Code Alpha

CH 3: Time Loop-ed

"Jeth, go grab some spray paint in the armory."

"Why would I?"

"You don't want the rebels to shot us down just because they mistook us for working with the Empire, right?"

"Fine! Just this once."

"You, the one with the long hair. What happened to your face?" Blackshot asked.

"This is my birthmark." Jem says.

"Oh, I thought a bomb exploded in your face!" Blackshot says.

Eric laughed while Jem just stared at them.

"Go with Jeth, we are going to guard the crates."

Jem followed Jeth as they walked towards the armory, avoiding enemy patrol.

"What's your name?" Blackshot asked as he started loading up the crates.

"Eric." Eric replied as he helped Blackshot load up the crates.

"What are you going to do with the spray paint?" Eric asked.

"Going to cross out the insignia of these guys, we don't wanna get killed by them, do we?" Blackshot says.

"So, what is this agency you are working for?"

"What agency?"

"You said you're an agent of Red Shadow?"

"Red Shadow? Never heard of it." Blackshot lied.

"But--"

"This is the last of it. Look spud, stop asking questions about the agency. You might be working for the other side and that could jeopardize the whole agency. I can't trust you and we're all not suppose to speak something about the RSA especially to strangers like you." Blackshot says as he carried the last crate inside the truck. "By the way, call me Blackshot."

Suddenly, four Voktan soldiers were walking briskly towards them. Eric immediately aimed at them and took a shot, killing one.

Blackshot did the same as he aimed at the bad guys and then opened fire.

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"Alright, follow me." Jem says as they walked towards the armory.

Jem, using his left hand, slowly opens the door. Jeth silently enters as Jem guard the door. Suddenly, Jem heard a muffled screaming noise.

"Hey Jeth, are you alright?"

"Yeah, just stabbed an idiot right here." Jeth says as he grabbed some spray paint which was used by the soldiers of Voktan to paint their armors with any color they fancied.

"This should make him happy." Jeth says.

Jem saw two Voktan soldiers coming in to their position. They are patrolling the base's perimeters.

Jem aimed their guns at them started firing, killing one.

The Voktan soldiers were wearing armors same with the marines in Starcraft. Except that their armors were a little smaller, brownish in color with a yellow secondary outlining color.

The remaining soldier fought back and asked for backup.

"Jeth, be quick!!" Jem says as he fired a shot against the enemy.

The soldier fell down. But three came up behind him. The soldiers started to fire, Jem rolled to his right, evading the shots completely. Jeth came out of the door but almost got shot so he ran towards Jem.

"Dude, what the heck did you do?!" Jeth asked.

"I just shot an incoming enemy, is there something wrong with that? Wait, where's the spray paint?" Jem asked.

"In my pack. Now let's go!" Jeth says as he turned at the soldiers and then opened fire.

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"There they are!" Eric says as he pointed at Jem and Jeth.

"Good, now let's move out!" Blackshot says as he fired another shot against the enemies who were trying to kill them while Jeth and Jem were absent.

Eric took the wheel while Blackshot took the passenger's seat. Jem and Jeth hopped inside the cargo section of the floating truck.

Eric started the engine. The truck started to float above groumd withing a meters. Eric drove towards the exit in an attempt to escape the incoming forces.

"Let me use the turrets." Blackshot says as he climbed up to man the turrets.

As soon as Blackshot was already manning the turrets, he picked up his detonator from his pocket, wait a few minutes for the truck to get out of the blast radius, and destroyed the whole base.

"What the F*&% is he thinking?!" Jeth screamed as the shuttle truck shook violently from the blast.

As soon as the smoke was cleared out, five motorcycles which bear the insignia of Voktan appeared behind them. Two soldiers were riding the motorcycles.

Blackshot jumped down to instruct Eric.

"Eric, set the voice command on." Blackshot says.

Eric did what Blackshot told him to do.

"Autopilot on, destination, Insurgent camp." Blackshot says.

Blackshot returned from the turret. He aimed at the nearest and started wasting some bullets at them. The first target exploded. The remaining four fought back but Blackshot aimed at the next target and let out multiple shots.

The soldier started to lose control over the motor so he ended up clashing to the other motorcycle.

"Three down, two to go." Blackshot says.

Blackshot aimed at the fourth one and started firing, taking him down. The last motorcycle was about to launch a rocket. Blackshot switched to his pistol and aimed at the rockets. The soldier pressed the launch mode. The casings in the left and right side of the motorcycle slowly reveals the rockets. Blackshot fired a shot at the rockets, setting the motorcycle in flames. Couple of seconds later, the motorcycle exploded.

Blackshot jumped down below. He approached Eric and told him to stop the truck since they forgot to mark the insignia. As soon as they stopped, Jeth opened the truck's scaffolding and started arguing with Blackshot.

"What the heck did you just do and how the heck did you blew the whole place to pieces?!" He barked.

"While you guys were busy shooting your friends with your 'primitive' weapon back inside the weapon warehouse, I rigged the whole place with bombs."

"What if those guys track us down?" Jeth asked.

Blackshot extended his hand at Jeth as a gesture to give him the spray paint cans.

Jeth handed over the spray paint at Blackshot. Blackshot started to work on marking the insignia with a 'X' sign in both sides of the truck.

As soon as Blackshot is finished, the team continued on their way.