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A Shadow Within

by mark nycz

check by neil K

Chr.1 !RED ALERT! The day started off pretty normal. I mean everybody was acting normal. All the band “people” were in the band hallway, teachers talking, and then my friends and me were playing hanging out side as always. The bell rang and we all went to class. Every thing was fine for the rest of the day, until the end of fourth hour. As I walked in the hallway I herd vague rumors about secrete plans and uprisings. I thought it was just some video game or a joke. Who knew? I was sitting in class while some kid was giving a speech about some thing or an another. I got up and left to get drink. I took my time to get drink, because I really did not want to sit and listing to another speech. “I guess I might as well go to the restroom too.” I said to my self. As I walked past a janitor I herd his radio go nuts. It sounded like it was really important. I slowed down to listen in. “RED ALERT! RED ALRET!” the voice said. “ We have hostage situation!” “Room 210” With that I knew that my worst fear had come true. This was the revolt. I had but only one thing to do now. I sunk up behind the janitor and knocked him out, with a strike to the back of the head. I then dragged him into the storage room. Then I tied him to a poll then gagged his mouth. I took his radio and keys, just in case. I sneaked out of room and sunk around the corner to find the doors were being guarded. The guard had what look to be an AK-47, two Uzi’s, and a bunch of ammo. With those kinds of weapons I had no chance. So I went back to storage room to see if there was kind of weapon. There were no weapons, just mops and bottles. Just as I was about to leave it hit me, mops. I took off the mop and kept the handle. “Better then nothing” I thought. I approached the guard by sneaking up behind the lockers. I watch him for a minute. What was that on his side, a radio? “Roger, all clear” the guard said while switching his radio off and putting it on his belt. This is it, do or die. I hide up against the doorway. When he turned around I knock the gun up then stabbed him in the solar plexus. That knocked him down to the ground. I then got him in choke till he fell unconscious. I then dragged his body into the storage room, and snatch all his weapons. To my surprise he was more armed then I thought. He also had 1 hunting knife, 6 smoke/flash bombs, and Socom pistol with a laser. After I tied him up, I deiced that my next best chose would be to head to room 208. I got out of the storage room and head to the stairs. It to was block off with at least one guard. Ding “What?” It was the elevator. Some one was going out! I hide behind the hall doors till the person passed. It was another one them! “Crap! If he sees that the guard is gone there are going to think some thing is up.” The guard went up the stairs. “Close one” I thought to my self, out of breath. I then jumped in the elevator before it closed. I then hit the “3” button. While I was in the elevator I moved the ceiling tiles out of the way, and climbed out. I used the pipes above the hallway to get to the room. When I reached the room I could see that a few of the tiles had pretty big holes in them. I took a peak. I saw that there was one gunman in the room. He had all the people, teacher too, in the corner at gunpoint. I jumped into the ceiling tile and landed on the gunman knocking him out cold. “Is everybody fine?” I ask, hoping that no one was hurt. “Yeah, were all fine,” said the teacher, Mr. C. “Do you guys know what’s going on?” “All we know is that a group students have taken over and knock out all comminations to the out side.” “So why don’t you guy just out the windows?” “They got cars outside just in case one us tries.” “What else?” “They all are under the control of guy who uses the name “Scorpion”. I think his over in the main hallway.” “Here take this” “What, a walky-talky?” “I have two. Ones from a guard I took out. The others a janitor’s. I will be on channel 1.” “Wait!” “What?” “You need a code name, for they don’t know its you” “Call me ‘Snake’.” And with that I jumped back up into the ceiling. Chr.2 Snake Eyes It was rather clear what my next objective would be, to make contact with the outside. I decided that the best place would be to head to the locker room to find a phone. With me being in the 200 hallway I needed to get down stairs where the gym is. This hallway had only one way to get to the gym, and that was the stairs by the main office, which is most likely heavily, guarded. When I got to the stairs I was right, it was guarded. I knew it, there was no way around or is there? I headed to janitor closet that was next to the stairs. “Yes, rope!” I took the rope and tied one end to a small garden pick. *Before I left I dumped a bunch of chemical stuff in a bucket then lit it on fire, as a distraction. As soon as the guard smelled it he headed up to check it out. When he did I stated to repeal off the wall using the rope and pick. When I got down I soon realized that I had a small problem, security cameras! There had to be at least three to four from here to the locker room. Wait cameras have blind spots. I entered the room from an angle that the cameras could not see. I finally made it to locker room. “Now to find a phone,” I said as I ran to the office to get a tool to break off the locks. I went through about 6 lockers before I found one. “Nice phone” said a voice from behind me. I turned to see a huge man standing there with a wrench and chain in hand. “Why don’t you handed it over, like a nice little boy.” He said walking slowly towards me. “Get a life, jerk” I said looking backwards. Crap I’m trapped in a corner. “That’s right trapped like a rat”. With that he swung his chain at me. I jumped up into the corner, just missing the lighting fast chain. “Jumpy one are you?” he said right before he slashed his wrench at me. I jumped off the wall and dropped kicked him in the throat. He stumbled back choking. I then ran jumped and side-kicked him in the stomach. This knocked the wind out of him, and caused him to fall to the floor. I then jumped behind a bunch of lockers, with the wrench in hand. He got up, still having trouble breathing. “Come and fight! What are you a rat or man.” At that time I jumped up from behind him and nailed him in the back of the head with the wrench. “Neither, I’m a Snake.” I said as his lifeless body dropped to the floor. Chr.3 Search and Rescue “Hello???” “This is Officer Matt, who is this?” “This is little snake.” “What kind of joke is this?” “This not a joke, so listen up” “…” “I’m in the high school, and there is hostage situation” “WHAT!!!” “There is a number of students who have revolted and taken over the school. They have weapons.” “What kind” “The kind that kill people.” “…” “I’ll send out for a team of troops…” “No wait!” “What?” “If you send ANY cops they will be shot, if not killed.” “Then what?” “Get SWAT team, then call me back.” I shut the phone and head back to my locker. I knew I was all alone. I got to my locker fine. I opened it to find a black bag, and a black book bag. I took both bags to the restrooms. I untied the black bag to reveal a shadowy black ninja suit. The suit also came with lots of weapons, kamas, sias, ninja stars and other light weapons. I put the suit and bag on and head out to my next location. I knew that attacking the main office would be suicide so I decided to pick the guards off one by one. My first choice was the guards on the roof. They had a command post there with computers and stuff. I went out the hallway by the band room, since the guard was already taken out. The command post was right above the school library. I climbed slowly up the front of the building and peeked over. I saw about three guys standing around a computer and guy standing I the doorway to the classroom. One of the guys walked over to edge. I knew I was in trouble, but he only leght a smoke. While everybody was watching the computer I pulled the guards legs out from under him, knocking him to the ground unconscious. I then crawled up behind the next guard and slit his throat. By that time the other guards saw me standing there. One went for the alarm, but I got him in the throat with ninja star. The next guy came at me with a big knife. He charged but spun away while tripping him. “You should not play with knives, some one could get hurt. That some one is you.” I said pulling out my knife, which was bigger by at least 4 inches. He then tried to stab me but I hook his arm with mine and then cut the bottom of his wrist. I then knocked him just in case. I looked up to see the last guy standing there with a guy in his hands. Before he could say a word I dove forward into a roll coming up with both Uzi’s firing, knocking him to the wall. His dead body fell to the floor in a pool of blood. When I entered the classroom it was empty, just a bunch of aim and guns. I then headed to the hallway outside to se if they’re where any guard. As soon as I stepped out of the room two guards spotted me. They started to charge, so ran the* opposite direction. I had a good 20 seconds on them. When I got to the stairs I climbed over the railing. When they got to the stairs and saw that I was nowhere in sought they headed off down the stairs looking for me. I quietly climb back up and headed to the other hallway. Once I got the other hallway I noticed that there was only one guard in the entire hallway. The problem was that he was big and had a huge gun, some thing like an RCP-30. There was no way I could sneak up on him like the other guards. The only way ways to snipe, but how? I had to find a gun and fast. I headed to the roof see if there was extra guns. The room had a bunch of stuff, but manly ammo. I looked and looked till I was about to give up, when I saw it behind the door. An RPG, Rocket Propelled Grenade Launcher. The RPG was full loaded. It had smoke bombs, explosives, flash, and stink bombs. When I got to the hallway I put on my mask to shield me from the smoke or some thing else. I was just about to shoot when it came to me. If I miss him it could alarm others. So I set it up about 15 feet from the corner. I then tossed a small hand flash bomb to get his attention. The guard stepped around the corner with his rifle in hand. He was looking the opposite direction. He then turned to face me. “Good bye” I said pulling the trigger releasing a powerful flash grenade into his chest throwing him back 15ft. I picked up my Socom and slowly headed towards him. The grenade put a 6-inch hole in his chest, instantaneously killing him. After placing the body in the storage I headed down the hallway. I stop at the corner of the hallway and peek around to find about 7 guards watching one room. There were three at the main door, two at the back, and two inside. Even with the gun power I had there was no way I could take them all on. One of them would sit the alarm off sooner or later. I took about three steps back, and ran into a ladder. That’s it I’ll go through the ceiling. Once I got above the room I had only one small problem there was no holes. The problem with no holes is that I would have to remove a tile, and that can be very risky. I took out one of my ninja stars and dug a small hole (4x4). Once I saw inside I new why it was so guarded, they had all there hostages in there. It makes sense; it’s in the center of the building which make it harder for search and rescue. “Wait! What was that?” I said to my self as I looked over to other side of the room. There at a small table was a guy siting. He was dressed a lot nicer than the other solders; he had on an all black combat suit with a bulletproof vest on. He also had two other guards standing side-by-side him. “He must be the chief.” I thought to my self as I was making my plan. I thought I could use the RPG to knock off the two door guards while giving off smoke that would give me cover. I ran back to the hallway to get the RPG, but it was gone! I scanned the hallway searching for it, but could not find it. What was that noise? It was coming from the bathroom. To guys were coming walking out, so I ducked behind some locker. “So you found it over where?” “Just over there” said one of the guys pointing to the spot I was at. “That’s odd” “Talk about it.” They continued to talk while walking away. The only smoke bombs I had left were the hand held ones. Those would have to do for now. I got above the room fine. I knew that if I dropped down that I had a chance of loosing, but I also knew I had a chance to win. I had to win; I had no other choice. I dropped the bombs counted to three then jumped to the floor. “wakey, wakey, you fool” “Its good to see that your coming around, Not”. Who voice was that? I knew I have heard it before, but where “wwwhat?” I said just waking up, also having a huge pain on the side of my head. I was also tied down. “I said its good to see you again. What don’t you recognize your self?” I could not see because the bright light and I think I was on my back. I finally spoke up, “Who are you, and what happened to me?” “I looks like little me has a bit of memory loss.” He said it in an odd way, like he was boasting or something. “You tried a sneak attack but we knew you were there…” “How?!!!” “Its simple, a guard saw you and called us on the school phone.” “…” “Like I said you attack with smoke but we had masks, so when you came down a solider knocked you out with his gun. And now you’re here.” “Were is here?” “I can’t tell you that, or I would have to kill you. And I want to do that later.” “ Keep a close eye on him, do not let him out of your site.” “O.K. boss” said another voice but this one was with more of an accent. “So you thought you could stop it, while you can’t no one can. It was bound to happen sooner or later.” “You two watch him if he tries any thing shoot him!” he said to the guards as he left. I tried to stay a wake, but could not. Chr. 4 The Swoard Dualer “What is that smell” I thought to my self as I just woke up. I covered my noise trying not to smell it. “Wait a minute, my hands are free!” I said instantly siting up. I looked around the room only to an image thought would stick with me forever. The floor was covered in blood. One guard was lying on a desk with what looked like cuts all over him. His throat was cut so deep that his head hung off to one side, his stomach was slashed open, and his chest had a hole going clear threw his body. “What the…” I scanned the rest of the room only to find the other body, or more like half, lying on the ground. The head had a hole under the jaw that went up and out of the skull. The other half of the body was “standing” against a desk. It to was covered with blood. “What on earth happened here?” I said trying not to vomit. “What is that noise. It’s coming from the hallway?” I ran out of the room to find a body pressed up against the wall. It was a guard and he look as if he was looking at a ghost. I saw a line slowly go up his neck. It looked like blood. When the line hit the Adams apple it stated to gush blood. The man then dropped to the floor gasping for air while he tried to stop the bleeding with his hands. You could hear him choking on his own blood. Standing next to the dying body was a ninja like person. It had a suit that what look like it was made out of mirrors/metal. The suit reflected the light almost to a blinding point. “It” had a sword, now covered in blood, that had the words “Kesshite do (way of never)”. “Who are you?” I said reaching for my gun. “I am Kesshite do, and I would not do that if I was you.” He said, as he stared me in the eye. “Do wha…” I said as I jumped to the side, while firing my Uzi’s. With one swift motion he spun 720 around and reflected ALL the bullets right back at me. The bullets just glazed my pants. Before one of us could say a word two guards came rushing in. I looked over to find the ninja gone! “Crap!!!” “Freeze,” said one of the two guards standing there. The guards then called for back up. One of the guards had a gun pointed at my head while the other went to search me. He took both Uzi’s and tossed them to the ground. He then reached to grab my knife when I grabbed his arm throwing him into the locker, knocking him out could. The other guard started to fire. I duck down tackling his knees while pulling them up, knocking him down. When he fell he dropped his and it slid across the floor. I look up to see another guard coming in armed with a pistol. Before he could fire I grabbed the unconscious corpse as a bodyguard. He fired four shot only to hit the, now died, body. While still holding the body I grabbed my gun and stated to fire back. The first round hit the attacker’s knee crippling him. He hid behind a locker, as did I. We shot at each other for about a two minutes, till I came up with a plan. I stood up and ran as fast as I could while firing. The gunfire held him back, which let me closer. He then rolled to the side and came up with a huge knife. I tossed my guns to the side, now out of ammo, and pulled out my sias. The guard tried to stab me over head, but I caught the knife with one of the sias. I then spun twisting the knife out of his hand, and with my other hand stabbed him in the solar plexus. He then stumbled backwards, while blood started to drip out the side of his mouth. To finish him off I jumped spin kicked him in the face, knocking him out. I could hear more guards coming so I headed off. Chr. 5 Blades When I got out side I figured that more guard where coming the way I was going. The only other rout was back on the roof and that’s what I did. When I got on the roof there was a man standing there. He wore a long black trench coat and cowboy boots. He turned around to face me. I could see that he had vest with two-revolver hang off. “Nice day, to die that is,” He said with that accent. At that point I knew only two things, that guy was the guy back in the room, the other was that one of us was not going to leave this roof alive. He put his hand over his gun ready for action. He then pointed the gun at me. “So no fare fight? That just plain murder, you know.” I said trying to stall. “Your right. Not that it would matter but here.” He said tossing me the other revolver. Before the gun even hit the ground I jumped out to the side while tossing a rope and spike at him. The rope wrapped around his hand. I then yanked the rope, forcing him to drop his gun. Then in one swift movement I dove behind him wrapping his ankle with the rope then around his neck, choking him. Before I could kill him he pulled a knife out of his sleeve and cut the rope. He got up before I did and threw the knife at my face. I just barely dodged the knife. I look at the blade. It had three letters on “TEX”. “TEX? What kind of name is that?” “It’s the name of the person that’s about to kill you.” And with that he pulled out another knife. I got up, and looked him I the eye. “Sorry pal, you got it backwards.” I said as I pulled out the two kamas. “Lets go” he said as he reached behind his back pulling out his last knife. He charged with one hand in the air the other at his side. I blocked the attack spun and slashed his arm. He then came at me with a stab, but I was just out of reach. I stepped back smiling while twirled the kamas in my hands. He then again charged me but this time I spun around slashing him in the gut. He fell back holding his stomach, while getting angrier every second. He charged one more time, but with more power. I tried to get out of the way, but I still got hit. I stumbled back grabbing my shoulder. I just smiled and started walking around him. He followed me with his eye, watching ever step I make. I then tossed one of my kamas in the air. He looked up, just then I launched the other at his throat. “Bulls eye” I said as the kamas slid its way into his bloody throat. He fell back to the ground coughing. I walked up to him. I had missed his Adams apple, but he would still bleed to death. “Little snake” he said with his last dying words. “Yes…” “Take this” he said in his dying voice. “I thought it would solve the problem. But it turned out that it was the problem, after all…” “Solve what, that problem?” “The problem of life..” he coughed up more blood “The truth about the government” “What about the government, what truth?” “Its all a…. its all a l…” He was died, that was it. I sat there thinking about. What did he mean the truth about the government? My walky-talky went off “Little Snake come in, Little Snake are you there?” “This is Little Snake.” “What new, we have heard some fighting going on.” “I have to go, Little Snake out” I turned off the walky-talky. I picked up the “gift” it was a suit. It was the same as the guards, but with a higher level. “Thanks“ I said slipping it on. It fit nice. It was an all black top with cameo pants. It also had a mask and filter. I could tell by the voice that Mr.C was in trouble and trying to cover it up. I headed to his room with the suit on. When got to his room their where to guards posted outside the door. I walked up to the guards, hoping that they could not see through the cover. Both guards saluted me. “What’s going on in there?” I said in a commanding voice. They seemed shock but quickly replied. “Sir, the boss said to torture him.” “Why” “We believe that he knows where the attacker is” “The one that escaped?” “Yes sir, that’s the one.” “Let me in I’ll take care of him.” I said as I walked pasted them, into the room. When I got inside I could see that they had him tied down to a chair and had shocked him. The to guards saw me and stood up to salute me. “What has he said?” “Nothing sir, we been at it for 20 minutes.” “Leave me, I’ll get him to talk.” With that they left. I opened the window and looked down, there where a group of cops standing there. “SWAT!” I said trying to get their attention while not letting the guards know. “Id your self” they said pointing there gun a the window. “Its me little snake, and I have wounded victim.” I began to put the teacher out the window. The cops then took him to their base. I then shot a silenced shot into the ground out side and walked out of the room. I then looked at the guards and said… “Leave the door shut, he will no longer be with us” “But sir…” “I said lock the door.” I then walked off. I decide to head to the roof to get more ammo. Before I got to the roof my radio stared to beep. I turned it on, to hear a voice requesting back up. They were calling for every available unit to head the field. This was it, my opportunity to take out Scorpion. I headed outside. Chr. 6 Dual to the death Once I got outside, I stopped dead in my tracks. Its quit, too quit. I took few steps, then with out warning I heard I high pitch whistle. Before I knew what it was I felt a sharp pain in my foot. I look down to see a pool of blood coming from my foot. Only one word came to mind, sniper. I ducked behind a dumpster for cover. I searched my backpack for weapons, but only came up with a SoCom. I thought to my self “It’s better than nothing.” After loading it I tried to figure were the sniper was. I tried to stand but could not because of my foot. I heard that whistle again and look over my shoulder to see a hole about 6 inch away. “Crap, that was to close.” I said to my self, trying to find a way to get to the sniper. “Its actually pretty far off.” Said a voice coming from my walky-talky. “What?” “ I can get a lot closer than that.” Then that high whistle again. I laid down tring to dodge the bullet. The sniper hit right were my head would have been. I turned off the radio. I had an idea. I peak through the holes that the bullets left. Yes, I could see the sniper. One small problem, he was to far away. The pistil I had would only go about 2/3 of the way, and this was my last weapon. Then off in the distance I could here a low rumble. It got louder and louder. Then out of nowhere a S.W.A.T. chopper swooped down over the high school. The sniper ran out of sight. The aircraft dropped a team of solider onto the roof. “Its about time.” I said to my self, turning on my radio to find their channel. The team went through a line of windows on the 2end floor. They then headed toward the auditorium. From what I could decode I could tell that they had the auditorium enclosed, and were about to enter. “This is Alfa wolf, we have a go” said what sounded like the leader. “Go Go Go” said an another voice. After that I heard was a bunch of running around then a gun shot! “Man down! Man down!” shouted the same voice. “Targets on the stage” then another fire. “Target in the cat walk, repeat, target in the cat walk.” Then the original voice came on. “Roger. We have two men down and fire coming from in the halls!” “Alfa wolf this is Cobra head, suggesting we retreat?” said the second voice. Then from the doors behind me a troop of solider came rushing out. They head into the door I came out of. The last saw me standing there, and came over. “ID your se..” before he could finish I whipped my socom around and shot him square in the head. I took his health kit and dumped his body in the trash. I took off my shoe to inspect the wound. The bullet went clear through my foot! I put some meds on it then wrapped it up. I got up and head to the gym. “Leaving so soon are we?” I turned around to see a man standing in the bed of a truck with a rifle attached. The gun was a giant machine gun mounted to the bed of the truck. The truck also had a huge cannon mounted on the side, like an anti-aircraft gun. “Why are you in such a rush to go back to your hole, snake?” “I’ve come to take you out, Scorpion, once and for all!” “Lets just see about that.” With that he shot a blast from the cannon into the doors on both sides, thus making it so I can not escape. I ran behind the extended wall for cover, but I knew I was trapped. He sat there on his truck waiting for me to come out. I looked around to see what there was, but only saw a few windows above reach, and a pair of small AC generators. That’s it, the generators. I took out my pistil and smoke bombs and headed to the generators. One of them was right in front of the “tank”. I popped open the generator’s cover, exposing the guts of the machine. Inside there was a small flame and lots of other wires. I took the smoke bombs and used the flame to light them and tossed them into the machine. I then cut the tubes that held the steam making one really gigantic smoke cloud. I hid in the smoke while sneaking up on the truck. By the time I got to the tank it was almost covered in the smoke. I crawled under the car and cut the gas line, brake and accelerator. I then crawled out the back and ran back behind the dumpster. “Come on snake, you can’t stay in your hole for ever. Come out and fight” “The turn around and fight” I said standing behind the truck aiming my pistol at him. “What…?” in said turning the turret. “Turing the car around you fool” he yelled at the driver. “Sir it will not move. I think it’s…” the driver said. “I do not want to know what’s wrong just go!” he said turning the turret around, now facing me. “Fine I don’t need the truck, I’ll just use this.” He said firing a blaze of bullets at me. I hoped out of the way while firing two shots into the gunmen’s leg. He was now fully protected by the gun’s shield. I knew that my gun would not penetrate it. I bounded for cover, trying not to get hit by the line of fire. The only spot left was the dumpster, and it was not that well protected. I then dove behind the rubble from the cannon blast, it worked for a little while, till he started to knock of pieces. I knew this was it, my time to die. I prepared my self for the final blow. Silence… Chr. 7 Dual to the death/ part 2 “It’s quit, too quit. Am I alive?” I said to my self as I felt the ground around me. I then slowly opened my eyes to see that I was still in the same place, but firing had ceased. BANG!!! BANG!! Two shot were fired. I ducted down not knowing were the shots were heading. I look behind me to see Scorpion firing at some thing on the roof. The only thing I saw was a bright flash across the building. “What the…” my sentence was cut short by sound of gunfire. “Whats wrong Kesshite do? Too scared to fight?” Said Scorpion in his mad man voice. “Kesshite do?” I said to my self trying to think were I have heard that name. The Ninja. What’s the ninja doing here? That’s twice now that he has saved my life, who is he? I knew that there was no way I was going to fight. I had to ether get a weapon or get the heck out of there. So I stayed in place. From what I could see of the fight Scorpion had not hit the ninja, or at least slowed him down. The Ninja was so fast that he looked like a blur jumping from roof to roof. So far he had not attached at all, but that would soon change. He started to move at even faster speeds. Now the gun was not even close to hitting him. Then with in a blink of an eye he was gone! The gun came to a halt as Scorpion look for his adversary. As he looked for the long gone ninja I headed for the door but was soon stopped by a bullet going through the door. “Not so fast Snake” came the disturbing laughter of Scorpion. “Not again” “I think its about time you die snake” “I thought you tried that already” “Nice try. I like a little humor before death. It kind of helps the soul rest.” He said aiming the rifle at my head. CLICK CLICK “Empty” I said to my self with a shi of relief. “What a shame..” He said smiling, while pulling out a rather large hand gun. He walked right up to me, smiling the whole way. He then point the gun at my for head only about 2 inches away. I could see his smile grow bigger as he started to pull the trigger. Right before he could pull the trigger a bright flash blinded every body. When my eyes adjusted I could see Scorpion on his knees holding his hand, or what was left of it. It was completely cut in half. There was blood every where. It just spewed out of his arm. He tried to contain it by holding it, but it did little. I looked to my left to see the ninja standing there holding his sword out letting the blood drip off the blade. “ I thought you would have known better, Scorpion” The Ninja said in a voice that sounded like he was disappointed. I stood there in shock as the blood soaked body dropped to the floor in a pool of blood. “But how…?” I said half not knowing what to say. “Because it has to be done.” “…” “Take this, you may need it latter.” He said handing me a small sword. “You can use it in almost any *satiation. Its longer than a normal dagger but short enough to use indoors. If used right and swift it can reflect most light and some heavy fire…” Before he could finish his sentence the dead body came to life in an instant. “Die” Scorpion, said firing his pistil at the Ninja, hitting him square in the chest. It knocked him off his feet and against the wall. Then the body of my enemy once again fell dead. Chr. 8 Mind over Matter I then rushed over to the Ninja. When I saw his wounds I knew they were bad. His hand was covered in blood. “Are, are you OK?” “I’m fine. Go to the auditorium and take care of your ‘friend’.” With that he took off, and I headed to the auditorium. Once I got past the rumble I headed full speed towards the auditorium because I knew what was waiting me. As soon as I got to the auditorium I could not believe my eyes. It was a slaughter, pure slaughter! There were bodies all over. Blood all over the walls, limbs spread across the floor. I search the deathly room for survivors. I lost less and less hope as I entered deeper into the room. I heard some ones radio going off. It sounded like a SOS type of call. I finally found some one alive. He just laid there like he was wanting to die. He had bullet holes all over him in his legs, his chest, his shoulders, he even hand a hole in his hand! As I approached he saw me and held up his gun and shouted... “ID your self!” “Its all right I’m friend.” “I said ID your self” he said in a voce fully prepared to shoot some one. “My name is Snake, I’m the one who sent for you guys. So just take it easy.” “Prove it” “Fine. How about this: when I called Officer Matt he thought it was a joke, till I told him that there were weapons.” With a breath of relief he put his gun down, and reached down looking for his cigarettes. “Sorry about that, I just could not take a chances.” He said still looking. “So what’s the latest?” “Scorpion, the leader, has been taken out, but there is still plenty of guards. “ “What a light?” he said as if he was at home. “No thanks, but I’ll take a few for the road “ “What ever floats your boat.” The exhausted solider said. Right before he could light his cigarette his face went blank, all emotions gone! Then in some ghostly voice he started to speak, but still with out expression. “Snake, is that you Snake?” He said as his eyes glazed over. “Its me who are you?” I said in a firm voice. “You know not of me snake” “What’s that mean?” “Come Snake, Come” then as if in a flash the voice was going, and the solider was back to normal. “Stupid hands” he said grabbing his cigarette then using his M-60’s lighter he lit his smoke. “I must go.” I said not stopping for chat. “Why so soon, what’s going on?” “I don’t know, I just know I must go” “What ever you say…” Once in the band hallway I head this soft “music”. It came from inside the chorus room. As I step up to the door I saw what looked like ghost. It was gone in the blink of an eye. I felt like I was seeing delusions. I opened the door to find a room full of teenagers. Some where crying, and other were praying. At first they did not see me, but then one of them did. “It’s one of them” some kids whispered, while some other cried out “please don’t hurt us!” As I walked into the center of the room one of the kids, one with shaggy hair and a cross country shirt, walked up to me. “Sir if you just give a second to talk…” “Then talk kid!” I said. “Could you please just…” Before he could finishes the room started to tremble and all the kids started to scream. Then as of out of thin air a voice. “Let’s not start that again,” It said. “Its good to see you made it, Snake.” “Yeah that’s right I’m here. Now show your face!” “I’m really sorry, but I can’t do that. “ “Are you really that ugly?” “That’s it I’ve it, Snake its time we battle…” With that the room went dark, except for a circle of light. I reached down into my boot and grabbed a pair of small throwing knifes. “How do you expect me to fight if theirs no one to fight?” “If you wish to fight then…” “Here fight me, I’ll fight” said a kid from with in the darkness. The kid stepped into the light. He was average height and had shaggy hair. He then proceeded to put up his hands to box. “What’s this? Are you so afraid to fight that you would send a kid to do your dirty work?” I said with a little laughter in my voice. “No, not at all. I just like it this way.” “You would,” I said with a tone of anger. The Kid then came at me with a punch to the face. I easily ducked under it, and step back try not to fight. Again he came at me, but this time I slid around him getting him in a choke. With in seconds the kid was knocked out. I then laid the sleepy body off to the side. “That’s it, that’s all you got?” “I’ve not even started with you, Snake.” “Then let us begin” Just as I ended my sentence the lights came back on, and there floating in the middle of the room was a man wearing trench coat, boots, gloves, and goggles that look like mix between snowboarding and sci-fi. I spun around while throwing a knife at him. Before the knife could hit him he turned transparent, letting the knife go through him. “You do not understand Snake. I am a master of the human mind. I have spent my whole life researching telekinesis, E.S.P., clairvoyance, and parapsychology while also mastering the martial arts. So you, Snake, are no match for me” “I hardly believe that.” “That’s enough chat, lets us truly battle.” “Sure thing, Doc” “My dear boy my name is ‘Kinesis’” “I don’t care what your name is or where you’re from, all I know is that you are holding a room full teenagers as hostages, and that I do not care for. “ Then Kinesis vanished. “Well that’s to bad,” said the voce of Kinesis. I prepared to fight, only to be hit from behind throwing me across the room. I got up, dazed and bit light headed, but still ready to fight. I held the knife in my hand ready to stab, but could not find Kinesis. Then as if from a gush of wind knock me down to the ground. While laying on the ground I turned on the suit’s info red sensor and got up once again ready to fight. This time I could vaguely see Kinesis. I charged him with full power, only to be hit by a flying chair. I lost the knife when that chair knock the wind out me. My only weapon I had left was my mind, scary thought. I could still see him as he hovered around the room. He lifted random objects and tossed them at me. The only choice I had to was to duck and dodge the objects till I could make a plan. I had to get rid of these kids before some one was hurt. As I tried to duck an attack by three music stands I got hit in the side by a piece of pipe. It knocked me to the ground, but I only got up fast. As I got up I felt the cigarettes in my pocket, and knew what my plan was. Kinesis continued his assault with chairs and stands. During his attack I hid behind the piano. Then it too was lifted off the ground and into the air. With no more hind places left I set my plane into action. I lit the cigarettes then ran the up the wall setting the fire alarm off. As I expect the kids ran outside and the sprinkler system went off. With the water pouring out I could see Kinesis and he knew I could. Its was now time to battle, once and for all. We got in are fighting stances. Me choosing a karate style and Kinesis choosing Kun Fu. He attacked first throwing a flying sidekick at me. I duck back dodging the kick just barely. As he landed I attacked with a jump spin kick to his back He step back right as I kicked and threw a chop at my head. A direct hit. The blow to the head caused me to black out, only for few seconds. I looked up to him about to slam a chair on me. I rolled out of the way and then step in elbowing him in the face. The strike sent him to the ground. He then came up with a backhand attack. I reflected the strike while ripping his coat off his back. He then came at me with jump spin kick but duct under him. While he was in mid kick I grabbed his legs violently throwing him to the ground. I then noticed a gun lying on the ground. I ran over picking it up, and checking to see if it had ammo. Yes, it had a full load! I turned around to see Kinesis stumbling trying to get up. “Kinesis!” I sceamed at the top of my voice. Right as he looked up I pulled the trigger of death. The rifle let off a blaze of light and a loud sound. I opened my eyes to see Kinesis standing, not shot at all. Then I relised that all the bullets were floating in mid air. He then started to laugh hysterically. “Snake, do really think that would work?” He said lefting both hands in the air. “I shall now teach you a lesson, you will never forget.” With that he shot all the bullets right back at me. The bullets flew I all direction, but manly at me. I fell to the ground as a bullet hit me in the shoulder and in the stomach. As I laid on the ground I saw Kinesis walk up to me. “Snake , Snake, don’t you know that you should have never try to shoot a master of telekinesis. You bullets are merely like feathers of the wind. So what last words do you have say Snake?” “Tough shit” I said firing my gun at the air conductor above Kinesis’s head. “That’s it? You missed!” “Not really…” I said looking up. Kinesis looked just I in time to see a huge metal box crush him. I stood up looking at, what’s left of, Kinesis. “To bad you didn’t know that a snake never gives up.” I said as I pulled the pin from a grenade. “Heres to you” I said dropping the bomb, and walking off. Chr. 9 All Out War I now was on a search for ammo and guns, because I had only an AK-47 and SoCom. “What the…” I said as I look down to see my radio vibrating so I turned it on. “All personal report for briefing in the old gym.” The radio said as I switched it off. I made my down the down stairs hallway. I then catch sight of two guards leaving a small room. It looked like one of the guards was reloading his rifle. I knew that room had to be the armory. I crept up to the room making sure nobody saw me or heard me. Once I opened the door I noticed a small camera on the wall. The camera was like the ones by the gym except that this moved side to side and had automatic gun attached. I prayed that this camera had blind spot too. When the camera moved to the other side I dove across the room behind a stack of boxes. I opened the boxes using crow I found. The first box was packed with ammo. It had ammo for every gun I had and lot more. I stacked up filling up all my guns and pockets. The next box had extra guns. It also held scopes and lasers too. I took a rifle and a few large pistils. The rifle was a “fixed up” M-60, and the pistil like weapons where an A-5 and a two Uzi’s. I also picked a bag of small explosives, shrapnel grenades, smoke bombs, etc. I then switched back into my shadow like ninja uniform. When I reached the gym I noticed it was full of soldiers. They were all standing shoulder to shoulder while watching a video of a man speaking. The video was being played on an overhead projector. The odd thing was that no one was guarding the doors. Since all the lights were out it made it easy to sneak in and move about. Once in the gym I found out that there were more soldiers then what I first thought, a lot more. I made my way to the rafters, to get better view, and to hide out. I watch for about 25 minutes when the voice on the screen said some thing about eating. Then, all at once, the small army moved into the other gym to eat. I followed as best I could, while hiding in the shadows. As soon as I made it into the gym I hid in the folded up bleachers over looking everybody. While up there I had to military craw to move. I then crawled to the ladder that led down so I could see better. As I moved the bleachers squeaked, and with it being in the gym it echoed really loud! Everybody in the gym look up. At once I knew that there was going to no easy way out of this. “Intruder” some one yelled while throwing a grenade up into the stands. I then jump off of the stands and landed behind a support beam. As soon as I land I was surrounded by gunfire. It was coming from every direction. I pulled out my rifle and prayed. I then dove behind a table and flipped it over. I first took out all the soldiers who were not covered. Then from my right I noticed two soldiers were advancing on me. I pulled out a flash/smoke bomb and tossed over the table. When the bomb went off quickly dove over to the wall planting two proximity bombs and then dove back. Luckily the guards did not see the hidden bombs and walked right into the line of fire. I got my rifle and started to fire again. Most of the soldiers were now keeping their distance but still firing. BOOM!! From out no where an explosive hit my table blowing it up and throwing me back at least 3 meters. When I recovered from the explosion I noticed that my rifle was back at the table. I now had to find an escape rout, and quick. The only choices I had were to stay put and get torn to shreds or leave out the doors, which lead to the commons. I pulled out my two pistils and headed to the door. When I got to the door it was locked, so I had to kick it down. Once in the commons I made my way to the stairs, and then upstairs. As soon I got upstairs I put two proximity bombs on the walls so when they go off it’ll take out the stairs. I then headed down the hallway only to find more soldiers coming up the hallway. I darted into the classroom next to me. The classroom was the one that led to the roof, perfect. I rushed onto the roof trying to find an exit. “Freeze, or be shot” I looked around to see half a dozen soldiers aiming at me. I took two steppes towards the edge when I heard a low rumble. “Sir, I said fre…” He was cut short by rush of wind and a spray of gunfire. I ducked down onto the floor when I saw a helicopter hovering by the edge. The helicopter unloaded on the soldiers, killing all of them. “Snake! Hop in, quick.” Said the pilot, as if he knew me. I jumped in and then we took off. Chr. 10 Shaggy “Ok, so you know who I am, but who are you?” I said trying to find out who my associate is. “My name Neil, but my friends call me Shaggy.” He said in a friend like voice. “So what do you want with me?” “You shaved my life so I figured I owed you. You know life-for-a-life?” “Yeah I guess your right, but one question?” “What’s that Snake?” “How do you know how to fly a helicopter?” “Video games!” He said with a hint of sarcasm. “You’re joking, please tell me your joking?” “No joke, I saw it on the ground with no one around. So I tried it and it worked.” “So what’s your plan, genius?” “I was hoping that you had one?” “All my plans went out the window when you decided to play James Bond. So how about you drop me off over by auditorium then fly and get the army, or some thing. “ “Sure thing” he said as he maneuver the chopper back towards the high school. While on the plane I graded a few extra rifles. He proceeded to drop me off then slowly backed away. Before he turned around he lifted his hand and saluted me. I look him in the eye then saluted back. As he lifted the chopper into the air it suddenly stopped then dropped to the ground. I realized before I could even see it that there was no way anyone could survive that. Right as I reached the edge I saw a bright light then a wave of heat… Chr. 11 Round Two With A Sniper I made my way in by entering through the “garden”; witch was a small outside area surround by the school. It was lock, but I had the keys. I check the hallways for anybody, clear. The hallway had several pillar like post witch made it seem longer then it was. As I stepped into the hallway I heard that sound again. The sound that was always followed by a bullet! This sound was no different. I jumped back behind a pillar, as the bullet hit the floor. I knew that this was going to be our finally draw. I pulled out a small mirror and used it to see around the corner. I could not see a thing. There was no one there. Were was he? Then another high pitch sound. This time it hit the edge of the pillar where I was. I lit the last of my smoke bombs to give me cover. As I dove across the hallway I felt a sharp pain in my lower leg. I looked down to see another hole in my leg. Shit he’s good. The only reasons he could of hit me was if he had thermal-version, two can play that game. I thought as I slipped on my thermal goggles. Still no sign him. Right as I off the goggles a bright red laser blinds my eye. I jump back just missing the high-speed bullet. That was close, too close for me. Where could he be? BOOM The pillar I was hiding behind was now missing an edge. I have to get out of here and fast. Before I could move the doors to the auditorium blew open. It was the fallen solider. He stood there with his riffle in hand and cigarette in mouth and a bottle, of what looked to be vodka. I tried to warn him but he walked right in to it. That is the sniper’s view. In a matter of seconds he was on the ground, and bleeding profusely. It’s the classic bait and trap trick, except that I’m not going to fall for it. The solider was hit in the kneecap. Thwap Thwap Two more shots this time in the groan and the shoulder. I could hear the shatter of bone as the bullet ripped threw him. He lay there in agony, and screaming in pain. Thwap Thwap Again more shots. One in the side while the other hit the edge of his throat. Making him spill even more blood. The room now smelled with the stench blood. I switched on my thermal goggles again. I hoped that next time the sniper fires I could see the heat from the barrel. Thwap I got him! He’s hiding in the ceiling. With all those pipes and wiring its no wonder I could not see him. I took out my frag grenade and one of my riffles (a modified M60). I then blasted away one of the ceiling tiles, and tossed the grenade up and towards the sniper. 3…2…1… BANG! BANG! BANG! The grenade exploded into tiny shreds of metal shrapnel temporally blinding any one watching. During that blinding moment I took my chances and ran at the sniper. The bomb gave me just enough time to make it to the wall were the sniper was. In the swift motion I ran up the wall and above the ceiling. The only problem was that the sniper was gone. I followed the best I could, but was falling behind. The sniper eventually exited the ceiling by the back of the auditorium. I slowed my pace down and drew out my rifle. Once out of the ceiling the sniper was no were in sight. Just when I thought about giving up my radio went off once again… “Nice try snake, but your going to have to do better than that.” “How can I, your gone?” “Simple” “How so?” “Follow the bouncing ball…” Then if out of nowhere a little red laser starts moving along the floor. Its starts to move towards me, then its gone! Thwap Thwap The sniper launched to bullets at me and hit my gun, destroying it. Then I saw him standing there. He was dressed in all black, he even had a pitch black goggles. I reached for my pistil, but it was not there! “Son of a b…” “What’s wrong Snake? You no weapon” he said with a twisted laugh. I searched panicky for a weapon. Any weapon, just one…I’ve got it! The sniper dropped down to one knee and started to fire. I spun around while drawing my sword! The sword move so swift I some how managed block the gun fire. I then charged the gunman with all I had [not much]. He fired several rounds at me. I spun the sword in a butterfly like motion blocking most of the bullets. One of them hit me in the shin. So I dove into a roll and came up with a slice, chopping his head off. Chr. 12 The Unknown Assassin I was on my way to the main “office” when the radio started going off. “Attack team a head to main entrance, we have spotted the intruder. “ “Intruder? What?” How there were no cameras or guards around. Then I realized that they were not after me, but somebody else. So I headed to the “main entrance” to see whom my clone was. Before I got there I decided that I should probably find a good hiding spot AKA the ceiling. Once I found a into the ceiling all I had to do was kick back and watch the show, I wish. When I got to the main entrance I found out that I got a lot more than I bargained for. I saw the so-called intruder right before all hell broke loose. He really tall and was built like a football player. He had on a long trench coat, black sunglasses, and carried a sawed of shotgun. He also had a semi -automatic shotgun along with two Glocks, and a but load of ammo. Two groups of soldiers attack. One from the main hallway the other from the commons. They may of have had numbers but he had firepower and lots of it. He drew his weapons started blasting away. At first he took out two or tree at a time. Then moved on to two at a time. In a matter of seconds the numbers of soldiers went from 12 to3. I thought that the soldiers were going get when he ran out of ammo, I was wrong. He threw his shotguns down, and swung open his trench coat to reveal a nice and shiny AK-47. That’s when things got out of control. Gunfire was every where, even in the ceiling! I had to go back about six feet just to make sure I did not get hit myself. It only took about 30 seconds for the gunfire to cease. I slowly made my back to see if the loan gunman was still standing. There he was, now holding his AK and a modified six shooter. There was not a single soldier standing, or alive. He then slid his rifle back behind him but kept the pistil out and started walking down the hallway. I had to stop him, I did not know why but I had to. I took out one of my last ninja stars and tossed it against one of the sinks hoping it would draw his attention. It did! He started walking under me, perfect. I dropped out of the ceiling knocking the gun out of his hand. I jumped only to be pushed against the wall with a knife to my throat. “Any last words, Scorpion?” He said as he pushed the knife deeper into my throat. “HOLD ON A MINITE!!” I said the best I could. He then backed up but kept the knife at my throat. Right as he pulled the knife back away I jump off the wall into him then hit the floor and rolled and came up with my sword drawen. “First off, I have no clue who you are and seconed I’m not Scorpion!” “Wait are you Snake?” “Yeah that’s me, but who are you?” “I’m Brock. I was sent to take out Scorpion.” He said slowy putting his knife down. “OK, so I guess were on the same page, right?” “You could put it like that” “We could team up and take out Scorpion?” “Sure, but you can’t just walk around and shoot people.” “No, why not it works every time?” “First off, you just killed 7 men and I can tell you for sure that more men are on there way, possible up to 30 in witch you could not take out all 30.” “True… so what do you suggest?” “We split up, you take part I take the other part.” “OK” “One more thing…” “What now?” “Be carefull there are students still here.” “Will do” with that we head out. I head towards the vo-teck hallway while he headed down behind the audutorem. Chr. 13 Death comes in twos I made it to ,the so called band hallway, fine. Once I entered the hallway I was horrifed! There was bodys all over the floor. They were not student bodys ether, they were teachers. They were sluatered to the point that I could not even tell who they were. The faces on one of them had been completele torn off. While the other two had huge gaps and holes all over there faces. “What the **** happened here? Its looks like the work of Kesshite do, but could not have possible done this. Even if he could have this then, why would he Scorpion is dead.” I said while still in disbelife of what I was looking at. “Snake we have come for you.” Said an unknowen voice. “Whos ther…” “You shall not leave here as you are, Snake” Came the voice once again, but this time from a diffrant dirtiction. “What kind of sick trick is this?” “This is no trick Snake, this is your destany.” The voice said with an echoe like effecte. “That’s a classice” “Laughe all you whant, but you can’t stop destany.” ”I don’t plan on stoping it, I make it.” “Your wrong snake” then at the end of the hallway a ninja appeared.I looked behind me to see another ninja! “So that’s your game, lets us play.” I said pulling out my sword. The first ninja came at me with two short swords while the other with two nunchakus. They both move moved at the exact same time. Right the one with the swords went to double slash at me I duck back and came up with a slash to his sholder. I spun around to block the attack from my other assailant. Before I could even turn around I felt a sharp pain in my back. With both attackers beeing so close I had to get out of there, and fast. I up to the wall (while still fighting both attacters) and push off and landed on the other side of the hallway. Big mistake! As soon as I landed I was greated with a hard blow to the head causing me to temporaly black out. During that vitail second one of the ninjasgot me into a doulde arm lock. With both arms lock I could try and escape and risk breaking both arms or I could wait. I like my arms. The other ninja slowy walk up to me. “I told you that you could not contral your destany, you don’t listion.” “How true’ I said as I jumped up and dropped kick the him I the chest. I then sliped my foot behind my captore’s and lifted up causing him to fall back . He still had me in a lock, his good. Using a jujutsu move spun on my back while locking my legs with his arms. I then pushed off of him, thus breaking his arms. I grabed his two nunchakus while getting up to fight. The ninja remaining had switch to using tonfas. This tiem I made the attack with a double swing at the neck. He block it then step in and did an upper cut to my chin causing blood to spill out of my mouth. I steped back spining the two nunchakus in a defensfe way. This time he threw a jump kick at my head, while striking with the tonfus. I dodged both the kick and the weapon. As he landed I came in with strike to the collerbone. Bulles eye. I could hear his bone snap from the speed of the weapon. He took the pain and turned around ready to fight. This guys are good. He then came in quick with a chop. I steped back then threw a swing at him. He blocked it and step in with a strike “below the belt”. That hurt like hell. I spun down and around while pulling my sword out and slashing his lower leg. He then rolled across the floor poped up with two sais in hand. Does this guy ever stop! We both ran each other at full speed. He threw a hook/stab while tried to twirling attack. We both missed but he spun around and threw his sai at me. The sai went threw my clothing but missed me. I turnded to see him staning there with again two sais. Then ,like if power by black magice, the other ninja stood up and readded to fight. I preparied my sword for what could be my last battle. I jumped at the armed ninja while stabing. He steped to the side and used his sai to block my sword. He then spun the sai so that it twisted the sword out of my hand. He then spun aroundmy and locked my arms. This time the other ninja prepaired to “Finishe me”. He ran then threw a jump kick. Right before he landed his kick blast went off, throwing him back 15 yards. I looked around to see Brock standing there with shotgun in hand. While the ninja was distrated I flip back throwing my legs around his head. I then snaped his neck. “So much for distany” “What???” Brock said with a confused look on his face. “Long story” Chr. 14 Bombs away Then from down the hallway, “Get back!!!” we turn around to see a man holding a girl in front of him, like a hostage. “His got a freaking hostage” I said try not to panicke, but I was . It looked like one of the guards had taken a female hostage. Probley hoping to get past me, wrong move. He slowy walked down the staries towards me. “Get back…’ “Dude, your walking at me.” “Shut up and put down your weapons or the girl gets it” “Whats up with all these classic lines?” I said trying to stall the guy. The hostage he took was a 14-15 year old blonde girl. She was most liky in an art class of some sort. “Shit hes got a bomb!!! “ Said Brock. The ,so called, guard had straped a bunch of C-4 to him. He carried the detunater behind the girls back. He gradually walked past us, watching are ever move. “I said don’t move or I’ll…” “Chill man were cool. I just have a to sneeze…” I said raising my hand to my face. I then raised my head back as if going sneeze, but instead of sneezing I launched a pepper bomb at the floor. The spray went straight into the gurads eyes blinding him. At that seconded I dove forward tackling hostage to the ground. Brock then swung the butt of his gun into his face knocking him out. “Are you Ok?” I said to the dased victome. “Whats going on? Who, Who are you? Where am I?” She said as if just now noticing what happened. “I’m Snake and that’s Brock and we just saved your butt from blowing up along with half the town.” “I feel weak…” she said right before she fell over unconscious. Chr. 15 The Truth “We better get here to safty.” I said to Brock, while picking up the sleeping body. “Lets go back this way, its probly safer”. “Lets first get rid this C-4, we don’t want it going off.” So we stored the C-4 into a safe lockers. We then left threw the way I came, through the doors. “SNAKE!!!” Said Brock with a sense of erchance in his voice. “Whats up?” I said looking over at Brock who was standing over the dead body of Scorpion. “What the Hell happened here?” He said rasing his shotgun and looking at me. “About that…” “Snake!” “I ment to tell you but…” “Who did this?” “Brock calm down’ “Snake don’t F***K with me, who did this” “It was me, I did it.” “No, No, No this can’t be happing. Non of this was suppost to happen. We had a plan!!!” “What are you talking about? What do you mean ’we’? Whats going on?” “Snake!” He said as he pointed his gun at me. “Hold on, Brock…” “Snake you shall now pay for this” “Brock No stop!” were the only words I got out before he fired his rifle, just baerly missing me. I jumped to the side and layed down the girl. I had to take out Brock. I pulled out my rifle crotch down and strated to fire. Brock was so stunned that he could barily aim, witch made him an easy target. My first target was his knee cap, thus crippling him. As soon as he fell he dropped his rifle witch kicked out of reach. He layed there in pain, crying. “Kill me” He beged me. “First you explane whats going on.” “Kill me, please just kill me” he shouted. “I said talk” I threated him as I aimed the rifle at his other knee cap. “Fine all talk! Its all fairly simpal. My job was to take over Scorpion place here while he made his great escape. That’s all I swear.” “Sure” I said pulling the trigger, sending a bullet into his other knee cap. “Shit!!! That’s all I know I said” “Fine with me”I said as I slowy aimed my gun right under his wast. “Whos idea was this?” “I can’t say, they would kill me.” “Who is they?” “…” “Then answer this: What was the mission here?” “It was suppost to be test, an exparement of sorts.” “A test for what?” “I don’t know.” “Why here, why now?” “Becouse, beouse He goes here” “Who I don’t know. They always refered to him as ‘Him’. That’s all they said” “Whos They?” I said with a lot of anger in my voice. “Fuck you” were his last words… Chr. 16 The Broken Ring Of Peace “Snake, come in snake, are you there?” came the voice on the police walky-talky. “This is him, whats wrong?” I responed “We just got confermtion that the U.S. army and Air force are on there way. So get out of there qui…” “What? Capton, come in Capton.” Nothing but statice. “Freeze! Drop the weapon” said a voice from behind me. I looked to see a top ranking guard standing there with about five other men, all armed. Not again. I tried to see who was giving the orders but was rudly intrupted by a blow to the head by the end of a gun. I woke up in a class tided down. The class room seemed to be a scinece room. Where was all sorts of chemical and test tubes all around the room. I also noticed that there were about four other people in the room: a teacher, and three students. My hands were tied togather while my feet were tied chair sepreatly. “Good to see you’re a wake, Mr Snake” Said a man next to me who had on a treach coat and was holding a test tube labled: TOXIC. I tried to talk but my mounth gagged. “Don’t try to get out, its point less. Besides even if could some how get out, there are four guards waiting for you outside. So don’t even think about it.” He said removing the gag. You can how ever hold still while I make the injection.” “Whats it for?” I said trying to sound as innocient as poosible. “It’s a simple DNA test. That will allter your genes.” “How so?” “It basicly deletes certain genese. For example the genese that causes altimers and memory loss. So icentaly creates a mind less body open for reading.’ “So a tool for interegation?” “Exatly” He said as he poked the long needle into my suit, or tried to. The suit was made semi bullet proof martial. “It seems that my origanail plan will not work after all.” He said trying to come up with a solution. He signaled a guard to come over. “You watch him. I’m going to untie him so I can do the injection. “ He said kneeling down to give me the injection. Right as he inserted the needle a bright light flshed then a loud boom. Every body in the room was throwen arcoss the room. The last thing I remember before blacking out was there being an extrme heat, so extrme that it mealted the guards gun to his hands! I woke up from a sleep that seemed to have lasted days, unfortanatly it was only a mater of minutes. I got up to find the run filled with smoke and flames. Luckly the chemicals did not blow us up. How ever, every body else in the room was ether died or still knockout. I made my out side the room to find a person [probly a guard] laying under some ruble. “What the H*** happened?” I shouted at the guard who was still a little dased. “We were bomb by the Air force, and there circling arounded again.” “Again?” “Yes. They only took out part of the school, the science wing.” “Hey, you what to give me a hand? It seems that my leg is trapped under this pile of ruble, and I can’t get it loose.” “No, not really” I said walking out to find that hostage and then get the hell out of there. I had to find her, that girl. From what I could tell that complete side of the school was bombed out. There was fires every where, parts of bodys, it seemed like 911. Once I got out of that hallway it was causes. There were soliders running ever where. They did not even notice me till one of the guys giving ordes saw me… “Hey You!” He blasted. I looked to one side then to the other and then looked up at him “Wheres the girl???” “What girl?” he said trying like he was trying to hide some thing. “You know the girl, the girl that was with me earler!” I said with stern voice. “Sorry sir I have no cl…” before he could fininish I dove at him knocking him against the wall. I then cuped my arm around his kneck and started to choke. “Where is the girl, and don’t give me any shit!” I said tighting my grip. “Oh yes that girl. She was taken to underground lab… I mean room.” “What lab? Where is it? Is she stil alive!?” “…” “What, no more to say? I guess then you have no more to live.” I said pulling my arm back till I herd the sound of his neck pop then snap. I let the body drop to the floor then I took his fire arm and map. The map showed where every thing in the school was at, including the lab. It was in the class room number 1. “Do we even have a number 1 class room?” I thought to my self trying to picture where it would be. It showed it by the main, or what was the, study hall room. So I head that way hoping to make it on time. On the way there I inspected the weapon I stole from the dead body. It was fully loaded Glab, with an extened barrel, laser, and light. The gun it self was realy pretty light but with all the attachments it made it good size. Once outside I saw that they had the doors blocked off. There were to armed guards standing there both had fully automatice rifle and looked like they did not want to be messed with. To bad for them. I took off at full speed with my gun amed. I shot the first guard dead in the head. Then got the second in the chest twice. With there being more people coming through I had to get rid of the bodies and quick. So I tossed the two into the dumpster next to the doors. Before I trashed the two bodys I stole both of the rifles along with two knifes and a mini gas mask. As soon as I got inside I knew there was no easy way out. I made my way to the elevater and sure thing there was a set of stairs leading down to a room marked 1. The door was locked so blasted the lock with the pistal, saving the rifles amio. Inside was like a maze. There were more stairs leading down, and there were compters all over. the plase looked like a war room during the Cold War. I journeyed down a flight of staries that was left open hoping to find that hostage. Once I got down staries I could see a her sitting there. She was tied to a chair, and look like they tried tototure her. I found the keya and unlocked her. She was still in a shock, and was parshlt asleep, from what ever happended before. I carred her on my back and headed to freedom. As I was leaving the staries I heard a high pitch scream.It was not a scream from a person, but more from a bullet. I knew this time it was not a bullet becouse it was a LOT louder and souned as if it was coming in fast. Then it hit me, BOMBS. I ran towards the door full speed only 5 or so step away when all went silant… BOOM!!!! Epilogue- I sat in my bed pouring down sweet and was white as a ghost. I could tell I was in a hospital room but I had no memoral of what happened. Two nurses and a doctore came rushing into the room and started to pressing buttons on the machines arounded me. “Where am I? What happened? How long have I been out for?” I said dazed. “Sir am Dr. Connors and I need you to settial down now or you could black out again.” He said as if I had done it be for. “Dr. Connors, WHERE AM I?” “Sir I said…” “DO NOT FUCK WITH ME, WHERE AM I? TELL ME NOW!!!” with that he told the nurses to leave the room. “Sir you are in a secreate level of the OSF hospital. You have been unconscious for two weeks straight. You have a fractore to the head and internall bleeding. “ “Thank you. Now why am I here?” “Becouse the govermeant does not want you to speak with the press till He speaks with you. So nnow you are on ‘house arreste’ till you are called to be realsed” So I stayed there for about three weeks till some body from the the govermant came. The guy they sent was a top ranking general. He was dressed in full uniform,cap and all. “Sir I have orders for you straight from the pentugone.” He said with a very firm voice. “Thanks?” I said taking the folder he handed me. It was a page full of typing and had the seal on the bottom. I manly said that I was ordered to never tell a soul what happened at the school. It also said that former my former person died during that attach and that I would be put under the W.P.P. and relocated ASAP. Till then I was to stay there, in the hospital. “Sir what happened that day?” I said hopong to find out once and for all. “ Right as you were about to leave the bulding the strike team of F-15 dropped there last pay load. They did not hit where you were but the blast shattered the wall witch collapse on you and the girl.” “What happened to the girl? Is she alright? Is she here?” I completely forgot about her. “Sir, she is fine. She sleeping upstaires and has minor wounds. You some how saved her life. When we dug you guys up we found you knocked out on top of her.” “What will happen to her?” “She to will be moved out of town too.” He said before he was introuped by young man in a uniform came up. “General, I have the orders.” He said handing the general a folder with ‘TOP SECRET’ on the top. “Well lets see what have for you…” the general said opeaning it. “Good news your ordered to be put on the specail Ops team. Not oly that but part of the Fox Hound team. Good luck” The End

Remember this is a fictional novel and is not based on actual events

Chapter 1

I was half way into my second hour class, physics, When I asked to go get a calculator out of my locker. Little did I know, that question would change my life. I went to my locker slowly taking the long way to get there. When i reached my locker and got the calculator the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I've always taken that to mean danger was coming but I just shrugged it off. I walked towards the English department to take the long way back. At the top of the stairs I looked out the window and saw something straight out of the movies. Two men in ski masks walking towards the school! I ran for the nearest classroom, the computer lab, it had no one in it so I shut and locked the door. I knew to call the Dean's office if something like this happened from working in the office answering phones. When they picked up I said they only thing I knew to. "Code Red! Code Red!" "What's happening?" The Dean asked. "Terrorists or something," I shouted out. "Two men with guns, looked like they had a submac..." The Dean cut me off, "Get into a classroom they're at every entrance! I'm sounding the alarm!" I hung up and opened the door. I sprinted to room 208, Mr. Chianakas' classroom. I had my martial arts bag there and it had plenty of goodies from the night before. He locked the door after I came in and asked me what was happening. I explained it to him as fast as I could and started pulling out my knife, ninja stars, and then I said to him, "I need to borrow your bo, Japanese staffs were very useful with a little ingenuity. I taped my lockback to the end of the bo fashioning a crude spear and told him I had to go. "I can't let you go out there Ben." He said. "I have to this so move, it's my right to go!" Was all I said before I unlocked the door and stepped out. I had been promoted to black belt a week before and was ready for this. I heard some screams from the direction I had come and ran towards 202. I stopped at the door and peeked in. There was one of the terrorists that I had seen. He had a submachine gun in his hand and it looked like six or seven high capacity mags strappedto his vest. I waited for him to turn away so I could sneak up on him. When I walked in he heard me from a step away and turned around. I knocked the gun out of his hand and broke the arm. Seeing his other hand go for a grenade I elbowed him in the face then snapped his neck.

Chapter 2

When he plopped to the floor I knew he was dead. I looked around and saw the scared class. I said, "You are fine now. Somebody lock that door!" I looked down to the terrorist and took off his ammo harness. I grabbed his radio and took what turned out to be an UZI. In a belt pouch I found a long cylindrical silencer and two fragmentation grenades. Perfect, I thought as I turned to the teacher, "Lock the door after I walk out there are more of them around!" I walked right out of the classroom into the other one I saw walk in and broke his knee before he could step back to bring up the SKS in his hands. I grabbed the rifle and jammed the butt into his jaw, breaking it. Then I smacked him in the face with it and knocked him out cold. I got a student to open the door and dragged him in, he wasn't dead. We found some duct tape and tied him up then gagged him with a sock. I took his equipment too, five thrty round SKS mags, a couple grenades, and a radio. Then I took the SKS, it had been converted for full auto and i figured that might come in handy. I slung it over my back and walked out the door and headed towards the office stairs. I made my way to the stairs, silenced UZI in hand. I figured that might be heavily guarded so on the way I grabbed a grenade out of the belt pouch I had taken and peeked around the corner for the Math hallway. Nobody. I kept going and started down the stairs, slowly because I'd heard gunfire from here all the way down the hall. I glanced around the corner and saw them three were by the far side of the stairs taking potshots at somebody and two mor were in the hall shooting at somebody. I pulled the pin with my teeth and threw it down there. Then I turned around and ran for cover. After the blast one was  still alive and took a potshot at me as I walked down the stairs. I wasn't going to have that so I quickly shot him with the UZI in the chest. He slumped down to the ground and as I continued down I kicked the gun out of his hand. When I walked around the corner two cops raised their weapons at me. "Who the hell are you?" Said one of the cops. All I could think of was, "Ben Beaver. I'm trying to get rid of these maniacs too!" Ok we can use all the help we can get. Got any way for us to reach you?" I grabbed another silenced UZI and handed him one of the radios. Then I told him, "I'll be on channel 6. Tell the rest of you to clear the first floor I can handle the top there shouldn't be too many more up there." He took it and as I turned away to go back up the stairs he yelled, "just don't get yourself killed!"  I continued up the stairs being as cautious as I could so I didn't get surprised by one of them. When I rounded the corner at the top of the stairs a terrorist came out of the Math hallway and shot a burst of automatic bullets in my direction. I dived into the Men's bathroom as they hit all around me. I felt one whiz by my ear as I made it in. I took both UZIs into hand and rolled out on my side. Catching him off guard I brought both UZIs up square on his chest and squeezed the trigger. Blood sprayed from his chest as I shot them.

Chapter 3

         After probably ten bullets I released tthe triggers. It probably took only a second or two. I almost puked at the sight but kept my breakfast down as I walked on. I turned down the Math hall and after I passed the locked door of 216 I heard more screams. Judging by the pitch it sounded like a girl. I ran down the hall for 219 it sounded like it came from there. I slid to a stop before I made it there and peeked through the door. It looked like two of them and one had a girl with his pistol to her head. I took the SKS off my back and brought it up as I stepped into the room. I killed one of them with a quick burst to his chest. Then the other spun around. The girl he had hostage wasn't just any girl it was one of my good friends, Chelsea. Curse words ran through my mind. What was I going to do? Then he said, "Don't shoot or she dies. Got it?" I nodded but kept the gun square on his forehead. I slowly flipped the selector switch on my gun to semi auto for a better shot and waited. After about a minute he raised his pistol to sratch his head through the ski mask. I chose that moment to take him out. I squeezed the trigger and it went ino his skull. It made a gory mess on the wall behind and as he fell backwards I ran forward to catch her. She fainted into my arm as I reached out to grab her. I wasn't going to be able to stay so I set her on the floor next to our friend Mark. As I walked out of the room a radio went off behind me.