You look out the helicopter door to your left; sand, you look out the door to your right; sand, you look foreward; more sand. "How far is this outpost?" you say into your headset. "About another three hours" says the crew chief, "hey Max I keep getting this rotor warning, can you see if you can do anything about it" says the pilot, "sure let me see what I can do" says the crew chief. You look down and tighten your seat belt and check your gear, suddenly you feel the helicopter shudder and then as quick as it came it stopped. "What was that?" asks the door gunner, "don't know, but it and that rotor warning are gone" says the pilot, "I didn't find anything wrong" says the crew chief.
"Well that's goo-" suddenly a klaxon sounds cutting you off, "we just lost vertical thrust!" yells the pilot, "what does that mean?!" you yell back, "it means buckle up and hold on" he yells. You reach down and grab onto your seat as the helicopter started to drop toward the desert ground. "OH FUUUUUU----" was all you could scream before the BlackHawk crashed into the ground knocking you unconscious.
You find yourself inside the helicopter, but something seems wrong, you look around and realize that the helicopter had crashed on its side. You reach down and undo the seat belt causing you to fall to the ground, you feel a sharp pain in your leg making you realize it had been injured in the crash, you look up and see it was around dawn outside. You reach into your vest and pull out a flashlight and shine it around the interior, the crew chief and door gunner were gone.
You crawl over to check the pilots, but they were also gone from their seats, you check yourself for more injuries and only find small cuts and bruises on your arms and body, but your leg might be either broken or fractured. You search around for any supplies and find some medical supplies, food, water, all your gear, but it seemed all types of radios were broken in some manner from the crash. You throw your gear out the opening in the helicopter and climb out after it, next to the helicopter you find two graves marked with makeshift tombstones.
You carefully climb off the helicopter taking care not to further injure your leg and collect your gear, you find some broken pieces of metal and make a splint out of them for your leg. You look at the graves and see they were for the two pilots, "but where are the crew chief and door gunner?" you whisper, you look around and see no prints in the sand anywhere. You grab your rifle and check it, it still worked despite the crash, you sit "ok what do I do now?" you whisper, you close your eyes and try to remember if you saw any villages nearby when you flew in.
"Yes" you say as you open your eyes, you remember, you did see a small village about a mile and a half away from here. You get your bearing and make your way in the direction of where you remember the village was, "maybe thats where the door gunner and crew chief went" you say to yourself. After slowly walking for over an hour you come into view of the village, you smile to yourself and increase your pace.
You walk up to one of the houses and knock on the door, "hello, is anyone there?" you yell, suddenly......
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