Author: * Bakari Bem Benerib -
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Date: May 23, 2007 - 14:24
"Aquilla, this heaven-forgotten hole has a radius of five miles or so, they wont have to shoot if they don't get close to the walls of the pit, besides, the nomads had removed sections of the metal pannels to dig their caves in, pray to the god of your devotion we wont have to shoot at all".
"We have ten teams of ten men, each team has a color, I am Gray-1 you're Gray-2, keep in touch by the radio, ready? gooo". both men jumped into empty space, Bakari sensed the unconfortable sensation of your stomach going up, but it was just for a moment, then the deceiving sensation of being flying, (truth is that in freefall you're falling like a 50 feet per second) he decided to brake the ten second rule for opening the parachute just in case someone would need attention but seconds later he almost hit another parachute, oops, an accident at this speed will prove fatal, so he pulled the string and radio communications started.
"This is Commander Blue-1, all teams report". Bakari said in hope that it would be a quiet and nice descend, much unlikely to become truth.
*Radio* "Gray Team all clear", "Brown Team clear", "This is Yellow-1 I lost view of all my team.../static/... some lights are broken".
"Yellow-1 I see you in my radar you're glidding south-west and you're in collision curse with the wall, pull your strings, glide other way" Bakari's yells could be hear on time and the spot on the radar told him Yellow-1 was safe after changing curse drastically, Bakari were starting to feel more confident about it, several feet under him he could spot some parachutes that like him had glide away from the walls' it was the less experimented men that worried him, and then it happened.
*Radio* "mayday, mayday, this is Red-1, we're south-south-west, we're under fire.../static/..."nomads, kill the nomads".../close gunfire sound/..."lost Red-3, Red-4, and Red-5".../static/...somebody help us".
"Red team I want you all away from that wall" Bakari felt a sensation of impotence, not being able to do more than just giving orders to his dying men then the radio went to life again just after the echo of an explosion could be heard too down to be seen.
*Radio* "Bakari, This is Purple-5, I'm right under you, purple-3 got too close to the wall and activated a mine.../static/...lost Purple-4 too, I see nomads west of me, the wave got me tangled in the staircase".
"Gee Im gonna regret this" Bakari whispered to himself "Purple-5 when I count to three you drop yourself and I'll catch you, one, two, three", Bakari actioned a button to realese the parachute and again felt the freefall, just on time he reach this Purple-5 guy and grabbed him with, then he pulled the string of his emergency parachute, the pull was painful but a life was saved, he would only have to hold for and hour or so till they would reach the bottom of the pit, the problem was that the nomads spotted them and started shooting, fortunatelly they weren't so close to them as those poor guys of the red team, Purple-5 paniced and wailed so frantically that Bakari lost hold of him, while he was shooting the enemy he looked down Purple-5 was going down like a bullet Bakari saw that the guy had decided to use his anti-gravity vest.
"Fool" he said "His vest wont have enough power to bring him back out of here" he sighed "Grey-2 report".
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