I was just thinking about doing a different sort of story today. To put it short, the super volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park erupts every 600.000 years. The last eruption: 640,000 years ago.

Overdue

Chapter One

I stared off into space as I thought about today's doings. I actually did nothing out of the ordinary. I can't say the same about Dr. Holiday.

She was sent to Yellowstone to study a nanite disturbance. Apparently she wanted to get to it before Black Knight noticed.

Though Holiday can take care of herself very well, I still have a very bad feeling about this.

I fiddled with my katana. I have to keep that blade sharp…

"Hey Six?" Back to my prison of reality.

"What is it Rex?" I looked at the teen impatiently. How did he even get into my room? I changed the dang thing back to a normal key lock…and yet he still got in! Without a key, too.

"Do you think Doc'll be okay?"

"She'll be fine, Rex. You should be asleep by now. It's… 11 o'clock at night."

After I got Rex out of my quiet little safe haven, I changed and prepared to get into bed. I thought back to what Rex asked me.

So I'm not the only one.

…

Six.

I looked around. There was smoke and ash swirling around me.

Six.

There was fire and the smell of burning grass and fur.

Six!

I looked down. At my feet lay a dirty and broken Doctor Holiday.

SIX!

I snap awake at the sound. Snatching one of my katanas off the nightstand, I nearly killed the person who woke me. Luckily for them, they had giant metal fists to block my swords.

"What do you want at this hour?" I looked up at him, not caring that he could see my eyes.

"Come on. Now." I could hear the sharp, serious tone in his voice. Something is very wrong.

…

After I got dressed, the teenager led me down to the cafeteria. All the other lights were off except in there. As I walked in, I noticed that every person who worked in the main base (at least our base. We had a few agents join us after we left Providence. Most of them were doctors.) were huddled around the wall mounted TV. Even stranger, everyone was dead silent. The only sound was the panicked voice of the reporter covering the story everyone was watching.

"-has erupted. Again the super volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park has erupted!"

The terrified news lady tried hard to keep her cool as molting lava and smoke spewed towards the sky in 20 different places.

Those signs are all too familiar to me.

I raced out of the room towards my jump jet. Rex caught me by the arm after chasing me down the hall.

"*PANT PANT PANT* Where are you going!"

"To get Holiday. You can't stop me from going." I snatched my arm away, feeling the anger build up in my chest.

Rex smiled. "Who said I was stopping you?"

"You're not coming, Rex."

"Six, I care about the Doc just as much as you do. Plus, I'm not just gonna be a back seat driver. I'll help."

I looked at him for a good ten seconds. Finally I gave in and motioned for him to follow me.

…

The small screen next to the controls had a lock on Holiday's location. The equipment she took along with her carry capsules of nanites, giving off a nanite signature. Providence installed them just in case they were stolen. I'm still stumped as to why Providence hasn't come to gat them back from us.

Today, I will bring back Holiday.

"You sure you know what you're doing?" Rex looked over at me from the seat behind me. I dodged a tree.

"No."

"Well, that's comforting."

"Hey what are we doin' now?" Bobo.

"What are you doing in here, monkey?" I glared hard at the monkey who seenmed to appear out of nowhere from behind my chair.

"I was…taking a nap." He tried to give me an innocent smile. Why does every do that with me? They all know that it will never work.

Up ahead, there was a huge black cloud rushing at us. I glared behind my sunglasses and tightened my grip on the controls.

"Hold onto something. This will get a little bumpy.' Rex's eyes widened a bit and assumed a death grip on the side of the chair.

Black rain began to hit the windshield and the wind picked up to an unbelievable level. The jet rocked and shook but thankfully she held together. The black clouds got even blacker as we flew into the heart of the cloud. She shook harder as the wind got even harder.

There! The nanite signature is just ahead. I fought against a low jet stream to land. Luck is on my side today. I landed well on the ground.

In the heart of the volcanic ash cloud.

…

I had taken some air filter face masks from Storage Unit E. Thank God I took three on accident. There was nothing keeping Bobo or Rex from this little field trip. I also took a couple of old military goggles. In this case, sunglasses just won't work.

I got the hand-held tracker and walked ahead.

"This mask makes me feel really-Hey! Wait up!"

Under my shoes crunched the ash-encrusted grass. Looking up, there was nothing but a black sky. The trees already started to die. The glowing orange of molten rock streamed off in the distance. The air around me was grey. If Holiday was out in the open when Yellowstone erupted…No! She has to be alive! She's too smart stay out in the open when something like this happens.

"Six. We're here to get the Doc, huh?" Bobo walked alongside me. I've had to deal with that monkey a long time. But when he calls me Six, something terribly wrong is about to happen.

At that moment, all of the earthquakes and eruptions ceased.

After a minute of waiting, Rex spoke up.

"Six, what's going on-"

Then, a mile in front of us, a huge eruption began. The lava shot up miles into the air.

"Oh…my…God…" I vaguely heard Rex say.

"GO GO GO! RUN!" I yelled. Bobo obeyed but Rex was rooted to the ground. I shook him back into reality just as the flaming boulders began to rain down on us. I ran and virtually threw the two of them into the jet. I slammed the hatched shut and get down and low as I could. I looked into Rex's eyes. A tough kid he is, but I could still see the fear on his face.

The jet flipped over and my whole world went as black as the sky outside.

And there is the first chapter! Anyone have any ideas? Please review!