The Battle of Serenity Valley

Years earlier.

The war had gone on for too long.

Even though the Browncoats were losing numbers, they were a tenacious bunch and the Alliance continued to suffer casualty after casualty. They just couldn’t break the opposition’s hold on the valley. And so the Special Ops Unit was brought in to “break the Browncoats’ back”

Among the unit were two men that would soon find themselves in another battle on Boros. Safe and Jack.

When their unit landed, there was just one pocket of resistance left, but they were proving themselves to be a formidable one. Still, there was hope. The troop their unit had been assigned to had just captured an insurgent, believed to be one of the Browncoats’ officers. And, as far as the unit’s CO was concerned, they’d been handed the key to winning the war. He would break the soldier, no matter what it took.

It seemed that over time, he’d taken a particular dislike to the Browncoats’ movement, more than was reasonable. He’d decided that he, and he alone, would question the prisoner. It was as if had something to prove.

It went beyond duty. It was personal. The other members of the unit didn’t respect their CO, but they respected each other. And so, when the CO’s intentions became apparent, they turned to the one they trusted most of all – Safe.

By the time Safe had reached his commanding officer, the prisoner had been beaten to within an inch of his life. Safe had got there just before his superior delivered the final blow.

“Get out of the way Captain,” the CO said, just as the rest of his unit arrived to see Safe standing between their CO and the beaten prisoner. “I asked that man a question and he refused to answer.” The C.O. hollered.

“Touch that man again and I guarantee it will be the last breath you draw.” Safe said.

Whilst a few of the men had already had questions concerning the Alliances motives in this war, they were trained not to question.

Safe, however, like Jack had grown to admire the Browncoats. And,