"Scavengers"
The four of us walked up to the destroyed IFV. There were about 7 dead Separatists who me and Prince gunned down mercilessly. We walked up towards their corpses and went to scavenge their ammunition. I bent over on top of one guy and I saw his face. He looked young, very young, probably the same age I was. I gulped as I unstrapped his ammunition pouches, I took out every single one of his rifle magazines, we used pretty much the same weapons so we had no trouble finding ammunition. I looked up to see Elliot climbing into the IFV from the back, it had two doors that swung open. I walked over to see what he was up to, and I was greeted with a horrific sight. I saw even more Separatists dead inside the Infantry Compartment, they crammed in about 4 more guys and they must've been killed by the Shrapnel from the Anti-Tank Rocket that hit them. Their bodies were a complete mess, covered in blood and Shrapnel covering the right hand side of their bodies. Elliot looked over at me.
E: "Help me drag these guys out."
P: "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
M: "JESUS CHRIST!"
I ran out to see Prince and Miller drawing their weapons at something, they were aiming at the pile of dead bodies. I scooted over and saw one of them was still alive, crawling to grab a rifle. Charles then came around the corner and swiftly shot him with a pistol, one bullet being followed by a second as it pierced the wounded man's skull. Elliot jumped out and asked.
E: "What the fuck is going on?"
M: "One of them was still alive."
E: "You're shittin' me?"
O: "Better question is, Why did you kill him?"
P: "Yeah, why, Charles?"
C: "Did you see the state of him? He was going to grab his buddy's gun and kill all of us."
M: "Makes sense.."
O: "You must've done this alot?"
C: "No, this was my first time killing someone up close."
P: "I think today was everyone's first."
We are interrupted as Ashton walks up from behind Charles, he looks at the pile of dead bodies and then up towards us.
A: "Jesus christ.."
P: "What do we do with these guys?"
C: "Let's just bury these pigs somewhere.."
A: "Bury them in the rear, then mark the grave - Don't bother with singular graves, make it a mass grave."
M: "Let's get to work then.."
Ashton walked off, The five of us being left to dig a mass grave for these guys, Ever since that day, I felt different, well, probably all of us did. Miller and I both dragged the Separatists to the mass grave that Charles and Prince were digging, Elliot had to go up on guard duty with our machine gunner Magnus. As we all tossed the dead Separatists into the mass grave, taking off their body armor and taking their personal possessions away, I looked at Miller.
O: "Just think that they were boys like us who also had families."
M: "I don't consider them human."
O: "Why not?"
M: They're savages, They've killed, tortured, kidnapped and raped our people in the occupied territories."
P: "Oak, do you know what happened in Pervoromyl?"
O: "No.. what happened..?"
M: "The Separatists came into the town, Kidnapped the women and the men had two choices, fight or be shot."
O: "And how do we know this..?"
M: "A single family escaped and told us the tale, that town is actually just in front of our position."
I looked over in the direction of the Separatist Lines, I could just see the town of Pervoromyl through the trees, a large water tower standing tall in the distance, my mind visualizing the terror and atrocities that the Separatists committed in that town. I feel a burning anger and urge for revenge in my stomach. I let out a heavy sigh
O: "Let's just bury these guys.."
M: "Get on with it.."
Eventually, the three of us buried all 27 Separatists, we marked the grave with a wood plank, no carvings, just a wooden plank sticking out of the ground.