Story [Issue 14] Blue Lights Over the Night Sky

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The Sequel to "A Bright Beginning"

 

"Sir! I'm stuck in a paradox and I keep dying and reviving back to the same spot!" I yell at my commander without the smallest hint of disrespect. 

 

"Why are you not in the battlefield? We need back-up there and you're here babbling about some ridiculous dream of yours? Do remember that all the money you need to support your family is coming from us, and the last thing we need is for you to be dreaming about your afterlife. Now, get out there 'cause we got people dying!" 

 

Having nothing better to say, I walk off back to my desk to retrieve my keys to pop the lid of my tank. I've never actually taken time to see the beauty of the new weapon now on my tank. I walk up to the front to take a closer look. It is beautiful, probably not to any bystander you'd find on the streets, but to a tank driver that has seen more weapons than people. The rail is engineered and made to perfection. Every hole in the barrel is carved out to satisfy exact measurements, and the whole interior and exterior are well polished. It is practically the gun of the century, but revealed at an early stage when no one knew what it was. Getting over my crush over a tank weapon, I open the garage door and drive the tank out of the garage. 

 

I know I'm not dreaming. Everything was so real...

 

I start to devise a plan. My temporary one was just to avoid death, and it is not one I would like to stick with. With the Hornets we're given for this mission, a smoky critical could easily turn the plan into one of my nightmares. I want this to end, I'm only here for a month, I want to get back to my family. I look at the picture, and attempt to focus on finding one before driving onto the battlefield. I thought of the process of my previous 'near death experiences'. The only thing I can think of is that button of light. I need to find out what that was. I plan to get to the light, and find out what it can lead me to, since it is the only thing common before all my flashbacks. I look at the map and on the east side of it, there is a treeline. Not a line of trees, but a forest cut up to until that little section was raised, in which was unaffected by the development projects. 

 

I need to get my tank smuggled through there, all of the ricocheting bullets flying around would be too dangerous to be walking on the field. Even in the forest. Now, I have two enemies. The opposing forces, and my team's forces, who have no idea who I am or what I am doing in the forest.

 

I drive around the side, while my friends are focused on another part of the field. Bullets are landing beside and flying over my tank. Some bullets hit the side of my tank and one makes a loud boom, but luckily it was not a direct hit, and they ricochet off the trees or go through them, so less damage occurs. I reach the other side, and I get behind the enemy lines after taking out two enemy tanks that were guarding the entrance into the area. Driving my tank around, I try to relocate the object that was glowing when I was apparently 'resurrecting'. Finally, I find it inside a large building made of glass. Carelessly, I drive my tank right in to try and take a closer look. The glass building crumbles and falls. The loud falling sound of glass alerts a couple enemy tanks, and they come at me. Here I am, stuck in the middle of the round beside a fallen building. I'm surrounded by enemy tanks in no more than a couple of seconds, and I am destroyed. Clicks and a brighter light from the middle of the rubble, I return to where I started, with the group of my fellow tankmates.

 

I dreaded this, now I have to start all over again. This time, I have a plan and experience. I recall that the glowing object was a crystal. It controlled my destiny. But why just me? The string of questions throughout this whole blurry event floods my brain as I cannot hear the sounds of the battlefield anymore. 

 

Night, it was the only way I could get past without anyone seeing me. This is the safest thing to do, and it is what I will do, talking to myself. 

 

Evening came, and soon, the sky was all dark. I hide a couple of miles away from the battlefield and from my friends, where I will be safe and unnoticed. Cowardly, yes, but I survived long enough. Now, it is the chance I've been waiting for all day, it almost feels like weeks.

 

Finally, the sun has moved away from our position, and all I see are glowing streaks of light made by the rails and the glowing full moon with a sky full of stars. The stars are just a wonder...the sky is so brightly lit by so many little lightbulb-like objects shining down. I feel inspired by something, by stars. Once again, they remind me of my family, and how they're just looking down over me, protecting me, and helping me get over obstacles like these.

 

Suddenly, I snap out of my daydream, or night dream as of the current setting, by a shell that barely misses me and lands in the middle of the tree trunk at the edge of the forest. Back in on my own mission, I drive into the city, only to find myself facing lots of enemy tanks already swarming to my position like ants and my tank as bait. In an instant, the enemy tanks are taken out by rails and my road is clear. I turn my turret back, and I find that my team is supporting me; getting into the city is our objective too. I smile inside my tank for a split second, and even though no one could see it, it was a smile of thankfulness. We continue to push in, and along the way, we kill over 50 tanks that come at our small group. I recall all of the surroundings of when I first went into this unknown territory in my last failed run.

 

One turn later, I find the dimly glowing crystal. It isn't as bright as before. I get out of my tank while my friends surround it and help guard the intersection to the building. Walking into the lobby, the crystal is there, in the ground. It is planted in the ground, and it wasn't coming out. Enemies are closing in, and we're running out of time. Something has to work, or all this is going to be useless.

 

And then, what I realize is that the solution is lying right behind me. It has to be it. I am destined to do this, and we as a team can get this done. Now, it's just a matter of time...         

 

 

 

[marc.anthony 101]

Awesome!

But why does everyone take the rail as the new weapon,the cool weapon,etc.?

[donut70 97]

I don't know I quess he just chose to.

[ognjen556 231]

Rail is cool so it's a fair reason to choose it

[Finesse 968]

Nice

[Eragon 13,876]

nice good work

[I.EatMyBullets 497]

Why Was It Edited By Lhamster ?

[SpreadLoveNotHate 374]

He put in the picture at the top :)