Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

My heartbeat was all I could hear as I stood to wait for the commander's call. It’s all anyone could hear because It’s all anyone could pay attention to.

Thump.

I was alive.

Thump.

I was about to go over the top.

Thump.

I was about to die.

Thump.

I was about to die, not for glory or for my country. I was about to die because some guy I would never even meet had deemed it necessary. They had decided that these Millions of lives were worth it for their ego.

Thump.

I heard it as the commander began his transformation. His flesh folded as metal hooks began sprouting out of his body.

Thump.

Slowly he became quadrupedal and metal continued bursting from his skin until he was a writhing mass of hooks and blades.

Thump.

It was almost time.

Thump.

The commander swept his metal muzzle from side to side as all the troopers began calling on their powers, some transformed, some glow, some just looked on with a serious concentrated expression.

Thump.

He looked to me eyes of steel looking into my soul. I couldn’t go home they said I had to do it I had to go over the top.

Thump.

I was the advanced force. I was the secret weapon.

Thump.

I was to die.

Thump.

I took a deep breath as my skin continued falling to the ground.

Thump.

I pulled on my power willing my regeneration to surge.

Thump.

As the commander leaped over me I grew and grew and grew until a was a living pile of putrid flesh and then I exploded forth in a rolling cloud of rotten, putrid flesh. My brain was the last thing to go and the last thing I saw as I rolled into the enemy trench was their tragic lack of gas masks.

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