The Remainders of War

A few days passed by and she hasn't spoken to me since her lips embraced mine. But Jeamie got closer to her and they chat all the time and both of us and ATACC don't know her name.

Even if he knew her face.

She just smiles when she sees me...and that creeps me out.

Should I talk to her? Should I initiate conversation? I found me asking myself as usual.

The fifth day dawned and I lost my patience. Me and ATACC devised a nearly foolproof plan to get her name.

A game of "Truth Or Dare". Yep, that's the best we came up with...don't judge us.

That dusk, I gathered all of us at the campfire which meant all four. Hoping all went well, we booted up ATACC to ask us random questions.

" WELCOME TO..." Drum sounds rolled from his body.

" TRUTH. OR. DARE!!" He bellowed. " Yay!" Jeamie clapped her hands and cheered.

" THIS IS A GAME WHERE YOU EITHER HAVE TO UTTER THE TRUTHFUL ANSWER OR ATTEMPT TO FULFILL A DARE!" Audience cheering sounds erupted from his speakers, the possibility of them being dead for centuries fairly high.

" LET'S START WITH, What. Is. Your. Name?!"

He pointed at Jeamie announcing," We'll start with this pretty little angel here!" He switched to his normal voice, beaming with pride.

Of course, she forgot her first name. She hasn't been living for a few centuries and the last time she used her name was about a year ago.

She looked at me in pain, her eyes pleading as I whispered it was Kytte.

" Jeamie Kytte!" She yelped adorably. " Then, let's move on to this lady!" ATACC pointed at her after announcing this.

" I choose dare" She said in a monotone. ATACC looked at me with an electronic look that probably meant:

" I'm done with my life. I give up......"

Probably that. I should add a face feature to him.

" That is the dare" I corrected her. " I'll say a truth then. If that's your rule." She looked at ATACC and me with a smirk on her face.

" Cause you gentlemen and robot know SO MUCH about it"
She said in a voice I remembered was probably sarcastic.

Yes, I know what that meant. And this was supposedly a popular game for girls in the first place. She looked at me with the same look Jeamie does, love. Yet I felt some selfishness in that.

" I love him" She winked at me. I was having a hunch that we'd know each other well but not this.

I'm done with this...someone throw me off a cliff.

And that's when I heard the faint growls and snarls.

Every once in a while, lions and leopards roam this side of the plains. And for those days, we had to stay cooped up in our cabin. We heard some roars and that's how we ran inside and how I failed majestically to get to know her name.

But I thanked the stars for sending a couple of murderous predators to save me.

Sarcastic of course. I'm not a complete doofus.

After I locked the hatch seal, we settled for the night. I woke up in the morning to see both Jeamie and the girl using my chest as stands for their legs.

Very good. How have the turned tables...

But I yelped a bit when the stupid robot sent a jolt across my palm.

" Wait, where, what?" Jeamie murmured dreamily. And so did the other one, although she mumbled it so no one could hear anything.

" So, why do you love him?"Jeamie asked her at our snack of fruits.

MUHAHAHAHAHHA! ASK HER SISTER! BE THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE! WAIT NO! ASK HER THE NAME! OH GOD!

" Yeah, I'm curious too" ATACC bleeped at her.

I decided it was best to leave the cabin but when I opened the door, I found myself nearly setting foot on top of a lions head.

LLLLIIIIOOOOOOONNNNNNNN!

And that how I closed the door faster than I opened it and returned to the conversation...

" He's the one who understood someone like me" She said as if it was obvious. I scanned my brain for someone like her.

No clue, obviously.

" I was one of the others who passed the Trials. Unlike him, I was the opposite" She smiled at Jeamie as she ruffled her hair.

ATACC got the information he needed as I heard his motherboard humming in the quiet air between the exchange of words.

But my mind was faster and I blacked out after having a memory surface at the speed of light.

" I'm so gonna kill you if this plan of yours doesn't work" Mike mocked me.

" Try me, dude." I shot back.

Long story short, well it turned out that I did win and I got the last laugh.

During the Trial's after party, I shouldered him and I made him my laughing stork. For a total time of four days and a half more.

" Alright, ALRIGHT! Stop!" He yelled, annoyed at me winning with no kills but all KO's.

Skip ahead a week, skipping another part of the history.

During another party, someone, somewhere didn't want us to lay off and be chilling. " ALERT! ALERT!" The alarm went off amidst our ruckus. We were upon our feels the next movement.

" NUKE IMMINENT! E.T.A 20 MINUTES!" The announcement told us all about the nuclear weapon approaching our super secret top secret base which was supposed to be a "Totally Classified Information".

And apparently, we were all busy for that.

" You two, get on the ship!" Imperial Officer Kande ordered me and Jeamie. " Yessir!" Jeamie saluted as he ruffled her hair. Officer or not, he has a soft spot for girls. Especially young girls.

I gotta sleep clear of him.

I rushed the half drunk winners and the Companions to the ship which would get us to the Aegir 07. It was a work in progress but it was all ready for immediate deployment.

" Dr.Stace Collet, report to the Shuttle immediately, your coffee will be brought to you" The announcer sounded salty. " NOW!!" The next made it sound immediate and important.

That made it sound a nuke was actually approaching. I sealed the air locks with Raj and Mike as the others were either too drunk or too weak and drunk to seal it.

After we were given clearance, Stace stumbled into the room with her coffee chanting,"~Seatbelts, Seatbelts, Seatbelts save your lives!~"

She never knew when things got serious...

The thrusters shot us out of the stratosphere. When we entered the mesosphere, the comm systems started stuttering. We were receiving a bunch of static which was weird as it should happen only if we were in the ionosphere.

" Hop-    you've su-     ly cleare-     f range. Good luc-" It transmitted before going still. Most of us were either confused or drunk or dizzy at that time.

But I knew clearly what was going on.

They lied to us.

For the greater good. To end the suffering on Mother Earth...

Apocalypse had begun.

The monitor indicated the E.T.A," THREE, TWO, ON-" Then it shut off abruptly.

I watched in horror as our beloved planet was torn into tatters. Every country was a bright blimp as if we marked it with a laser, rippling across the oceans.

They didn't give us the whole message.

" The plan is to cure the Earth of her terrible disease" They said.

They didn't say it was to wipe out every one remaining.

Billions of people, killed mercilessly.

Nukes decorated the blue planet as I put my hands on the glass with shock, pressing my head against the view.

We drifted towards the Aegir 07, my mind wondering how the others would react when they knew when they came out sober.

And so I didn't.