Short Story Fictional

Short Story Fictional
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Short Story Fictional
It was one early Saturday morning at around 4 a.m., when Mark received an unusually call from his Major General to report to work immediately. As a soldier, Mark did not find it absurd, because their nature of work demands that they should always be ready to respond to any kind of emergency. What the Lieutenant Air Force pilot did not understand, is why the call came from one of the top most personnel in the Air Force Army Department. “At least, it could have been from my unit commandant,” he uttered while rushing from his barracks to the Air Base office. On reaching there, he found some of his eight uniformed colleagues waiting outside, ready to receive some orders from the boss. Just before the sun could rise, some other armed soldiers surrounded the Air Force team, pointing military guns to them, commanding them to surrender and to lift their hands up. At first, the whole situation seemed a joke to Mark and his team. They could not understand why their Land Marines counterparts had come to their Air Base, unnoticed, hunting them. After complying with the orders, they surrendered, put in a military lorry and taken to an unknown destination. During the journey, they were warned of lifting up their heads and every individual was supposed to lie down, with the head facing down. After travelling for quite some while, they alighted in a heavily guided pr...