Suddenly everything goes quiet. The bombs stop going off and the bullets stop ripping through the air. I look out of the remains of what provide cover for the platoon. What was once a nice little farm house is now a shattered remainder of death and destruction. As I look out from behind my cover I see yellow clouds of gas slowly making there way toward our position. "Renegade get on your gasmask " Renegade replies with a nod and puts his gas mask on.
As the gas overtakes the small farmhouse the wounded men in the platoon who can still move without much pain start putting on their masks as well. As I look out through the haze of the gas I see four lonely figures moving through the the haze. At first I'm worried about who they are. Could they be friend or for. But then to my relief I hear the magic word meaning friend. A young feminine voice starts yelling at the top of her lunges
As if like a siren in call the voice yells the phrase Rock'n. I quickly respond back with the phrase Roll'n to assure them I am a friend. The four shadows run towards my position and get there just as the gas clouds start to disappear. As they come in the farmhouse I notice that the one the heavenly voice came from is a young lady no older then I.
As she walks towards me I take off my gas mask. She instantly stops and stares. "Private everything okay whats your name?" She takes off her mask and says "yes sir everythings fine just a little shellshocked is all. Oh and my name is Pvt. Fox sir" "Ok well I'm Pvt. Beccue and that is Pvt. Drake." "Call me Renegade"
"Ok so Beccue and Renegade what happened to the rest of your platoon?" "Well we got ambushed. We took shelter here when the machine guns started firing. Renegade has been healing the wounded and I've recently had to take command since half my platoon is dead." "Ok well me and my group got ambushed to. Only me, Sgt. Ceña, Pvt. Kinzie, and Pvt. Johnston survived."
Renegade looks up from changing a bandage on a wounded soldier. "Hey umm Pvt. Fox right? You gonna take off your mask?" Pvt. Fox looks at Renegade "Why do you can stop staring at my butt and focus on your work." Takes off her gas mask. I see her gorgeous face and even though we are in the middle of a battle I start falling for her er.
She looks at me and says "Pvt. Beccue u ok?" I respond "yes of course. Its just wasn't excepting such a pretty face in a war zone ." Renegade grins then looks out the window and his grin disappears as quickly as it came. He says in a grim voice "guys I'd hate to break up this love fest but we got a huge group of enemy inbound and boy do they look pissed that we're still alive. "
"Ok Renegade you stay here and work on the wounded. Fox you and me will guard the south side, Ceña, Kinsie, and Johnston guard the north. " We get in position just as the enemy artillery and mortars start going off all around us.
The earth started shaking as explosions went off all around us. Then the machine guns start firing from all sides. I yell to Pvt. Fox " Aim for the muzzle flashes of the machine guns. We need to disable them." She looks back at me and says randomly " You do know that your friend Renegade is a girl right?" I look back at her as she starts shooting her M4A1 taking careful aim. "What are u taking about Renegades a guy." I say as I start shooting my own M4A1 into the enemy. "She went to basic with me. I recognized her right away." She says as Renegade looks up and says "Joe enemy soldiers coming in from the east."
I look at Renegade and nod. "Roger that. Fox u stay here and cover this side. Ceña cover the west just in case. Kinsie your with me on the east. Johnston stay on the north." Everyone replies with a roger that and goes to their new positions and start opening fire on the enemy forces.
Me and Pvt. Kinzie both start shooting into the enemy soldiers as they start throwing grenades and molotov cocktails at the farmhouse. Pvt Kinzie starts reloading as she asked "What were you and Fox talking about?" I look at her and reply "I don't think that is any of your business soldier. Now keep shooting." "Yes sir" she replys!
I start looking around as Fox runs up to me and says "Beccue the enemy has started to retreat" I stop firing "good everyone meet down by the wounded. Now" Soon the six of us are all sitting next to each other by the wounded. Renegade looks at me then turns away. I look at Fox and she nods. "Renegade can we talk real quick?"
She walks off and I follow. She immediately turns around and slaps me. She hits me so hard o fall on the ground. "Oww what the crap Renegade. I just wanna talk about y you didnt tell me you were a girl?" "Your not mad?"
Renegade walks off and I follow her. She turns towards me and says "I'm a girl." "I know. Fox told me. " "Ok your not gonna stop being my friend are you?" "No I trust you to watch my back ." "Ok good. By the way I will tell that Fox is single. She told me back during basic." Suddenly bombs start going off and machine guns start up again. We all run to our fighting positions and start putting up a stiff resistance. Me and Fox take up the defense of the south side of the farmhouse.
Me and Fox are shooting when suddenly Sgt. Ceña starts yelling "I'm hit oh god I'm hit!" I look at around and then Fox looks at me and says "Cover me. I'll get Ceña." "Roger. Everyone cover fire for Fox." Fox starts running towards Ceña as everyone starts providing covering fire. It takes Fox 20 seconds to grab Ceña. Thats when Johnston also gets hit but this time there is no scream for help. He got hit in the arms, lungs, heart, and neck. Pvt. Kinzie then starts fighting back with a vengeance. I run out of ammo odor my M4A1 and switch to my Colt. G18. I start taking careful aim ad Fox brings Ceña down to Renegade who along with the now unconscious Lt. Sharp.
Is protecting the rest of our wounded soldiers. Fox grabs the ammo from all our dead comrades and starts handing out to those of us who can still fire our weapons. I immediately reload my M4A1 and open fire on the enemy again as I start seeing them retreat for the third time that night. Soon the firing of weapons dies down and once again all of us fighting from inside the farmhouse meet down among the wounded again.
We all meet downstairs as Lt.Sharp becomes conscious. He looks around and asks "Pvt. Beccue what the hell is going on? And where is Sgt. Nickels?" I look at him and say "Sir we've been surrounded by enemy forces. You've been unconscious for the last 3 hours. And Sgt. Nickels is KIA sir. As is about 75% of our platoon. Also these 3 and 1 other found us 2 hours ago. The two standing are Privates Fox and Kinzie. The wounded man there is Sgt. Ceña and the other one is KIA his name was Pvt. Johnston." Thats when Kinzie breaks down crying. "His name was Earl Johnston." Kinsie says between tears. Fox whispers in my ear "Kinzie and Johnston were engaged."