NightTide: The Girl With Red Eyes

Shortly after I raised my hand from her head I felt the ground shake. She didn’t seem to care though. I needed to see what that was, since I got the promotion I can seal doors so that only an equivalent rank or higher can open it. “You stay here. I need to see what that was.” No response, just sobbing.

I opened the door and sealed it behind me. The ground shook again. I saw several guys in armor run my way. One of them stopped in front of me. “Private! Gear up were under attack!” He ran off.

I had to find my room so I could get my armor, I ran around for a bit and the shaking got more intense, though now I was hearing explosions… and gunfire. I did find my room, I ran in and found my armor on the bed. It was those plates that cover my chest and legs and that cloak, along with the mask. I put it all on and ran outside. Now I needed a weapon. I couldn’t find one, instead of wasting more time looking around I found a group of guys in armor running. I followed them since it seemed they were heading to where the explosions were.

At least I was until the floor gave away and we fell several floors. Luckily, we all survived the fall but two of the guys got hurt badly, one had a broken leg and the other one had a bone sticking out of his arm. Two more of them helped those two away, that left me and three others there. The two that got hurt left their weapons behind. I couldn’t hold the rifle properly so I grabbed the pistol instead. The ground shook again and the explosion was very clear. The four of us ran in the direction it came from.

When we got there, it was a mess. This building was large, I’m sure it’s foundation could handle this though. There was a line of other people wearing armor. They were hiding behind a barrier, they looked scared. That’s when I saw people wearing Red and White armor rushing into the building, they were firing at us. I had to run behind the barrier as well but two of the guys didn’t make it. It was me the other guy in the group and what looked about ten or so other people wearing armor. They were shaking, maybe they’ve never fought before? Come to think of it everyone was shaking, there was also an irritating buzzing noise but it was very subtle.

It was a mess we’d pop out and fire, then pull back in and they’d pop out and fire. We were like that for a while until I heard mechanical noises. Before I could look there was at least forty of those training bots rushing out with rifles. They were pushing them back out of the building. The bots weren’t going down very quickly, the only thing that took them out was grenades; they didn’t react to bullets much. Everyone around seemed to get more confident and we all pushed behind the robots. We used them as shields and fire back at the ones in red and white.

We were pushing them back. We got out of the building and they all vanished. It was like they were never here. We all spread out to look and couldn’t find a thing. Or so I though, those guys were gone. There was something else here. I heard screaming, I had made my way around the back of the building and started running back around. Right when I got around the corner I was met with a fist to my gut, I couldn’t breath and got tossed to the side.

I slid up against a wall and tried sucking in air for a few seconds, whatever hit me decided to leave me alone and go after someone else cause I heard more screaming… Then it went silent. I went to stand up and heard a large pounding noise, then lumbering footsteps towards me.

It was Owen, “RED!!!” He was running towards me when someone large, they were a little taller than him side swiped him.

His attention got off me and he started fighting whoever that was. It was weird, it felt like I was watching two titans duking it out. I went to run over there and try to help but was hit by someone else, I backed away but they still got me in the leg, it hurt; but it wasn’t a bullet that hit me, it was someone’s foot. I looked to see who attacked me; I saw a girl about my height, she had white hair, blue eyes, and sharp teeth… She looked just like me.

I didn’t know how to respond to this, she was just grinning at me. “W-what, who are you?!”

She laughed a little. “Oh, don’t worry you won’t be alive long enough for that concern you.”

She ran up to me far to eagerly, she didn’t even have a weapon she was going to try and beat me to death. I wasn’t going to get hurt like that again. She swung her fist at me, I ducked under it and kicked her in the stomach.

She backed off for a second. She didn’t seem phased by it that much. “Oh, aren’t you a quick one! I guess I need to be faster than you.”

She was standing a good eight feet away from me. Before I could do anything, she was in my face and punched me. I was falling backwards when I felt her foot hit the side of my head, I spun around on the ground and the mask fell off. It was broke in half, there was also blood dripping from my head. I tried getting back up but her boot stepped on my head forcing my face onto the cement.

I could feel the grin she had burning into the back of my head. “Oh, well isn’t that disappointing. Stand up!” She lifted her foot up and it sounded like she jumped backwards.

I got up as quickly as I could and turned around. Right then she took a step back and acted like she was in shock. “W-what the hell!”

She was frozen. I took the chance and ran up and kicked her in the stomach, she doubled over for a second and then brought her fist up to my jaw. I got launched several feet up, how did she hit so hard? I felt myself start falling and before I hit the ground I felt a boot in my stomach and got launched into the building, I think I got knocked through several walls but I was more focused on how much it hurt then to count. I was covered in shattered cement, it was to heavy and I couldn’t move.

Everything hurt, my vision was blurry and It was hard to breath. I could see outside and Owen was losing his fight. The guy was hitting him in the face, Owen was trying to shield himself. I saw Kayla running over with a knife but she got swatted away, it looked like Owen saw it and got angry. He pushed his way up and slammed the guy in the face with his fist. He ran over to Kayla picked her up and carried her off somewhere.

I don’t know where they went but those two didn’t seem interested in following. My head was pounding and my chest hurt, I couldn’t move with this rubble on me and the girl seemed to look where I was at. That guy charged into the main entrance and I heard gunfire right after. She started walking towards me, it took her a minute but she found me and knelt down. I couldn’t move my neck to look at her and just pretended to be unconscious.

She sounded disappointed. “Hey, you there, I know you can hear me. Do you honestly expect me to think you’re that weak?” I didn’t move. “Alright then, so what was your name? Red, right? How about I find that guy and his girl gut them both. Is that what it would take to get you to fight me seriously?” She was going to try and kill them? I tried getting up but the rubble was too heavy, whatever I did made it worse and I felt my leg being pushed on harder, there’s no way the brace was still usable at this point. She laughed mockingly. “Well shit, I thought someone who looked like me would be more of a threat. You’re nothing but a disappointment. I think you need some proper training, not what these whelps can provide.”

She stomped on the back of my head, it caused me to smash my nose on the ground. I guess she thought it knocked me out and lifted the rubble off me, I don’t understand why she’s so strong. She lifted me off the ground and threw me over her shoulder. I had to think of what to do, I didn’t know what she planned to do with me but if I tried to fight back in this position she might kill me. I ended up using my last resort again, my teeth. I bit a chunk out of her shoulder.

she screamed and threw me to the ground. “Ah! You little shit!” I got up but right when I did she punched me in the stomach, it felt like it was slow-motion. I felt the pain rip upwards from my stomach to my throat, I could feel my ribs cracking all the way up and vomited blood.

I was leaning over on her arm; my body was shaking and I couldn’t breathe. She pulled her arm away and I fell to the ground, she was mumbling something and was holding her shoulder. Everything was going black when she walked over and started dragging me by my collar. I couldn’t think of what to do.

I guess I said something but it seemed to irritate her. “I don’t understand what’s happening anymore…”

I did everything I could to try and stay awake. I needed to get away from her but I couldn’t move anymore, I remember seeing that tall guy walking out with the girl, how did he get her out of the room?

She saw me on the ground and grew a large grin. “I guess you had fun then Jessica?” the girl that looked like me just laughed… Jessica. A truck pulled up and I got dragged over and tossed in it, the other girl seemed to be protesting Jessica’s decision. I blacked out when the truck started to move.