Part 3
To Daniel's surprise, they didn't accuse him of sexism. Went off, and got four bags labelled with each of their names. They all pulled their camo over their casual clothes, and picked their weapons of choice. Daniel, a L86A2, Cospra and Brian, L108A1s and Grave, a M82 Barrett rifle. Shelly was given a L85A2 and a bayonet. Susan returned in her fatigues, and much to Daniel, Grave and Brian's (who were considered the gun nuts of the squad) surprise an EM-2 Bullpup. "How the bloody hell did you get your hands on one of those?" Grave shouted. "Well, I found it inna antique shop. Sennit to a couple o' friends, they fixed it up real nice, modded it a little. It's now pending fer becomin' the standard rifle of the British Army." she explained. "Isn't it, like, sixty something years old?" Brian asked, still confused. "Yeah. Still, it 'ad a great design. It can shoot normal bullets now, aswell."
"Bad as you remember her?" Cospra whispered to Daniel. "Not really." he replied. For once, he actually meant it. "Well, let's get going." Brian said, and they climbed inside their transport. It was a Saxon, built for ten people, so it was surprisingly roomy. Their driver had a stammer. "R-r-right then, l-l-let's go." he half spoke half whispered, sounding nervous. "Wake me up when we get there." Daniel and Susan said at the same time. They glanced at each other, shrugged, then lied down.
When Daniel woke up on his own, the rest of the squad were gripping their weapons tightly. "Nearly there?" Daniel asked, sleepily. "Yeah. But get, this one of the other Saxons just got blown up, we don't know why, there was just a bright light for a split second, then it was a wreck." Grave informed him, to his astonishment. "How is that possible?" Daniel asked, bewildered. "We don't know, that's just it. Someone doesn't want us here." Grave responded. "Right, we're here. G-g-get out." their driver said. They readied their weapons and stepped out. They, along with Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, Juliet and Kilo, were going in the south. "Foxtrot Leader, this is Echo Leader, we're beginning our approach." Brian said quickly into his radio.
"Copy that Echo leader. Kilo, status?" A voice replied. "Kilo, standing by, ready to approach." Kilo leader said. "Golf standing by." Golf leader said. "Hotel squad, standing by." The Hotel leader said. But there was no reply from Juliet. "Juliet, what is your status? JULIET!" Foxtrot leader shouted. "We lost an entire squad already?" Daniel shouted. "Looks like it." Brian acknowledged, and shrugged. "And I don't care, we're going in anyway." He added, glancing over at a terrified looking Shelly. "Grave, cover us."
As Grave was walking in the opposite direction, he clasped a hand on Daniel's shoulder, "Be careful, mate." he said, quietly. "Will do." Daniel replied, confidently. Brian started leading them into the interior of a large, unfinished building. All the squads met in the centre, around a large, incomplete room. There was a trapdoor in the centre. All the members of the squads looked down at it.
"So, who wants to go first?" An American private said. "I volunteer my squad." Brian said, and opened the trapdoor. "Daniel, Shelly, Cospra. You're up." Daniel jumped down first, Cospra after him, and after much reluctance, Shelly. Daniel put a Kevlar helmet with a lamp on, for what was the first time in his life, Cospra and Shelly did this also, and switched on the headlamps. They were standing in water. "God, it stinks down here." Daniel grunted, "A sewer, maybe?" Cospra suggested. "N-No." Shelly stuttered. "What makes you say that?" Daniel asked, not shifting his view from in front of him. "L-look!" She screamed, pointing downwards. Daniel looked, and he saw that he was not standing in water, but blood, there were a few bits of flesh scattered around, and rats feasting on them.
"Holy shit!" Daniel shouted, Cospra screamed, and Shelly was too scared to do anything. They turned and ran in the direction of the trapdoor, but when they got there, it was closed, and they could not open it. Daniel used his radio, "Echo leader, this is Echo 2, do you copy? Echo leader? BRIAN!" Daniel shouted. But there was no answer, only static. "Shelly!" Daniel shouted, Shelly looked as though Daniel was going to ask her to go on. "Wait here with Cospra." he finished, much to her relief. "You can't mean..." Cospra began, but Daniel cut her off. "Yeah, I do. Now stay here while I check this place out." Daniel said, forcefully.
"Daniel." Shelly shouted, but it came out as a near-whisper, "Be careful." Daniel looked at her, he had never loved her so much in his life than at this moment. "Will do, sis." he said, and ran onwards. After about five minutes of running, he heard an incredibly loud thud from behind him. He turned around, and held his gun over his shoulder, he then heard a quiet moaning, that sounded almost zombie-like. He made no noise, but what was approaching him was getting near quickly, loud thuds came one after another, not even a second between them. Then, the grotesque shape stepped into the light of Daniel's headlamp, it was a corpse, fresh, by the looks of things, Daniel could still smell the blood, but it was walking, well, running rather, towards him.
Daniel tossed his gun on the ground, drew his knife from his arm sheath, and stabbed it in the stomach as it made a jump for him, quick as a flash, he pulled out his sidearm, and shot it three times in the head. It was still. Daniel cleaned his knife with water from his canteen and sheathed it and holstered his pistol. He picked up his rifle, and said "What the hell is going on here?" Just then, he heard gunshots going off from behind him. He ran, twice as fast as he had come, to the sound. Worried for Cospra and his sister.
When he got near to the underground entrance, he could see one of the creatures attacking them, he aimed at the creature's head, and fired to bullets through its head. It just collapsed on the spot. "So, find anything?" Cospra asked, her gun smoking. "Nothing except another one of these things. Anyway, I have a plan, stand back." Daniel said. He pulled out a grenade, pulled the pin out, held it three seconds, dropped it, and ran. The explosion made him trip. They all climbed out rather hastily.
The instant they had a soldier stepped forward and threw a large explosive down the hole, another slammed the door shut. Another covered it with a metal plate, and another bolted it to the ground. "You guys okay?" Brian asked. "Yeah, fine." Daniel lied. But something was odd, as he looked around, there were corpses all over the ground, some like the creatures he had encountered, some human. About half of all the soldiers that came here were dead. "Those things were up here too, I see." Daniel said, tiredly. "Can I get some fucking help over here?" A medic shouted in a loud, hoarse voice.
Cospra ran over to him, "What happened?" she asked. "One of those things pulled his bloody leg off!" the medic responded. Upon seeing the victim's face, Cospra clasped her hands over her mouth. "DANIEL!" She screamed. Daniel ran over. "What?" he asked, puzzled. But it was already evident what was wrong. The man who was lying there, who was almost dead, who had a bloody stump where is leg used to be, who was covered in blood, and smirking weakly, laughed and blood came out...
It was Grave.
Yeah, you won't get it if you haven't read 2010. But the site's down, so you can't really. At the moment.