''My Organization Takes Care of Everything Paranormal'' | BEST OF THE VAULT 2019 [EXCLUSIVE STORY]

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[Music] something I often<font color="#E5E5E5"> wonder about is the</font> origins of traditional folk tales<font color="#E5E5E5"> where</font> do they come from<font color="#E5E5E5"> is there an element of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">reality to them or latest ways for us to</font> manifest our worst fears<font color="#E5E5E5"> in something</font> tangible<font color="#E5E5E5"> yet fantastical as is the case</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in tonight's story</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this real or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> is it</font> fantasy what are<font color="#E5E5E5"> these people about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to encounter</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">on their trip to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the coals of Russian</font> Siberia<font color="#CCCCCC"> well my dear friends another</font> week is upon us<font color="#E5E5E5"> and it's time once</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> again</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> you to sit back and relax with your</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">favorite drink and a listen the darkness</font> of the night<font color="#E5E5E5"> surrounded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> everything the</font> wind howled and<font color="#E5E5E5"> blew snow through the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">giant coniferous trees but not enough to</font> remove<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> snow caked onto the branches</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I remember</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thinking that his night is so</font> beautiful only<font color="#CCCCCC"> I had the time to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stop</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and enjoy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it but the thought parts</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> could not have<font color="#CCCCCC"> forgotten the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> reason I</font> was there<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> reason I was deployed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> what most<font color="#E5E5E5"> would consider an inhospitable</font> region of the Siberian tundra<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Russians had been encountering an entity <font color="#CCCCCC">how</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there we'd seen what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it could do in</font> the village<font color="#E5E5E5"> earlier and God</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hid I was</font> terrifying<font color="#CCCCCC"> I couldn't believe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> doing<font color="#E5E5E5"> my heavy winter boots crunched</font> alone in the forest<font color="#E5E5E5"> barely audible in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the wind as I trudged</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I began to see</font> a small flickering light in the distance <font color="#E5E5E5">it turned into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and as I got closer</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through the hellish snowstorm we'd been</font> fighting<font color="#CCCCCC"> the whole</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> way</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I saw the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> lights</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">morphed into the square glass panes of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">windows</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on a log cabin this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was it sorry</font> to pull a cliche<font color="#E5E5E5"> but there is a lot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> explain<font color="#CCCCCC"> before I can tell you about that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">brace yourself because this is gonna be</font> a long<font color="#E5E5E5"> one boys and girls</font> and all<font color="#CCCCCC"> others I don't judge my</font> organization<font color="#CCCCCC"> is like a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> real-life</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">counterpart of the SCP foundation in</font> fact<font color="#E5E5E5"> we think that the whole SCP thing</font> was started by a former<font color="#CCCCCC"> or current</font> employee looking to<font color="#E5E5E5"> make a quick buck up</font> for the<font color="#E5E5E5"> idea but it got too popular</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> too</font> fast<font color="#CCCCCC"> and he had to recuse himself</font> unfortunately the fictional SCP foundation<font color="#E5E5E5"> has a lot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more funding than</font> we do<font color="#E5E5E5"> and has the actual support of</font> governments all over<font color="#CCCCCC"> the world</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the only</font> thing that we have is a modest spy network that lets<font color="#E5E5E5"> us know anytime</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fishy</font> stuff is going on you also have some pretty<font color="#E5E5E5"> good AI crawling the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> internet</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">salvaged</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from a crashed alien ship</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which</font> I might add<font color="#CCCCCC"> I retrieved but that's a</font> story for<font color="#E5E5E5"> another time</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">also unlike the SCP foundation our job</font> is not<font color="#CCCCCC"> to contain</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but to neutralize</font> guess you could call us the SNP <font color="#E5E5E5">foundation anyways back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the forest</font> there's a<font color="#E5E5E5"> Russian legend already</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more of</font> a folk tale<font color="#E5E5E5"> called Baba Yaga I could go</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">on for days</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> explaining the history and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">etymology of the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> folktale</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but it boils</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">down</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to an ambiguously good or evil</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> old</font> lady who flies around<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a mortar we</font> also pestle<font color="#E5E5E5"> and lives in a house that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">stands on chicken legs local reports</font> from military units stationed nearby reported seeing this exact<font color="#CCCCCC"> thing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> causing</font> mass casualties<font color="#CCCCCC"> in local</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> villages so the</font> Russians sent their version<font color="#E5E5E5"> of us to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">check it out they never came back</font> although world governments hate us for our far-reaching paranormal<font color="#E5E5E5"> Authority</font> and always try<font color="#E5E5E5"> to hinder us by denying</font> passports<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lake</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they always call</font> us up whenever<font color="#E5E5E5"> something isn't going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">planned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we have a few lines of</font> communication open<font color="#E5E5E5"> with government</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">officials in the field</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and a single</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">green phone that rings</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> whenever a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">non-emergency call comes in from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> one of</font> them<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was sitting in my boss's office</font> when the call came<font color="#CCCCCC"> in my boss is a</font> pretty large guy<font color="#E5E5E5"> although over the phone</font> his voice sounds intimidating<font color="#CCCCCC"> as hell</font> the phone rang and he picked it up<font color="#E5E5E5"> after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">releasing a long board sigh he answered</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> with this is Bob from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> desert dry</font> cleaning services<font color="#E5E5E5"> how may I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> help you</font> the person<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the other side</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> talked</font> frantically for a moment<font color="#E5E5E5"> before my boss</font> interrupted them saying so<font color="#E5E5E5"> basically you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have an emergency and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you need</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our help</font> again<font color="#E5E5E5"> he just called us last month I</font> think<font color="#CCCCCC"> we're gonna have to pass</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as he</font> said this last part he went to me the guy on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> line</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">started yelling practically screaming as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he said he would give us anything we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wanted as long as we got here in the</font> next<font color="#E5E5E5"> 24 hours</font> my boss<font color="#E5E5E5"> picked up a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> note pad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on his desk</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">holding the phone away from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his face as</font> he whispered<font color="#CCCCCC"> to me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he anything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you need</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> responded gleefully and upon a moment</font> of reflection<font color="#E5E5E5"> knowing I'll be going to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rush it very soon answered the newest</font> model<font color="#E5E5E5"> SVT with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hundred rounds and a</font> couple of RPG<font color="#E5E5E5"> 18s he listed off the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">items on his acquisition list including</font> an<font color="#E5E5E5"> older model t-72 and once he reached</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> end told him upon arrival of our</font> team there to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be armed with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two an-94 an</font> SVD 14<font color="#E5E5E5"> for RPG 18 disposable rocket</font> launchers<font color="#E5E5E5"> Oh</font> and in our family<font color="#E5E5E5"> sustain a small army</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the rep was not too happy about this but</font> agreed<font color="#E5E5E5"> after the boss threatened to send</font> the team to a made-up priority mission <font color="#CCCCCC">in the African bush instead so after a</font> flurry<font color="#E5E5E5"> of meetups and the hiring of an</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">on demand contract pilot from our base</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in Kandahar</font> as well as<font color="#CCCCCC"> D</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me we landed in Russia</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">funnily enough in a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> russian-made antonov</font> an-70 cargo plane with several tons<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> goods as everything<font color="#CCCCCC"> was offloaded</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> our payment loaded on except<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> tank which was being shipped<font color="#CCCCCC"> by rail to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">our main base</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we disembarked into a</font> light<font color="#CCCCCC"> snowstorm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with even more snow on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the horizon the wind was also picking up</font> which made<font color="#CCCCCC"> our landing a bit rougher</font> than expected the military<font color="#CCCCCC"> airbase was</font> in a flurry of<font color="#E5E5E5"> activity unmanned drones</font> being launched in a circular<font color="#CCCCCC"> pattern</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from a corner farthest from us as well</font> as tankers and fighter bombs taking off <font color="#E5E5E5">from the second runway</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a small</font> contingent of about<font color="#CCCCCC"> five darn guards</font> came<font color="#E5E5E5"> to meet us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Russian was a bit</font> rusty I'd refresh my memory by speaking with<font color="#CCCCCC"> D me a bits on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the way over mostly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what we thought was out there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> lead<font color="#E5E5E5"> man introduced himself as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Lieutenant</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Petrenko of the MCHS Ministry</font> of Emergency Situations<font color="#CCCCCC"> Spets</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> knots or</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Russian Special Forces</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> division he</font> pointed toward<font color="#E5E5E5"> the area launching the</font> drones as he yelled in Russian of the increasing winds<font color="#E5E5E5"> the weapons you wanted</font> her over there and so<font color="#CCCCCC"> as the command</font> post<font color="#E5E5E5"> the MCHS</font> brass will brief you over there here comes our<font color="#CCCCCC"> truck</font> his last remark referred to an old Soviet era<font color="#CCCCCC"> euro six</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wheeled truck</font> approaching down the side of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the runway</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Gabe</font> merely grunted in acknowledgment<font color="#CCCCCC"> as he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">could understand a little</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Russian in all</font> truth<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was far from the ideal man for</font> the mission<font color="#E5E5E5"> but he'd been paid because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the fact that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> other competent</font> operators were off taking<font color="#CCCCCC"> care of some</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">idiot guy who tried to replicate</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> Russian sleep experiment again anyways <font color="#E5E5E5">he got into the truck for the short ride</font> around<font color="#E5E5E5"> the perimeter through the canvas</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">covered back I could see an</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> unusual</font> amount<font color="#E5E5E5"> of perimeter security even for</font> the Russians more Soviet vintage<font color="#E5E5E5"> BMPs armed with 30</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">millimeter autocannons of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ATGM</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> launches</font> I even saw<font color="#CCCCCC"> some new Russian Federation</font> vehicles<font color="#E5E5E5"> some I'd heard of and some not</font> part of the waiver they signed when they hired us<font color="#E5E5E5"> explained that we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were not</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">responsible for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what we saw on or were</font> told<font color="#E5E5E5"> off as a result of a trip which is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the reason several high security</font> military<font color="#E5E5E5"> and paranormal areas have been</font> exposed<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the past few years</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> albeit in</font> the form of<font color="#CCCCCC"> creepypastas well</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our truck</font> reached the command area and we disembarked on<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the ground</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> which even</font> more snow<font color="#E5E5E5"> was piling up on heading into</font> the large<font color="#CCCCCC"> ten that qualified as a</font> command post<font color="#E5E5E5"> the short</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> old and stout</font> MCHS general was standing<font color="#E5E5E5"> on a chair</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">screaming at his troops in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Russian</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> along the lines of find it or</font> I'll have you sent<font color="#CCCCCC"> to a penal colony I</font> walked up to<font color="#E5E5E5"> him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and said in English all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">right buddy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the Cavalry's here as soon as he saw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his eye still in a rage dressed in a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">light</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gray combat uniform</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> six foot tall</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">holding a rock full of special equipment</font> he deflated<font color="#E5E5E5"> immediately he nearly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jumped</font> off the chair and<font color="#CCCCCC"> grabbed my hand</font> shaking<font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> vigorously while looking me</font> in the eyes<font color="#E5E5E5"> they revealed his true</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">emotions</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that moment even</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if he did</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">not look</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> those eyes to his men what</font> I saw within<font color="#E5E5E5"> them was true fear this was</font> rare for<font color="#CCCCCC"> a man like him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as the MCHS were</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Russians go to paranormal guys</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">normally but this was much greater than</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they could handle</font> I shook his hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> firmly and asked in</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Russian as a look down</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at his uniform</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">greetings general</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Smirnoff please</font> describe to<font color="#CCCCCC"> us the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nature of the threat</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and all the intelligence you have on it</font> he then asked me<font color="#E5E5E5"> voice full of fear do</font> you<font color="#E5E5E5"> know the legend of Baba Yaga</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> da</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Follette</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he said back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me as he</font> gestured to a<font color="#E5E5E5"> soldier</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> manning a</font> projector it is here but<font color="#E5E5E5"> much worse the</font> soldier<font color="#E5E5E5"> put on a grainy zoomed in</font> picture of what appeared to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be a house</font> which upon closer inspection was in fact a house<font color="#E5E5E5"> on chicken legs</font> the time stamp<font color="#CCCCCC"> and two</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> military</font> information in the corner<font color="#E5E5E5"> showed this</font> had been taken hours ago by a<font color="#E5E5E5"> drum the</font> general then said<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me in a hushed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">English voice</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his photograph was taken</font> right<font color="#CCCCCC"> before the drone was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shot down we</font> thought<font color="#E5E5E5"> nor by</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Watts</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but as it touched</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">down we could hear the sound of an old</font> woman cackling it was horrifying comrade Vanya we have tried<font color="#E5E5E5"> air striking</font> it try hitting it with everything<font color="#E5E5E5"> short</font> of a nuclear<font color="#E5E5E5"> weapon and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the higher-ups</font> are talking about<font color="#CCCCCC"> using tactical</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nuclear</font> weapons to obliterate<font color="#E5E5E5"> the whole profits</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we can't contain it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't need to show</font> you any<font color="#CCCCCC"> evidence but this monster has</font> already massacred several villages worth of people<font color="#E5E5E5"> and will continue to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> do so</font> unless<font color="#CCCCCC"> we stop it I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't want another</font> Chernobyl or<font color="#CCCCCC"> kyshtym</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on our hands please</font> comrade<font color="#E5E5E5"> you are the last line we have</font> his speech<font color="#E5E5E5"> was lost on me however he had</font> no idea what he<font color="#CCCCCC"> was dealing with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and it</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> evident Gabe had been watching from</font> behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> me with Jimmy at his side</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> spoke up for me<font color="#E5E5E5"> saying something we</font> could agree on<font color="#E5E5E5"> I don't think</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you know</font> exactly<font color="#CCCCCC"> what you're dealing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with sir</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> don't<font color="#CCCCCC"> think</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> anyone does all due respect</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but we may not be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> able to stop it and at</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> point your best option may be to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">nuke the bastard general</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Smirnov looked</font> at<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gabe then back at me I nodded in</font> agreement<font color="#E5E5E5"> whatever the case we need</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">get</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> moving</font> if we don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> leave soon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> will be totally</font> snowed in<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> enough looking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down on</font> his luck said very<font color="#E5E5E5"> well</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I have ordered</font> lieutenant<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Trinko to assist</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> youth</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whatever you need</font> he will show you your<font color="#E5E5E5"> weapons and</font> vehicles<font color="#CCCCCC"> at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the last word</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I parked out</font> vehicles<font color="#CCCCCC"> i sat curiously</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ah</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you can</font> choose whatever you<font color="#E5E5E5"> think you'll need</font> from the motor pool<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> think mr.</font> Putin will be<font color="#E5E5E5"> angry at me as long</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> what you do with them will<font color="#E5E5E5"> help us Thank</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">You general</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I said going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to shake his</font> hand<font color="#CCCCCC"> but he had already spun on his heel</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">heading outside while holding out his</font> cigarette<font color="#CCCCCC"> Timmy spoke for the first time</font> since arriving on base warning gentlemen <font color="#E5E5E5">I don't mean to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> upset you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">weather is only going</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> get worse so I</font> don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> think vehicles bigger than a</font> snowmobile would be much help while we're on the hunt<font color="#CCCCCC"> I said to him couldn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">agree more</font> but we still have to be able<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get</font> somewhere quick as we walked out of the tent<font color="#CCCCCC"> we tried to figure out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what it</font> would be<font color="#CCCCCC"> we'd seen plenty of</font> supernatural stuff<font color="#CCCCCC"> it's our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> job after</font> all <font color="#E5E5E5">but nothing is physical as this that was</font> all hours ago when<font color="#E5E5E5"> we've got our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> weapons</font> sorted<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we're headed to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the motor</font> pool<font color="#CCCCCC"> to began our vehicle a gas keager a</font> 4x4<font color="#E5E5E5"> APC similar in function to the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">American Humvee screamed to a stop</font> behind us lieutenant<font color="#CCCCCC"> petrenko in the</font> front seat yelling at us to get it we found it behind him an<font color="#E5E5E5"> armored column was forming</font> up consisting of several<font color="#E5E5E5"> tanks and a few</font> infantry carriers he said has our team loaded<font color="#E5E5E5"> up me in the front</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Gabe and Demi</font> in the back we will<font color="#E5E5E5"> get you there but</font> after<font color="#E5E5E5"> that you are on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> your own</font> sorry comrade but my wife and children <font color="#CCCCCC">need me alive</font> after<font color="#CCCCCC"> pausing for a moment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he pulled</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">into the column behind the tank I said</font> quietly hey<font color="#CCCCCC"> hours - with this I could</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">feel</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Gabe glaring at me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from behind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">never mentioned his family to me but I</font> knew well<font color="#CCCCCC"> enough never like being</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">reminded about them on missions he said</font> it distracted him<font color="#E5E5E5"> but after that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">statement</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a blanket of silence fell over</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the truck</font> soon the column started music<font color="#CCCCCC"> fast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> -</font> even the tanks were sort of sliding <font color="#E5E5E5">around</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> corners on the slushy roads</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> as we neared<font color="#E5E5E5"> our destination</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a slight</font> bit of nausea<font color="#E5E5E5"> and nervousness began to</font> hit me we still have no idea<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">were going up against well we had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> some</font> idea but we had no idea<font color="#E5E5E5"> what to do to</font> stop<font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> it would all<font color="#CCCCCC"> depend on what happened</font> next<font color="#E5E5E5"> if the legends</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were true</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and thus</font> far they had been this could be the <font color="#CCCCCC">result of anything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and it would be</font> unlikely that<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we were going to do</font> would stop her<font color="#E5E5E5"> as the convoy pulled into</font> visual range of the town the tanks fanned out<font color="#CCCCCC"> and formed an</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> arc</font> in front of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> convoy bringing it to a</font> stop there were already some fires rising from<font color="#E5E5E5"> it and this apparently</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> close enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lead guys</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> because</font> someone came<font color="#CCCCCC"> over the radio saying</font> something in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Russian akin to no goddamn</font> way<font color="#E5E5E5"> as that truck pulled to a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stop just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">behind the tanks lieutenant</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> petrenko</font> said to me we<font color="#E5E5E5"> will go back to a safe</font> distance<font color="#E5E5E5"> if you need a quick extraction</font> though<font color="#E5E5E5"> you may have to wait</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> while</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">conditions are worsening it doesn't look</font> like<font color="#E5E5E5"> it'll let</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up for another two days</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">gaben</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Demi hopped out of the back doors</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">rocks full of ammo</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and rations as I</font> disembarked<font color="#E5E5E5"> one foot on the trucks floor</font> and one<font color="#E5E5E5"> other deep snow on the ground</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the trimco</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> said to me</font> comrade<font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't say anything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about your</font> sanity<font color="#E5E5E5"> but you are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very brave</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> let's have</font> a drink when you get back<font color="#E5E5E5"> on me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> put my</font> other foot out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the truck hand</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> door and said playfully<font color="#E5E5E5"> only if you can</font> outdrink me the<font color="#CCCCCC"> tranqer responded</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with a</font> hearty<font color="#CCCCCC"> russian laugh saying it's all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">American skier</font> good luck<font color="#E5E5E5"> out there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I nodded in thanks</font> as I shut<font color="#E5E5E5"> the door</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and turned towards</font> the back just in<font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for Gabe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to throw</font> me and my heavy pack the expression<font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> his face was irritated<font color="#E5E5E5"> perhaps at the</font> fact<font color="#CCCCCC"> that I had gotten so friendly with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Petrenko by the way we were headed out</font> before we started to<font color="#CCCCCC"> move</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the truck away</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Petrenko honked at us and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pointed toward</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the front of the road we're alone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tracked APC was parked engine running</font> intended<font color="#CCCCCC"> for us in my rock</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I had several</font> different<font color="#E5E5E5"> types of equipment one was a</font> specialty radiometer<font color="#E5E5E5"> that would detect</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">radioisotopes associated with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> certain</font> lab experiments<font color="#E5E5E5"> and radioactive areas</font> sometimes<font color="#E5E5E5"> on purpose</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> or by accident</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">governments create things far worse</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> than</font> they intend to<font color="#E5E5E5"> so we've worked out that</font> the least they can<font color="#CCCCCC"> do is</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> mark them so</font> we'll know when it's<font color="#CCCCCC"> man-made another is</font> a multi-purpose sensor mounted<font color="#E5E5E5"> on to the</font> side of<font color="#CCCCCC"> a helmet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> measures many</font> different things<font color="#E5E5E5"> to determine</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when an</font> entity<font color="#E5E5E5"> is in the area temperature</font> magnetic and gravitational fluctuations <font color="#E5E5E5">and light finally the gem</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the whole</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">jewelry box is the spectrum no it's not</font> an<font color="#CCCCCC"> acronym for anything spectrum goggles</font> developed by one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our secret labs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> take all<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> data from the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sensors</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and put it into visible form in a</font> heads-up display<font color="#E5E5E5"> this display acts like</font> augmented reality in a number<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ways</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but it essentially highlights the</font> paranormal activity<font color="#E5E5E5"> depending on its</font> severity<font color="#E5E5E5"> and physical present</font> it's really<font color="#E5E5E5"> odd in a way because do you</font> kill someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> you can watch their body</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">begin</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to glow for a bit before fading</font> away into<font color="#E5E5E5"> nothingness the lab</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> techs say</font> it's a programming glitch<font color="#CCCCCC"> they're still</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trying to work out but I like to think</font> it's real as we walked into the town <font color="#E5E5E5">Gabe and I donned the goggles and handed</font> a pair along with an extra helmet and sensor<font color="#CCCCCC"> part to demon</font> although the boss<font color="#CCCCCC"> didn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like the idea</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">of trusting the expensive tech</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">non-employee we managed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to coax him into</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">giving it up for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a mission</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as long as</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Demi sign a contract</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to return it under</font> penalty of death<font color="#E5E5E5"> we hopped into the APC</font> apparently a winterized mt-lb<font color="#CCCCCC"> V with</font> Gabe driving and<font color="#E5E5E5"> Demi</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> manning the heavy</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">machine-gun</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> turrets</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> i sat in the</font> commander's position<font color="#E5E5E5"> draggin off out and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">loaded the village was indeed on fire in</font> fact every building in the village<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> burning not on fire but burning<font color="#CCCCCC"> they</font> looked as if<font color="#E5E5E5"> they'd been taught by a</font> flamethrower<font color="#CCCCCC"> the smell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> coming from each</font> was horrendous<font color="#CCCCCC"> it didn't take a genius</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> recognize that it was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> humans cooking</font> in those buildings<font color="#E5E5E5"> the snow between</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">houses was melting and mixing with the</font> blood<font color="#E5E5E5"> and ashes on the ground causing a</font> disgusting sort of black red and<font color="#E5E5E5"> mud to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">cover the area</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> this was what the cleanup</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">crews assigned to the other villages</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> been reporting as death of ice once</font> everything<font color="#E5E5E5"> calmed down that makes you</font> would freeze again<font color="#E5E5E5"> making a sort of</font> concrete-like substance impossible to remove by<font color="#CCCCCC"> hand</font> the sauce was unidentifiable<font color="#CCCCCC"> with so</font> much blood everywhere<font color="#E5E5E5"> the corpses were</font> nowhere to<font color="#CCCCCC"> be found</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> either they've been</font> left in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> houses or taken with what</font> the crews had found in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the other</font> villages it appeared that<font color="#E5E5E5"> only the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> adults were</font> left in the<font color="#E5E5E5"> houses although</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> they died</font> long<font color="#CCCCCC"> before the fire had been set</font> children<font color="#CCCCCC"> what was left of them were</font> nowhere<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be found it wasn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> easy to</font> identify<font color="#E5E5E5"> the charred skeletons either</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">each looked like a boulder have been</font> dropped from a<font color="#CCCCCC"> great height</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crushing all</font> of their bones and<font color="#E5E5E5"> instantly destroying</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">all internal</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> organs</font> oddly<font color="#E5E5E5"> enough the head was often left</font> intact<font color="#E5E5E5"> except</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for the case of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one human</font> left completely<font color="#E5E5E5"> unidentifiable</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> of the way they were killed<font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a single</font> thing remained of them except<font color="#CCCCCC"> for a pile</font> of jelly<font color="#E5E5E5"> and bone fragments splattered</font> across a 50<font color="#CCCCCC"> meter squared area a rifle</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> also found</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at the scene with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the one</font> round having been fired<font color="#CCCCCC"> around the same</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">time with the person's death one thing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not evident</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> until we began to</font> disembark<font color="#E5E5E5"> was the tracks on the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ground</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the footprints left were nearly the size</font> of our<font color="#CCCCCC"> APC</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with three distinct branches</font> coming off<font color="#E5E5E5"> the central point they</font> slammed into the asphalt<font color="#E5E5E5"> roads and</font> obliterated them and if it<font color="#CCCCCC"> wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> the constant snowfall you might just <font color="#CCCCCC">think they were remote location potholes</font> now<font color="#CCCCCC"> gobble showed a tiny bit of a</font> residue left<font color="#CCCCCC"> over in them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we could track this being seen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we turn</font> them off<font color="#E5E5E5"> so it's not to waste battery</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Timmy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was quick to suggest that we</font> follow it<font color="#E5E5E5"> and seeing no other way we did</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just that but things began</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to go wrong</font> when we realized<font color="#CCCCCC"> we would have to pack</font> all of<font color="#E5E5E5"> this gear into the forest as that</font> tank was too large we<font color="#CCCCCC"> suddenly noticed</font> that Gabe was<font color="#E5E5E5"> mysteriously absent</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> reached for<font color="#E5E5E5"> my radio as I heard the</font> sound of engines on the other side<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> the village I said<font color="#E5E5E5"> Copperhead - you find anything</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the sound of a small engine came over</font> the radio<font color="#CCCCCC"> even louder</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> than in the air</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with Gabe replying top ahead</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of actual</font> yeah got two small Vic's<font color="#CCCCCC"> that can take</font> us into the forest<font color="#E5E5E5"> snowmobiles</font> although we prefer to<font color="#CCCCCC"> work personally</font> when we could in the field we used a <font color="#E5E5E5">randomly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> generated</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> callsign for that</font> mission<font color="#E5E5E5"> we didn't want any information</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">about us being known by anyone or</font> anything<font color="#E5E5E5"> that could potentially</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> used</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that against us</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Demi and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I half jogs</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> over to the charge</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">shared gay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> butt kicked open quite easily</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> reveal a pair of snowmobiles one much</font> larger than<font color="#E5E5E5"> the other and with a small</font> trailer<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gabe looked at them and said</font> even<font color="#E5E5E5"> with the extra</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> space on this one</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we're gonna have to leave some stuff</font> behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> I volunteered a few of the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">rockets and some of the more</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stationary</font> spectral analysis gear we left it all in <font color="#CCCCCC">the vehicle we'd</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> arrived on something at</font> the time I had<font color="#E5E5E5"> no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> idea it would save</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our</font> lives later<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gabe and Demi took the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">largest snowmobile with the trailer and</font> I took<font color="#E5E5E5"> the smallest hanging my gear</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> sides</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Demi was driving leading the way so he</font> could<font color="#E5E5E5"> track the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Beast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but only will</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">attracts very prominent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> even in the</font> heavy<font color="#E5E5E5"> snowfall</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the trees along its</font> winding path<font color="#CCCCCC"> through them were also</font> damaged and sometimes<font color="#CCCCCC"> completely knocked</font> over we were making excellent time<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> at some points I thought<font color="#CCCCCC"> I could even</font> hear<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> heavy footsteps of the house in</font> the distance<font color="#E5E5E5"> unfortunately it wasn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">long before</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we had to stop and fill out</font> the gas tanks of the snowmobiles especially the larger one<font color="#E5E5E5"> we pulled up</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to a stop</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a small clearing Gabe and I</font> filled<font color="#E5E5E5"> up the vehicles while</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Demi walked</font> off<font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> UM</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> take</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a piss</font> Gabe<font color="#CCCCCC"> and I both told him not to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> go too</font> far but he wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> listening</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> It was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as if</font> someone<font color="#E5E5E5"> or something had possessed him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to go just a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> little too far suddenly</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">yelled our names and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we could hear the</font> fast crunch crunch of footsteps in the snow coming<font color="#E5E5E5"> towards us Gabe and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had</font> just<font color="#E5E5E5"> finished emptying</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the jerry cans</font> strapped<font color="#E5E5E5"> to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sides of the snowmobile</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">so we threw them to the side and grabbed</font> our rifles off of our backs both sprinting towards<font color="#E5E5E5"> Demi's frantic</font> screams and then we<font color="#E5E5E5"> heard a furious deep</font> roar<font color="#E5E5E5"> I made the quick mental note that</font> this although terrifying<font color="#E5E5E5"> sound quite natural</font> which would<font color="#E5E5E5"> not be entirely incorrect we</font> came over<font color="#CCCCCC"> a small hill in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the snow</font> moments later<font color="#E5E5E5"> just in time to hear</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Dimmie scream in pain he tripped over a</font> fallen<font color="#E5E5E5"> tree</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and fallen hard headlong</font> into his branches on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> ground his head</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> face were bleeding but the real</font> threat emerged from the<font color="#CCCCCC"> snowbank on the</font> other side<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the small valley bursting</font> through<font color="#E5E5E5"> it like a train and roaring with</font> the volume of<font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two it was a bear but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">absurdly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> almost comically larger than a</font> normal bear with a head being disproportionately<font color="#E5E5E5"> large to the body</font> Gabe<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I looked at each other</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> quickly</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I motioned with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my head towards</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Dee</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and yelled</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I'll cover you Gabe load his rifle as I</font> raised mine giving it his all<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a</font> sprint towards<font color="#CCCCCC"> Dee me while</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I fired into</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the bear</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the reason I say fired into is</font> because it looked like<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bear didn't</font> even notice nine out of the<font color="#E5E5E5"> ten box</font> magazine of<font color="#E5E5E5"> 7.62 by 54r</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I slung at the</font> bear had about as<font color="#CCCCCC"> much effect</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font> slingshot pellets even though they were <font color="#CCCCCC">obviously hitting our drawing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> blood but</font> the last round<font color="#CCCCCC"> hit it directly in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> face and this<font color="#E5E5E5"> gave</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it some pause it</font> roared even louder this time<font color="#E5E5E5"> while</font> clawing at its left eye<font color="#E5E5E5"> but only for a</font> moment<font color="#E5E5E5"> this was all that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Gabe needed to</font> scoop up<font color="#CCCCCC"> Dee me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in a fireman's carry</font> sprinting as fast as he could with the weight of<font color="#E5E5E5"> another person on his back</font> rifle on a sling in front of his chest <font color="#E5E5E5">as soon as he passed me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the bear started</font> moving again<font color="#E5E5E5"> faster than before directly</font> at me thinking<font color="#CCCCCC"> quickly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I took off just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to the right</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Gabe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> who was heading to</font> the snowmobiles he was quite<font color="#E5E5E5"> literally running for my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">life</font> but this bear was fast<font color="#E5E5E5"> having to think</font> on my<font color="#CCCCCC"> feet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was my specialty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and although</font> my planning ability was not it made me<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">very effective improviser the creature</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was huge and after a few moments of</font> running<font color="#E5E5E5"> and realizing there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was no way I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">could escape</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it like this</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I saw a very</font> thick group of trees to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the left</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I could</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">feel the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> beast gaining on me</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> earth-shaking footsteps growing</font> closer to my frantic<font color="#E5E5E5"> running at every</font> moment<font color="#CCCCCC"> I darted between the trees</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as I</font> felt his breath<font color="#E5E5E5"> on my back and it</font> crashed into them although<font color="#CCCCCC"> it didn't</font> stop it was dazed<font color="#E5E5E5"> and moving slowly I</font> took this opportunity to<font color="#E5E5E5"> run towards the</font> snowmobiles again hoping Gabe<font color="#E5E5E5"> will be</font> ready to bug the<font color="#CCCCCC"> hell out soon the bear</font> regained its composure<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> although it</font> wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> running at the same</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> speed as</font> before<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was still faster than me their</font> legs were starting<font color="#CCCCCC"> to feel heavy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> even</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> adrenaline coursing through my</font> veins <font color="#E5E5E5">the snow was slowing me down but through</font> the trees I saw the<font color="#CCCCCC"> path we'd taken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> beyond that<font color="#E5E5E5"> the clearing we'd parked in</font> knowing I was close I willed myself to <font color="#E5E5E5">go faster thinking nothing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> has killed me</font> yet<font color="#E5E5E5"> and damn it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gonna die doing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something as normal as fighting a bear</font> as I clear the trees on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> edge of the</font> clearing<font color="#CCCCCC"> I noticed two things one both</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the snowmobiles were running - Gabe</font> was kneeling down<font color="#E5E5E5"> next to the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> large</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font> off to the<font color="#CCCCCC"> side and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> slightly behind it</font> holding something above his shoulder<font color="#E5E5E5"> I</font> ran towards my snowmobile<font color="#E5E5E5"> pushing with</font> every<font color="#E5E5E5"> last ounce of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> strength</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I had until</font> Gabe yelled at me I didn't hear what he <font color="#E5E5E5">said the first time but the second was</font> very clear he was<font color="#E5E5E5"> screaming at me to hit</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> deck</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> although we weren't friends</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> trusted him as I did<font color="#E5E5E5"> every other</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">operator so without thinking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'd over</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the ground shielding my face with my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">arms</font> as soon<font color="#E5E5E5"> as my body touched the ground</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> heard the<font color="#E5E5E5"> sound of rocket leaving its</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">launch tube and accelerating for moments</font> before<font color="#E5E5E5"> slamming into something fleshy</font> and exploding a millisecond later however<font color="#CCCCCC"> the Rockets explosion was</font> nothing compared to<font color="#E5E5E5"> what happened to the</font> bear when I heard the impact<font color="#E5E5E5"> I pushed</font> myself off the ground and<font color="#E5E5E5"> took a few</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">steps</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> toward</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Mobile's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and look back</font> to see the bear now<font color="#E5E5E5"> with a massive chunk</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of flesh missing from its left side</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">starting to blow up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like a balloon</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">inflation spread from the head down and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">when it reached the exploded part of his</font> body<font color="#E5E5E5"> he made a popping sound followed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the sound of gas escaping then a small</font> explosion<font color="#CCCCCC"> as the expanding gas that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">leaked out of the wound lit off in a</font> giant brilliant<font color="#E5E5E5"> blue green flame with</font> the gases burning off for a few seconds afterwards<font color="#E5E5E5"> once we realized the bear was</font> quite dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> we turned off the vehicles</font> and called<font color="#CCCCCC"> dimmi off of the second one</font> his ankle<font color="#E5E5E5"> was still bent at a totally</font> unnatural<font color="#CCCCCC"> angle which we had to fix</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">although I did know how to perform most</font> basic<font color="#CCCCCC"> first-aid</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I knew how to set a</font> bone gave<font color="#E5E5E5"> you much better he instructed</font> me<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hold D me down as he pulled out a</font> medical<font color="#CCCCCC"> kit from his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bags he yanked out</font> several syringes<font color="#CCCCCC"> of anaesthetic</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> one</font> large one<font color="#E5E5E5"> of morphine Demian looked a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">little spooked to the side of the</font> needles but was still<font color="#E5E5E5"> in and out of</font> consciousness due to the pain the ankle was causing him Gabe started with <font color="#E5E5E5">something to numb the leg and bone</font> around the fracture which he put in quite deep<font color="#CCCCCC"> I'd never asked him where</font> he'd gotten<font color="#E5E5E5"> his expertise but I was</font> fairly<font color="#E5E5E5"> certain due to his referring to</font> the wounded as patients more<font color="#CCCCCC"> than once</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in the field that he was an EMT at one</font> point or at least something<font color="#E5E5E5"> similar as</font> he was<font color="#E5E5E5"> working on the leg</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I looked over</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to the Bears mutilated corpse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> noticed<font color="#E5E5E5"> something odd was happening to</font> it it was very slowly disintegrating by disintegrating<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't mean</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> falling</font> apart I mean dissolving into<font color="#E5E5E5"> the air and just</font> floating away <font color="#CCCCCC">Demi started to move</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my turn towards him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with the pain disappearing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he seemed to</font> be in a<font color="#CCCCCC"> little more control over his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">consciousness but only a little</font> due to the morphine<font color="#CCCCCC"> I looked at Gabe</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">through motion</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to me pointing at</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Demi</font> then with both of his fingers<font color="#E5E5E5"> into his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">eyes and then up into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the sky</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> which I</font> interpreted as keep him looking<font color="#CCCCCC"> up as</font> Gabe what<font color="#CCCCCC"> Demi started</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> talking speech</font> slurred barely intelligible<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">remember exactly what he</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> said</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was</font> all in<font color="#E5E5E5"> Russian and there was a lot</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> swearing<font color="#CCCCCC"> and he mentioned the bear a lot</font> I just tapped him on the shoulder<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> kept his eyes up telling him how he was <font color="#E5E5E5">going to be fine then with no warning</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had a crunch and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Demi winston</font> discomfort<font color="#CCCCCC"> I load down at his ankle</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seeing it been reset into a normal</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">position by now the swelling was getting</font> bad Gabe pulled out a compact<font color="#E5E5E5"> a rolled-up</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> SI</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">m splint hikers will</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> know the kind I'm</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">talking about he wrapped it around his</font> ankle started<font color="#E5E5E5"> putting on his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> boot</font> he left it<font color="#CCCCCC"> unlaced</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> so he could take</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> off later<font color="#E5E5E5"> the swelling was making it</font> hard<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> put on but if we left it off</font> you'd get frostbitten for sure in his sedated<font color="#CCCCCC"> state both</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of us had to lift him</font> onto the snowmobile<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had to be</font> practically tied down in<font color="#CCCCCC"> order</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> keep</font> him<font color="#E5E5E5"> all he was getting late in the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> day</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we still had a job</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and I was</font> still<font color="#E5E5E5"> plenty jittery from the incident</font> with the<font color="#E5E5E5"> way it asked bear as I started</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to walk towards my snow bike Gabe said I</font> don't what the hell<font color="#CCCCCC"> that thing was but</font> it's pretty dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I don't think we'll</font> find<font color="#CCCCCC"> another one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> unless we were messing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">around in the bush</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dumbass here</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">jabbing his thumb</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> McEntee me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">why just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not it got on I tried to use my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">radio to contact HQ and let them know</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> situation but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it couldn't get</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">a signal</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we set off from there</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">everything</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was going okay</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">until night fell the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> storm was still</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">raging and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> snow was really starting</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> pile</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up we kept seeing strange lights</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">through the heavy snow but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they seemed</font> distant almost<font color="#E5E5E5"> like the lights of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> cities<font color="#CCCCCC"> you see at</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> night but they would</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">come and go we were still</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> following the</font> part of the thing as in the forest it <font color="#E5E5E5">was fairly evident where</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it'll be right</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">around the time night fell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and to be</font> honest there wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> much of a difference</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we ran out of fuel we'd stopped several</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">times</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to refuel and we'd planned it to</font> run<font color="#E5E5E5"> out about the same time on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> both</font> machines<font color="#E5E5E5"> right before we pulled into a</font> clearing<font color="#CCCCCC"> the motor started sputtering</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and finally gave out</font> however<font color="#E5E5E5"> we weren't expecting it to for</font> another hour or<font color="#E5E5E5"> so</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Gabe's did</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> too I dismounted and check</font> the gas tank there was still plenty<font color="#CCCCCC"> left</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but the engine</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just wouldn't start back</font> up again<font color="#CCCCCC"> and neither</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> would the other</font> everyone especially<font color="#E5E5E5"> Demi was swearing</font> left and right but we<font color="#E5E5E5"> couldn't do much</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> obviously</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was some kind</font> of interference<font color="#CCCCCC"> because when Gabe pulled</font> out his rifle<font color="#E5E5E5"> the electrical optic was</font> non-functional<font color="#E5E5E5"> we decided we had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to keep</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">going but not until</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we'd eaten</font> Demi was becoming lucid<font color="#CCCCCC"> again and as</font> long<font color="#CCCCCC"> as he could take a few pain meds</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">every so often to keep his ankle</font> tolerable he was good enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> to handle a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">gun</font> Gabe ripped the objects off of both of <font color="#CCCCCC">them and chucked them onto</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the ground</font> next to the machines<font color="#CCCCCC"> well I pulled out</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> winter MREs the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Russians had given</font> us or at least<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we'd stripped them</font> down to each came in a cardboard box<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> you could significantly reduce<font color="#E5E5E5"> the size</font> by stripping<font color="#E5E5E5"> them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> down to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> their</font> components<font color="#E5E5E5"> and packing them separately</font> the heaters worked on a<font color="#E5E5E5"> chemical</font> reaction<font color="#CCCCCC"> you pour</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> water in when out</font> comes heat<font color="#CCCCCC"> I heated</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up everyone's food</font> and brought<font color="#CCCCCC"> it over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as I was</font> starting to<font color="#CCCCCC"> east of my Dreyse now we all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ate our food in silence but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not for any</font> real reason<font color="#E5E5E5"> we just didn't have anything</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to talk about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we were a group of professionals sent to</font> do a job<font color="#E5E5E5"> nobody</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> else would or could do</font> to be honest<font color="#E5E5E5"> we aren't even that special</font> but everyone calls us the<font color="#E5E5E5"> experts</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">because we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> always</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> manage to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> deal with</font> the problem after we'd<font color="#E5E5E5"> finished eating</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">we started moving</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> down the trail</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">carrying what we could we had to leave a</font> lot<font color="#E5E5E5"> of extra ammo and another RPG behind</font> because<font color="#CCCCCC"> dimmi</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> couldn't carry anything</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but what was on his vest gaben d me both</font> had<font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> five magazines for their</font> rifles<font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I had</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> seven max</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for my</font> dragon<font color="#CCCCCC"> off plus</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the one remaining RPG</font> Gabe took<font color="#E5E5E5"> Demi's rifle and strapped on a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">good-sized stick with some rope</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> turning</font> it into a crunch although it<font color="#CCCCCC"> could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> still</font> fire<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gabe told D me to just cut off the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">stick if she'd hit the fan</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as soon as we</font> had<font color="#CCCCCC"> our gear in order we began heading</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">into the forest when still raging and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">snow was still falling</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> March</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was grueling and as the Sun</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">got lower the air only got colder we had</font> to put on<font color="#E5E5E5"> everything we had to stay warm</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and the helmets came off in favor of</font> warm<font color="#E5E5E5"> headgear scarves were wrapped and</font> by the time it<font color="#E5E5E5"> was truly dark we were</font> wrapped up<font color="#CCCCCC"> head-to-toe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like the kid from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">A Christmas</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Story</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">thirty minutes in we took a rest</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">drinking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> some water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> checking on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Jamie's ankle the swelling was still bad</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">too bad to take off the boot we might</font> not get it back<font color="#E5E5E5"> on however it had</font> stopped<font color="#E5E5E5"> growing which was good after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> few moments of drinking water<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> snacking<font color="#E5E5E5"> on a few miscellaneous items</font> from the MREs those of us that<font color="#CCCCCC"> could</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">change our socks and moved on good thing</font> we ate then because<font color="#CCCCCC"> 10 minutes down the</font> trail<font color="#E5E5E5"> everyone lost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> their appetite</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">although I'm sure someone must have</font> noticed the<font color="#E5E5E5"> fact there were no</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> children</font> among the dead from the attacks<font color="#E5E5E5"> nobody</font> had said anything<font color="#E5E5E5"> to us</font> we had noticed but until now<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'd held</font> out hope<font color="#E5E5E5"> they were still alive or</font> something<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was sorely mistaken</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the pile</font> was huge<font color="#CCCCCC"> a few meters high probably the</font> children of all the villages<font color="#CCCCCC"> that were</font> attacked so far<font color="#E5E5E5"> although there were</font> plenty<font color="#E5E5E5"> of bodies</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> these</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">mutilated like all of the others</font> it was simply lifeless stone cold dead <font color="#E5E5E5">eyes closed no signs of physical attack</font> or really anything to<font color="#CCCCCC"> suggests what had</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">killed them we would have loved to have</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">had our goggles working right about then</font> but<font color="#E5E5E5"> without electricity</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they were toast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and we'd left them at</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the machines to be recovered later</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sight</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of all those kids just hurt me</font> they had<font color="#E5E5E5"> lightly been killed while we</font> were on<font color="#E5E5E5"> the trail but then what if</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font> had gotten there on<font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> have done<font color="#E5E5E5"> probably nothing we would have</font> slightly<font color="#E5E5E5"> ended up like all of the others</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dead and desecrated</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in the middle of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fuck knows where Siberia we did notice</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">something interesting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> though all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> kids<font color="#E5E5E5"> as best we could tell but between</font> the ages of 10<font color="#E5E5E5"> and 16 essentially</font> teenagers<font color="#E5E5E5"> so now we had some potentially</font> useful<font color="#E5E5E5"> information and I was starting</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">form a theory</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I wasn't quite ready to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">share</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it with the other two yet I needed</font> more for<font color="#E5E5E5"> this to really make sense and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they were probably thinking the same</font> thing anyways<font color="#CCCCCC"> he looked to me like this</font> baba Yaga<font color="#E5E5E5"> was looking for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> someone</font> specific<font color="#CCCCCC"> a teenager why I had no idea</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">like I said I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> needed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> more info we were</font> going down the<font color="#E5E5E5"> trail for a ways after</font> that he got<font color="#E5E5E5"> to get away from the corpses</font> they didn't smell<font color="#E5E5E5"> because of the cold</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but we didn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> want</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to be near them</font> regardless at some point an hour or so later<font color="#E5E5E5"> we decided to give a whack for a</font> few hours<font color="#CCCCCC"> we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hadn't slept too well on</font> the way over<font color="#E5E5E5"> and with the way this day</font> had gone starting to get to us<font color="#E5E5E5"> especially</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> nimi we</font> were also<font color="#CCCCCC"> running</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out of pain meds for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">him and had at most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a few</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hours left of</font> trail walking we set up<font color="#E5E5E5"> a few small</font> shelters<font color="#E5E5E5"> but made sure everything</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font> waterproofed<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was first on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the guard</font> rotation<font color="#E5E5E5"> gave and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Dimmie</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> set off to</font> sleep<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I was alone</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> for a good ten</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">minutes before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> things started getting</font> odd to say the<font color="#CCCCCC"> least</font> I was tired<font color="#E5E5E5"> Gabe was supposed to relieve</font> me<font color="#E5E5E5"> in another hour</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that seemed so far</font> away<font color="#E5E5E5"> my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> eyes lazily drifted around</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">watching the trees with the sway</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">wind constantly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> blowing in one direction</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the snowfall had lightened a bit just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enough for visibility to be possible</font> again as my head turned towards my front again they moved something<font color="#E5E5E5"> glinting</font> between the trees in<font color="#E5E5E5"> front of me I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">snapped back to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it becoming much</font> more alert<font color="#CCCCCC"> I stared</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at it for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a few</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">seconds before raising my rifle to use</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">my scope although none of our</font> electronics were working you can't beat a<font color="#E5E5E5"> good</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> old-fashioned glass object</font> hold it<font color="#E5E5E5"> up to my shoulder quickly and</font> saw through the scope<font color="#E5E5E5"> something really</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">freaking weird</font> an old lady<font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> zombie-like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was just</font> standing there<font color="#E5E5E5"> I could feel her looking</font> right at me<font color="#E5E5E5"> through the scope my eyes</font> widened my grip tightened and my index finger moved down towards the trigger <font color="#E5E5E5">but then it got even</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> weirder</font> she spoke<font color="#E5E5E5"> when I say that I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> mean</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">she said something and I saw it through</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the scope</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I mean her voice came straight</font> out of<font color="#E5E5E5"> her mouth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my head what</font> she said was simple<font color="#CCCCCC"> but still</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> completely</font> disturbing still staring at me her lips moved<font color="#CCCCCC"> as she slowly</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with her raspy voice</font> like<font color="#E5E5E5"> two bricks scraping together</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> said</font> you and your friends<font color="#E5E5E5"> smell different you</font> do<font color="#E5E5E5"> not carry the Russians now although I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">think one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of you once did you however do</font> not you never did perhaps you<font color="#E5E5E5"> can help me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> find my little</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Raven oh my child</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he was taken one day living amongst the</font> human folk was it bad for him I told<font color="#E5E5E5"> him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bubblegum</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his grandmother told him</font> he was taken by big men from the Kremlin <font color="#E5E5E5">I've been looking for him for a month</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I could not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> find him inside my</font> Dominion<font color="#CCCCCC"> I started to open my mouth to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">say something but she raised her voice</font> violently and screamed into<font color="#E5E5E5"> my hand as</font> her face contorted<font color="#E5E5E5"> into a terrible rage</font> filled<font color="#CCCCCC"> snare</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> silence</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I know what you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> are</font> thinking<font color="#CCCCCC"> little man</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from the desert she</font> returned to her normal<font color="#CCCCCC"> voice</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and her</font> face relaxed a bit but not entirely<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> know who you are you were sent here to <font color="#CCCCCC">destroy me and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my beloved how many have</font> tried<font color="#CCCCCC"> just like you</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you will not succeed</font> with this<font color="#E5E5E5"> the images of missiles being</font> swatted out of the sky by her mere thoughts<font color="#E5E5E5"> and people being crushed by a</font> massive flying<font color="#CCCCCC"> vessel filmed my head</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">last thing she showed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">completely obliterated bodies of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Russian MCHS team sent in to investigate</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">she conceitedly noted I can be killed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> not by the likes of you your</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> little</font> band of<font color="#E5E5E5"> assassins does much but mere men</font> cannot kill me<font color="#E5E5E5"> you would</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to unleash</font> your<font color="#E5E5E5"> vaults to do anything to me</font> at this<font color="#E5E5E5"> I was dumbfounded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> how could she</font> even<font color="#E5E5E5"> know about those</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> icarly can say</font> what they are<font color="#E5E5E5"> but for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> her to know and</font> for her<font color="#CCCCCC"> to know what was in them by the</font> way<font color="#E5E5E5"> I understood we could not win</font> she left me<font color="#E5E5E5"> one final statement before</font> disappearing into<font color="#E5E5E5"> the snow once again</font> come down<font color="#CCCCCC"> the path</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there you will find</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">my home we can talk there without your</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">little friends</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> want to leave</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">them alone out here but I don't think I</font> had a choice<font color="#CCCCCC"> I grabbed what I could</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> scroll<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> note on</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> some</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> white MRE wrapper</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with a grease pencil balling it up and</font> putting it inside Gabe's food for him to <font color="#CCCCCC">find when he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> won I picked up a few</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">things</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an MRE and all of my ammo for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> rifle<font color="#CCCCCC"> I thought about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> taking the RPG</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what I figured against it</font> considering the wildlife in the area<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> started down the trail<font color="#CCCCCC"> and not ten</font> minutes<font color="#E5E5E5"> later I started to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> light</font> now things have<font color="#E5E5E5"> come full circle</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I think</font> I should take a break interrupting a story<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the most</font> critical<font color="#E5E5E5"> moment is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> absolutely forbidden</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as a storytelling device</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't really</font> have a choice<font color="#E5E5E5"> I've already been up way</font> too late<font color="#CCCCCC"> I mean I have to go</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">assignment tomorrow but I guess I can</font> sleep<font color="#E5E5E5"> on the way there let me know what</font> you think and I'll try<font color="#E5E5E5"> to post more when</font> I<font color="#E5E5E5"> get back in a few days</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if it's a few</font> days [Music] [Music] [Music] well weird and wonderful story that one I'm<font color="#E5E5E5"> not quite sure what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to make of it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> does seem<font color="#CCCCCC"> like it's set up</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a part</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">too doesn't it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> well we shall have to</font> wait<font color="#E5E5E5"> and see</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> if the author delivers or</font> not<font color="#CCCCCC"> I certainly hope so because um some</font> unanswered<font color="#CCCCCC"> questions left</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> there well</font> your thoughts<font color="#E5E5E5"> and feelings on that one</font> in the<font color="#CCCCCC"> comment</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> section below the video</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and as ever</font> I'll do my<font color="#E5E5E5"> best to join in the chat</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">while my difference that's it for Monday</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but of course</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back again very very soon</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and I do so</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hope you're gonna join me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you are around unicorn so you will yes</font> yes yes until<font color="#E5E5E5"> then sweet dreams and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Piper thank you so much for choosing to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spend your time listening to me now if</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you enjoyed the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dr. creepy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> experience</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">then come find</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> on Facebook</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> come chat</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">with me on Twitter</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> listen to the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">background music and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> download it if you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like on soundcloud drop by the store</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">pick up a t-shirt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and importantly if</font> you've got a<font color="#E5E5E5"> story you'd like me to read</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">send it to dr. creepers vault subreddit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I set up so that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I could read your</font> stories yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> looking forward</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to seeing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">you all</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> again</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> real soon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so come check me</font> out<font color="#E5E5E5"> okay</font> [Music] <font color="#CCCCCC">you</font>
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Channel: Dr. Creepen
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Published: Mon Feb 18 2019
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