Suddenly the elevator stopped and a gate opposite to the gate which was closed before opened and they saw a lot of genuinely horrifying creatures in front of them in huge tubes like a laboratory. "What the...." Ivan was shocked and so was the other soldier. Each consist of a nemesis. Liam was most scared by this sean but still swallowed his fear and commanded with a hand sign to move forward. Suddenly the dogs started ruining here and there behind those tube-like structures. What was more surprising was that at a distance there were dead bodies of those aliens. "Deti stop " Alina tried to stop them but apparently it looked like they found something.
"Sir what should we do now? There are a number of dead bodies of those aliens who call themselves Smaug's" one soldier to Ivan.
"looks like we are not alone here, someone else is also here. " Ivan analysed the situation.
"You look quite confident saying that" Granny to Ivan.
"Well, can you come to a better conclusion ?" Ivan to Granny without moving his eyes even a little bit from the dead bodies.
"Wait, so can we assume that a human did this? Maybe the rescue team of those villagers was able to take down a few of these things." Alina to Ivan
"I hope so, I am not an alien expert but the blood is still fresh. At the very least someone has done it a moment ago." Ivan to Alina still not moving his head.
"At least now we know they bleed red just like us, and someone who bleeds must feel pain and those who feel pain are alive. And those who are alive..." granny is looking at Ivan.
"Who is alive can be killed one way or the other " Ivan finally moved his head and looked straight into the eyes of the granny and smiled a bit. Suddenly Ivan received a message on his radio earpiece "ha... haan... yes.... ok..... Copy....."
"Attention soldiers, Listen to me. Apparently, our satellites found something. It entered that cave from where we just came from hours before we arrived at the entrance" Ivan to every soldier in the room. Soldiers started murmuring to each other.
"Wait, was it a human or another alien ?" Alina asked Ivan.
"Not sure. Most probably human. But no human can climb a hill that fast and that person also reached the top of the hill without making contact with us" Ivan replied.
"So estimate how much time it took that person to climb this hill ?" Alina is based again. With this question, the room felt silent for quite a while
"8 minutes. It took 8 minutes to climb this 830-meter hill " Ivan replied and broke the silence.
"That's inhuman" Granny added her thoughts on this matter.
"Yeah, I know. That's why we can assume that there is more than one enemy we have to fight here." Ivan adjusted his belt buckle and prepared himself.
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Ivan was at a cliff of a mountain looking at a wide forest and a bunker with his binoculars. It was a terrorist bunker. It was clear that they were plotting something. Ivan put down his binoculars and adjusted his belt buckle and prepared himself. "Sir I just want to confess that we need to change the chief. The food he makes takes like sh!t. I am sure I can cook better than him" Ivan confessed all of his thoughts to his superior.
His superior patted his shoulder and "Don't worry this much. you know whenever you get nervous or afraid of something you always adjust your belt and start confessing random stuff. Keep calm and stay confident in yourself. " Superior took a long breath and said "You know I have been in the army since I was 19. I never felt I need any type of love in my life. Since I was a child I always wanted to join the army but, you know when I met her my whole life just took a U-turn."
"What sir ?"
"I met my wife. It was a trip to New York long ago during my holidays. It was love at first sight. At that time related that even my heart lurk for love."
"Wow, how did you meet her ?"
Ivan's superior hit Ivan with a gentle chop on his head."You are pretty excited to know about my love life".
"Well yes, by the way, you are the one who started the story so you should end it as well"
"Well, you have a point there. So, the first time I saw her she was working at a cafe as a waitress. When I was about to order my food she came close to me and asked..."
"What she asked?"
Ivan's superior hit Ivan with a gentle chop on his head again "What a waitress asks. Obviously Asked me for my order. What did you think she asked me for marriage before got to know me"
"Aahh.. So tell me already"
"Well, apparently how the actual story started was at midnight of the same day. When I was going back to my hotel room I took a shortcut and was going through a dark alley when I saw a couple of jerks beating up a fat old man. They sure don't have a sense of dignity towards the elderly. I think they were probably after his money. So that's why I bet the hell out of these jerks."
"They were still alive even after you beat them so badly ?"
"Well yeah I tried to hold back but I am pretty sure I broke the robs of one of those fools. So, don't you wanna know what happened after that "
"Yes, please. I mean you are swirling the story at one single point from the beginning of the story. Honestly, I am getting pretty bored. "
Ivan's superior hit Ivan with a gentle chop on his head again "Already want to proceed to the main dish directly. Ok, let's continue so apparently that old guy was the owner of the cafe and that waitress was his daughter"
"Talk about co incident "
"Yeah I know, after that incident, the old man offed me free food in his cafe and often invited me to have dinner with his family and slowly I got to know his daughter."
"Wait just like that "
Ivan's superior hit Ivan with a gentle chop on his head again "I am skipping all the boring parts just so I could finish the story quickly for you and now you are complaining."
"Sorry, Mind not hitting me every time"
"Not happening guy I am your superior so I am allowed to do whatever I want, besides am also responsible for everything which will or may happen to my squad."
"So what happened after that."
"Well after getting to know each other I often helped her with her work. Like cooking and cleaning not sure I was helping or increasing her workload tho. And about after 1 month of continuous trials, I finally took her on a date on a cruise ship and just so nothing goes wrong I booked the entire cruise for myself although there were cheaper options but she once told me that she wanted to ride a cruise someday "
"Wow, the entire thing."
"Yes, it really took a heavy toll on my wallet tho. It was a clear full moon sky I called her on the deck of the cruise and asked her if she would marry me....."
"Did she accept it? "
"I told her she is my wife am I not."
"Aaah..... you really nailed it didn't ya"
"Yup clearly, Now I am one of the happiest men on earth. But I think my wife had another thing coming. Now I could be a father anytime."
"Woooo.... Wait how many mounts has it already been?"
"9 months "
"9 already"
"Yup see would be giving birth anytime. After this mission, I will go back to the US and most probably see the face of my newborn child."
"Are you nervous"
"Yup, I feel like my heart would pop out anytime out. I was not able to sleep from last... I don't even remember how long it has been since I didn't get proper sleep, the only thing in my mind for the last several weeks is my wife."
"I didn't know it was this stressful."
"Yup but the moral of the story is to keep calm no matter what the situation is and focus on what's in front of you. Ok now it's time to get to work"
"Sir."
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Ivan and his squad came across a bunch of rooms and corridors. Every one of them was different from the other. Some had mining tools in them, some looked like a surge room with a rotten directed body on its bed, and one room looked like the pipeline control room but the golden transparent liquid was definitely not water. It looked like diluted petrol. But no matter which room they came across they encountered one common factor, the dead bodies of Smaug. They were the guards we were guarding this entire facility.
At a distance, while they were staying still at a point in the corridor they heard a noise. The noise was that of explosions and metal hitting metal.
"did you hear that?" Ivan asked Alina.
"Yes clearly," Alina replied.
"I am finished planting bombs here. Ivan, If we are going to move ahead then we should inform our backup party first." Granny suggest to Ivan.
"They are already hearing everything through our wireless" Ivan replied.
"What's the status sniper, everything alright? Have you acquired a safe hiding spot" Ivan asked the only sniper of the team and head of the backup party.
"Everything under control sir. No movement detected till now. I have my eyes on the entrance. I am on a tree perfectly camouflaged " The Sniper replied.
"Good. HQ are we ready to move out" Ivan after taking the staus and asking if his squad is allowed to move.
"Squad W this is HQ. Squad W you are allowed to move." HQ to Ivan.
"Copy, You heard the HQ guy's time to move out." Ivan to his whole squad.
The entire squad shook their head in unison and started moving one after the other. After walking at a distance they saw a closed door which was pretty similar to the door you see in a Sci-Fi movie. As they were about to reach the door suddenly got destroyed and landed in front of Ivan's feet. It was smashed by the head of a Gada (mace).
The Gada's (mace) head was attached to a heavy thick chain. Suddenly the head of Gada got pulled back via the chain which was attached to it, back of the room from where it came from. The entire squad was in shock at what just happened in front of their eyes. With some courage, Alina with her dogs moved towards the entrance and witness a horrifying bloody battle between 2 monster like beings.
"Didn't think you would be behind all of this. You are the one, now I understand everything..... it's because of you that everything started. It's because of you people of my world suffered. You are the cause of this madness. ." A man in a feathery black coat from his shoulder to his feet coved in black attire with a wooden mask pointing his bastard sword said.
"What the hell you are even saying I don't even know who the hell you are" Reteri moved his Gada and his ball-like head came rotating straight towards the man with the wooden mask from behind his back.
"What the... get out of the way.." Alina shouted but that man jumped moments before that ball could make contact with him. His jump was like that of an Olympic athlete. The ball landed exactly on its handle. It didn't look like it was ever detached, It formed a perfect Gada.
The man with the mask laned and closed the distance between them and strike with full force. But, his opponent used his Gada as his shield to stop the attack. The force of the attack was so much that even the shockwave was visible. "You are Reteri. The creator of 27 blades of Reteri or I should say 27 Onslaughts didn't you." Reteri Pushed him back and laughed "its been 20 centuries since someone called me by my name. My real name that is. So tell me Kid did I destroy your world like the others Ha..Ha..Ha..." Reteri laughed.
"No, you didn't. But you were the cause of it. You are the living incarnation of greed. " The man continuously attacked Reteri and mand him continuously step back.
Reteri swing high Gada and The masked man jumped back. "Seems like you are one of those who know the truth. I can't let you live." Spikes started growing out of Gada's ball. "So let me ask you how did you know all of this about me? It would have been ancient history for you and I am not even from your universe so it doesn't make sense." Reteri moved his Gada and its ball-like head detached and launched straight towards the masked man. The ball hit the wall and dusted clouds make it impossible to see through. "I didn't hit you so stop playing dumb. You were not even close to the wall so, show me where you are hiding."
"heads up you jack@$$"
"Haan..." Reteri looked up and saw that the cot he was wearing was not a coat but was his wings he wrapped around his body. "Tell me boy what is your name?" He asked.
"Twilight"
"Twilight, Ha..Ha..Ha.. you are twilight, sure know how to make matters interesting."
"You have heard this name before then tell me "
"Maybe, maybe not how do I know? Ha Ha Ha..." Reteri swing his Gada again and its head came flying straight towards Twilight.
Twilight used his sword to block the attack from behind.
"FOOL!" Reteri commented.
The spikes on the Gada shot out like needles and pierced his chest & wings. Twilight fell down to the ground.
"You seriously thought I would come unprepared? I have fought more battles than you have seen days in your life boy. There is no chance you would win, not after infiltration of my lab" Reteri lift the head of Twilight and was about to remove his mask. Within the nick of time Twilight played his card. He placed his palm on Reteri's shoulder.
A thin stream of water paired through the shoulder Reteri's shoulder.
"Did you think that I came here unprepared "
"Nice you destroyed my left arm. You certainly know your way on the battlefield. You didn't even lose your grip on your sward did you."
"I don't want a compliment from a scum like you"
Twilight closed the gap between them in a matter of seconds and "I was trying to aim for your heart not for your shoulder but looks like I missed a golden chance". Reteri blocked it but the impact was so huge that he went flying...