Chapter 14 - Pink...

I stared outside the roof window of the sickbay… I saw tiny snowflakes twirling down, which was rather odd. It was only the beginning of October and yet there was snow. They treated us for the wounds we had from the crash, and Shifty’s condition was still critical. As for me, I wasn’t that badly injured. I was in a warm, comfortable bed, so I wasn’t complaining… The deep cut in my leg kept on opening, like it didn’t want to heal. Walking went rather painful and it didn’t get any better that the same leg was dislocated. I noticed I had a bandage was wrapped around my head. I had a wound on my head without even knowing. But I did feel it, except I didn’t know it was that bad… The medic said I need a lot of rest, and keep walking to a minimum. I wouldn’t mind… All I ever did was to catch up on sleep… [br]
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I wasn’t alone in the room. The last room got crowded so I got placed in a different one, along with some others who weren’t in the crash. And that girl with the glasses was next to me. She never said anything to us but that night, she turned to me… [br]
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???: How are you doing…? [br]
Blain: … What…? [br]
???: How are you…? [br]
Blain: Eh… I’m ok I guess… I’m still alive so… It’s not that bad… [br]
???: Hehe… [br]
Blain: … You? [br]
???: I’m doing alright… I twist my ankles but… I’ll manage… [br]
Blain: Ah, that’s good to hear… [br]
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???: That sure was a bumpy ride, wasn’t it…? [br]
Blain: Hehe, yeah it was… I can’t help it that Jarod drives like an idiot… I mean… Heh…[br]
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???: I’m Kitty… [br]
Blain: I’m Blain… [br]
Kitty: Nice to meet you…[br]
Blain: … Likewise…[br]
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Kitty: *sighs* [br]
Blain: Hm? [br]
Kitty: I wanna get out of here… [br]
Blain: You just got here… I mean, there’s no safer place to be right now…. [br]
Kitty: No, no, I mean the sickbay… [br]
Blain: Oh? [br]
Kitty: … Yeah… There are hundreds of people seeking refuge in the base, and all I do is just sitting here while I could go look for people in the crowds… [br]
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Blain: Same here… But I don’t complain of the way they treat us… I mean… Hot food, nice showers, getting pampered like that… It’s way better here then to be out there you know… But still… I’m very eager to look for people myself… But it’s not like their going anywhere… If their here, they’ll stay… [br]
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Then I noticed she fell asleep. I wasn’t that boring was I…? [br]
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It stayed pretty much the same for a week. I talked to Kitty a lot and was discharged from the sickbay. After she left, it was rather boring and dull around here. One by one, everyone from the room got discharged from the sickbay, except for one guy. Talking to him didn’t really help at all, because he was in coma and died a few days later. Luckily, Tavish, Jarod and Rico visited a lot and whenever they came over, the time passed a lot faster… Then one evening, Jarod was visiting me alone… [br]
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Jarod: Evening sarge… [br]
Blain: ‘Sup Jarod? How you doing?[br]
Jarod: I can’t complain really… Still have to take a rest, but at least I’m out of the sickbay… [br]
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Blain: Hehe, and the others…? [br]
Jarod: Well, Rico keeps on doging his @$$ hurts and that I drive like shoot. [br]
Blain: And Tavish? [br]
Jarod: He’s doing very well. He said he met some girl he likes. [br]
Blain: I thought Jarod didn’t want a girl… [br]
Jarod: Yeah same here. I thought Tavish was a fag when he said that, but guess I was wrong. He just doesn’t shut up about her. [br]
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Blain: So you had to get away from his blabbering then? [br]
Jarod: Yup… One of the reasons… Also to check on how you were doing, sir. [br]
Blain: Jarod? [br]
Jarod: Yes, sir? [br]
Blain: Cut out with the formalities and manners here, will ya…? [br]
Jarod: Whadda ya mean sir? [br]
Blain: The whole “sir” and “sarge” thing… It’s not like we’re in the MNAF anymore… Just call me Blain… [br]
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Jarod: Yes sir. [br]
Blain: … Blain. [br]
Jarod: I’m sorry, but it’s something I gotta get used to. [br]
Blain: Hehehehe… [br]
Jarod: Anyway, how you’re doing…? [br]
Blain: Well, getting better actually… Just a few more days and I’ll be out… [br]
Jarod: Oh great, you’ll get to see Tavish’ girl then. [br]
Blain: What’s she like? [br]
Jarod: … Well, obviously not really my taste, but… She’s pink. I mean… Pink for frack’s sake… Do I need to say more? [br]
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Blain: Hehehe… I get it… [br]
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Jarod: Yeah… Good…[br]
Blain: So who’s running this place? [br]
Jarod: Some captain or something barking out orders… [br]
Blain: He does? [br]
Jarod: Yeah, we even got human POW’s. [br]
Blain: What?!! Ow!! frack!! [br]
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I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Human prisoners of warfare…? You gotta be fracking shootting me… I was so baffled by that, I jumped up, but it hurt my leg… [br]
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Jarod: Easy dude. [br]
Blain: How many…? [br]
Jarod: Around forty or something… [br]
Blain: Forty?!! What the hell are they planning to do with them?! [br]
Jarod: No idea… [br]
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Something wasn’t right about this whole deal. Especially with the forty prisoners. Whoever this captain might be, he sure was making the wrong decisions… Forty prisoners…? What the hell is he planning to do with them…? Not only would they drain our supplies, but… It’s a total waste of energy… And letting them go, isn’t an option… If we let them go and they got picked up by GUN again, they would know our location and could jeopardize this entire facility… No… There had to be another way… I kept on thinking throughout the night, but couldn’t come up with a solution… [br]
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A week passed by… The first thing I did once I was discharged from the sickbay was to take a really hot shower. I found a small room which would serve as my “house’. It contains a bed, a few chairs, a table, wardrobe and that’s it. A small bathroom with a toilette… A sink… I got out of my uniform and took a shower… Then I wore my tank top and the pants of my uniform along with the boots and flopped down on the bed… Fresh bed sheets… [br]
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Then all of a sudden, there was a knock on the door. [br]
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Rico: The captain wants to see your sir. [br]
Blain: I’m on my way. [br]
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I got up and looked for the captain. Regan was talking to him when I got to them… [br]
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Blain: Sergeant Blain, reporting in as ordered sir. [br]
Captain: At east. [br]
Regan: Look who’s finally out. Hehehe. How you doing? [br]
Blain: Hmm. Can’t complain… [br]
Captain: Alright, enough chit-chat. You guys know why I summoned you? [br]
Blain/Regan: No sir. [br]
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Captain: Alright. To cut a long story short: You guys got the highest rank in this whole base besides me. I want you guys under my supervision. [br]
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Blain: Doing what, sir? [br]
Captain: To keep everything running here. [br]
Regan: I see. [br]
Captain: Follow me. [br]
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We followed the captain to a lower level of the facility. We reached a place full of high security technological stuff and saw lots of steel doors. At some point, we reached a place that was known as “the shoothole”… As soon as the captain opened that door, we knew why it was called like that… Forty humans, all packed up behind steel bars in different cell blocks… As we were walking through, they all yelled at us and called us names… [br]
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Captain: Alright!!! Shut the hell up!! I got a message for ya!! [br]
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Then they all shut up… [br]
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Captain: This goes for the new guys we picked up yesterday!! Welcome to your new home!! We will make sure we’ll make you’re stay as pleasant as possible!! If you have complaints, write them down on a note!! And then you can shove it up your @$$!! If you have complaints about the food!! Write it down!! And sergeant Regan will help by shoving it up you’re @$$!! That’s all, people!![br]
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Then we left again… [br]
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Captain: frackin’ humans… [br]
Regan: Yeah… [br]
Blain: Sir, permission to speak free sir. [br]
Captain: Go on. [br]
Blain: I don’t think we need POW’s, sir. They will only drain us from supplies… [br]
Captain: So you wanna kill everyone you get in your sight. [br]
Blain: That’s… The basic idea sir. [br]
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Captain: Do I need to remind you, sergeant that WE are on a peace mission?! WE are trying to avoid the events that happened several years ago, to avoid provoking a full blown war here!! [br]
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Blain: I risk the lives of me and my men, just to make some prisoners?! [br]
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Captain: You risk your life in order for peace to remain on this fracking mudball!! You risk it so that everyone can sleep properly at night!! [br]
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Blain: Well I hope you can sleep properly tonight, knowing you made a few prisoners which ended up in the killing of over a millions of our guys… [br]
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Captain: You are going way out of line sergeant!! Stand in attention when I’m talking to you!!! [br]
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Blain: … Sir. [br]
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Then I looked at him and walked off with Regan… [br]
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On the way, I encountered Tavish… [br]
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Tavish: Heeeeeeeeeeeeeey!! Look who’s finally out!! How you doing sarge?!! [br]
Blain: Good, good. You? [br]
Tavish: Can’t complain. [br]
Blain: Hehehe… Any word from Shifty…? [br]
Tavish: Nope… Still critical… [br]
Blain: *sighs* [br]
Jarod: He’ll be alright… [br]
Blain: Yeah. [br]
Tavish: Oh!! I want you to meet someone!! *walks away* [br]
Jarod: *whispers* Here she comes… [br]
Blain: *whispers* Who…? [br]
Jarod: *chuckles* [br]
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Then Tavish came back with a girl. She was pink, like Jarod said but… As soon as she looked at me, she was all baffled. I realized I’ve seen her face before… Took me a while to realize it was Amy… [br]
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Blain: Amy…? [br]
Tavish: … Uh… Yeah… How’d you know that…? [br]
Amy: B-Blain…? [br]
Tavish: … Am I missing something here…? [br]
Blain: It is you!! [br]
Amy: Blain!!! [br]
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Then I just hugged her as she was still baffled… I was so happy to see her alive and well… [br]
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Amy: Ow!! Easy on me!! [br]
Blain: Sorry, sorry… What… Wh-what happened…? [br]
Amy: I eh… L-let’s go to my room to talk, ok…? [br]
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So I walked away with Amy… [br]
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Jarod: Looks like she’s already taken, Tavish… [br]
Tavish: … Son of a dog!! [br]
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Once we reached her room, she knocked on the door and peeked her head around… [br]
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Amy: You’ll never guess who I found…[br]
???: Who is it…? [br]
Amy: Come on… [br]
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Deep inside of me, I was hoping it was Nicole who was waiting inside for me… As I got through the door, I was a bit disappointed to see it was Sonic… It’s not like I wasn’t glad to see him, but… The way he looked at me was… A bit freaky… [br]
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Sonic: Well, who is it…? [br]
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It was so weird… Sonic was staring right at me but… It was like he didn’t see me at all… He kept on staring in front of him as Amy guided me towards him… And… I didn’t know what was up with him… Amy got Sonic’s hand and placed it on my left arm… He felt it and all of a sudden, his eyes widened… [br]
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Sonic: B-Blain…? [br]
Blain: Hey Sonic… [br]
Sonic: Is it really you…? [br]
Blain: Yeah… How you doing, buddy…? [br]
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His hands went up to my face. He touched my face, and kept feeling it… [br]
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Sonic: It really is you… [br]
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Then all of a sudden, he grabbed my arm and gently pulled me down as he hugged me… Then Amy sat down on the bed, and all of a sudden, the three of us burst out in tears as we all hold each other… [br]
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After sitting for like at least an hour like that, questions were starting to rise… [br]
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Sonic: Ho-How did you survive Blain…? Everyone thought you were dead… We all heard about the titan being shot down a-and that there were no survivors… [br]
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Blain: Eh… The only why I’m still alive… Is… When the attack started, I was out with… A few guys from my squad… I was… at the back of the titan joking and talking with these guys… Then all of a sudden, one of the gunships caught fire and went down… And… Not long after that, all hell broke loose… The titan shield got brought down quickly by missiles… And we ran to the far back of the titan as it was going down… We wouldn’t be alive if we were somewhere else… [br]
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Amy: Ooh… [br]
Blain: But… That wasn’t the main reason why so many people lost their lives during that attack… [br]
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Sonic: What happened…? [br]
Blain: Artillery barrages… It’s eh… We lost a lot of guys and… Out of the five hundred thousand furries stationed on the titan, only 36 got out alive… And that’s uh… A colossal loss in epic proportions… *sighs*[br]
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Amy: I see… [br]
Blain: Then… We… Headed for known bases, but everywhere we went, it was the same… It all got annihilated… At some point, we found a few guys and… We got over here… [br]
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It stayed silent for a long time…[br]
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Blain: … How did you guys survived…? [br]
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Amy: I eh… I don’t really- It’s… It was so chaotic… The night we left the village… Everything looked fine until everyone started to scream and… [br]
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Sonic: *sighs* [br]
Blain: … Then what happened…? [br]
Sonic: Some… Kind of bomb… Windows shattered all of a sudden and, it got really bright… Then it was all black… And… Stayed black ever since… [br]
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Blain: … Are you blind…? [br]
Sonic: Well what the hell does it look like?!! [br]
Blain: … I’m- I’m sorry… I… [br]
Sonic: *sighs* You couldn’t have known… I’m… I’m sorry… I shouldn’t be-[br]
Blain: Hey, it’s ok… Go on… [br]
Sonic: We eh… Got here a few weeks ago… Once we got out of the city, we made our way to a depot, where there was an airtransport waiting… [br]
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Blain: And then you got to Azerbaijan…? [br]
Amy: No… The airtransport was shot down on the way… We were the only survivors along with a few others… And after walking for a few days, we arrived… [br]
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Blain: I see… What about the others…? What about Nicole?! [br]
Amy: Blain… [br]
Blain: Yeah…? [br]
Amy: You’ll have to understand that… The situation was very chaotic… And… I did see Nicole but… We all got separated in the chaos… I don’t know what happened to her… [br]
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Blain: *sighs*[br]
Amy: I’m sorry… [br]
Blain: What about… What about everyone else…? Knuckles…? Lara-Su…? Julie-Su…? Shadow…? Rouge…? … Cody…? …Tails…?[br]
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Amy: I don’t know… Tails… Tails was with us but… He got hit by gunfire… and… he… he died instantly… [br]
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Blain: What…? [br]
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Amy’s expression turned so serious and sad by the second… There isn’t really a way to describe her but… I think her said enough what she was going through when she saw how one of her lifelong friends was killed… And that’ll leave a mark for life… All she was nodding… Her lips started shaking…[br]
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Blain: Oh no… [br]
Amy: Yeah… [br]
Blain: W-what about Cody…? [br]
Sonic: *shakes no*[br]
Blain: … What…? [br]
Sonic: Cody… Cody… didn’t survive the crash… Tails and… And Cody are the only ones we know for sure that… That they didn’t make it… [br]
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Then I looked back at Amy and she nodded… Then we just sat like that for a while until I heard Amy sobbing quietly… And not long after that, we all burst out in tears once again… [br]
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After a long time, I went to my own room. I didn’t want to see anyone. I just wanted to be alone. I flopped down on my bed and cried silently… I was so sick and tired of being uncertain of things… To wander if anyone else made it… And although chances were slim that they made it, it still hit me like a brick to hear that Tails and Cody didn’t make it… But as long as its unconfirmed, I keep having hope that everyone else is still alive out there, especially Nicole… [br]
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Thinking about everything Sonic and Amy told me made me very sad… Yet again, the more I thought about it, the angrier I got. But for some reason, all I could think of were the prisoners and the captain… If he intends to keep them, I’ll make sure he wont… And if he doesn’t resign… I’ll make sure we were doing it right… I was thinking about mutiny to get this place as safe as possible… And I was actually determined, angry, and confident enough to carry it out… Alone if I had to… I’ll make sure my friends didn’t die in vein… All I need was a plan… And if the captain kept making the wrong decisions, it wouldn’t take long before everyone will commit mutiny… I didn’t know it back then but… Things were gonna get real ugly in just a week… [br]
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