"you'll know later" Jake replied with a mysterious smile.

Kiel could only hide his curiosity and speculate in his mind who this people really are.

"Damn you Jake!! You're actually together with them!" roared by the chief. He was really fuming in anger. There was actually a rat who's been freely roaming underneath his nose.

"Shut him up and tie him up, he still have some value" said by one of the soldiers, he seems to be leader of this group of soldiers, Kiel couldn't see his face as he was wearing a black mask. He could feel that messing with him wouldn't be a wise choice. Two soldiers behind approached the chief.

"Shut up!" shouted by one soldier as whacked the head of the chief with the butt part of his gun. While the other one tied the chief up.

"ackk!" blood flowed down through his face, he gritted his teeth, he spat at the soldier's boots "F*ck you! Who ever you are, you would all pay for this!!!"

"this one is tough nut." Seeing the chief still holding on, the soldier put more strength and hit the chief's face again.

"this one is still alive sir." two soldiers were seen dragging a bloodied body near them, it was the squad leader. He survived the blast it left him with numerous wounds, he was barely alive.

The leader of the group approached the bloodied squad leader.

*cough**cough* "I… w-w-on't tell yo-you… a thing... let… me… die a s-soldier's..... death"

"there's no value in him anymore, they're all the same, it would take a lot of work just to make them spill the it all out. But this one… he won't live long."

He kneeled and slowly spoke "since you have no use, I'll fulfill your last wish." He stood up and pulled a pistol from his holster and aimed at the head.

The barely holding squad leader closed his eyes, waiting for his death to come.

*bang*

Smoke were coming out of the barrel, he put close to his mouth and blew it, before putting it back to his holster. He looked at Kiel.

Kiel felt his hairs standing and became tense, he looked back and he felt strange seeing countless complex emotions deep in his eyes.

'why do I feel a familiarity from him?' he thought to himself in confusion. He knew he never met this person once but he gives off a sense of familiarity, like someone who was really close to him.

The leader shifted his eyes to Jake and approach him.

"You've done a good job. teacher has been waiting for your return, he's been nagging me about your return, both of you actually" he said looking at Kiel.

Surprised, Kiel asked "me? What about me? I don't know anything related about that teacher of yours"

"you know him, you just can't remember, he will tell you all" he no longer looked at kiel, he commanded his men to clean up the sight.

"h-h-hey, what are you doing!" a man was struggling while being dragged by the soldiers, he guy who peed himself.

"shut up" shouted by one of the soldiers, followed by a kick to his face. While the other one was making fun him by pointing a gun on his head "hahaha, see this gun? I could put some dozen of bullets into your body with you dying. What? Scared? You gonna pee yourself again? Hahaha."

"PLEASE NO! I-I-I'll give you money! Yes! I have a lot of money!! just please don't kill me!!"

"that's enough!" the leader interrupted "have them tied up and their head covered put them at the back of the truck"

Hearing that he was gonna be taken away, the poor guy struggled more trying to escape. "Please! Please!! Don-"

"I said shut up" irritated, the soldier finally planted the butt of his gun to the guy's face, making him unconscious.

Rows of military trucks came rolling in, planned to be use for any war loot be it weapons or prisoners.

"Double time men! Move! Move! Haul those drones up the truck, there's some still use to them, take anything that could still used!"

He diverted his attention to Kiel and bellowed. "move, get your ass up the truck"

Like a cat having his tail stepped on, he hastily boarded the truck and sat obediently, he lamented on his fate.

'sigh… I'm only just a law abiding citizen, why is this happening to me!?' all his life, only revolved around his work and his family, his only hobby was reading anything that got him interested. Never did he in his life, did something crazy like this occurred to him.

"Where are you taking us!?"

"Please, don't hurt me!!"

He heard shouts, intrigued he took a look outside and saw his co employees being dragged to the truck behind. He noticed a soldier pull out a pistol from his holster before firing at a captive's leg.

*BANG*

"ACKKK! AHHHH! MY LEG!! WHAT THE F*CKKK!"

"I hear anymore shouting and all of you will have a taste, DO I MAKE MY SELF CLEAR!?"

Intimidated, the captive all shut their mouth, the guy who was shot could only grit his teeth in pain, resisting his best not shout, he could only let out some faint whimpers.

Kiel too wasn't an exception, he took his head back and thought 'don't with bother with them, don't bother with them'

"hey!"

"Ahhh!" he was startled, he checked who it was, seeing it was only Jake, he heaved a sigh of relief

"don't be jittery, relax, no one would hurt you here, wear this vest" he handed Kiel a Kevlar vest, and had him wear.

He felt something wet from his behind, he checked it out, seeing his hands stained in blood, he said in a shaking voice "blood!? You took this from those dead soldiers!?"

"yeah we didn't have anymore for you, its just blood" Jake said like it was something normal.

"blood of a dead person, Jake! A dead person!"

"what!? You don't want it, don't blame me if a bullet holed up in your body"

Speechless, Kiel could only endure his anxiousness.

"OK! move! Let's go!" Kiel looked outside, the soldiers were done with their jobs and started boarding the trucks, the masked leader loudly patted the truck before he took a sit beside Kiel.

The truck started moving, just as they were far from the battle site, the masked man suddenly spoke;

"do it"

Kiel was curious, as he didn't know what he meant, he saw Jake pulling out a remote with buttons on it. he pushed one of its buttons, and a loud explosion came from where they came from. He looked at Jake with eyes wide open.

Jake noticed his gaze, looked back at Kiel, seeing his surprised expression, he chortled. He pulled out a pack of cigarettes, he offered one to Kiel, which Kiel refused, before offering one to the masked leader.

"thanks" as he took one, he pulled out his mask.

Kiel seeing his face, felt the familiarity intensifying from him. He didn't know who he was, but he felt close to him. Like a feeling someone would get from a kin.

He looked to be in his mid 40's, he was handsome, if anyone would carefully look at his face, one could see an inkling resemblance from Kiel.

He lighted the cigarette and took a smoke, he let out a breath before looking at Kiel. He stretched his hands for an handshake and said;

"Izakel"

...

Hours after.

Frederic stood at the wreckage at of the convoy. His face was terrifying to behold, seeing all his plans falling into pieces, he couldn't wait to tear the person behind this into pieces.

He shifted his cold eyes to his men behind, specifically the squad leader. "WHAT HAVE BEEN DOING!!? I DIDN'T STATIONED YOUR SQUAD HERE FOR NOTHING!!"

"Sir. They didn't send any SOS, we only knew when they weren't responding to us when we tried to ask their status."

Frederic thought to himself, 'from the looks of it, the enemy had carefully planned all of this, from all the routes to the site, they knew where it was.' he shifted his gaze through all of his men 'someone here is a rat'his eye's sharpening 'whoever you are, you better hide, if not….'

One of his men approached him and reported. "Sir, we did not find the chief among the dead bodies, he might have been made captive along with the employees"

Hearing the report, Frederic anger blazed even more, his men's heads were soaked in perspiration, they kept their mouth shut, in fear of angering him even more.

'F*CK, whoever you are, you better not do anything you would regret' he started getting worried for his uncle, he knew any moment now could spell his death.

"Find their traces!!! Search for them, I don't care what methods you use, I will be expecting a satisfying report! UNDERSTOOD!!?"

"SIR YES! SIR!" his saluted before swiftly started their search.