Tae asked, "What the hell is going on? How were you in my dream, and in front of in real life?"
"This is no dream, fool. Do you want me to kill you show you?"
Tae started to think about what happened before he thought he fell asleep while camping on the battlefield.
'This is weird…I was with the rest of my group as we were rescuing kids from armed rebel groups in the mountains of Hokkaido, and after we did…after we did…we were camping out there waiting for extraction, then all of a sudden…I'm here?'
"…What am I doing in here?" Tae asked Captain Yura.
"You tell me. What is your goal? Your plan-."
Tae grabbed Captain Yura's wrist, and face palmed the side of her face, slamming her into the wall.
But Captain Yura planted her feet on the wall to stop her back from hitting it, she dashed off the wall spinning towards Tae with her sword and swung at him.
But Tae held his hands up, and an M16 assault rifle formed in his hand, and it blocked the attack. Tae and Captain Yura were both shocked. They both thought at the same time, 'What?!'
Tae thinks, 'How am I doing this? It just…popped outta nowhere.'
Tae jumped over the bed, and Captain Yura was pointing her sword at Tae, saying, "You have sharp intuition and awareness, balancing each other out to illuminate a scale of experience. You must have served before."
"Yep. Yep. I did and still do. Nothing is making ANY SENSE. And right now, I'm convinced this is not a fucking dream, so I wanna know like everything. I was just in Hokkaido, fighting against rebel soldiers. They were a group of rebels who did everything they could to get the Korean government's attention, requesting a change in the laws and such. So they began to act like dumbass terrorists. They kidnapped a bunch of children from orphanages and held them hostage in camps in the mountains of Hokkaido. I was apart of the special forces. We were tasked with the children's extraction. We had also teamed up with some special forces from the Japanese.."
(FLASHBACK)
(At a rebel compound with wooden houses all over the place)
(Mountain of Hokkaido, Japan)
"Contact! Left side!"
"Hostiles on our six!"
"11 o' clock!"
"Taehyung! Do you read me?! Taehyung?! Taehyung!"
A wooden building exploded, and Tae was walking out of it, covered in blood and dirt, holding a knife in his mouth, and holding two assault rifles in both arms, and he chuckled, "They're running like little girls!"
There were many rebel soldiers running through the trees, and Tae was dashing towards them, sliding on the ground and shooting them down at the same time.
Suddenly, a rocket blasted towards him, and Tae ducked under it, and started shooting at more rebels, killing the ones in the wooden houses.
One soldier came up beside him, saying, "Tae! Don't shoot so wildly, you could hit an ally!"
Tae replied, "Huh?! What?! I can't hear ya!"
"I'm Lieutenant Kim Yoo!"
"Heh? Am I supposed to know you or something?!"
"Yes!"
"….OHHH! You're that old nerd!"
"Tch! Focus your fire on the left side of the compound, our snipers are aiming towards the right to get precise shots on rebels who are trying to take the children back! We're extracting the children on the right, earlier we had to force all of the rebels to the left with drone fire!"
"How about I just run over there and work my magic?"
"That's dangerous! Look! The children are over there! Do you what you've been asked to do! Damn youngsters. We only got one shot at this, okay?"
"…."
"Okay?!"
"Yeah, got it."
There was soldiers shooting everywhere at each other, many behind cover, and trees and boulders blowing up due to rocket launchers and grenades. Bodies were getting blown apart, and soldiers were getting shot dead quickly.
There was a squad of soldiers protecting a group of children, they whined:
"I wanna go home!"
"Mommy!"
The soldiers said to each other:
"Captain! They've brough in reinforcements, multiple hostiles were caught on drones pouring in from the east! They outnumber us heavy!"
"Well get the damn brats in the convoys and let's go!"
"Roger that! Everyone get the children in the humvee's now!"
The children were being loaded up, and soldiers were getting in with them, driving away as fast as possible.
"Go! Go! Go!"
"Hostiles southwest!"
"Take them down!"
The convoys started zooming by, and enemy convoys were chasing them. Bullets were traded back and forth, some soldiers even took bullets for the children to keep them safe.
"I got one!"
"Two down!"
"Tangos in the trees!"
"Dammit, where the hell is Tae?"
"I instructed him to aim fire to the left back at the compound!"
"For a boy his age already in the special forces, he's doing what he thinks is the best option, but he's too reckless, thinking he's invincible because he's been shot plenty times before and lived. He's completed many missions, and saved many lives. Maybe it's all getting to his head."
"Maybe that is what is best from him right now, because it's them or us at this point, we will not lose to terrorists."
"I'm choosing us."
The soldiers that were covering the children were shot, and they fell out of the humvees, and the children were screaming loudly.
Before the soldiers could shoot, Tae jumped in the way, taking the bullets for the children. Tae was holding an assault rifle in one hand, and a machete in the other hand.
Tae exclaimed, "AGHHH! HAHA! I'm not done yet! Not yet!"
Tae landed on the ground feet first, and said to his comrades, "Get the hell outta here, nerds! I'll hold them back!"
His lieutenant responded, "No! Tae!"
"Ew! Gross! We're not doing that nasty movie stuff! I'm gonna kick ass and you're all gonna dip! Now go before I blow you all up!"
Tae dashed forward and blasted more bullets, wrecking the convoys, and killing multiple soldiers inside of it. Tae leaped into another convoy, and started slashing down soldiers with his machete, taking many bullets. But, he was slowing down the enemy, the allied special force soldiers were getting away.
The lieutenant watched Tae, and said, "Tae…so long.."
Tae was then standing in front of hundreds of enemy soldiers, with smoke rising all over the place, and destroyed humvees and dead bodies all over the place.
Tae stood there dripping with bullet holes, breathing heavily, saying, "Not yet…not yet..those children…still have a life to live, and I'm for one, will not let you bastards take that away from them!"
The enemy soldiers said to each other:
"How is he still standing?"
"He's covered in bullet holes…but.."
"Guys! The special forces got away!"
"Dammit!"
Tae laughed, saying, "Thank God…now I can really go all out on you nerds!"
He rushed forward, and the enemy soldiers gasped, preparing to open fire…
1 hour later, Tae was walking through the woods, with one arm, and body and head drenched in massive piles of blood.
He tried his hardest to breathe, and he leaned up against a tree, sliding down to his buttocks hitting the ground.
He looked up at the sky, and said, "Yeah…yeah yeah yeah…yeah…I'm sleepy. Time for a nap. I'm done for the day. Let's pick it back up tomorrow…boys.."
He closed his eyes. And died.
(FLASHBACK END)
(Present Day)
Tae had tears running down his face, and Yura was just watching him.
Yura thought, 'He's..crying after explaining all of that…why…do I feel this way?'
Tae chuckled, saying, "Oh, that's right. I was actually done for that day. It took me until now to realize that I'm not there anymore. I was so used to surviving over and over and taking hella damage, I thought I was dreaming, ready to wake back up again. But..this all feels too real. Haha…haha…HAHAHA! I actually can't believe this myself, but I stilllll wanna know how I ended up here"
Yura replied, "Your lies of necromancy cannot sway me, zombie."
"HUH?! THESE ARE REAL TEARS! Besides that, are we in Korea?"
"What is Korea?"
"Yep. Yep. I'm not on earth it seems. Ughhhhh, Welp. I'm kinda glad I'm not actually dead dead, but still at the same time, ya know?"
"You say you're from another world, did the zombie gods tell you to tell us that in a dream?"
"THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE, FOOL!"
"Fool?"
Out of nowhere, Tae accidentally pulled the trigger to his assault rifle, and a bullet rang towards Yura. Yura, with a blank reaction, sliced the bullet in half, and Tae was in shock.
'She cut a bullet in half without hesitating…even in the forces, I didn't come across anyone with that fast of a reaction. She's hot.'
"UHHH, I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT!" Tae said.
"You…I brought you in here when I'm not even supposed to due to the ZBA's orders to kill you when we captured you and then study your body…now I'm regretting saving you!"
"ZBA AGAIN-?!"
Yura glitched behind Tae, and she swung her sword at Tae. Tae ducked, saying to himself silently, "She's faster…'
Tae turned around and he dropped his gun on purpose, ready to tell Yura to calm down. But Yura performed a spinning downard heel kick towards Tae, but Tae grabbed her foot, and said, "OI! OI! CALM THE HELL DOWN! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!"
"LIES OF YOUR NECROMANCY!"
"WHAT?! YOU'RE NOT MAKING ANY DAMN SENSE! It's kinda hot, not gonna lie."
Yura blushed with an angry face, and before she could throw another kick with her other foot, Tae slung her through the wall of the bedroom, making Yura roll on the floor.
She sat up with her sword and attacked Tae, but Tae was dodging her strikes.
'She's way faster than that big armored girl I fought outside. Was she possibly in that airship thing watching us fight?'
Tae was still flipping around the room dodging the attacks, and he said, "Look! Look! I shot at you on ACCIDENT! A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T! If I wanted to actually kill your ass, you would be annihilated already!"
"As one of the captains of the Zombie Battalion Association, captain of the Sword and Blade Division, you shouldn't underestimate me-."
Tae grabbed both of Yura's wrists, and they both were staring at each other, straining their arms on both sides.
Tae said, "This is nice. Me and you, all close and stuff. Love is definitely in the air."
Yura responded with a flustered expression, "TCH! Definitely not!"
Yura tried to kick, but Tae moved out of the way, accidentally tripping over the coffee table, and they both fell to the floor, with Yura landing on top of each other.
Yura's lips connected with Tae's, and they were accidentally kissing. Seconds later, they both gasped, and they leaped off of each other, crawling backwards covering their mouths.
Tae was flustered, pointing at Yura, exclaiming, "AHHHH! Y-YOU'RE MOVING TOO FAST! WE JUST MET!"
Yura pointing at Tae, "MOVING TOO FAST? YOU FUCKING HYPOCRITE! BESIDES I DIDN'T DO THAT ON PURPOSE! THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT, FOOL! A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T!"
"YEAHHH RIGHT!"
Suddenly, the wall and everything that was destroyed in the house was getting put back together, glowing with little blue dots reforming and fixing everything.
Tae watched it, saying, "Uhhh what the hell is that?"
Yura answered, "You've never seen nanotechnology before? These are nanobots. Scientists and engineers from the ZBA have manipulated the construct of them, infusing them with their own mana, allowing them to do a limited number of things."
"Mana…ZBA…Explain those to me. I keep hearing that all day. Even during that fight."
"…Mana is inside everyone, but it's just a small core of power-like energy within our souls that allows us to release it into objects to manipulate them. We put them into weapons and armor, heavy artillery and flight vehicles, and even devices around the dorm rooms of the ZBA base and all around the base by itself. And if a certain amount of mana is infused into an object or weapon, it makes it stronger, faster, or gives it reconstruction abilities."
"Annnd the ZBA? What's that shit about?"
(ZBA Base)
(Infirmary)
At the ZBA base, in the infirmary, Big Mertha was laying in a hospital bed, drugged up on laughing gas. Multiple female soldiers surrounded her, asking:
"WHAT DID HIS TOUCH FEEL LIKE?!"
"WAS HIS SKIN SOFT?!"
"WHAT DID HE SMELL LIKE?!"
"DO YOU LOVE HIM?!"
"I WANNA SEE HIM SO BAD!"
"ME TOO!"
Big Mertha raised her fist in the air, saying, "I…he is my…battle husband…!"
"OOOOOH!"
"AWWWWW!"
Standing at the door were 4 women.
Vivienne - (Age:24, Has short light brown and white hair that covered her eyes, and wore loose black clothing along with her black ZBA outfits. Captain of the Medic Division)
Vivienne asked with a yawn, "You…drugged Big Mertha…to get information…?"
Commander Esther, mother of Captain Yura - (Age: 37, has red and black hair, red eyes, and wore an eyepatch on her left eye.)
"My daughter Yura, just turning 19 years old, can be gullible to reality. It pains me. For her to harbor the truth, along with an interesting but powerful enemy. She could be dead by now."
Miriam - (Age: 23. Has green hair in a ponytail with bangs, dark purple hair, and her mouth and nose was covered with a black mask, and her black ZBA outfit was covered in small handheld guns. Captain of the Gun Division.)
"…."
Yayan - (Age: Unknown. Has long dark violet colored hair, dark pink eyes, and was always eating a bag of small chips. Captain of the Artillery Division)
"So uh, can we go to her house and kill the zombie brat or what, bro?"
Commander Esther replied, "No. I will go alone. Don't follow me."