Last Hope

Last Hope

Jesse Quinones

Copyright Jesse Quinones
2014

Publish by Jesse Quinones Publishing at
Smashwords

Mission 1 Shoot First and Ask Questions
Later

It was the first mission out of many,
how could it go wrong? The task was simple. Kill everyone who calls
themselves the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty is an
organization that believes that our world is corrupt.To put an end
to it, they want to kill everyone in politics, and when humans
starts to run around in this world with no law or order, they shall
rise. Many organizations has tried to do this kind of stuff before
but nothing like this. The Sons of Liberty is everywhere. There is
a son in every single country, killing presidents and dictators
left and right. They don’t have a specific color, so it’s hard to
identify them in battle because they don’t wear anything that would
make them stand out above the rest. So the X Project was born. An
elite underground military organization where there is only one
job. Defeat the Sons.

Over at B.A.S.E (Basic Army
Supernatural Elements) Commander had chosen four lucky soldiers to
go out on the first X mission. Over in the War Room He was giving a
little speech to his soldiers. “You four are the first to go on a
mission for X, If the mission fails much more will be at stake than
what you may think. The mission is simple, near a graveyard we
spotted for Sons. It’s going to be a four on four battle so watch
yourself and each other. Denis Morozov, you are going to be the
leader for this mission, don’t make me regret that and make sure
that you bring each one of these men and women home tonight. With
that being said, hurry up and get into the harrier.”

Each one of the soldiers stood at
attention and all of them yell out “sir yes sir!” Then each of them
ran to the aircraft.

During the plan ride Denis started to
make conversation to get to know his new teammates better. “My name
is Denis Morozov, it’s an honor being your leader for this mission.
Who are you three?”

One of the ladies ran her fingers
through her hair and gave Denis a reply. “”I’m Mandisa
Dubazana.”

“
Alright, thats a tongue
twister.” Denis said with a chuckle, what about you
two?”

“
I’m Igor Vasilyev. I grew
up with a rough life, so this is normal for me.”

“
Have you ever killed anyone
before Igor?” Denis ask.

Igor gave a slight smile and said “I
have, when I was very young I remember it all to well.”

Denis got the shivers a little bit from
Igor’s answer then he turned his attention to the last squad
member. “Who are you ma’am?”

The female soldier look at him and very
calmly tells her name. “Katrina Chepurnova, my family gave me this
name because I was a disaster like the real Katarina that happened
a long time ago.

Denis gave himself a loud clap and a
fake smile on his face. “I know war is never fun, but we all can’t
be this gloomy, let’s make a deal to make this more interesting
shall we? Denis got the attention of his squad mates. After the end
of each one of our successful missions let’s eat our big. To make
things more interesting, the person with the least amount of kills
has to dress up as the opposite gender for the whole day, the day
after we all get back home.”

Mandisa started to bust up with
laughter. “I see why Commander made you the leader. All right,
deal, let’s have some fun with this.” Denis look around to his
other two squad mates and both of them smile and gave a little
nod.

As they land on the ground, Katarina
and Denis move up together, and take cover behind two benches. “I
see two of them.” Katerina told Denis softly. “They are inside the
building where they keep dead people.”

Denis gave a little sigh.
“Really?”

“
What? I don’t know what
that thing is called.” Katerina admits.

Igor move’s next to a gravestone for
cover but it gets destroy so he moves up ahead a little bit more,
next to the stairs before the building.

“
Cover me.” Denis told
Katarina as he moves up next to the doorway. Denis fires inside at
one of the targets. He made contact but he did not kill his
target.

Mandisa was able to fire inside the
house. She also hit her target but she was not able to kill her
target. Igor fires inside, but misses. Igor gets fired at again,
this time he got hit. “Are you ok!” Denis shouts.

“
I’ll be fine, don’t worry
about me.” Igor reply as he was moving to better cover.

Mandisa fire inside again. Mandisa was
able to hit a grenade inside the building or some kind of explosive
that kills both targets inside the building. “Target’s down.”
Mandisa said when the smoke clears.

Both Denis and Katrina went to check up
on Igor to see how he was doing. “Igor you ok? you got rip apart
pretty good out there.” Denis told Igor as he was checking the
wound.

“
Want me to shove this
grenade up that big mouth of yours?” Igor told Denis. “I’ll be
fine, I can still move and fire a gun. We got two more targets
left, kill them and get home.

Mandisa hears some noise coming from
afar. “We should all go inside the building, I think I hear more
troops.” Everyone rushes inside and reloaded their
weapons.

Denis gave some more orders. “Igor,
annoying as you are, I want you to stay behind. Mandisa and I will
head on out to take of the other two men then return to you two
understood?”

Igor just chuckle a bit. “You just want
me to dress up as a girl, don’t you?”

Denis gave a little smile. “You got me,
take care you two.” Denis rushes outside and was able to spot the
last two Sons.”Contact!” Denis shouts as he fires his gun. He hits
one of the targets but was not able to kill his target. Mandisa
fires at same target, kills it.

“
I can’t stand here and just
watch. I am going to go help out. You stay here.” Katrina told Igor
as she too runs outside next to a bench.

Denis quickly notices that Katrina left
Igor inside the building. “Kat! what are you doing out here! Get
back inside that’s an order!”

“
No can do sir!” Katerina
shouts back. “I am not going to let any more of my soldiers gets
hurt.” As soon as she said that. Katrina got shot at but the
bullets miss her.

Mandisa throws a grenade and was able
to kill the last target. After the explosion Deins let out a small
sigh of relief. He turn towards Katrina. “Se, we had it all under
control, and when I say we I mostly mean Medusa over there.” He
points over at Mandisa who had the biggest smile on her face.
“What's so funny?”

Mandisa snickers some more. “Remember
when you said that the one with the least amount of kills has to
dress up as the opposite gender?”

The following day Denis, Katrina and
Igor were the most talk about soldiers at B.A.S.E as each one of
them had to dress up. Igor was in Sic-Mad for five days but he told
Denis that he made all the female nurses smile by wearing a female
nurse outfit. “I feel stiff.” Katrina told Denis as the two of them
were sitting in the lobby room trying to eat some lunch. Katrina
had to wear a man’s suit.

Denis had to wear a dress, and since he
was the leader, he had to put on makeup and every other accessory
there is. “I feel very, expose.” Denis told Katrina as he sips on
his coffee.

“
I feel richer.” Mandisa
told everyone as she came from the behind as she told them what was
going on. “I am going to be part of the special Assault Class from
here on out and I got a very nice pay raise. How’s the
dress?”

“
Fuck you.” Denis told
Madisa. “Next mission, the loser is going to dress up as a chicken
or something, so they could have a mask to hide their
shame.”

Mission 2 We Are Not Alone

Commander was in the War Room briefing
Denis on his next mission. “For your next mission Denis, you take
Igor, Katrina and Soto to this abandon warehousing storage unit.
Rumor going around that four Sons are trying to put cargo in these
area’s. Fine them and eliminate them at all cost.”

Denis stood at attention and yell out
“Sir!” In a very commanding voice.

“
Soto?” Igor said back with
a question.

“
Yea, ever heard of him?
This is mission number two and even though it has been a few days,
you, Kat, and I have only talk with each others. Medusa is too busy
with her Assault Class training to talk to us rookies
anymore.”

Igor gave a little chuckle. “I am sure
that Mandisa will be joining us on a mission in no
time.”

Katarina Chepurnova came from behind
Denis in the dorm room as both Igor and Denis were cleaning their
guns before the mission. “Just got a text, are we on another
mission?” She ask with a smile.

“
You are more lively than
last time Kat, what’s going on? Did your master fed you catnip
today or something?” Denis ask with a warm smile.

Katarina simply gave a little blush
then said. “On our first mission, I thought that one of us was
going to die, Seeing how we all work together to defeat the enemy.
I don’t think any of the Sons can kill us, especially if we train
hard.”

Denis gave Katarina a pat on her head
and with a warm smile. “Nothing is going to happen to us, I promise
you that.” As Denis told Katarina his promise Sergio Soto came
through the doors. “You must be Soto, you are a nice addition to
the team.”

“
Thank you sir.” Soto said
in a handshake.

“
I’ll introduce everyone for
ya. Over here on the left we have Egor, on the right we have Kat
and I am Denis the Menace, and you are going to be Soto-San from
now on.”

Soto was kind of confuse at his own
nickname. From where he came from in Japan, it was polite to call
someone from there last name and it was an honor to be called san
at the end of your name. It means that the people like you, did
Denis already knew that?”

As the squad touch grounds, Igor runs
to the left and admittedly spots two targets. Denis moves to get a
good shot at the first two. As he moves behind some cover two more
comes from the side. “Watch the sides!” As soon as Denis said that
he got shot dead.

Denis was right next to Igor when he
died. “Already!” Igor said in shock, this had just
started!”

Soto took aim at the men that killed
Denis but miss.Coming from the front one of the Sons moves but igor
miss. Igor took aim again and still miss. “Igor calm yourself!”
Katerina yells out. If you can’t concentrate then don’t fire your
gun and waste your bullets!” Katerina fires at same target, hit but
not kill.

The Target that Soto was shooting at,
shot him back and wounded Soto. Soto moves and kills his target.
Katerina fires at her same target. She hits her target again but
not kill. soto moves next to Katerina. “One more from side.” Soto
states.

The last target from the side went to
move, Igor fires at target but misses still. Igor, leaving the one
on the side alone, moves close to Katerina's target and kills it
with a grenade. Soto was also able to kill his target from the side
with a grenade.

“
Reloading!” Igor shouts as
Katerina moves closer to fine the last target. She gets shot at but
the bullet did not hit her. Katrina spots her target, takes aim and
fires. She was able to kill her target. “All clear.” Katerina
states.

“
Lets get out of here before
more shows up.” Igor told everyone as they all made it back to the
aircraft. On the aircraft it was a little bit quiet then Igor broke
the silence as he spoke to Katerina. “Looks like you were right
after all Katerina, one of us did die, just happens to be on this
mission and not the other one.”

There was a small memorial for the
fallen soldiers. So far Denis Morozov was the only name on the
wall. The memorial was quiet for two reasons, the first one being
the fact that the soldiers were honoring their lost. The second
fact was that Igor, Katrina and Mandisa was all wearing chicken
suits. Katrina could still hear Denis words as if it was only
yesterday. “If I happen to die out there, then I want you three to
dress up as chickens!”

“
Chickens?” Katrina said
back with confusion.