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The first thing wake Gally up is a bunch of irritating, annoying noise next to him along with a bunch of groaning.
Then the noise stops, someone must has turn it off. Then is a series of walking, mumbling and the sound of water steam turning off and on.
After several minutes, just when he about to fall asleep again, someone pokes him in his waist. He doesn't response, then comes several more pokes which finally annoyed him enough to wake him up.
"What" He grunts, frowning at the person that keeps pooching him.
That person is Cory, a guy with blonde, middle-part hair, brown eye with some freckles on his face. His face is damp from the shower, a water drop rolling down his cheek. He looks straight at Gally without saying a word.
"What?" he frowns "What do you want me to response, get in the shower, you have 10 minutes before Zart and Willson's turn."
Gally pushes Cory out of his way, without saying a word, heading straight to the bathroom in their dorm. After closing the door, he stares at the mirror, studying himself. Short, buzz-cut, almost bald brown hair, small green eyes, wavy and long eye browns and a pouty mouth. The most noticeable thing on his face is his nose, weirdly shaped with scar on it.
People at WICKED said that he has got into some kind of fight with someone leading to an injured nose and they have to do surgery. That was before he got into an accident that results in him losing most of his memories. Not just him but almost every kid working with him in the special force loses their memories too.
"Gally, stop staring at yourselves in the mirror, you have 8 minut-" A boy sarcastically said before someone tries to cover his mouth because Gally can hears some giggling and mumbling after the sentence being cut off.
"You know how he usually is in the morning" Cory whispers to others in the room "Last time, he almost broke the sink because i interrupted his dream"
The boys laugh even harder.
Too embarrassing, Gally pounds on the bathroom door, creating a large sound as a warning so they can stop and start his daily routine.
Finally, they leave to the cafeteria and then the changing room for today mission.
After having breakfast, he moves quickly to the changing room.
He goes straight to his locker, subject A9, to take his stuff out. the metal door swings open after he scan his iris. He stares at all the items, a black body suit, an outer shirt and an armor that cover his whole torso, a military-themed baggy pant with a waistband with multiple bags for different items in the battlefield. (id just imagine the official design of wicker's soldiers in the death cire movie)
Another sound of metal door opens, Gally turn to see Thomas standing far away from him, his face locks on the suit inside the locker.
Although Thomas is his captain but their relationship was never good for many reasons. Gally believes they should be flexible in the battlefield, Thomas thinks they should follow instructions from WICKED, Gally think some WICKED's decisions suck, Thomas believes WICKED is always right and several more conflicts.
Gally quickly focus back on changing, pulling his shirt and pant off, wear all the uniforms and gears up. He pushes all of his old clothes into the locker and turn to the exit.
Right before he exits the room, Thomas said something.
"Gally"
Gally pauses, doesn't think Thomas will start a conversation
"What"
"Listen" Thomas take a long breath "I know between us, we don't have a good… relationship, but, today is the first day we go to the scorch. I hope we can try to be more… mutual?"
Gally looks at Thomas without responding, nods and walks away.
They finally settle in the Berg, one of the flying thing that WICKED builds. It is a small, dark room with five seats on each side. To Gally's left is the door leading to the piloting area, to the opposite side is the giant exit.
"We're here, good luck soldiers" One of the guards from WICKED announces as they finally arrive at their destination, the Scorch, a desert waste land with a few extremely poor cities, from the sky you can only see an endless land of orange and yellow. Why WICKED doesn't build city up to the North where the sun flare hasn't hit that bad, Gally doesn't know, they always response with the same answer "We have to those lands for a greater good" with the "greater good" being WICKED's facilities and weapons. Gally rolls his eyes while thinking without he even notices.
The exit opens as they're landing to the ground. Then a harsh, sharp light hit Gally and other people, forcing him to squint his eyes and cover it with his hand wind fill the Berg with the high temperature and the smell of sand.. Gally stands up on his seat holding a gun. On his waistband are a pistol and a knife along with other members.
After adjusting to the bright light, the guy in front of him finally moves, Gally follows. As soon as they get off the Berg, it immediately closes and fly away as it scares that one more second here will melt it down.
Gally put on the helmet, covering his vision with a faint black color, but it is actually helpful to see under the harsh light of the sun.
Not even a minute after arriving at the Vesta, one of the city in the Scorch, they notice in front of them is a group of people screaming, shouting "WICKED IS BAD" as they approaching.
"Get in position" Thomas shouts, raising his gun up "Turning your gun to the electrical mode except for two in the back"
CLICK
Multiple sounds of metal clinking overlapping as people follow Thomas commands. They start jogging toward the group of people.
They notices Gally and his team, he knows that by slight their expression's change but they aren't seemed to stop shouting.
"HAND IN THE AIR" Thomas shout "This the special force A from WICKED, we command you to stop or we will have to use violent"
As the word special force was mentioned, people freeze, eye widen. However, their expression seems nothing like scared, they're more like… anger. Before Gally could react, people start sprinting toward Gally's team, holding all kind of makeshift weapons, shovels, hoes or just a stick while shouting.
"IT IS THEM, IS WICKED"
"KILL THEM"
"IT THOSE BRAINWASHED CHILDREN FROM WICKED"
"NOW" Thomas screams before firing his own gun. A blue electrical energy released from his gun, blasting into one of the man in front of the line. Blue lightning lit up the air, spreading across the group of people as they scream in pain, their whole body twitching rapidly as other members fire their gun.
Thomas gestures other member to put the gun down, waiting for the electricion to go out. The blue energy lightning slowly fading away, leaving a steam of smoke on each bodies. Thomas bend down, talking to one of the man in the front line.
"Who is your leader." Thomas askes but the man won't talk, there is only painful groaning in respond.
Click
The sounds of the gun changing to the other mode, the fire one which unlike the electrical for disabling, it now fires normal bullet.
Bang
Thats the sound of the gun firing, Thomas has fired the gun to the sky, proving that he's not joking around anymore. The man stop groaning, sweat rolling from his forehead, he's absolutely scared from the gun shot. Even Gally is scared, what get into Thomas today, he usually not this cruel.
He put the gun back to the man's head.
"Im not asking again." Thomas said impatiently "I ask who is your leader."
"Shoot me" The man responses, he sounds careless, not bothered that his death is just inches away "Just kill me, like what WICKED usually do, huh"
"I.." Surprised from his response, Thomas struggling to find a right word.
"Just like what WICKED does to my wife" He looks up, eyes full of anger "To my daughter, my son, my friends"
"I have nothing to lost" the man continues "Pull…the…trigger" he said it out loud, no hesitation.
The man's words shock Thomas, Gally and other member of group A as well. Their eyes widens in horror, their heads spinning, WICKED killed innocent people, how?. But chancellor Ava Paige said they never hurt innocent residents, only kill people when it is necessary, even in their tutoring video said that.
Just like somebody have read Gally's mind, someone speaks up "But… but, Ava Paige says that never kill innocents, our prioritize is to control without violence"
"Ava Paige more like ASS PAIGE, that woman is full of lies, they babying you inside those fancy WICKED facilities and feeding you those perfect, beautiful pictures about them" the man answers "Welcome to the reality"
The world around them goes silent, they're hit with a reality that WICKED, the people they work under aren't perfect as they are taught. Usually when they went on missions on different cities outside the Scorch, thing go smoothly, always end when they fire a normal bullet to the sky and WICKED continues be a perfect, reliable and kind government.
Suddenly, a blast of blue energy hit someone behind Gally. The boy cries out, lightning spreading. Before Gally could react, a shadow jumps in front of Gally and punches him in his mask.
Gally tries to aim the gun toward the person but they yank the gun away and tackle Gally down to the road, trying to restrain him. Around him, the sounds of gunfire, screaming appears as they get jumped by a mysterious group.
Just when the person pinning him to the road is distracted, Gally secretly pull out his pistol in his pocket, aiming for the person. But something about their looks is… oddly familiar despite their mask, Gally can still spots it. Asian eyes, black slicked-up hair. It is like Gally have met him before.
But the hesitation betrays him, the Asian kid spots the gun and immediately snatch it away.
"Ah HAH, TOO SLOW" that kid said with a smirk.
Gally feels a wave of nostalgic like he have heard this phrase, this voice before. Is he suffering from dejavu because he has no memory of knowing this kid before but his senses feel otherwise.
After a while, his whole team is restrained. The group that jumped them is a bunch of teenagers, each of them around Gally's age and again, Gally feels like he has known them before. They tied Gally with others with a rope and start discussing about something. Gally tries his best to overhear them but they keep whispering.
A few minutes later, they finally decide something and start forcing his teammates to follow them, even Thomas, their captain, is captured.
Gally keeps his face down as they walk, his face's red from the embarrassment. They're special force trained and aimed by the government, yet they lose to some teenagers in their first time going to the scorch. However, the embarrassment quickly vanish, replaced by scare and confusion as some kids accidentally spill their plan up.
"You guess how much The Right Arm will pay for these idiots?"
Right Arm? THE RIGHT ARM? It is the biggest rebellion group against WICKED, Gally and his friends are so dead, their mission coming here is to learn and destroy Right Arm not being captured by them??? They're so SCREWED.