Welcome to the prologue!! This is the only chapter that will be in third person, the others will be in the first person, and switching POVs as well. The song that will be in this chapter is possibly one of my favorite songs from Sabaton since I first heard it, and I do NOT own it!

(Present day, December 24, 2024)

Snow falls onto the trenches of Russia and most of the borders that Russia is allied with, and made enemies of. But it's Christmas Eve, and a platoon is celebrating, but not just any platoon, but U.S. Marines and their allies, plus their enemies as well. Chatter can be heard as peace settles over the trenches on this day, just like it did years ago. Laughter can be heard as the soldiers drink and play soccer together. All.....except for one soldier who still hasn't participated.

This lone soldier lets his blue eyes peer through his balaclava, his rifle over his shoulder as he does. He knows it's supposed to be peaceful, considering it's Christmas Eve, but he shakes his head as he looks ahead. He then turns to see a recruit walk up, and he sighs, his gloved hands itching to get back in the fighting as he sees other recruits walk up, each from different nations, different platoons, lest they be ally or enemy, and he has to grunt.

"What do you fuckers want?" He asks the recruits, his eyes narrowed through the balaclava. One of the recruits, a young British man looking to be in his early twenties, clears his throat.

"Are you First Lieutenant Colonel Fisher, codename Rook?" He asks in broken English, his accent slurring his words. The man-now dubbed Rook, nods his head, acknowledging the recruits.

"That would be me. What's up?" He asks. One of the other recruits, a French man answers in perfect English with a mix of his accent as he points to the bandana around his neck,

"What's that around your neck? Where'd you get it from?" Rook tugs at the bandana, revealing it to be in the colors of the American flag. He then narrows his eyes again.

"Why do you want to know?" He asks, his voice not unkind. The French soldier lifts up his hands a bit, letting them try and placate the man before he can get pissed. Rook blinks his eyes, still narrowed as he answers,

"It's from......a friend. More than a friend.....a sister. Well, she is, but not by blood. Her.....her codename is Wolf. Or, was." The foreign man blinks his eyes.

"Was?" He asks. "Is she....dead?" Rook turns to him, shaking his head with a small growl.

"No, she's just.....not here." He turns to the horizon, the snow sticking to the ground beneath his boots. The French soldier nods.

"I....think I understand," he says. "What is Wolf like?" Rook hums, his eyes looking down for a second. For a moment, he doesn't speak, but when he looks up, there's a hint of emotion in his blue eyes, and when he speaks, his voice is misty.

"She's a badass," he answers. "She's also one of the toughest people I know." He chuckles. "She's an Irish woman, and Navajo, from her mother's side. Irish from her father's side. She's survived the toughest of battles she's ever fought, and has faced her demons more times than I can count." The other recruits around him nod.

"The bandana," another soldier says, this one a stocky built young man no older than at least nineteen as he points to the bandana wrapped around Rook's neck. "Is that from her?" Rook wraps a gloved hand around the bandana, tightening his grip on it slightly.

"Yes," he answers after a tense silence. "It is from her. Would you like to hear a story about us?" The soldier blinks his eyes as the other recruits grin.

"Yes, please, let's hear it!" The British around him say. Rook chuckles.

"Okay, okay, hold on, let me get a drink, I'm better off telling this story drunk." He reaches for a flask of whiskey, and takes a big gulp of it.

"It was years ago, back in the early 1910s, when Wolf and I first met, and Project Chimera wasn't even founded yet...."

And that's it for the prologue!!!! I'm gonna get some help from my friend on how this story will play out, but next chapter will probably be in either Rook or Wolf's POV, we'll have to wait and see. See y'all in the very first chapter of this book!