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conditions were slowly entering the plane and
digging deep into his body, and he gasped at the temperatures
recorded there and at the fact they were at such a height, which
increased it! Normally he did not mind the winter but he liked to
get use to low temperatures, and he had not been anywhere as cold
before!
    So when the
plane door was opened for them to parachute and the winds hit them
he shuddered and put his helmet over his head!
    He
automatically dived out with the others gritting his teeth!
    He started
getting his body use to it, and could still hardly believe the
location below and that he would be trapped there without help if
anything happened! There was nothing for miles going into the flat
white horizon! They had not even seen anything below since they
passed the last ship over the sea.
    He realized
that they had made a mistake! They had been too keen to enter the
mission and they had dropped down a greater distance away from the
ice station than they should have! And he could barely even see it
and only recognized it from the secret intelligence photos of the
highly confidential underground base.
    The fact that
he had been a soldier and his military record and his keenest,
fitness, and record of successful spy missions for the intelligence
agency were the main reasons for him being chosen for the mission
and to infiltrate the soldiers to enter the ice station.
    They had given
him little and he knew they had little to give! Basically they had
little of what was happening and he was to get information!
    He discovered
little in what he had been told and really only knew that there
were deaths occurring all over the ice station, and most had been
killed by military weapons, which was why the soldiers were sent in
to stop, and he was put there by intelligence agencies to find out
more on.
    Nothing added
up! Who wanted to kill anyone at such a place? It was basically a
military and scientist ice station and he could only think that
another country was behind it! Yet who had done it and why had they
been done it? There were no known cases like it on record, which
they or he could find, and he had also unsuccessfully searched for
comparisons!
    Who could
profit from it? They clearly would replace the people killed, and
what good would it do for them! There had to be far more behind it!
Surely other countries would not have any reasons or be able to
profit from it with it being there.
    It was there to
cover that region of the world if needed.
    Someone that he
knew had been sure that they had discovered something and that the
military and scientists there that knew about it were being killed,
and if that was true he believed that he might be able to find
something or someone with something.
    He gazed over
at the underground ice station gleaming with sunbeams and wondered
what the hell was there! The case was important and something had
to have occurred!
    He recalled the
immense size of it below the ground as he watched the others let
out their parachutes, and he copied them and was left staggered
when his entire parachute shot straight upwards, and flew away into
the distance!
    He gasped and
examined the straps and saw that they had been deliberately
cut!
    He instantly
dived towards the only person directly below him, where he could
properly reach, and realized that the speed that he was traveling
at by diving might be too fast to do anything, and that he would
have only one chance and less than a second to grab hold of the
other parachutist to save his life!
    As he shot down
he saw the plane vanish beneath the horizon and grasped the full
dangers and loneliness of the Antarctic, and again realized the
dangers!
    He made himself
move over towards the parachutist below and swiftly and powerfully
grabbed his waist, and realized he could not hold on and swiftly
grabbed a strap from him and tied it to the other soldier’s
parachute straps.
    Close to the
ground he rested and considered his chances of survival and gasped!
Someone