to aim for the right side. I was about to pull the trigger when I heard Barry beginning to shoot. I watched through my scope as he hit the middle leg slowing down the chimera, I wouldn’t let this opportunity pass. With the chimera in pain over losing its leg, I began shooting off its five legs on the right side. “Off with the first, then the second, oh barely missed the third, nailed the fourth and I don’t really need to shoot the fifth but I will anyway” I mumbled to myself so quietly that Barry couldn’t hear.

I looked through the scope of my sniper rifle, quickly sweeping the area with my eyesight. Searching for the other two unknowns, “Why aren’t they charging us too?” I thought to myself. “Barry wait! Don’t kill that unknown yet, let’s use it as bait to draw the other two. Maybe if we’re lucky they’ll rush to their comrade and stand by it long enough for us to wound them too.”
“Smart plan as always Ra. You’re like a walking strategy guide for real combat situations.”

I snickered at Barry’s comment. It was true; I prided myself on my knowledge of strategic moves for live combat. Through my years in high school I had read a lot of novels on war and strategy, I’ve even read some of the most famous pieces. When out of combat I always carry a copy of the book The Art of War to read in my spare time. When at the organization’s main base I was regularly found in either the base library reading old war novels or in my quarters listening to music while reading some of the literature I had bought before the Chimeras had destroyed many of the cities.

Minutes which seemed like days passed, the strain on my patience was beginning to break it. I took this time to look over the unknown chimera. It had brown spots on its light yellow and orange shell. Its head was shaped like that of a horse’s, except it was hairless and had three beady eyes on the top of its head all black like the night sky. Large white tusks were protruding from its mouth, and as I looked at its front two appendages I noticed that they weren’t hooves like the other four but very long and, from the looks of them, very sharp claws.

“What’s taking them so long? I’m getting really annoyed at they’re tasteless tardiness.” I said to Barry.
“Ra. Ra. Can I….Can I shoot it? Please? I mean they’re obviously not coming. It’s been like five minutes already.” Barry was beginning to sound a man driven to end of his sanity, he continued to speak “May….Maybe the chimeras don’t try to help their wounded like we thought they did.”

“Maybe…No….There’s no way…..But maybe just maybe.”
“WHAT?! WHAT?! TELL ME RA, PLEASE!” Barry exclaimed he was on the verge of breaking; we had never had this sort of thing happen before. We were just used to killing our targets, we had never let a single chimera live before. It was always just straight extermination, no questions asked. We had done this type of baiting before, but this was completely mind blowing to us. The chimera would usually wait a bit and then rush to their fallen comrade to see if it was alive. “RA JUST FUCKING TELL ME! WHY WON’T THE CHIMERA GO TO THEIR FALLEN COMRADE?!”
“Barry, I…” I took a deep breath and tried to find the right wording for what I was about to say. But right in that as I was about to say the chimera came charging towards their comrade.

“NOW BARRY THEY’RE FINALLY RUSHING!” I yelled as I pulled the trigger on my sniper rifle. It was a drastic last moment move; time seemed to stop as I fired the shrikes. I held my breath in anticipation, I heard Barry fire his rounds as well. I pulled out the empty cartridge from my sniper rifle; inserted a new cartridge and began pulling the trigger like a madman I lost all focus I once had and forgot everything I knew about marksmanship. It was do or die, and I wasn’t about to let some crazy creatures from Hell take me out. I watched a bullet fly straight into the right side of one of the chimera; I wasn’t sure whose bullet it was, and I didn’t really care as long as the chimera was wounded. I watched as it made impact with the chimera, in an instant it was clear whose bullet it was. Once the bullet made contact with the chimera’s shell. The shell exploded into nothing and internal organs and blood sprayed out over the shell, painting the yellow and orange hide red. The explosion from the round even proceeded to violently blow the entire third leg and blew off three quarters of the fourth leg, the tendons and muscles splattering all over the ground and on its fellow chimera.

In the instant after I saw the bullet collide with the chimera, I aimed my rifle directly for its head and proceeded to shoot a shrike straight into its forehead. “That’s one down. Barry where’s the other one?” I yelled quickly sweeping the area through my sniper rifle’s scope. “Ra, bad news.” Barry said quietly.
“WHAT IS IT?! WHAT HAPPENED WHERE IS IT?!” I exclaimed in a surprisingly frantic tone. “Well the truth is, I….”
“WHAT?! TELL ME NOW BARRY!” “I…I killed it, and that put me in the lead even with you killing that other unknown, I killed the other one charging at us and the one we used as bait. You owe me food for a week now.”

“It’s okay Ra, calm down, take deep breaths, Barry’s an idiot who doesn’t know when to be serious no need to be mad, being mad leads to stress, stress leads to death, death is bad.” I repeatedly said to myself in my head. Even repeating this over and over I still couldn’t control my anger. “Barry you….you …..YOU IDIOT! YOU HAD ME WORRIED WE DIDN’T GET IT AND THAT SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED!” I yelled as I punched him in the back repeatedly.
“Ouch, Ra stop it. That hurts you know. Ow seriously stop, you asshole.” I took deep breaths and backed away from Barry. I held my breath one last time before exhaling and letting a deep very long sigh.
“So how many did you beat me by?” I asked him curiously.

Barry began to break out into hysteria as he said “Only one.”
I began to cough and choke at this, “Uhm excuse me, but did you just say you beat me by one point?” I asked in an extremely serious tone as I clenched my hand together tightening my hand so hard into a fist it began to hurt.
“Hmm? Why yes, yes I did just say I beat you by one point.” Barry was obviously amusing himself, because he was acting like some sort of royalty as he said this.
“YOU SIR SUCK!” I yelled, “I CAN’T BELIEVE I LOST TO YOU BY ONE POINT! THIS IS UNBELIEVABLY RIDICULOUS!”
“Eh, just calm down now, it’s not a big deal, I’ll make a deal with you though. If you can get us into the nest and we actually get to kill some chimera, if you beat me in there we’ll say this victory is just null and void.”
“Are you serious?” I asked incredibly intrigued now.
“I’m as serious as a heart attack; you know how I love to learn more about the chimera, I figure if we get in there I can learn a lot more.”

I thought this over, very carefully, the truth is I didn’t really care about this game all that much. It was just something to kill time for me and something to make the missions more exciting for me. But I drastically wanted to see if my theory was correct, I needed to know. “Alright Barry, I’ve come to a conclusion. We’ll talk about my reasons when we back inside the apartment complex and at our stake out point, but they have nothing to do with the game.”
“Oh, hm okay, that works for me I guess.” Barry said as he began following me down the steps.

Once we got down to the second story of the three story apartment complex, we found Rorrick there waiting for us like a nervous mother. “OH! It’s you guys, you’re back already eh? Are you guys okay? Did you kill em’ all?” Rorrick asked frantically.
“Course, who do we look like? Two guys who can’t themselves in live combat situations like that?” Barry laughed while he teased Rorrick.
“Shut up, Barry. I’m your senior so you’ll respect me and call me sir damn it.” Rorrick growled. I could tell he had been worrying about us, he didn’t normally snap like that when Barry teased him.
“Pfft, call you sir? Not a chance. The only one I call sir is Ra.” Barry continued to laugh and tease Rorrick.
“Barry now’s not the time, I don’t know about you but I’ve just noticed how I tired I am from that experience and I’d like to rest a little, even these grey cement steps are taking a toll on me now. This is really annoying.” At these words I sat down on the very steps that were plaguing me. Rorrick looked worried as he asked us if something had happened again. “Well aside from the fact that Ra found a nest, and there was one unidentified type of chimera out there nothing new.” Barry said very blatantly.
“WHAT? YOU FOUND A NEST?! That’s…that’s…well…GREAT! I’ll call the Organization right now!” Exclaimed Rorrick as he ran off almost skipping with joy. He truly hated the chimera and wanted them dead as soon as possible.

“Barry, you didn’t need to tell him, I would have told him.” I said while I got back up from the steps and began to walk back to the little girl’s apartment that Barry and I had been before Rorrick and the chimera had appeared.
“Yeah I know, but if I hadn’t he would have tried to be all professional with you. For some reason everyone in the Organization seems to respect you Ra.”
I chuckled, “You’re full of shit Barry, I’m not respected I’m just another weapon to kill chimera for the Organization’s cause.” I placed my hands on the door knob and said “And don’t disagree with me Barry, you know even if the Organization does care for its members, unlike the military, we’re still just gunmen for them. But I’ll stay with them as long as their ideals match mine. The minute they go back on their word or Alvis disappears I’ll take matters into my own hands.” And I proceeded to open the door and walk into the little girl’s home again.

“See now Ra, that’s why people in the Organization respect you. You’re not afraid to go against something that outnumbers you greatly. You’re a valuable member of the Organization, like me, just because of that reason. Even if we weren’t the best marksmen or even able to fight against the chimer or fight at all the Organization would still find use for us.” I took a moment and thought over what Barry had said, I sat down on the couch in the apartment, and placed my right hand on my hand, massaging my temples slowly in a circular motion.
“Eh I guess you’re right Barry, but down to business. You may want to sit down Barry, I think what I have to say might come to a shock to you.”

“Oh uh…okay, whatever you say Ra.” Barry said in a confused manner as he sat down on a wooden stool across from me.
“Now Barry you agree with me that the unidentified chimera were acting strange compared to the way we’ve seen other chimera act normally correct?”
“Well yes of course, we’ve never had to wait longer than about ten or twenty seconds usually for the chimera to come to a fallen chimera’s aid.”
“Now this may seem far fetched but you’ll have to bear with it, and for the record it’s only a hypothesis, a theory if you will.”
“Get on with it Ra, you’re taking forever.” Barry interrupted. I sat there collecting my thoughts after he had said this. I tried to think of the best possible way for me to word this to Barry.
“Barry,” I said calmly “I think the Reds are evolving in more ways than one. I think that they’re evolving both physically and mentally.”
“What are you trying to get at Ra?” Barry’s eyes squinted and he cocked his head to side as he said this. I took a deep breath and exhaled before saying
“Barry to put it simply, I think the Red Chimera are becoming smarter.”

I'm posting Chapter 2 titled The Nest now as well since I'm still working on chapter 3 so no one has to worry about getting hit with too many walls of texts at once. -laughs out loud- I hope everyone enjoys it, feedback would be appreciated but all I really want is just for people to enjoy my story. So enough with my miniature rant and onto the next chapter.

Chapter 2: The Nest:
Barry looked stunned, amazed and intrigued by all of what I had just said. His brown eyes began to glimmer; he was enthralled by all this. And I noticed that I was excited by this as well. Barry and I were becoming too en wrapped in our game; we were bored with just killing chimera after chimera. The game had become an obsession we no longer cared about the price of winning or losing; we were just excited to put our lives on the line and feel victorious as we walked away alive from a life and death situation.

We had become addicts of adrenaline rushes caused by combat from over the year we had known each other. “Ra, how do you feel about this? I don’t mean to sound weird, but,” there was a pause of silence as he watched me “I’m excited. My heart’s pounding so bad I think it may break out of my chest and hit you in the face.” I sneered at his comment before saying,
“I’m excited too, almost too amazed at this situation. It’s absolutely mind blowing at what we might have discovered. It’s too amazing for me to put into words at how I’m feeling right now. I just”

“Its okay, Ra, I know what you’re saying.” Barry interrupted. “The thought of getting the chance to put up our lives against something that it evolving not only in a physical manner, but mental almost psychological is amazing. But I think we’ve taken the game too far if the Red’s are getting smarter. We should stop, if it continues on like this we’ll end up dead, and we won’t be able to do anything anymore to stop the destruction of humanity.” My expression went from a grin to a scowl at the sound of these words. “Ra, I know you’ve become an addict to the adrenaline rushes and I have too. But we need to stop this, if it goes on like this much farther we’ll die. You know that, now quit being stubborn and quit trying to make me look like a bad guy.” Barry gave me a mean look after saying these words. He was becoming enraged at my response and unwillingness to accept the fact that he was right and that I had been defeated in this argument.

“You’re…..right.” I mumbled, I wanted to admit defeat like I wanted to have a bullet placed cleanly between my eyes. “But what am I going to do? I want to go to nest and I want to continue killing chimera.” My voice lowered and continued to lower with each word until Barry could no longer hear my voice, “I need too, and otherwise my thirst for revenge will never end.” Barry just looked at me; he could tell I wasn’t ready to reveal that secret about myself to him yet. And the same went for him, there were things he wasn’t ready to tell me either.

“Ra, I can tell that something happened to you because of the Chimera and I know you’re not ready to tell me yet. But that’s why we made the promise right? We promised that if one of us or if both of us were on our deathbed we’d tell the other everything about our past and our reasons for fighting and anything else so that”

I interrupted him quickly; my scowl had become a light smile at this. “Once we die, we’ll no longer have any regrets once we go to the afterlife. I remember, and I remember that you’re the one who came up with the idea after our first mission together.” Barry and I began to laugh at our stroll down memory lane. Our first mission together, we both ended up getting injured from it, mainly because of my unwillingness to partner up with anybody.

We had been sent out on a reconnaissance mission for an attempt to take the city of Miami back from the Chimera, we weren’t supposed to encounter or fight any chimera. But I decided that I would kill any chimera I saw without regret of being punished for disobedience. So I did just that, while we were making our rounds I saw one a young Red it must have just hatched from its egg. It was like looking at a model version of a Tigby chimera, except it was about 4 times smaller.

I remember climbing up a tree to get a good view of it. Its black stripes on orange clearly showing that it had picked up the design from the Queen eating a tiger. Its black claws had just begun to elongate themselves and its single orange horn rose above its head rising into a trident shaped prong. Its fangs dropped from its jaw, almost looking as though the Queen had eaten a Saber-Toothed Tiger instead of a Bengal Tiger.

I was setting up my scope and readjusting all of the specs on it, trying to make sure I was absolutely sure I wasn’t going to miss the shot. As I sat in the tree ready to fire, the back of the sniper rifle cocked into my shoulder, Barry called. “Hey where the Hell are you? You should be done by now. Don’t kill any chimera that’s not a part of our mission alright.” He continued to lecture me, each time there was a pause I responded by saying

“Uh huh, okay I won’t forget.” Not once letting the Red move out of my sight, lucky for me it was busy knocking down trees. I watched as it got its orange horn stuck in a very old looking Willow. I let out a laugh accidentally, Barry began to question me on why I was laughing, and that’s when I saw my chance. The chimera was stuck with its orange horn still in the tree. I quickly yelled out to Barry “Yeah everything’s fine I was just laughing at something funny I remembered from a long time ago, I’ll be at the meeting place soon, ETA ten minutes. You don’t need to wait up.”

And slapped the phone shut dropping it on the ground, I cursed profusely at it. But no longer cared once I looked back through the scope, the Tigby chimera was still stuck. I chuckled saying “It just isn’t your day now is it Mr. Red? Too bad I hate you pieces of shit or you might live to see another day.” And pulled the trigger, I watched as the bullet flew straight to where I wanted it.

Unfortunately at that moment the chimera finally broke free of the tree. As it reared its ugly head back from overpowering the tree its horn flew up straight into the air and my bullet collided with it. I watched in horror and dismay as my bullet shot into the chimera’s horn, breaking it off at the stem. Blood shot out just as my bullet had, the chimera began to cry in pain and confusion once it had realized that its horn was no longer attached to its head.

“Oh you’ve gotta be fucking kidding.” I yelled, smacking the palm of my hand against my face. “This by far beats all of my worst luck moments even the time I got pantsed while I was trying to ask out Molly Shirlington back in high school.”

“You got pantsed once while trying to ask a girl out in high school? Man that sucks.” A voiced yelled at me.
“Oh Jebus, you’ve got to be kidding me. What are you doing here? I mean really, I told you everything was fine and I’d be at the meeting point in ten minutes. I even gave myself five extra minutes to get there just incase it took longer to kill the chimera.” Barry’s face became red with rage at the sound of this.

“You mean to tell me that even though you were specifically told by Alvis himself not to kill any chimera you went and did anyway?!” He screamed at the top of his lungs. I acted completely unfazed by his yelling as I jumped down from the tree, when I got on the ground I took my right pinky finger and scratched the inside of my right ear canal and inspected the tip of my finger paying more attention to my finger than Barry screaming at the top of his lungs, before replying.

“Well technically I didn’t kill any chimera; I just wounded it pretty bad. Can’t you tell? It’s screaming for pain and help right now. I think we should get out of here before help comes to get it.” As I said this I walked casually up to Barry’s jeep that the Organization had given him to use for this mission. I inspected it carefully; it was a standard door less jeep that you would see from old military movies, dark green, brown box shaped jug of extra gasoline and a spare tire in the back incase of emergencies.

Taking in all that was to be seen on the jeep, I jumped into the passenger side and sat in the passenger’s seat with the sniper rifle resting comfortably between my crossed legs laying on the dash, my dark blue jeans absorbing most of the heat from the jeep being out in the hot Florida afternoon sun.

“You are the most obnoxious kid I’ve ever met, you disregard everything and have to do everything yourself. Am I right?” Barry continued to yell, he was being incredibly loud and annoying from my point of view. I yawned and said in a very dull and uncaring tone
“Well….I guess you can say that. I have trouble believing in the competence of others, and I’m NOT a kid. I’m eighteen now, thank you very much.” We continued to argue and insult each other for a few minutes after that. Eventually I grew tired of the argument and decided to end it by saying “Shut the hell up and drive. I’m tired of hearing your lips flap.”
“FINE! Whatever, let’s just hope we’re never partnered together again.” Barry yelled in distaste as he attempted to start the jeep’s engine.

“That’s fine, maybe now Alvis will see that I work better alone and that I don’t need a part…ner? What the hell is that sound coming from behind us?” I got up from slumping in my seat and turned around to see the very same Tigby chimera that I had wounded charging at the jeep. “Oh shit, Barney or whatever your name is start the engine and go.”
“Huh? Why? And my name’s Barry.”
“I SAID GO! AND YOUR NAME COULD BE MARTHA STEWART FOR ALL I GIVE A SHIT! NOW DRIVE!”

Barry grumbled and moaned as he attempted to start the engine. I turned back watching as the Red came closer and closer with each second. Barry tried it, and tried again, and tried once more before I finally yelled at the top of my lungs. “CHANGE OF PLANS GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE JEEP BEFORE WE DIE!” Kicking Barry on the side of his right shoulder forcefully removing him from the jeep, I proceeded then to grab my sniper rifle and jump out of the jeep. I must have looked like a crazy man attempting to fly right out of the vehicle with my arms extended straight ahead of me from Barry’s point of view.

At this point it seems my shenanigans had finally gotten to Barry, because he stood straight up next to the tree where he had landed grabbed his camouflage general hat and threw it on the ground with all his strength throwing dust into the air, showing his cleanly cut light brown hair.

“Damn it, what did you do that” and right before Barry could finish his sentence the chimera charged straight into the jeep flipping it over and onto its head as it continued to run onward. Carefully I pulled one of the pistols I carried for just such an occasion out of the holster with my right hand as I stepped out from behind the tree I had been hiding behind just seconds ago, it shimmered a dark blue as I pointed it at the jeep’s fuel tank, waiting for just the right moment to shoot it and blind the chimera. The chimera must have decided that it didn’t get its target as it took the brash way of stopping and slammed its left side into a tree turning one hundred and eighty degrees in mere moments. I spit as our eyes met, and pulled the trigger before saying
“Yippee cayee motherfucker.”

And pulled the trigger once more as the previous bullet impacted upon the gas tank, exploding into flames of searing heat, burning the Tigby chimera’s face. This time the bullet landed directly in between its four eyes killing it on impact. I began to laugh in joy of what I had just done.

“What the Hell was THAT?!” Barry yelled in surprised at me.
“Hmm? Oh sorry I’ve always wanted to say that ever since I watched Die Hard.” I smiled in that little kid way of smiling, where you attempt to say you had just accomplished something that was as great as ending world hunger.

“Not that.” Yelled Barry, “I meant what you did to my fucking jeep! Oh maaaaaan, Alvis is gonna kill me now.” Barry threw his hands up to his head and began tugging on his hair as he said this. I laughed in response to what he said and began looking down at the ground as though to say I was ashamed of Barry’s reaction.
“Clearly you’re missing something here; I didn’t do ANYTHING to your jeep. You’re mistaking me for that now dead chimera that completely trashed your jeep. In fact you should be thanking me. I just saved your ass, if it wasn’t for me”

“If it wasn’t for you, I would still have my damn jeep! You should have listened to orders and not shot that chimera. And don’t even try to say that you didn’t, Chimera grow appendages like horns and legs back at an accelerated growth rate, especially when they’re as young as that one. I’d say that specific chimera would have grown that horn back within two or three days max.” Barry interrupted, screaming at the top of his lungs. I broke out into a nervous sweat as he said this; clearly he had seen what remained of the horn.

“Oh, so….so you noticed that eh? Uh yeah well if you had just let me finish it off in the first place, we wouldn’t have had this happen!” I yelled back trying to change the person at fault. I walked out closer to and stood in the middle of the clearing in front of Barry as I yelled this. And as I was about to continue and try to blame Barry more what happened, something dawned on me. Time seemed to slow, like in those last moments before you die. I watched as his jaw moved up and down, clearly he was yelling back at me but I couldn’t hear anything. It was as if I had gone to deaf.

And at that moment I turned to my right as quickly as I could but it wasn’t fast enough, out of my peripheral vision I saw another chimera charging towards me, but this time it was coming from the direction of the dead chimera and was fully grown. I tried to move forward and get out its path but I was too slow. It hit my right shoulder and I felt an impact unlike any I had ever felt before, it was like getting hit by a semi truck going at seventy miles per hour. And all I remember after that was getting flung into a tree to the side a few meters from where I had been. I attempted to move but couldn’t the pain was too great and everything was getting darker and quieter, and then everything went black.

Beep. Beep. Beep. “Ugh what the hell is this?”
“Maybe you should open your eyes and see for yourself.” called a voice.
“Who are you?!” I yelled as I could feel the color rush to my face as I became embarrassed. I raised my left hand and placed it over the left side of my face like I normally do when I’m just waking up. I tried to open my eyes, but when I did all I could see was black and darkness. Darkness like the one I’d just awoken from. “AH! OH MY GOD I’VE GONE BLIND!” I screamed. Tears began to swell up at the thought of never being able to see again. A familiar voice called out to me in that moment, the same voice as before.
“Maybe you should try moving your left hand since it’s covering the side of your face that isn’t bandaged. And please don’t tell me you wake up like that everyday.”

An awkward silence ran around the room as I pulled my left hand off my left side of my face. Light, beautiful light flooded the room in that second. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, the light took over the darkness. It was so awe-inspiring I wanted to cry. “Don’t go crying on me now, not after what you went through before you woke up.”
“Who are you, you sound familiar.” I said, looking around the tiny hospital room for the voice.
”It’s Barry; I’m in the bed next to yours, behind the curtain. We’re in intensive care at an Organization ran public hospital.”

“Intensive care eh?” I thought to myself as I quietly looked around the room, I tried to move but pain suddenly flooded over me just as the light had flooded into the room. My breathing became staggered and my head became light.
“Oh I see you tried to move around. I wouldn’t do that if I were you. You broke three of your ribs and snapped your shin in two when that Chimera hit you. Thankfully though, modern science can fix you up well enough you’ll be able to walk just as you did before you were hit.”

“If I only broke a few bones why is part of my head bandaged over my eye then? And why are you here then?” I yelled angrily.
“I was about to get to that. But thank you for interrupting me.” Barry said in an easily noticeable annoyed tone. “When you hit that tree you, you cracked your head open pretty bad. The doctors thought you weren’t going to make it. Now, before you interrupt me again I’ll tell you what happened to your eye.” I growled quietly as Barry continued. “When the chimera hit you, it hit you at such a force it actually split part of your skull and hitting the trees didn’t help all that much. So now you have a pretty little scar running up and over your eye. If you hadn’t closed your eyes from the pain, you’d have to have a bionic eye right now.”

These words stunned me. I could have easily died, and yet I was still alive. Either fortune or something greater than that had been looking after me that day. I would later find out that Barry had been in intensive care because, after I passed out, he took the pistol I had dropped and used it to kill the chimera before it killed me. The reason he had gotten injured though, was because of the unusual weight that my pistol gave off. It threw off his idea of accuracy. When he fired the first shot it missed the chimera’s head and hit a tree instead. This alarmed the chimera and it began charging at Barry. Barry had realized that he couldn’t aim very well with my pistol, so he took the dangerous but sure fire method of killing the chimera.

He stood ready as the chimera charged him, he grinned at what he was about to do and knew that it wasn’t smart but he was willing to do whatever was needed to. Barry gripped the pistol with both hands and when the chimera was millimeters before him, he jumped to the left side. But Barry had jumped too late and the chimera collided with his legs, shattering both of them on impact. The pain was almost too much for Barry, but he already knew that this could have happened and was ready for it. He gripped the pistol and fired two consecutive shots into the side of chimera’s head at point blank range.

The chimera dropped seconds after the bullets entered into the right side of its head and exited the left. Even though Barry was in immense pain, he willed himself to stay conscious. He crawled to my cell phone, a few feet away, which still lay where I had dropped it and called the Organization. He explained to them what happened, but by then he had no more will to keep himself conscious and passed out before the call even ended.

I had been in a temporary comatose state for five days before waking up. In the four weeks that followed my coming to consciousness, Barry and I became close friends, even though he had been discharged two weeks before me. When the chimera showed up, taxes went to two things in the States. The funding of medical research and weapons research, due to the funding of medical research scientists had found a way to accelerate the growth and reproduction rate of cells in the human body, thereby decreasing the waiting period for things like broken bones and operations.

Barry and I were laughing hysterically; our trip down memory lane was indeed one we’d never forget. “Oh remember when you kept hitting on MY nurse, even after you had been discharged?” I pointed while laughing at Barry.

“Sorry to interrupt you two hysterical idiots, but we’ve been called back to the Organization’s main base. It seems that the Organization is going to handle the nest.”
Rorrick called to us while standing at the door, a cigarette in his left hand which he had outside the door. Barry and I looked at each other simultaneously and jumped into the air high fiving each other.
“DAMN STRAIGHT BIH!” Yelled Barry and I as we ran out the door past Rorrick and ran down the cement steps.

Barry ran down and leaped into the jeep. I on the other hand proceeded to jog in place next to the lovely ladies of Rorrick’s crew. “Ah Ladies, I’m back, now who out you wants to go on a date with me?” I proclaimed smiling; I saw one rather exceptional beautiful lady. She was lightly tanned which complimented her beautiful blonde hair touching her back, and her big blue eyes glistened beautifully like sapphires. I began to imagine her in a long silver gown that glistened as much as her eyes, as though she were heading to a ball or some fancy party. “So beautiful.” I thought to myself.

“Ah madam, I hope it is you.” I said in a cheesy French accent, and as I said this I took her right hand and kissed it lightly, while kneeling on one leg. She began to blush and raised her left hand and lightly touched her fragile looking face. “Ah you’re too beautiful to be out here in a place as dangerous as this.” I quietly cooed to her.
“And you’re too much of a playboy! Now get away from my crew damn it!” Yelled Rorrick as he leaped from the top of the stairs and kicked me in the face.

I rolled straight into the jeep that Barry was in from Rorrick’s kick, the same version of the jeep he had received from the Organization from our first mission together.
“Yeowowowow! Rorrick that hurt, you ass, and what’s the matter with you anyway? I was just going to show her a good time!” I called back angrily. Barry said nothing to me but just raised his middle fingers in response. I grumbled as Barry started the jeep and began driving back to the Organization’s base, Rorrick and his crew steadily behind us.

I sighed as I watched the scenery of trees and road signs go by. It was the same scenery over and over. “UGH! Barry, this is soooooooooooo boooooooooring!” I yelled. A minute or two passed before I finally said “Jeez, I think I’m sick of this. I’m gonna sleep some, wake me when we get to the base.”
“Alright. Will do, Ra.” Barry said while smiling. Barry liked driving for some reason, it was weird to me, but it didn’t really bother me. I began to close my eyes and think about her. “I hope I can see her soon.” I thought to myself and let my subconscious take over.

When I opened my eyes again it was very difficult to see, but that was probably due to Barry’s consistent shaking of me back and forth. “RA, GET UP! I’M NOT GONNA TELL YOU AGAIN!” He yelled at me in an enraged manner.
“Ugh I’m up, I’m up. Just calm down would ya. You know it’s hard for me to get up after sleeping for long periods of time.” I said casually while yawning every few words or so. I rubbed my eyes before getting out of the seat and stretching. “The base garage hasn’t changed much, dim lighting, eerie. It’s just like home” I thought to myself. I yawned once more for the final time and said “So Barry, did we see her yet?”

“Her? Huh? Oh. No you haven’t missed your chance to talk to Eva yet.” Barry said in his teasing tone of voice back to me.
“Oh yeah? Sweet. Barry can you say bah bye?” I said laughing hysterically as I ran off into the base. “Oh Eva, where are you Eva? Evangeline.” I thought to myself as I hurried myself along in my search. I ran by the base’s library and stopped. Something told me that Evangeline was in here, which was probably right.

I opened the doors to the library and there she was, sitting on the floor, with her legs crossed, next to shelves full of books. I stood and just watched as she read her book. My total attention solely on her, it seemed as if the world itself would stop just for her. Her beautiful light blonde almost white hair fell down a little past her neck, it would occasionally get in the way of her reading and she would take the strand of hair in her way with her delicate looking fingers and push it back behind her ear. She was so angelic, when I looked at her it was like looking at a piece of artwork by a famous painter. “If moments like this could heal the world, Eva would be the god sake of humanity.” I thought to myself and smiled.

I continued to watch a little longer as Eva read what looked like a book on theories of evolution. She was wearing a silky sheen black dress; she must have had the day off since she was out of her intelligence officer uniform of hers. “Hmm that’s weird; normally you’d have said something to me by now. But you’re just standing there like a stalker. Maybe I should call you stalker boy from now on.” Evangeline said out loud as she continued to read her book.

“Haha, so it seems you noticed me. I’ll have to work on my ninja skills again.” I said while laughing nervously. “Ninja skills, HAH! That was really lame; I can’t believe I said ninja skills.” I thought to myself, I wanted to punch myself in the stomach for being so lame in front of her. Eva finally looked up from her book and smiled at me; I blushed slightly but tried to hide it from her.
“Yeah I’d work on those ninja skills of yours Ra; you seem to be a bit rusty.” Eva said while giggling at me.
“You know I just…” and just as I was midway through my sentence Barry busted into the library screaming.
”HEY RA! Oh there you are. Hi Evangeline, how are you?”

“Hi Barry, and I’m fine. But for future reference, this is a library please don’t yell.” Evangeline casually scolded him with her words and still smiled like it was nothing.
“Oh Ra. I forgot to tell you this but we need to go to the debriefing room for our next mission.”
I moaned in response, I wanted to stay and talk with Evangeline longer. I sighed before finally saying, “Alright well good bye Evangeline, next time we’ll talk longer.” while trying to force a smile.
“Alright, see you later then Ra. Bye Barry.” Evangeline replied while waving as we walked through the door.

I turned my head back and watched as the library door closed. I sighed and said while looking at the floor, “Barry, you suck. You had to interrupt it didn’t you?”
“I had too, debriefing for the next mission is important. Alvis is the one who’s going over it this time. You know he thinks highly of us.” Barry lectured me like he was some sort of first class politician. I moaned in response, telling Barry that I gave up and he could stop lecturing me.

As we walked through the eerily quiet hallways of the base something dawned onto me. “Hey Barry, have the hallways always been plaid pattern of white, grey, black and red? Or did they just repaint the place in the last week or so that we’ve been gone?” I asked him curiously.
“Did you seriously just notice that?” Barry said while looking stunned. I was lost for words and I felt a bit embarrassed from the look Barry was giving me.
“Well uh no I mean well yeah I just kinda noticed it right now.” I tried to say while stuttering. Barry sighed and looked at me with a face that said I was just pitiful sometimes.

“You honestly don’t remember?” He stared at me while I stopped in the middle of walkway in complete silence. “Ugh we did that new look for the base thing when we got hit by that hurricane. And you being…well you…decided to say we should paint it plaid, of course I knew you were kidding but everyone else didn’t. And all the female members for some reason thought that that was an absolutely amazing idea and since men are easily influenced by women they took your idea and painted the hallways plaid. It has been like this for about a month now.”

I stared at him with wide eyes and a blank face. “You’re kidding me right? You really don’t remember?” He asked me again.
“Nah dude I’m not kidding. I must not have been paying attention.” I said to him. “What have I been doing the past month that I didn’t notice the walls?” I thought to myself. I began to delve deep into my consciousness and think about what I had been doing the past month. When I came to the conclusion that I had been fighting so much the past month that I had fried my brain a bit I looked up and saw that we were outside the debriefing room.

Its big wooden door looked frightening at first but that was until you got close enough to it to see the words of hope all of the members had carved into the doors as a reminder of what we were fighting for. I could hear noise coming in through the door which meant that the debriefing hadn’t started yet. As we opened the doors light from the hallway flooded into the dark lit room. I saw many of my comrades turn around in their ash grey plastic fold up seats and give a look of surprise and excitement as they saw us. And together they all yelled unanimously “BARRY! RA!” And in response I yelled
“WHO WANT’S TO HEAR STORIES FROM OUR LAST MISSION?!” And a loud uproar of laughter started to go around the room.
“Glad to see that you’re back safe and sound, Ra.” A voice called from behind me.

As I turned around to see who said it, I immediately threw up a salute. His short untamed hair and aura of calmness, his hair was grey even though he was somewhere in his late twenty’s. The round no rim glasses he wore permanently on the bottom of the bridge of his nose. His calm blue eyes that held a pool of indefinite knowledge looked through me and saw everything there was to see. The pearl white button up shirt he had on had a lavender outline, and so did his pearl white pants. “Al...Alvis sir. Thank you for your concern.” I stuttered while trying to force the words out.

Alvis just looked at me and laughed. “Ra, there’s no need to salute me or call me sir. This isn’t the military. In my opinion we’re all of equal ranking here because we have no ranking. So put your arm down and relax, once the debriefing is over come tell me how your last mission went.” He said to me casually as if we had known each other for years and gave a smile as he walked off to the podium in the middle of the stage ahead of all the seats. I quickly found a seat next to Barry as Alvis began to start the debriefing.

Alvis looked carefully through the notes he had sitting on the podium with him. His face held a grim look as he looked up at the crowd of listeners, waiting for the debriefing to begin. “Alright, to begin at 1700 hours yesterday it was reported that a nest had been found in sector 76 of Red Territory. We’ve decided to name the nest, Nest Void, NV for short. Nest Void was discovered by agents Ra and Barry, and has been classified as a rank S nest. As you all know nests become less active around the time the sun goes down, as a result the mission time will begin at twenty-one hundred hours tomorrow night. We will have six teams posted outside NV in a hexagonal figure. Six teams of mobile suits will be used for this mission. Squad three through six will be on standby outside the entrance of NV. Squad one and two will use charge thirty-four explosives near the opening in the cement that Ra says we can use as an entrance to the nest. Squad one and two will then proceed to enter the nest, their mission the capture of the queen and the extermination of any hostile Reds inside the nest.”

Alvis took a breath as chatter began. No one had ever heard of anyone taking the Queen alive from any nest. Only Jarrod had done it once and even then that was a little far fetched. “The Reds are too dangerous to be left alive.” I thought to myself. “So why are we trying to capture the Queen all of a sudden?” Barry and I immediately looked at each other as Alvis began to speak and both of us had the same thought cross are minds. “Has Alvis and the Organization figured out that the Chimera are evolving mentally too?”

Alvis cleared his throat once more and began. “Now many of you are surprised at what I just said the objective of this mission is. I know what I’m about to tell you is quite shocking, quite shocking indeed. It stunned me when I first found out but as agents of the Organization you are entitled to know this information. We believe that the Chimera or at least the Reds are evolving not only physically but mentally as well. But we are unsure of this fact and that is why the head of the research team requests that we capture the Queen so they can dissect and study it. Now they said that with the utmost priority, your safety comes first. If you cannot capture the Queen, then destroy it and escape as quickly as possible from NV.” Alvis’ grim look came back as he said these final words.

He was beyond serious. Alvis began to list names of the people in each group. Barry and I looked at each other as Alvis listed the names of the people in the mobile suit groups. Barry and I weren’t qualified to be mobile suit pilots, so we began to become depressed knowing that we wouldn’t get a chance to enter NV or even be a part of the mission at all. When Alvis was done he stepped down from the podium and walked by Barry and motioned for the two of us to follow him. Barry and I looked at each other to see what we could make of the situation as we got up and began to follow Alvis, but neither of us could make anything of the situation.

“Barry, do you know what’s going on?” I whispered to Barry as quietly as I could so Alvis couldn’t hear. Barry looked at me in response whispering,
“I’m not sure myself actually. Maybe it has something to do with the mission.”
I shrugged in response and we’d find out when we were supposed to. My mind went back to Evangeline as I walked down the dimly lit hallway. Barry nudged me a little when we reached our destination. We stood in front of two wooden doors, on the front were the words “Push, don’t be a dumb ass and attempt to pull the door.” It was quite obvious that too many people had attempted to pull the doors back because they lacked handles. Alvis looked at us once more before smiling and pushing the door open.

Bright light flooded into the hallway from the room. “Dude why’s it so bright?” I asked while covering my eyes with my right hand shocked from the light.
“Well if Alvis would turn on more of the lights in the hallway it wouldn’t be a problem.” Yelled an unknown voice from the room.
“Hello Audrey. I brought your new test pilots.” Alvis said back into the light. From what I could tell Alvis was standing there like nothing had happened. “Ra, Barry you know you should probably step into the light, you’re not dead so going towards the light is okay.”

I stepped towards the bright light. A few seconds passed before my eyes became accustomed to the light. As I looked around the room I noticed the tile floor was exceptionally clean almost as if it had just been cleaned right before we came in. The walls were painted a light blue, almost baby blue. And except for a pair of doors exactly like the ones we just stepped through the room, Alvis, Barry and I the room was absolutely vacant.

“Hmmm are you sure they’re qualified to pilot our new prototypes? They’ve never piloted a mobile suit before according to the data. This one seems scraggly, and scrawny, and not very muscled.” Said the same unknown voice as before, except the voice was coming from behind me. “And he seems a bit dim witted too, and his reaction times are a little slow from what I can tell. Are you sure he’s even a capable fighter?” That last insult burnt the worst, I couldn’t contain my rage. I turned my back and began yelling.
“Do you even know what it’s like in combat? How dare you call me unfit for combat? And dim witted? I’m not even the least bit dim witted. I’ll tear you apart if you underestimate me.”

As I finished turning around I saw that no one was there. Barry looked at me concerned saying “Ra, there’s no one behind you why are you yelling?”
“Hmm this one seems to be a bit more physically qualified; at least he looks like he has some muscles although he seems a bit too serious. And he’s definitely slower than the other one; at least he noticed I was behind him.” Barry became enraged at these words as I had.

“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?” Both Barry and I screamed at the top of our lungs in confusion. Alvis broke into hysteria of laughter at our words.
“Okay Audrey, you can stop now. We need to stop wasting time. Although I admit your game this time was quite amusing.” Alvis said while wiping the tears from his eyes, still laughing a little at Barry and me.
“Awh fine Alvis, I’ll stop. And I don’t want to step out from behind you. That tan one with dark hair looks really mad right now.” The voice came from behind Alvis this time except it sounded a bit depressed and scared.

Alvis motioned for something to come forward from behind him. I thought I could hear Alvis coo to whatever it was and tell it that I wasn’t going to hurt it. I watched like a little kid watched an animal at the zoo. And I continued to watch even as my curiosity began to take over. As a minute passed a little girl with light brown hair in pigtails and a yellow sun dress stepped out from behind Alvis.

“Ra, Barry, this is Audrey. Audrey is the head researcher of our mobile suit development branch.” Alvis said in his serious debriefing tone. Before Alvis could say anything more, I rushed at the little girl named Audrey and placed my hands on her cheeks and began tugging on them gently.
“Awh, you’re so kawaii. Alvis you lie, there’s no way a girl as little or as cute as her could even attempt to understand something so technical as a mobile suit let alone further the development of one. She’s only got to be like five at most.” I said casually, Barry began to flip out in nervousness over the way I had so casually told a higher ranking member of the Organization something as offensive as lying.

“I’m six years old now, for your information. Thank you very musch.” Audrey tried to go on but her words were becoming slurred and hard to understand as I tugged more on her cheeks. She slapped my hands away when she had finally had enough and said, “Would you stop touching my face? Damn it. I’m getting sick of it.”
“Awh, cute little girls like you shouldn’t use naughty words like damn.” I said back with an evil grin across my face. I intended to scare her but not as much I did. Audrey became so frightened she ran through the door opposite of the ones we had come in screaming mommy.

“Ugh Ra, why’d you do that? You didn’t have to scare her to death like that.” Barry said to me while he buried his face in his left palm. Even Alvis looked ashamed to know me even a little; he too had his palm covering his face except he was smirking. He obviously thought it was funny just as I did. I smiled back with one of my “I’m saying sorry even though I don’t mean it” grins and laughed. Alvis gestured to Barry and I and said,
“Come on you too. The game’s done. So it’s time for you to really meet the head of our research and development team for mobile suits.” Barry and I grinned in excitement as we walked through the door.

Awaiting us was none other than Audrey who was hiding behind another woman who looked very much like Audrey and a tall heavily muscled black as night skinned man. The woman stepped forward her clipboard in hand, she had a stern look on her face. She was wearing a light amount of cherry red lipstick on her lips and her purple rectangular rimmed glasses gave off a vibe of sexual attractiveness and at the same time a look of intelligence. She wore a light brown shirt that was a little darker than her almost dirty blonde hair and had on a dark green skirt all accompanied by a white lab coat, which made her look very professional and serious about her job whatever it was.

The black man was standing very firm in place with his arms crossed in front of his chest and was much taller and bigger than all of us. He smiled and waved at us as we walked through the doors. His black hair was long, longer than the woman’s whose was in a bun, and in dread locks. He wore a blue button up mechanic’s outfit and a plain white lap coat over it. His black boots squeaked on the floor as he moved forward to greet us.

“Hey how’re you doing? My names Joe, you’ve caught me at a bad time I just smoked my last cigarette so I can’t offer you one even if you wanted one.” He began to laugh his own joke, I laughed a little in response and at the same time Barry and I declined his offer for a smoke while we shook his hands. On the other hand the woman kept her stern look on her face. She stepped forward and looked at us carefully, eventually pointing to me.

“Is this the one Audrey?” She asked.
“Yes Mommy, that’s him. That’s the mean man that scared me.” Audrey said back while shaking her head and hiding behind the lab coat a little. My face flushed as I heard those words. “Mommy? Oh shit. Not good! Not good! Noooooooooooot gooooooooooooooooooooooooood!” I yelled inside my head.
“You, what’s your name? Rock or something right? What’s your deal scaring my daughter like that? Does scaring kids get you off or something?” She pressed her finger hard up against my chest and pulled it back stabbing it back to where it had just been seconds before. I snapped as she continued to yell at me.

“The fuck did you say to me?” I screamed at her. “I will not tolerant something as stupid as that. You don’t need to discipline me like I’m some sort of child. I was only teasing your kid; if anything it’s your fault for raising your kid to be such a wimp.” The woman and I continued to yell at each other at the top of our lungs. The fight ended when Barry and Alvis held me back and when Joe and Audrey tried to hold back Audrey’s mother.

Alvis being the mediator and wise person that he was stood in the middle of us and said “Alright enough of the fun, as much as I would like to see you and Ra become friends, Rachel, I really must insist that we do what we came here to do.” At these words Rachel got up very casually, straightened her shirt and fixed her glasses. She took a couple deep breaths before saying, “Right, come along then.” And lead us farther into the mobile suit research center.

“Now I’m going to debrief you on the situation. Joe is the head mechanic and the second in command of the mobile suit research team. I am the head of it, Dr. Rachel Cornova. I’m one of the original developers of the mobile suit.” I whistled as she paused after she said this. I was very impressed but let her continue without interruption. “You two are going to test our two new prototypes, GKC772 and GKF771, code named Gate Keeper Chaos and Gate Keeper Fear. You’re going to join squad 1 under the command of Lieutenant Annabelle Yvonne and enter NV. You’re job is to assist them in their mission and to use the Gate Keeper units to the best that they can be used so we can collect data on them.” She turned and handed us two manuals, one to each of us. “Your units are being transported now. You will read those manuals on how to use the machines. Joe will accompany you to the outskirts of the nest along with the rest of the mobile suit mechanics and will help you out with anything you need. Is everything understood?”

Both Barry and I stood at attention and threw up a salute before saying “Yes Mam. Everything is understood, crystal clear Mam!” At these words she and Audrey walked off into the lab leaving us with Joe. Alvis escorted the three of us to the garage and we got into Barry’s jeep. Joe offered to drive so Barry could read the manual; he graciously accepted the offer and jumped into the back. As I opened the manual I looked at its table of contents. Movement, Weapons, Service, Emergency Situations, the table of contents looked very much like a regular manual. I laughed and began to read it as Joe started the car and we drove off to NV.

ok let me say this.....wow not only is this amazinly good lol but its soooo long and i mean loooong lol but its a great story i cant wait for the third chapter and i have some quotes that i would like to comment about....

""AH! OH MY GOD I’VE GONE BLIND!” I screamed. Tears began to swell up at the thought of never being able to see again. A familiar voice called out to me in that moment, the same voice as before.
“Maybe you should try moving your left hand since it’s covering the side of your face that isn’t bandaged. And please don’t tell me you wake up like that everyday.""
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lol that was really funny his reaction was just rofl


""I SAID GO! AND YOUR NAME COULD BE MARTHA STEWART FOR ALL I GIVE A SHIT! NOW DRIVE!""
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that was epic i just died i almost fell out of my seat roflmfao!!


""The world prayed that night, praying for victory. But Nike herself had chosen those creatures over us.""
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i was confused when i read that...what is "nike"...im american so that might be why i dont know but can you tell me what it is lol

I'd first like to say: Thank you for reading and giving me feedback, it's really appreciated. :D I know I write really long chapters, lol I apologize for my walls of texts but I just write that way for some reason. I'm from Florida by the way ,rofl, but most people I talk to wouldn't know who Nike is anyway so don't feel embarrassed or anything. But to answer your question Nike is the winged goddess of victory from Greek mythology. I'm pretty interested in mythology, which is where I get some of the names from and it influences the story a little, but don't expect like gods or anything to appear randomly in the story. -laughs out loud-

As an unrelated side note, I'm halfway through writing chapter 3 so expect it soon. Thanks again for reading. :D =]

really i dident know that i like greek mythology myself(dont have a way to study or a way to learn it thats y i dont know much about it =])but yea awesome read and im waiting for it lol

:shock: DUDE ...THAT WAS AWESOME.