Our Version Of Events

Must have been sometime in October, I got reassigned again. Can't really say to where, no one f**king told me. All I know right now is I'm blindfolded in a f**king car driving off to God knows where, they couldn't even f**king give me the location. Don't get why this squad is so secretive, I had my brother asked around about it he couldn't find anything. Needless to say this people and their operations are nonexistent .

The car had stopped moving

"We're here" the driver said. Does this motherf**ker expect me to find my way out the car? Or did he completely forget that he also tied my hands behind my back. The door beside me open, I could tell cos I was resting with my left shoulder on it throughout the f**king journey. One hell of a f**king assignment this had to be, first I was instructed to meet a complete stranger who blind folded me and tied me up before driving me to this unknown f**king location.

"Keep walking straight" said a voice who I presumed was trying to pull out my arm while getting me out of the car.

"Can you at least untie me?" I asked, this trip was getting really uncomfortable. I mean sure I've been blindfolded, tied up and dragged around a couple times, more time than I can f**king count but apart from getting killed and getting shot at its just some of the perks of serving your government.

"Stay still" the voice said again, this time wherever the f**k he had led me to felt crowded. Someone untied me and told me to not take off the blindfold just yet, I obliged after all what else was I suppose to do. All I know is my shrink will be up for a f**king treat of a story.

"B**ches! Take off them blindfolds" a voice said, I knew I wasn't alone only I never expected to be in a room filled with about 50 other fucking guys. Everyone wore regular clothing you couldn't tell who was who until you starting realizing we were the only ones blindfolded to begin with.

"Welcome to your f**king home, my name is the Principal..." The voice said. The principal? What sort of f**ked up name is that, does he really expect us to call him that?

"....now I know some of you are a bit skeptical, I might go as far as saying y'all a bit scared but no worries, as we always do we would give those pussies who are having second thoughts one last chance to leave" he paused probably wanting everyone to ponder on what he just said. Couldn't even see the f**king guy, some freakishly tall a**hole was standing right in front of me, we were standing in groups of rows and columns, I could count atleast 9 rolls plus the room had like one bulb in it, I couldn't even see the face of the person beside me.

"Now if you're a pussy put back your fucking blindfold and my men will take you back to where they found you" he said. Some men quickly wore back their blindfolds, infact a lot of them did. Had to be the most shocking thing I had seen today, usually during a briefing like this there's always one young a**hole who's ready to pull a grenade pin and put the grenade in his pocket if given the order. I stood there watching as those who had blindfolded themselves were taking one by one, normally nothing felt right about this but It was this or go back home, receive a medal and some f**king pat on the back. F**k that, since Sarah left I don't think there's much back home for me anyways. Thinking about her now made me realize that I haven't completely gotten over her, to think she'd break up with me through a letter, a f**king letter just a few days after I got shot by some Arabs in the f**king desert.

"You, yes you. Don't you think you should join your friends?" The room had completely cleared out, they were like 15 guys left and this motherf**ker was actually addressing me.

"No Sir, its not my style" I responded. Finally got to see him now because the 'Khali' standing in front of me finally decided to move, honestly I was hoping he'd leave with the rest but there he f**king was.

"How about you?" He said pointing to another person.

"No Sir, I'm prepared for this task Sir!" Came the reply. This motherf**ker stood, spoke and saluted like this was some f**king formal event, guess I found my f**king grenade guy.

The Principal let out a laugh that felt like a dying hyena

"I like this one" he said and continued addressing him

"Tell me son, what the f**k did you hear about us?"

"Sir I heard that this is a top secret heavily funded regiment and what we do here keeps this great nation from total anarchy. Sir" this motherf**ker got all that info from what source exactly? Sam couldn't even find a single file on this regiment and as far as government secrets are concerned he f**king knows all there is to know.

"Yo, Coal. What should we name this one?" Principal asked another figure standing at a corner hiding in the shadows.

"Heck, I don't know P" the figure replied. This mother f**kers had us standing still like a bunch of new recruits and now they wanna start talking trash. How the f**k did a decorated soldier like myself got caught in this shit I wondered.

"What's your name son?" The principal asked.

"My name is Sergeant Ga..."

"F**k that!" The Principal yelled cutting him off before he could speak.

"Once you become a part of us you no longer exist, any name or position you occupied before you joined us all ceases to exist. Do you understand?" This motherf**ker was now standing right in my face and I could finally see him clearly. The best description for him was basically 'an albino on steroids'.

"I asked you a f**king question" he said.

"Look buddy, can we get this over with I got a bad cramp from standing too long" I replied. He looked back at me, I could see his blood boil but I could not see him doing much at this stage. If this was camp I would have gotten some bulls**t punishment like 50 push-ups or some s**t like that but this isn't camp, out here they need every hand they can find active at all times.

"You f**king motherf**ker I'm gonna.... " he never got to complete that statement, someone whistled and he looked over and just stopped talking. It kinda helped confirm what I was already suspecting, this a**hole wasn't in charge of this operation he was simply a mascott. He muttered something to himself then pointed to another figure who was previously hiding in the shadows but soon began approaching us

"This is Mach 5, he's gonna be clearing your life history after I'm done talking" the Principal said then stared at us to see our reaction. As usual there were side talks, everyone trying to confirm from the next guy what they just heard.

"Please form a line and follow me" said the just introduced Mach 5. Before I could move 'the Andre looking' motherf**ker was standing again in front of me.

The next few minutes was spent watching the people in front of me going one at a time into the next room. Whenever one went in he came out like he just received a superpower. I didn't have to wonder what was going on in there for too long, soon enough it was my turn. I pushed open the door and stepped in complete darkness, the only light in the room came from a computer screen

"Over here" said the man in front of the screen.

"Put your thumb over this" he said as soon as I approached. I had to strain my eyes to see what i was suppose to put my thumb over but the light from the screen wasn't enough.

"Its just a scanner dude" the man said.

I slowly put my thumb and watched the reaction of the man as he punched some keys on his keyboard.

"What a nice resume" he said with his eyes fixed on the screen, I looked over and I could see all my public details on display, including my military files.

"What the fuck is this?" I asked.

"Don't worry you won't need any of this" he said. I watched him punched in some few more keys and everything disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.

"Welcome to the club newbie, what should we call you?" He asked; he finally looked up at me and had a big grin on his face. He wore rimless glasses and had a scar above his left eye.

"Well what do they call you?" I asked; I didn't bother asking him what just happened with the computer, my best guess was that they were confirming that the people present are who they claimed they were. I once had something similar done to me on a tour to Zimbabwe, they had us memorize half a song at base and knowing that song was basically the password back into base anytime we left but this felt more sophisticated.

"I'm the hacker" he said.

"Why can't I use my real name?" I asked.

"Oh you can, but secrecy is something you'll find to be very important"

"I think I can handle secrets, I won't be part of this nickname bulls**t" I said. He let out a little laugh.

"Hey what's the hold up?!" A voice yelled from the door, I could clearly tell it was the Principal.

"Yeah we're rounding up!" Hacker yelled back.

"Well we'll see. You should go join the rest" he said to me and went back to punching keys on his keyboard.

I came out the room and stood with the rest, as humans naturally are, they had already begun forming a clique.

"Hi...."Someone standing behind me said. I turned and behold 'Andre the fucking giant' was the one; up to this day I still have no idea how the f**ker got so close without me noticing.

"....my name is Steven but I choose Big S. What about you?"

" Am Henry, just Henry" I finally said after getting over the shock.

"Henry? I thought real names weren't allowed" Big S asked.

"Yeah, but then again you just told me yours and I bet it would be easy finding out everything about a big man named S than a normal looking man named Henry." I said.

He must have been a bit slow because he pondered over what I said for a while before finally getting it.

" Well nice to meet you too" he said before walking over to another person.

I heard him continue to introduce himself to others and they seemed to respond with that same cheerful energy. Personally I was never a people person and I have accepted that fate. I stood there watching others go in and out the room I was previously in, I kept wondering what else they needed to do before finally introducing us to who ever was in charge and why on earth is this group unknown to anyone outside it.

We stood there for a while and I began eavesdropping on other people's conversation and heard some few weird details; first was the fact that most people here weren't even in the military to begin with. Like why the f**k would you mix up civilians with soldiers, I also found out that the ID thing that we went through a while back was probably us getting erased from the system. Of course that second one seemed highly f**king impossible, if I had a dollar for every time I thought I had become a ghost I'd own the world.

"Alright B**ches!" someone yelled, it was the f**king Principal. This time he was screaming as loud as he could possibly be screaming.

"I need soldiers on one file civilians on another!" He said. In a matter of f**king seconds I found myself in the back of another line; turns out they were more soldiers than I actually thought and to my surprise Big S and that grenade boy were just ahead of me.

More men rushed in, handing us blindfolds again, I sighed as I took the blindfold from the figure. I was back in total darkness and in that darkness I was dragged out till I found myself seating in a comfortable chair.

"Good day, please feel free to take off the blindfold" I took them off and in front of me stood a slim, tall figure of a man. He wore glasses and had on a black suit that looked a bit big on him, I on the other hand was seating on a chair along with the others, they had a projector and some slides prepared for us.

"My name is Professor Tea, but feel free to call Prof. " he said and then gave a really weird grin.

"I know most of you are a bit jumpy or confused, I assure you that whatever you went through to get here was done for your safety and that of those around you" he said and made a waving gesture to Hacker who was seating close to him, facing us. Hacker pressed a button on a remote device in his hand and the projector displayed an image. It was more of a logo, I couldn't really recall back then where I'd seen it before.

There was silence in the room everyone was staring at the image and the Prof. Kept staring back at everyone.

"Sir, why are we looking at the logo of Jeckles and Johnny? " someone finally asked, I didn't bother to see who the fuck it was but thank God he asked,

"The reason, you all are staring at the logo of a pharmaceutical company is because this is the enemy we've been tasked on taking down" Prof. said.

"You're s**tting me. So what, they didn't pay enough tax or what? " said someone else, everyone burst into laughter, even Prof. did and then waved again to Hacker to play the next slide. The moment the image came up the laughter died out.; it was a bunch of bodies being torched by people wearing the company's uniform

"This image was taken by a deceased worker 3 years ago, a few days after he contacted a journalist and said he had proof on what was going on in there, he died mysteriously and the journalist in question simply disappeared. Somehow this image was leaked to the general public but nothing else was found"

"Why make a whole unit why not just have a go at them with this evidence? " I asked, I was starting to get curious.

"A picture allegedly taken by a deceased worker showing a location that is yet to be known? I don't think that could ever stick. Plus there's more" he waves at Hacker. This time it was securities holding guns

"This picture is from their facility about 3 miles from here. Each security operative, armed to the teeth and yet they claimed to be a pharmaceutical company. Of course all of this are mere speculation but we suspect that this company is secretly selling weapons and also involved in human trafficking. "

"I'm guessing that's where we come in right? " I asked.

"Yes, your objective is to infiltrate and exterminate whatever threat this company poses. " Prof. said. He used his left thumb to readjust the glass he was wearing.

"The government will not be responsible for whatever happens in there, if we fail we will either be gunned down by their security or detained in which case we will face the full penalty of the law" he said, this time he had a Stern look probably to let us know it wasn't a joke.

"So we're expendable then? " A voice asked, I recognized this one it was Big S.

"Yes, I believe that's the whole. " Prof. replied his grin had come back on, he never did complete that sentence. He probably forgot to say "point"

"Anymore questions? " he asked. Nobody said anything we all kept quiet.

"Good then... "he said after watching us in our silence for a while

"...the principal will get you guys prepped and gear, you'll depart in 22 hours. " I had no idea what or why, but something felt missing. It was like something was deliberately being kept from us.

I watched the Prof and the Hacker leave after which we were shown rooms to sleep in, I was given a roommate and to my dismay it was Grenade boy.