The prisoners go too, offloaded, at rifle-point and escorted somewhere inside the ship. We don’t leave the helicopter the pilot does, after he’s killed the engine and offered Snake a sharp salute. The uneasy silence that followed held until we touched down. When he’d nodded, the commander had pulled his subordinate up to sit in the seats across from me. Snake had just sort of stared until the commander said something he’d apparently liked. There’d been a brief bit of growling from DD. The soldiers woke up something like an hour later. “The Heiwa Maru is a support platform for the helo while we’re in the AO.” He turns his attention out the nearest window. “How long are we going to be? Three hours?” Feed them to the single wasp that’s managed to stick with me through all the sudden location changes. And while I’m at it, I pull those couple of fleas off him. Snake seems more amused than anything, so I guess ear-scratches are alright. Weight, on my legs.DD, resting his head across my lap. Feel the buzz of the engines, of the blades overhead. I drop my head back against the hard ‘cushion’ of the seat. I’m not particularly fond of them either, any more. I’m starting to get the impression he’s not one for conversation. Takes the time to sit down and look me over again before answering. He nudges one of the soldiers aside, so he can move to his own seat against the back of the cabin. As the helicopter tips and rises almost nauseatingly fast. “If this is The Pequod…” I tip my head, as Snake drags the door shut. Dragging myself into one of the seats is so much harder than it should have been. Too much effort for too long, and now I’m paying for it. Sitting down for so long screwed me over.
I get lifted.dragged, almost, when my own efforts falter. I’ve got the other guy propped up and ready for him by the time he’s done with that.ĭD’s in. Snake wastes no time, dragging the commander out of the jeep and slinging him into the helicopter. Bobbing in place but never quite touching down. Creeping along, without the benefit of any sort of road.Īnd there it is, kicking up sand and dirt as it hovers above the ground. I pull my mask up into place again, as we roll out into the sun. The jeep rumbling back to life is about as much answer as I’d been expecting. I hiss, leaning away from the sudden exclamation (to no real effect, considering it’s coming from an earbud). “ This is Pequod! Arriving shortly at LZ!” We’d all ttled in.īut then, finally, DD perks up. The men in the back of the jeep had stirred, briefly, only to get another dose of tranquilizers. The sun’s had a chance to rise, the temperature creeping steadily upward outside the stoney alcove we’d parked in. I don’t have a watch, but I can assume ‘a few hours’ as being accurate easily enough. So here, at least now I can just jump right in next time! But I wanna do things as right as I can manage, and that's gonna take more time than I have today. Creeping slowly toward Mother Base things.
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