Chapter 6: Two 'Good' Soldiers

At a desert far away from any town, there was a busy activity on the base located in the middle of nowhere. A few cargo ship as long as 400 meter was parked at the side and a numbers of small plane landed from time to time.

Not far from them, around less than half of fighters jet were parked. Some working on modifying their jet some just chatting around.

Armed creatures guard at several locations at the base, although so. They didn't take their job seriously as they chatted around or play cards.

Though an armed plane patrol around the perimeters regularly and the watch tower at the four corners scanned the outside with their bright old school lamp.

At this moment, under the cover of the night several figures hid at a hundred meters away from the base as the patrol plane passed by.

All of them crouched in combat position as they awaits instructions from their leaders.

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[Mission Objective]:

1) Knocked them out (✓)

2) Put trackers on them (✓)

3) Place them far away from each other (✓)

4) Located their regrouping location (✓)

5) Steal their database ()

6) Kill everyone ()

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" There's around a hundred guard excluding the others inside the base, one patrol plane, couple of hundreds workers.." Tiva said as he scouts the base with his binoculars.

" Where was the trackers located?" Ett asked.

" They should be at that building.." Tre answered as he pointed at the largest and tall building after opening the trackers tab.

Ett contemplated for a moment before laying out his plan. After some time, after the patrol plane flew passed them. They split up and pace at several locations.

Crush! Crush!

The sound of sand being crushed under their foot could be heard faintly amidst the noise around the site. Soon, they reached at one of the building's back.

Ett, Tiva, Tre and Frya hid at the edge of the building as they peek at the back entrance.

A human and a couple of creatures were guarding the back entrance. But they were playing card as they laughed and shouted frustratingly.

As the squad were peeking them, a couple of soldier's loud chatter was heard behind them.

With Ett signals, they ran toward the entrance guard with their stun baton. They didn't want to alert the entire base before they could get their hands on the data.

" I win agai- huh?" One of the creature raised his eyebrows as they heard the approaching step.

" Intru-" The other was about to yell too but Ett and Tiva was already at hand length with stun baton stabbing toward them.

Spark! Spark!

The couples of creatures fell unconsciously after being electrocuted. The human raised his hand high after seeing the grey plastoid armor soldiers.

" Hey- Blpblpvlp" The guard that was about to pass the entrance was also electrocuted by Tre. But one of them was not in the range of Frya attack.

" S#it s#it s#it" He mumbled as he fumbled for his two-way radio in panic but Frya was already stabbing her stun baton towards him.

Spark!

He managed to avoid it as it missed his torso by inches with a sparks. Ignoring the radio that fell to the floor, he raised his gun.

Pew!

" Urgh!" The shot hit Frya at her left chest.

Pew!

But another shot from Tre disappeared into the creature's head.

" Frya!"

" I'm alright.." She said as she took Tre hand and stood up. The black scorched mark let out a wisp of smoke from the shot.

Although the armor was made from space plastic, the interior was double with various kind of thin material that could protect or reduce the injury by dispersing the energy from a single blaster bolt.

Every nation's armies depending on their budgets, more or less wore the same armor material but each with different features in hope to earn the advantage in a fight.

" What's that commotion at the back? Report your situation." A crisp voice sounded from a communicator.

Ett and Tiva glanced at each other, Ett motioned for the human named Rizki to answer. The human instantly knew what he meant and picked up the radio.

" Ah.. Chief haha!, I made a bet with Didi and dada that..." Ett and Tiva could only wait patiently as they stared at Rizki.

A bead of sweat rolled down on Rizki forehead as he felt the murderous stared behind the helmets. Seeing the two bodies dragged to them by Tre and Frya, countless thought entered his mind.

" I'm talking to you." The voice pulled him out of his thought and he immediately laughed it off.

" Ah Haha yes! yes! We promise we won't do it again."

"..." The other side didn't responded back probably already ignoring Rizki.

When Tiva took a step toward him, he hurriedly stop them.

" Wait! wait! I'm not a bad guy." Tiva turned to Ett who motioned him to continue.

Spark!

As the baton stabbed toward Rizki, he dodged narrowly and fell to the ground.

" Listen to me first! Thousand of lives are on the line!" He attempted reasoning with them, hoping there's a bit of justice in their heart.

"..."

" Wait" Frya stopped Tiva and spoke to Ett " let's hear them out".

" We don't have time to worry about that, stick to the objective."

" No! We do have time to worry about it!"

" Frya.." Ett faced her and stared her down, Frya didn't back down but instead welcomed the stares with her own.

" The lord appointed you as the leader just because you're the first, you have a good battle brain. But you don't have what it takes to be a good soldier."

" Good soldier follow order." Ett replied.

" No, a good soldier is a soldier who sacrifice their life for the-.." She stopped mid sentence as a faint foreign memory flashed in her thought.

Oblivious to Frya situation, Ett took her silence as a white flag and pointed his finger to Frya.

" A good soldier follow order, a good soldier sacrifice their life for the Lord. a good soldier endured the sin of their action for their Lord."

Ett finger poke hard at Frya helmet as he spoke. The slight force had also pulled Frya to reality after being immersed with the newfound memories.

".. Didn't the lord said we will vanquish evil and enforce justice?" Frya said in a low and sad voice as if in disappointment.

Hiding her face inside the helmet, Frya stared at Ett with a red eyes as if holding back tears. Whilst Ett was void of emotion other than annoyance as he stared at Frya behind his helmet.

Tiva and Tre could only looked at each other, not knowing of how to solve this situation.

"Ahem.." A cough from Rizki pulled everyone attention to him.

" Let me introduce my self first" He said as he stood up and removed the dust from his attire. Ett shrugged and crossed his arm as he gave all his attention to Rizki.

" I am Lt. Rizki Fabrich, soldier of the Pearl Alliance."

"... The Rebel. " Frya unconsciously mumbled