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Wenn
Since: Apr, 2012
6th Jul, 2012 10:50:01 PM
Is this
the short story you were looking for?
Everything is identical, except for the last part you described, in which the dog does send the commanding officer a death threat, he just doesn't actually sneak into his base to do it.
Edited by Wenn Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of the war drums.
There's a short story I heard about second hand that no one can remember the title of. The main character was a dog who was a lieutenant in the US army and part of a project for uplifting dogs and pairing them with a human partner psychically.
The dog was Loyal as hell, and a fairly awesome fighter. The two get sent over into what may have been the gulf war, and the human partner dies... leaving the dog to defend some refugees. The dog spends the next 2 years providing and caring for the people, training them as a small armed force so that they could defend themselves (one of the refugees was a kid with budding psychic powers). One day US military come across and mistaking them for insurgents, kill one of the dog's refugees... Which prompts him to stealth his way into their base, and leave a warning on their console. A direct death threat to the commanding officer of the entire force, and a little history of just what he's up against.