On My Orders
The division commander's group of exterminators quickly ended the fighting between the 40th group and the 12th group. Zane and the rest of the exterminators were taken back to base. The news coverage of the incident was covered up as an Azazel attack on the hospital and the flames of the incident died out within a day.
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Zane is brought into a room blindfolded. Doors open and close, he is pushed around like a ragdoll before he finally sits on a chair, after which his blindfold is removed. The room is dark, with just one bulb on the ceiling reflecting Zane's face off the white laminated table. He sits uncomfortably on the chair, his hand chained from behind and more over his large wings, bending him down to an irritable posture.
In front of him is a large, black window, and on its left is a gray door with another chair on the opposite side of the table. Zane looks at the gloomy dark room until he hears the gray door creak open. In comes the Division Commander, tall and menacing and clad in his armor, he sits on the chair in front of Zane. Zane gets a closer look at him. His features include his sharp, battle-hardened eyes, fair complexion, and jet-black beard. He was strong and tall and was lean, enough to even defeat Pierre, the largest man in his group, in hand-to-hand combat.
The Commander has a piece of paper in his hands and then proceeds to look at Zane dead in the eyes.
"Why did you escape the facility and this base?" asks the Commander.
"Those surgeons were going to carve me up and I had no choice. So, it was either to make a run for it or I die again" Zane answered.
"How did you come back to life?" asks the commander.
"I don't know" Zane answers.
The commander leans in towards Zane's face with an extremely intimidating expression.
"I don't like to repeat my questions...private." asks the commander.
Zane pauses for a moment, all the while feeling uncomfortable with the pressuring presence of the commander.
"I was in this dream, I had a hole in my chest, an injury I got when I died for the first time, and I saw an angel holding a spear with a ring of fire around it and then it asked me to cross into the fire and hold its spear, I did it and he vanished saying some things I can't remember and the next thing I know I woke up in the operating room," Zane says.
"What did he say?" asks the commander.
"I cannot remember at all" Zane states.
"You're persistent, are you?" the commander says in an intimidating tone.
"I swear I don't remember," Zane says with a tense face.
The commander stares at Zane as if attempting to look into his very soul. But Zane does not succumb to him.
The commander then stands up and walks towards the door.
"Hey!" Zane calls out the commander.
"what's going to happen to me? And what about my group? What are you going to do to them?" Zane asks in quick succession.
The commander does not turn his back.
"you'll get your answers soon," he says just as he exits the room.
Zane frowns in frustration as he is left alone again.
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Captain William stands in an office. Ornately decorated with USAEC symbols as well as the 4th division's symbols. There were paintings of various American freedom fighters and green curtains brightened the room. It was almost as if it were the chambers of a nobleman.
The large polished wooden door behind Captain William then opens, and Commander Elliot enters the room. He walks past Captain William, sits on the large chair, and puts his hand on his large intricately designed desk.
"Are you aware of our circumstances, Captain?" Says the Commander.
"I understand Commander, but this was all the fault of Colonel Oba-"
"Colonel Obadiah is dead, found in his apartment in this base with his blood sucked out of his body completely" the Commander interrupts the Captain.
"...what?" Captain Williams is dumbfounded.
"Furthermore, the entire 12th group is dead as well, in their barracks, all of them," the Commander said.
The captain stood frozen and confused at the statements of the Commander.
"I don't know about Zane, Captain, but all of this happened just yesterday and apparently, after your subordinate gained wings." Said the commander.
"But I don't understand…..how?" Says the captain.
"And we suspect Zane as well because I truly do not believe that his white wings are his only other ability" Says the Commander.
"Partial Compound exterminators can only exist at your level, Captain, but if I remember correctly the last time a recruit was found to be a partial compound exterminator, his powers grew up with him and he turned into the fifth among the five compound exterminators in the world, and he ruined his country." Says the Commander.
"Sir, Zane isn't who you really think he is" says the Captain.
"And Zane has just gained his powers, so suspecting him is wrong" the Captain goes on.
"You may be right, Captain, but I cannot afford to be careless in such situations" says the Commander.
The Commander puts his feet on his desk, lies back, and lights a cigarette.
"On my orders, Private Zane Raphael is to be detained under suspicion for involvement in the deaths of Colonel James Obadiah and the USAEC 12th exterminator group" the Commander orders.