The taxi stopped
in front of me and I matched up the plate registration number with the given
one. I sat on the cushion of the taxi and told him, “Ipoh, please?”
The taxi driver
turned his back and answered, “Ok.” I managed to look at his name tag and it
was written Sudin. His name evoked me of my ex-schoolmate but I just put it
aside. It was Saturday so my routine for every Saturday was car spotting but I didn’t
have a car. I meant I shared a car with my sister so basically I didn’t own a
car. Back to the ride, usually I would only call this taxi company for their
transport service and usually they would send Syed to fetch me up but on that
day, Sudin came. I was a little bit awkward because usually I would have a chat
with Syed but not for that day.
I took out my
Sony Alpha and cleaned the lens, as it was a tedious ride. Then, I tried to
take a few photos of the city. When I was focusing on Ipoh Tower, I saw
something huge flying down to it. I zoomed at it and saw a ship like alien
spaceship or something like that. I was about to tell Sudin to drive me to Ipoh
Tower but out of blue, a bomb dropped just 3 cars in front of us. Sudin pulled
over the taxi and turned right into a small street. Then, I said, “That’s what
I meant.” Sudin yelled, “We better get out of this city or we will lose our
head.”
Sudin drove at
180 km/h which I considered as standard speed but whatever it was, he was
indeed a professional taxi driver. Back to chaos, Sudin was driving the taxi
and suddenly a missile shot us at the back of the taxi. Boom! The taxi was
flipped and both of us were trapped in the taxi. Fortunately, Sudin managed to
escape and rescue me as I could feel I was being grilled at that moment due to
the fuel leakage in the fuel tank. I was about to run across the road but Sudin
yelled my name and shouted, “Wait!” fiercely. At that moment, I was so curious
on how he knew my name and suddenly my mind replayed my childhood memories and
I just realised that he was my old friend. We were friends when we got into
Royal Military School. It came like a flash flood, I remembered every silly and
mischievous thing we had done. I ran back to Sudin and he took out a HK416
rifle from the boot of the taxi and gave it to me. He asked, “You still
remember how to shoot?”
Honestly, I left
military for a decade so I didn’t remember how to shoot professionally. I
managed to hug him for a while but his eyes were on the gun. Then, he said, “Dude,
just pull the safety pin and pull the trigger just like that.” Those bullets
pierced through building wall.
We were running
away from something that we had no idea what it was but we knew that ‘something’
wanted to shoot us. At that moment, I saw the picturesque scenery of Ipoh had transformed
to a battlefield. Anyway, I felt like I was playing the game ‘Battlefield’ but
much more reality. Back to survival plan, we planned to run to the Ipoh City
Council building for shelter and protection. The issue was how we wanted to get
there with 5kg gun in our hand with Ipoh City Council was located 10 km away
from us. We cracked our head to find a way to get there but just the right
time, I remembered that I left my La Ferrari in one of the hotels nearby as I
was supremely unconscious that night.
I told Sudin the
plan and we ran to the hotel. While on our way, we faced aliens with 5 heads
and 25 eyes, aliens with no eyes and others. I couldn’t pull the trigger at the
first place but still I pulled it for my survival. Sudin was doing great during
the shooting scene, he killed 36 aliens with one magazine but I killed only 2
with one magazine. I got to admit it that Sudin was far away better than me in
shooting even when we were in the military. Anyway, I killed 16 aliens with a
dive knife that I got from him stabbing their hearts, cut off their head and
others.
Finally, we
reached at the hotel and we got into my car. Both of us took a gasp for relief
but our mission had not over yet. Next, our final destination would be Ipoh
City Council building. I was the one on the wheel as I had trust issue to hand
over my 6.8 million dollars car to someone else. The worst and sad moment in my
life was when I had to crash into these aliens and the steel gate. Ah! I
scratched that 1 million dollar paint but what I could do was just driving into
the building compound. As Sudin and I predicted the citizens gathered there and
it was such a huge chaos as no one was in charge of them. Again, Sudin and I
were the ‘chief’ and ordered them to do this and that.
We managed to
build a new colony and took over the city back within a week. We got the help
and support from local and foreign military. Back to Sudin, we were friends
since we were 5 but we split up after we graduated from Royal Military College.
I took mechanical engineering and worked for Nissan, while he went to the
National Military Academy. I felt happy and delighted when we met even though
in a battlefield. We kept in touch since that day onwards until now.
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