Decisions, Decisions

December 19, 2007

Xenet 71.43.1 System Msg

TTY31201.12.19

Network Connection Enabled
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Today I had to make the worst decision in my career with the AFS. It started out as a routine mission, AFS command wanted me and my squad to extract a prisoner from Tocastra Prison in the southern part of Divide. This particular pilot had some information that would really help out the war effort, so he was priority. Of course in this Prison there were hundreds of other captured humans, Cormans, and Foreans, but command made it known that all these people were secondary. Just fodder for the Bane's "experiments" that went on in this Prison.

So me and my squad dove in. The defenses defiantly weren't lax, we had to fight through four bunkers and a Juggernaut just to get inside the prison. Luckily we had a great medic behind the scenes keeping all of us up through the fighting. When we finally made it in I got to see the "experiments" the Bane were doing first hand. Some nasty stuff went down in there, things I would rather not repeat in words or even in my head. We fought through the patrols, there weren't as many as there was outside. I guess the Bane figured that no one would get past the Juggernaut guarding the door. Finally after maybe an hour of fighting through the patrols, we found the lab where the pilot was being held. All it took was a shotgun blast through the holding tanks glass to free the pilot, or at least what was left of him.

The Bane defiantly did a number on this poor soldier, we couldn't tell if he was still human or if they had converted him to machine. But then we knew when he talked, though all we heard was "Kill....me....". So we had to make the decision, keep him in his misery, or take him out of it. Our squad leader and the medic thought that we could keep him alive, but I couldn't stand to see him that way, forever trapped in pain. We didn't have a lot of time to discuss though, because another patrol came running into the lab. There was another firefight, and I saw the pilot. What was left of his eye's seemed to beckon me "Shoot...me..".

In the report it was written down as friendly fire, but I knew what I did. The worst decision in my career.

~ Caine Kelley