I unclipped my parachute as I stood up, surveying this strange island… but not for long.
"Wait, where are the fifth and sixth ones?!" I heard someone shout.
"Find them!" Another person yells, me ducking out of their eyesight as they stop about 20 feet away. They look around for a few minutes before finding my parachute near the water and another one near mine.
"Vaas, minor problem. The last two are nowhere to be found." He says into his handheld radio.
"We still got the other four, come back to base. You can't forget, Hoyt, new people show up on this island everyday." The man on the other line says before the men searching for me leave.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, look and see Johnny, the two of us hugging before standing up and walking away.
"That was too damn close. You okay?" Johnny says once we take up shelter in an abandoned warehouse, Johnny closing the door and blocking it with a metal filing cabinet.
"I'm okay… but who the hell were those guys?" I say.
"I don't know but we need to find a damn way off this island before they come back." Johnny says before we hug again, Johnny lightly rubbing his hand up and down my back. I don't like hiding in warehouses anymore, not after the explosion that almost caused Jack to almost burn to death two months ago.
I look down at my index and ring finger on my right hand and see blood on them, Johnny finding a med kit and bandaging my fingers.
Whether it's by pure luck or that we just know out of instinct how to hide from these guys, we've avoided them so far… but if we don't find a way off this island and back to San Andreas, we're gonna end up like the other four that were captured. And Trevor, I don't know how you decided that this would make for a great vacation but if we get out of this alive, you're gonna be waking up tied to a utility post completely naked and with your eyebrows on fire!
Johnny and I hear the doorknob rattle, Johnny grabbing my hand and us running us down the hallway until we reach another room and hide in it, blocking that door with another metal cabinet… it's not too long after that that the person outside leaves, me and Johnny crouched under the window.
"We're gonna get out of this one alive, Carly. We'll be okay." Johnny whispers after pulling me into his arms, me hanging onto him.
Meanwhile…
"Looks like you did find something, though." Vaas says after Hoyt hands him the switchblade he found by Carly's parachute, the blade visible and a piece of the parachute string on it, implying that Carly's parachute got tangled up in the wind and she tried to free herself.
"I guess she and her friend anticipated something was up… Ivory
did say that the two were gonna be hard to break, right?" Hoyt says, examining the switchblade and finding Carly's blood on the blade.
"Yes, he did. Those two… Carly Jade and Johnny Klebitz are gonna be insanely hard to break. If anything, what's about to happen will push them closer together… if they survive." Vaas says, an evil smirk on his face.
'New people show up on Rock Island every day… I could just pass little Carly off to Buck when I find her but where would be the fun in that?' Vaas thought evilly.