New Blood

Eli gets a new squad after being kicked out of his home.

The bullets began to fly through the walls non-stop. Eli dove to the ground and
began crawling out of the bathroom. Bullets flying right over his head, landing
in nearby walls and a couple hitting the hallways banister, splintering it, and
causing the pieces to land in Elis face. From the ground, Eli kicked open
Michaels bedroom door, "Mikey get on the ground!" Eli shouted. His fully
conscious brother did as he was told and rolled off his bed onto the floor.

Eli stood up and ran for his room. He grabbed his assault rifle and ran to his
window facing the street, and the shooters. Eli began to open fire on them, he
had full intentions of killing every one of them, he didn't want any of them to
escape. No one was going to attack his family and get away with it! Eli killed
about four of the shooters, but many more began to run away, escaping the
bullets. They climbed into large vans, and drove from the scene as fast as they
could.

Eli rested. He looked at his room. Bullet holes in the wall, knick-knacks
destroyed, clothing ruined. The room looked like a war zone. Eli began to do a
re-cap in his head. Mikey was alright, mom and dad were still shouting about the
whole incident so they were fine, Caroline... Wasn't crying.
"Caroline!" Eli shouted. Fearing the worst, he rushed to Caroline’s room. Filled
with bullets and everything destroyed, Eli feared the worst.

Arriving at the crib, Eli was relieved to find that Caroline was fine. She was,
to his amazement still sleeping. Eli rubbed her cheek, to remind himself of the
only reason he stayed in Operation School. "You get away from her." He heard
from behind himself. Turning towards the doorway, Eli saw his mother and father
standing there.
"I was just making sure..."
"You Shut Up!" His Father shouted, "Since you joined Operation School, you have
been nothing but trouble."
"I haven't done anything to you."
"Oh, you haven't, have you? Than what just happened? Because if you were a
normal child, better yet had we not had you, I guarantee it wouldn't have
happened!" Elis father shouted at him. That one hurt Eli. It hurt incredibly
deep down, there was no way his father could take back those words. It was one
of those things Eli new would hurt for the rest of his life.
"I didn't mean for any of..." Eli said, struggling to not cry and hold his own
against his father.
"I do not care Eli. I want you gone. You almost got me, your Mother, Michael,
and Caroline killed. I want you gone Eli. Gone."
Eli stood there, not knowing what to do. His whole world was falling apart
before his eyes. He looked at his mother, hoping, praying, she would say
something. She just gave him a cold stare. Eli knew he couldn't leave Caroline.
Not now, but his father moved out of the doorway and signaled him to leave. Eli
walked into the hallway. "Get your things." His father said.

Eli walked back to his room. He suited up into his gear, packed a bag of
clothing, placed his assault rifle on his back and put his pistol in his
holster, grabbed Zeta, and walked downstairs.

His father opened the door for him and signaled for Eli to walk through it.
"Good bye Eli." His father said coldly. Eli walked out the door and into the
cold night. "Good bye" He said "I love you."
His father, slammed the door shut.

Outside Eli could hear sirens driving up his street. He saw Andrew and Slosheey,
Weapons in hand, as well as several other members of Operation School running
down the street to the house. Eli approached Andrew.
"What happened here?" Andrew asked.
"Someone attacked my home, probably trying to kill me and my family."
"Do you know who?" Slosheey asked.
"Lets find out, shall we?" Eli led the two over to one of the men he had killed.
The man was laying in a pool of blood face down. Andrew and Eli flipped him over
and looked at his uniform. Special Operations.
"So it was the Special Operations?" Andrew said.
Eli became furious, his face crunched up. "I'm going to go kill Lee!" He shouted
and began to walk off, activating Zeta.
"Zeta find the Special Operations leader Lee Culiopi, plot a course." Eli
ordered.
"Scanning..."
Eli was so full of rage. It was all beginning to boil over. He was going to
murder Lee. And he was going to do so in the most gruesome way he could think.
All because Lee TRIED to kill his family.
"Eli, wait!" Andrew shouted.
"What!" Eli responded.
"I'm coming with you." Andrew said.
"No, I don't need your help."
Andrew sighed, "Well you do need a squad." He said. "Luke, Emily, Claire, your
with Eli now. He's your squad leader, do what he says."
"Understood!" The three said, they ran over to Eli, "What are we doing sir!"
Eli sighed, he looked at Andrew, "I need a Phoenix and a pilot."
Within seconds a large box like ship flew out of the sky. The troop bay lowered
and out walked a young boy, "Hello, my name is Carter. I will be your pilot for
today."
"Understood, Zeta you have those coordinates for me?"
"Affirmative, Lee is acting from Miami, Florida near Miami beach. Most likely in
one of the hotels."
"Then that's where we are headed." Eli said, adopting a serious tone as he led
his squad onto the Phoenix’s platform. The platform began to rise up into the
interior of the Phoenix.
"Eli, be warned, Florida does not yet have an Operation School. They may not
take your 'visit' kindly." Zeta informed him.
"Sucks to be them." Eli answered.
"Understood."
"Alright we are off in three, two, one!" Carter shouted as the Phoenix began to
take off.

Eli sat in one of the metal seats in the troop bay. He observed his new squad.
Luke was a pale kid, he had black hair and brown eyes and appeared to be
relatively handsome for a boy his age. He was a bit tall for a twelve year old,
but Eli knew that at this point it was only an advantage. Emily was different.
She was very tall and had red hair and blue eyes. She was skinny and was
Caucasian, but with a nice tan. She wasn't bad to look at, Eli thought to
himself. Claire however was short. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and much
darker skin. She was a little chubby but Eli didn't mind, just by getting a good
look at them, he was starting to like this squad. He wasn't going to let them
die.
"So you just gonna stare at us awkwardly or are you going to introduce yourself?"
Emily asked.
Eli laughed, "Funny. My name's Eli. In case you didn't know my house just got
attacked by The Special Operations. We are going to hunt down there leader and
kill him."
"Hey I know you." Luke said pointing his finger at Eli.
"How?"
"Your the guy who's whole squad got killed except for you and somebody else. And
you didn't even finish your mission, you escaped by unknown reason."
"Yeah that's me, but let's hear about you." Eli said, putting Luke on the spot.
"Well my names Luke and nothing really interesting has ever happened to me. I
worked with Andrew during the paintball simulation mission, but that's it
really."
Eli looked at Emily, as if to say "And you?"
"My name's Emily, I am a designated sniper, and the most interesting thing to
happen to me was I got injured by friendly fire."
"That seems unlikely." Eli said.
"Well it happened, so suck it up."
"Okay, okay!" Eli said, putting his hands up. He then looked at Claire. "You?"
"My names Claire, I don't really like Operation School. This is going to be a
fast mission right?"
"Fast enough."
"Good."
Eli leaned back and closed his eyes, wanting to sleep.

Eli felt something hit him on the side of the head. He woke up to see Luke
standing in front of him. "We are here, captain."
Eli rubbed his eyes and stood up, not sure what might lie ahead.
"What time is it?" Eli asked.
"7:30, come on, the others are already outside."
Luke led Eli through the troop bays lowered floor. Eli jumped down, out of the
Phoenix, and heard a splash. He felt cold water rush up to his knees and could
see Miami beach just ahead of him.
"You landed in the water?" Eli asked Carter, who was loading a shotgun with
shells.
"Ya, why?"
"Just seems inconvenient."
Carter rolled his eyes, "I landed out of the way. We land on the beach or in the
city, we are going to cause a huge scene. Lee is in one of these hotels, we
don't want him knowing we are here. Not just yet."
"What’s the plan?" Emily interrupted.
Eli looked at his four squadmates, "We are going to go on a simple breach and
clear mission. Carter you keep the Phoenix in the sky and out of the way. The
rest of us are going to find out which hotel Lee is staying in, kill him, and
then call for an evac, understand."
"Understood." Carter said, climbing back into the ship. He raised the troop bay
and took off, leaving the four in the water. Eli turned and faced the hotels,
"Lets move!"