Author's Note: This fic was inspired by realizing I needed to update Spartan and watching the Modern Warfare episode of Community. So, I came up with this.
"Spartans, you will all be given an S6 handgun and several magazines of TTR paint. It will be a free-for-all battle to the last man standing. You may go about it any way you see fit, but only one man can be left 'alive'. Go." Mendez stepped back and the Spartans each grabbed their weapons and ran into the forest.
Fred ducked under a fallen tree after running about three hundred yards and hunkered down. He noticed Isaac nearby and raised his weapon, but Isaac spun around and held his hands in the air.
"We'll have a better chance of making it if we team up." He said.
Fred considered for a moment, then nodded.
"We need to cover at least fifty yards around us, then we start to move out."
They thoroughly checked the surrounding area and then moved farther into the forest. Kirk ran forward, firing two shots and aiming for each of their chests, but Fred ducked to the side and Isaac brought his weapon up in time to fire on Kirk.
Kirk fell to the ground with two shots on his shoulder and chest.
"Are you kidding? How the heck did you guys get me again? You have to be joking." Kirk continued to speak to himself angrily while Isaac took his extra magazines and they continued walking.
Fred noticed Will ducking and weaving through the trees toward them, Mike on his trail and firing wildly at him. Fred ran toward them, leaped against a tree and redirected, firing twice into one of Mike's knees and then another time in the gut. He held his gun to Will, then said,
"You've got two choices. Join us or have me let Isaac shoot you for letting down your guard enough that Alice got you in that last round," Fred smiled, hoping to look somewhat intimidating, "I suggest you pick the first choice." Will nodded and silently began to cover their rear flank while Fred took Mike's magazines and adjusted his fallen friend in a very awkward way. "Next time you probably shouldn't give me such an easy kill." Then he smiled a very cocky grin and laughed.
The three Spartans walked through the forest together, watching each other's backs until they found two of the other Spartans -covered in paint. "Down!" Fred yelled just as paint shots erupted from the trees surrounding them. Fred ducked a line and rolled forward, his gun ending in someone's face, while two barrels likewise pointed at him. He glanced to the side and saw that Will and Isaac were in similar positions, two weapons pointed at them while they each had one trained on their enemies.
Standing in front of Will was Vinh, a fierce grin on her face. In front of Isaac was Alice, and Kelly stood before Fred.
"Well, ladies. Look what we have here. You boys get lost or something?" She said in a mocking tone.
"We were just coming around to say hi. I knew how much you missed me." Fred gave another cocky grin.
"I think we ought to kill them. Do either of you disagree?" Kelly looked over at Alice and Vinh, and Fred swung in and grabbed her wrists. He spun her around so she was between the other two and him, then he held his gun to her temple.
"Let them go before I take her out." He said, his voice cold and calculating. Suddenly Kelly twisted in his grip and somehow he ended up on the ground with one of Kelly's knees on his neck holding his head down and both of her guns aiming at his head.
Fred let out an exasperated sigh as Kelly said,
"What was that about taking me out? I kinda missed what you said over the sound of you falling down." The way she said he could tell she was giving off one of her smiles and realized he was better off going against an entire marine company than being stuck in the position he was currently in. "Maybe something along the lines of, 'Boy did I screw up'."
"You may think that you have the upper hand, but I have three others holding back behind us. Even if you 'kill' us, they'll finish you off."
"You never were the best at lying, Fred." Alice said almost as soon as he finished. "Your best bet is to try to give us your undying loyalty and join us until we decide it's in our best interest to kill you."
"I could easily throw Kelly off my neck and kill you all if I really wanted to." Fred said casually.
Kelly increased the pressure on his neck and pushed her gun harder into Fred's temple.
"What do you two think?" He said quietly due to the lack of air, though still trying to sound like the situation was under his control. He glanced up and saw that both Isaac and Will were being held in somewhat similar positions to what he had been holding Kelly in.
"I think that it's a pretty good idea." Isaac got out and sent a weak smile toward Alice.
Fred sighed again, "Alright, I guess we'll let you join us." Kelly slowly eased off of Fred's neck but kept her guns trained on him. Fred stood and rubbed his neck where Kelly had been kneeling, but stopped when he noticed her smile. Fred realized that a fish must see a close relative of that smile right before it gets eaten whole by a shark.
He'd still rather be facing that marine company on his own than be in the position he was.
Author's Note: My chapters are getting progressively shorter! I don't mean to, really. Anyway, I realized that Fred and Kelly were being really flat and had next to no personality the way I was writing them, so I decided to try this out. Like it, dislike it? Tell me in a review.