“What was that?” I asked franticly as I pulled myself up and helped Lilli up.
“I don’t know,” she answered.
“Matt, we have a slight problem,” Sean E. said.
“What?” I asked. He didn’t respond, and he didn’t have too. We were surrounded by massive scorpions. Each one was about seven feet long and must have weighed at least 1500 pounds.
“Holy crap,” Lilli said.
“Really?” I asked. “I never knew that was holy.”
“This isn’t time to be messing around Matt,” Sean E. said.
“Give me a bomb or something,” I said. Sean handed me a small grenade. “Something serious.” Sean Took the grenade back and handed me a small rocket launcher.
“Each rocket has enough explosive to take out three aircraft carriers,” Sean E. said. “I suggest you drop the moment you fire that thing.”
“Right, why would I need to…?” I fired the rocket mid-sentence and flew back 3½ feet. I landed on my back, right next to one of the scorpions. I rolled away as its stinger came crashing down on top of where I was sitting. The rocket collided into the scorpion that was in front of me when I fired and exploded. The scorpion it hit survived, but the surrounding scorpions were incinerated.
“That makes no sense,” I said as I stood up. “How does the one who was in the center of the explosion survive, but the ones next to it die instantly?”
“I really don’t know,” Sean E. said.
“Can I take a shot?” Candie asked.
“Sure, knock yourself out,” I said and handed her the rocket launcher. Candie aimed at the ground next to the living scorpion and another scorpion that stood next to one of the now dead ones and fired. The explosion knocked both of them out, and a flaming chunk of who knows what flew and landed on one of the scorpions behind us. The scorpion stood still for a second, then its head exploded.
“I so need a day job,” I said.
“I thought this is your day job,” Sean E. said.
“No. It started as a fight against the GGR, not an all-out-war against everybody who hates me,” I said.
“Nice Matt, nice,” Sean E. said.
“Shut up,” I told him.
(At the GGR base)
“Mother, the N3 is forming up again,” Mini said.
“Really?” Suzie asked.
“Yes. They have those giant chisels,” Mini said.
“The gargoyles aren’t going to be able to withstand this attack,” Suzie stated. “Make sure the scorpions are ready.”
“They were sent out earlier to find Matt and dispose of him. They haven’t returned yet,” Mini said.
(Outside)
“Prepare for the attack!” Nick shouted. The chisels advanced slowly towards the base and the gargoyles braced for this wave. The chisels began to strike forward and everyone behind the chisels advanced as slowly the chisel.
“Attack!” Nick declared. The chisels suddenly sped forward and swinging rapidly. The first gargoyle decided to strike and hit the chisel. Its fist collided and exploded into thousands of pieces. The gargoyle shot back and fell into the wall. They looked at each other franticly and horrified.
Grag chark ais lair ajr. (Loosely translated: What do we do now?) They shrugged and turned around.
“What are they doing?” someone asked.
“I don’t know,” Nick answered. The gargoyles turned back around wearing sunglasses, a sideways turned baseball cap, and bling. Each one was wielding a semi-automatic machine gun and began to fire. They bullets struck the chisels and shattered upon contact. The chisels kept advancing and gargoyles kept firing.
Suddenly, off in the distance, a massive explosion occurred. Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and looked towards the explosion. A large cloud began to speed towards them, and as it drew closer, everyone could just barely make out the figures of giant scorpions and people fighting.
(In the dust cloud)
“Get over here you pathetic excuse for a scorpion!” I shouted. Earlier, we had somehow managed to get into a massive brawl between the scorpions. A few of them tried stabbing us with their tails, but we avoided them and sliced them off with other tails, or some random sharp object nearby.
“Matt! Watch out!” Lilli cried as a scorpion attempted to stab me in the back. I flipped over the tail and watched as the scorpion stabbed one of its comrades in the back. Turns out, it stabbed itself.
“Thanks,” I said. I landed on the head of another scorpion and planted a small explosive in its eye. It shrieked horribly loud, to the point where I thought my eardrums would explode. The explosive went off, ending the shrieking, and sending the dead body down towards the ground below. I jumped from the plummeting scorpion to the scorpion where Lilli was and pointed to the GGR base. From what I could tell, the gargoyles looked like pimps, but where losing badly.
“What do we do?” Lilli asked. I pulled out a C62380 explosive and planted it on the enraged scorpion we were on.
“Everyone! Jump!” I shouted. We all leapt into the air and landed on a nearby roof. Lilli missed and began to fall to the ground. I caught her before she fell too far and pulled her back up. When she was completely on the roof, she lunged into me, nearly knocking me off balance.
“Thanks,” she said as she stood there.
“You’re welcome,” I said. We stood around for a moment, Lilli hanging on to me and Candie holding Sean E.’s hand, and tried to figure out what to do next.
“I could get Alaini and Steve to move the cannon,” Lilli said.
“That’s true,” I said. “But the program to move it is under password lock. Steve has some of the passwords, but not all of them.”
“So?” Sean E. asked.
“So, there are over 674 passwords to be used in any order,” I said. “That means I have 337 of the passwords and he has the rest. We each used passwords that the other wouldn’t know as a security precaution.” Suddenly, a plasma blast was seen heading straight for the GGR base. Since the Gargoyles were in the front, there was nothing to stop the beam from hitting.
“Did you happen to put a lock on the firing sequence?” Sean E. asked. I gave him a cold look as the beam pounded its way through a shield, an exoskeleton, an endoskeleton, and a wall made of diamond.
“Well, the inner wall shouldn’t break because it’s made of diamond, right?” Candie asked. The answer came when the beam shot through the other side of the building.
“A plasma fission blast will go through anything,” I said.
Suddenly, from afar we heard Nick shout, “That was awesome!”
“Nick has some serious problems,” I said.
“You’re just saying that,” Lilli said.
“I have so got to replicate that!” Nick shouted. I looked at her and simply shook my head.
(GGR base)
“What was that?” Mini asked.
“It was some kind of plasma cannon!” Candy shouted as she ran a diagnostic program.
“A what?” Suzie asked. “Plasma? It can’t go through diamond!”
“Apparently, this isn’t some normal plasma cannon,” Candy said. Suzie looked outside and saw Nick cheering and acting rather odd.
“Where did it come from?” Suzie asked.
“I’m still getting that information now,” Candy said.
“When you get it, send a counter attack back,” Mini instructed.
“Yes mistress,” Candy answered.
(Inside Nick’s Mind)
I so need to get a weapon like that! I wonder who built it. Doesn’t matter. We still have some gargoyles to take care of! Why did they get all pimped out? Is there some “Pimp My Gargoyle” program over there? They should make a “Pimp My Tank Sniper” game show!
We apologize for the previous insert. We had nothing to put there for a moment. Nothing happened for a moment. We could have put in the thing about the talking cheeseburger wandering Soho New York City. Do you want to read that? DO YOU? I thought so.
(The roof)
“Do you have any weapons on you?” Lilli asked me.
“Only explosives,” I said.
“I’ll send a recall beacon out to get some weapons,” Sean E. said. I nodded then began looking towards the GGR base.
“That place seriously gives me the creeps,” I said.
“Yeah. Everyone says that,” Lilli said. (Time passes.)
“Why do you do that when nothing is happening?” I asked as I put on my pants.
“I don’t know,” Lilli answered. A cargo ship flew overhead and dropped 78 crates filled with various forms of gear.
“Took them long enough,” Candie said. “We went through three rounds. 2.5 minutes each with a 30 second break.”
“Thank you for that inappropriate info Candie,” I said.
“You’re welcome,” she said.
We opened the crate and began pulling out various weapons; machine guns (P90s, AK47s, MP5s, UMPs), explosives (C62380, grenades, C4), other guns (shotgun rockets, shotguns, rifles), sniper rifles (Tank Sniper, other sniper rifles), and hundreds of other weapons. I took the P90, MP5, some C62380s, C4, and a few shotgun rockets. Sean E. took two UMPs, the AK47, and an explosion knife. Candie retrieved a rocket launcher and a katana sword. Lilli found some arbitrary weapons that none of us had even seen.
“What is that?” I asked.
“I don’t know. It just looks cool,” Lilli said. She was holding a long, skinny tube that had an opening wide enough to put a ninja star in. The ammo was a box of ninja stars by the way.
“Can you at least try it to see what it does?” Sean E. asked. Lilli put a star inside the tube and aimed at a building several hundred feet to our left. There was no trigger or even a computer to go with it so we had no idea how to fire it. Candie looked at it and noticed something about it.
“This is GGR design. How would you get a hold of this?” Candie asked.
“We must have gotten it during a raid,” Sean E. explained. “Why? Do you know how it works?”
“Yeah. There’s a motion sensor right here,” Candie said. She passed her hand over a small bump in the stick that was right in front of Lilli’s face. A small holographic screen appeared and a tripod extended out.
“Wow. This has more to it that we thought,” Lilli said.
(1939, World War II, Nazi
“Nioki, why did we have to come here?” Brian asked. They were walking through a Nazi town trying to blend in. A few people gave them a few odd glances, but ignored them mostly.
“We need to get Uranium,” Nioki said.
“We could have gotten it back in our time. I know about a thousand deposits of Uranium and other radioactive elements,” Brian said.
“I know. But if we can alter history enough, we might be able to gain complete control of the universe,” Nioki said. “And you do want that, right?”
“Yes,” he said.
“Alright then, let’s go,” she said. They continued walking down the street in Nazi Germany.
Now keep that in mind. Pretty soon, more will be going on in
(GGR Base)
“I’m going to something,” Candy said. She typed in a command into her terminal then ran over to the far wall. She fell a few times before she made it because, outside, Nick was smashing the wall with his chisel and was cause the building to shake violently. When she did get to the wall, she typed a few things into a hidden panel and two large doors opened up. One door contained a massive chain gun, the other led outside.
“We have an opening!” Nick shouted.
“Let’s go,” I told everyone with me. (Yes, we were still on the roof [Lilli, Sean E., Candie, and me].) We began to jump across roofs as Nick and company began making their way into the GGR base.
“What are you doing?” Suzie screamed over the loud noise outside.
“Just watch!” Candy shouted back. As the first of the N3 climbed in, Candie began to fire. Some fell out; some managed to avoid getting hit. Unfortunately, not everyone made it. A couple of them were shot and died.
“What are you going to do?” Lilli asked me as we landed on the closest roof the GGR base.
“Something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” I said. I pulled out my Fragsword katana and it began to enlarge. (Remember, it uses nanobit technology and I have the nanobit implant which allows me to do just about anything.) It grew until it was about 60 feet long and 7 feet thick.
“What are you doing?” Sean E. asked. I didn’t answer; instead I jumped high enough so that I was over the GGR base, then I came down upon the base, slicing it in half.
“What the…?” Nick was saying as I slid down the building. When I made it all the way down, the building began to smoke. In seconds, it burst into flames.
“Mother? Mother!” Mini shouted. She was blindly fumbling through the smoke, trying to find Suzie. Candy found her first, and brought her to the front of the building.
“Are you okay?” Candy asked Mini. She nodded but was looking around hurriedly and looking worried.
“Have you seen Mother?” Mini asked.
“I think she’s on the other side. I was looking for her, but I couldn’t see her,” Candy said. Mini looked at Candy as she pulled out a small sensor, trying to see something.
“What are you doing?” Mini asked.
“Trying to find her. There’s too much heat,” Candy said. She kept altering the sensors trying to get something when, “I’ve got something!” On the sensor, it showed the silhouette of a winged figure beginning to take off.
“That’s Mother!” Mini exclaimed.
“I didn’t know she had wings,” Candy said. Suddenly, they were swept off the ground and found themselves in Suzie’s arms.
“We have to get out of here,” Suzie said.
Minutes later, the building exploded and collapsed into a sinkhole.
“What is it?” Lilli asked.
“The one thing I hoped I’d never see again,” I said.
“What? ‘It’ naked?” Nick asked. I chucked a rock at his head and he incinerated it.
“A time vortex. Remember when we went into that weird time loop thing and I killed some famous dude?” I said.
“Oh yeah. Some guy thought you were a slave, so you beat him nearly half-dead,” Sean M. said.
“Yeah. I probably was to kind on him,” I said.
“That was my great-great-great grandfather,” Lilli said. I cursed myself silently when I heard that. “That’s okay. I hate him anyway.”
“Still, what are we supposed to do?” Paul asked.
“Well, if one’s open, then someone is trying to screw with history,” I said. “We go in ten hours.”
We claimed
We had been transported to one the new cruisers that had been finished in the last ten hours and were getting settled in for the ride. The time vortex was stable and we also built a small device that could open up vortexes when we pleased.
“Matt, can we please?” Lilli asked.
“I’m in the middle of configuring the engines,” I said. “Can it wait?”
“Please?” Lilli asked.
“If I don’t finish this, we’ll end up dead,” I said.
“Fine. I’ll wait,” Lilli said.
“Quick question. I only ask this because I’m not real sure about the details, but, are we dating?” I asked her.
“Yeah. At lease, I’d like to look at it that way,” Lilli answered.
“Great,” I said. I wasn’t really sure if I should be happy or not, and it’s not like I could go find Sean E. and talk to him about this without Lilli being there. (She hangs on to me like a leech or something.) I finished with the configurations and ran a quick test to ensure that they would withstand the type of travel we would be doing.
“Why do you have to do this?” Lilli asked as she held my left arm.
“The last time I went through one of those things, I had brought an engine with me. No one knew, but I did. The stress from traveling through time tore it apart,” I explained. “I don’t think you want to be stranded in Nazi Germany.”
“I guess you’re right,” Lilli said. She stood there clutching my arm as I ended the test which went well. “So, are you ready?”
“Yeah. Let’s go,” I said.
“Everything is online and ready,” Sean M. said. I nodded and made the final calibrations to the vortex generator.
“Why do you like Sean E.?” Lilli asked Candie.
“Well….”Candie started. (We don’t really know what she said. She put it in terms that Sean E. didn’t get.)
“Matt, what do we do when we get there?” Nick asked.
“Look for anything suspicious,” I said. Nick nodded and signaled to Sean M. to get us moving. The vortex generator opened a time vortex and we were on out way.
(Hitler’s Place)
“So, you’re saying that if I allow you to become my advisors, you can help me conquer the entire planet?” Hitler asked. Brian, Nioki, and Hitler were in a secure room having a negotiation talk. Nioki seemed to have everything under control and Brian simply sat there looking serious.
“That’s right,” Nioki said.
“So, how can you help me?” Hitler asked.
“We can provide military aid,” Brian said. Nioki nodded in agreement.
“I already have an impressive army,” Hitler said.
“Yes, but we have a bigger one,” Nioki said.
These go on for a while, so we won’t bore you with that.
(In space…)
“I found Brian and Nioki’s ship,” Sean M. said.
“We just dropped out of the vortex. How could you have found it so fast?” I asked. (Guess what? Lilli was clinging to me again! Candie was also clinging to Sean E.!)
“Well, it’s powered up and is currently giving off a huge energy field. My guess is that it’s cloaked,” Sean M. said.
I looked at the screen and turned to Nick. “Nick! Get the frequency emulator ready! We’re sending it down to the energy field.”
“Got it!” Nick said. He disappeared and was seen again inside a hall heading towards the equipment room. A few minutes later, he made a call from the hangar bay that he had just loaded the FE (frequency emulator) into the bay and was ready for launch.
“Acknowledged,” I said. I turned to Sean M. “Get us closer to the planet. Try to keep our cloak up, but do not hit anything!”
“Okay,” Sean M. said. The ship moved farther down into the atmosphere and the cloak was initiated. When we were about three thousand meters above the energy field, Nick launched the FE.
“FE away,” Nick said.
“I have visual. Sending to all available screens,” Sean E. said. On the large screen in front of us, the video feed of the FE (which looks like a dragonfly) flying around, creating a window into the energy field.
“You were right Sean,” I said. “They parked and left the cloak on as a target. All batteries, aim for the energy field.”
“That’s not going to help,” Sean E. said.
“Why not?” Lilli asked.
“That cloak acts as a shield too. You need more
“Great. I’ll go out and generate a frequency big enough to disable the shield long enough for you to take a few critical shots,” I said.
“Can I come?” Lilli asked.
“Not enough room,” I said. “The ZX-31 doesn’t even have chairs, just the nanobit interface (which is the entire cockpit). I haven’t configured it to have two people in it yet.”
“Are you?” Lilli asked.
“Yes, I’ll get to it,” I said.
“How did I get stuck on guard duty?” a guy in a bright red suit asked himself. “I’m the highest ranking officer below Nioki and Brian. Why did I get guard duty? ‘We have a special assignment for you Billy.’ ‘We need you to protect the ship Billy.’ I’m a &*^%*!$@ general! I don’t do this #$^@! They should have had someone else on babysitting duty.” Behind him, a communicator device goes off. “%^#%, that’s probably Nioki. I hope she doesn’t have some listening device in here.” Billy picked up the communicator and connected it into the intercom.
“Billy. I just received word that the N3 is here. Can you confirm that?” Nioki asked sweetly.
“Sure. Give me a sec. Yeah, they’re right over my head. They seem to be up to something. I’m going to power the engines and weapons in case they attack,” Billy said.
“Good. I wouldn’t want something happen to my favorite ship and commander,” Nioki said.
“Thank you, your highness,” Billy said.
(“Your highness?” I asked everyone back on the N3 cruiser. “What? Is she some sort of queen now?”
“Seems that way,” Nick said.)
“Billy,” Brian said.
“Yes?” Billy asked in a uniform manner.
“If you capture Matt, then you get a huge bonus,” Brian said then terminated the connection.
“Alright,” Billy said. He leaned back in his chair. “The N3’s attacking, I’m in danger…” The reality hit Billy like a cement brick. “Aaahhh! I’m in danger!” Billy began scrambling trying to get the engines and weapons ready for close range combat.
“The field is deployed,” I said. “Fire when ready.”
“Weapons are at 89% and increasing rapidly,” Sean M. said. While waiting, I noticed that there was more energy being emitted from the cruiser in front of me. Unexpectedly, the cruiser took off and began randomly firing its weapons. All it hit were some trees, a cow, and a duck.
“Get firing on that ship now!” I shouted.
“Weapons are ready, firing now!” Sean M. announced. The N3 cruiser began firing thousands of shots into the undead looking cruiser, dealing crippling damage.
“Nioki! Your highness! They have managed to disable the shields!” Billy shouted. “I’m pulling away, but I can’t fight back or get far enough away to elude them! Please! Send Help!”
“What was that?” Hitler asked.
“A very important matter has just come up,” Nioki said. “Brian? Can you finish things here?”
“Sure. You go on ahead,” Brian said. Nioki smiled then walked out of the room. As she closed the door, she pulled out a knife and stabbed the two guards; one in the neck and the other in the face after she pulled the knife from the other guy’s neck. As she left, she could hear Hitler scream as Brian ended his career.
(A few minutes later)
“Billy, where are you?” Nioki asked. Billy awoke with a start. He fumbled around, tying to get his bearings.
“I… I’m not sure. I think I’m in the
“That’s okay Billy,” Nioki comforted. “No one could have known that they could do that. Just send out the distress beacon for 10 seconds, then cut it off. We don’t want them finding you again.”
“Understood,” Billy groaned. He reached for the distress beacon switch, when his hand was stopped suddenly by another hand.
“We don’t want that,” said a female voice.
“AAAHHHHH!” Billy screamed.
“Billy? Billy, what’s happening?” Nioki asked.
“What?” Brian asked.
“I don’t know,” Nioki said. “Brian, can you get a lock on the radio signal origin?”
“Yeah. I need a few seconds though,” Brian said.
(On the Ship)
“Who are you?” Billy asked as he was dragged down the hall.
“You don’t need to know,” the girl said.
“Yes I do!” Billy shouted. “I demand you tell me who you are.”
“You’ll find out if you’d shut up!” the girl snapped. Billy stopped talking after that.
(Elsewhere)
“Where did that ship go?” I asked.
“It was headed towards the
“Let’s go there then. Maybe it led us to something else,” I suggested.
“I have another ship on radar,” Nick said.
“Weapons are targeting,” Sean M. said.
(Commons)
“And then I said to him…,” Lilli was saying. Do we really need to know what they were talking about?
(Bridge)
“Ship is now 3.2 miles northeast,” Nick said.
“Bob, set a course to intercept,” I said.
“On it,” Bob answered. “There are 93 more ships beginning to flank us.”
“What?” I asked. “93?”
“Yeah. They’re moving at half the speed we’re moving. The only reason I picked them up is because we turned,” Bob said. “They’re beginning to accelerate.”
“Sean M., make sure the offensive weapons are online,” I said.
“I found the ship we were attacking earlier. It has three huge ships surrounding it,” Nick said. “Infector Class. Amber’s here.”
“Well then, that might explain the ships following us,” I said.
“Nope, those are Sniper Class,” Nick said.
“I really hate those ships,” Sean E. seethed. “I remember when I first ran into those things. There were only three, but they did some serious damage to my ship.”
“I agree. The last time I even saw one was when they were attacking a relatively small ship, but left considerable damage, considering that there were only three,” I said.
“What did the ship look like?” Sean E. asked.
“It was a small black fighter with SAS on the wings,” I said.
“That was me,” he said.
“Oh,” I replied. “Anyway, get the missile bay open and ready for deployment. We are going to get into one hell of a battle.”
(Brian and Nioki)
“This is a nice ship Brian,” Nioki commented.
“Thanks,” he said. “It was a retrofitted Sonic Glider but with improvements. Now, it’s a beast ride. You wan to pilot?”
“No. You can,” Nioki said. She looked at the radar screen and became rather anxious. “Brian, what are those large ships orbiting the cruiser?”
“Infectors,” Brian said grimly. “I hate those. We need some serious back up.”
“I called for the Sniper Class vessels, but I don’t know where they are,” Nioki said.
A few minutes later, they were caught in the crossfire of two unknown entities. They could just barely make out a large cruiser and on the other side were the Sniper Class fighters. Brian and Nioki began to cheer but slowly stopped as they watched their ships were getting cut down.
“This is not good,” Brian said.
(The bridge of one of the Sniper Class Ships)
“What do we do?” a tech shouted as another ship exploded.
“Engines at maximum, weapons charged, and keep shields up as long as possible,” the captain said. “If the shields go, we can always blast out of here.”
“One problem with that,” the tech said. “We already lost shields, engines, and weapons.”
“Oh…crap,” the captain said. As the ship slowly began to fall to the ground, everyone scrambled to the escape pods and hangar bay.
(Brian and Nioki)
“What do we do now?” Nioki asked Brian.
“Leave, I guess,” Brian said.
(N3 Cruiser)
“Matt, Brian and Nioki are leaving,” Nick said.
“Great, let’s go home,” I said.
“Sure, after we take out…” Nick said and stopped.
“What?” I asked.
“The Infector Cruisers,” Nick said. “They’re coming.”
“Get ready for combat,” I said. We moved into a battle position in the atmosphere. As we were rising, we noticed a small German bomber flying next to us.
“What is it doing?” Sean E. asked. Before anyone could respond, it launched a bomb at us.
“What the… Sean! Get the weapons ready!” I shouted. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the plane targeted in time, but we did manage to shoot it down. A loud rumble was heard in the lower left quadrant of the ship.
“What was that?” Nick asked.
“I don’t know. I’ll take a team down and investigate,” I said.
“Matt, be careful,” Lilli said. I nodded and signaled for ten 3l337 n1nj4 and we made our way to the damaged area.
(In
“Brian, why did we agree to this plan?” Nioki asked as she and Brian walked into the room where Brian killed Hitler. On the wall to the left of the door, Hitler’s body hung cold and limp.
“I’m not sure. You negotiated, but you never said they couldn’t improvise the plan,” Brian said.
“You’re right,” Nioki said. “But what I don’t get is how Matt knew about the sniper ships following him.”
“This is Matt, we’re talking about, he’s insane,” Brian said.
“True, but that doesn’t explain anything. He knew to look and began an all out assault on them,” Nioki said.
“What the reason, those ships Amber provided better make short work of him,” Brian said. He closed and locked the door of the room after placing a do not disturb sign on the handle (yes it was in German).
(Back in the
“Matt, thirty more sniper class fighters in coming,” Sean M. announced from his post.
“Keep them busy,” I instructed. “Nick, get those fighters ready and do something with those infector ships. We need them eradicated.”
It had been three hours since this battle first started, and the sniper class ships just kept on coming. I had ordered Nick to get fighters out in the air and disable either the snipers or the infectors which were now beginning to advance towards us. We had begun running short of anti-cruiser missiles (which are missiles designed to take out cruisers) so we switched over to a series of semi-heavy cannon fire, designed to simply destroy cruisers as well.
“Matt, we need some reinforcements,” Nick called. “These infector ships have their own fighters and beginning to seriously out number us.”
“Understood. Paul, open up battery cannons numbers 5 & 83. That should buy us enough time to get a few more fighters out,” I said.
In case you were wondering how I was doing all of this while trying to find something, we have internal communication systems throughout the entire ship. My team and I had reached the area where the bomb had impacted and began searching around for any kind of sabotage or infiltration. While we did find the item that we thought was a bomb, we could only deduce from the fact that it was still in perfect condition that it was not designed to explode.
“Matt, what could have done this?” one of the techs that came with us asked.
“Honestly, I don’t know. But it dos look like someone might have fit inside if it,” I answered. “Scan for any biological or mechanical residue. I want to know what we’re dealing with here.”
Suddenly, a shout was heard down the hall and around the farthest corner. I signaled for two scouts to remain with the tech and for the others with me to follow. As we made our way down the hall, I noticed from the shadow silhouettes that there was something or someone in the center of troops sending everybody flying. I rolled around the corner and aimed into the center of soldiers who were either standing, or groaning.
“Sir, be careful,” one of the fallen soldiers said weakly. “This thing is powerful.”
“Who are you calling a thing?” a voice said. A black shadow-like humanoid appeared in the center of the ring and pulled off a black mask. “I’m human just like all of you.”
“A ninja amongst n1nj4,” I said.
“What’s the difference?” the ninja asked.
“I’m more powerful in some cases,” I replied.
“Really? How so?” the ninja asked. Without saying anything, I charged the ninja and talked him, not into the wall behind him, but through two walls and into a cinderblock hammer. (Plz, don’t ask about that. We don’t know why it’s here or if it’s even a real cinder block hammer. It’s just been there.)
“That answer your question?” I asked.
“Yeah,” the ninja groaned.
“Quick question,” I said. “Why are you even here?”
“I was here to ask if you guys needed help,” the ninja said.
“Okay. You could’ve simply radioed and asked,” I said as I pulled the ninja guy off the wall.
“I could have, but that would have been bad for both you and me. Brian is after me because I owe him over $72,000,000 from several years ago, back in high school,” the ninja said.
“Wait, high school?” I asked.
“Yeah. It’s me, James,” the ninja (now James) said.
“Uh… um… whoa,” I said surprised.
“You didn’t recognize me?” James asked. “I saved that girl in
“I noticed, but I couldn’t do anything about it,” I said.
“Right, my mad speed,” James said.
“Well, since you want to help, you can help us get rid of these annoying fighters and cruisers,” I said.
(Quick sum up)
To make this part shorter, James and I took separate fighters and helped in the battle, won, and went after a random trail which we believe was Brian and Nioki standing by and watching.
(Brain and Nioki)
“Brian, I just call from Amber. They lost to them,” Nioki said.
Brian yawned and turned over. He looked up and saw Nioki walking around the room putting things into place and straightening various things. “So, now what?”
“I’m not sure yet. What do you think we should do?” Nioki asked. “I know you have some experience dealing with Matt. I’m sure you have some idea of what to do.”
Brian thought for a moment. “You know, you’d think I would. But for some reason, I don’t know what to do in this case. Matt’s becoming more unpredictable than ever before.”
“What do you mean?” Nioki asked.
“Before, he used to go in shooting and destroy as much as possible. If he was losing, he would simply destroy the entire area,” Brian explained. “Now, he’s using tactics that he’s never used before; he’s becoming more violent, more rational, and has more recourses that no one has ever seen before.”
“Well, we just have to get a spy in then,” Nioki said.
“And who would that be? No one can get in without being searched and watched for a minimum of three days,” Brian stated.
“That’s why we use someone close to him,” Nioki said.
“Who would that be?” Brian asked.
“Lilli,” Nioki said with a sly grin. Brian nodded then looked out a window with a nervous look on his face.
(
“Do we have to go after them right now?” Lilli asked. “Couldn’t we go shopping instead?”
“What’s there to shop for? This is the 1930’s. Everything here is a back water Hamlet style to me,” I answered.
For the past three and a half hours, Lilli, Candie, Sean E., Nick, James, Sean M., and I had been searching through
Sean E. had been pretty spaced out lately, especially after he almost lost Candie back in
“Sean! Wake up!” I snapped.
“What?” Sean E. said confused.
“You spaced out again,” I said.
“Sorry. I was, thinking,” Sean E. said gloomily.
“Please, don’t,” I asked.
“I mean, what would we be doing if Candie had been captured?” Sean E. pondered.
“Look, she wasn’t captured, so we don’t need to be thinking about the past when Brian and Nioki are still around causing trouble!” I snapped.
“Still, we should be careful about being captured,” Sean E. said.
“True. We’ll look into that,” I said. We continued walking, asking people (amazingly in German) if they knew anything about Brian and Nioki. Somehow, we ended up at Hitler’s doorstep.
“Weird,” Nick said.
“You got that right,” I said.
“Why do I get the feeling that something extremely bad is going to occur in the next few minutes?” Candie asked.
“I don’t know,” I said. I looked around the building’s front to see if there was some detail that stood out. All I could find, though, was a small flag that had a symbol that resembled something of an undead signature I saw over three years ago.
“Matt?” Lilli asked. “You okay?”
“No. I’m not,” I said. I looked up to the uppermost window and saw a shadowy figure looking down. The moment it knew it was being watched, it pulled back out of sight.
“What’s the matter?” Candie asked.
“I think we just found the source of all our problems,” Nick said. I nodded and made my way to the front door. As I approached, the door slowly creaked open, which startled me a bit. I glanced back to see what everyone else was doing before I walked in and everyone was standing still. I sighed and walked in, cautious not to get ambushed. Unfortunately, I was.
The door slammed shut and was sealed by a metal blast door and two turrets rolled out of the shadows preventing me from reaching the door. I stepped back and began advancing towards the inner parts of the building. Before I got too far away, I spun around and launched two rockets at the turrets, rolled, then fired my new 9mm (with enhanced ammo) at the door. The rockets took out the two turrets and damaged the door some. The bullet finished off the blast door and burned the external door as well.
I walked back to the door and looked outside. Nick, Sean E., Sean M., and Paul were tied up and there were several hundred undead soldiers rounding up people from the general vicinity.
“Get those people over here,” a girl snapped. “We need them ready in five.” I looked at the girl snapping orders to see who she was. Unfortunately, there was no way for me to identify her, mostly because I couldn’t see her face. I decided to wait a few moments, hoping to get a jump on these people, but I figured that I would be slaughtered before I even made three steps.
“Katie! Are you ready?” Brian shouted from somewhere. I looked around to try to find him, but with no avail. I squatted down some and pulled out my 9mm so I could at least defend myself from the undead. I heard footsteps behind me and was about to spin and shoot when I felt the cold metal of a gun barrel press against my neck.
“Don’t move,” I heard a feminine voice say. Honestly, I’m becoming increasingly disturbed at the number of females in this organization. I sat silently and still as I watched Brian appear from a large SUV that pulled up. From my viewpoint, it looked like an Escalade, but, an Escalade in World War II?
“All those who have been gathered here are now slaves to the Undead Alliance. You shall serve our every bidding and you will start with killing this man,” Brian announced. The person with the gun pushed me outside and revealed me to the rest of the area.
“Hey,” I said.
“You will kill him. If you fail, you die. The one who delivers the killing blow will be given the highest ranking of the slaves. May the underlords protect you!” Brian declared. At that, almost everybody came charging toward me, everyone except my friends. As the people came closer, I made a tough decision; do I shoot them all dead, or spare them? It took a good 0.00034 seconds to decide. I whipped out my P90 (with enhance ammo) and began to fire rapidly.
The bullets flew and buried themselves into the oncoming crowd. Inside the bullets, as they made their mark, a thin plate of aluminum was broken by a series of micro needles that allowed water to flow into a mix of pure sodium, potassium, and lithium. There was a slight delay, but when the two were mixed long enough, there was a massive explosion, killing not only the person hit, but those surrounding them.
For several minutes, I was holding back the people who wanted to rip my throat out but I knew that sooner or later they would overwhelm me. I jumped up about ten feet, high enough to reach some wall, and pushed off the wall with my feet. As I flew above the crowd, I fired a hail of shots into the Escalade (mostly at the gas tank) and smashed through a window of the building across the street.
Seconds passed; I didn’t know if I missed or if the explosion was taking longer than I thought. I stood up and walked over to the window and the Escalade went off. I was sent sprawling back into a wall on the opposite side of the room I was in, then straight through the wall into a hallway.
Painfully, I stood up and made my way back to the window. Through the smoke and flames that cover the area, I could see Nick and Paul untying everybody and making their way into this building. At the same time, there was so much confusion that no one knew what was happening or where to go. I ran out the room and fell down the stairs to meet up with everybody else.
“Matt! You alright?” Lilli asked.
“Yeah,” I said exhausted. I looked out the doors and saw a few bulky looking guys making their way through the crowd and to this building.
“Matt? What’s going on?” Sean E. asked.
“I don’t know, but we have to go now. We take the roof back to the ship. The only thing we can do know is to go farther back in time, then back to our time,” I said.
(To make a long story short…)
We did make it back to the ship and went back in time, then forward. When we made it back to present day New York, we faced a challenge that could tear the N3 apart.
When we returned to 2030, we found Earth far different from when we lefta.
“What happened here?” Candie asked.
“My guess is that we forgot someone back in the 1930s,” I said.
“But we have Brian and Nioki in the back,” Candie said. When she said that, I thought for a moment.
“Who was that girl from the crowd? She was herding people into that area to kill me,” I said.
“Why?” Lilli asked.
“If I’m right, this might have something to do with her,” I said. Before anyone responded, the ship was hit from an unknown weapon.
“What was that?” Nick asked as he picked himself up.
“I don’t know. Sean! Status!” I shouted.
“We were hit by a nuke,” Sean M. said. “Shields are holding, but whoever shot at us is trying again. Prepare for second impact!” Another explosion occurred sending everybody everywhere. Nick was the first up, and the angriest.
“Matt! We need to figure out who’s doing this and take them out!” Nick shouted. I nodded and began walking to a computer.
“Nick, start heading for the hangar bay. I’ll be there in a minute,” I said. Nick acknowledged me and ran off. Before I left, I glanced at Lilli, who was grinning slightly as she watched from the window.
(Outside the ship)
“Matt, I found the target,” Nick said. We were flying around the ship trying to identify the attacker and keep ourselves from being blown apart. I flew over so I could see what Nick found. Behind us was a GGR cruiser firing yet another nuke at us.
“Guys! Incoming!” I shouted over the comlink. The nuke hit and sent a massive wave of heat across the shield and into Nick and me.
“Matt! We can’t take much more of this!” Sean E. shouted. A turret at the top of the ship turned and began firing rapid heavy plasma bolts at the GGR ship. Nick took lead in the assault by flying headfirst to the ship. I followed, but at a distance.
“Nick, are you sure you know what you’re doing?” I asked as he began firing.
“No! But this is fun!” Nick shouted between laughs. I began firing at the ship as Nick passed by me in a looping motion to take a second run at the ship. The defensive turrets began firing at us, but with no success. I hit part of the ship, sending chunks everywhere. But what really bothered me was watching the ship repair itself then seeing the debris forming some kind of fighter.
“What is that?” Nick asked.
“I don’t know, but shoot it!” I shouted. I took off trying to shake off the “fighter” as Nick trailed shooting at the “fighter”. The turrets suddenly stopped firing at Nick and me but turned its attention to the ship. Remember how these ships have a huge energy cannon at the center? Well, using that knowledge, I advanced to the cannon, hoping to use the massive energy to overload the circuits inside the thing following me.
“Matt, I’d hate to tell you this, but I don’t detect anything about this thing following you,” Nick said. “I’ve got no EM readings, no life signs, not even an electrical pulse. It’s like it’s not there.”
“Undead technology?” I asked myself. The N3 Decimator began firing violently at the GGR cruiser and hit the thing following me. Nick and I peeled away from the GGR cruiser because it was beginning to explode from all the damage it just took. I took care to stay behind Nick the rest of the flight, so as to ensure his not seeing me pull away and disappear.
(Back on the ship)
“What do you mean he’s not there?” Sean M. asked.
“He’s just not!” Nick said. “He was behind me, but when I did a flip to see if we were in the clear, he was just gone.” Lilli stood against a wall watching everybody flip out over my disappearance. Candie walked over to her to see how she was dealing with it.
“Why should I be disappointed?” Lilli asked.
“Well, he is your boy friend,” Candie said.
“Yeah, so? I really didn’t love him,” Lilli said.
“Oh,” Candie replied quietly.
“Besides, I only became his girlfriend so I could terminate him,” Lilli admitted.
“What?” Candie asked shocked.
“I am part of the Undead Alliance. Once we rule this galaxy, we will become the Undead Protectorate. Soon, this empire that Matt has created will fall, leaving only the undead to rule,” Lilli said. Candie slowly backed away from Lilli asked she said this. “I can offer you a place among us. A place where you will rule for eternity.”
“No, I… I can’t,” Candie said.
“I understand. You don’t want to loose Sean. Tell you what; I’ll make you this offer. You have three days to decide though. If you join us, I’ll tell you how to make sure Sean doesn’t fall to the same fate as the rest of the organics.” Candie slid down against an arm rail as she took all of this in. Her best friend was undead and was going to rule the known universe as we now know it.
“I don’t know,” Candie said.
“Don’t worry, you still have three days,” Lilli said. Candie put her face into her hands as she heard these words come from Lilli. When she looked up again, Sean E. was holding her and Lilli was gone.
(Mid-Atlantic)
“I really wish I didn’t have to do this alone,” I mumbled to myself. I had been flying over the
(Flashback)(Note: this will be in a different format)
Come on already, delete! I was standing over the computer, trying to delete all files that dealt in reference to me.
(Time jump)
Sorry guys. I pulled away from the ship before I made it into the autopilot range and flew down towards the city below us. When I was far enough away, I activated a cloak and headed towards the
(Now)
“I wonder what’s going on back at the ship. Lilli’s probably trying to become commander or something. That or Candie’s mocking me,” I said to myself. Suddenly, and explosion knocked me out of my trance. I looked behind me and saw the Decimator following me.
Over the radio, I heard, “Matt! We know it’s you! What are you doing? And why did the ship try to kill you?” Ignoring the radio call, I began to accelerate. A few more shots were fired at me, so using those incoming shots, I dove underwater acting like I was hit.
I sat underwater for several minutes, waiting for them to leave and hopefully give up. When I felt that they were gone (mostly because there were no more explosions) I powered up the engines and took off. Unfortunately, I was an idiot. Above me was the Decimator and several A-632 fighters circling above. I punched the engines to the maximum capacity and shot off hoping to loose them behind me. As soon as I was in their sight, the A-632s began to pursue. Not wanting to shoot at them, I used various evasive maneuvers.
First, I tried going underwater again. This time, though, they were ready for that because they went under with me. Seeing that that plan failed, I decided to head for land. It took a good twenty minutes to reach
Giving up on that plan, I decided to head for
“Okay, these guys just don’t give up,” I said to myself as I looped the
(The main bridge of the Decimator)
“Report,” Nick commanded over the comlink.
“He just rammed the
“What?” Nick asked shocked.
“Yeah. There’s no sign of any survivors from that cra… wait, I see someone climbing down from the plane,” Candie said. “It’s Matt! Is he laughing at he civilians?”
(The crash site)
“Ha ha! You’re stuck!” I mocked as I climbed down the side of the twisted
“You fiend!” some dude shouted. I jumped off the side, and as I fell, I shot him in the knee (yeah, I have a sick shot).
(A government building in
“I never liked that building,” Katie remarked as she watched it burn. “I was thinking about destroying it.”
“Why do you dislike the
“It provides no purpose. It’s basically a useless piece of steel which could be put to better use,” Katie responded.
“So? It looked nice before Matt hit it,” Nioki said. “Still, you need to decide what you’re going to do with Matt and his company.” When Nioki finished her sentence, the A-632 fighters took off. Katie looked at Nioki who was looking back at her, and they both shrugged. As Katie turned from her window, I came crashing through.
“Ouch,” I moaned.
“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the infamous Matt,” Katie said mockingly. “I see you’ve resorted to coming in through windows. How’s your girlfriend? Oh wait; you don’t have one, do you?”
“Why doesn’t anybody drop that subject?” I asked as I stood up. A door on the other side of the room opened up and Lilli walked through in some weird outfit that I can’t even describe.
“What happened?” Lilli asked as she entered. When she saw me stand up, her face changed from worry to hate. “You.”
“Hi,” I said as calmly as I could.
“Are you so upset that you came to see me?” Lilli asked.
“About what?” I asked. “About the fact that you’ve been an undead agent, who’s been spying amongst the N3 for several weeks, hoping to get information but instead received the chance to conquer the world, then dumped me because I was only a tool?”
“Um, yeah, that,” Lilli said a little shocked.
“Well, I don’t care,” I said.
“Really?” Lilli said almost instantly. “Does that mean…”
“No, it doesn’t mean that. If anything, it means I have a good enough reason to kill you. You’re undead, I hate the undead, I terminate the undead,” I said coldly. “Besides, I never liked you anyway.” When Lilli heard that, she snapped. She was flying across the room ready to kill me, but when she made it to the other side of the room; I had already made it to the opposite side of where I was at.
“How did you…?” Lilli asked shocked. Nioki and Katie stood off to the side and watched this even unfold.
“How did I what? Have no heart?” I asked.
“That, and get over there so fast?” Lilli asked.
“One, I’m an n1nj4. Not that it means anything anymore. Two, I have always been a cold, emotionally challenged if not emotionless person who, honestly, can’t stand to be around other people, let alone the undead.” I turned around and headed for the door. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some business that needs to be attended to.” Lilli stood there for a moment as I walked towards the door, then threw a knife at a rope holding up a chandelier. The chandelier crashed in front of the door blocking me off, and I turned around infuriated.
“I’m not through with you yet,” Lilli said. Before I was able to move, Lilli stabbed me with a needle in the neck and injected a silver liquid into my blood stream.
“You do know that the nanobits will prevent that from working, right?” I asked. (Note: the undead can take over your mind, but because I have the nanobits in my bloodstream, it prevents the undead’s ability to take over minds to work on me.)
“But what if it was designed to affect the nanobits?” Lilli whispered into my left ear. “What if it made you into something that only I can save you from?” Lilli pulled the needle out of my neck and smiled. “If you want to leave, you can. But you might want to come back before nightfall.”
I looked at her, then jumped out the window and ran down the alley.
“What did you do to him?” Katie asked.
“What I injected into him will cause his nanobits to turn him into some unnatural creature and cause massive destruction,” Lilli explained. “It was designed so that either I or someone who cares about him deeply (not as a friend apparently) can cause him to revert back and keep this ‘creature’ tamed.”
“Not so easy to tame because of Matt’s cold personality is it?” Nioki asked.
“No. If anything, he’ll come back begging for help, and when he does, he’ll be under my permanent control,” Lilli said.
“So you hope,” Nioki said. “What if he learns to control it?”
“Then we’ll have to try something else,” Lilli said. “It should work though. Matt has very little experience with the technology he has within him. I, on the other hand, have mastered the technology and can use it to my advantage.”
(The Decimator)
“What do we do know?” Nick asked. “Matt’s a renegade and he deleted any and all files pertaining to him. He removed his ship off the database and any record of him building anything.”
“Why is that a problem?” Candie asked.
“Why? He’s the only person who even knows half of this stuff. All the passwords were written by him and only he can unlock the systems! They’ve been on autopilot for a while now,” Nick explained.
“No, the autopilot was turned off before he went out to help fight that ship that attacked us earlier,” Sean M. said. “I think he planned all of this.”
“I say we choose a new leader,” Candie suggested.
“What do you have against Matt?” Sean E. asked.
“He was a jerk to me,” Candie said.
“I didn’t see it,” Paul said.
“Because you didn’t see me talk to him alone a few months back. I teased him about not having a girlfriend,” Candie said.
“Why? You did know that he’s pretty defensive about that,” Vincinte said.
“Man, you have got to stop appearing like that,” Nick said startled.
“I’m here via comlink in a different galaxy,” Vincinte explained. “I just felt like saying hi.” With that, Vincinte disappeared.
“Okay,” Nick said. He slid in his chair and faced everybody else. “First we have to decide whether we’re going to find and contain Matt or cancel him.”
“I say cancel!” Candie said with enthusiasm.
“Of course you do,” Nick said. “Who says containment?” Nick and a few others raised their hand. “Termination?” Candie and a few more people raised their hand. “Other ideas?” Again, a few more people raised their hands.
(Somewhere in
“I’ve got to figure out what she did to me,” I told myself as I ran across roofs. “And, why am I moving so fast?” I was moving at a speed where I was more of a blurry cloud than a person. When I went pass a mirror, I couldn’t even tell it was me running.
I stopped when I reached a park somewhere in the inner part of the city and sat down on a bench. When I put my weight on the bench, I heard a slight crack, then the entire bench collapsed on me. I jumped up and walked away hoping nobody saw.
I decided to keep walking and made my way from one end to another, one end to another again and again. As I walked, I thought about what Lilli said about coming back before nightfall. I wished I had stayed a little longer to ask what she meant, but that was too dangerous. She probably wouldn’t have told me unless I gave her my soul. I shook my head and began thinking on another topic.
“Ahh!” some lady screamed. I looked around and saw some massive shadow heading towards me. When the shadow moved out into the light, I recognized what it was immediately. There was a Saber Tank headed towards me in the middle of a public park. No wasting any time, I took off running to the left of the tank; but I had to stop short because there was a second tank coming in from the other direction.
“What is going on?” I asked myself as I ran the opposite direction. Again, a tank was coming from there as well. I didn’t bother turning to my left because I knew a tank would be there.
“Matt!” I heard Nick call from somewhere. “We are here to help you!”
I braced myself for an attack which never came. Instead, I heard this: “We won’t hurt you Matt!” Candie saying she wouldn’t hurt me? That was pure comedy. I turned to face the first tank I encountered and stared at it for a moment.
“Why should I believe you?” I asked.
“Because,” was the response Nick gave.
“Not good enough,” I said back.
“Because we were asked by Lilli personally to get you so she could remove the virus she injected,” Nick replied. I thought for a moment. When I finished thinking (which was about 5 seconds) I gave my answer.
“Tell her, nice try, but I’m not a retard,” I said. Seconds passed and nobody did anything. I decided to take that pause as a chance to escape, but that didn’t work when Nick (or whoever was in the tank) fired at me. I fell backwards and slid into the tank opposite the one that shot at me. Two of the other tanks (not the one I was up against) aimed and fired at me. I waited a second, then jumped up, over the tank my back was too and began running as soon as I landed behind it.
Being the designer of the tanks, I knew that: 1) that blast didn’t do a thing to the armor, and 2) these tanks were wicked fast. The only way I knew to avoid them was to disappear, but that wasn’t as easy as it sounds, or so I thought. Before I knew it, I was invisible. I stepped to the side and the tanks rolled right pass me. I waited until they were quite some distance before becoming visible again and I continued my walk. I glanced to see the position of the sun, and saw that it was already dusk. Franticly, I began searching for a place to hide during the night. I didn’t know what would happen because of what Lilli did to me, so I felt that it would be better if I made myself scarce.
(That government building from earlier)
“It’s almost dark,” Nioki said. “How do we know it worked?”
“You’ll know,” Lilli responded.
“This had better be worth it,” Katie said. About the same time I was searching for a place to hide, Nioki, Brian, Katie, and Lilli were sitting on a balcony waiting for something to happen. In the distance, a low roar was heard. At first, you might mistake it for a truck or large vehicle, but the roar occurred again but was louder and fiercer.
“Is this what we’re waiting for?” Brian asked.
“This is just the beginning,” Lilli said. “Katie, you like destruction, right?”
“Yeah,” Katie answered. “Why?” Without saying anything, Lilli pointed to a large figure rising in the distance.
“What is that?” Nioki asked.
“Matt,” Lilli said. From where they were sitting, a large monstrous figure rose above the city, roaring and thrashing about. This monster was about 20 stories tall and had red glowing eyes, and massive fist-like claws that crushed a building it bumped against. It inhaled and launched a massive blast from its mouth in their direction.
(The park)
“What’s happening?” I asked myself as I began to grow.
My skin was turning into a metallic black and was hardening into what felt like titanium mixed with platinum. I grew to the height of approximately 20 stories, and I felt spikes protruding from my spine. As these spikes grew larger, I felt them bend slightly, creating a curved blade effect; my hands had turned into these three fingered claws with six sword-like blades extending from large armor-like plating on my arms. My shoulders became broader and harder as well. A long tail extended from my spine and it began to swing to and fro violently. My head became a mix of a dragon’s head and an anaconda’s head with long black fangs jutting out of my jaw. I managed to see my face in a wall of a reflective skyscraper to see that my eyes had turned into glowing red slits on my face and were becoming darker with each passing moment. Finally, four large heavy wings projected themselves from my back and flapped a few times before settling.
Within four minutes and 27 seconds, I went from human to some unknown creature, powerful enough to not only rip a man in half, but to level all of Europe in a day. I inhaled deeply and launched a blast of dark energy from my mouth, almost like fire, but when it hit a building, the blast enveloped the entire building and swirled around it for a moment before disappearing. When the cloud vanished, all that stood was the skeleton of the building and the skeletons of all those who were inside. I had become the source of ultimate power.
(The government building)
The blast stopped short of hitting Brian, Nioki, Katie, and Lilli because it hit a building before them. When they saw the aftermath of the blast, Katie was in awe.
“That is power unlike I’ve ever seen,” Katie remarked. “We must have it.”
“Indeed, but being able to control him is going to be a challenge,” Lilli stated. “He’s already rampaging around the city, tearing things apart. Sooner or later, we’ll be able to control him though.”
“You’d better,” Nioki said, “Because if you don’t, we’ll have a new enemy on out hands and we don’t want that.”
(The Decimator)
“Nick, we have a lock,” Sean E. said. Nick was flying around the Decimator in his A-632 fighter and looking around for me. Not knowing that I had “changed” my looks, they were still looking for a human running around
“Where at?” Nick asked. “The coordinates take me to some giant creature randomly destroying things.”
“That’s the only lock we have,” Sean E. said. “Trying flying nearby.” Nick sighed and dove towards me. I was busy tearing apart the French military, so I didn’t notice Nick passing by. I did notice, however, the military adverting some of its attention to the skies. I looked up as a tank shot several times at a fighter jet. The first couple of shots ricocheted off, but the last five shots damaged the wing, engine, and cockpit. The jet burst into flames as it barreled down towards the ground.
“Nick!” Sean E. shouted over the comlink. “Nick, respond!” There was nothing but silence for a few moments, then Sean E. turned off the comlink and turned to face everybody.
“What’s wrong?” Candie asked.
“Nick’s gone, and Matt’s still on the run,” Sean E. said quietly. “This world is as good as dead.” Sean E. walked away from the group and down to his quarters. Candie stood there for a second then ran to the hangar.
“Candie! Are you leaving us too?” Laini asked.
“No, I’ll be back, I promise,” Candie replied. She took off and began heading towards the center of
(The gov’t building)
I was sneaking around the grounds of the building after I learned how to revert back into my normal self, and I found a window that lead to Nioki, Katie, and Lilli talking amongst themselves. Suddenly, a French guy in some weird looking outfit, although similar to the military that followed me earlier, burst into the room and fell to the floor immediately.
“You failed,” I heard Nioki say. “You not only failed to capture Matt, but you also failed to place the tracking device on him in the event you couldn’t capture him.”
“I apologize, mistress,” the French guy said nervously. “But an unknown jet that looked like the one you described to us was approaching, so we shot it down which accidently gave Matt the chance to escape.”
“Describe the jet,” Nioki said.
“The jet had a flame vinyl on the side…” the guy started. Nioki held up a hand.
“You said you shot it down,” Nioki confirmed.
“Yes. There was no body inside, but we did manage to bring back the remains,” the French guy said.
“Good. For that, you shall be rewarded.” Nioki stood up and began to tear him apart. From all I could see from behind her, I’d say she had a good time, like a child on Christmas morning ripping open the gifts.
When Nioki finished, she wiped her mouth and began to make her way to the window. Just then, the doors burst open again. Wait, when did they close? I ducked to ensure I wasn’t spotted because whoever burst in didn’t fall down.
“Who is it?” Nioki asked.
“It’s Candie,” Lilli answered. “Why are you here?”
“To take that offer you gave me,” Candie said. Not wanting to hear more, I began to stalk away. Before I was too far away, I decided to place a few detpacks by the window. Chuckling to myself, I slid away into the shadows.
(Decimator)
“Hey Candie,” Sean E. said when he saw her enter the room. “What’s up?” We won’t go into too much detail here.
(20 minutes later)
“Everybody, listen,” Sean E. said. Everyone turned to face him. “Candie just got back with the specs for an undead armory. I say we do a raid tonight.”
“What do we get out of this?” Sean M. asked.
“Weapons, various vehicle plans, and maybe some information,” Sean E. said. “Who’s willing to go?” Nobody moved for a moment, then everyone raised their hand. Candie stood behind Sean E. with a very concerned look on her face.
(Undead Armory)
Sean E. dropped slightly, looked around, then signaled with a laser pointer to move on. Suddenly, several people began dropping from building roofs, sewers, and various vehicles that were parked randomly around. As everyone made their way to the buildings, Candie began looking around nervously.
“Candie, what’s wrong?” Sean E. asked.
“Huh? Oh, nothing,” Candie replied quietly. Sean looked at her for a moment, then went back to moving towards the building.
(Inside the Armory)
“Will this even work?” Laini asked. Laini had been inside for a little while with Sean M. in order to leave the doors open for everyone else. Sean M. was hanging by his hands from the ceiling, bleeding from the ears, mouth, and various body parts. Suddenly, he stirred slightly, enough to startle Laini and Lilli.
“Wha… what happened?” Sean M. asked.
“Nothing, Sean,” Laini said. “Everything is alright. Just go back to sleep.”
(Outside)
“Everyone ready?” Sean E. asked. Everybody nodded and aimed their guns forward and waited for Sean.
“Sean, I want to tell you something,” Candie said. (Seconds later.) “Please forgive me.”
Sean burst down the door and stormed the building. The moment, everyone was in, hundreds of undead infectors jumped down and began to capture and turn everybody into the undead. Candie personally found Sean amongst the chaos and dragged him to a hidden corner.
“What did you do?” Sean asked as he gasped for air.
“I’m sorry Sean, I didn’t know what to do,” Candie admitted. “Lilli offered me power and she said I could take you with me, but I had to get you to come here.”
“Well, you could have asked first instead of ambushing us,” Sean said. “By the way, why is Sean M. hanging over there?”
“Ask, Laini about that,” Candie said. She sighed briefly then stabbed her hand into Sean’s chest , causing him to scream in total agony. The shock of pain he felt as Candie began to grip and squeeze his heart made him squirm and he tried to shoot Candie. Candie grabbed his hand and looked him directly in the eyes and… we’re not going any farther with that little section.
Candie pulled her hand out of Sean’s chest and showed him his heart, which was still beating rapidly.
“How did you…?” Sean asked shocked. Candie grinned slightly, then crushed his heart, literally.
“You won’t need this anymore,” she said. Sean stared as he watched his heart become smaller and smaller as Candie crushed it. When Candie finished, she leaned over and kissed Sean. He sat there for a moment, then began to wonder.
“Am I undead?” Sean asked.
“Yeah,” Candie said. “I just want you to promise me one thing. Kill Matt for me, please?”
“I… I don’t know,” he said nervously. “I just don’t know.”
“You will,” Candie said. She stood up and walked over to watch the battle. When Sean stood up and looked, the battle had already ended. There were many dead, all of those being people from the N3.
“What happened here?” Sean asked.
“You were all given a choice,” Lilli announced. She, Laini, and Sean M. were standing on a platform on the other side of the building.
“A choice? A choice of what?” Sean E. asked hysterically.
“To either live or die,” Lilli said. “Nick and Matt knew far in advance about this, so that’s why their no longer with us. Candie decided for you, and she made an excellent choice I might add.”
“You’re insane,” Sean E. shouted.
“Am I?” Lilli asked. She pulled out a gun and shot Sean several times in the chest, face, and gut. He staggered a moment, then stood straight up. “If you weren’t undead, they you’d be dead.”
“Sean, I did this for us,” Candie said. “I… really just didn’t know what to do.”
Suddenly, there was an explosion by the door and Nick stormed in. He was holding a rocket launcher, and, of course, his FTSE. He looked around, then looked up. When he saw Lilli, he aimed for a shot until she pointed at Sean M. and Laini.
“What’s going on?” Nick asked confused.
“You’re a little late,” Lilli said. “If you had been here earlier, you might have had a chance. Now, that you’re here, you die.”
“What?” Nick asked again.
“Paul, Chris, dispose of him,” Lilli said. Nick’s eyes widened when he saw Paul and Chris drop from the ceiling and lunge for his neck. He was about to use the Tank Sniper when Chris knocked it out of his hand. Nick still managed to dodge the attack, but was only armed with a rocket launcher with no ammo. Tossing aside the launcher, Nick thought up a plan. First, Nick jumped up on a pile of dead bodies, then onto the platform Sean M. was standing on.
“Sean, you have to help me, please!” Nick pleaded. Sean looked at him, then punched him through the roof and into the air. Nick hung there for a few minutes, waiting for something good to come out of this, but nothing did. Nick began to fall back towards the building.
“Where is everyone?” I asked myself. I was walking around a French military base trying to find an armory or a weapons stash. I found several people, but they were all skeletons. I wandered around, stumbling over things, trying not to revert back into that creature from earlier, and avoiding random traps. I had turned another corner when I heard an explosion a few yards away. Curious, I ran towards the explosion, hoping for a weapon test only to find an armory, which wasn’t a problem.
The problem was what was in the armory. I walked in and began opening various crates. I walked farther into the building and heard some commotion. I climbed a mountain of creates and saw Nick being punched by Sean M. up into the ceiling. Nick crashed down next to Lilli and laid there for a moment. He rolled over and tried to get up, but Lilli stepped on his chest and held him down. She bent over and began to whisper into his ear. I never found out what she said, but I do have a very good guess, considering what Nick shouted.
“You will never make me into what you are!” Nick declared loudly.
“And how do you plan to do that? By crying to your mother?” Lilli taunted. She bent over and was about to stick her hand into his chest when he exploded into flames. Lilli jumped back in shock as Nick ceased flaming.
“That’s how,” Nick said. Nick charged towards Lilli, hands ablaze, and began swinging wildly at her. Candie jumped from her platform over to Nick and kicked him in the head.
I sat and waited behind some crates while Nick was ganged up on in this little fight. I glanced over to Sean E. and noticed that he was grasping his head, as if he was having some weird migraine.
“Sean? Are you okay?” Candie asked as she punched Nick’s nose. Nick doubled over, but remained on one knee trying not to faint. Sean E. nodded slightly, then pointed towards my location. I dropped lower and hid farther behind the crates hoping they didn’t see me.
“Matt’s… over… there…,” Sean E. strained. Candie and Lilli both looked over to the crates where I was hiding. I didn’t move, breathe, or even make any noise. I waited a few more moments, then I peeked around the crates. Before me, stood Lilli smiling and holding a knife.
“I didn’t think you would ever come back to me, Matt,” Lilli said. I snapped, and punched Lilli across the room.
“Why would you think that? I only came here for weapons!” I shouted. I suddenly began to shake violently and mutate. Only this time, it wasn’t into some huge beast that was uncontrollable. This time, I controlled what I became.
First, the six blades appeared from my arms. I then began to grow, but instead of being twenty stories tall, I was only eight feet tall. My head became a mix of Anaconda and a bullet-like shape. Short spikes began to protrude from my spine and my hands became three fingered claws. My knees grew large spikes up my leg and arms, and my eyes virtually disappeared. My teeth grew long and curved after 5 inches, then the teeth became jagged on either side.
“I see you managed to control your advancements,” Lilli said. “Are you sure you don’t want to come back to me?”
I never said a word. I simply raised my left arm, and swung with extreme power. Lilli dodged the attack, and I hit a nearby pillar causing them to collapse. The entire building was beginning to rumble and collapse.
“You idiot! I give you a chance of a lifetime and you throw it all away!” Lilli shouted. Sean E., Candie, Sean M., and Laini had made it to a doorway. “Why Matt? Why?”
“I'm out of here!” Nick shouted. He barreled out the far doors and turned a corner.
I didn’t say anything again, but I did rear back and inhale deeply. As I inhaled, a dark cloud began to form in front of my mouth. Along with this cloud, almost all movement in the air, apart from my inhale, ceased. I exhaled a blast of dark energy, similar to my first blast, yet not intended to terminate life as the first.
“Lilli! Move already!” Candie shouted. Lilli stood there as this blast came flying towards her.
“I'm sorry,” Lilli said quietly. A tear began to roll down her eye as the blast approached closer and closer. The air around her began to heat up, to the point where a human would have been incinerated. The blast finally hit her, and as it did, her body began to tear apart, bones decaying, organs burning into ash. The blast ended, and all that remained of Lilli was a pile of ash and various bones.
“I can’t believe it,” Candie said. “She took that attack.” Both Sean’s, and Laini stood there for a moment in shock. “We have to get to Nioki.”
Suddenly, the building behind them exploded. They looked behind them, and saw me charging towards them. I stopped short, dropped to all for, and charged faster than I was on my hind legs.
“Run!” Sean E. shouted.
(Nick)
“Have to escape!” Nick shouted as he ran. He had just left the armory when I turned into the monstrosity that began to rampage about in the armory. Nick turned a corner and saw Sean E., Candie, Sean M., and Laini running for their lives and a Sniper Class ship approaching. Without hesitating, Nick turned the other way and ran until he found a fighter jet, fueled and ready for takeoff.
Nick climbed in and turned on the engines, closed the cockpit, and rolled out onto the runway. He glanced one final time at the ongoing battle behind him and took off. No one knows where Nick went that day. Some say he flew until he ran out of fuel and lived where he landed. Some say he went back to
(The end)
I’m going to end this here. To shorten things up, as I was chasing them, Brian and Nioki had obviously sent in some backup. A few Sniper Class ships had dropped in suddenly and attacked me, causing me to stop. I managed to create anti-aircraft missile launchers on my back and begin firing. I lost the Seans, Candie, and Laini, but I did manage to learn a few things.
(Some time later)
“Today is a grand day for the Undead. We have conquered a world, and there is nothing there to stop us from ruling the universe,” Nioki said. “Cheers!” All the way down a long table, sat everyone from the N3 who survived (not including Nick), the elite of the GGR, Katie, Amber, and Kira raised their wine glasses in cheer to their victory.
“But there is one sad note,” Candie said. “Lilli, a good friend, was lost in a tragic accident. We morn her, but she will not be forgotten.
Outside, I sat on a nearby rooftop, watching them eat their victory feast. I stood up and turned around irritated by their insolence.
“I knew the undead would rule the world,” I said. “But I never thought I would live….” And explosion occurred, cutting me off midsentence. I flew hundreds of feet through the air and landed on my face. “Soon, the undead, and their underworld counterparts will know the true meaning of…” Another explosion occurred and threw me far into the air again.