Daniel Perspective

Hey I need some help to get out of here. (Daniel)

I see Antonio walk outside from the kitchen. He moves to my position and looks up at me.

I need your help to move this tool box down careful it is heavy. (Daniel)

He nods and goes to grab a chair to help lessen the length that I am going the tool box on him.

Ready. (Daniel)

Yes. (Antonio)

I drop the tool box and he catches it but, grunts over the weight that fell on his arms. He sets it down a little ways away. He climbs back on the chair is slid down the sledgehammer from my grip until he can reach and grab it. After that I jump down from the vent then land perfectly. I look up to the vents and see the red haired soldier looking down at me.

He hurry up and jump down or do I have to catch you. (Daniel)

Antonio seemed confused to who I was talking to but, he quickly looked at the lady in the vent and scowled.

C-Can I get some help it is to high up. (Red Haired Soldier)

Ok brace yourself. (Daniel)

Ok. (Red Haired Soldier)

She jumps down and I catch her in my arms. I set her down but, pretended not to notice her face was slightly red. I look at her who is standing and scanning from head to toe. She flinched when I look at

her. In my opinion she was too beautiful to join the army even with the slightly baggy clothes I can notice she had an hour glass like figure and her breast was a D-cup size from what I can tell. Her hair was a scarlet red. I look into her eyes which were a light blue color in them she had some apprehension in her eyes.

Soldier give me your name, rank, and squadron. (Daniel)

She seems shocked but, gives me a proper salute.

Emilia Insignia Private First Class of the 484th Squadron Sir. (Emilia)

Ok I need to talk to the two of you but, you seem hungry and I need to take inventory right now. (Daniel)

Sir before you leave may I know your name, rank, and squadron sir. (Emilia)

She makes herself look ditzy but, I see through her facade. I salute to her.

Daniel Captain of the 421th squadron Private. (Daniel)

You do not have a last name? (Emilia)

When she asks that question she and Antonio were following me into the kitchen. Now the temperature goes down several degrees. I look at the culprit which is Antonio glaring at her while having a baleful aura around him.

Ok I’ll tell you but, you need to sit down and eat when I am saying me short story.

I rummage through Antonio’s back pack and give Emilia the now cold BLT’s

I was an abandoned baby who never was adopted so I never was given a last name. I joined the army when I was 18 before World War 3 I was promoted up the ranks because, me and my squadron were

highly trained and disciplined in our missions with only had good outcomes during the battle. (Daniel)

You survived that war! (Emilia)

Yes I survived you do not need to yell. (Daniel)

But, was the bloodiest war to date the casualty rate was 97% on both sides! (Emilia)

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Yeah Yeah you can tell that to my scars that I was lucky. Well out of the 3 billion soldiers in all 3 fronts only 90 million made it back home making a huge population crash. I was one of the lucky people that survived because, out of those surviving people 85 million of them had some sort of injury if not external it was internal. I survived with a bunch of scars and a dozen broken bones. After that the higher ups wanted to promote me to colonel but, declined so the made me a captain the higher ups still pulled some strings even though my rank is captain l have the authority of a colonel. (Daniel)

Wait you’re the [sleeping giant] or the Captain Colonel! You are famous in the army they said many great things about you like how you are a wise old man full of scars or how your team took down an enemy base with no casualties to save civilians. Right after   our forces called in a retreat. (Emilia)

Can you eat your food now we are going to need your help later. (Daniel)

What Emilia said started making me think “Am I that old in the back of my mind I am barley 28 am I that old.” No you’re an average looking man with compact muscles full of scarred tissue.

30 minutes later

After I took everything into are storage/sleeping area and sorted the different materials. I started to talk with Antonio and Emilia.

We are going to try to gain more territory so we can have ground to retreat and recover. Beyond these doors are two long hall ways that go left and right to the left is the route leads to the front office to the right leads to our private lockers and the armory. We want to go to the armory and the locker room to find more things. We also want to find a safe route to the main garage. I know one of my friends was working on one of the new tanks there. We can use that to clear the compound but

we need to kill them in this building first. (Daniel)

Sound like a plan sir. (Antonio)

I glare at him.

Daniel. (Antonio)

I said to the both of them to call me Daniel.

Emilia I need you to provide cover just in case one of those infected come shuffling in. (Daniel)

Yes S-Daniel. (Emilia)

Antonio Come and help me move these tables to cover the two entrances. We rushed to both sides while pushing the big table. (Daniel)

We moved the tables while Emilia was protecting us. I only slightly trust her to protect us so me and Antonio both had are pistols in are holsters. We had 12 tables so we moved half the tables to the right side and the other half to the left side. I started to nail the tables to the doors I supported them with wooden supports when we were finished with the right side we started to stack chairs to make jumbled mess to slow down the infected. We did the same thing with the left side door of the corridor. When we finished all the work it was probably 8 or 9 in the night. I looked down on the two exhausted figures on two chairs.

Ok it seems like you both are exhausted so I will take first shift. (Daniel)

Ok. (Emilia/Antonio)