Asim Iqbal 10CR
Original writing
On the run
On a reconnaissance flight over Eastern Europe, naval rookie pilot Chris Burnett and his partner, Stackhouse, thought it was a good idea to go off course and take pictures of the scenery. This was the worst decision made by these two young marines because they entered forbidden territory. They discovered a secret Serbian army site in Bosnia and took pictures because they thought they would be heroes if they took the photos back to base. It wasn’t to be as soon as they knew it their jet was under fire they had been spotted by the Serbs their craft was shot down within two minutes. They ejected from the exploding plane and soon found themselves on ground level in terrain they hadn’t trained to be in and they were separated Burnett went looking for his partner but he had broken his leg and radio on landing so there was no way of communication between the two. They knew they were going to have company soon so they had to hurry and find each other but being a rookie Stackhouse was screaming for help.
The Serbs got to him before Burnett. Their leader was a malicious man, Stackhouse had followed the noise and just arrived at the scene but he was sensible and hid in a bush. The Serbs thought there was only soldier so they tortured Stackhouse for a bit and then shot him in the face several times splattering his skull and brain on the floor. Being a rookie Burnett couldn’t handle the scenes that he had seen bursting in to a vigorous scream this triggered the Serbs. They knew there was another soldier and he had witnessed the murder their leader gave the orders “get him I want him dead or alive!” armed with only a hand gun the only option for Burnett was to run for his life, he some how managed to escape. The Serbs had highly trained soldiers which could track Burnett down in a number of hours so the only sensible thing he could do was to carry on running, he tried to contact the naval base but he was in the middle of a mountain range so there was no reception he had to climb to the top of a mountain. It wasn’t that high but if he did climb it he would probably have got seen but this was a risk he was willing to take because if he didn’t he would be stranded in a vacant field were there was no animals or food he could eat so he would have starved to death. He sneaked to the top without getting spotted. The call back to base had been successful his leading officer, knew a man was down and one was on the run. The lead to the leaders in dispute about if they should go to save their boy and bring him back. Whilst this was going on a sniper had spotted Burnett on top of the mountain resting against a tree treating a wound he received whilst ejecting form the jet. A shot was fired just wide of its target the bullet had skimmed past Burnett’s cheek and blew a chunk out of the tree, Burnett had quick enough reactions to take cover and avoid the second shot. He ran through about acres and acres of land until he saw a source of food, there was a rabbit in the distance with a very good shot Burnett wounded the animal time was against him so he hurried towards the rabbit and put it in his backpack for later. The Serbian troops were gaining ground by the second.
