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I looked up from my zip-tied hands strapped to the chair to the doctor that was sitting across from me pen in hand taking notes. He spoke but all I heard was mumbles as I fiddled with my ties. His words became clear as I began to slip my right hand out of the cuffs.
"Mr. Kendric are you still with me?"
I looked up and spoke
"I must have drifted off could you repeat that?"
"Yes.. Of course. I was asking if your time in the USCM changed you"
"Changed me?"
"Made you.. angry, I am trying to determine what caused you to act the way you did."
My hand was nearly out of the ties, my eyes darted around the room quickly planning my next move.
"Well.. I suppose.. seeing everything I have seen.. changes someone"
"Changes you enough to do what you did?"
"What I did? You mean killing my wife?"
"Well.. Yes, Mr. Kendric."
"Maybe... But I think... killing. Killing has always been in the back of my mind."
I slipped my hand out and lunged forward across the table I gripped the back of his neck slamming his head down onto the table knocking him out as the door opened two marines charging in raising their weapons. One hand still attached to the chair I whipped my arm sideways breaking the chair across one of the marines heads knocking him to the ground onto the ground. Both arms free now I toss a stapler towards the other marine causing him to flinch as he began to fire shots, instead of a bullet going into my chest him flinching caused a bullet to fly through my shoulder. I cried out in pain as I grabbed the barrel of the gun with my uninjured arm burning my hand. I pulled the gun and in turn the marine forward headbutting him in the nose bringing him down to the ground. I looked down and stomped on the first marines hand as he grabbed at his gun breaking his fingers. Looking both ways I started down the hallway running as fast as I could my adrenaline began to wear off an I started to feel the full effect of my gunshot wound. I spotted a nano-med and vended a few items, I injected myself with a few syringes and bandaged off my wound as sirens began to blare and a loud announcement sounded off
"MARINES! WE HAVE A PRISONER ON THE LOOSE. SSGT KYLE KENDRIC HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT!".
I looked around and sighed
"Fuck..."
"Mr. Kendric are you still with me?"
I looked up and spoke
"I must have drifted off could you repeat that?"
"Yes.. Of course. I was asking if your time in the USCM changed you"
"Changed me?"
"Made you.. angry, I am trying to determine what caused you to act the way you did."
My hand was nearly out of the ties, my eyes darted around the room quickly planning my next move.
"Well.. I suppose.. seeing everything I have seen.. changes someone"
"Changes you enough to do what you did?"
"What I did? You mean killing my wife?"
"Well.. Yes, Mr. Kendric."
"Maybe... But I think... killing. Killing has always been in the back of my mind."
I slipped my hand out and lunged forward across the table I gripped the back of his neck slamming his head down onto the table knocking him out as the door opened two marines charging in raising their weapons. One hand still attached to the chair I whipped my arm sideways breaking the chair across one of the marines heads knocking him to the ground onto the ground. Both arms free now I toss a stapler towards the other marine causing him to flinch as he began to fire shots, instead of a bullet going into my chest him flinching caused a bullet to fly through my shoulder. I cried out in pain as I grabbed the barrel of the gun with my uninjured arm burning my hand. I pulled the gun and in turn the marine forward headbutting him in the nose bringing him down to the ground. I looked down and stomped on the first marines hand as he grabbed at his gun breaking his fingers. Looking both ways I started down the hallway running as fast as I could my adrenaline began to wear off an I started to feel the full effect of my gunshot wound. I spotted a nano-med and vended a few items, I injected myself with a few syringes and bandaged off my wound as sirens began to blare and a loud announcement sounded off
"MARINES! WE HAVE A PRISONER ON THE LOOSE. SSGT KYLE KENDRIC HAS ESCAPED CONTAINMENT!".
I looked around and sighed
"Fuck..."
Chapter Two, The Swap.
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I could already hear the distinct sounds of marine boots stomping on the ground, I started to run again leaving the leftover medical supplies. After dodging marine patrols for at least an hour I managed to get into a maintenance tunnel, I wandered the darkness until I heard the sounds of a someone tinkering with something. Walking out of the shadows into a substation on the base I saw an engineer hunched over a bunch of disconnected wires slowly piecing them back together humming to himself. Looking to the right I saw his hazard vest and hard hat on the table, I slowly grabbed the items and dipped back into the shadows of the tunnel donning my new equipment. I headed out of the maintenance tunnel in my makeshift engineer's outfit walking the hallways of the base, I gathered supplies slowly stopping to eat at a vending machine and gathering a combat knife sliding it into my boot from the firing range. Marine activity slowed down within the base assuming that I would have left, search parties were being formed and they headed out of the base looking for me. This made my objective easier as I could roam a bit more freely as long as I averted my gaze from the many cameras around the base. I stood in the hanger bay smiling as I watched the USS Almayer getting prepped for operations, I waited until I saw an opportunity to get on the ship. A group of marines was struggling to bring a crate on board, I jumped in and grabbed a side helping them bring it into the storage bay. Once on the Almayer, I took refuge in the janitors closet and tended to my wounds again wrapping them more efficiently and cleaning them. Once that business was out of the way I donned some janitors gear and clothes. I waited until late in the night when most were asleep or already prepped and in cyro for launch. A skeleton crew was running the show until the launch tomorrow. I wandered the halls mopping and cleaning as I formulated a plan. I made my way into the cyro chambers looking at all the names on the pods, it took a while but I finally found the pod I was looking for. My brother's pod, Apollo Kendric.
I slid the knife I had collected out of my boot and kneeled down starting the opening sequence, a quiet burst of steam and the light crackle of defrosting. After a few minutes, the sequence finished and the pod opened. I heard my brother take a breath and sit up looking around before seeing me a look of concern covering his face.
"Kyle? What...How are you here?"
"Well brother... that's a bit of a long story."
"Listen I don't want to hear it. I don't care, after what you did."
"Heh... I always hated having a brother you know?"
"And why is that?"
"Always been harder to be my own person it seems... especially since we're twins."
As he began to speak I raised my knife up and plunged it into his heart, my other hand covering his mouth as I pushed the blade deep between his ribs. His arms thrashed grabbing at me before he slowly stopped moving. I uncovered his mouth in time to hear one last word.
"Why..."
I sat and waited there for a few minutes before I grabbed the body tossing it into my garbage cart throwing some bags on top of it. I spent the next while cleaning the cyro pod of blood after I was done I rolled the cart back to the janitor's room. After swapping clothes with Apollo and dumped the body in the incinerator along with the garbage. I put everything back into its respective place and headed back to the cyro chambers and started the pod's entry sequence. I climbed in and went to sleep.
I slid the knife I had collected out of my boot and kneeled down starting the opening sequence, a quiet burst of steam and the light crackle of defrosting. After a few minutes, the sequence finished and the pod opened. I heard my brother take a breath and sit up looking around before seeing me a look of concern covering his face.
"Kyle? What...How are you here?"
"Well brother... that's a bit of a long story."
"Listen I don't want to hear it. I don't care, after what you did."
"Heh... I always hated having a brother you know?"
"And why is that?"
"Always been harder to be my own person it seems... especially since we're twins."
As he began to speak I raised my knife up and plunged it into his heart, my other hand covering his mouth as I pushed the blade deep between his ribs. His arms thrashed grabbing at me before he slowly stopped moving. I uncovered his mouth in time to hear one last word.
"Why..."
I sat and waited there for a few minutes before I grabbed the body tossing it into my garbage cart throwing some bags on top of it. I spent the next while cleaning the cyro pod of blood after I was done I rolled the cart back to the janitor's room. After swapping clothes with Apollo and dumped the body in the incinerator along with the garbage. I put everything back into its respective place and headed back to the cyro chambers and started the pod's entry sequence. I climbed in and went to sleep.
Hello, everyone, this is one of my first posts on the forums and I plan to update it by chapter using inspiration from in-game activities picking and choosing the best parts of my story in the game and transferring them onto here. Just to clarify my character will never murder bone anyone in game and these first few chapters are to give my character some volume and provide me with a better way to get in character and have fun. Anyways feedback is very much wanted, I am testing out this form of writing and i'm not sure if I like it yet so let me know what you think. Thanks for reading!
