~~-Audio activated- Suddenly he became aware of his surroundings. Him, who was he, he wasn’t sure. He tried to look around, but everything was pitch black, it felt like he was wearing a helmet. He could hear though, the sounds of spinning gears, and clicking.
-Visuals Activated- The helmet visor materialized in front his eyes. He looked around to find himself standing in a half circle tube with screens covering the curved wall. In the center a large square opened, a recording of a man with a white science coat and grey wavy hair began to play.
“Hello there #1, I have refrained from using your real name to keep from on setting any previous memories before the Last Response protocol, which may cause confusion from your mission. My name is Charleston Blake, head of the Last Response protocol. Last Response is a last hope initiative that has been set to secure Earths safety. We have discovered aliens, and we have no way of knowing what may come of this discovery.” Pictures popped onto the screen showing various images of ships and alien.
The pictures showed advance ships, and large grey creatures standing about 7 and half feet tall. They had long necks and long arms, the picture changed showing about 20 of them loading boxes upon a ship.
“Based on these pictures we were skeptical of what their goals were. So we hired five brave souls, beginning with you, to become a new breed of soldier. Using the latest Earth technology we designed various ways of enhancing the human senses. But, the processes had its drawbacks; they caused intense amnesia, causing any memories besides basic fundamental knowledge such as speech, and movement… to be lost.” He looked down at his hands looking at his red rimed armored body, trying to take it all in.
“Now as expected, you must be confused. Just take it one step at a time. Above you will meet your team, you need to lead them. Whatever activated this protocol is nothing to be underestimated. This protocol means that everyone before has failed, army, navy, everyone. You are the world’s last hope; there is no reinforcements, no back up, just you five. Don’t let use down #1, we’re counting on you. Charleston out”
He looked forward as the wall in front of him began to open. He looked out and saw a large white room with computer screens and white chairs scattered around. It looked like it was empty, and it was left quite messy. He walked out and looked over to his right and saw 4 more pods like his in a line.
He walked towards his right to find a small stand with a few buttons. He studied and found a button labeled “Release Soldiers” so he pressed it. He looked up to see the pods slowly open wide and four fully armored soldiers standing there.
He looked at them and spared no time. “Attention!” As the words left his mouth the soldiers all stood to attention. In a split second everyone in the room knew who was in charge, and for some reason they were all ok with that. “My name is Captain… Rex! I will be your leader, have you all been briefed by Professor Charleston?” Everyone shook their heads, “Very good, please steps forward, let’s get to know one another, and then we need to figure out why we were deployed.”
The soldiers walked out, the one all the way to the left looked over at the others “I guess you guys can call me Rose. I far as I know I am a hand to hand combat expert, I am exceptional at fast paced assaults.” Her suit was black with dark pink shaded rims on her armor.
Rex saluted her “Excellent to have you on bored Rose!”
The next one had similar design except yellow, he walked over to the table and sat “Ok, so for some weird reason there is this word that just popped up in my head, apparently it is something I used to really like. So I’ll go with that, call me Twinkie! I a vehicle pro, if it has a motor and needs a driver I’m your guy. I can figure out any kind of vehicle.”
“You will most certainly be a valuable member Twinkie” Rex saluted
The next gut looked similar, but was about a foot and a half taller than everyone else and his suit was black and grey. “My names Tank, Weapons expert, I also blow stuff up!”
Rex nodded “I for see some brilliant explosions with you around Tank!” Rex then turned to the women all the way at the end of the line. She was a short and skinny, with a blue rimmed armor. She stood silent, Rex walked to her “Can you speak?” the girl shook her head no “Hmm, silence the, it’s always the quite ones that surprise you the most. How’s Shadow sound to you soldier?” Shadow nodded her head in agreement.
Rex backed back up “Look around you soldiers, meet your new family, we are all we have. And we are all that stands up against whatever stands against the world.”
Twinkie took off his helmet and placed it on the table. His curly blonde hair fell in front of his bright blue eyes. His hair was just long enough to cover his eyes, but no longer. “OH cool, blonde hair, that’s alright I guess. What about you guys?”
Tank pulled off his helmet and held it at his side. He had dark black wavy hair that swooped upwards. His face was chiseled, and he had a thick beard about an inch long. He sat down next to Twinkie who stared up at him “Dude you are way too tall, there’s just too much man here.”
Rose walked up to the table and took off her helmet causing silky long red hair to fall down past her shoulders. Her eyes sparkled green, Twinkies jaw dropped “Wow you are quite the Rose huh?” Rose rolled her eyes and sat down on the other end of the table.
Shadow walked up and stood behind Rex who had taken his helmet. He had brown hair in a cut short with piercing brown eyes that seemed to melt you if you looked too long. Shadow followed and removed her helmet; she had black hair down to her ears with dark brown eyes.
Rex looked over everyone “Good, now let’s figure out what we are dealing with here. There are some coms over there, which one of you does computers?” Twinkie raised his hand and then got up and ran to the computers. He sat down and began turning them on.
“Man how long have we been here, these computers look like they haven’t been fired up in forever.”  The computers finally came on, and on the top of the screen a window opened labeled Monitoring system.  He pulled it up and he studied all the information. He then began to look perplexed.
Rex looked over his shoulder “What’s wrong Twinkie?”
“It’s just that I we all look pretty good for being stuck in those pods for over 40 years!”
“40? How haven’t we aged all this time?”
“The program sir, those pods slowed down the aging process, so instead of aging 1 year every year, we aged 1 year every 10. So we could be in there 100 years and only age 11!”
Rose shook her head “10 years Twinkie, simple math.”
“Oh that’s even better! Well about the problem I believe I found something here that may help.” Twinkie clicked a link that opened up a video labeled “Urgent!”
As the video began Professor Charleston appeared, in the back ground red lights flashed and scientist scrambled around in chaos. “Attention Last Response team! I am at the decoy Lab, we are under attack! The aliens are not friendlies; I repeat they are not friendlies! I don’t know what’s going to happen, I won’t be able to activate the program from here, and all the land from here to your location if heavily infested with the aliens! There’s an automatic release that I can only hope that it activates!” He spun around to see a huge explosion come from the wall “ Good luck Last Response, Charleston out!”
As he wrapped up the screen went black, Rex stared long at hard at the screen “Twinkie collect everything you can find out about these aliens. The rest of you, look around this place for some weapons”
The team dispersed, and all began a search for weapons. Twinkies also pulled all the information that he could find on the aliens and downloaded into his wrist com. Rex walked over to the pods to make sure nothing was left.
As Tank walked through the long hallways he finally came to a large door, it was bolted shut. Tank laughed as he slowly backed up “That’s cute” Tank backed up and 12 feet from the door, and then burst into a full on sprint. As he came to the door he jumped up and double kicked the door down. He got off the floor and smiled as the door creaked over slamming the floor and sending up dust everyone.
Rex radioed over the coms “I found the weapons, come and get some.” Tank walked forward and grabbed a large shotgun and placed it on his back and then an even bigger machine gun and carried it on his shoulder. Everybody else soon came in and got equipped.
Shadow grabbed a hand gun placing it on her hip, and then placed a sniper rifle on her back. Rose grabbed an assault rifle and dual sub machine guns. Twinkie just got a nice looking assault with a hand gun on his side. Rex grabbed two automatics and the looked at the team “Alright guys follow me.”
Rex walked out the door and through the hall with his team close behind. Rex turned to see a huge metallic door labeled exit. He went to the wall a pressed the open button. The doors slowly slide open, the team waited in anticipation to see the other side.
As the doors opened wide everyone could see the other side, it was night time. They walked out and looked around, seeing a large city over a large body of water. Twinkie looked up and squinted “That’s a big statue, looks familiar.” The rest of the team stared up at this wonder. They were amazed, but didn’t realize that they had seen it many times before, The Statue of Liberty. It was different now though, because no one cared for it in so long, and it looked like rockets had been fired at it at one point.
Rex turned back to the city “Let’s start over there; there is a boat over there by the docks big enough to hold us all.” The walked off towards the boats, ready for whatever was going to come their way, or, at least they thought they were ready…

Authors Notes: Hey y’all! This is Logan! Hope you liked the story, don’t worry, this is only the stories setting, the action is on the way. What do you think of the characters? This idea was originally thought of for a game, but this is easier than getting some big name peeps to sponsor my gaming ideas. Go ahead and leave a comment, Flame me if you want, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger eh? See y’all next time, Stay Awesome!