First Day At The Complex

All I remember was that after I hit the wall next to him, a soldier grabbing my shirt with one hand and pulling me to his side against the metal wall I had just 'bounced' off of before grabbing onto a piece of said 'wall' that had already fallen off to the right of him and putting it on top of the two of us before curling up and putting a hand over his head.

At first, I was confused at what he was doing and still startled because of what he had done, but before I could even say anything, I was struck by the sound of metal colliding all around me, causing me to freeze.

Once the sound stopped, though, the soldier that had pulled me to safety got out his walky-talky and said that exit 2B had been compromised and that it should be closed off permanently.

I wanted to ask why the entrances had to be blocked off since only one enemy had spotted it, and we were at the very back of the formation.

Before I could, though, I was distracted by the sound of an explosion right above us only to find out that the base had sent a small missile to take care of the drone that had managed to make it all the way over here.

Once I finally calmed down, I noticed that the terrain was actually a lot flatter than I had expected since we were located right in front of mountains in the Himalayas.

Apparently, since we were only supposed to hold off the enemy, it was decided that it would be best to make it so that unmanned weapons were the only ones used to defend the mountain range.

As for us, we were basically just there to take care of any machines that managed to make it past the mountain range, which was simply unnecessary since, as proven just a couple of seconds ago, the main base was able to take care of them almost immediately as long as they wanted to.

It became glaringly obvious that we were simply put here to die, as we weren't even needed to defend the base, it was just that I couldn't wrap my head around the reason for why the US would want for us to die; it wasn't petty enough to do something like this on a whim after all.

For now, I could only focus on firing since as long as there was a chance I could make it out of this alive, I would take it.

All I can remember was that I began shooting at any 'enemy' I saw. After that, everything sort of becomes a blur from there, with the only thing I remember being the adrenaline rush I felt, the screams of agony, and the constant collision of bullets and the heatwave produced by bombs.

Thanks to luck, I was able to make it for long enough until the walky-talky I had been given transmitted the message that reinforcements had arrived and that all those who had made it were to report back to the base immediately.

I didn't question their decision much, as they had just offered me a way out of this hellhole. When I entered the building, I did not feel much safer, though, as I was obviously set to be killed here, whether outside or inside the facility. On the bright side, at the very least, I wouldn't have to be constantly on high alert anymore.

Plus, inside the complex, they had air conditioning and free food, so it was a lot better than the cold outside. And as much as I wanted to stuff my face with as much food as I could, I also felt way too tired to do anything other than lay on a bed. Therefore I made my way over to the dormitory so that I wouldn't have to find out what would happen if I fell asleep on the floor.

On my way to the barracks, I was also finally able to see what the guards acted like when they saw us since I couldn't catch that when I first made it into the complex. But to be honest, it wasn't too much out of my expectations as they simply looked down on us, like we were bugs they could crush if they felt like it, which, to be fair, wasn't exactly wrong.

Once I made it to the dorms, everything just kind of went quiet, and I decided to pull out the pocket watch I had been given and think back to my family and how they were doing; at some point, though, I must have fallen asleep because I was woken up to the sound of knocking on the door.

At first, I was scared to open the door just in case it was someone I didn't know, but after looking through the door viewer, I realized that it was just Josue and let him in. To my surprise, though, once he made it into the room, he began pulling me over to the hallway while shouting at me regarding lunch.

"Why the hell are you at the barracks? You know that lunchtime is about to end, right?! If we go right now, we can still make it."

"All right, all right, but is it really necessary to make such a big scene? I mean, there are guards everywhere."

"I've known you long enough to know that if I asked you normally, you would just end up skipping out on lunch, plus the guards think so little of us that at worst they will just treat this like terrible entertainment."

"Ok… but you do know that we can just walk there, right?"

"The cafeteria closes in five minutes."

"..."

After barely making it on time, we got our food and sat down at one of the 20 tables they had set up in the room. Honestly, the cafeteria wasn't too big, probably because they didn't expect to feed many people due to the constant casualties outside.

Before we could begin to eat our food, however, the TV in the back of the room turned on to a US news channel I did not recognize.