All there was, silent, it was pretty peaceful for a split second, with the purple head still eating, as if deflected on both ears, as the leader, who seems to stand in silence for a split second.

  With him cleaning his throats for a second.

  “Right, okay, how's she?”

  With Smith still sitting.

  “It seems like 162 Bpm, that seems pretty high.”

  High, that’s extremely high, how is she still alive, is she alive?

  As with the leader, nodding his head slightly, with his hands under his chins looking at smith.

  “Right, I think it’s time to test out our new cadets! Beta team, show off your team!”

  With Smith taking a deep breath, can be heard across the room.

  “I doubt it’s time to do that, what now?”

  As the leader pulled a radio on his waist, with some clicks of buttons and patterns, a white noise was heard. But time moves, as with the white noise lowering, with it sounds of rocks falling off around, as with it the screeching sounds of heavens blast upon the radio, even if frequency is unmatch, it’s effect were travel to the radio, as the whole cafeteria rings all around, with everyone trying to close ones ears and lowering, with leader still standing with the radio, still standing in the same position, with his eyebrow raise slightly.

  “Hm, wow, that’s loud, hey bestiary girl, do you know what that is?”

  With the purple hair slightly looking up, her eyes open, it was shining that of a hundred stars, it glowed with internal blues, as she slowly opened her mouth.

  “It’s lavender, athena. It’s creature entity 233, or just Blazers, it’s one of the monsters we find on sector C-1-T. It's one of those big moltens with multiple legs, that of spiders, with multiple mouths, the one that disbanded Company 8th division. You remember?”

  As he slowly looks at the air, with him nodding.

  “ Oh, you mean when one of the leaders cried while getting screwed by two of them, I think they’re group got in too deep, should have stayed a little closer.. “

  I don’t know what they're saying, but the way he describes it so calmly, don’t tell me I have to explain what I’ve been through like that? Entity 233, what, are we fighting, animals? Multiple mouths, spider-like? And big, how big?

  As with Smith standing eminently after some time.

  “ Joshua, we’ve been talking for more than twenty seconds. “

  With Josh looking him in the eyes.

  “ Right, show the cadets their armory, I’ll talk about the plan on coms.”

  With him smiling slightly, with his body that builds to kill, that smile does not mix well with how he feels around. As time flows, the building suddenly up aflame with red colours flashing, with the blaring light going through.

  As Josh then spoke one last time.

  “Oh, it seems like we’re the next target huh, very unlucky.”

  Running through the corridors as it blinks red, with me and this girl following Smith, it seems to be the direction of our rooms, I never saw any sign named armory or any symbol of guns or something.

  As he comes close to their rooms, opening it with a single key, as if it was locked, opening the doors with him stepping in without taking off his boots. Following him to the room, the windows were wide open, as wind was spares around. With him standing in the middle of the room, it was quite, calm, as the doors were soundproof very well, and then he looked at both of us.

  “Right, you both” With him cleaning his throat a bit.

  “Go under your beds, the equipment is there at all times, take it out when you need to or just want to, you can wear your gears because why not, but the equipment is up to you to clean, so, happy birthday. You're lucky we aren't’ strict. ”

  Huh, I usually kept my weapon close to my bed as well, usually hanging it on the walls by the gun straps, people thought It was to place a strap, well, at least I don’t have to hold that gun all the time, I wonder what I will get..

  As lite walks towards his bed, as looking under, with smith then shout slightly

  “We’ll meet on the main gates, meet me there, Estelle, her codename is MISHA, she has the radio, anything can happen , report to her, also, the insignia of yours is in there, wear it with pride,” With him swiftly open the doors, as he close the door hanging, causing it to slam on the frame, with the bang echoes throughout the rooms.

  It’s quiet again, I can barely hear the siren, is it internally?

  As then, her name, estelle, wow, I never asked her name, misha, huh, it kinda weird me out how there’s girls here, you rarely find them, it’s either drone operator or those who runs those social media, I never play those nor I care, but it sounds interesting, to tell the world that you are still alive and sending videos, It’s sounds like it breaks a lot of Opsec, but I don’t mind at this point.

  As I rummaged under the bear, there was a case that I pulled it. A box, it was black and heavily armoured with another one, a long case, it seemed to be one storing some sort of long rifle, it was green.

  These are quite heavy. I wonder if they take my bank's money before providing this. I wonder what government I work for in the US? European? One thing for sure, even if they used familiar gears I know, the structure feels very off.

  Opening the green case, with a flip lock, opening both of them and swinging the trapdoor, the inside around was foam of light brown, as with seven magazines, it was fully loaded, as the centre, seems to be, a kalashnikov? Oh, it seems to be the modernised one of the Ak74, Ak-12 right? I forgot, it seems to be modded heavily, with grip, sights, a magnifier, a white suppressor at the end and a laser with flashlight, though the lazer doesn’t seem to work, I can’t see it.

  Taking the rifle, which has a strap to it, opening the case of black box, its inside is filled with black foam all around, as with the inside, it seems to be a VKPO VKBO white. Do I wear it in layers with my uniform? it’s a little different from what i’m wearing, it's thicker , I guess this is a battle uniform, as with Inside, a kevlar vest, but it looks more modern, is this one that people talk about? If I remember correctly, it’s called Strelok or something, it's an armor system those wannabe special forces rear soldiers would want to wear, not like everyone had it, but it’s there. It’s fully kitted, so I’ll just need to wear this, how on earth I’m supposed to wear this.

  Looking inside the box. A helmet, it’s white camo style with added goggles, it’s quad, aren’t these extremely expensive? If I sell this in the blackmarket, I can make a huge amount, it also comes with a shiny looking goggle and a mask, a gas mask? Maybe it's easier to breathe in this snowy hell.

  With him standing up and quickly strapping his gears at speed, as then, a voice can be heard from the door.

  “As though, are you ready?”

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  Looking to the door, the girl, who seems to be wearing a modded plate, like those special force, the plate that protects your chest and some lower stomach area with a kevlar under it to protect the groin a little, she looks more like a magician, but she's not wearing the mask that I come with, and the clothing that of wizard, as the uniform she wear goddamn glows, it’s bright blue trimmed, what the hell, and damn, she is fast.

  “Right, give me a minute!”

  I already put on this uniform, two layers, that should work, I don’t like the cold..

  Seriously, did I really forget how to wear this or I'm never used to this gear.

  As without notice, a light pressure was noticed behind me while trying to get the vest in, as with his hand swiftly put a hold on the hand behind him, with him looking back as misha was behind him.

  With her speaking “You don’t know how to wear KBS Strelok? I could help you rig it to your chest.”

  Pardon, she’s way faster than me, where is she from, but either way, I should get some help when needed..

  “Yeah right, I never tried out this or maybe I forgot, I would like some help.”

  As with her hand trying to tie the chest rig, it reminds me of my younger time, where my mom told me to zip her dress from behind, but seriously, you can’t reach that? Sounds like a flaw in the design, imagine if some random person decides to prank you and unzip it, unsettling.

  As with her strapping it, it evenly envelops the chest with adequate pressure even in the thick layer of clothes. As Lite pulls his hand down.

  “Right, thank you. I’ll learn how to equip it faster.”

  As she nod slightly, a radio com open

  “Hello there, get ready, if you are playing dress up, make it faster.”

  A helmet with quads, putting on his head, as he buckled the straps to the helmet and stood up, with both of them running out of the room, locked the door knobs, running once again through the bright red hallways.

  With the gear, the helmet felt extremely bulky, with the weight of the plate carrier being quite gruesomes. With it having some sort of air tank on the side, I feel like I’m not fit like I used to, it’s fine, just deal with it mikhail.

  Walking towards the doors and outside, passing behind Misha, there with snow raining from the skys which was nothing but empty abyss, with the cement pathway seems pretty clear for what it’s worth, can this uniform even help me this winter? I know much about winter, but this is not winter, this is a frozen wasteland in some random place with the absolutely strangest people I’ve seen, that says quite a lot…

  As walking outside behind misha, with the front of the gates, it’s seems to be a armored vehicle with white paints and some stain, seriously, who funding us, if I remember correctly it’s seems to be a Tigr, with some extra wheels mod for snow operation and a giant cannon on the gunner, I doubt Tigr are meant for this type of region.

  As with the backdoor open, which seems to be someone in a white gear same as me.

  With them both entering the vehicle backseat in front of the gate, as Misha sit on the right side, with Lite and the other soldier closing the two big doors as the snow rains suddenly become quiet, as the gun pod is empty, so the lid roof lid is replace with a computer, with two empty seats, sitting on the left beside the person. The body of the seat was not plastic or any metal, but fabric that feels warmth on the inside, the interior smells like windy lavender field, usually these types of vehicles stink with headache odors, the gun seat is empty with it being replaced by a robotic machine on top of the tigr.

  As with it shout from driver seats, goggle up with with eyes glow that of fiery field, he shout, with a speaker sound as a mask he wears,

  “Get ready new recruit, we are about to go offroads, it’s not far.”

  As the vehicle moves, the man from the lite side speaks, it sounds like a speaker on his mask.

  His voice with a young tone, looking on his patch that reads 05-7, as the man slide his goggle to under his cheeks, which reveal a purple eyes

  “So, not trying to invade your personal space, as now as White Fox is gone, that red head, ironic that he is called White Fox, yet he looks nothing white, but then again, people get random names here without reason, like how do you get your name, Lite? You sound a bit eastern,”

  Head, empty for a split second, as Lite shallowly nods.

  “ Well, yeah, I don’t know why they decided to call me Lite, nor I can recall much, all I know is that some man in a suit with yellow eyes came to me, and I felt like I was dealing with the devil right there. How do you get in this squad?”

  With a phone on the front of his plate carrier, where he hang as the camera aims forward, the case looks heavy and sturdy, as then a sound pops from the headset, as a voice reach the ears clearly.

  “There, now it’s easier to talk to, anyways, this is proxy mode, everyone can hear what i’m saying clearly, I put you two in my group, so smith actually can’t hear us right now, well unless he want to join in the group, which he has admin to, but right, oh right, you also have the phone as well, it’s on your plate same as me, don’t underestimate how sturdy that case is.”

  Oh, that’s what this about, I thought it was a mini medkit or adrenaline, nice to know.

  As a sigh can be heard from the headset

  “Well For me, uhh, I don’t really know where to start, let’s just say that I was a recruit in europe, I was apart of a infantry training, y’know to become someone cool and all that, but let’s just say that unforeseeable circumstance, there was some group of those elvian, we call those with pointy ears elvian or elves, because of those mythos or things, like her”

  As he slightly pointed to Misha with her eyes closed and looking down.

  “I don’t know what goal they had in mind, but they attack the training center, I fought one of the person by taking a rifle on one of the dead guard and having a shootout with them, before they vanish, all of the sudden there’s soldier around me, they ominous, I don’t remember much after that accident, smith told me that those unit of the SEU, basically earth internal security, they seems to have some sort of cognito hazard that make people forget, one thing for sure was I was send to this place. My face looks a little brighter, as my hair colour change I have a glowy eyes, they told me that I will be working in this world for now on, it’s been four months, I always wonder how to get back, they tell me that once they can break through the snow valley, they will release me or something. I kinda like it here, everyone is different, and I can talk to many of you guys.”

  As he cleared his throat.

  “Back then, people talk about being in another world, there’s always a story about that inside bookstore all around, my favorite place In my opinion, usually the story goes that people got transfer into a new world, I found it fascinating, but the story is always have the same plot, adventure the unknown, in our circumstance, it’s not far from that story, it’s just less glamorous, like we don’t really have swords, and people who do lived around this region, rarely contact other community, so we really don’t know what’s going on outside, the world is ours y’know?”

  I heard those story before, it’s was extremely popular in the western world and asia, I don’t like those story as it always deviate from any form of truthfulness, a world where people who are powered with magic are special, cheat code, a powered fantasy, I hate the Idea that a commoner can become something special with little or no effort around their piers, but it’s interesting, as the world was cool, dragon and queen, quest and the unknown, people read it to escape reality, if what he’s saying and that we might be in a different place is. Interesting.

  As the vehicle for the short ride stops, Smith looks behind the three.

  “Sleepover is overs, Misha and Lite get to the entrance of the cave and, Zealot, you take the gun, “

  As zealot pull his goggle back on, as the darkness enveloped him,

  “Goodluck recruit, now go with her, she is higher rank than you, she’s a specialist while you are a private Alpha, you can read the hierarchy on the diner, but not now, so good luck there.”

  As Lite opens the door, with it wide open, the wind drives inside the aroma out to the death abyss, as lite slightly touches the shoulder of Misha, as she suddenly looks up, as then some sound can be heard from Lite headset, as a voice appears.

  “Sup, this is smith, Lite and Misha, go to the cave entrance and follow my command, use your phone or switch on your headset to switch the signal group, goodluck”

  As Misha and Lite hopped off the snow piles, surrounding what seems to be a dead forest,with all the trees without leaves, as the wind blows, all around.

  Misha on coms.

  “Lite, wear your goggle, let’s go”

  As lite pulled the squad goggles, as the area are now colours that of thermals, but also some ui, on the side of the screens seems to be a name, the signal group, which have rows of names. As they walk through the snow on the left beside the roads, a small mountain cliff has stone pillars all around, with the entrance not that of a small cave, but a giant gate which the dark seep through beyond the gates, all around them are pillars up high.

  As Lite through the ancient structure.

  “Lite, c’mon, stop looking around and let’s go.”

  As Lite looked forward, with Misha now a little further away.

  “Right, let’s go”

  As Lite checks his rifle, cocking it slightly to see the shell inside, which slightly glows.

  This place is quite big, it is a cave or a gate to an ancient city. Whatever this is, dying or being lost here will not be a good Idea.

  Now walking on the stone pathways, walking towards the abyss that eats light that entered, is something I never planned to begin with…