Chapter 4: Mysteries In the Dark

The unknown figure dragged Bly's body across the hard floor. It was darker than Hades in the base. All that could help them was that faint energy light from their helmets. Getting ready to nail Bly to the wall as well, he heard incoming footsteps coming from the stairway. He saw his hatch door that led to the outside and quickly escaped while Commander Stone entered. He looked around with his helmet lights on maximum capacity and spotted absolutely nothing worth mentioning besides the generator. But that was just it- he did not see Bly. Heart pounding at an uncontrollable rate, he breathed super heavily.

"Bly? Bly!?" Stone said as he finally shined his light over at the RMS soldier that was nailed. Backing up, he fell in his own tracks, got back up and hurried on back to the main control room. Out of breath, everyone there stared at him.

"Stone? What in the name of Neptune's trident happened?" Crane interrogated. Leia backed up. RMS troopers identified as Ember, Phantom, and Blue approached them all concerned.

"We... we need to issue this place under lockdown! I just found Zap nailed to the wall right behind the broken generator!" Stone cried out. "Nobody gets in or out!"

"Zap? Darn it! Okay, first things first- activate Generator 1B and issue that lockdown sequence," Crane advised. "You three [referring to Ember, Phantom, and Blue] get down there and turn that thing on."

The three saluted the captain and went on their way to the warehouse section. When they got down there, they were uncomfortably greeted with a man that they knew they have seen before in the base. "Turn around slowly," the man commanded. With their hands up, all of them turned around. Who they saw made them deceive their own eyes for a minute. How can he do this? That was one question that they all thought of at the same exact moment in time. "You filthy slime! How can you do this?" Ember questioned. Without verbally answering, the man swung his gun around and slammed it onto the girl's face. Phantom crouched down and used a handkerchief to wipe the dripping blood from her discombobulated face. In the meantime, Blue kept moving her head in the direction of the exitway and the man. She decided to go for it which obviously caught the attention of the suspect.

Sprinting, Blue at long last got herself to the main control room whereas Stone and Crane walked over to her. She began to say, "Sirs, he- he hit Ember! He-"

"Who?" Stone asked.

"... It was-" BANG! Blue looked down and noticed that there was a hole in her stomach with blood oozing out. As she was falling into Stone's arms, all she could mutter out was help. Crane looked back to Leia and her guards.

"We'll stay here and protect her- go!" Hoode said. Crane nodded and quickly unhinged flicked the safety switch on his rifle and started for downstairs. Stone still held Blue in his arms. Stone's armor started to get more red each and every second, and it was not his paint. While Crane gained access to the generator room, all his eyes could be fixed on was Lieutenant Bly who mysteriously reentered and Ember along with Phantom are gone.