As all of the L3 foot soldiers got into position, the GGR began to march down the street. I aimed my TS3 at the first GGR soldiers. They were looking around trying to find us. Kira came up next to me and sat there.
“What’s going on?” Kira asked. “Why aren’t any of your guys firing?”
“Look for yourself,” I said. Kira looked out the window and gasped.
“How did they build a weapon that big in such little time?” Kira asked.
“Don’t know,” I answered. “Sean M. is analyzing it from orbit. If he can find a weakness, that’s going to be the target.”
“Matt!” Sean M. called over the radio. “The only weakness is the barrel of the cannon. If you shot that, it could cause secondary explosions that would wipe out that entire armada.”
“Okay,” I answered. I told everyone else the news and we aimed at the barrel. The GGR began to charge the cannon and we fired. Nick and I did the most damage on the initial wave of fire. Everyone else was firing P-90x’s. The cannon began to smoke and it exploded. Because all of the N3 were either in ships or in buildings, we were protected. Everyone on the ground was taken out by the blast. Along with that, the building fronts were destroyed as well. None of us were injured and were becoming very bored. We left the buildings and began our advance on the GGR base. The GGR self-defenses opened fire, but couldn’t hit us because we were leaping from building to building. I stopped behind a pillar and shot the first turret. Kira took out another turret and Nick threw a grenade and destroyed something.
“What did you take out?” I asked him when I caught up with him.
“I don’t know,” he answered. “I just threw that to destroy something.”
“Smart,” I grumbled. I landed next to Kira and looked around. “Anymore security?”
“No,” she said. “I think that grenade that Nick threw took out the control center.”
“What happened?” Nick asked as he walked up.
“You took out the security control center when you threw that grenade,” I informed him. He smiled. “Nice throw.”
We walked up to the main doors of the complex and prepared ourselves for more security. The doors opened by themselves and a zombie stood there, unmoving. We stood there dumbfounded.
“A zombie?” I asked. “Why is there a zombie?”
“I don’t care,” Nick said. “Because I’m gonna kill it!”
“Wait!” I said quickly. “You won’t hit it before it blows pass us.”
“It can’t move that fast,” Nick said. “Zombies are the sleuths of the undead world.” Nick pulled out a sword and swung at it. The zombie moved so fast that all we saw was its shadow of where it was standing a second ago. Following that was a stench that could only be challenged by 600 dead skunks. The smell soon faded when a massive explosion occurred behind us. We turned to look and saw the zombie on fire screaming. It fell to the ground and stopped moving.
“That was easy,” Kira said.
“It’s not over,” I said uneasily. “Look.”
The zombie stood up and walked over with great difficulty. When it reached us it raised the remains of its right arm, ready to have a feast on our brains. Before it could though, it crumbled into ash and whatever else a zombie is made of.
None of us knew what to do at that moment. Nick laughed in victory, while Kira sighed in relief. I did the smart thing (I think). I pulled out a grenade and dropped it on the pile that was the zombie. Kira saw what I was doing and ran. Nick and I followed her. The grenade exploded and we fell into the building.
“Well now,” I said. “That was easy.”
Kira looked at me as if I was crazy. She slapped me in the face and walked off. Nick looked at me and laughed. I looked back then walked off. Nick shrugged his shoulders and followed us.
We walked into a huge room that had paintings on the wall. The paintings had no particular picture on them, but they were kind of interesting. I stepped up to one to take a look. Nick turned to see where I was at.
“Matt!” Nick shouted. “Don’t touch it!” I had my fingers about one inch away from the center of the painting.
“Why?” I asked.
“These paintings are transports,” Nick explained. “If you touch one you end up in some room, and you can’t retrace your steps.”
“Oh,” I said. I brought my hand back. “Maybe I can use a recon drone to see what goes where.”
“You can,” Nick said. “But there has to be something organic on it. And it has to be eukaryotic.”
“Okay,” I said irritated. “Let’s not get into a biology lesson, okay?”
“Fine,” Nick said.
“Hurry up!” Kira shouted. “We’ve got zombies incoming!”
“Zombies?” Nick and I asked at the same time.
“Yeah,” Kira said nervously. “There are hundreds of them. There are a few vampires, and a fireball or two. Mostly zombies. There is some guy in front though. He’s wearing a cape and has a trail of fire behind him. Friend of yours?”
“Hardly,” I said. “We don’t want a confrontation with him right now. Everyone, take a different painting, and run!”
We each jumped into the nearest painting that we could find. I rode in a portal of some sort to the exit. I glanced around and saw a sun and a few random planets. As I reached the end, I felt a light breeze, and I assumed that it was the signal for the end. The closer I was, the harder the breeze. Eventually, it felt like a hurricane was hitting me. I thought I would be torn apart before I had made it out of the portal. I was spit out of the portal and landed on my face.
“That was fun,” I groaned. I stood up to see where I was. At first I saw a bunch of ice. Next thing I noticed was that it was freezing in the room. I saw a doorway and walked toward it. When I reached the door I nearly fell over. It was extremely windy outside and much colder. I realized that I was back on Earth, more specifically,
“And that was low power,” I mumbled. I smiled, put the watch weapons in my pocket, and jumped into the painting. I rode the painting like last time (with all the wind) and wondered what was happening to Nick and Kira.
“Die losers!” Nick wound up in some place where the GGR soldiers trained at. So far he had fought off 300 of them and they just kept coming.
“Capture the intruder!” one of them shouted.
“Halt!”
“Freeze!” Someone fired a gun at Nick, missed, and froze a gas canister.
“Burn sucker!” Someone else fired a flamethrower at him, missed (seems to be a trend), and hit the same canister.
“Idiots!” Nick screamed. “You just hit a frozen canister of compressed gas that is extremely flammable!” Nick jumped over them and ran as fast as he could while taking down a bunch of GGR soldiers attacking him. As he moved farther and farther away, the canister began to leak. Nick didn’t know that the canister contained and enhanced version of jet fuel mixed with liquid and frozen O2 and H3 (much more explosive than H2). Then canister exploded, sending Nick across a huge landing pad, with a massive painting in the middle. The nameplate on the painting said
“Oh…” Nick shouted. He put his hands in front of him to prevent some burning, knowing that it would kill him instantly. Instead, the blast hit his hands and was absorbed into his hands.
“How did he…?” someone said below him. Nick spun so that he could see the ground well enough. He made a fist and threw a punch. A blast of fire shot out of his hand and hit the ground. The immediate area was incinerated and the painting was slightly singed. Nick then created a massive charge of energy and fired it straight into the painting. The portal that was formed took a huge shook from that. It began to collapse and swirl. The event horizon began to swirl and grow smaller and smaller. The frame began to break and collapse as well.
Kira stood up and brushed herself off.
“Who made those things anyway?” she asked herself. “The need to put in some inertial dampeners in it or something.” Kira looked around to see where she was at. Next to her painting was another painting that looked similar. She walked down a hall to find one unusual painting. It had a picture of
“What is happening here?” a man asked her. Kira looked to see a man with a stupid looking mustache, bald, and wearing black suit looking horrified. “Was this painting in this condition when you found it?”
“Yes,” Kira answered. “I smelt something burning, so I came to see what it was and…” The man stopped her.
“Then
Kira was sprinting down the hall suddenly. The man looked up and saw her running.
“Halt or I will shoot you,” the man said with a hint of evil in his voice. Kira looked behind her to see the man holding a gun.
“You couldn’t hit me if you tried,” Kira said. “I can tell because you are shaking.”
“I will shoot you!” he screamed. Kira then pulled out a P-90 and shot him in the chest. She looked to her left and leapt into the painting. “You’ll… never……. escape………. child.” The man died on the floor, bleeding from the mouth and chest.
“Why do these things have to be so bumpy?” I asked no one. I pulled myself off the floor and glanced around. I was in a small room with three paintings. One read Africa, another
“Whoa!” Nick said excitedly.
“What happened?” I asked.
“I blew up
“That is sw33t!” I said.
“I know!” Nick said back. A different painting suddenly spit out a person. Nick and I looked and saw Kira on the ground holding a P-90.
“Why did you destroy
“I didn’t do that,” I said. “It was Nick.” She looked at me and shook her head.
“Anyway,” Nick said. “How do we get out of this?” I looked around. I then realized that we were in a cage.
“Well,” I began. “We can use these watched that I found.” I handed them to Kira and Nick. “They should fire a very powerful blast of energy. If you keep it at low power, then you can just cut the bars.”
Nick looked at me, then at Kira, then he kit his hands on fire and burned his way through the bars. He then rolled out and fired a massive wall of fire at the wall that was in front of us. As the wall collapsed, I fired my P-90 without any warning.
“What was that for?” Kira yelled. As the smoke cleared, a silhouette formed. I knew who it was before I could see him clearly. Brian stepped out into clear view and he wasn’t alone.
“I see you have some new piercing,” I said mockingly. Brian healed quickly and smiled evilly.
“Not anymore,” he said.
“Who’s your new friend?” Nick asked.
“This is Kaidel,” he said. “She was lost and I was showing her the way out when we heard you people talking and we came to see what was going on. Oh yeah, there was a door in the wall.” Brian glanced at Nick.
“This is completely random,” I said suddenly. “Hey Nick, can I get a light?” I held up a cigar.
“Sure,” he said. He snapped his fingers and my cigar lit up.
“Here you go Brian,” I said. “A brand new, freshly wrapped, Cuban cigar.”
I handed the cigar to Brian and moved back quickly.
“Why did you…” Brian began to ask. The cigar exploded in his hand, knocking Kaidel out of the way. We ran out of the room and began to look for an exit.
“I will kill them,” Kaidel said angrily. She stood up and looked around for us.
“You won’t find them,” Brian said. “They’ve already left.”
“Hey Brian,” I said through a PA system.
“Yes?” he asked in response.
“Prepare to fall to your death! After too many confrontations and such,” I declare.
“How?” Brian asks. The floor opened up below him and Kaidel and they fall through the hole, down to the earth. From what I found out in the control room, they fell 32,000,000 feet. They survived though.
“So how do we leave?” Nick asked.
“That unnaturally large painting on the wall,” Kira said. “Duh.”
“Let’s go now,” I said. “This place has been rigged with liquid and solid O2 and H3.”
I walked up to the painting and jumped. I smacked straight into the painting.
“It’s has a heat shield,” Kira said. “You need a heat form to drop it.”
“Oh,” I groaned. I peeled my face off the painting. Nick walked up and shot a massive wall of flame at it. We jumped through and landed in a volcano.
“Who the #$%@ puts a painting in a volcano?” Nick shouted. “I mean, that is just plain stupid!”
“Well, whoever put the painting here is just weird,” I said. I walked over to a lava stream and looked around. From what I could tell, we were in a missile launch bay. I couldn’t tell whose those they were. Nick walked up and look around.
“Looks like it could be anybody’s missile base,” Nick suggested. “Did the N3 have any?”
“No,” I responded. “If we did, I would have wiped out the GGR a long time ago. That and I would have probably destroyed any evidence that they ever existed.”
“I have a question,” Kira said suddenly. “Who are the good guys and bad guys in this war? I mean, the N3 and the GGR have been at war for how long?”
“I don’t know,” I answered.
“Also,” Kira continued, “people keep trying to kill each other, mostly you though. Nick, you changed sides once, and Brian tried to kill you suddenly, right? Paul did the same thing to you Matt. Suzie keeps trying to kill you, and…”
“Okay!” I shouted. “We get the picture! I know I’m the target of thousands of assassinations a year, I don’t care. If I can either take control of this galaxy or leave this galaxy entirely, then I’m okay. Until then…”
“Until then, you are a wanted man,” someone said. I turned around to look for the source of the voice. A person stepped out from behind a shadow and revealed who he/she was. Of all the people I could have run into, it was Amber.
“Oh crap,” I said. I sighed. “Why are you here?”
“This is my missile base,” Amber said. “Why do you ask?”
“No reason,” I answer. “Hey, Nick, you have your tank sniper handy?”
“Yep,” he replied. He was holding it and the safety was… there is no safety on that thing…. Anyway, I pulled out my TS3 and made sure that it was ready for combat. Nick fired suddenly at one of the missiles. I fired a few shots a different missile to take down a few.
“Idiots!” Amber shouted. “Those are empty!”
“I figured!” I shouted back. I aimed for an engine a fired like crazy. Nick shot at Amber a few times while I hit the missiles engines. The engines were filled, so they exploded. Amber became annoyed with us, so she shot back at us. Nick’s gun created a shield for us and the bullets flew around and hit miscellaneous objects around the volcano.
As we continued this little fire fight, I noticed that the missiles that were hit did seem to explode, even when we shot it with the tank snipers.
“Cover me!” I shouted. Nick opened fire on Amber again, mostly to distract her. Amber dove behind a rock so she wouldn’t get hit. The rock itself was several inches thick, so she would have about 50 seconds before Nick broke through. I slid down a hill and leapt over a rocky outcrop to reach the missiles. As I reached them, Amber tried shooting me, but with no success. She fired three times, and then had to dive away from an explosion Nick caused. I found the command console, and had the engines start. I set the target and ran. I made it back to where Nick was and fired several shots at Amber to keep her at bay.
“Well?” Nick asked.
“We leave now!” I shouted. Nick ran behind me as we left. I looked behind me. Kira was helping Amber up and pulling out a small rocket launcher. Nick must have seen my face because he turned around.
“Move!” Nick shouted. I jumped to my left and Nick went to the right. A small rocket flew and hit the spot we were just at. The ground exploded and left a very deep crater in the ground. Nick and I made it to the wall and began to climb. I looked at my watch to see the time.
“We have thirty seconds until the rockets take off,” I told Nick. He nodded and continued to climb. We reached the top in twenty seconds and stopped to take a quick breather. I looked down to see where Amber and Kira were. I couldn’t see them so I assumed that they had a secondary escape route.
The rockets launched and flew up about 500 feet (we were deep in the volcano). They shut off their engines and fell. As they fell, Nick realized where I wanted them to go.
“You are insane!” he shouted. We jumped up and ran. The rockets hit the lava and exploded. The force of the explosion sent lava everywhere and also caused it to rise. We felt the heat approaching us quickly, and I thought that we would be buried in extremely hot lava. We kept running until we ran into, no, through a wall.
“What the…” I began. We had entered into a concealed elevator shaft with the elevator sitting there waiting. Nick and I ran into the elevator and hit the button for the top floor. I turned around and saw Amber and Kira standing there with their backs turned. They turned around and looked around. They mumbled something and turned back around.
“Close,” Nick whispered. We were hanging on the ceiling of the elevator we hung there until our doors opened. When they did, we jumped through them. Amber and Kira saw us and tried to catch us but the doors closed before they could get out.
“That was closer,” I said. We looked around and I nearly slapped myself in the face. We were in the lobby of a huge office building. But that wasn’t what made me slap my face. It was the fact that there were hundreds (yes I mean hundreds; the lobby was the size of three football fields) of soldier standing around armed.
“Oh crap,” Nick said.
“This is why we tried to grab you as the doors opened,” Amber said. I turned around to see Kira and Amber standing there.
“You know these people?” I asked.
“Yes,” Amber answered. “This is a small selection f my army.”
“F’sk,” Nick muttered. “We are going to die.”
“F’sk,” Nick muttered. “We are going to die.”
“Not if we use these,” I say. I pull out my tank sniper and point it at our enemies. Nick pulled out his and aimed it as well.
“Here goes nothing,” Nick said. We opened fire and began to move in a circular motion. The girls (what is with that) began to fire back at us. Nicks gravity shield kept the bullets from hitting us and that gave us the best advantage.
“Hit them!” someone screamed.
“We can’t!” another person yelled.
“Nick?” I asked. Nick rolled so that he could get a clean shot at the ceiling and fired. It collapsed and created a huge dust cloud that overwhelmed everyone and allowed Nick and I to escape. We ran into the closest doors and had our guns ready for any sudden combat. The doors led to a long corridor with windows going all the way down. It was dark outside except for one particular spot. I walked over to the window and looked.
“What is it?” Nick asked.
“I don’t know,” I answered. All I could see was an enormous metal floor below us. On the floor were turrets that kept swiveling around, as if they were trying to find something. Nick walked over to see.
“Wow,” he said. “What do you think those are for?”
“If they’re moving,” I began to say, “then it’s active. And if it’s active, then there is something down there that has some value.”
We began to walk down the hall, mostly to prevent anyone finding us due to noise that we could produce. Unfortunately, we weren’t looking for any traps on the floor, so we activated a security measure. I glanced out at the turrets and saw one spin around and aim at us.
“Oh…” I started. The turret fired, hitting the walkway. I pushed Nick forward so that he could keep going and that anyone who came from the direction we just came from would catch him. The walkway exploded, knocking me around. Something hit me in the head, knocking me unconscious. When I woke up, Nick was watching the area. My gun was resting on a box that was sitting next to me.
“Nice move, Matt,” Nick said. He sat down against another box. From all the boxes, I assumed we were in a storage area.
“What happened?” I asked. I sat up and rubbed the back of my head. I had a major headache.
“When you pushed me,” Nick explained, “you ended up getting thrown back. As you flew, you fired some grapple item at the walkway. You held on as the wind from the explosion pushed you. I ended up pulling you back toward the walkway and dragging your unconscious body here, the storage area of an attack ship. We took off about three hours ago.”
“How did I knock myself out?” I asked.
“As you flew back, a chunk of metal hit you in the back of your head,” nick said. That explained the headache. I picked up my gun and sat for a few more minutes. “From what I heard, this is going to engage the GGR here on Earth.”
“That’s great,” I said.
“Then their going to find the N3 bases and transports and take those,” Nick continued.
“Let’s go hit their engines,” I said suddenly.
“Why?” Nick asked.
“If they take down the GGR, then we are screwed,” I explained. Nick nodded and stood up. We made our way out of the cargo bay (without setting off anymore security) and towards the engines. I thought that there would be people swarming through the corridors, but they were empty except for the occasional engineer or security guard.
“Five security guards?” I asked myself in shock. “Why do they need five security guards for an engine room?”
“There might be more than just an engine in there,” Nick said.
“Oh well,” I say with a light sign. “They’re going down.” Nick looked at me as if I meant I would use a massive explosive. I pulled out 2 stun waves and did a gunslinger move. (Spinning the gun around my fingers thing.) I leapt out and did a matrix maneuver. I rolled out on the ground and fired both at once. Two of the guards fell and the other three came running. I rolled forward and stunned the next two and punched the last one in the face, knocking her out.
“You know,” Nick said. “You not supposed to hit girls.”
“When you’re at war,” I replied, “manners aren’t in effect. It’s a free-for-all.” I stepped past the four stunned girls and the one with a bloody face and went into the engine room. I reached the generator and planted some explosives on it. Nick went to the other side and did the same. We began to walk out when an alarm went off. I checked around to make sure that I didn’t set anything off. Nick shook his head.
“There are intruders on the ship,” a female voice on a pa system said. “Please refer to page 101 of the Intruders for Dummies for further instructions.” Nick and I continued down a hall that we found and stopped when we reached the end. I glanced around the corner to see if the coast was clear, then we ran down a different hall. Soon we were at a window. I looked outside to see where we were.
“Looks nice,” I said. We were above an uncharted in the North Pacific.
“I found an escape pod,” Nick said. He walked over to look outside. Apparently we had become distracted because several girls had come up on us from both sides.
“That was stupid,” Kira said. She walked to the front of one of the groups. “Stopping to see the view. That could kill you.” She held up an AK-47 and aimed at Nick.
“She’s right,” I heard Amber say. She stepped to the front of the other group. She pulled out a grenade launcher. “It can kill you.”
Before anyone could react, I shoved Nick into the escape pod, launched it, and detonated the charges in the engine room. Amber and the girls with her ran to the other side to avoid the explosion. Someone accidentally knocked me back into the blast.
“Matt?” Nick shouted as the pod left. “What are you doing?” His voice faded a he grew farther and farther away. The explosion blew open parts of the wall and sent me through one of the holes. As I fell, I looked up and saw an extremely powerful nuke pushed out one of the holes. From what I could tell, it was armed. It caught up with me and I grabbed it for a lifeboat. I rode it all the way to the island below. Before I hit the ground I leapt off the nuke and fell the rest of the way. A large piece of metal stabbed me in the back (just missing anything vital) and went straight through.
I hit the ground and nearly screamed from the pain that shot through me. The nuke hit less than 2 seconds later, and it exploded. The shockwave hit me first, then the heat and radiation.
Nick saw the explosion from the escape pod he was in as he flew away from the ship. Amber, Kira, and anyone else who could see the island saw the mushroom cloud. Everyone thought I was dead, and that the planets I controlled in this galaxy, and the other galaxies I controlled were up for grabs. After the cloud subsided, Amber and Kira went down to see if I was still alive somehow. Nick returned with a few scouts to see the same thing. Nobody could find my body or any trace of me, so I was announced dead.
“Wow,” Suzie said. “This can’t be true.”
“It is,” Alaini said. “He was killed by a nuke.”
“I think he’s still alive,” Stephanie said. “He seems to survive anything else. What’s to keep him from dying this time?”
“I hope he’s dead,” Paul said. (He was on crutches and had some bandages from our last conflict.) “I would kill him the next time I saw him.”
“I he didn’t trip you the next time you would have seen him,” Alaini remarked.
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“If Matt’s dead,” Vincinte began, “who is in charge of the N3?”
“I guess we’ll have to divide it amongst ourselves,” Sean M. said.
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“Crap,” Brian said. “I won’t get to kill him.”
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“If he is dead,” Jon stated, “then I’ll stay the bounty head!”
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“If he didn’t die, then I could find out where the other galaxies he controls are,” Amber muttered.
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“What’s going on?” Kaidel asked Jon. “Who’s Matt?” Everybody turned to look at Kaidel (even though they weren’t all on the same planet). Suddenly, Ervin comes up in a hummer and hits Kaidel.
“Take that!” he shouts. He then drives away.
It was a few days later Nick made it back to the Antarctic base. He walked in and stopped. Sean M., Vincinte, and a few n1nj45 were standing around.
“Matt’s…,” Sean M. began.
“Dead,” Nick said. “I know; I saw him die.”
“I’m not dead!” they heard me say. “I’m somewhere where people in red coats have old guns and ride horses! Come get me out of this hell!”
“Wow,” Vincinte said. “We can still hear his voice. It’s almost like a conscious now.”
“Go to the third quadrant of
“Great,” Nick groaned. “It needs a password and I don’t have one. If Matt used something simple, that wouldn’t be like him. It’s not like he would use the password Deathraythatkillseverylivingthingontheplanetinadifferentgalaxy. That couldn’t be it.”
After Nick said “Deathraythatkillseverylivingthingontheplanetinadifferentgalaxy”, the computer logged in.
“Welcome to the weapons system analysis,” a monotone computer voice said. “Is there any particular weapons base you would like to see?”
“Weapons data,” Nick said.
“Processing,” the computer replied. Nick sat and waited. The screen soon showed some information that Nick found very interesting.
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“What do you mean Amber deserted?” Suzie yelled.
“I’m sorry miss,” a freaked soldier said. “We found a note and three grenades. The second the note was touched, the grenades went off.”
“Get Stephanie in here,” she ordered the soldier.
“She has also deserted,” the soldier said. Suzie turned around, frustrated and annoyed. She pulled out a gun and shot the soldier.
Stephanie was wandering the streets of the planet that she was on. A moment later, she was in a field with men in red coats shooting at guys in random cloths. She turned around and saw a figure disappear behind a tree. She ran after the figure.
Nick walked back into the main base five days later.
“Where have you been?” Sean M. asked.
“In a weapons lab,” Nick answered. “Why?”
“We have reports of ships going through weird holes in space and on various planets,” Sean M. said. “All of them somehow relating to Matt. Most of the holes are appearing near the island where Matt died at.”
“Really?” Nick said. “Then we must go to one of these and find out what they are and what they do!” After Nick’s bold statement, a vortex opened and sent them flying through, right in front of my feet.
“Oh man!” I screamed. I was lying on the ground, clutching my side. If you remember, I was impaled in the back by some flying metal, and then hit by a nuclear warhead. I died, I think. If I died, then something brought me back to life. I tried to stand, but the pain was unbearable. I looked to see how bad it was. It had gone completely through my body, and somehow missed nerves and blood vessels. I sat around for a moment, and then tried to get up again. The pain felt the same, but I ignored it and stood. I looked around and nearly collapsed from the pain and heat.
“This thing is really annoying,” I said quietly. I reached down and tugged on it a little, so I could slide it out. I nearly fainted from that. I did it one more time, and passed out.
“Oh man,” I groaned. “I really need to stop passing out.” I stood up and placed my hand on the metal. Instead of jerking it out slowly, I yanked it straight out. That didn’t hurt initially, so I didn’t scream or anything. Then the pain hit.
“Ahhhh!” I shouted. If you could see this from a distance, trees were falling. I had started to slash the palm trees that surrounded me. I bandaged the wound and sat on a tree stump. I thought for a moment, and then realized that I was on a weapons storage platform and a test lab.
“If I can get to that lab, I should be okay,” I said to myself. I stood up and began to walk. “If I can remember where it is at.”
I walked for an hour and still couldn’t find it. I tripped on a string that was placed between two trees. I looked at the string and saw that it was new. I became a little nervous because I don’t put strings around. I stood up and followed the string. About three miles away, there was a nuclear explosion.
“Oh come on,” the explosion hit me. I stood up a little later and looked around (for the third or so time) and saw that all the trees were vaporized. I saw a cave with some writing on a sign. I walked up to the sign, and saw that it was fading and chipped. But I knew that this was the weapons storage. I walked in, got some P-90s of all types, an armor suit, and a few extra weapons. Next, I walked over to the testing area and stepped onto a platform.
“I wonder what this is for,” I said to myself. The platform suddenly began to flash and energy began to swirl around me. The next thing I knew, there were cannonballs falling and guys in red suits running around shooting. I jumped up and dove out of the way of a horse. I saw a light appear and saw Stephanie. I dove behind a tree and leapt into the woods.
“Hey wait!” I heard her say. Stephanie walked up under the tree I was hiding in. “I need a place to stay until I figure out where I am and what happened.” I sighed, then dropped down next to her.
“Fine,” I said. “I’ll help you. That’s only if you help me.” Stephanie stood there in shock. “What?”
“You’re dead!” she shouted at me.
“Not the last time I checked,” I said. “I was injured, knocked around, a little drunk, and scared, but not dead.” Stephanie nodded slightly and stood around. “You might need this.” I hand her a P-90. “We might be uninvited to this little party.”
“Over here sir!” a guy in a red coat shouted. “I can hear them!” I spun out from behind a tree and shot him in the face.
“Run!” I shouted. Stephanie came running after me as red coats chased us. We came to a stream and stopped. Behind us, these guys stopped and surrounded us in a semi-circle.
“Who are you?” the guy in the horse asked. “Where are you from? Are you British or American? Who are you loyal to? Why do you not answer?”
“I would if you’d shut up!” Stephanie said angrily.
“Young lady!” another guy said. “Where are your manners? This is a fine soldier under the rule of King George III.”
“Oh,” I said. “In that case, I am on no side. I’ll take you down, and I’ll take the Americans down! (Note – this is during the Revolutionary War. If you think that…) Stand down or prepare for a fight that will be your last!”
“A bit brace are we?” Stephanie asked me quietly.
“Nope,” I answered. “Just drunk! Especially from all of that radiation!”
“Radiation?” Stephanie asked.
“Two nukes exploding within 2 hours.,” I say excitedly. “Not good.”
“What are you talking about?” the horseback rider asked impatiently. “What is a nuke? What is…” Before he finished, I sot him several times. He fell from his horse and died. I jumped into the stream and swam underneath the water. The red coats began shooting into the water after me. I fired my watch weapon at one guy and hit the ground instead. The ground exploded beneath him and sent him into the water.
“What happened?” he asked Stephanie. He began to splash around. Stephanie just looked at him. I shot out of the water and threw a grenade underneath him. It exploded and threw him into the air. He fell back to the planet and smacked his head against a tree, then against a rock. He had a major concussion and several other injuries. The remaining guys stood there in shock. Stephanie spun around and shot each of them using a handgun.
“Nice,” I said. “I think we should leave though.”
“Yeah,” Stephanie agreed. “But remember, after this, I will kill you the next time I see you.”
“I was hot by two nukes,” I said. “I don’t care what you do, I’ll somehow survive.”
“Whatever,” she said. She walked away. I jogged after to catch up. As we walked down a dirt path, I became bored.
“What is this place anyway?” I asked.
“Don’t know,” Stephanie answered. “But as soon as you get us back to where we came from, I don’t want to see you.”
“Fine,” I answered. Suddenly, there was a bright flash behind us. We turned around to see what it was. We were looking at a vortex that somehow opened up to the present. I could see Nick, Sean M., and Vincinte talking.
“I’m not dead!” I shouted.
“Wow,” Vincinte said. “We can still hear his voice. It’s almost like a conscious.”
After Vincinte said that, I slapped my face. “I can’t believe this,” I groaned.
“Well tell them something!” Stephanie said urgently. “It’s about to close.”
“Go to the third quadrant of
“Over here!” some person in the distance said. “I heard voices!”
“Not again,” I groaned. The vortex closed up and I sat up.
“Halt!” a man in a red coat shouted.
“Who are you people?” I asked.
“You don’t know?” he asked. He sounded surprised. “I am a British soldier fighting for
“Oh, really?” I said. “You’re British?”
“Yes,” he answered with pride. “Now, are you loyal to the king or are you Americans?”
“I am a neutral party in this conflict,” I answered. “I am currently engaged in a battle for sovereignty of several galaxies and I have no time for fighting a war that I could win single handedly!”
“Silence!” he shouted. “I don’t have tome to listen to your imagination.” As he said that, another vortex opened and a massive ship flew out. Seconds later, thousands of vortexes opened and more and more ships came through. Some were N3, others GGR. And others still were part of Amber’s fleet.
“See?” I asked. “This is your doom!” One of the GGR ships suddenly fired at the ground, blowing it apart and sending the British dude flying. Another vortex opened and dumped Nick, Sean M., Vincinte, and some others at my feet.
“Matt!” everyone shouted at once. Nick was the first one standing. He had his gun pointing at Stephanie.
“Has she brainwashed you or anything?” Nick asked.
“No,” I said. “She’s a deserter of the GGR. She has hekped take down a few of the British.”
“British?” Nick asked.
“We are currently in the middle of the Revelutionary War,” Sean M. explained. “These vortexes are time holes that allow one way travel. For now we are trapped here.”
I turned around and saw the Americans standing there with George Washington at the front. “Prepare to fire!” he declared. Behind us, the British were approaching.
“Move!” Amber shouted. She was standing at the tree line. “They are after you!” We ran into the trees and the British and Americans began to fire. We ran until we were on a cobblestone road. We walked until we saw more and more buildings. I saw a woman up ahead so I jogged ahead to ask where we were.
“Excuse me ma’am,” I said. She turned around and screamed.
“Ahhhh! Muggers!”
“What the…” I stuttered. I turned around and shrugged. We walked farther into the area. I noticed we were getting some weird looks.
“Not very friendly,” Nick whispered. “I think they think that we are foreigners.” Amber tried to talk to another person.
“Savages!” the same woman screamed. I spun around so fast I was looking two ways at the same.
“Shut up!” I shouted back.
“Don’t do that Matt,” Sean M. warned. “This could cause problems.”
“I don’t care!” I shouted at him. “I could care less about where we are now. I’m just going to destroy this place. There is nobody here to stop
“This is the FTSE!” Nick declared. He went into the description and stuff. Here is a dumbed down version.
Fr33 Typ3 for Dummies
By: Matt and Nick
Weapons Special!
This is the FTSE for dummies. Here, we will discuss the tank sniper 5th edition. To read the full version, look for Fr33 Typ3 for Dummies located in the information isle.
The Tank Sniper 5 is so far, the ultamite weapon. The defense capabilities are rather dangerous, considering that the gravity shield now propels fire as items hit it.
The specialty of this tank sniper is that only Nick can use it because he can make fire. When he fires it, there is a massive explosion. This is the bullet combusting to temperatures of 12 trillion degrees Celsius. As it moves, a vacuum is created behind it and that causes things to be torn off something, or a building or structure being destroyed. Though the bullet might not hit the bullet, but the vacuum causes it to collapse either into a micro-singularity or just fall apart. If it hits the core of a planet or something that ha massive heat, then the planet will explode. Or, the bullet will travel through the planet killing whatever is on the other side at that point in time.
Now, back to the show! Err… Fr33 Typ3!
After Nick did his little description of the FTSE, we began shooting. I fired at a building, and it burst into flames. Nick fired several shots and the area suddenly collapsed into a singularity, then popped out of existence. I then leapt over everyone and began to fire madly at any person who wasn’t with our little group.
“Stop him!” a person shouted. A rifle fired behind me and clipped the gravity shield. I spun around and saw who shoot me. George Washington was standing there with a rifle and a small armada. I aimed at George Washington and fired. He exploded into a massive fireball. Suddenly, we were in a plantation in the south. I put up my TS3 and walked up to the door and knocked.
“Hello?” a white male said (I’m saying color due to the time period we are in). He looked at me then frowned. “Who is your master?” He looked over at the group. “Are any of them your master?”
I looked at him for a moment, and then shot him in the eye. “Ah! My eye!” he shouted. I kicked him in the groin and punched his face. “Why did you shoot me in the eye?”
“Well, um, I don’t know. It felt good to shoot your eye,” I answered.
“You bastard!” he yodeled. “My eye is bleeding! I have no way to see you!” I kicked him again, then punched him, and finally, I beat the crap out of him and punched it back into him. Nick then proceeded to light the man on fire ending Matt blood thursty rampage pre-maturely. Amber and Kira just shook their heads. Amber pulled out a shotgun and shot the back of the knee.
“What the freak?” I said. “That will only take three minutes to fall out of my skin! Can we please not have a reason to kill each other for as long as we are stuck here?!”
“Fine,” Amber answered annoyed. “I try not to try to kill you.” I looked at her, then limped off.
We were walking down a street, some man saw us and came running. I saw him as well and prepared to fight. He stopped when he was a few feet away. “Hey!” he shouted breathlessly. “You can’t wander the streets!” He never finished what he was saying. I beat the crap out of him, back into him, and beat the crap through him. He groaned something, so I punched his face in. Amber walked up, and began to beat him senselessly. I stepped back slowly and turned my back. Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in my back. I looked behind me and saw that Amber had stabbed me in the back.
“So,” I said. “You’re a literal back stabber.”
“I’m only doing this because you need to stop beating people up!” she said angrily.
“Fine,” I grunted. She pulled the blade out of my back and kicked the guy in the knee.
“It was fun beating him up,” Amber said suddenly. She started to walk ahead on the road. “Are you guys coming?” We all started walking forward.
We had been walking for a few hours when there was a gunshot in the distance. Nick and I spun around with our guns ready. Sean M. pulled out binoculars and looked around. He pointed suddenly.
“Over there,” Sean M. said. “There is a battle going on.” Once he said that, Nick and I were running toward it. I began to fire as soon as I could see someone’s head. Nick jumped on a guy and fired thousands of shots into his head. As the dead guy burned and disintegrated, Nick opened fire on anyone who shot at him, pointed at him, or even looked at him (in general). I snuck up on somebody, and tapped his shoulder. The person looked behind him and was punched in the eye (I always target the eye) then fired once in the crotch. He doubled over and screamed. I placed C4 on his other eye, and ran.
“Why do those two always kill anyone who’s shooting something?” Stephanie asked. A stray TS3 shot blew pass them, missing them by an inch and hitting Ulysses S. Grant. His eyes exploded from his head, and his knees flew from his body. Nick ran up to his dead body, stuck a grenade in his mouth and ran. The body exploded, showering everyone next to it with ashes and guts.
“Hey Nick!” I shouted. “There are cannons! They have begun shooting back and now have pissed me off! You?”
Nick simply began firing at the cannons. Each one he hit exploded as if it were a miniaturized nuclear warhead. I began firing as if I were in the matrix. As I fired and jumped, I felt a slight tug. Next thing I knew, I was floating in an area of something. I looked around, and saw everyone floating as well.
“Now what?” I asked.
“Let’s go the ancient Japanese time and get some swords,” Nick suggested. We all agreed and floated some more.
“How do we do that?” Amber asked.
“Let’s try shouting out where we want to go,” Alaini suggested. “To the Japanese!”
Stephanie sighed and gave a date that would be somewhere around the time period of where we wanted to go. The white space we were in disappeared and we were in
“Matt?” Nick asked.
“My fight!” I shouted. I charged at them and leapt into the air. The first person I hit was the guy on the horse. He fell down and I landed on the horse. I began slicing and shooting at anyone who came to close or attacked me. One man was decapitated and another one lost his arms. One man’s face was knocked off (literally). I stole one guy’s sword and kicked him in the, guess. Yes, the eye. He fell backwards and rolled down a steep hill, which lead into the ocean. Suddenly, a shark leapt out of the water and ate him. We all stopped to see the spectacle of a shark eating a flying man.
“Wow,” I said. All of the men surrounding me turned back at me and looked angry. One took out a revolver and aimed. I cut the gun and kick him into the water. Again a shark ate him. Jon took out a fishing rod and went fishing for a little while.
I turned back to the men surrounding me. I began spinning my swords in circles and began to pulse energy out of them. I leapt into the air and hi the ground. A shockwave flew towards them and knocked them clean into the air. The ion charge destroyed the ground below them and sent the ground after them. Those who weren’t hit by the wave of dirt were eaten by sharks. (There are a lot of sharks around here.)
“Well,” Jon said. “There are no good weapons that fell off those guys.”
“That’s why you were fishing?” I asked.
“Yeah,” Jon said. “I mean more weapons…”
“Means Matt and Nick will destroy more things and…” Amber started.
“Why do you care?” I asked suddenly. “Are you afraid that I might come to take your galaxy by force?” Amber didn’t say anything after that. We began to walk for a while. I looked around to see where we were. There were mountains in the distance and it appeared that there was a storm approaching.
“Hey, Matt, what’s wrong?” Nick asked.
“Storm,” I said.
“No,” Sean M. said. “It’s a typhoon.”
“And the difference is?” Alaini asked.
“A typhoon is a hurricane spinning counter-clockwise,” Suzie explained.
“Well, my FTSE should take car of this,” Nick said.
“No, don’t,” I said. “That would destroy the mountain in the process.”
“Why don’t we go to another time period?” Amber suggested.
“Like where?” I ask.
“The Greek times!” she shouted.
“When?” I asked. “When during the Greek times?”
“Trojan?” Amber said. There was a bright flash and we were again between forces in a battle. Nick grinned and I sighed. I pulled out my TS3 and aimed at a shield. From what I could tell, the armies hadn’t noticed us yet. Nick and I fired constantly, taking down hundreds of soldiers and not missing anyone. When we finished, those who remained (somehow, there were only 6) stood there in awe. So… hang on.
Um… since Matt had to go do something, I (Nick) will take over. So, there were six guys just standing there. They didn’t move or anything. Matt aimed at one and prepared to shoot. Amber jumped up and stopped him.
“Don’t kill him Matt!” Amber shouted.
“Why?” Matt asked. “He’s seen too much to live!”
“He’s right!” I shouted. “If they live, they’ll send armies after us. Then we’ll have to fight them!” Hang on… yeah, I’m good. Really? Huh. Send it to me via e-mail. Where’s Matt? Sensors? GGR right? No? Get back to me later. I’m busy. Where were we? Oh yeah! “If we have to fight them, then we’ll have more fun!”
“Nick,” Matt said. “You’re crazy. But yeah, that would be fun.”
“Señor,” Sean M. said. “Nosotros tenemos ir a la montaña.”
“Why did you say that in Spanish?” Stephanie asked.
“Because,” Sean M. said. “It’s cool.”
“Anyway,” Stephanie said. “What did he say?”
“We have to go to the mountain,” Amber said. We all walked toward the mountain. When we reached the top (which wasn’t very long), we saw a sight that made me pull out my FTSE. There were thousands of soldiers standing in battle formation.
“The Mesopotamians,” Matt said. “Thousands. And they’re in that battle formation. You know, with the shields all around them making a wall and the spears pointing out so you can’t get to close.”
“Indeed!” Sean M. said.
“How long has he been the brain?” Matt asked.
“Not to long,” I answered.
“So can you boys defeat it?” Kira asked. Vincinte stepped up and handed Matt TS5. He cocked it and aimed at the middle person in the first row. He opened fire and didn’t stop for tree seconds. By that point, they became smart. They simply covered themselves with their shields.
“So,” I said. “Do you need the FTSE?”
“Nope,” he answered. Matt fired a missile from the rear end of the TS5 and fired a single bullet. The missile trailed the bullet and struck the shield the bullet hit. A huge explosion encored and vaporized the entire legion. As Matt stood up, a massive lightning bolt struck him. Matt stood there for a moment dazed. He turned around and lunged at Jon.
“Why are you trying to kill me?” Jon asked horrified.
“You set me up!” he screamed. Matt stood there with his hands around Jon’s neck, and Jon’s feet were dangling. Matt suddenly dropped Jon and stood still for a moment.
“What?” Vincinte said. “I have medical supplies if we need them.”
“No,” Matt said. He raised his hand, finger pointed. As his hand reached where Jon was lying, Jon jumped up and hid behind me. Matt’s arm became parallel to the ground. He fired a huge lightning bolt out of his entire body, burning a tree. “Sw33t!”
“Hey!” I said. He turned and I tossed him a new Tank Sniper. He caught it and felt its weight. He aimed at another tree and fired. This tree began to shoot of electric bolts. The tree suddenly melted then became a micro black hole.
“Wow!” Sean M. said excitedly. “This can be the basis for the new shields!”
“Don’t you guys have enough stuff?” Kira asked us. As Sean M. began to explain, Amber walked up behind him and put a knife to his throat.
“Give us the design for the Tank Sniper Series and you’ll live,” Amber threatened. Sean M. pulled out a flash drive and handed it to them. Amber released him and Sean M. grabbed his throat in relief.
“Matt?” I called. Oh, hey. Yeah I was telling them what happened three weeks ago when you left. What happened? The GGR is making a move toward the South Pacific? That’s where we keep all of our big explosives. Oh, crap. Okay. I’ll go get ready. Yeah, okay.
Yo. Sorry ’bout that. I had picked up something on radar so I went to check it out. Was Nick good, or do I need to describe some stuff? You’re good? Okay, let’s see here. Okay, here we are.
“Matt?” Nick called.
“Yeah?” I answered.
“Amber and Kira have the Tank Sniper series decals,” Nick said. I stopped glamorizing my new powers and spun around and began to shoot at them. Nick joined in on the firing as well. Nick hit Kira in the face and I hit amber in the leg. We kept firing until we felt that they were dead. Amber stood up and healed every injury that had hit her. I sat there for a moment. I saw a scout from the Greeks watching us. I shot him and he simply exploded in an electrical phenomenon. The out line if his body floated for a second. Then the electricity floated shapelessly toward Amber and hit her. She fell in the electrical charge.
Seconds later, Amber and Kira both stood up. I looked behind me and saw the Trojan horse sitting there. I jumped up on top sat there for a moment. Nick soon joined me, followed by Sean M. and Vincinte. I looked over the edge.
“You are going to kill him! Understand?” Amber said angrily.
“Yes, okay, I get it,” Jon said. He turned to climb up when the gate doors opened. Everyone on the ground disappeared and those of us on top hid there quietly. As we rolled in I became annoyed suddenly. I pulled out my LTSE and charged it. After the gates were closed, I fell from the horse and began shooting anything and everything. In about five to ten seconds, there were several huge holes in the wall and the immediate area was leveled. Nick dropped down and got in on the action. Some of the Greek soldiers came out and attacked the Trojan soldiers who were freaked out by two teens destroying a city. Ten minutes later, Sean M. and Vincinte are shooting the area apart. Another five minutes passed. By then, more than 75% of the city was either ruble or black holes.
“Another vortex will open in a few seconds,” I announced. Nick and everyone else ran back to the edge of the city, where the wall should have been. Everyone else was waiting for them.
“Where’s Matt?” Alaini asked. “Is he being a glory hound? If he is you need to teach him a lesson. You could have a duel with him or you could try talking to him. You could also…”
“Alaini!” I shouted suddenly. “Please, I planted a micro-nuke. That’s all. When it goes off, we should be through the vortex that should open… now!” As I predicted, a vortex opened. We jumper through and the nuke went off. The city was destroyed along with the hope of anyone rebuilding it.
“Now where?” Stephanie asked. “And, I find your mindless warring stupid. You should choose your battles wisely. You could choose a battle that you can’t win.”
“Why do these people keep giving us speeches?” I asked rhetorically. “Please! That’s why I became a traitor of the GGR. There were these stupid lectures about proper domination. I couldn’t take it. I left with a small band. Soon, I had an entire army. The next chance I have to destroy you, I will.”
We appeared in the ship that I had fallen out of before all of this happened. I looked around. I also looked out the window. “About five minutes before the incident that started all of this,” I said. The five minutes came and went. “Okay, I can live with that. We have nothing to do.” The ship suddenly began to rise.
“What’s happening?” Suzie asked.
“We’re going to a black hole,” Kira said. “We are going to dump some trash.”
Without thinking, I knew what they meant. I was going to fall into a black hole.
What?! The GGR has averted course? Send a strike team. Do almost anything to take them down. Don’t get killed, duh. The virus is back? I thought we took out that black hole after I was thrown in it? Wait. You’re telling me that the pheromone levels are so high, that it can cause massive problems for males everywhere? The ‘other’ Nick is alive? I killed him, no I vaporized him! They found enough of him to bring him back to life? Oh, crap.
We were still quite some distance from the black hole. I figured that it would take about two or three more days. I was sitting in a prison cell within the ship. In the same cell, Nick, Sean M., and Vincinte were there.
“So,” Vincinte said. “Hw are you going to escape?”
“Don’t know,” I said. “But I’m sure they have a reason to throw me in the black hole. I want you guys to see what they’re planning and try to stop them. The secondary objective is to get me out of this.”
“No,” Nick said angrily. “Our primary objective is to get you out. You are in control of the most dangerous organization!”
“If you don’t find out why they’re doing this then there won’t be much of an organization left will there?” I asked. “Get moving. I can get myself out.” Nick and the rest nodded gravely. They began to work on getting themselves out. I sat there and thought. In about 49 seconds, they had escaped and left. I heard footsteps approaching from down the corridor. Amber stepped in front of the cell.
“Your friends aren’t trying to save you?” Amber asked mockingly. “How sad. It looks like you are going to have a painful death.”
“If I die,” I said.
“You’ll die,” Amber said confidently. “Nothing can survive a black hole.”
“Have you ever thought that a black hole could be a bridge between universes?” I asked her.
“That’s impossible,” she said quickly. “Nothing can go through a black hole.”
“Oh but it can,” I said. “I’ve sent a probe through a black hole. There were radio signals still coming from it. When it finally went through the event horizon, I saw some interesting things. I couldn’t make out what, but it was cool.”
“Shut up,” Amber ordered softly. “It’s impossible.”
“Really?” I asked her. “Send me through and I bet that within the next three days, I will be back, and I will have made some enemies.”
“You’re on,” she said. “But if you loose, who’s gonna pay?”
“Don’t know,” I said. “But I won’t loose.”
We had reached the black hole and I was given a space suit with three hours of O2 left inside. As I stood there, I began to wonder what was on the other side. Suzie pushed me out into space, and I floated towards the black hole. On the way in, I decided to take a nap. It was I all I could do. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground of some planet. I stood up and looked around. Behind me, there was the black hole. It was spinning and small useless items were falling through it. I started to walk away from the hole, and I fell off a cliff. I don’t know how far I fell, but the landing wasn’t painful. I stood up and began to walk into the woods.
“Why did you throw him into the black hole?” Nick asked angrily. “He wanted to be left alone by the GGR!”
“Didn’t he tell you?” Amber asked. “He has galaxies under his control.”
“I know that!” Nick yelled. “And I also know that he had a huge bounty on his head! What does that have to do with this?”
“He was in possession of some dangerous weaponry,” Kira answered. “When I was training with him, he told me that he has a storage area that holds the most dangerous weaponry ever known.” Amber glanced out at the black hole. Nick noticed it.
“What’s wrong?” he asked mockingly. “Think he’s going to came back with a vengeance? Are you afraid that he will have another army with him?”
“Yes,” Amber answered quietly. “I am afraid. He is one of the most feared people in several galaxies. Earth is the only one who doesn’t know.”
“You’d be surprised,” Nick said. “Earth knows more than they let on. For instance, a 14 year old is conquering Earth.”
“I already have Africa, South America, and most of
“Better than nothing,” Vincinte said. “And all amber has is
“What’s wrong with that?” Amber asked. “Nobody has
“Then the fight for
“You know you can’t get
“Matt was the only one who could do that,” Suzie said.
“You couldn’t stand up to Nick,” Alaini said. “And I don’t think you have the skills to beat me either. All you can do is run and slap people. I doubt that you even have a machine gun….” Alaini kept talking.
“This is our chance,” Nick said. He and the others began to sneak away. Nobody noticed they were gone. Soon, the ship had left the black hole and was heading back to Earth.
I came to a clearing in the woods and saw something that startled me. Nick, Jon, Vincinte, Suzie, Amber, Kira, Alaini, Stephanie, Paul, Kaidel, Brian, Brandon and me sitting in a circle talking and having a picnic. I didn’t know if they knew I was there or not, but I didn’t move.
“Why are you hiding friend?” Suzie asked.
“Come out and join us,” Stephanie said.
“Please do,” the other me said. The last statement disturbed me. I stepped out and revealed myself. My hand was just above my Stun wave, ready to take anybody down.
“Weapons aren’t necessary here,” Nick said. When I heard that, I flipped. I pulled out the ETSE and began to step back into the woods. I ran as far as I could to get away, but as I ran, I heard footsteps behind me. I stopped and listened. The footsteps were getting closer. I leapt into the nearest tree and hid. Below me, the strange versions of the people I know (and myself) walked by.
“Why did he run?” Amber asked. “Aren’t we peaceful?”
A little too peaceful for me, I thought. As I waited up there, the group of peaceful people, err, creeps, began to look around that particular area. I began to notice things. The sky was pure white, no blue or anything. There was no sun, but there was plenty of light. The plants were alive, but there was no animal life. The only life here was those people below me and me.
Some time later, the group made camp below me. The started a fire and sat there. The heat was high enough to keep me warm, but not high enough to light me on fire. One by one, they fell asleep. The only one awake was Amber. I decided to wait for her to fall asleep. Instead, she stood up and climbed the tree I was in. When she reached the branch I was at, she stopped.
“Why did you run?” she asked me.
“Why did you follow?” I asked her back. She was wearing a white top and jeans. She had no weapons, but she looked like she could hold her own.
“You were trapped,” she answered. “You looked scared and hungry.”
“What do you mean trapped?” I asked her. I sat up and held on to the branch.
“You came through the portal?” she asked me.
“The black hole?” I asked in return.
“That is what you call the dark portal?” she asked (this was almost 20 questions). I nodded. “Then yes. The dark portal is supposed to be one way. But I believe that there is a way through.”
“Really?” I asked excitedly. “Then I can go back to my universe?” Amber gave me a look that disturbed me even more than usual.
“Yes,” she answered finally. “You can go back.” When everyone woke up, I introduced myself. We later went to the black hole and I began to do some research.
Within two days, I had figured out how to travel back and forth successfully. “Well, this is the test. If I make it, I’ll send you a message.”
“Bye Matt,” they all said. I turned back to the black hole, transformed my watch into a sonic bomber, and took off. I flew through the hole and began a hyper launch with the ship. The test worked because I ended up back where I came from. I sent a message, and then went to Earth.
“There was activity by the hole?” Nick asked excitedly.
“Yeah,” Sean M. said. “A sonic bomber flew out of a hyper launch nearby the hole. The signature was Matt’s.”
“This is great,” Nick said. “Before we celebrate though, we have to stop Amber’s advance on
“What took you?” she asked Nick. “Matt not here to coordinate your attack?” Nick took offense to that and began to shoot her with the FTSE. In five minutes, he was shooting her and e was against a brick wall in an alley.
“This isn’t good,” Nick said. He was shooting her and she’d heal almost instantly. Nick stopped for a second and she began to walk up to him. I leapt out of the sky and impaled her in the head with my ionic blade. I let the sword go and dropped to the ground. Amber stopped for a moment then punched me. I flew through the brick wall behind me.
“You idiot!” she yelled with a slight tone of insanity. “You can’t kill me!” She pulled the sword out of her head and threw it to the ground.
“Yeah,” I groaned. “Forgot.” I pulled myself off the floor and pulled out my LTSE and aimed it. “Ready Nick?”
“Yep,” Nick answered. We began a barrage of fire and lightning bullets on Amber, sending her back a couple feet. We stopped the barrage and waited. She stood up and pulled out a gun. It was a tank sniper.
“This is an ITSE,” she said. “The ice tank sniper elemental.”
“What does it do?” Nick asked. She shot me and I began to freeze.
“It brainwashed a person after they’re frozen,” Amber explained. “If they resist, they die or become something else. I can also collect DNA.” I was frozen completely and I kept hearing things in my head. I simply ignored it.
“Don’t give in Matt,” Nick said.
“He’s strong,” Amber said. You could tell she was straining to brainwash me. “I can’t do it. He’s too powerful, I can’t.” The ice suddenly broke. I stepped out and began shooting Amber until I felt that she had been burned apart and blow away.
“Close,” I said. “She wanted me to become her weapons designer and to kill you.”
“Well?” Nick asked. I looked at him and raised my gun. “She brainwashed you?” I fired a shot that missed his head and hit someone behind him. He spun and saw Amber scream in pain from the shot.
“Is she undead still?” Nick asked.
“Yes!” she said. “That just hurt!” She moved her hand and blood was flowing down her arm.
“That’s not me,” Amber said. We turned and saw Amber standing at the other end of the alley. “You shot me several hundred times yes, but it didn’t kill me.” I realized that the other Amber was from the other universe. I pulled out my stun wave and shot the second Amber (the bleeding one). She fell to the floor.
“This isn’t good,” I said. “A parallel universe where all of us are friends and aren’t trying to get the other person’s head. The place was so peaceful. Or so I thought. A new war has begun, and it has put our old one on pause.”
“And this is a problem how?” Amber asked.
“You won’t be yourself,” I explained. “For instance, the other version of Nick doesn’t like to use weapons.” That scared Nick and Amber.
“Let’s go get those freaks!” Nick shouted.
As we walked down the alley to get to the main street, I something walk past. I turned with my stun wave ready. Nothing was there. A moment later, I was knocked clear across the street. When I stopped moving and could see where I came from, I saw a massive, no, shrinking elephant.
“Why is there an elephant here?” I asked myself. Nick and Amber were somewhat stunned at the fact that an elephant was standing there shrinking. As it shrunk, its body began to change. It became more human then elephant. Eventually, it became a complete human. When I stood up, I saw who it was. I was looking at the ‘other’ me.
“What the…?” Nick asked himself. “When did the second Matt get here?”
“I’ve been here for a few minutes,” the second Matt said. “I will destroy you!” The other Nick came running while being chased by Sean M.
“Have a cookie!” Sean M. shouted. “They’re really good!”
“No thanks!” the second Nick said. “I’m good!” Sean M. threw the cookie at him. The cookie snapped, and exploded in the back of the knee. The second Nick fell and slid across the ground. He stood up and fell back down.
“What’s wrong with you?” the second me asked the other Nick.
“My knee is injured,” the other Nick said. “I can’t move!” I stood up and aimed at the other Nick. Before I could shoot my LTSE, the other Amber sent Nick flying across the street. Amber spun and began to fight the second Amber. In thirty seconds, the two Ambers were sending each other flying around the area. Both Nicks and the other me grabbed some seats and popcorn. I didn’t eat anything. I sat down and we all watched a very mean looking battle.[i]
Amber2 pulled out a 9mm handgun, ready to fire. Amber spun up and kicked Amber2’s hand, making her drop the gun. Amber2 picked up Amber and threw her down the street. Amber managed to stop herself while flying and skid to a stop. Amber began to run toward Amber2 and was about to hit her clean in the face when Amber2 threw something at Amber. Suddenly, there was an explosion.
“What was that?” Nick shouted. “Not that I care.” Nick recovered from that rather well. Amber shot up from under the rubble.
“Using macro-explosives?” Amber asked Amber2 irritated.
“What makes you say that?” Amber2 asked. “You could have hit a mine.” Amber suddenly ran towards Amber2 so fast, all you could see was a blur of where she was before hand. Amber2 was equally as fast. For the next ten or so minutes, all we could see were blurs. When both Ambers stopped, we could see that they were both bleeding heavily. The only difference is that Amber was healing faster than Amber2. Actually, Amber2 wasn’t healing at all. Amber was completely healed within a few seconds. Amber2 looked scared. Amber walked up to her, pulled out a small knife. She began to peel the skin off Amber2. Amber2 screamed in extreme pain (who wouldn’t be?). As the skin was pulled off, Amber began to remove muscles and veins. This process of torture took some time. When she was done, there were organs and other body parts littering the street.
Score
Universe 1: Universe2 0
I looked at Nick and Nick2 and wondered what either of them would do. Nick was shaking violently. Nick2 was sitting there smiling. Amber also began to shake. I looked back at Nick2 and saw him smiling even more. He them looked at me. I wasn’t shaking but I did feel weird. I stood up and began to walk off.
“What’s wrong?” Nick2 asked. “Are you afraid of what could happen?”
“No,” I said quickly.
“Then prove it!” Matt2 said. I stopped and stood there, frozen. I spun around holding my LTSE.
“If I fire this,” I say, “you won’t be leaving this place alive!”
“You wouldn’t have the…” Nick2 began to say. I fired the LTSE several times at Nick2, sending his dead body parts flying. Matt2 just sat there, scared out of his mind. I ran off, making sure not to look back.
I made it back to the Antarctic base and sat down in a small chair. After I took a long nap, I went to a lab and checked the blood samples that I secretly took. In three minutes, I was working on an antidote on what was happening to everybody. When I finished, I used two on myself, as a precaution on what was happening.
“So,” Nick said. “Where’s Matt?”
“I don’t know,” Stephanie said. “What do you think?”
“I think he ran off because he was scared of us,” Nick2 said in response.
I had crawled to a high point of New York City (ha ha ha) and set up a dual barrel sniper rifle loaded with the darts I made. Nick was the first on to come out of the building that they were in. I pulled out a small scanner and checked something. As I had thought, Nick’s estrogen levels were so high that he had little to no testosterone. I aimed and fired the darts and waited. They hit and Nick passed out on the ground. I leapt down (from the
“What happened?” Nick asked. “Why am I up here? Why do I feel so angry?”
“I hit you with a testosterone raising enzyme that will prevent any pheromones from developing,” I explained. “When this wears off, you’ll be so angry you’ll be able to light Pluto on fire.” I looked in the sky and saw a tiny fireball. “What was that?”
“Pluto,” Nick said. I looked at him.
“Nice,” I said. I went back to watching the building. No one else came out for a while.
“What are you doing?” Nick asked me.
“Watching the building you were just in,” I said. Suddenly, there was a rumble. People walking began to run into buildings and cars stopped and some crashed. The building they were in split opened and a large ship began to leave. I jumped up and fell off the building accidentally. Nick leaned over to see where I was and jumped off. I fell and grabbed a light pole. The pole bent with my weight and Nick landed on top of the same pole. We both dropped off the pole and ran toward the building that had the ship. It was still trying to leave the hangar that the building covered. When we made it to the building, the ship had finally left the building. It was about three miles above us, so Nick and I ran into the building and began firing our tank snipers at it. The ship was hit and it stopped accelerating and began to orbit NYC.
“Nice,” Nick said. “This should give us enough time.”
“It should,” I said. “If there weren’t thousands of cookies falling toward us!” We ran out of the building and saw the cookies began to break, destroying the building. We ran until I felt that we were far enough away from any place that could drop stuff on us. We climbed up a tall building and looked around. The ship was three hundred yards in front of us and was losing altitude. I put on my claw gloves and gave Nick a pair.
“What are these for?” Nick asked me.
“You can use them for climbing and fighting,” I explained. I fired the six main claws and latched onto the ship. Nick followed suit and we began to climb across the hull. We made our way to a hangar bay and climbed in. When we left the hangar, Suzie and Suzie2 were standing there waiting for us.
“Having fun?” Suzie asked. From the way she said that, she was having a hard time from just jumping us.
“No,” I said.
“Are you going to use the darts?” Nick whispered.
“I don’t know how it will affect them,” I whispered back. “It could send them into shock.” Suzie2 pulled out a sword and swung it at me. I blocked it with my hands and they exploded. Nick and Suzie looked surprised when I pulled my hands out of the fire. I sent a jab at Suzie2 and she dodged easily. As I stumbled out into the hall, I saw everybody standing there, including Nick2 and Amber2 (oh come on…). I turned back to Suzie2 and blocked a punch from her. We began a long battle of punches. We fought down the hall with me sending blades at her. She managed to avoid all of the large blades, but a few small ones hit her and exploded.
“That hurts!” Suzie2 screamed.
“This time,” I shouted at her. “This time, you and your friends are going down and staying down!” I swung at her and clipped her face. My fist exploded, burning most of her face. She fell to the ground crying in pain.
“You won’t kill me,” she whispered. I didn’t respond. I simply jumped up and fired millions of blades at her. When the smoke cleared and the fire died down, I landed. Suzie2’s body was just smoldering ash. I turned around and saw Nick fighting Matt2. Nick kicked him in the ear one, then punched him in the chest. The explosion of flames enveloped the hall. I dove into a small opening in the hall. When the blast of heat past, I climbed out. Everyone who hadn’t been in some place where there wasn’t form of protection had been disintegrated.
I crawled out of the opening I was in and looked around. Nobody was in the hall and the entire area was scorched. I began to walk down the hall when I heard some chatter.
“I think Matt was incinerated,” I heard Suzie say.
“To bad,” Amber said. “I’m sure he would have been a great asset to the spreading of this great happiness.”
“Yes, he would have,” Suzie responded. I became creep out, so I walked away from that hall. I found a ladder and began to climb up. When I reached the top, I checked the area to see that I was alone. I got off the ladder and walked around. I saw a sign (in English) that said that I was on level 15. I walked a little farther and saw a door. There was no sign and no security measures around the door. I pushed the door open and nearly gasped. I choked instead. It was a room filled with flowers and other plants. I slammed the door shut and ran off so I could breathe again. When I was breathing and not suffocating, I went back to the room, put on the blast helmet and opened the door.
As I walked around the room of plants, I heard footsteps. I dove under a table and waited. I saw feet and heard some mumbling.
“I was told that the security saw Matt entered here,” a girl said. “I don’t know if he did anything.”
“Are you sure he’s even here?” another girl asked.
“No,” the first girl said. “He could have exited from the rear door.” When I heard the mention of a door, I nearly jumped (the smell was getting to me).
“I don’t think he would have done anything in here,” a different girl said. “It smells to pretty to think of doing anything here.”
“But this is Matt that were talking about,” the second girl said. “He might have done something.”
“True, he is ruthless and cruel sometimes,” the first girl said. “But he might be kind somewhere in his heart.” The last comment made me snap (not like that’s a surprise). I jumped out from under the tables and ran toward the door.
“Stop!” the third girl shouted. She fired at me using stingers with an electric current. The stingers flew next to me and fell to the floor. I spun around and threw a knife at them. The knife hit one of them in the shoulder and gave her an electric shock. She fell and passed out. The other two dove behind chairs and fired at me. I pulled out two PAs and put them together. I dove behind a table and opened fire. I shot at the closest chair and blew a hole through the back. The girl somehow managed to avoid getting vaporized.
“That was close!” she said. She rolled and fired three stingers at me. I slid across the floor and fired a barrage of blast. They jumped on to the chair and the blast flew harmlessly below them. The chair took the blast and the legs melted. The girls fell in a heap on the floor which allowed me to run off. I made it to the door and I took a look behind me. The entire room was either on fire or falling apart. I ran out the back door to the room I was in and ran down the hall it led to. I made it to the bridge and saw that the door was open.
“Wow!” Jon said excitedly. “I just thought that black holes were just huge holes that had no purpose!”
“They are used to spread our great civilization,” Jon2 said. I stood in the shadows and watched. Everybody in there was so happy, which I found disturbing. I looked outside and saw that we were in space. I started to leave from that place when I decided to check something. I pulled out a scanner and checked hormone levels. There was no trace of testosterone in that room. All I detected was estrogen. Any trace of testosterone was given off by me. I kept the scanner out so that I could detect who was coming towards me.
I was walking when I detected hormones. I dove into the nearest room and waited for the scan to complete. It detected high amounts of testosterone. I cracked the door open and looked. Nick was standing there looking around. He was also holding a scanner, which meant that he detected me as well. I walked out and he saw me.
“Where were you?” I asked him.
“The explosion knocked me into a room,” Nick explained. “It knocked me out when I hit the wall. When I stood up, no one was in the hall and I couldn’t find you. So I started to walk around and then I bumped into some security.”
“Got a little messy?” I asked.
“Yep,” Nick answered. We started to walk away just to make sure that we didn’t draw any unnecessary attention. We went back to the bridge and waited the rest of the ride there.
“So,” I heard Amber say. “Where are we going?”
“We are heading towards the black hole,” Alaini2 said. “Once we get there, the spreading will commence.”
“What are they talking about?” I asked Nick. He shrugged. We went back to listening in. I noticed that there was one person standing to the side, just staring out at space. I wasn’t the only one who noticed him. Stephanie2 walked over to him (I don’t know who it was) and began speaking to him. I couldn’t hear what they were saying because they were to far away. I was about to sneak closer to hear what they were saying. Nick held me back and shook his head. I stayed where I was and waited.
“We are here!” Jon2 announced. Everyone was excited and murmuring about something. Stephanie and the other guy stayed put. “This is what we have all been waiting for!” Behind him, a bright flash occurred. The same scenery that was in the other universe was coming out of the black hole. Everyone who was form this universe began to collapse on the ground. Everyone who didn’t collapse walked over to those on the ground and pulled them over to chambers that seemed so familiar. Nick and I ran off and tried to get to the hangar bay.
“Stop!” someone shouted behind me. “You will bow to your new…” I shot them with the stun wave and kept running. Nick never stopped until we reached the hangar bay door. When we opened it, everyone who was from Universe2 was waiting for us.
“Now what?” I asked.
“You won’t stop us from dominating this universe!” Amber2 declared.
“I thought Amber killed you!” I shouted.
“She did,” Amber2 answered.
“You’ll stay dead this time!” I shouted.
“As if you could!” Jon2 yelled.
“You are going to have a casket so small that a flea couldn’t fit!” Nick shouted. Everyone just looked at him.
“Okay,” I said. “That was weird. Anyway, this will be the final stand for you people!” And so the war began.
[i] When ever the second Amber is referred to, she will be called Amber2. Same goes with all the other seconds.