Chapter 2
GENESIS

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Snafu finds himself in an unexpected predicament, he has crashed into some building. Now this situation would usually be a normal day in the office as just another day of CIA shenanigans, but the problem is, he was literally driving on a clear road just seconds before.

“What the- what the fuck happened?!”

Snafu quickly gets out of the destroyed vehicle, getting his bag off and taking a good view of the outside, and it did not help his situation.

He saw smoke and fires everywhere, broken buildings and ruined roads, but that wasn't the worst part, a cacophony of terrible sounds echoed throughout the city. His ears picked up distant screams, screams of both anger and suffering, but there was more, he heard chanting, the words “reunion” repeated over and over in the distance, making it seem like there was a rally going on. He checks his phone and other communication devices he had, trying to connect with anyone or anything but all attempts failed.

A single phrase rang through his mind, a very familiar phrase that is very close to him, now and  back when he was part of the Corps.

“Situation Normal: All Fucked Up.” 

Snafu quickly unpacks his bag and quickly equips a modified suppressed MP5 complete with a holographic sight and holsters a SIG P226 in his belt as a sidearm.

Walking the streets of the unknown city was thrilling for Snafu, it was both terrifying and exciting as this is something he could have never predicted. Maneuvering in the unknown is something he was trained and experienced at, his specialty so to speak,
“If this turns out to be the effect of a drug or a new mind manipulation device, I swear to God I'll fucking lose it.” 

He sighs, it was no use thinking how he got here, first he needs to know where he is. Snafu enters a house near the place where he crashed, he first cleared out the rooms of the house before investigating deeper. 

““Man, where the fuck am I?””  

He searches the house, opening desks and drawers.
““Tch, looks like these guys cleared almost everything before leaving.”” 

After finding almost nothing, he searches the only place he hasn't checked yet. Snafu opens the lid to a trash can, the smell almost makes him recoil in disgust. Blasting profanities at the trashcan while searching it, he finally finds a crumpled up piece of newspaper.

“Shit, here we go, finally.”
He un-crumples the newspaper to see its contents.
“The hell? What kind of fucked up Russian is this?”
As an agent, he knew multiple languages, Russian being one of them, still this has to be the most weirdly worded, accented and grammared version he saw of the language. He flipped through multiple pages, looking for actual useful information, eventually finding what he needed.

Today is another day to show your dedication and loyalty! Two days ago more Reunion forces were spotted amassing at the slum sides of Chernobog!  Our great agents and Intelligence informs us that they plan on an uprising in the city! They plan to hurt, kill and destroy our culture! As comrades in arms, we should not let them take over our proud city! Join the Ursus Army and show those filthy infected parasites what they deserve!
Glory to Ursus! 

Snafu was beyond confused,
“What the fuck is an Ursus?”
He quickly scans the page, getting more and more uneasy, he flips to the next, revealing something that would make even the most jaded agents faint in shock. There were pictures of people, animal people.
“What kinda fashion-, wait.”
Snafu flips more pages, more pictures of the same animal people, more mentions of Ursus, Chernobog and Reunion, he was losing it, also the year written in the newspaper was 1096 which did not help at all.

"What the fuck, What the fuck.”
He mutters to himself in panic.

He threw the newspaper to the ground, convincing himself he needed more information to confirm the things he just saw, he exits the house and goes searching another, this time he saw a portrait in the wall of another animal person, the same newspaper, unfamiliar brands of products, new words and more and more evidence that the place he was at was definitely not anywhere in the states, was he even at Earth?

The agent starts laughing to himself, this was just ridiculous.
““How did I even end up here?””
Snafu starts thinking and recollecting what happened before.
“Right, I was driving to 555, then the light, before that-oh, fucking StarGate, yeah! Fucking StarGate!”
A sudden understanding of why this all happened calmed him down a bit, of course this was still a precarious situation but at least now there's an explanation.

““Looks like some buffoon in the 555 pressed the wrong button and got us all sent to hell huh? I shouldn't be the only one here, I should start-””
A sudden explosion in the distance broke his thoughts.
““Should at least get out of here first!””

Snafu made his way through numerous empty houses and buildings, cautiously hiding himself in the shadows when he stalked the streets. He observed and listened all that he could, from what he gathered earlier from the newspapers, he was in some kind of russia-like country, complete with the propaganda. The city he is in right now was suffering an uprising by a group called the Reunion. The one thing he kept seeing pop out which he didn't quite understand was the numerous mention of the word infected.

““Things just don't make sense here, how did a city as developed as this get sent to shit? A extremist group can't just get enough supplies, manpower, guns and ammunition to take over a entire developed city.””

Snafu pondered carefully, considering every option or reason on how this all came to be, maybe they were backed by another county? Or did an agency similar to the CIA cause all this? After all, the CIA is an expert when it comes to all things related to coups. Another explosion echoed through the city, making Snafu notice something he almost missed.
““Where are the gunshots? There seems to be explosions every single minute but haven't heard a single damn bullet whizz through.””

The agent, walking through the destroyed city of Chernobog, eventually sets his sights on a peculiar looking door placed on a wall, rubble and broken concrete were all over the area near the door, indicating that something was here before, hiding the door, but eventually got exposed by the destruction of the uprising. Curious, he goes near it, weapon up, finger on the trigger, he opens the door. 

What greeted him was a large empty hallway, he turned on the flashlight and laser in his submachine gun. Keeping all thoughts and profanities in his mind, he walks dead silent as almost no sound is made yet his walking pace was swift as a fox. He discovers another door at the end of the hallway, pushing it open, unnatural light comes in from the ceiling, he enters the room turning off his flashlight.
““What did I just stumble into?””

A spacious square room, with pillars and lights at the ceiling. Snafu wonders why they're still turned on, but the most striking object was definitely what was in the middle. “Is that a coffin? What kinda bullshit egyptian pharaoh’s tomb did I just walk into?”
He mutters to himself.
He looks up at the structure above the coffin or sarcophagus whatever that was and sees weird metallic? constructions that seemed alien even to classified CIA tech. 

“Hell, even the arms race didn't produce something this unusual.” 
He slowly walks towards the center of the room, checking all possible dangers, stepping up the circle platform the sarcophagus coffin was in, he makes his way to the rectangular box.

In this moment only one thought stayed in Snafu’s mind, to open or not to open? 

He immediately pushed the lid covering the sarcophagus off, his reasoning? His guts told him so. A loud scraping noise echoed throughout the room as the slab covering the sarcophagus moved to open. Dust and dirt made him step back for a bit but once it settled down he decided to  look inside the coffin.
““Here's hoping I won't get cursed”” 
he thought to himself.

His eyes laid upon a long, white haired woman sleeping, her round face gave her a touch of youthfulness, her skin was pale like a vampire yet her soft blossom like cheeks still looked full of vitality, the word cute would be an understatement to describe her. She was wearing some sort of thin white shirt and pants like some sort of hospital patient, or is she an insane asylum detainee?

“Holy fucking shit.”
The woman seemed to wake up from his voice, opening her eyes slightly.

“Mmmn- h-huh?”

““Fuck.””

He accidentally woken up the woman, what a total blunder, how is he gonna explain himself? Very embarrassing, first of all he doesn't know who she is, second of all he doesn't know a single thing about this world. ““I can't use or make a new identity or persona on the spot, should I shoot her or put her back to sleep?!”” He screamed in his thoughts.

“M-mister? Uhm, w-where am I?”

“You don't have any idea where you are right now?”

“N-no, I-, I don't, I can't remember anything.”

“What's your name?”

“My name? Ah, wait, let me try to recall.”

The woman slowly gets up, no longer lying down but sitting at the sarcophagus.

“Sorry, mister but I can't, I just can't remember.”

A small sigh of relief came to Snafu,
““At least she's as clueless as my ass.””
Snafu quickly decides that this woman will be important to surviving in this world after all, someone who was trapped in some kind of tomb got to be important somehow right? He has to make a good impression, befriend her immediately and get to know her personality and secrets, she is suspicious, but he didn't think she was lying. If she was, her tone, voice and facial expression would have been good enough to fool an agent trained in recognizing them.

“Amnesia huh? Dont worry, I'm sure your memories will come back soon.” 

A sudden explosion, a lot closer than the other ones struck and caused the ground to rumble. 

“Ah, it's a fucking catastrophe outside, let's get somewhere more calm, you can walk right?” 

“A catastrophe?”
She responded immediately.

Snafu looked at her strangely, the word catastrophe seemed to fire up something in her neurons but the complicated expression plastered on her face seems to suggest that even though that meant something to her, she can't recall why.
“Some folks decided it'll be good fun to break down the local government, uprising shit.”

“O-oh, I see.”

Snafu silently observed the girl's response and helped her stand up from the coffin thing.
Once she did, he took the girl's hand leading her away from the sarcophagus.

“Umm, mister?”

“Whats up?”

“Oh, uh, I'm just wondering what I should call you?” 

“You can call me uhh, Snafu, yeah, Snafu.”

Snafu thought about fabricating a fake name, but since he did not know a thing about this world's naming conventions, he decided against it, from the newspapers he read earlier he could've made a fake russian-like name, the problem was he was missing the accent and the looks of a russian, not to mention the fact he didn't have bear ears and if the word "Snafu" means something weird here, he'll just chalk it up to a joke.

Speaking of bear ears, he heard heavy running in the direction of the hallway he came from. He turned to the girl.
“Stay at my back, wouldn't want a bullet to hit you now.” 

The girl follows his instructions as he goes closer to the door he came from. He pushed the door and here comes two armored men, wearing white masks, one has a sword and the other a crossbow.

“Another! Shoot him!”

“Aye! Die you bastard!”

The man with the crossbow immediately fired at Snafu's direction.

Snafu dodged the arrow,
“What the fuck?”
Then immediately retaliated by express delivering bullets to both their hearts and skulls, both dropping dead spilling their blood at the floor.
“Over here!”
A voice from the distance shouted.

Snafu immediately holds an angle to the hallway, with only a little bit of himself out of cover. A group of white masks came, all equipped with swords or other makeshift weaponry running through the gray hallway, they all dropped after Snafu pulled the trigger, as another group came, another spray of bullets came their way. Snafu was mercilessly dispatching each and every single one without wasting a single bullet, one in the head, one in the chest. What bugged him about this was they all came with swords and crossbows, not a single firearm. 

“I cant see him!”
“The bastard's got a powerful gun! Be careful!” He heard the voices say.
“After you run out of arts energy, we'll forcefully break your halo!” 
“All Chernobogians like you will die!”

the voices echoed.

“Girl! Do you have any fucking idea what in devil’s name are they yapping about?” 

“Ah, not a clue, mister”

“That’s just Great!”
Snafu said as he took down another charging group.

After the hallway had turned into a bloodbath, littered with corpses and organs, he still held the angle, then he heard the white masks panicking from their shouting, outside the building.

“Rhodes Island! I repeat, Rhodes Island operators are near us!”
“So what? We have a bigger number, let's overwhelm them!”
“Reunion! Reunion! Reunion!”

The voices chanted.

“What a shitshow.”
Snafu sighed, not moving a inch from his position but always keeping eye at the hallway and the girl near him, though she looked very weak and is a amnesiac, she did woke up from a fucking sarcophagus in some hidden part of the city, to put it simply, she's simply too suspicious even if he did believe what she said earlier.

The white masks, which he now identifies as the Reunion that he heard so much about in the newspaper, had stopped coming for him ever since they said they were near Rhodes Island operators, there were the occasional screams of suffering and profanity but after that it went silent. Snafu took this as an opportunity to look around the room, looking for possible alternative exits and spots people could go in or out.

“Hey girl, you don't seem even a bit shaken by all the killing huh? do you have any idea on who these KKK lookin’ freaks are?”

“No I don't, and they attacked you first without even starting a conversation right?”

“That, they sure did.”

“Then, they just simply faced the consequences of their actions.”

The girl's sentence made Snafu freeze for a moment, just a tiny moment. “Hahaha, that's a good one.”
"Uhh T-thanks? But what did you mean by KKK?"
Snafu responded by turning to look at her again but only making a simple motion to zip it.

Snafu was about to keep searching until he heard another voice coming from the hallway, this time however, instead of a man's voice filled with spite and anger, it was a young girl's.

“Hey! Over here! I think I found it!”

Snafu once again took an angle, dropped prone and aimed his gun at the hallway. A massive bearded man with shades and a beard appeared not too long after, he had a shield up and a weird looking, hammer?

Nevermind that gimmicky looking weapon, his shield could actually prove as a threat to Snafu, he quickly changes position to a more discreet and hidden location covered by the shadows, he pulls the girl to hide in one of the dark corners, luckily the man didn't seem to notice him, seemingly distracted by the corpses of the Reunion forces, which he was to blame.

“Ace! What's the hold up- oh.”

A woman with purple hair, large dog ears on the top of her head and is holding a whip, comes after Ace.

“Someone has already been here!” She says out loud.

“Where's the Sarcophagus! Is the doctor still there!?” A young girl, with brown hair and blue eyes with donkey ears came next, or were they rabbit ears? Snafu didn't care, all he cared about was making sure he stays alive, no matter how strange the situation was.

The brown haired donkey-rabbit girl starts running to the sarcophagus, ignoring the corpses of reunion members laying disgracefully at the floors of the hallway.

“Amiya, wait!” Ace shouted, but Amiya ignored him, immediately rushing and going near the opened sarcophagus, Ace dropped his guard, trying to follow Amiya.

“Please, Doctor please be in here!”

Snafu heard her say and began to analyze the situation.

From what he gathered, this is probably the Rhodes Island that killed the remaining white masks outside the building, they are looking for someone called the Doctor, and they came looking for the sarcophagus to find her?
He took a quick glance at the white haired girl and considers his options, he could shoot and kill the Rhodes Island operator now, the man with the shield was now vulnerable trying to catch up with Amiya and he doesn't think the ol’ whip girl back there would pose as much of a threat, but he shakes his head instead, reading the facial expressions of the people he faced, he decides choosing another option, Snafu pulls the white haired girl near him, aims his gun forward and announces his presence.

“Freeze! Stop moving!”

Amiya froze, just right before getting a glimpse inside the sarcophagus, turning her head to the direction of the voice, Ace follows and immediately readies his shield.

Amiya first sees the girl,
“Is that? Doctor you're here!” Amiya shouted with happiness, the happiness slowly morphing to anger as she stared at the man near her.

“You! Who are you?!”

“That's supposed to be my question, also, hands in the fucking air or I'll shoot!”

Amiya wanted to protest but then saw the gun pointed at her, Ace frowned, “Doberman! Get over here!” He shouted to his side, the purple haired dog-eared woman, Doberman follows and stares daggers at Snafu.

“Release the doctor now! You scumbag or I'll kill you!” Doberman yelled.

“Kill me? Woah there we dont need to go that far! I'm saying we don't need to hurt each other here!” Snafu said, gun now pointed at her.

“Hey, y'know what? You two seem to know each other, how about I'll ask her.”

Snafu turns his attention to the girl, who they referred to as Doctor.
“Hey, you know who these are?”
The white haired girl merely shakes her head.

“D-Doctor?! You don't remember me? No that's-” Amiya turns her gaze to Snafu, “What did you do to her!”

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(Arknights is not owned by me)
A/N
The next chapter would probably be about the cia base. Also female doctor cause I haven't seen enough and lastly I'm no lore master so Arknights lore would not be 100% accurate, same with earth.