Everyone Dies No Exception

To say the organization had no structure would be being generous. There wasn’t even an organization. It was a loose group of people who didn’t like government together bonded by having served in the military. It made sense because this was how things were in the forces of life against the machines, which is why I never was fond of whatever fake rank I may have achieved in the service. It had no meaning we didn’t really do things as a group, we just opposed.

I almost wanted to report back to the authorities that had sent me it wasn’t worth wiping these guys out, they’d eventually do themselves in through petty arguments, up until I saw the nerve gas. It had been “liberated” from the machines they claimed, but I guessed it was more likely stolen from secure lock up as post war the AI’s had turned over their biological killers. This one I had seen in action, it was an acid base, once it hit atmosphere it spread and was lethal to just about anything with a respiratory system. In the war we called it breathless, as seeing the destruction it caused took your breath away.

The man who had tried to kill me was a man by the name of Jenks, he was one of the “leaders of the group” he also seemingly controlled the breathless, which told me he was the one I’d have to kill first. Gone was my desire to keep them alive, or make sure they’d just disperse. Using one of the machines weapons against your own people because you weren’t getting your way was just a disgusting abuse of what power they could have.

“What are you doing Lorentino?” Jenks was technically my boss since he brought me on. He had his foot all bandaged up from where I burned it. I was currently sitting alone to my thoughts trying to figure out a way to do something without it turning into some horrific blood bath.

“Thinking Jenks, might want to try it sometime.” Being an asshole seemed to be the default communication technique of this branch of terrorists.

“Well can you think somewhere else, I get shit to do where you are at.” I was near the nerve gas, I could only imagine what stuff he had to do. I decided I need a moment to breathe outside. The compound was some emergency shelter that had been left uninhabited post conflict. It was mostly disguised as part of a bombed out office building, no one lived in the surrounding area. It was a perfect disguise for a group of idiots.

“So you going to kill all of them?” Trezlan of course had showed up, he made me worry for a brief minute someone would see him, but I was alone outside, everyone else too wrapped up with what they were doing inside.

“Probably.”

“Ooh I love these little moments, the calm before the stupid.”