First part
I'm working deep inside the core of something like a reactor, taking samples and video footage
There are some strange 6 legged insects living inside the core
There is a woman with me that gets exposed to the radiation
We leave and she has to go into overnight observation because of contact with radiation she had within the core
I inform the other people on the team that they will need to be monitored, but it's likely just residual radiation and they should be OK
We are a team of 4 people and I am the leader. The others are arguing about whether or not the person should have to be quarantined for observation
I eventually pull rank on them and tell them it's not worth arguing or debating, it's an order
And because she made contact with me afterwards, I'll have to be observed as well
Second part
The same 4 man group are military trained
We are covertly inserted into Chernobyl to exfiltrate information about the reactor and environmental readings
The readings are nominal. Not a trace of radiation anywhere
"This is impossible" one of my group says referring to the atmospheric radiation readings/levels
We enter into the reactor
One of my crew opens something using their bare hand they are that confident it's safe
And tells me that what they are doing should melt their hand off
We are on top of some massive vent-like shafts which we open up
They are very old and rusted
It feels very dangerous when we open them up, like we could fall down into a massive chamber below
Still no radiation
Then we notice a entire community of Russians living inside Chernobyl that we didn't know were there
They appear to be secret/hidden military bases. Training both men and women
We are spotted and someone sounds a alarm
The four of us run to our extraction point
We are running through what looks like a school to escape as quickly as we can, before soldiers have had time to react to the alarm and catch up to us
I am taking point
We come across one soldier in the school by himself. He pulls his weapon, but I get to him and disarm him before he can point it as us
I'm not sure what I do to him here, because it is too quick as we are running past him, but it is quick, efficient (as in I don't even stop running past him as I knock him out) and most importantly, non-lethal
We get to a open oval outside the school and because of the possibility of snipers, I advice the soldiers not to run across the open field to our extraction, but to run from point-to-point of tree cover around the outside of open field which looks like some sort of large school football oval
We are running in some sort of break formation, where we don't run in a straight line. Instead, we run in a zip-zag style pattern crossing over each other and varying our prose as we move. I get the feeling this is in case there are snipers watching us move out through the open. To give them multiple targets moving in multiple lines, crossing each other, to increase their likelihood of missing. Or more realistically, increase our likelihood of getting lucky
As we pass around the outside I can hear some dogs tracking us, snarling as they run towards us
I advice the other man (there are 2 men and 2 women in our group) to take point, while I fall back to handle the dogs
I drop onto the ground and roll over on my back with my legs spread in the birthing position, aiming a pistol between my open legs at roughly the same height as the dogs
I think I've been trained to do this to get a perfectly steady shot at rightly the same height as the dogs
I let the dogs get a little closer and put a single bullet into each of them
They yelp and stop chasing us. I think the pistol is silenced because I don't hear any noise from the gun, but I do hear the dogs yelp
I'm not sure if I killed them or just injured them, but one things for sure, they won't be hesitating to shoot at us from this point on because of it
But I had no choice. We could not risk getting caught on Russian soil
I catch up with the other soldiers in my group, leaving the oval, passing through a tree-line with a road on the other side
"Shoot to kill authorised" I say to the other 3 soldiers, to allow them to fire back if fired upon
We come to a small cliff face along a road, under sense tree cover and we start climbing ropes to the top we'd placed earlier
A motorcycle races up the road towards us
The bike is travelling so fast that by the time we are ready to possibly fire on it, it's already reached us
And passed us
I don't think he even saw us
I think he was going so fast he didn't even notice us
Either that or he did see us and thought better of it and kept riding
4 armed soldiers pointing weapons at me as I approach on my bike? I'll just ride straight past and pretend I didn't notice them
We climb to the top and then each of us unfolds a personnel drone from a backpack
It straps on like a backpack, with a big utility belt hanging off it that I assume is some sort of battery
We put on the backpack, each start our drone and take off into the air
The drones are fast and carry us a massive distance up into the air
We cross the top of a mountain range and the view is amazing
The view is really vivid, clear and detailed unlike nothing I've seen in my waking life to compare
I advice the soldiers that we are bunching up together and we need to spread out, so that there is no chance any ground weapons could detect us as one easy-go-to target, instead of us being 4 hard-to-hit, nearly impossible to see, individual targets
We hear the noise from fighters jets in the distance behind us
"They're sending out jets" the other man says
I'm not to worried. The jets would literally have to fly past us at our exact heading and altitude in order to accidental stumble across us
It's almost impossible for them to know we are here
Unless we keep bunching up, like they are doing, again
I get annoyed and spead out away from them myself
We cross over some low snowy mountain ranges again
We have gone a fair distance now
I think this is also how we entered undetected
We approach a large apartment building on the outskirts of a town and land on its roof
This is where we are stationed
We're made it out
Once we are inside it appears as though the other man may have taken a bullet, though I'm not sure how
I don't even remember someone firing a weapon except for me. I don't know how it seems possible he could have been hit. It must have been a silenced gun. Possibly the person on the motorbike as they passed?
I honesty have no idea where the bullet came from
But it doesn't seem like a dangerous or lethal shot anyway. Some way say it only grazed him, even though it is hit him in the left-hand side of his belly region
As he is having his wound attended to I think to myself that he's more at risk from the possibility of infection than he is from the bullet itself
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