Just the last role of Skipper on Denmark's ground...
"Flytning tættere på sandheden (Moving closer to the truth)…"
Ebsjerk, Denmark
12:34 AM: Heavy rain: December 25, 2002
Lt. Hanz de macareux, macareux moine Fidelis
Sergeant Taylor… CHECK! Manfredi Ivan… CHECK! Olivia von Ascisberg… CHECK! Heins Skjern… CHECK! Demitri Leonov… CHECK! And soon Johnson Davis, Skipper Yusuf and Skipper Joseph Fidelis CHECK too! Seemed like the destiny in my side then hah! My plans perfectly worked and the 'Soul Project' will perfectly complete so we would get a real power to continue our conquest to the entire nation, against the entire folks and over any reason! And soon, all folks would face the real fear… the fear that never seen before. We would use life matter like souls to be one of our deathly weapons. But for the reader heheh, toi all must know if my plan wasn't evil as toi imagine... Yea perhaps it would be greatly evil in Skipper's eye but for me and my kind; the kind who saw the light of the future and dream to make it true, it would be the martyr order. Today, 1236 hours; Skipper, Kowalski and 'Mohawk' would back to Denmark. Their plane would arrive here at… well… now…
*CCNNGGGIIINNGGG*plane landed sounds heard from the outside so I went outside and gave salute to the plane… well, I didn't see any salute back. But after they finally landed, I saw Kowalski and 'Mohawk' downed from the plane and gave me a salute… but not with Skipper, he gave me no salute… no politeness… no gaze… no words only an angry face at his face… Well, I must try to comfort him… I afraid… he already found the light…
"Brother…" I a dit to Skipper "Nice to see toi again…" I hugged him but it seemed that he didn't reply ou response it as well
"Aahh… what's your problem…" Skipper pushed me and released my hug at that time. That was offended me a lot… and also scared me, because I afraid if he already found the answer of all… and he would release his army to strike me back and chop my head in front of Denmark peoples… oohh, that was worst dream I ever imagine… "Have toi heard that Skjern and Leonov are dead… the Skjern's was similar to Olivia and Leonov's ill was similar to Sergeant… and also to Johnson… now the old team perfectly back once more…"
"Yea… that's why I hug you… brother…" I hugged him back again but he pushed me un- expectedly even harder than the first one…
"Listen to me, Hanz… I'm not joking, I'm not a gay and I'm serious…" Skipper a dit to me "And you're the suivant person who suspected… so take care. Every movement, every words and every behavior will affect the decision… Understand… hhmm?"
"But we're brother… and brothers are not mutual suspicions each other…" Well, that was very offended me… "Am I looks suspicious for you… ou toi get something that leads it to me from Turkey and toi started to turn your face from me and looked at me as the suspect?"
And Skipper took few minute to thought… perhaps he realized if he was wrong ou some kind like that… but almost similar like that with few different but still closely similar and a little different than its similar but with few different that still similar to the first different but with a little…. Arrrgghh, MUTANT SHRIMP! "I'm sorry, Hanz…" he sighed then… and continued some… sorry words to me… heheh… "I'm sorry Hanz but all your hugs don't cheer me at all…" WHAT? Uurrgghh… well, okay… I started to think I was gay ._o… never be so cute at all, start to being CRUEL!
"Okay… well…" I looked for something to say while we kept walking… I didn't want he turned the topic to the investigation again…. "You don't ask about Johnson?"
"Oohh yes…" Kowalski a dit "How about Johnson? Is he okay?" I stopped my step there… so Skipper and his squad would stop too… and they would keep listen my words. I sighed for a moment to give some dramatic effect… "The eternal life… may come to him soon. Even he didn't believe it at all… but believe me, now he's changed man…"
"So… what kind of sinister it is? Huh?" Kowalski mumbled "Looks like it has been a plague in Europe, like 'Black Death'… Looks… it took 2 live of our friends! Sergeant and Leonov… but it will be three… with Johnson"
"How could toi think like that?" Skipper shouted to Kowalski and he also looked at me with his sharp gaze. And one plus things, he slapped me and Kowalski… "Johnson will stay alive… however the way! Understand!"
"Right, I will do what the best. Because I know the feel when all your Friends suddenly leave toi forever in short time…" I tried to calm him down even it looked very impossible especially for Skipper… aahh, I knew his pain because I also felt the same… but not very similar… "I've gave him many cure. From kinds of herbal to synthetic... anything! But it doesn't work at all. I prefer give him analgesic… if not, the pain will kill him sooner…"
"Just like Leonov…" I leaded Skipper and his squad to enter my chamber… where Johnson lay on the bed. But before Skipper and his squad arrived to Johnson's bedroom, I would arrange a bit of preparation that may sounds cruel for reader…
"Skipper, Kowalski and…" I wanted to halt them to enter the bedroom but I forgot the name of 'the Mohawk'…
"RICO!" Kico shouted loudly…
"Kico…" But suddenly Kowalski cut my words (as usual…)
"Rico…. Hans, Rico!" Kowalski a dit but I still heard the same… "Use…"
"Yea yea Kico…" At last, but Kowalski and just rolled his eye when Skipper slapped his forehead… "Skipper, Kowalski, Kico… stay here. There's something to do" I asked Skipper and his squad to wait outside the bedroom. I would make assure that everything will going as the plan… the noble plan…
"The Last seconds…"
Ebsjerk, Denmark
12:38 AM: Heavy rain: December 25, 2002
Cmd. Skipper Joseph Fidelis
We already in Hans's chamber… but it weren't where Johnson's lied. There was still any room inside, the Johnson's bedroom. And the most aggravate things was… we need to wait for Hans until he finished his works inside… aarrgghhh. I didn't understand why, but today I felt annoyed with Hans and his usual behavior… I also suspected him to be the murderer. No, I didn't get anything today but rank promotion (again)… I promoted as Commander as my (fine) works on my investigation until I could arrive on this point; few step again I would find the truth. But, I wondered why I became so cruel to Hans, and the rank promotion didn't affect anymore… he treated me as his brother, he faced me as a friend, he assisted me as a guard, and he helped me as a pal… I… I didn't know what happen to me. Maybe I must cool down my head for Hans. Okay, after few minutes we waited outside the room finally Hans went out and let me and my squad to enter the room...
"You may enter…" Hans a dit to me "I… I have some works to do. But don't too dense to him… he need enough supply oxygen too"
"Don't worry…" I putted my flipper on his shoulder "I'll take care of him now… Rico, plant!"
*HHOOEECCHHH* And Rico spitted out the small plant completed with its vase and soils in it… well, Hans and Kowalski's face was rather confused on that seconds…
"What for…?" Kowalski asked par set his confused face
"In Turkey, I read that Plants produce oxygen during the morning and mid day…" I explained but Hans and Kowalski just showed me a small chuckle, Rico just followed what Kowalski did… he chuckled too after Kowalski finished his chuckle… well, what's so funny? "Am I wrong?"
"No, brother…" Hans replied "But at least you've reading… the child book…" I wanted to slap his head with his huge beak too… but he suddenly ran and flees as fast as sniper shot!
We continued to enter the bedroom as fast as I could… I couldn't wait to see how condition Johnson after I went for a long time. And here we are… in Johnson's bedroom where he lied at the end of one's rope. He was the fussiest manchot, pingouin in my old team (Manfredi, I and Johnson), but I felt today was different… I felt he would become speak less then. Well, I thought that the Analgesic could stop the pain, so at least he could speak and laugh even so just a bit…
"Hey, Johnson…" I a dit "You look a bit rusty, right Johnson? But don't worries, Hans will take care of you… you'll stay with us…" Well, I tried to give him a nice hope… and about Hans words, what's the meaning of 'changed man' that he just said?
"*cough*Skipper… my friend… good to see toi again*cough*" Johnson a dit even his eyes kept closed and his voices just husky as well as Leonov ou Sergeant "I saw them; *cough*Fredie, Leonov, Skjern… and Sergeant… and also the great Fidelis. *cough*I'll follow them soon"
"No, Johnson…" Kowalski a dit "You'll stay with us…"
"No Kowalski… my happiness is belonging there, not here and so yours…*cough*" Johnson a dit but I closed his beak suddenly… yea, perhaps today I became so cruel to anyone…
"You're atheist, right? toi don't have any hope and trust of eternal life…" I a dit but I thought if that was crueler than all my words to Hans… I became racist beside cruel… "You don't believe with God… and the book… the prophets… the destiny… the…. The angel… so stay here, in the world… with us"
"Skipper*cough*, Manfredi is right…" Johnson explained with husky voices "There's a god… even known in many names and many religion … Jesus, Vhisnu, Allah SWT and other… He does exist. Now, I'm the man of faith… but it's too late. I realized his existence after he showed himself to me… I'm moron… I've waste my life… Manfredi will up and I down…" Johnson almost cried on that time, but I knew he was the strong man. He always wore his casque everywhere, the picture if Johnson was a man with strong convictions.
"We're brother, Johnson… as well as Manfredi, Kowalski, Rico, Hans… we always together…" I tried to support him but something… that really shocked my mind… suddenly entered my ears
"Skipper, Hans… is the ond mand (evil man)…*cough*" That was the words that really surprised me… "I sure he's the one behind all of this *cough* even I hadn't take apart in any investigation but I've heard so many explosion behind this ground while toi gone*cough*… and I saw so many suited human came to this chamber…*cough* I know he's the one who made the plan, Skipper… but I just guess it, don't believe me if toi hesitant*cough*…"
"Don't believe with every rumor toi heard…" I a dit "It's a trap…"
"Skipper, try to listen to him…" Kowalski a dit "He can't hear any rumor in condition like this…"
No longer from that, Hans finally back to us and bring a syringe with medic box in his grasp. He injected the syringe through Johnson's flipper but Johnson seemed like tried reject it… but he had no right to do that, so I calm him down. About the syringe, that was worst moment in the day. Maybe Johnson had a same phobia as me, but every phobia always have a cause. When I saw the syringe, I remembered the anesthetic Arrow that pierced on my back when fishermen attack my dome and kill my father…
I walked a far from the syringe, I would be a mad man if I kept stay closely to syringe. So I walked randomly in the chamber (As long as I didn't get so close to the syringe), I found a lot of Hanz things. fleur in vase, table, chair, calendar, gun… until I found something familiar to me… I found it in trauma case…
"Hans, what is it...?" I asked when I lifted it up… something like… didn't looks like anything because its shape was weird but the cercle things in it was very cold…
"That's… a stethoscope" Hans replied "I made it myself… toi know toi must know when toi must sûr, sans danger your wallet from its malnutrition… why?"
"I found it… in the drawing of Father of Danish's fascism…" I a dit and right after that he stand up…
"Alexander von Antarctic? Flipper von Alexander isle? Flipper Joseph Fidelis, huh?" Hans a dit "your father… isn't it?"
"Yea…" I a dit and I turned my head to Hans from stethoscope "He Lost his faith in Turkey… so we Lost in Great War I…"
"I know…" Hans walked a far from Johnson's lit and walks slowly towards me… "You was there, right?"
"Uh huh… before I back here, I went to German first and before to German I went to Turkey…" I replied
"Sig mig ... fortæl mig Skipper, hvordan storslåede ... fortæl mig hvor vidunderligt ... fortæl mig, hvor smukt der? Fortæl mig, hvordan beundringsværdigt der... (Tell me… tell me Skipper, how magnificent… tell me how wonderful… tell me how beautiful there? Tell me how admirably there….)" Well, that was hard question…
"So-so…" I replied simply "somewhat unusual…"
"Scholars… pioneer expressing idea; innovation without anyone could reject them and without anything could stymie them…" Hans explained while he kept walked slowly towards me "Look here… the conscriptions are everywhere. No scholars, no great man as your father again. Denmark just rely on your father, after that… no more! There's only…. Soldiers… the soldiers everywhere… okay the elite soldiers…"
"Yea… that's why we're one of the redoubtable soldiers in the world…" Well, it was not good if he mock his own country… and knowing if I was the leader…
"Haha redoubtable...?" Hans a dit with scoffed sounds "Maybe… yea the soldiers are well trained and hard to kill… but in Turkey, the Turkomans and Azabs isn't just an elite soldier with elite skill… but also with vast weapon and equipment. With millions of foot soldiers, hundreds of tanks, a hundred of jet, a hundred of artillery and a dozen of nuke, they could conquer this world in one night… but I wonder why they're so slow… no it's not stupidity, it's a strategy…"
"Yes… they're used assault rifle…" I a dit "But I only knew if they're just vast in medicine, knowledge, architecture and weapon industry…"
"No, brother… knowledge, medicine, military, astronomy, economy even also social…" Hans explained "Time par time… I felt jealous with those Crescent Armies…"
"SKIPPER, HANS! JOHNSON IS DYING!..." Kowalski shouted from distances
"What?" I ran towards his lit as fast as I could. I held Johnson's flipper and his flipper was very cold, his view was empty but he opened his eyes widely. Johnson took a lot of heavy breathes before he breathed the last one… after he didn't breathe anymore, after his cœur, coeur stopped, after his blood didn't flow… I closed both of his eyes and took his 'breathing-aid' that still stick on his beak. May toi rest there in peace, Lieutenant Johnson… I gave one salute for Johnson before…
"May Manfredi lead toi to the brightest place…" …I took my luger and shot it to the roof
*DDAAARRR* MMIIAAAWWW* Luger shot and cat sounds from the roof. But f*ck with the cat, I continued my words "…If he can" I ran to outside the chamber with heavy step under this heavy rain so I could splash any water and mud behind me….
"AARRGGHHH!" I was very angry on that time… really; it was really weird because I should be sad on this situation. And the worst was, I was angry to the God… and to the destiny that he made. Why I must Lost everything I care about? Why, they must leave when I l’amour them? Why I can't get any happiness even just a bit? Why I am Skipper? Why I live here? Why I destined like this! I shouted to the thunder, to the black could, to the rains but there was no response. They were all deaf… they were all dumb. I only shared this feeling to this wet mud… and suddenly I remembered some sergeant's words 'you only shared your feeling… with the ground, with the ice… toi have strong connection to environment' GOD, damnit, he was right! But I was Fidelis, I was Commander and I am soldier (sorry, maybe it would be better if I spelled it backwards like… but I'm soldier, I was Commander, I was Fidelis)
"Skipper, he's in a better place now…" Suddenly Kowalski a dit to me from distance, exactly nearby the chamber entrance "It's not good if toi cry for their happiness there…"
Suddenly, my anger came in fast and blown just like Hiroshima… and Nagasaki. I breathe heavy and I took my luger from my ceinture then aimed it at Kowalski. With a blown anger I put my flipper in the trigger, aagghh I didn't knew what I did… Everything just done with the emotion…
"Shut up!" I shouted while I kept aim my luger to Kowalski… Kowalski's head, my anger blind my eyes and my heart. I couldn't think clearly on that time…
"Skip…" Rico tried to clamed me down but this anger was largest in this month…
"I ask your bloody mouth shut up, Sergeant Rico!" I threw my luger to the mud and I lay down myself to the ground… So then Kowalski sighed and said
"We better back to the chamber…" Kowalski a dit "We've a lot job to do for Johnson…"
"What job…?" I asked while I kept lied on the ground and let the rain drenched me
"We… we can bury Johnson's body…" Kowalski spoke make me woke up and walked to enter the chamber. Even my back still covered par mud, I didn't clean it because Johnson's body was waiting to be covered par mud too. I slide to the chamber (well, that was makes my vest also covered par mud) but when I arrived there, I didn't see Hans. I tried to check in the bedroom, and I didn't saw Johnson too. So I, Kowalski and Rico decided to chercher for them. I afraid Hans already buried Johnson, uuggghh I won't overlooked that. We looked for Johnson and Hans everywhere, living room, TV room, projector room, armory, toilet, kitchen, toilet, garden, toilet, 2nd floor, toilet, storeroom… toilet, toilet… toilet, garage, 2nd corridor, toilet, toilet, toilet, toilet, toilet….
"Skipper, why do toi always check on toilet? There's no Hans ou Johnson inside…" Kowalski complained "You've checked it 11 ou 12 …or 9 …or 13 times…"
"I don't know, Kowalski…" I a dit "But the smell is good, here try it… relax your nose… Hans have good lust on perfume"
Rico tried to smell the toilet and he seek where the smell come from… well, good ingredients for hunting wolfies. He checked everywhere and when he opened the closet, he seemed shocked and yelled 'My God' so he asked me for… So without anyword, he spitted out the grenade from his belly. He pulled the fuse and threw it in the closet. So quickly, He ran outside and closed the toilet door immediately…
*KABLLAAAAMMM* uumm actually it was Rico's words… not the explosion…
*BBLLAAAAMMMMM* and the grenade finally blown
"Skipper… smell…!" Okay, I opened the toilet and… OH GOD, toi TRY TO KILL ME, RICO!
"What do toi smell…?" Kowalski asked with his small chuckle…
*SSLLAAPPP* I slapped Rico with Kowalski too and said
"What do toi mean I smell…?" I a dit "I saw… something…. salut Rico, vomit pocket…" Well, if toi know what I saw…
I checked to the room suivant of toilets. We found the small room with one bibliothèque and one table, tableau with a lot of papers on it. I walked slowly towards the table, tableau while Kowalski walked to the bibliothèque and Rico walked to… the mur (I didn't know what he did there but he just stared at the wall). I checked the papers on the table, tableau and all of them contain many Anatomical drawing. Well… the fonts were just familiar… let me thought for seconds… oh yea, the Anatomical drawing of loutre guy… in the loutre dome of Red Abandoned Zoo… well, my memory still fresh haha…
Well, I was uncertain about my statement… better I asked Kowalski… "Kowalski… explain…"
"Wow, looks familiar. I know the owner of these words… these drawings…" Kowalski a dit "Rico, spit out the drawing paper…"
"Hhhooeeccchh!" And Rico spitted out an A4 drawing paper… and the funniest, it was Kowalski's and there was Ultraman (Gaia) drawing in it… Oh… what, Gaia? I preferred Cosmos…
"Kowalski….?" I said
"What… my childhood was really please…" Oohh, I thought he offended me… "Rico, I meant the papers with a lot of drawing… the anatomical drawing… from the loutre dome. I hope it will not miss again"
"Why…? toi embarrassed…?" I asked
"No... Who need to embarrass…." He turned his face from me and I could see his face become redder… haha, I knew if toi shy Kowalski. Then Rico spitted out a lot of papers that was found in Skjern Riverbank abandoned zoo… exactly the loutre dome. I took the paper and compared these with the other papers that already on the table. And the result … was very un-believable…
"Same handwriting…" I a dit "Similar drawing style and similar topic. It's identic!"
"What…" Kowalski shocked and tried to compare it too "But I didn't see Hans took some ou even one papers when we were in otter's dome…"
"One thing we know that Von Visberg also rejoindre in the Sahara battle… and the ratio he involved in the soul project would be quite high…" I a dit and suddenly someone opened the back door…
*CCNGGIIITTT* It was Hans… he saw us in his privacy room, now we already have a key to the answer, Hans… and toi were the lock of our key…
"Oh… visitor…" Hans a dit "Are toi ready to leave? Hhmmm?"
"What do toi know about the '3 Greats' dead?... Russian, Fuhrer, Sarge (Sergeant)…" I asked him and Rico spitted out bazooka and aimed it at Hans. Great, perfect died for suspect… oh that was it! Haha I already knew it from the first!
"And Where's Johnson…" Kowalski took his luger from his ceinture but Hans didn't reply it with the words… only small chuckle and small grin. Until I realized… that was just a trap and we were not just only 4 here…
"AAAKKHHH!" Suddenly I heard Rico's shout from behind with his bazooka dropped to the floor. Unknown Danish soldier (with different model of uniform, I didn't know the type… looks like it was new model… ou Hans own) locked Rico's feet and flippers from behind. He also threatened me par prepared his combat couteau in front of Rico's cheek.
"Flytte og jeg vil ødelægge din vens ansigt (Move and I will ruin your friend's face)…" the soldier shouted to me
"Må ikke bare taler, Walther (Don't just talking, Walther)…" Hans a dit and without any words left…
*SSSSSTRRAAATTCCHH*
"AAAAAKKKKHHH!" The soldier slashed Rico's cheek with his combat knife. It was quite deep and Danish couteau known as it sharpness. So it must left a big scar-wound on his cheek (same as in regular show)
"IKKE!" I turned around and tried to shot the soldier with my luger in my belt… unfortunately I forgot if I was threw my luger outside when I was angry to Kowalski and Rico. Well, every old man quote never wrong: 'Angry never solves your problems; its make it worse…' And when I tried to reach my crossbow on my back, suddenly Hans took his handgun and shot it right at my back. I fell to the floor, I couldn't déplacer my flipper and feet so I thought I was palsied. I saw Kowalski shocked when I shot par Hans but when he about to pull the luger's trigger… suddenly he fell to the ground too. I saw the anesthetic Arrow when he fell to the ground. Same as me in Antarctica… and the Arrow that shot Kowalski was very similar to the Arrow at Antarctica massacre.
I felt my life will end soon, I could see my view was getting darker and darker… and I still saw so many soldier surround us and they took Kowalski and Rico body on their back. But when one of them tried to take me, Hans halted him and said…
"IKKE (NO)…" Hans a dit to the soldier "Hans lidelse nok nu ... lad tiden torturere ham ... (His suffering enough now… let the time torture him…)" so this soldier release his flipper and let me lied on this freezing floor. But who are they? Why they work for Hans? Why they dressed like my elite soldier? Why they took Rico and Kowalski? Why Hans do these...? hhuuhh *sigh*, I only could kept these question in my mind and bring it to my grave… I couldn't seek for the answer just like few weeks ago… when I didn't felt any danger came closer to me and I didn't think this moment will even come to me. I would leave this world soon, where the answer waiting to be found. My breath was going to be heavier par the seconde and I could feel my heartbeat getting slower even I felt like someone just hold it. So, I closed my eyes and waiting for 'Grim Reaper' to helped me to follow the step of my friends, my leader, my parents and everything… I care about. …0.0…
Well, where was Grim? Are toi trapped in 'traffic jam'? Okay, I was waiting….. aarrgghh, toi just waste my time but hey… I could déplacer my flipper… well maybe I was not so unlucky today. Okay, try to wake up! I tried to wake even it was hard… Then, I tried to make my step to the way where Kowalski and Rico carried. I walked slowly but I made my walk became faster and faster just like in training at Aars barrack few years ago… until I realized if the bullet didn't hit my backbone, but only 'brushed past' it… I walked slowly with humped back so I seemed like a zombie ou what… well, knowing I wore this vest (this vest looks like German's vest I think…), I remembered a lot of NAZI zombie's game. Wow, but they're gang up to crush the player… and me… I was the player and my enemy is the armed elite soldiers just the opposite than the game (The zombie are un-armed and gang up while the player just one and feu armed). But anyway, I plus felt like being Theropod. LOL, okay this was serious situation so I tried to -better, okay, it was not bad even my wound became wider. Until I arrived to the corridor where there was a group of soldier patrolling through in. Well, there was no place to hide in this corridor. This time I was very-very unlucky…
"Oh crap…" I a dit slowly "REND!"
"Må ikke flytter! ... stå op ... Hvem er du!?(Don't moves!… stand up… Who are you!?)" One of them aimed his weapon on me then I stand up and still with my hump back so I a dit (to freak them out)
"JEG ER EN NAZI ZOMBIE! (I'M A NAZI ZOMBIE!)" I shouted and I didn't understand why they didn't shock at all…
"Du ved, det er det værste 3D-model af Zombie ... ikke skræmme mig overhovedet (You know it's the worst 3D model of Zombie… not scare me at all)" one of them a dit "Og jeg er færdig hele niveauet ... COD Zombie-mode, du ved hvad jeg mener ret? (And I've finished whole of the level… COD Zombie mode, toi know what I mean right?)"
"Hey…" I shouted "Why toi don't scream…"
"Oh scream…" one of them a dit "AAAAA!" No longer, the soldier beside him closed his beak and said…
"Hvad laver du i COD zombie-tilstand, når du så zombie og du bragte dit våben? (What are toi doing in COD zombie mode when toi saw zombie and toi brought your weapon?)" the soldier beside him asked…
"Uummm… bruge din Gameshark (use your Gameshark [its game cheat])" the soldier a dit simply with big grin but the other slapped his head hardly…
"Ingen Moron (No Moron)!..." The soldier shouted "Skød ham til døden (Shot him to the death)!"
"Oh højre (Oh right)…"
"No!" I shouted when they aimed their SMG to me "I'm Skipper J. Fidelis! Son of Flipper, I'm the Fidelis of Europe…"
After they heard that, they became speak less and dropped their weapon… ohh, it was good to see the anti climax of this problem. I know they realized who the boss…
"Good to see toi all realized. Now montrer me the way to my friend… the tall and Mohawk, the Mohawk have a…" but before I finished my words, the shortest soldier walked to the nearby CCTV and said
"Admin Order, Order 664 potions 2… Heat up the corridor, over!" What? What was that mean?
*BBLLAAMMMMM* suddenly the floor behind me explode!
"Hvad fanden laver du? (What the hell are toi doing?)" I shouted
"This is the Order of Fidelis, sir…" and the group of soldier slide away from this corridor in fast. I tried to follow them but *BBLAAM* the floor besides me blown up and there was so many explosion around me occurred on that seconds. It seemed plus looks like I surrounded par mines and they followed my path wherever… I… slide… Hey, THAT'S THE POINT! I needed to stop and stand up! Sliding ou moving just made everything worst. These mines controlled par movement detector!
"I got it!" So I stopped here and stand up like a hero "I know your trick, HANS!" and when I stopped, there was no explosion again… HAHA, I've known it, it was easy to guess… but something rather weird happen to entire floor of corridor, the floor became redder and hotter. The freezing floors were changed to really-really hot floor. I just like roasted on the floor. Aahh, I felt like 'toasted penguin', not because I felt roasted here but accidentally my tongue touched my cheek. So I could feel the taste… the taste just like… uuhh sweat… okay, this hot corridor made my sweat… Aagghh, forget it…
"It will not knock me down, Hans!" I shouted to the CCTV even the CCTV didn't look at me "You just waste my time…"
Suddenly I heard the big explosion came from behind, the hot floor suddenly explode and the explosion….
*KABLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM*
….
"Anti Climax…"
Ebsjerk, Denmark
18:10 AM: Light rain: December 25, 2002
Cmd. Skipper Joseph Fidelis
"Uugghh, Flying Rhino… where am I?" I tried to woke up par my scorched body… hey, where was the bullet… was it removed? Oh God, it was a miracle. I realized if I was not in corridor again… ou heaven, ou hell… but I was in the cage with no lamp, no window, no tunnel and no way to escape. I was in the place where the Fidelis never thought he would be there. I was in prison…
"You're still in my chamber, brother…" THAT ACCURSED MAN! How dared he montrer his face after all of these! "But sadly… you're in the prison… underground prison… brilliant ou what?"
"KUJONER! BUTCH! DU STAB MIG BAGFRA! (COWARD! BUTCH! toi STAB ME FROM BEHIND!)" I shouted him but he always replied calmly
"No… I shot you, it was plus effective…" No, that was not what I mean, and then he moved closer to me and a dit "You and I are in same kind. We both will continue your father struggle… but I'll lead toi now…"
"So, this is why toi kill my entire friend…?" I shouted "COUP?"
"No, Brother… Better!" Hans a dit with the torch as the light in his grasp "Everyone knows your command to Danish's army was worse than your father…"
"And can toi explain, WHY?" I asked to him
"Because toi didn't give what your father give…" Hans shouted to me "The KNOWLEDGE… THE DEVELOPMENT; so our casualties in battle would not be so damn high! If toi let them like this, it is similar like kill them in long way…" but I didn't reply anything but small chuckle and small grin… just like what he did in small room with a lot of papers…
"Hvad er så sjovt? (What's so funny?)" Hans asked confusedly
"Your knowledge… it most valuable treasure for my people…and for me…" I a dit "But toi can't share ou use it. They'll burn toi cause par your rapacious… and I'll be there to burn the stake"
In just a seconds, Hans's face suddenly changed to angry when the first it was really-really satisfied. And then, he punched me from outside of the cage with his hot wing but I already blocked it with my cold flippers.
"Tomorrow, I will consume yours. Then you'll be inside me!" So he was the one who involved the soul project! I should know it from the first. The situation became silent for a moment until Hans started his words again… "Heheh… maybe toi don't realize it, Skipper. Men uanset hvor du indånder, jeg var der ALTID! (But wherever toi breathe, I was always THERE!)" Suddenly Hans putted his hot right wing on my left chest and the connection began. It was similar method than when I was in Brazil to learn the connection concept from Sergeant.
My vision changed when I was in training and I forgot my soft pad on the plane, Hans were there and he was the one who released my soft pad from my flippers silently. My vision changed to Manhattan Aquarium, and Hans showed me if he was the one who create the hole at the wareroom's door so I and the loutre girl could enter. My vision changed to when I was back to Denmark with Manfredi and Johnson, Hans were there and he was the one who be a pilot of the plane. My vision changed when we already buried Sergeant's and we were a sleep, Hans were the one who opened the grave and took Sergeant's body. My vision changed to Manila in mission 'Game Night' with Manfredi and Johnson, Hans were there and he was the one who released the flying piranhas from its cage. My vision changed to when I was in Berlin to rapporter my investigation, Hans showed me if he was there and under covered as the German volkstruum that opened the HQ door for me. My vision changed to when I and Yusuf visited the Coca Cola's bar, Hans was there and he was the one of employees. My vision changed to Berlin again when I knew Skjern just died, Hans was there as the guard of the gate beside the soldier we talked with. My vision changed to Aars Barrack when Leonov asked one of his soldiers to throw him a PPsh for suicide, Hans was the one who threw it. Oh God, he was everywhere. Even he plus just like a…. part of my time. So he released his flipper back, well that was better because toi just poisoned my vision.
"So toi see, brother…"Hans a dit "I planned it from the first time I saw you. And fortunately, it works. HAH!"
"Why toi do this to me? Why with Johnson, Manfredi, Fuhrer, Russian?" I asked and he replied bitter
"Because I'm jealous… toi always get whatever toi want…" Hans a dit "Your life is happiness and toi time is pleasure but toi also get your skill… it's very un-fair to me knowing if suffers directly proportional with your skill…"
"No, Hans…" I tried to explain the truth to him "I never met my mother, I Lost my father and he killed in front of my eyes, I threw away from my own people, I never have any friend in my childhood, I Lost my ground… and now I Lost everything I care…" But suddenly he cut my words
"I worse, I never get l’amour from my father. My father only looked at me as his experiment result, my mother died because par my father, I don't have any friend, home, I don't have any title, I threw away from people and I was poor man…" Hans almost cried for that time "I have nothing!"
"Hans… I know your pain, I felt it too… but I know if toi also worse…" I a dit slowly "But toi don't need to share…" and then, he shouted angrily
"I don't share the pain for my need! DET ER NYTTELøST (IT'S USELESS)!" Hans shouted "But… it was the part of my plan… the 'Soul Project'! That's what I talking about brother, the immortality. And to find its secret, I need all of 'The Greats' with Manfredi, Johnson and Olivia… actually I need yours and Yusuf too…"
"So, you're the one who I looking for…" I shouted. Perhaps he tired ou what, he chose to leave me in this cage. He walked to the main door; he wanted to leave this room (maybe) but before that, I wanted to ask one plus thing…
"And human…" I a dit from distance "Johnson a dit you've alliance with those smart apes…"
"They're powerful, brother…" Hans replied without turned his head to me "I want their support and they want my Soul's Project result…" So Hans continued walked outside and leave me alone in this cage. The evening sun light couldn't pass the stone roof mur and the air couldn't enter this room. This room was designed for the punishment to the punisher…. This room was designed for me, fidelis; the punisher of punisher. This room punished me with 2 kind of different punishment, out of breathe and out of hope. I already out of hope and just about the time, I will run out of breathe. Perhaps it was my destiny to finish here. There was no light here, only the black cover covered my eyes. I couldn't find the way out… from this cage as well as from this problem. Perhaps to lie in the corner of the room just like the loutre would ca…AAAAAA
*SSPPLLLAAASSSHHHHH*
OH GOD *Taking heavy breathe*, it was a tunnel under the cage, I just fell in it. It was fulfilled par water… smelly water (I don't want to talk about it), luckily I'm manchot, pingouin so it was not a serious problem to swam in it. Knowing it was a chance to escape, I swam thought the tunnel without care about 'where would this tunnel lead me'. I followed the way of the tunnel, there was no branch and just a straight way I had followed. I didn't know where will this tunnel lead me but I sure this way will lead me to the word called 'escape'. After some meters I swam through this tunnel I saw a light, perhaps neon's. And it was so bright so I swam followed this light and after I get quite close, I realized if this light was red and the way of the tunnel ended here. Don't worry; I could jump to the room besides me that provide the red light. It was a large room and mostly like montrer room ou something. But the only one thing that stuck in my mind was the thing that showed in this room. Then I didn't thing if this room was just like a montrer room, instead a biology laboratory. There were so many brains, kidneys, lungs, livers, pancreas…. Uuummm lymph, and of course hearts; all of them packed inside the jar with liquids in it. I continued explore deeply and I found 3 corpse and all them are seemed very familiar… yes, my friends. It was the '3 greats', Leonov, Skjern and Sergeant and all of abdomens already opened and the creepiest of all was there was no organs inside; Only Leonov who had something in his chest, some PPsh bullet. Sergeant and Skjern hanged in same condition. I wonder why this 'private' room wasn't…
"Sacrifice one to fulfill another more…" Hans aimed me with his MP40 behind me right on my head while I kept looking to the hanged corpse…
"Murderer…!" Sound like he couldn't reply anything plus to me. Hans still aimed his MP40 to me and it was not possible for me to escape ou do some martial arts to him. Hans was skill full and even plus than me, and MP40 is a kind of Machine pistolets that had fast firing strike. But instead, he threw it and continued flee to the corridor right behind him. I picked up the MP40 for safety but I realized he used my time to pick it up for flee. Well, there were so many rooms in the corridor of Hans's chamber, so it was not wrong if I chercher just through the corridor… he must be…
"If your God didn't destine me like this, maybe I wouldn't seek the secret of the souls with few victims…" I heard his shout, but I didn't found him. Perhaps he shouted somewhere around the corridor, and the tunnel-alike shape corridor make his sound resounded well. Anyway, I already held MP40 that Hans threw away so if I found him, I would shot him right at his heart.
"Where are toi COWARD? Come on!"I shouted to the corridor "Er du bange ... forsker? (Are toi afraid...Scientist?)
"Maybe toi don't know where I am…" Hans a dit with his resounded sound "But I always there… brother…"
"WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?" I shouted to the corridor but the resounded sounds were disturbing my own ears.
"The Immortality, Skipper! The ancient dreams of all humans' kind now in Penguins and Puffins grasp…" Hans a dit and he showed himself on the corner of the corridor. Nah, there toi were! Time to shot, SAY CHEESE TO MY MP40! *ck*ck*ck*ck*ck* well… I have to reload… no bullet inside it… "And all of that cause par our curiosity… the Denmark curiosity"
"WHAT!?" I surprised par those words. I stand up straightly when I was crooked cause par the bullet's wound in my back "Killing each other, friend, teachers and children alike. WHAT DO toi GOT!?"
"DO toi UNDERSTAND? The soul essential, that's all about!" Hans a dit and he also brought two La Reine des Neiges fishes in his back and threw one of them to me… whew… looks sharp but heavy! Well, seemed like Duel then? "Russian, Fuhrer, Sarge (Sergeant)… Alexander (Flipper). 'The four great' that have different race, different way and lead to the different campaign. After brainwashed, Leonov lead conquest to the Ukraine, Skjern to Sicily, and do toi know if they were work in 'Divinity and Soul Project'"
"You must be joking, right…" I a dit while I still holding my La Reine des Neiges poisson in fighting stance…
"Let me ask you…" Hans put his La Reine des Neiges poisson par stick it on the floor "What age is Leonov… to his death…"
"I don't know… may…" but Hans cut my words
"38! And 38… for average human's age I similar like 243, 5 years for our kind. What is it? Fortune? The Gift from the God?" Hans a dit but I only answered…
"I don't know… maybe yes…" I a dit it because I didn't know what age was Leonov then! So what could I possibly answer?
"Skjern, Der Fuhrer… was 37 years old and walks like 5 years old. For human's average age like 223 years old man walks, ran, fight and slide like a 32 years old. What is it?" Hans asked me again
"You win…" I a dit "And about Leonov and Sergeant. Their sick were very similar… and same for Johnson too. I knew you're behind all of that, ARE toi SPREAD A PLAGUE? THERE'LL BE A LOT OF INNOCENT PEOPLE DIED IN VAIN AND THAT'S WILL BE ALSO YOUR ARMY"
"No, Skipper… I'm not as foolish as toi imagine…" Hans a dit "Contrariwise… you're fool. Do toi think that the sinister only come from plague? Ooohh, toi watched too much Americo-Zombie movie… right"
"You poisoned them…" So, he was poisoned them… but, it was impossible for Hans to gave some poison to un-ordinary man. If he combined it with some food, the taste must be changed because we hadn't found the poison with no taste inside… "How…"
"With some beautiful make up from the girl stories… Do toi know Snow white? Die caused par poisoned apple…" Hans explained with his strange face… "I gave them… Muffin…"
"Muffin…" WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE! Leonov, Sergeant and Johnson must be known if it was poisoned par the taste… it was impossible! Very impossible
"You lie…" I a dit simply "They must be known if they were poisoned…"
"Sshh… I haven't finished yet…" Hans continued his explanation about his entire MASSACRE "The Snow white's pomme … Dies in just one bite; Similar method as my Muffin!"
"I don't understand… but…" But Hans cut my words with his shout that almost shook the ground
"IT'S HARD TO TALK WITH FOOLISH LIKE YOU! BUT YOU'RE RIGHT… They're knows… they know if there was something strange in the muffin…" Hans a dit "But the poison was too strong… without any weird aroma… In just one bite plus than 60 mg modified Nuclear Poison spread through blood!"
"All your ambitions will got nothing but failed and thousands wave of War…" I shouted but Hans just replied with his slow voice…
"I'm not War Lover like your kind; I'm a Puffin… and Danish. Not like you, A manchot, pingouin and Antarctican…" Hans a dit and he showed me if he was a racist too "Imagine… imagine if the scientist… the great one like Archimedes, Alva Edison, Einstein and especially Flipper live much longer…"
"Ohh he lived long enough… I think…" I a dit "My father also involved even was a pioneer of 'Soul Project'…"
"Yes… he lived 32 years for pioneer…" Hans a dit and he took his La Reine des Neiges poisson back from the floor "But he gave some of his and breathe it to some of his children, knowing if his live was in terrible danger behind the shade of war against mammals. They'll kill him sooner ou later…"
"You don't need to explain much longer…" I swung my La Reine des Neiges poisson with both of my flippers to provide the strong strike, but Hans only used one of his wings to block it strike par strike "I already know who's the one who donné par Flipper… so I'll protect it! As long as I still remember my father and that's mean FOREVER!" I swung it harder but he still blocked ou dodged it well.
"Yes, indeed…" I swung it heavier to him and after all of his dodges and blocks, he finally countered it with Turkish Janissary martial arts… he stroke right on to my foot "He breathed to 2 of 3 sons. He breathe it on toi the last sons… and in me… the first…"
My cœur, coeur almost stopped when I heard it; even I became La Reine des Neiges like a poisson in my grasp. How dare the brother do it to his brother… his youngest brother? So I swung my La Reine des Neiges poisson faster and heavier than before even I tried to spear it to him. But again, his Janissary style was un-beatable. I only learned Kung-fu and it need suffice back condition. But toi see my back was injured so I couldn't do anything but swung this La Reine des Neiges poisson crazily. Maybe I was too serious to balançoire, swing my La Reine des Neiges poisson at Hans, but the suited Humans already surrounded us and all of them armed by… sandwich. Well, now wasn't breakfast time! It was evening and almost night. And there was no dîner with sandwich, "sandwich" in history…
"Between all of his 3 sons, only me who see the light of future and want to grasp it as him…" Hans a dit "Father was a careless and kind man, and he bring it to Yusuf; the 2nd son. Father was a humane and leadership man, and he bring it to you; the 3rd son. Father was a curious and ambitious man and he bring it to me; the 1st son"
I must hold my anger then, the suited human already raised their hand with sandwich, "sandwich" in their grasp. Seemed like they were about to thrown that to me… perfect time, I was hungry. But I prefer the sandwich, "sandwich" with Tuna inside…
"But I hate him… I hate my father even worse than mammal's" Hans a dit "I hate him even I was his first son. But he didn't face me like one of his sons, he just faced me like an experiment result and he gave me some of his souls in order to prove his souls theorem. He combined 22 of his chromosomes with 22 of my mother's to prove if different species could have a child. And this is me, the experiment result. I was weak, premature like you… but I'm sterile but toi fertile because your mother was manchot, pingouin too. I only get my parent l’amour from my mother… BUT HE KILLED HER; YOUR FATHER KILLED MY MOTHER IN THRIST OF THE SOUL! HE KILLED HER! Since that seconde I swear I would hate him as long as I live, as long as I l’amour my mother and that's meant forever…. That was why I ordered my fishermen forces of Brazil to raid the village of Alexander isle, capture Fidelis's last son and placed toi near the Sergeant cage. So accidentally toi would train and brought here so I could continued the suivant plan… Complicated but success right?"
"So toi wreak your revenge for my father to me!?" I shouted
"Yes…" Hans a dit and he changed his stance to Janissary fighting stance "One plus thing… I have different mother than toi and Yusuf. My mother was skilled sniper and ambitious missionary. And toi and Yusuf's mother names was Aurora Samantha, she was a weak soldier, ended her carrier with private rank because she always kept mercy with her enemies in the battlefield. And she bring it to you… Skipper, I saw what toi did with the loutre at Manhattan…"
.
"So toi saw it…" I said
"Even I was the one who made the hole in the wareroom door…" Hans a dit and he raised his wing that held the La Reine des Neiges fish… I knew it was the sign… for something… it was hidden command… "You treat her like a brother in arm even toi were in Great War between your folks and… enemies and toi were treating the enemy. Her name is Marlene Carolene, daughter of Antony Carol who's the one who lead his folks to the Mammals treachery at Spain and French… killing this weak girl loutre will cause the great morale down of otters folks. Maybe in someday if toi met her and I was there, I will ask toi to slit his neck and our victory against mammals will assure par her blood…" then he downed his wing so that was seemed like 'CHARGE' command when I were in Medieval Era. Then suited Human around us threw me with a sandwich, "sandwich" and Hans ran to seek something to covering his eye. So the sandwich, "sandwich" exploded, and I realized it wasn't the ordinary sandwich, "sandwich" (of dinner). And it was also not blown a feu ou piercing things, it blown a spark of light like Turkish new invention, Naffat (Flashbang). It was very dazzled and blinded both of my eyes. It also made my ears heard a lot of weird sound but I still heard some of Hans's words…
"After this, I can focus everything to Yusuf…" Hans a dit "And all DONE!" he swung his La Reine des Neiges poisson to my belly and flipper. But it wasn't sharp again, our conversation took so many times and that was melted down its sharpness. I tried to block it when the time was right; I jumped highly and swung my La Reine des Neiges poisson right at his head as hard as I could. Really, it was not sound like a sword swung as usual, mostly like a pillow.
*SSPPPLLAAAKKKK*
Hans fell to the ground after I hit him right at the center of the nerve… brain. Really, it was un-believable for me to knock down Janissary skilled macareux, macareux moine with only one hit to his head with this pillow-like La Reine des Neiges fish. Well, in response to beat their leader with La Reine des Neiges fish, the Humans threw me with their flashbang and radioactive sandwich, "sandwich" while I sliding to find Kowalski and Rico. In the way of searching my brainwashed friends, I bumped one suited human with the mallette, porte-documents in his grasp. The mallette, porte-documents had fallen, so it was not wrong if I picked it up. I looked for the cover place and when I found it, I opened this mallette, porte-documents with my own flipper. I found nothing in this mallette, porte-documents but something I expected, something that helped me to play with the time. I threw the sandwich, "sandwich" flashbang from the mallette, porte-documents to the group of humans that chased me wherever I go. I used it to blind them and extended plus time for me to run.
*CCNNGGIIITTTT*
That was it! I couldn't waste this time. So I slide quickly as fast as a Monster Truck! (Honestly it's not very quick as I imagine…). It seemed like I slide afar from those humans… heheh, I thought they Lost me. I chercher my friend that also my team though many rooms and lab, this time I'll not visited the toilet again. Few minutes I spend for looking for Kowalski and Rico finally repaid. I found them in a brainwash room (They forced to listen to SM*SH [Indonesian gay boyband] with 30% volume and they seemed like pale dead men, very-very damn cruel). I couldn't let it much longer, knowing if they did it to my only Friends then, I wouldn't let it go. I slide quickly to the room and I jump to their neck, I slapped it repeatedly and the human was just faint-awake-faint-awake repeatedly. Well, only one slap was enough I think0_o… The Human skin was hard and it was difficult to slap them so they could faint to the ground. But I sure I would be used with that. Kowalski and Rico were unconscious, so I must drag them to… well, I had no idea what would I do after this. The Humans and Danish's armies wouldn't let me go with their brainwashed offhanded. They must be chased me after their eyes back to normal. I dragged Kowalski and Rico along the wet ground I had passed. I had no hope to escape but after I saw a mini truck parked right in front of the garden, I got the hope to life. I putted Kowalski and Rico in tronc and I putted myself on the driver seat. I drove as fast as possible before those humans changed their arm to 'bullet-spitting' type. I drove through the straightway until I realized if I had arrived at the bridge on Ebsjerk river. The sound of steps par those humans and slides par Danish's armies were surrounded us from both side; we stuck on this bridge. Even they were all armed with feu arms and the victory was endured, Hans spoke nothing but peace…
"Surrender, brother…" Hans a dit "I'll not use toi as a corpse because I realized if you'll be plus usable when your cœur, coeur still beat with mine. Come! Lead your people with me to the suivant bloody conquest!"
I just quiet for some moment, I have no chance to escape at this small bridge on the large Ebsjerk river. Hans and Danish squad aimed me with their MP40 and Humans aimed me with their M4 Assault Rifle. I looked at the deep river and asked to my mind… did I need to swim? The distance between the river and this bridge were about 8 feet ou higher. I looked at the river for a second, but if I escape… I wouldn't montrer what anger burned inside me to Hans and what wound he had slit in my life. Then I looked at my friend, Kowalski and Rico that brainwashed as the order of Hans itself. Suddenly I remembered Leonov, Skjern, Manfredi, Sergeant, Johnson, my father… the loutre lady… so without waiting even for minute, I a dit it…
"Lead yourself…" without waste any time, I stepped on the gas and drove in fast. But I would not drive forward, not to drive backwards. But I broke the left bridge border with this mini truck and fell to the river like the paratroops without parachute… ou even softpad. I fell directly to the river with this truck and my friend in it….
*SSPPPLLLAAASSSZZZHHH*
-….-I Lost everything I l’amour in this night, my best friends, my brother, my armies, my honor, my home… I just wondering if my war victim feeling during the war… they always felt like this… is this the real pain of real war. I never imagine I would felt it too, because war was very delightful… for the strong and whoever didn't stand on the bettlefield. Now, I realized if I was in wrong sides... Hans, all of these cause par him. I will never forget him, I will never forgive him. I will reload my ammo even it needs one thousand hours to shot him at his heart! This macareux, macareux moine betrayed me with his dirty-clever-fucking mind. I opened the truck door and carried Kowalski and Rico with both of my Flipper. I kept swim deep in the river because if the Danish and those straight Apes knew our position, I afraid that this river will tasted like my salty-blood and every child of Hans will continue drink from it.
***FLASHBACK***
"Flytning tættere på sandheden (Moving closer to the truth)…"
Ebsjerk, Denmark
12:45 AM: Heavy rain: December 25, 2002
Lt. Hanz de macareux, macareux moine Fidelis
*It's the flashback before Skipper and his squad entered Johnson's bedroom. I arranged some preparation… and it was works perfectly… well, not as perfect as I wanted to be…*
"Hey, Johnson…" I walked to lie down Johnson and whispered something to him "Skipper and Kowalski with his Mohawk friend will come here… just shut up or…"
"Or what *cough*…" Johnson a dit with slow-husky voices "You want to ease my pocket money…*cough*. I never got monthly pocket money in my life*cough**cough*"
"Better…" I a dit "It's about your father…"
"What? *cough*…" He tried to wake up but he couldn't do that haha… poor Johny "You will kill him? Ooh Good, toi help him follow my way…*cough*"
"Wise words…" I a dit simply but it was not finish yet "But how if I tell you…? He's still atheist… and I know where he is…"
Heheh, now he turned his face to me with (very) angry expression "…YOU BUTCH, FACE ME LIKE A MAN!*heavy cough*" Johnson shouted like Skipper's own shout. But I already modified this bedroom wall, so the sound wave couldn't spread out the room. Well, clever ou what?
"No, Johnson…" I a dit slowly "… toi must face me as a son of your father… BE WISE!"
So I left him inside, I hope he will realized if his destiny was in my hand… and also his father.
"Okay… Skipper, toi may enter…" So I let Skipper and his squad to enter the room. I would watch them from the CCTV room and I would check their dialogue too there; because those gadflies were enough to stand in our way… to the brighter future… remember my words; To the brighter future, the order must crossed the darkest past…
Conclusion
