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Chapter 4 - Alive

Johnny stands up as he goes out of his tank.

"What a weird dream," he said.

A shadow passes inside their cockpit, as the systems blinking red inside. He looks and sees Genesis' ship out in space.

"Oh no," he said in shock.

Johnny rushingly takes the M4's out of the container and opens George's tank.

"George, genesis is here, wake up Luke will you," Johnny said.

"Um.. Luke is all the way in the engine area it's too far," George protested.

"Oh yeah, of course," Johnny said.

Johnny passes the m4 to George.

"Here, take this and get cover," Johnny said.

The hatch opens as George fires and the enemy soldiers' return fire. Johnny takes cover at his seat.

"Oh, shit!" he shouted.

Johnny sees George firing his gun as bullets ricochet around and sparks leading in his direction, but misses.

"Allahu Akbar!" George shouted.

George receives a bullet in his eyes as Johnny sees him laying on the container and gets finished off by the bullets destroying his face. Johnny shouts in anger and fires back. Johnny receives a bullet through his chest as he falls down.

Johnny barely breathing and blood spilling his entire mouth and body as Yuri approaches him.

"Pity," Yuri said.

Yuri shoots his head as the flashback images return, and a blinding light appears. Johnny wakes up from his tank heavily breathing as he walks out of his tank.

"Oh my God!," he shouted.

He wipes his eyes and quickly barred off the opening of the hatch by putting two pieces of metal at the handles to block it. He goes to the crew's tanks and wakes them up. George and Val's tank open as they stand and look at Johnny.

"Johnny what's going on?" Val asked.

"Yeah why're you shutting in the hatch?" George asked.

"Genesis is here," Johnny replied.

"What? How?" Val asked.

The hatch seeks to open as Johnny blocked it. The metals didn't budge as they hear gunfire from the other door trying to shoot it down.

"Oh, shit!" Val reacted.

Johnny tossed them M4's.

"Get ready to fight," Johnny said.

The sound of gunfire from the other side stops as everything falls in silence. They look at each other, thinking maybe they gave up. Explosion erupts as the hatch gets destroyed. Smoke envelops and could not see a thing.

Everything slowly clears up as they see a hole in the hatch and bullets fly from it as the intense exchange of gunfire happens between them. Val gets shot and tries to retreat to George, who's shooting at the enemy.

"Hey," she said.

"Not now, Val!" George shouted.

"I think I won't make it," she said.

"What?" George asked as he looks at Val.

He sees Val already on her last breath and dies in front of him. He cried in carnage as he takes her gun and tossed it in the middle for a distraction. He takes a leap of faith and rushes them towards the side of the hole and taking cover.

He sees Johnny already low on ammo as he stops shooting. They look at each other and Johnny takes out a grenade. Johnny sees George's wound on his stomach as he shakes his head and blood drips from his mouth.

Johnny looks at the window and his grenade, and the hole, thinks about it. He pulls the pin and throws the grenade at the hole. He misses...

"Fuck!" he shouted.

KABOOM! he sees the blinding light of the explosion and wakes up in his tank again.

"Here we go again," he said.