"One of the last mission before I ended up here. Pegasi Alpha was former United Nations Confederacy planet, then it got purged by the Crusaders. I got information that 50 children, all experiments like myself, were being held there for transport deeper into Crusader Territory. We all got into the facility just fine, cloudy night. Picture perfect rescue. I checked the radar and everything."
"No reinforcements, just the guards. Freeing all of the children, we started heading outside. Then Cody checked the radar again. All the structures, we thought were part of the facility, were actually Crusader Dreadnaughts. They continued plasma bombardment on us, swatting away at the building as if they didn't give a damn. In short, I was the sole survivor. Everything that was on that planet... died because I wasn't smart enough, I didn't check every possible outcome."
I look down. "But when I got back to the rest of Company GreyFox, the other's that we had saved from other missions, they knew that something was up. I couldn't let them see that. Leaders don't have the time or the privilege to be haunted by the past."
"I presented myself as their leader, they need me to guide them... Thing is, I'm afraid. Afraid that I might fail again, afraid that anybody that I care about will die because I made a stupid decision, afraid that I might anger someone. I'm just... afraid to love again as well. [sub]I can still hear their screams. All 50 of them. Ages 6 to 13.[/sub]"
