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1“After game: it”

They were riding along, the soft humming of the engine lulling him to sleep. People around him were frantically pacing throughout the M.B.O (mobile base of operations). He felt himself drift of to a strange dreamland before he was woken up by the combined forces of a boot kicking him off the cot and gravity. “ About time you woke up lazy bum!” Sam his commander harshly yelled.

“ I’m up, don’t yell so loud.” Mark complained rubbing his head

“Don’t yell so loud, what?” Sam said pushing him for the correct response like she always did.

“Ma’am.” Mark said still tending to a throbbing headache.

“Good now get to your post, or do I have to let your head meet my boot again?” she said smiling while still wearing that I’m not joking either face at the same time.

“ Psychopath.” He muttered to himself as he walked back to his post at the radio

“ Did the major give you a hard time again?” Ted who was covering both his and marks post while mark was asleep asked mockingly stroking his puffy white mustache

“ yeah she did, wait why do you have a white mustache?” Mark asked taken off guard by the mustache

“I grew it.” Ted said now moving onto a full fledged petting

“Only in fifteen minutes?” Mark shouted shocked at the supposed time warp that occured.

“Uh, Sam we have a transmission!” Ted yelled stalling.

“ No we don’t! Oh wait yes we do” Mark said as he saw the blinking light at his station.

“Well what are you waiting for hurry up and receive it!” Sam with her back facing them.

He flipped the switch and a voice boomed over it “A silo has been located three kilometers to the north proceed to and secure location immediately” as soon as the last syllable ended the intercom went dead no time for questions.

“Mark!”

“Yes Ma’am!” he said saluting

“Repeat our mission!” she choked

“To locate the silo that launched the first warhead which started the war!” he recited not finding it any easier to bear then the first time.

“ What have been our results thus far!” Sam said trying to keep herself from crying.

“Ma’am?” he asked.

“That’s an order! She shouted.

“We have narrowed it down to a tri-state area in the former united states” he continued to recite.

A few hours later they arrived at the silo wearing their hazardous material suits or haz-mat for short, he wasn’t sure if they actually protected them or anything it was just policy.

“Wouldn’t there be a fence around here or something?” Mark said surveying the area.

“There was up until a short while ago.” Ted answered eyeing the holes in the ground that marked were a fence used to be.

Sam proceeded over to the hatch and after a few minutes of unsuccessfully trying to get it open she began shouting obscenities at it while stomping on it as well. Jack strolled over in his usual arrogant manner pushed sam aside and after a few seconds had the hatch opened.

“ there you go: righty tighty and lefty loosy.” he said with a smug grin on his face.

“Okay bye now” Sam said really quickly so he didn't have time to realize what was happening as she pushed him in with her foot.

A second there was a squishing sound, mark cringed.

“It’s okay something broke my fall.” Jack laughed

“To bad, I’ll kick harder next time!” sam shouted smiling but with the I really will tone.

Jack screamed a second later and they hurried down as fast as they could. It took a second for his eyes to adjust to the light but as soon as he did he saw a mangled corpse stilling rotting on the ground.

“Oh god no.” he said with a mix of shock and disgust. He looked around to see that the others had the same reactions on their faces.

After they moved away from the corpse the found a man scratching at the wall with a diamond he was etching something into it.

“Hey you! Look at me when I’m talking to you!” Sam shouted finally unstrapping her M-16 and putting the barrel up against the back of his head.

“Ahhhhhh so you’re the guests.” he said in a calm tone while continuing to carve into the wall.

“Did you etch these as well?” asked Ted examining the description of a baseball bat.

“Oh no no no no no no, they did it” he said pointing to the other room

Mark went to investigate the room on orders from sam and saw two bodies, older than the one in the entrance one appeared to be holding the other

“Two bodies both dead from gun shot wounds .25 caliber berrata if I had to guess.” he yelled back.

“Sicko, did you do this?” Sam growled glaring at him as she pushed him up against the wall with her gun.

“No no mo po hehehehe,” he let out a childish giggle “they were like this already.”

“ He’s right, the second on shot himself after killing the first.” mark said reentering the room.

“Uh oh,” said the man calmly as he turned around “ it here.”

Meanwhile in the M.B.O Roger was dozing off instead of watching the radar like he should and as he snored a blip came on screen and started moving swiftly towards him.

Sam got a message on her headset but before she could answer it the line went dead.

“Ted go check it out” she said as she sent Ted to make sure Roger wasn’t slacking off like usual.

“You got its ‘tention it very angry very angry” the man said with a child like calmness “ play time over sleepy time now.” the said as he produced a glock from a holster underneath his arm.

“Wait what do you mean by “it”?” Sam shouted.

“Uh oh it mad bye bye.” he said with a grin before putting the glock to his head and pulling the trigger. Blood splattered the wall

“oh god” jack said looking at the picture that went with the inscription. It had broad shoulders with masses of what he assumed was muscle, with skin stretched over the face so you could see every ridge in it and claws the size of its arms protruding from a mass of flesh where the right hand was supposed to be.

“What is that?” Sam ask horrified.

“It...” which was all Jack was able to say before they heard a scream that belonged to Ted which was followed by a blood curdling howl.