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would have realized how trained they were! Yet could they
be trying to scare them away? Yet that was absurd also, as they
would have to go there! There was no where else out there to go
to!
    The mission
now seemed flawed! Why had they not brought far more soldiers and
more powerful weapons? The soldiers were shooting away unable to
hit anything and their hidden enemy was ignoring it!
    Yet they had
put together a good team of everyone needed to carry out the
mission at the ice station, and if they had landed next to it as
planned nothing would have gone wrong! He wondered if it had been
the captain of the plane who had landed them there or if it had
been a mistake as it had looked at the time?
    The adventure
brought him back to life after such a long length of inactivity and
lack of anything of interest. At times he still could not believe
that there was anything out in such a desolate region, and that
anything worthwhile existed there!
    It was winter
and deep snow shrouded everything around them, and he realized
again that they would have to camp there. And having not slept
outdoors in winter he gasped at sleeping in such thick cold snow,
and considered if they would find his remains there one day, and
wonder why they had done it. There had been accounts in history of
vast drops in temperature and entire groups of soldiers and others
being found frozen solid and dead! What if temperatures hit far
lower than had been recorded, with there being no recorded proof or
witnesses left alive!
    The snow
landscape was untouched by humans everywhere, and at times empty
and hollow with no sound, and had a deep haunting silence that he
had only heard before in thick winter snow landscapes. It reminded
him of another world! An empty lost world absence of life with
faint mists surrounding regions.
    What was
shocking was how easily they had trapped them, and he was unsure if
they even knew how they could avoid any large amount of deaths. If
only they had taken a small landing airplane , and kept
it there, but they could not have traveled there with the amount of
soldiers and at that distance!
    There was
nothing to recognize anywhere, and he watched some of the men
attempt to use communication devices to the ice station, and when
they failed they tried to see if there was anything to pick up on
it!
    Another
problem was that they had experienced a long exhausting day and had
got more exhausted wading through the deep snow, and a peculiarity
he noticed was a distant hum, similar to a distant engine whirling,
out at an unknown place, and it started to drive him insane trying
to identify it.
    It was no
surprise that Commander Craven eventually made them blast them with
as many well aimed rounds to force some form of reaction, but they
seemed to ignore it, and he knew that they would have to hit them
with something or force them away!
    It was
incredible when thick snow piled down, and he knew that they could
use it as it was virtually impossible to see through in the dark,
and he realized he had a thermal weapon sight in his equipment and
he used it to see what he could find through the darkness and
blizzard! Yet they were too good at hiding!
    “ What are we going to do
...? ” one
of men finally spluttered, fighting for air, furious that they had
been put in a situation.
    Commander Craven stopped checking their
weapons and showed how annoyed he was at his reply and at the way
things were going, and walked towards him.
    “ We better agree to something
... ” he
shouted, giving glances about at things and realizing the mess of
his expedition, and decided not to continue.
    “ Where can we go? ” a soldier named Reeves
continued, who was near Weaver, and Weaver had become close to as
he was his most trusted person as he had been able to check him out
more than anyone else there, which he had done before the mission,
as he checked them all as much as possible to find out anything
that he should know, and he had checked for the people that