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Chap 5.

"I was saying how you would say you are ******** up from what's happened to you" Danni said, very clear and to the point.
"Well, I guess I would. Also, meet the new member of the team." I said as I set down Chiru. She was shy, and hid behind me.
"It's fine. These are good people. My best friends. You can trust them." I motioned for her to go introduce herself, and Elizabeth picked her up and hugged her.
"Hi! Welcome to the Wolves Reunion team!" Elizabeth said, before hugging her again.
"Thank you. What's your name?" Chiru asked, accepting the hugs gratefully.
"Elizabeth. That's Danni, and Kindert, Fox, Blair, Karin, Kit, Marx, Callahan, Alex, Lo' rial, Johnson, Brick and Victor." She said as she pointed out each individual member of the team.
"Hiya. So, what can you do that's so special Blind brought ya here?" Brick asked.
"She's a Cryo, almost fully mastered, and only Eleven." I said.
"Damn." Kindert said.
"I know."
"So, what'd Jeremy want?" Alex asked.
"He wanted to meet me at the Memorial. The one for Noble-Point. Where we should've died." I replied, fully honest.
"Ahh. And how did you meet her?"
"We were attacked. Pyro, Necro, Her and a Mutant. Necro was usin the bodies of Mitch, Mop, Free, our sister, Ace, and his wife and daughter. We beat em out, but couldn't kill Chiru. I guess she and I are both lucky."
"Right. Any ideas on why you were attacked?"
"Not a clue."
"Great. Now we got people trying to kill you. Wonderful." Danni said, obviously pissed.
"Uhm...Alexander, I think you should see this." Lo' rial said. I went over to her.
"Seriously? This doesn't surprise me." It was a large manifestation of infected activity near Chernobyl, in the Ukraine.
"Well guys, dress for the cold. We're going to Russia."
"Wohoo." Danni said, still pissed.
"Uh, Danni, can I have a word with you?" I said. We stepped out, while the team geared up.
"Are you on the ******** rag today?" I asked. She slapped me. I deserved it, I guess.
"No, you are just acting like an a**." She said, as she stalked off. What the hell did I do this time?

"Alright, I want Op-Scan online, and systems running smooth."
"Yes, everything is up and running." Lo' rial responded, through my headphones. She was baby-sitting Chiru with Brick and Blair. They seemed to take a liking to her. We were dressed for the winter. I was in my Black Armored duster, with Combat armor leggings and thermal armor for chest wear. Combat boots on my feet, and my Ushanka for head wear, and a Balaclava with Op-Scan sun glasses on, to hide my identity, to prevent more national slander. The rest were dressed essentially the same, with minor differences, and different head wear for identity purposes.
"Dude, is that the same Ushanka you wore during Noble-Point?" Alex asked.
"Yup. Haven't washed it since. Still got Mop's blood on it from when her weapon backfired and I used it to staunch the wound."
"Damn. You two were the perfect war couple."
"Comes from the guy who yelled "THIS IS A DAMN WARZONE, NOT A HOOKUP SPOT" when I saved her life my first day on the squad."
"Um, Excuse me, but COUPLE? Why did I not know of this?" Danni exclaimed, furious.
"Sorry, I thought you knew." I said.
"You and I are having a ******** private talk when this is over, Okay?" She said.
"Yes ma'am, whatever you say." I said, grateful my balaclava was hiding the grin I had.
"Oh, you are in deep s**t man. The ball and chain is pinning you down." Marx said, before being punched in the face.
"Ow. That hurt." He said.
"Don't be a smartass, or Kit wont have those kid's she wants." She replied, to which Kit giggled.
"Okay, Can we get SERIOUS NOW!?" Kindert yelled, summoning the courage he usually doesn't have.
"He's right. We need to get on task." Alex said.
"Chernobyl is just ahead. Watch your backs. Freaks are already bad enough. Radioactive Super Freaks are something I don't wanna deal with." I said, going into commander mode.


We stepped foot onto the ruined soil, and immediately were besieged. Enemies all around, but nothing we couldn't handle. After clearing them out, we proceeded to the main area of activity.
"Hey, bro." Jeremy said, and I turned. There he was, and the whole Black Echo squad with him.
"What the hell are you and your team doing here, man?" I asked him.
"Same reason you are. Take out the threat." He replied.
"Alright. We're workin together." I said. We continued on, occasionally assaulted by Mutants, but easily taking them down. Then the blizzard started picking up.
"If ya got Thermal sight's with ya, equip em now." I said. Because of my heightened abilities I didn't need a sight.A Red Dot on my SCAR was just fine.
"Uh, Blind, we got trouble." Fox said.
"What is it?"
"About 50 heat signatures around us. Small. Could be more, but my scope isn't picking up much." Good thing she's a Recon Sniper, and not a combat Sniper. She pretty much just saved our asses.
"Hold your ground. We'll stand and wait." Within minutes, they were around. Children, in little more than rags. Frostbite, disease, and just all around sickness was prevalent. They looked feral. Like they wanted blood.
"Blood...Blood will quench the Hunger..." One of them spoke, with obvious vocal chord injury. Then, they attacked. A girl leaped at me, and with my reflexes I caught her by the waist.
"Shoot to kill. This is survival, not defense." I said, before promptly ripping the snarling girl in my hands in half, and tossing her limp body towards the other children. They were upon us.

"God. That was... Demoralizing." Kindert said.
"Yeah. You never feel the same." I said, consoling him.
"Says the guy who casually ripped a little girl in half with his bare hands." Danni said, words full of venom.
"God dammit Danni, what the hell do you want from me? What did I do this time? ******** hell. This is war. If I have to rip children in half to defend my self, I will. I'd do the same for you, and the rest of my team. Stop bitching right now, and b***h at me and hit me all you want when we get home." I said, bathed in gore from the aftermath.
"Right. Let's get moving." Welker said. Welker is part of Black Echo, the squad my brother commands.
As we moved on, trying to purge the images from our heads, we heard a maniacal laughing.
"Well well well, look who it is. Alexander Adamska, the boy who refused our offer!"
"God dammit. Not right now." As soon as I said this, the treeline to the right burst into flames, an the left was simply sucked into a blackhole.
"Everyone but Elizabeth, Danni, Alex and Jeremy, get the hell outta here. Now. If you encounter ANY resistance, kill them. I don't give a damn. Get out." I knew what was coming.
"Awww, isn't that cute. Sending away the Non-Bios, so they don't get hurt. Well, let's play with the ones left~" Another voice said.
"Uh, Blind, what the hell is going on?" Elizabeth asked.
"The self proclaimed Biotic Councel. Just a group of idealist's who think they have power. They're hellbent on forcing me into it, which I refuse to join. Give them no mercy."
"You shoulda left my team here. They are all Biotic." Jeremy said.
"Too late now." I replied, as we grouped up. The five of us, in a small square formation, backs inward.
"There is an incredibly large chance we will die. All of us. So, don't take chances. Elizabeth, I need a full shield up, even covering the ground below us." She did as she was told, and they appeared. Seven of them, all with a unique power. Blackhole, Pyro, Space Manipulation, Strength, Speed, Necro, and Psionics. We were ******** nine ways from Sunday.
"I'll be damned if a bunch of FREAKS kill me." Alex said.
"Hey, that hurt" The other four of us said.
"You're only here because you negate biotics." I said.
"I know."
"Well, lets do this s**t." Jeremy said, and we leapt into action.
The easiest to kill was the Necro. I dodged around his puppets, and sliced him in half, then quartered him. Then, the Speed one came at me, and slammed into a wall made by Elizabeth.
"Dumbass." She said. He jumped after me, and I slowed everything down, pumping his chest with buckshot. Two down, five to go. Blackhole was being a pain in the a**, along with the Space Manipulator. They would make matter, absorb it, then have it launched from somewhere else. Psionics was blowing holes in Elizabeth's shield, and Pyro was going toe to toe with Danni. Jeremy was fighting Strength, So Alex and I teamed up to take on Space and Blackhole.
"I got an idea, You form a bubble around the matter, and I negate the black hole. Once and opening forms, wail em with it." Alex said.
"Deal." Space made some, and I caught it, and Alex leapt into the Blackhole, canceling it out. I slammed Space with his own matter, and then dispatched him with a few slices and a bullet to the face. Blackhole then disappeared, and I attack Psionic. He sent his mind blast's at me, and I countered them and kept trying to shoot him, but he would vaporize the bullets. Jeremy sent me a wave pulse, telling me to tune my movements to his, and I did. We were dodging together, and I lead him right into Strength, who accidentally crushed him, before being torn apart by our guns. As soon as I turned back, Danni had blown out the Pyro's brains.
"Well, what now?" Elizabeth asked.
"Now you die!" Blackhole yelled, and created a blackhole behind us.
"Prepare to-" Was all he got out before being beheaded by Alex's Ka-bar.
"Did the dumbass really think he killed me? I negate biotics. Nothing effects me."
"Welcome back." I said.
"Thanks, but I wasn't gone for long."
"Well, we should regroup."


Memories are there, but darkness will consume them.