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I could hear the beeping and all the people talking loudly, God I wish they would shut the fuck up and just let me rest for a few minutes.
'He's crashing start 2 units of O neg and prep the O.R. Type and cross match for 12 units type specific.'
'Pulse 156, Reps 34, B.P. 80 systolic, skin cold and clammy. He is getting cyanotic.'
'6 through and throughs, diminished breath sounds on the left, deviated trachea, he has a collapsed lung.'
'We'll tube him in the OR, let's move people.'
'Clear the elevator, let them know we're on our way up. Have them prep a thoracotomy and an abdominal tray. Okay we're moving people, let's go.'
'Call Xray have them meet us in the O.R. I want a full chest and spine series.' 'When you type and cross do a full chem 7 panel too.'
'Make sure they have a chest tube set up standing by.'
'He has 15 holes in him Doctor, 9 are nonvital, 4 below the waist.'
I could see the lights flash by as faces bobbed in and out of my line of vision and could hear someone yelling for people to move, all the noise kept waking me up. Why the fuck wouldn't they just let me sleep, fuck I was tired. I closed my eyes and tried to go back to sleep.
'Hey, hey, hey wake the fuck up soldier, no sleeping aloud, name, rank, serial number, unit.' My eyes popped open, and I tried to look around but just couldn't seem to move my head. 'UUUUHHHHAAAAHHHHH FFFFUUUUUUCCCCKKKKMMMMMEEEEEEE.' I screamed out as the pain hit and I tried to clamp down on it yet again. 'UUUUHHHHHHHH SSSHHHHHIITTTTTTT THISSSSSSSS FUCKEN HHHUUUUURRRTTTTTSSSSSS.'
'Focus troop, focus, name, rank, serial number, unit. Come the fuck on focus troop.' I heard as a male face took up my field of vision. 'Focus on me troop, think.' He told me.
Focus? fuck that, all I wanted was to go to sleep and just rest. My last mission had been a bitch, and I was tired as hell. 'Uuuuuuhhh... Keil... James... Sargent... 7th ODST... RT Reaper.' I gasped out and the fog cleared, and I remembered us getting hit. Fuck we had stepped into a hornet's nest, and they had lit our ass up like a Christmas tree.
We had immediately returned fire as our armor gave us some protection, but they had had heavy weapons and that really fucked us over badly. We had given as good, as we had got but there were just more of them than us. We managed to take a sizable chunk out of them, nevertheless. I remember the RCT dropping in and pulling our ass out.
We had hit out target and had been moving to our evac point when we got hit. We had blown the shit out of the orbital control center that had been in charge of the antiship missile platforms in orbit. We had ghosted in, the stealth pods had opened at 60 miles high, dumping us out and then burned up. 7 days in those pods is something I don't recommend for anyone who doesn't love tight places.
'Hang on James we're going to get you home just hold the fuck on for me, okay?' The face said and we stopped moving but I could tell we were going up. I heard the ding and then the lights started flashing again. Fuck this shit, I was going to get a bit of sleep no fucking matter what happened. My body had finally run out of steam. 'James... James, wake up come on fight James. He's crashing...' Was the last thing I remember hearing, God it felt good to finally rest.
'James, James, open your eyes for me James. Move your fingers. hey, wiggle your toes for me.' I heard and tried to get my body back online. I finally managed to crack an eyelid open and started looking around, I needed to figure out where I was. I could hear the beeping and hissing of several machines. 'Doctor, his right eye.' I heard a female voice say. A male face filled my vision, and he started talking. 'James, I'm Doctor Stewart. I'm the guy that reassembled you. You were on the table for 10 hours, and we had to give you 5 doses of nanites including a new experimental kind. Your body is going to need time to rest. You've been asleep for a week now, we had you in a medical coma to help your body heal. Don't try to do too much right now okay. I need you to get your strength back. We've contacted your Command, and they sent your files to us, is there anyone we can contact for you to let them know you're alive and going to heal up? anyone at all?'