A Dangerous Mission

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**Violence, deaths, mild graphic descriptions, war-based**

A story about a young man who goes on a life-threatening mission. What will happen on this mission? Will his car survive without Adam?

## Preface

A man named Adam Viler sighed as he looked back at his vehicle, an animate dark-eyed car who rarely spoke. He sighed and said, "This is stupid, isn't it?"

"Yes."

Adam fake-gasped. "You actually said something!"

The car just rolled his eyes. His name was Wheeler. Nothing more.

Adam sighed. *Just as I thought that Wheeler would actually start a conversation.*

Wheeler seemed to read his mind. "Is that my personality?"

"No." Adam walked away. "Cya in three weeks- Or never."

The silver car lifted a tire in emotionless response. Adam was regretting his decision already to agree to his captain's call. *This is definitely a suicide mission and a horrible idea.*

## Chapter 1- Meeting With His Captain

Adam walked to his captain, hands in his pockets. “Yes, sir?”

“Viler, you need to go to the Runin post.”

“But that’s the most dangerous-”

“Get to it.”

“But I have a car back home that if I don’t return to, he’ll die too!”

“What do you mean, ‘He’ll die too’?” The captain narrowed his eyes.

Adam sadly sighed. “He’s an animate car named Wheeler. He’s only one of three of his kind left. And he doesn’t know it.”

“I don’t care if your stupid freak car dies. Go to your post.”

“Don’t call him a freak.” He grounded his fist.

“I was part of the group that killed his… group. You think I’ll be nice?”

Adam’s green eyes widened. “W-What?”

“If you don’t stay loyal, you and your freak car will be killed.”

Adam was more angered at the threat of ending Wheeler’s life. “You better not hurt him!”

“Feisty one, aren’t you? Now go!” He pushed Adam to the floor and kneed his back. He crumpled to the floor, crying out.

## Chapter 2- Shock and Sadness

Someone at the same post that Adam would be in came into to office. “What the heck!?” He helped Adam out of the room. The young man stumbled to his feet. The two young men walked five miserable miles to their post, where 17 other miserable soldiers were. A woman teared up, looking down. Adam climbed up the ladder, getting helped up by the other man, and asked what was wrong.

“I had to be separated from my newborn daughter…”

Adam hugged the woman. Suddenly, the other man cried out, “Duck!”

Adam ducked and so did the woman. She shot the enemy. An 18-year-old soldier from the Calzian side cried out in shock as a bullet nearly pierced his forehead! Adam pointed at the young soldier and said, “Sage! Protect him! I’ll help the woman!”

Sage ran toward the terrified 18-year-old and shot 18 Elian soldiers trying to kill the Calzians.

Adam was concerned about the soldiers. He looked at the woman shooting down the Elians. He didn’t see her as a damsel in distress, he saw her as a woman who just wanted to get back to her family. Which is why he was protecting her. So she could return to her family.

## Chapter 3- Protection of the Family

He ducked as the woman tucked and rolled as an Elian tried to kill them. Sadly, two soldiers were killed. There were only 17 of them left. A soldier screamed as an Elian stabbed him! Sage gasped and tried to stop the bleeding, but it was too late. The man had died. When the other army was all gone from what the five surviving Calzians could see, they ran to the north. They saw a small town with a poor group of aliens. Lots of cars who looked very much like Wheeler were wandering around with the aliens. He gasped. “There’s more of them!”

“More of who?”

“My car’s race. I thought there were only three including Wheeler, but I guess I was wrong…”

They looked at the cars. “I guess so.”

The aliens saw the newcomers. “People to rescue us!”

The I̷͕͌̚͜ọ̵͙̇͒r̴̡̠̈́i̶͇̙̅̏a̸̡̽̚n̵̲͉͝s̵̢̪̈́̽ looked distrustfully at them. “Should we trust them?”

“We’re dying, Axle…”

The blue car looked to the side and drove away, murmuring something under his breath. He drove toward a gray car and she was holding a young alien.

## Chapter 4- A Town!

A car saw the small alien and asked why it was so tiny.

“Because it’s a ruoin- A youngling.”

“What’s a youngling?”

“Have you ever heard the term baby?”

“From humans and aliens.”

“That.”

“You mean the unusually tiny beings of a race?”

“Yes.”

The ruoin tried to grab the expensive platinum dagger in her side. The car automatically moved away and grabbed the dagger. She knew the ruoin would probably accidentally kill itself. The father of the baby alien gasped. “Why do you Sein insist on carrying those around!?”

“Because we’re the survivors of a massacre.”

“Oh-”

She looked at the ruoin and left. The Sein gathered up the civilians, guarding them from danger as the Calzians helped them. Ruoin and their families were put in the middle. “Mila!” Yelled Axle, with his sword pulled out, “I see the Tyran!”

Mila said, “Calzians, guard the others! We’ll deal with them!”

They knew the Tyran were threats. Axle eyed the humans. “We have sharp weapons. You might wanna back off.”

The leader smirked and pulled out a gun. Axle gasped and looked worriedly at the Lienia and civilian I̷͕͌̚͜ọ̵͙̇͒r̴̡̠̈́i̶͇̙̅̏a̸̡̽̚n̵̲͉͝s̵̢̪̈́̽. The Calzians and Sein took them out quickly.

Adam said, “Sure the Tyran was part of our country, but they were trying to kill you guys so…”

## Chapter 5- Headed Back

Another group attacked them! It was the Sain. Turns out, some of the wicked traitors have survived. The Calzians let the Sein get revenge. One single woman survived. Axle saw the Hydo and Adam whacked her gun out of her hand. Axle pointed his sword at her and she scrambled to try to get her gun, but Adam had grabbed it. The blue car’s eyes flickered with anger as he put the sword near her throat. “You Sains deserve to die,” He growled, pushing her closer and closer toward a cliff. Her eyes filled with fear. She was now on the edge and a bluish-purple liquid was seeping out of her neck where Axle’s gold-bladed sword had touched. She pleaded for mercy as she looked at the bottom of the cliff and Axle’s sword and cold eyes.

Axle said, “I won’t kill you if you help us. But if you refuse…” He slightly moved the sharp blade forward. More of the getior leaked out of her throat and she grimaced and gulped. “OK, OK, OK! Just don’t cut my head off!”

“I really don’t need that mental image.”

She held up her arms. “Put the sword away.”

“Fine.” He sheathed it.

## Chapter 6- The Eron Post

The group came across another post. A group of 700 Calzians was fighting the enemy side. The Sien took the civilians out of the danger. The Calzians told the Sein that fighting an army of 1,000 with guns would probably kill them. Sadly, one soldier from the Runin post was killed. The poor 18-year-old was now dead. The Sein watched the battle and wished they could help because they were bored, but didn’t want to die off either. They waited for one side to win, weapons drawn. The Calzians from the Ronion post helped. They had a total of 2,000. The Calzians won, but just barely. More than 1,500 of their soldiers were dead.

The disgruntled survivors walked toward the bridge. The Sein looked bored and played with their weapons far from the civilians. They looked up, sheathing their weapons when seeing the Calzians. “Come on,” A Sein warrior named Carria said gruffly. She drove off. The surviving Calzians followed. Adam collapsed and Axle noticed and helped him along with the woman. He wanted to get to the town and couldn’t leave Adam behind, or the Calzians wouldn’t be happy.

## Chapter 7- Almost There

*10... miles… more…* Thought poor Adam wearily. Some of the beat-up survivors were on the verge of death, and the Sein wasn’t exactly lifting their spirits. More like pushing them more. The Hydo was especially miserable, tied up by the Calzians and being dragged by a Sein warrior who looked like she wanted to kill the prisoner. Her name was Ash and she has red eyes with a purple coat of paint. Her sword was also purple, indicating bloodshed. Axle made sure she didn’t kill the prisoner, as he wanted to bring her back alive. Most of the Lienia were starving and two aliens had sadly died. He turned to the woman that was at his post.

Adam remembered the cold glare that Wheeler's dark eyes were set in. He sighed. Remembering the threat that the captain had made, he set his eyes in the same way Wheeler's were. He looked at his companions. “We have to bring them back to Tyuin.”

“Where's Tyuin?”

“By Runin.”

“But-”

“Please. We can't let them die. I know it’s dangerous with our captain, but they’ll die if we leave them out here!”

Sage’s eyes flickered. But before Adam could figure out what the emotion was, it disappeared.

## Chapter 8- Wheeler’s Thoughts

Wheeler’s eyes narrowed as a human saw him in the garage Adam left him in. If he was still on the roads just wandering around like he was a year ago, he probably would’ve killed the human. He knew Adam’s thoughts and also knew that Adam thought he was oh-so-innocent. Oh, he was sooo wrong. Wheeler was smart and could figure out someone’s weakness and use it against them ruthlessly- If he wanted or needed to. Adam was losing those he cared about and betrayal. Of course, there was no need to hurt Adam or his two real friends. Adam had given him safety, after all, in a world where Wheeler’s kind was somewhat hated. His race wasn’t known for being openly xenophobic, but they were slightly xenophobic. Wheeler was like that, but only at humans or aliens he didn’t know or like, so Adam was at his level of worth. He came out, seeing two cars with golden daggers. He approached them. The cars looked him over. Wheeler said, “You’re my race.”

## Chapter 9- A Prisoner

Adam wearily took the Hydo female to his captain. In a sudden twist of violence that Adam didn’t expect, the captain murdered her in a gruesome way! “YOU TURNED AGAINST US, BOPILY!?”

Adam gasped and tried to escape, attempting to erase the horrible scene from his mind. He looked down at the lifeless body of Bopily, gulping as he looked fearfully at his captain. He knew the Hydo woman just wanted to live, not betray her group. The captain looked at Adam with a cruel look on his front.

“I’ve discovered another group of cars on this planet. If you want them alive, you’ll have to kill the strongest warrior in your group.”

He paled. “But-”

“No buts. Either an innocent race of cars get totally wiped out, or one person dies on your team.”

He reluctantly left, feeling super immoral for what he was about to do. Axle saw the look on Adam’s face.

“Umm…”

He took a Calzian woman to the side. Tears filled his eyes as he killed her. The woman was confused, but realized too late he would kill her. Adam fell to the ground and sobbed. Burying her body, he walked back, his eyes puffy and red. The captain smirked. “Did you kill the warrior?”

“Yes,” He whispered.

“Can I see proof?”

He had cut a piece of cloth from her uniform. It was stained with a purple liquid known as hijer.

## Chapter 10- Betrayal

Sage saw Adam, looking haunted. “What’s wrong?”

“I had to kill someone from our group to spare the lives of an innocent group of cars found… By our captain.”

“He’s not my captain…” Sage’s dark brown eyes switched to an evil look, “My captain is Captain Bera.”

Adam gasped. “That’s the enemy’s captain!”

“Exactly. He wanted me to spy on you guys, and then attack Tyuin.”

He paled. “But the civilians and refugees!”

“I don’t care about the civilians, or refugees. If you don’t leave me alone, you’ll die along with them.” He coldly shot two Lienia, angering five Sein warriors, including Axle, Carria, and another Sein fighter named Carsana.

Carsana yelled, “Leave the Lienia alone, traitor!” Her voice was enough to strike fear into the hearts of the strongest Sein warriors.

Sage whacked his gun to Adam’s temple! A mostly red liquid leaked out, with a bit of purple. The mother of a newborn cried, “No!”

Then, a shot rang out. The Cryan woman lay dying on the ground. Axle saw this. *He just hurt our ally!* He tried to kill Sage but failed when Sage tried to shoot him! Carsana and another Sein warrior were shot and Axle tried to kill Sage.

## Chapter 11- Hospitalized

More than 20 warriors were taken to the hospital due to getting shot. Sadly, 15 died. Adam was alive, as another warrior had kept him from being killed. However, she sadly died. One of the golden-daggered cars said to Wheeler, “C’mon. Your equal is hurt.”

He cocked his front.

“The driver?”

“Oh.” His flat voice betrayed no emotion.

The 2nd car with a dagger said, “Your equal’s room is 602.”

Wheeler nodded slightly and followed the companions. He hoped Adam wasn’t dead, because if he was, Wheeler would most likely end up dead. Two other cars went toward Wheeler.

“Hey. Our equals are wounded too…”

He turned to them. “Let’s go,” he said flatly.

They looked at each other. The female car led the three civilian cars to three hospital rooms, 602, 504, and 208. Sadly, the woman in room 208 died, much to the horror of her equal. The other two equals remained alive, a human and a Cryan. The car who lost his equal was scared. Any civilian car without an equal usually died. The other car decided to take her companion to her equal- If he survived.

## Chapter 12- Attack!

Sage shot 17 Lienia, much to the anger of the Sein warriors. They attacked him, but none could get to him. Axle growled, “I would LOVE to run him through with my sword right now.”

Sage pulled something out of his pocket. It was a mini bomb! He threw it toward an area with four buildings. “Now, you stupid fighters, that’s called a *bomb*. It blows up things and kills people!”

The words ‘kills people’ echoed in Axle’s mind. “Leave them alone!” he yelled. The bomb exploded. Two buildings collapsed and the other two’s frames were shaky. He was shocked by the noise. Sage threw a bomb at the Sein and Lienia, but the Sein had seen what it did and heard what bombs do and threw it east of them, where there were no people. Two Sein fighters were blasted and gasped. “These things are extremely dangerous!”

Axle nodded. “We can’t let him hurt Tyuin and the Lienia!”

Carsana looked around at the dead, dying, and fighting Calzians. “I feel like the trust was broken now.”

Axle nodded. “We can’t let all of them die, though. They’re trying to protect Tyuin and the Lienia.”

“Hey! Javier!” yelled Sage. “Oh wait, he’s dead. Right.”

“Wasn’t Javier Adam’s younger companion?” Whispered Axle to the car next to him.

“I think so…”

A human ‘Calzian’ tried to take out the Sein warriors but were stabbed by Carsana. “Leave them alone! You wonder why I don’t like all other races.”

## Chapter 13- Finally Dead

After a battle that resulted in more than 1,000 deaths, Carsana snuck up behind Sage and stabbed him. His body fell lifeless on the ground, Carsana’s sword driven through his chest. She looked around. One Sein warrior had died from taking the impact of a bomb and getting shot multiple times. 10 others were wounded, including Axle. He drove with a limp and got an ambulance for the still-living. 80% died, making the civilian population of Tyuin very sad. Another Sein fighter helped Axle. Carsana was concerned for the safety of the wounded Sein. She moved the Lienia out of the danger zone and into the town, same with the civilian I̷͕͌̚͜ọ̵͙̇͒r̴̡̠̈́i̶͇̙̅̏a̸̡̽̚n̵̲͉͝s̵̢̪̈́̽. She hoped they wouldn’t be killed, but the Sein gave them small weapons like daggers and pocketknives to defend themselves. Axle escorted the wounded Lienia into the town alongside civilian cars. The human, Cryan, and Hydo civilians cheered when they saw Axle. He gave them a weary smile. A Tarruin approached him. “Who are you?” The alien growled.

“I’m Axle. Why?” He had his tire on his sword. He tried to make his voice sound casual, but a dark undertone escaped.

“I know what that is. Get your slippery tire off it or the civilian cars suffer.”

Axle narrowed his green eyes. “They did nothing to you.”

“How would you know? You’ve been fighting your whole life.”

“Not my whole life. Since my 14th year of life.”

“Seems a bit young.”

“Not really. We typically start from there.”

## Chapter 14- The Tarruin’s Threat

The alien pointed at a car whose expression was set in a neutral look with angry eyes. “He killed someone I loved.”

“Why?”

“Seemingly out of spite.”

“Spite?” He looked at the silver car.

“Your group must die. You’re an aggressive race and should’ve been wiped out.”

“Not all of us are like this, ya know. We helped save your town!”

“Because of your allies.”

He looked down and said, “Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t. You don’t know our motives. Anyway…” He pulled out his sword, eyes narrowed. “Leave them alone. Or I’ll kill you.”

“You wouldn’t want to seem evil, would you? If you don’t back off, I’ll take them out.”

“For us, there is no black or white. Only gray.”

“Mmm, that would explain the immoral actions of your race.”

“Leave my race alone! I’ve used the sword before and will use it again!”

“I can’t tell,” He said sarcastically, “Your blade is covered in purple, blue, and red.”

Axle sighed a harsh long breath. “You are cruel. And that’s coming from someone with little emotions.” He gestured toward a car in her 12th year of life. “She is training to become a Sein warrior. If you kill her, she can’t.”

“Like I said, I don’t care. She will spill blood, hijer, and seyiner if she makes it to your age.” He aimed a gun at her. Axle looked at the weapon.

“Killing even *one* member of my race will get 5 cars with sharp stabby weapons toward you, including me. You might wanna think about your actions.”

## Chapter 15- More Violence!?

The Tarruin killed two civilian cars! Axle slashed the alien with his sword and the blue seyiner was on the edge of his sword. A cop noticed and yelled, “Hey!”

“Yes, officer?” Said Axle wearily.

“You can’t just slaughter civilians!”

He laughed harshly. “He shot two civilians of my race, what’d you expect? They’re dead now.” He growled.

The officer looked at the two dead cars. “Well… That act of violence was unneeded.” He cleared his throat. “But if I catch you slashing someone with the sword again, you’re getting that thing taken away.”

“Understandable, officer.” He sheathed the weapon, cleaning it in a lake when he was away from Tyuin. Axle looked around. He went into the forest- Then realized he made a mistake. A Buhin chased him! Unsheathing his weapon, more interested in NOT getting eaten than keeping the blade clean, he killed the Buhin. He sighed, breathing hard from the close encounter. Its mate decided it would also chase Axle. “Ahh, Kilian!” He swore, speeding away and killing that Buhin. He cleaned the blade yet again, looking annoyed, hoping its young didn’t attack him as well.

## Chapter 16- Heading Back

Axle’s eyes were set in an annoyed expression. He was nearly struck by lightning. On a clear day, he knew it was Kilian. “Sorry,” he said, after recovering from the shock of nearly dying by lightning. A smaller Buhin chased him and Axle killed it, as he didn’t want to be eaten or anyone else for that matter. Two young Hydos said, “Hi!!!”

Axle looked at the small beings, the young of a Hydo somewhere in this town. He didn’t know much about the alien/human hybrids, but he did know that the Hydos called their young ‘younglings’. The younglings followed him. “Our mommy is very happy you’re here.”

Axle nodded nonchalantly. He didn’t mind the younglings’ chatter, but if he was in a dangerous situation and accidentally killed the younglings, bad things would happen. He would end up putting himself and his race at risk. Looking at two civilian cars, he waved to the younglings. The younglings ran back to their home. One was purple and the other was a lighter shade. They had the gray eyes of a human.

## Chapter 17- What’s Next?

Deep in a forest with no Buhins, a light-colored car glared at his daughter, who failed to get the target. “This is the 60th time you missed- Out of 100 attempts! You can’t keep missing!”

The younger car at 6 years old in the years of the planet (she would be 8 on Earth) said, “*Reoid,* I’m trying!”

This race was the *Qaius*- A forgotten and endangered race of cars who were assassins. They did not speak English. Now, we’re headed to the office of the Calzian army.

“Ugh, stupid cars. Now, Tyuin will suffer!” He laughed evilly. The Geterin looked at the town, seeing two cars patrolling/looking around the place. Several other cars, the rest civilians, were looking at the Lienian newcomers. He came out of his office, hiding, and shot 10 civilian cars. None of them died, as one bullet wouldn’t kill the Iorians. The fighters and the shot civilians, along with dozens of others who heard the bullets, tried to see where they came from. The fighters had their weapons unsheathed. A civilian went to his garage so he didn’t get shot again. The fighters and police protected civilians.

## Authors’ Notes

Sisi here! Yes, I finished this in a matter of 10 days. Somehow. I only missed a day! Yay! Anyways, how was it? Any suggestions? Are you excited for *The White, the Gray, and the Black*? There will be two spinoffs, *Stories of the Strong* and *Children's Adventures With the Iorians*. *SotS* is the backstories of the characters and *CAWtI* is a child-safe story in the series, as the rest of it is aimed at older audiences.