It is the year 2056, 5 and a half years after world war 3, the doomsday clock was right on time. Nuclear winter was at its peak, you live underground, 50 meters underground under an abandoned, raided bar. There are bunkers everywhere, survivors everywhere and creatures as well. There is no one except raiders on the surface, top tier gear with tactics some navy seals couldn't even perform. With vehicles and bullets that can take out a Razowolt (wolf the size of a bear, with scales that cannot be bitten through or be shot through, only specialized bullets that raiders have, which they raided from government factories, can shoot through these type of beasts), they are the most feared group of survivors. They have everything to take out a bunker, they have taken out some elites and the most feared group, X500, has just assassinated another president and taken control of the biggest bomb factory in the entire Europe. So we know about raiders, but there is another group, what raiders call, the normies (you, normies live underground and live in bunkers, just living or as they call it "stock up for raids"). The normies live in bunkers ranging in sizes. You live in one of the most protected and high security bunkers, buttttt for a reason, raiders and mutated creatures, like bears and deers that became aggressive. Normies have roles/jobs, hunters, they go out and hunt animals that are edible, like frogs that have a "V" pattern, they are safe and most people live off of them, hunters also collect resources and explore areas that haven't been explored and are responsible for getting food, resources, water, scraps, plants, gear and anything that can support a bunker in anyway, each group has 6 hours outside then they come back for resting and let the next group outside, if one group doesn't come back, the ART role searches for them, the Armed Response Team has gear that raiders have, they are basically raiders but underground, raiders go for them and leave the rest of the gear, like hunting gear and guard gear. Guards, they go on patrol throughout the bunker, always, there is everywhere a guard, and always. Guards, get 7 hour shifts everyday, there are day and night shifts, and they rotate between areas. Then there are doctors, cooks, farmers, mechanics, the usual.
Your room alarm goes off, the alarm for an ART squad has gone off, you are an ART, and one of the highest ranks. It is 03:56 AM. Within the next 5 minutes you and your squad are in room ART-01-D, your team's discussion room. The squad captain has 60 seconds to say what you guys are dealing with, the end goal, what is expected from you guys and what the plan is.
You have seen almost everything, deaths, monsters, raiders, craters, organs, basically everything. The squad captain took 1 minute and 30 seconds to explain everything. He broke a rule made for saving as much time as possible, and for a reason.
Every person that goes out there has a tracker on them, so that an ART squad can quickly retrieve their bodies and give their bodies to a researcher or doctor to see what lives out there and how to improve gear and armor.
Squad captain; " You fuckers know this shit, HT02 (Hunter Team #2, the second best hunting team in the bunker, responsible for more than 42% of the bunkers' plants and resources) came back, but only their bodies.. their naked bodies." That was enough for you and basically half of the squad to get goosebumps. You listen carefully to the captain, you absorb the information, then process the sentence at the start. Raiders don't take hunting gear, monsters don't leave an entire squad untouched. This has never happened. The squad captain says one last thing; " And don't fuck with anything, cause then they fuck with you." That is like someone saying "break a leg" before going to do a performance on a stage. You walk out of the room, and in a formation you and the squad jog to the nearest exit.
Just before you and the squad exit, the guards patrolling that exit say that the exit is out of limits for 15 minutes, due to classified reasons. Squad Captain impatiently; "For fuck sake, let us out we can handle it!" The guard doesn't even flinch, but a second guard says in a cold voice; "Since you guys are in a hurry-". Squad Captain; " Thank you, look at your friend here! He knows why we are here." The second guard continues speaking in the same voice; " I will tell you that exit 4 is available." Exit 4 is a 10 minute sprint. Second Guard; " The classified reason isn't classified, he is just tired, and doesn't want to explain. But I don't mind, the thermal camera caught a human figure peeking from behind a tree." Squad captain; "Uhh, okay? I can just blast his ass, plus why the fuck didn't we capture the thing bringing the bodies here??" First Guard; "It did." You freeze, the entire squad freezes, the captain doesn't say a word, you can't see his facial expression due to the gas mask covering his face, but you know it is shock and horror. Squad captain in confused and stuttering voice; " What do you mean... it did? Why do you know but we don't?" Second Guard; " Because we saw the thing dragging body for body to the front of the exit vault and then go behind a tree." The captain says in a relieved but insulting voice; " Okay so it is a human type of thing, we know it brought the bodies here and you fuckers saw the live footage and decided to gate keep one of the most crucial pieces of information and close the exit for 15 minutes." First Guard; " If you say it like that you make us seem like the bad guys but yes I guess." This made the captain furious, the squad stood there in silence watching our captain, who is suppose to represent us, crashout in front of 2 guards and on security footage. After the captain cooled down a voice from the live footage said; " I can hear you by the way." Everyone looks at the monitor, which shows thermal live footage of the exit, a couple blue shapes, which is likely the bodies infront of the vault door but a red-orange figure was in the left upper corner of the screen. The figure moves toward the middle of the screen, then takes a blue object and does something on a hunters body and leaves off in the woods. Guard 2; " What the fuc- call Central Control and tell them check all thermals at exit 4 and tell them to cancel search till 10:00 AM" Squad Captain; " Did you just cancel ou-" The second guard interrupts; " Yes."
Since guards can control missions and are a higher rank than ARTs the squad went back to our room and we waited for morning to arrive.
The next morning the thermal cameras pick up nothing, for a solid 2 hours there is nothing but 5 lifeless bodies on the monitor but then something exits the vault, it is our squad.
Squad Captain; "Looks like we got ourselves a manhunt, or we can just forget about it which we will do. But this will be an interesting story to tell, what do you guys think?"
On the ground there is 5 naked bodies, the far right one has a scar on his chest, a scar that spells "Silencer" and on the far left a scar that spells "I can hear you by the way, I always can."