Bab 89: Bonding Experience

I reached the clinic, the outside was empty and the air was a little warmer. A push of the door and i was inside, a nurse was sitting on the front desk.

"Oh hello, what can i do for you?" She asked.

"I'm here to see my teammates, Marcel, Sebastian, Alina, Thalia, Mary, Lennox, Nora, and Stephen." I answered. The woman started typing something onto the computer next to her.

"Sebastian is getting better than before, the rest were actually discharged already a few minutes ago, their injuries were already healed. They might be in the quarters so you can talk to them." She explained. Healed up already? Medical tech in this place really is better.

I thanked her, exiting the clinic and walking back to the elevator, now to head to the quarters again.

A trip down from the elevator, i reached the quarters floor again. Mercenaries chatted while walking. To the hall i went, quietly walking to the room to see if they were there. As i walked closer, someone else was already approaching the door, a familiar face. Thalia. She turned to me, waving and smiling, now patched up.

"Hey Damon, what's up?" She asked.

"I was trying to find you in the clinic, they said you were already discharged."

"Yeah, wounds healed up fast. Where were you?"

"I was reading at the library before going to the clinic." Thalia eyes widened.

"Let's talk more inside." Thalia opened the door.

Inside, the rest of the team was there as well, sitting on the couch or walking to their rooms.

"Damon!" They all greeted, facing me. I waved back.

"So, what did you read?" Thalia asked. Closing the door behind us.

"I found the same book you were reading before, it's interesting."

"So you like history as well huh?" She chuckled.

"I'm gonna play with em, wanna join? We can talk later or even go back to the library after this." Thalia ended the conversation, walking to the couch and sitting down on a vacant spot, grabbing a controller.

"Wanna join us in this game Damon?" Marcel asked, also sitting on the couch. The tv was on and the same game we played before was on the screen.

"Yeah sure." Marcel threw a controller at me. Standing behind the couch, the game began, this time on a snowy area.

"This time it's a multiplayer campaign level. Were just gonna fight waves of enemies until we all get killed. Let's see who kills the most." Thalia explained.

The game started in an underground bunker, in front of us was a hatch faced upwards. a countdown commenced as we prepared to play. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The game began, on the upper left was the number 50, is that the amount of enemies? My player held an smg while the others had different weapons. We opened the hatch and went up a ladder. At the top was just snow with trees and forests in the distance. The sky was bright above with clouds surrounding it.

As i watched the surroundings, bullets whistled around my character. We all went prone, finding the shots. Soon, we began returning fire. I watched as the numbers of my ammo went down on the bottom right. from 30 to 15 in seconds, next to it was 300, the number of ammo i had left overall.

We kept shooting and reloading until the number of enemies went down to zero. Their bodies were strewn about the snowy ground. "SECOND WAVE" The large words appeared in front of the screen.

"I heard they'll have 1 or 2 machine gunners on this wave so it'll get hard, you can get ammo from the bunker along with some weapons and upgrades." Thalia explained.

The number of enemies quickly rose from 0 to 60. In the distance, i could see the enemies running towards us in the snow, clad in snow camouflage.

The others started firing with some landing some kills. I followed suit with my smg, aiming with the iron sights, i fired single shots. Some miss and some hit. The enemy numbers slowly went down as we continued. The enemies began firing at us while they ran, 2 of them were carrying larger weapons, machine guns and had bulkier armor on. We focused on shooting them but they didn't go down quickly. Soon they went prone and opened fire, a wave of bullets headed to our direction, forcing us to go low in the snow as well, patches of snow went up as bullets neared or hit us.

"Focus on hitting the head. They'll go down faster." Thalia advised. From our positions we fired, now aiming at the heads, after emptying our magazines into the helmet, the 2 gunners were killed, stopping the suppressive fire. Soon we turned back to shooting the others, now stopped and shooting. Their bodies fell back lifeless with a few shots.

The second wave was taken out, my ammo was not half.

"It's better if we get ammo before the next round begins." Thalia spoke. We went back down on the ladder to take more ammo. It was just a table with ammo boxes stacked on each other.

"Upgrades are over here along with the weapons." Thalia added. It was a locker with a small table next to it carrying attachments.

"I heard the next round would have an armored truck coming so i'll get a rocket, you guys just buy upgrades or get some ammo." Thalia's character walked away, now with a launcher on her back. I decided to upgrade my smg.

Now with mid range sights and a larger magazine, my balance went from 4500 to 2700.

"Wait who has the most kills right now." Marcel asked, his screen switched o a leaderboard. On it, my name was 2nd on the list while Thalia was number one, with a small kill gap.

"Thalia is number one now, but i bet Damon is gonna claim that spot after." Lennox said, the team laughed.