I saw the new Rise of Cobra movie. Loved it! I know many people disliked it, so if you’re one of those people, please don’t read and be rude in the comments section. I ask that if you like the fanfiction, please comment. If you don’t like it, please don’t comment! Thanks! :)
|1| Introduction
Alright. If I’m going to tell this whole thing to you, listen and listen well. It’s long and detailed, but not boring. This is a explanation of betrayal, violence, and a little romance. Sorry if you think I’m being sappy. Suck it up :)
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It had all started four years ago. My name is Reilly, pronounced like Riley. Yeah, I’m not giving you my last name–that’s confidential. I grew up in St. Louis with my older brother, Duke. I’m like him in many ways — strong and disciplined. In some ways, we’re different–I’m kind of mocking in certain ways and I’m actually more care-free than him. We don’t look alike much. I have long, straight, dirty blond hair and greyish-green eyes, while he has light brown hair and brown eyes. If you saw us together, you wouldn’t even know we were related. But continuing on, Duke was fluent in French, German, and English when he enlisted into the army. He graduated top of his class at the US Army Airborne School, in Fort Benning, GA. Me, being three years younger, followed in his footsteps and graduated at the US Army Airborne School as well. I felt I should enlist in the army…I mean, what was holding me back? Soon, I was on Duke’s team on location in South Africa. That’s when I met Rex Lewis.
Rex was an army medic on Duke’s team, and of course, Duke’s best friend, alongside Ripcord, a hysterically funny friend of ours. But Rex had medium-length brown hair and had the cutest and most innocent face e I’d ever seen. He was unbelievably smart, as he also worked for the sciences on the team as well. I met Rex the first day of the team meeting at the base, the day we left for South Africa. And we immediately clicked. Rex was sweet and innocent, unaware of most things, and strong at the same time. Then there was Ana Lewis, Rex’s sister. She was blond, sweet, and was dating Duke. They were a perfect match, and it was pretty obvious.
Rex had proposed to me about six weeks later, a week before we went to war, back in South Africa. I accepted, of course. Duke, Ripcord and Ana couldn’t have been more happy, seeing as I would be marrying my brother’s best friend and Ana’s brother. The day before we went back to South Africa, there was a get together in Washington, D.C. where all the soldiers were going away would be at. Here, Duke finally proposed to Ana and promised to marry her as soon as he got back. Duke also promised that he’d return Rex safe back home to Ana and me. I thought nothing could go wrong, that we’d be fine out in war. Of course…I was wrong.
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Explosions shook the city like a string of firecrackers. The blast seemed to shake the ground and send rubble and debris coming from the buildings, where it fell on the soldiers below it. The street was littered with abandoned cars, and a bunch of used bullets. Missiles went off and so did grenades. Gunshots were so loud I couldn’t hear myself think. I was one out of only five women on the team–the rest were men. Duke, Ripcord, Rex and me hid behind one of our army hummers as we were shot at. The war raged out beyond the car. I gripped my gun tightly. I felt scared, to be completely honest. But who wouldn’t in this situation.
“Here, take it!” Duke was saying to a nervous Rex, who had that signature innocent-worried look on his face. Duke shoved Double Bubblein Rex’s hand, “It calms the nerves!” I smirked at Duke. He knew Rex was uncontrollably nervous. Ripcord was shouting a bunch of random crap to Duke, so I wasn’t listening. In fact, I was in pain still, from getting a deep cut on my side only three hours earlier. It was a deep and long cut from running past a long piece of metal on the outside of one of the abandoned cars. Rex, being the medic, had had to stitch it up, but he said he was worried it could get infected, and he said I’d probably have a permanent scar from it. I tried to ignore the pain as I got ready to shoot.
I jumped up next to Ripcord, who was shooting at everything in sight, and took a bunch of shots, then jumping back down, being protected by the hummer. Rex was getting ready to run into the old abandoned, junky shack that contained the information that we needed. I was, inside, worried that I’d loose my fiance. After all, Rex was going in there alone. But I sucked it up and told myself he’d be fine. He turned to me, kissed me hurriedly as a good-bye, and Duke shouted for him to make the move and go inside the base. I bit my lip as I watched Rex run into the base. I tried to calm myself as Ripcord and Duke shout-talked above me. I re-loaded my semi-automatic and got ready to shoot when…BOOM! The base burst into flames, an explosion sounding like a firework had just gone off next to me. Smoke and fire rose into a mushroom-like cloud into the air.
I jumped up, screaming, “Rex!” Duke grabbed me, “We have to get outta here, Reilly! C’mon!” More gunshots and explosions could be heard around us, the fire blazing of what used to be the base in front of my eyes. Rex was dead. “No!” I said, trying to struggle to get away from Duke. And that’s all I really want to talk about of that matter.
My final word, though, is what Duke did right at that moment, not willing to see if Rex had even stood a chance, is what absolutely tore us apart.