Prologue: (Captain Flint) I stood in the trenches, the ones we would be in while fighting the enemy. Who was the enemy? Nobody knew. As I stood there, I remembered that I was a captain and I had called for a meeting of my Company at 0800 hours. I still had half an hour. I thought back to the days when I was a normal private, and worked my way up, from private to lance corporal to corporal and so on. I also remember one memory particularly vivid. It was perhaps just the end of the previous war, and as the sun was setting, I walked across a field as a sergeant. I turned and looked at the two men standing tied to a post. An order comes, the firing squad aims. Another order and the crows fly away at the sound of the rifles. I had a vague idea it was me that gave the order This, this is not a bad dream. This was reality. We were going back into the battlefields. Just a few reminders: 1. Read my WWIII story thread first 2. Please give some feedback
Chapter 1: (Cdt Lam) I write this because it removes stress. Every day for the past 3 months it has been the same thing; us throwing bombs at the Axis trenches and them throwing bombs at us Allied trenches. I came out here with a few others. Those were Sgt Lo(F), Cdt Law(F), Cdt Wong(F), Cdt Lee(F), Cdt Chen(F), Cdt Lin(M), Lcpl Zhang and Cdt Chan(F). I hope we can all come out of this alive. We all had come from the same corps. We came out to be platoon commanders, even though we're just cadets. This is reality and we cannot deny it. I pray we can make it through alive
Chapter 2: (Sgt Lo) Slowly, I open my eyes and the world comes into focus, I turn my head and find that I was in a casualty station, and that's when memory flooded back to me. I tried to stand up, but even as I tried to sit up, I fell back and moaned. We were in the trenches at night when suddenly multiple grenades fell into the trench and exploded. Several wounded and Lcpl Zhang died after the German attack.
Chapter 3: (Cdt Lee) I wasn't quite sure what I was doing, but I remember seeing a young boy being dragged towards a wooden post that lay vacant beside nine other wooden posts with other men tied to it. Ten rifles lie on the ground in front, one in front of each man. An order comes, they squad aims, another order, they slip the safety catch off and fire. The order to dismiss comes, and the firing squad moves away. Two men were weeping silently. Sgt Lo had been discharged from the casualty station but she was still extremely weak. Cdt Chen had taken a bullet in her leg and lay on the battlefield moaning until night fell and a team could be organized to bring her back. "Hey, Lee, I need you over here!", came the voice of Cdt Lam from the troop command bunker. He was wounded in an earlier battle while taking out a machine gun nest, and earned the DCM (Distinguished Conduct Medal). I went over, intrigued as to what had happened. Inside, I saw a Corporal with two guards behind him pointing guns at his head. I wondered what had happened when I was told I was to escort the traitor to the execution grounds with Cdt Chen. I wondered why it was me, but I did as I was told. We were walking to the designated grounds why I felt a sharp pain in my back, and I instantly fell to the ground, writhing in pain from the stab of the traitor standing over an unconscious Cdt Chen, going in to finish her off. With my last bit of strength, I pointed my pistol at him and fired. What had happened next I'll never know because I had fainted.
Chapter 4: (Cdt Chen) I had gotten stabbed a while back, but it's been two months and I thought I was feeling better, but two days in the trench later, I collapsed and felt dizzy. That's when the Germans launched their gas attacks. I couldn't move. I thought I was going to be dead there, but somehow I survived. I heard some others who hadn't gotten their gas masks on fast enough weren't as lucky. Cdt Law had gotten severely burned and lay at the bottom of the trench until a stretcher came. Word filtered through of a massive attack that was planned. The attack went quite wrong, because almost an entire division got wiped out. I reckon the only survivors are me and the company of Captain Flint, who was wounded and was sent home. The attack was us shelling their trenches and us going over the top, trying to get past their barbed wire while they shot us down. Suddenly all their guns stopped. It made sense in about three seconds. German and Axis soldiers charged at us. We were all stabbed severely. I had sustained three stabs in the stomach, one in the chest and two in the back. I lay on the ground with the others until nightfall. I screamed in pain as the rescue party dropped me on the trench floor and called a stretcher. I stayed in the casualty station for a month.
Chapter 5: (Cdt Lam) I suppose I've never described our physical appearances so here they are now, but I warn you I'm no good at describing physical appearances. Cdt Lee was probably as tall as me, had long black hair and had dark brown eyes. We were the same age. She's fairly tanned and she fights better than I do. Cdt Chen is also our age and height, but not as tanned as Cdt Lee and she swims(that's where we met), and she has long black hair and light blue eyes. She was the same age as us too. Sgt Lo is slightly taller than most of us and is older by one or two years. taught us how to handle a rifle a few months before the war. Cdt Law was my height and she had long black hair. Cdt Wong wasa year younger than most of us and is slightly shorter, has long black hair and stormy grey eyes. Cdt Lin had short black hair and dark blue eyes. He was slightly taller than Cdt Wong, but slightly shorter than I was. As for me, I had short black hair and I'm not really tanned and my eyes are pitch-black.
Chapter 6: (Sgt Lo) I walked along the wrecked Axis trench littered with bodies of those that didn't survive. We had moved our position forward, and established a new front line. But later that day, the Axis troops counter-attacked. Shells were landing on key points, burying our men under tons of soil. The only ones that survived were myself, Cdts Lam, Lee, Chen, Wong and Law. Wong and Lam were severely injured for different reasons. Lam had flung himself in front of Cdt Lee to shield her as best he could, and Wong was severely injured because she was just in a spot where most of the shells landed. Cdt Lin died.
Chapter 7: (Cdt Chan) I walked along the trenches trying to find my bunker which I shared with Lee, Chen and Lo. There weren't enough for everyone, and that's why we shared. The HQ organized new troops to come out to replace our decimated division. The ones I came out here with along with myself and another Cdt were put into a special unit for raiding the Axis trench. That new Cdt didn't know her last name, because she was raised in an orphanage. She only knew that her given name was Luna. She was about as tall as me; I'm slightly shorter than Cdt Lam. She had long blond hair and emerald green eyes. Not very tanned, and shows traces of burns from shells that had hit her from previous battles. After my visit to my bunker, I went to the bunker that held planning for the trench raids. There, I learned that we were supposed to capture an Axis soldier for interrogation because there had been a lot of troop and gun movement behind their front lines. The raid was planned for the night after tomorrow. I have become nervous now