Note: Dan has joined an organization that is said to stop evil and that the girls are supposedly a part of an evil threat, but does Dan believe this to be true and just what will happen when he meets Blaine's boss.

P.S.: Sorry for the long wait, it has been like hell this past month trying to look for the time to continue my story, but I'm just glad that I finally finished this chapter and don't worry, I won't give up on this story, SO DON'T DOUBT ME!

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Chapter 9: An Offer Part II

(Not a remake of anything. It's its own story.)

It is early noon, as the sun is high up. Dan walks along the beach shore as he was told yesterday by Blaine to meet at the hidden spot of the beach shore. He continued walking until he reached the rocks, of which he knew the hidden shore would be on the other side. When he reached the rocks, he faced them as he looked up the rocks seeing the top. The height of the rocks looked more than twenty feet high and the surface was smooth, too difficult to get a grip on but there were many rocks that could be used to leap from one another.

Dan first looked for a possible path of rocks to take and had plotted a course. He started by first going in a diagonal path of four rocks which got him a good eleven feet up, he then went left only going up about two feet. The next rock he had to reach was too high, both on his left and right sides. He then decided to jump towards one rock and bounced off of it letting him reach the other rock. He wasn't high enough to reach the rock so he bounced off again reaching the side he first bounced off of. He was able to get his arms over on the top of the rock but because of the smooth surface he couldn't get a grip and was about to slip.

He slowly kept slipping as he tried to use the grip of his shoes to stay in place but still kept slipping. He was at his elbows trying to not slip until one of his foot slips. Dan tried to pick up his foot but struggled to do so and as he continued to place his foot on the rock, it kept slipping off until he managed to find a ledge of a rock that stood out perfectly for him to place his foot, or at least his toes.

His elbows still laid on top of the rock as his chin also rested on it. Once he had his toes on the ledge, he jumped slightly and then stomped on the ledge, giving him enough force for him to flip over, causing him to land on the top of the rock on his feet in a squatting position.

"No problem." Dan said to himself as he got up with a slight grunt. He was at the top as he had noticed. He walked over to the edge of the rocks he stood on to see the hidden shore. The shore was empty, it only had sand and the water which washes on it, the rocks that surrounded the shore looked much like a crater but the rocks were still smooth. When he finished looking, he jumped onto the crater's rocks as he slid down into the hidden shore, when he landed he noticed that the sand was much softer and less irritating than the other side.

He stood up from the sand as he took another look at his surroundings. He stepped in the middle of the crater like shore as the sand surrounded about seventeen feet in diameter and the rocks covered mostly around the shore except for the opening in which the water washed up on. The rocks of the opening was curved almost like a cave's entrance, but not completely, all that can be seen through the opening is the glistening ocean, all the way to the horizon as the sky continues it onward.

Dan saw all this in the hidden shore but not Blaine. He first looked back up at the rocks to see no one standing there and then looked at the ocean and saw only the water and sky. Seeing that it might be a while before Blaine might show up, Dan went on the opposite side of the opening to sit as he laid back on the smooth rock as he pulled out his phone with some earphones and started listening to some music as he put his hands behind his head and looked up at the sky.

After hearing his music for a while, he heard something and with that he took off his earphones, almost ripping them off from his ears as he quickly stood. He then quickly looked around to see no one, but then heard a sound from the water and quickly faced it to see something surface the water.

What Dan saw surface was a small silver-like metallic platform shaped like an ellipse that raised only a couple of feet from the water's surface that had a hatch on the center of the platform. As it rises, the water seems to wash off of the metal as the sun gives it a shine. When it stopped, the handle of the hatch spun and the lid comes off as Dan readies himself by positioning in a type of fighting stance while a figure comes out of the hatches hole and with that Dan relieves himself by letting his arms hang down his sides.

"That's quite an entrance there Blaine." Dan said casually with his casual straight face as he crossed his arms while Blaine jumped down from the metallic platform.

"Thanks" said Blaine with a smile after he landed on the sand as Dan took a few steps towards Blaine with a serious expression. "Alright, I guess we should be on our way." Blaine says but Dan does not move as Blaine took notice.

"Where are we going?" Dan asked with a bit of seriousness as Blaine turned around with a confused look.

"I told you yesterday, we're going with my boss." said Blaine as Dan took a few steps toward the metallic platform.

"With this that I'm assuming is a submarine." Dan said as he faced Blaine while standing close to the metallic sub as he knocked on it and Blaine gave him a nod. Dan took a sigh before climbing on the surfaced platform as Blaine then followed and then entered through the hatch.

When they entered through the hatch, Dan simply jumped in while Blaine just used the ladder, inside there were many panels of machines along the sides of the walls with many buttons and monitors. The inside was not very cramped, the open space inside was about the same size as a mini-van but only had two seats in the front with controls with a large thick piece of glass above the controls, giving a view of the underwater.

As Dan walked towards one of the seats, he eyes were fixed on the view to the underwater. When he reached the seat, he only stood behind the seat as he stared through the glass while Blaine had passed him and sat in the seat with the driving controls.

"We're about to start, you might as well take a seat." said Blaine snapping Dan out of his gaze into the water as he slowly slipped into his seat but he soon continued to stare back at the glass as Blaine started the sub and were on their way.

While on their way, Dan mostly gazed at the water through the glass, seeing the many sea life pass by as the sub continues to move along and the rays of the sun from under the surface, which glistened beautifully. Although it didn't look like it, they were actually moving at a fast pace but under the water, it seemed like they were barely moving. It seemed that they have been travelling for a while, at the very least half an hour and was in silent.

"Enjoying the view, huh?" Blaine asked breaking the silence as Dan barely takes notice of his question as he still gazed into the water but then slowly turned slightly to Blaine.

"Yeah..." Dan said as he turned back to the glass and continued to speak. "... it's not very often that you get to see the glistening ocean from beneath the surface... it's just more interesting." said Dan as Blaine nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, I get what you mean, but I've been underneath the surface in this sub for a couple times, but... I never really pay much attention to the surface from underneath, especially since I'm driving." said Blaine.

"Yes, it seems that priorities always seem to be more tended to than the beautiful scenery." said Dan as Blaine had a puzzled look but even though Dan didn't see it, he knew he had to explain. "We often get caught up in other means of responsibility that we often forget or hardly ever get the chance to just watch beautiful scenery, to calm the stress that we so long to relieve." said Dan as Blaine gave a smile.

"Wow, that pretty good." said Blaine as Dan nodded. "Where did you get that from?" asked Blaine as Dan then snapped out of his gaze as he backed his head on the headrest of the seat as he remembered a part in his life.

"It was from someone that I hardly know of... but yet was special..." Dan said as he began to reminisce.


It was six years ago...

During Dan's hunting days when he was 12, with the first hooded man, in the forest during a late summer day. Dan had followed the white hooded figure through the forest, copying his every movement but struggled a bit in keeping up.

"Struggling a bit I see." said the hooded man, who stood on a high branch of a tree while Dan was couple branches below.

"Well it's not as easy as it looks!" Dan screamed below as rushed up from the branch he was on and gave himself a boost to be able to reach the next branch above just barely. At this point Dan was taught the early forms of free-running, mainly climbing.

"I was able to get here, why should it be any different for you." stated the hooded man, who continued climbed to a higher branch.

"Well for one thing…" Dan said as he pulled himself on the branch that he hung on and once he was able to stand with balance he continued. "… you're only a part of my imagination and for all I know, I could just be crazy and possibly only be talking to myself."

"No, not insane, but I was not always just a piece of thought… at one point, I was more." Said the hooded figure as it looked like he took a brief pause, not to take moment off of the climb but to take a moment of his thoughts but he soon pulled away. "But never mind that. Continue to climb, there is something to be seen and taught as well."

And with that Dan continued as he leapt from the one that he was on to the other that was slightly above at the side and then to another, much like climbed a semi-spiral of branches. After reaching that last branch, he ran up the tree to boost himself in order to reach a higher branch, he reached it as he hung from it and then pulled himself up. As he continued to climb higher on the tree that seemed much higher than the other trees, the setting of the sun was blocked no more. It was when he finally reached the top, only has high as the strongest branch could allow the setting sun was in perfect view with the trees below. The hooded man was at the very top of tree as he looked towards the direction of the sun.

"Well, I'm finally here. So what is it you wanted to show me?" Dan said as he crouched on the branch he was on, looking up to the hooded man who only stared at the sun.

"It is here…" he said as he looked down to Dan. "…you need only to turn around." He said as Dan did as told but with a puzzled look, he turned and saw nothing but the sun.

"I, I don't see anything." said Dan as he turned back to the hooded man, only to see him gently chuckling for a bit. "What?" Dan asked.

"It is there… this is why I wanted, perhaps needed, to show you this." said the hooded man as Dan's face was still puzzled. "Our priorities in life have always taken away the chance to point out the beautiful scenes, where we can calm the stress we so long to relieve. In this point, you thought that we were to focus on a teaching and fail to even notice the sun, even as its light dances around us." he said as Dan looked down.

"I… I didn't notice." said Dan as he looked at the sun and this time to realize its beauty.

"We hardly ever do." said the hooded man as both he and Dan continued to stare the sun, it seemed that they stared for a while but it felt much like a minute to be able to feel the relief and was very silent.

It seemed that they could be at ease as they felt the gentle impact of the winds blown on their faces. The setting sun fitting perfectly in the sky as the trees were set below with their bustling branches and leaves. All was silent until there was a sound that could be heard, the sound of birds in a near tree, just below in a nest which snapped the hooded man from his stare.


"Dan, DAN!" said a voice and in an instant Dan pulled away from his reminiscing as he came back to reality, back at the sub. He almost snapped up from his seat. Dan looked around a bit to remember that he was on his way with Blaine to meet his boss on a submarine.

"About time." said the same voice, it was Blaine who stood beside Dan. "It looked like you were deep in thought." said Blaine.

"Y-Yeah" Dan said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "I guess I got a little too lost there for a moment." He said as Blaine walked towards the ladder and Dan took a look around and saw through the glass that they weren't moving, he then stood up. "Are we-"

"Here? Yes." Blaine said completing Dan's question while at the same time answering it. With that Dan got up and followed Blaine up the ladder.

When they came up, Dan saw that they had surfaced on a lake with a shore that quickly followed the lake's water and all along ahead was a jungle. As Blaine had jumped off the platform of the surfaced sub as Dan another look of the surroundings as he looked behind to see a wall and then a glass dome had followed just after the wall.

'What the hell?' Dan thought as he fully came up the ladder, out the hatch, as he turned to the wall with the glass dome. 'Why the glass dome?' he continued as he looked up the dome as he could. 'Man, kind of wished that I didn't doze off so I could see how the hell we got in here.' he thought as he looked down at the base of the dome that was in the water.

He continued to look at the dome for a little while longer until he noticed that he may have spent a bit too much time. He turned to face the jungle, it was not very thick but there were still many trees with vines and some exotic plants on the ground along side of patches of a path. He saw all this but not Blaine, though he did not look worried, he only jumped off the surfaced platform of the sub.

Dan only looked left then right before putting his hands in his pockets and then calmly started walking through the jungle. As he walked through the jungle, he noticed that the trees were about as wide as him and the branches were pretty thick as well, at the very least of half his width. To him it was tempting to climb on a tree and then to leap from one to another, much like how he used to do back in South Dakota where he used to live, hunt, and be taught by the three hooded men, where he was taught the art of free-running, to survive, and to be perceptive.

And speaking of him being taught to be perceptive, he seems to pick up the sense that he is being watched. As he had that feeling, he decided it was best to move on, but not before he takes a look at a certain tree at which he glares at before he continues to walk. What he glared at was a camera that he knew was hidden in the tree he looked at.

"Hmm?" said a female voice as the owner of the voice, a shadowy figure in a poorly lit room, it was a dark room but since there were open windows the light came through them but not one light through the window had hit the female figure except for the light that came off the screen of a monitor.

She sits on a seat, with one leg over the other as her arms were crossed over the knee that lay on top of the other knee as her back laid back though with the darkness it was difficult to make of any other features. On the monitor it showed Dan who glared and then left. As she continues to watch Dan, another monitor beside the surveillance monitor lights up as it shows a face, Blaine's face.

"Hello Blaine, I see you've brought along the new recruit." says the female voice as it seems that a smile shows on her face.

"Yeah, but... is this really necessary? I mean to-"

"Well of course. Blaine, in order to actually know what he is capable of we need to put him through this course." said the female, interrupting Blaine.

"Alright, I just hope you know what you're doing." said Blaine before he ended the communication link and the monitor he was on turned black.

"Don't worry. I know very well what I'm doing." She said as she twiddled a very small object in her fingers and let out a laugh.

As Dan continues to move along through the jungle, he gets the sense that there is something out there because he kept hearing something. Eventually has he kept walking, he slowed down until he stopped and looked around and saw nothing but heard something for sure. Though he was not afraid, he didn't like anyone sneaking up on him. It was only a matter of time that his question of who or what was in this jungle would be answered.

Though as he observed his surroundings, he saw nothing but heard something, something crawling and he felt a tug on his ankle then that's when he looked down to see a type of vine wrap itself around his ankle.

"What the hell is this!?" Dan said a bit angrily as he used his free foot to stomp on the vine which then let go after a few stomps and then retreated back into the bushes but it was not the time to be calm because just then a huge venus fly trap, about Dan's height, appeared from out of the bushes and lunged its gaping mouth towards Dan.

Dan quickly backed away as the fly trap chomped down but missed, Dan quickly used the situation to jab the plant downwards a few times before again backing away. Before the plant could get itself up Dan turned to run away but had bumped into another giant fly trap. As Dan was on the ground, the fly trap lunged its opened mouth towards Dan but as it came near, Dan caught the mouth of the plant, one hand on each side.

As the fly trap came in closer, Dan pushed harder as this all reminded him of his necklace, the wolf, how it was close to biting him and when the colonial hooded man told him to break the jaw of the wolf but couldn't force himself to. But now this is another familiar situation, he imagines the wolf being the plant and the jungle was a frosty forest.

'Can I do this?' Dan asked himself in thought as he forced himself to get up while still pushing against the plant's gaping mouth. 'I have to! There's no one here to help this time!' he thought as he pushed the plant further down and then he stomped down on the lower side of the fly trap. He held the lower side with his foot as he used both hands to separate the upper side even further as the plant let out painful squeals.

He continued to push back, separating the plant's mouth until he felt no opposing force pushing back. He then let go as the mouth came down to the ground, not moving at all. He stood there catching his breath looking over the fly trap, the only thing that caught his attention was the sound of another fly trap. Dan decided to find a way to escape the area rather than to fight giant plants.

He quickly started running, though ahead of the path he ran were more moving vines, instead of going head on, he decided to jump reaching a branch and quickly swung himself up to another branch of a tree. Once up he continued moving by leaping from one to another avoiding the moving plants below.

After leaping from a few trees, Dan took the time to catch his breath and then decides to climb the tree he is on to get higher. Although the tree was not very high, Dan was still able to see a building at the center of the dome through a few trees and branches and it seemed not too far. He made that building his destination and continued leaping from branch to branch, often swinging upwards to reach higher branches looking much like an acrobatic but not as flexible.

After a minute or so of leaping from tree to tree, he reached the center but hesitated jumping off from the tree he was on, hiding behind a few branches. He pulled away the braches a bit, enough to get a clear view of the building.

The building was white and was much like a like large cylinder that seemed to hold up the center of the dome, at the near top there was, what could be, a control center that was offset from the base. He thought for a second that Blaine could be there, asking himself what is going on. With wanting an answer, he put aside the possible dangers and jumped down from the tree.

As soon as he took a step to get close, the thin platform around the base of the building had surfaced four sentry guns and automatically the red dot scopes all pointed at Dan as he heard the sentries charging up. Before Dan could turn and run, the sentries fired lasers at Dan but he quickly dodged the many lasers with having a few close calls.

With having enough he rushed himself back into the jungle as he passed by a few trees until he decided to stop and catch his breath. He looked back and still saw the sentries through some bushes and trees but it seemed that the sentries were now only searching for their target, Dan, but were not able to search mobile which was good for Dan. After catching his breath, Dan quickly charged back to the sentries but first rushed up a tree to run along a branch that extended to the area of the sentries.

As he reached the end of the branch, he leapt off of it much like a diving board to be able to extend his distance. As he was in the air, the sentries began to motion upwards but Dan landed just in between two of the four sentries. The two sentries turned to Dan and fired but Dan quickly jumped out of the way as the lasers that were fired it had hit one another sentry.

Dan was still left with two more sentries and soon the two destroyed were replaced with four more sentries, their red dot scopes all pointed at Dan as he quickly reacted in time to dodge.

"Fuck!" he yelled out as he continued to dodge, at this point Dan became pissed and had enough. He decided to charge at one of the sentries and jumped on top of it then he broke off the sentry's red dot and camera, making it blind.

As the lasers continued to fire, Dan hid himself behind the blind sentry and it seemed that the sentries weren't very intelligent because they seem to think that Dan was gone but was only hidden behind the blind sentry which was firing crazy. Dan stood behind the sentry and "guided" the sentry at its targets.

At the moment he stood behind the blind sentry, the other sentries detected him but as they started charging up, Dan was able to shoot four of the five sentries down. The last one, however, managed to fire one shot before Dan fired his and at the last moment Dan jumped out of the way, just in time before the sentry he stood behind exploded.

He landed on the ground as the bits of destroyed sentries flew all around on the ground and some on Dan. He stood up as he looked at the destruction of the sentries and put it aside as he turned to the now unguarded building, he went around the building only to find a shut entrance. He attempted to open the door himself by digging his fingers into the center of the two doors but it wouldn't budge. He took a step back to look up at the building, the surface smooth, can't be climbed on.

He took a look at the destruction and saw the shards of metal on the ground, he walked towards them and grabbed two large shards. First he decided to climb up a tree's branch, but first getting a couple of small shards from the wreckage, to get as high as he could, as he got to the end of the branch, he looked at the window on the control center and made his target. He took one small shard he previously took and threw it like a throwing knife towards one of the windows and managed to make a crack, then used a second to completely break the window completely.

Once the opening was made, he switched to the two larger shards he carried along with him. He leapt off of the end of the branch he still stood on to bounce himself onto the wall and used the shards he gripped on, one in each hand, to pierce through the surface of the building. He landed perfectly on the building's surface with the metal shards perfectly pierced through the surface, he then started to climb.

It didn't take him long to reach the broken window, it actually took less than a minute. When he reached the control center, it was a bit offset from the building but it was no problem for Dan. He placed his feet on the building as he still clung onto the two shards that were still jammed into building looking much like in a hanging position, he then kicked causing him to bounce and let go of the shards and reached for the offset ledge. He was successful and managed to pull himself up.

When he pulled himself up, he was cautious for any possible dangers. He came around a passage to find a closed and with anger he banged on the door hoping to see if anyone would open.

On the other side of the door, was Blaine, who was sitting worryingly in a seat, overlooking some offline monitors. He heard the banging on the shut door and he knew that it would only be Dan so he seemed relieved. He quickly walked to the door and pressed a button beside the door as it slid open to show an angered Dan.

"Dan, you-" was all Blaine said before Dan punched him square in the face so hard that Blaine was out cold with a silly grin on his face.

"Asshole!" Dan muttered angrily after Blaine had fallen to the floor. But he wasn't quite finished, Dan crouched down and grabbed Blaine by the collar of his shirt and shook him violently. "Get up damn it! I want answers!" he shouted into Blaine's face. The only thing that stopped him to continue was the sound of a monitor turning on.

"Dan." said a voice from the monitor which grabbed Dan's attention and as he turned to the direction of the monitor, he looked back at Blaine and then let go of his collar and dropped him. He walked over to the monitor that showed nothing but a face covered in darkness, he was unable to see the face.

"So I'm assuming you're the boss!" Dan said with a bit of anger as he looked over the monitor.

"Yes. And I must say you are quite an impressive person. You're skills are exactly what I was looking for!" the person said with much excitement, but Dan was with much anger.

"So you set this trap up!" Dan said with much anger.

"It's really more of a course, where I hoped to see your skills, and they were quite impressive." The person said.

"Still, I don't like surprises." Dan said.

"Yes, I can very much see how mad you have gotten when you arrived." Said the person as Dan turned his head towards Blaine's unconscious body as he crossed his arms. "But no matter, he will regain consciousness. But that was quite a hit." Said the person.

"You saw everything?" Dan asked with still a hint of anger.

"Of course I did. How would I have been able to know what you can do?" said the person as Dan seemed to have nodded but still had some distaste, since he did not like being watched.

"But now, I want you to give me answers." Dan demanded.

"Oh. And what kind of answers?" said the person, trying to sound innocent.

"First of all... why me? I mean, how do you know about me?" Dan asked as he had crossed his arms while still glaring at the shady figure.

"Well Daniel, I first heard of you through the resources of the evil agency. They had a file on you and while I was there - doing some work. I found it and thought it was very interesting and thought that I may save you from their clutches." said the shady figure as Dan looked a bit more furious.

"What!?" he said in anger. "There are others keeping records of me that I don't know about? Is my whole life on record, making it no longer private? Have I been hiding nothing all this time!?" said Dan angrily that he pounded his fist beside the screen of the monitor that showed the shady figure.

"But why so upset. There is nothing really to worry of. You are an incredible person with so many capabilities that will help benefit this organization." said the shady figure as with the last part was with a hint of excitement.

Dan was not so sure with this though. He pulled away from the screen and turned to face the wall at the other end. He was much overwhelmed with anger, he has had a long history of being unable to put his trust into anyone and now he finds that there others out there, watching him secretly and it makes him feel frustrated.

"Fine." Dan says. "Putting all that aside... I... somehow always knew that eventually I could no longer hide myself from others." he said as he shook his head a bit. "But, how do you expect me to join when I don't even know if I could trust you? Clearly with what just happened, I feel that I still have a reason to not go with what you say." he finished with.

"Clearly." the shady figure stated. "But, even if you can't seem to trust me, there are still many things in this organization that would require someone like yourself. And the more we wait, the less of a chance we will have later against them." stated the shady figure as Dan shook his head, looking at the screen unbelievably.

"And that's another thing. Who are 'they'? Before I came here or even agreed to come here, Blaine told me about how you said that Clover, Alex, and Sam are a part of an evil group, which I find hard to believe from what I see." said Dan a bit furiously.

"From what you 'see' are average girls, but from I see are menacing criminals!" states the shady figure.

"But how can I be sure if what you say is true!? I know for a fact that those girls are hiding something, but the problem is that I don't know what it is they are hiding. That is the only reason as to why I am here!" Dan said.

"It seems we both have our problems." said the shady figure as Dan hesitated before agreeing by nodding. "Though I still ask that you would stay and you would hope to find answers. If you join, I would let you see what these girls are up to." said the shady figure as it caught Dan's attention.

"Well, when it comes to finding answers... I'm all for it but, it doesn't mean that I trust you." said Dan as he pointed at the screen of the shady figure.

"So does this mean that we have a deal?" asks the shady figure as Dan stays silent for quite a bit. "Well?" the figure continues as Dan takes another moment of silence before he starts shaking his slowly.

"Yes... I will join, that is... until I find the truth." Dan says as he finishes his nod.

"That's fine with me." said the figure a bit swiftly. "But, I would like you to stay here for a couple of days... to get a more understanding of your abilities." said the figure.

"Why?" Dan asked being a bit skeptical.

"Because, I feel that it is best to know more about you, without angering you of course." said the figure while Dan was still a bit skeptical. "It will only be for a short time and you may bring along what you feel comfortable with." said the figure a bit persuasively.

It was once again silent as Dan took his time to respond. He wasn't exactly sure to do as the figure said and he so wished that he would be able to use his special vision, but then again, how would it work if he was speaking through a monitor. He finally came up with a decision.

"Fine." he said while bringing his hands up. "I'll stay." he said as he brought his hands down. He then turned around to face Blaine, who was still unconscious on the floor with a surprised and silly expression on his face. He walked towards him as he knelt down and picked Blaine up and then threw him onto his shoulders to carry him. "I'll be back and will expect to find answers." Dan said before leaving.

"Very well." the shady figure said to itself with distaste after Dan had left with Blaine on his shoulder. "Damn. This one is a bit difficult to convince. But I just need to see a bit more along with more time, should anything happen to Blaine, since he too is doubting." the shady figure continued to say as a fist had clenched.

Back with Dan, who still carries Blaine over his shoulder, after he exited the room, he looked for the regular way out as he had found a door that led to an elevator and it swiftly brought him down. As the door opened, it led back to a small open grassy area with bits of machine scraps, where Dan had battled the sentry guns. Before continuing to go on, he wasn't quite sure on which direction to go, but he knew that eventually he'd find the way back.

He chose a random direction and walked aimlessly through the jungle. All Dan knew was that he had to go to the end of the dome and then search along there. After walking for so long, he eventually found the end of the dome, but no lake with the submarine. He then turned to his left and continued walking along with the end of the dome. It was eventually that he found the lake with the sub, just as his shoulder was starting to get sore from carrying for what seemed like almost an hour.

He jumped on the surfaced platform of the sub that still stood about two feet from the surface, as he still carried Blaine. Though getting inside was a bit tricky, considering that the hole of the hatch was not very big, so what Dan decided to do was go in first, then drag Blaine in. After getting in, Dan carried Blaine to the seat next to the driver and sat himself in the driver's seat, now overlooking the controls.

"Alright, now how do I start this up?" Dan asked himself as the first thing that stood out was a small red button. He first examined it, to make sure that it wasn't the wrong one. "Hmm, no black and yellow caution strips around, nor a glass box covering it... it might be-" he said as he pressed the button and the sub had started up.

"Hmm, alright now that it's on... uh, I guess 'easy as riding a bike' doesn't apply to submarines." Dan said to himself as he scratched the side of his head. He looked at Blaine hoping he would wake up any second but no luck, not wanting to wait any longer, he placed his hands on the handles of the steering and took a deep breath.

"Alright, just got to take it easy and..." he said as he pushed forward which made the sub submerge. "Okay... wait, how the hell do I get out? *groan* I forgot that I dozed off when Blaine and I entered. *sigh* I'll just have to find it on my own." he said as he carefully tilted the steering to the right.

It seemed to take awhile for Dan to search as much as he could, especially since he didn't know how to work a submarine and was going carefully, and found nothing but a barrier of metal at each turn which kept frustrating him up until the point that he gave up and brought down his head.

"God damn it, Blaine!" Dan said in anger as he grabbed Blaine by his collar and started shaking him violently. "Wake up!" he shouted at Blaine repeatedly. It took less than a minute for a response.

"*yawn*... five more minutes..." said Blaine in a low voice with his eyes closed as a snore shortly came after. Dan shortly paused after hearing and grew more furious after realizing that Blaine had been conscious for a while.

"You've been conscious this whole fucking time!" Dan shouted as he shook Blaine more but only heard another snore from him. "Do you realize how frustrated I am trying to look for the way out and all you've been doing is napping!" Dan shouted as he slapped Blaine across the face which woke him up with a shock.

"Hey... what the hell was that for?" he said a bit tiredly.

"Haven't you've been hearing what I've been saying?" Dan shouted, but a bit quieter than before as Blaine shook his head.

"No... I was resting." he said.

"That's exactly why I did that! You're here napping while I'm trying to get out of this god damn place!" Dan said as he shook Blaine again until he let go.

"Hey, you were dozing off while we were entering!" said Blaine in an almost shouting tone.

"Well that's different! You're the one who knows how to get in and out of this place while I know crap about this place!" Dan said as Blaine thought about it and realized the difference.

"Well, yeah I guess, but it's not that hard-look you're already at the door." said Blaine as he pointed out through the window, but there was only the same barrier of metal that Dan continuously passed many times, but who would know the difference... apparently Blaine.

"All I see is the same god damn metal wall that I see at every turn." Dan said as Blaine sighed and pressed a certain button on the console of the controls which made the metal split in two vertically as there was another metal barrier split in two horizontally, making an opening. "That's all it took. A button!" said Dan.

"Yup. Now get out of my seat because I'm sure that you don't know how to work a submarine." Blaine said as Dan got up with his hands up.

"Gee, ya think?" Dan said sarcastically as he moved to the next seat as he let Blaine sit in seat with the controls.

As soon as Blaine got in the seat, they were off but it seemed that something was bothering Blaine as he kept rubbing his nose and was constantly saying 'ow' in a low voice.

"Why do you keep rubbing your nose?" asked Dan as Blaine looked at him real quick and then back at the water through the glass of the submarine.

"Gee, I don't know." Blaine said sarcastically. "Maybe it's because someone punched me in the face!" he almost shouted as he turned to Dan and then back at the glass as Dan nodded.

"Well I was pissed, I mean, you left me in a jungle that I know nothing about without giving me any info about what was going to happen. I mean really, killer overgrown plants and laser guns, what's with that!" Dan said with a bit of anger.

"Hey, it wasn't my idea, it was my boss's." Blaine said as he quickly rose his hands up and then back on to the steering.

"Well, when you opened the door, you first thing I saw and I was too pissed off to hold back, plus I only saw your boss through a screen so I couldn't hit your boss." said Dan.

"So, you spoke with my boss?" Blaine asked after hearing what Dan said.

"Yeah and it looks like I'm going to be staying back there for a while." said Dan as he slouched back on his seat while he crossed his arms.

"Well, don't expect it to be any easier. I did the same, but it was only for a few weeks of training. But from I saw out there, you will at the most be there for a week, probably even less" Blaine said.

"I hope so." said Dan as the conversation ended there, the reason being that both were a bit pissed at each other and neither wanted to talk.

With silence, it seemed that the trip lasted longer. Dan thought that he would listen to music to help him pass the time as Blaine only continued to look through the glass and stare at the water as he continued steering.

Eventually they made it back to the concealed spot of the beach that was surrounded by rocks. As they reached the spot, they were still silent but they both managed to cool down. They surfaced the hatch above the water as Blaine powered down the sub and both exited out through the hatch and jumped off to the shore. Of course they were still silent as they made their way up the rocks and as they made their way to the dorms.

Their silence had ended as they had reached the door to Dan's room.

"Here we are. Just need to get a couple of things and then head back." Dan said as Blaine nodded. When Dan opened the door, Blaine saw that it was filled with many papers on the walls with each having hand-drawn images. Blaine was simply amazed at each work.

As Dan got out a duffel bag from his closet, he started gathering things that he might need, mostly everyday items. Blaine only looked through the many works Dan has obviously made that were on the wall, some were of animals (mainly birds), a few of them were of weapons, but what mostly stood out were the many sketches of hooded men and in various positions, all in certain stances.

Blaine stared at each sketch of each hooded man seeing that they each wore robes with beaked hoods covering their faces though they each had their own style. One was pretty simple, he wore only a pure white robe which seemed much like a medieval type. There was another who was much like a Spanish type who also had white robes but had some red in the mix as he also wore a cape hanging over his left shoulder while the most significant thing was the emblem buckle he had. As for the final man, he had much of colonial attire, seeing that his robes looked more like a colonial coat while the rest also looked colonial.

Blaine seemed both confused and intrigued in each drawing wandering why Dan would draw these and what had made him to do so. As Blaine continued to look at each drawing Dan continued gathering some things when he was almost when finished. Before Dan zipped up the duffel bag, he came towards his desk and pulled a drawer. Inside was a notebook, but it didn't seem like any ordinary notebook to Dan as he placed it inside the bag and turned to Blaine.

He turned to see Blaine who still stared at the papers. "Are you done looking?" Dan asked as Blaine snapped out of his stare and faced Dan. "I'm done packing." Dan said as he put the strap over his right shoulder as the bag was under his arm.

"You sure?" Blaine asked looking at the bag. "It doesn't seem very full." pointed out Blaine as Dan shrugged as he walked towards the door.

"Does it really matter? It's just the few things that I need. Now come on, it's best we head back." Dan said as he stepped out of the door while Blaine took another look at the pictures. "Come on." said Dan in a somewhat annoyed tone as it caught Blaine's attention. Blaine took a step before looking back and then turned back to continue walking.

After closing the door, Dan and Blaine headed back to the concealed spot on the beach. The second trip up the smooth rocks were easier with two, one was able to boost the other. After reaching the top, they slid down on the inside onto the soft sand shore and then towards the platform with the hatch to go inside the sub.

As soon as they got inside, they sat down as Blaine started up the sub and were on their way again. As they started the trip, it was silent, Dan was listening to music and Blaine was busy controlling the sub, but Blaine also had something on his mind. It was about the sketches in Dan's room, he wondered what that was about.

"Hey." Blaine said as Dan barely heard him through the music and took off one earphone. "So... what were those sketches about?" Blaine asked as Dan sighed.

"What about them?"

"Well, I want to know what those sketches are about, like the ones that had guys in hoods." Blaine said as Dan sighed again before reaching next to his seat to get his bag and unzipped it to get out a black hardcover book to open it up and flip threw pages. Each page seemed to contain sketches, some similar to those from Dan's dorm wall, but Dan had stopped at a page that showed the pure hooded robed medieval type man.

"You mean like this one?" Dan said as he showed the picture to Blaine as he took a quick look and nodded before turning back to the glass.

"Yeah, of course, they are interesting and very well drawn, but how did you come up with something like that and why?" Blaine asked as Dan sighed again but this time with a different kind meaning as he slowly shook his head.

"I don't know." Dan said in a sigh. "They've just been crossing my mind many times over and I don't know why. And what bothers me most is that I've seen these more than just on paper."

"Well, you must have some imagine." said Blaine.

"Yeah... imagination." Dan murmured to himself as the rest was silent again throughout the trip.

A little while longer and they had, made it back to the dome, arriving underneath as Blaine pressed the button to activate the small opening in the metal of the bottom of the dome to enter. After entering, the sub was to resurface in the lake inside the dome that leads to the jungle, but only Dan was to go in.

"Alright here we are. Again." Blaine said as he turned to Dan, who stood out of his seat as he picked up his bag. "I'm going to have to head back. So I can study Clover more before, you know." Blaine said as Dan took a step before giving a glare to him.

"Yeah, you DO need to study her more AND then decide. Don't eliminate her only because you are told of what she may have done. It may be best if you confronted her and questioned her, see how she responds and then decide." Dan said as Blaine looked down before looking at Dan again.

"As long as I will be able to complete my mission." Blaine said as Dan continued to walk towards the ladder.

"And that's what I am trying to prevent. To hope that you won't have to complete your mission." Dan said in a low voice that only he could hear before heading up the ladder. As soon as he came out of the hatch and jumped off the surface platform, Blaine was off, going back to Mali-U, and Dan to the center of the dome, where the building is.

Dan walked straight along, knowing to follow to the center. For throughout the walk Dan kept his guard up, keeping in mind of the first time he came here, but luckily there was nothing to surprise him. As he came near the building, Dan first stood behind a tree that was around the area and observed the surroundings of the building to make sure that there was no more guns, but all he saw was the wreckage from before.

"So far... quiet." Dan said to himself as he moved in slowly. Upon making halfway to the base of the building, he found that the door was still open but did not hesitate to step in and make his way up.

As he made his way up to the control center, it was still quiet, the only sounds he heard were his own footsteps. When he reached the control center, he found that it was empty still and that every thing was offline, the only light that brightened up the room was from the sun through the large windows.

Dan walked up to one of the monitors and tried to see if he could turn it on, but had no luck. He decided to sit in the seat besides the monitors and waited. It seemed for a while that he had waited, he was becoming a bit impatient as he tapped his fingertips on the armrest of the seat and even with his music the time still seemed to drag on.

Hoping that it would speed time up, Dan decided to take out his black hardcover sketchbook and flipped through the pages until he stopped at an unfinished sketch of a shadow of a man jumping off of a rooftop as the angle of the sketch seemed at it was from below. The sun was perfectly placed behind the man as he had his arms out and legs together, creating a Leap of Faith, as birds fly in the air as the man jumps. That is all that has been done and Dan seems to be focusing on the building details.

It seemed for a while that Dan had been working on his sketch, but even as the time past nothing came to happen. The only thing he has taken a liking to was the silence and that no one else was there to bother him, though he feeling calm, he also is a bit frustrated because he has waited so long.

Though he wouldn't have to wait any longer since there were sounds of footsteps heading towards the room Dan was in, but Dan didn't hear until the person came at the door.

"Hello Dan." said a female voice as Dan forgot about his sketch and stood turning to the voice to see a woman, probably around the age of 30, with straight brown shoulder length hair as the tips of her hair curled upwards and her eyes was also brown. She had white skin and body type was perfectly fit and her outfit looked much like a full on skin suit. Dan raised an eyebrow.

"And you are…" Dan asked as the woman walked in.

"Geraldine Husk. In other words, I'm the one in charge." said the woman, who was called Geraldine.

"So, you're the boss of…" Dan said as he looked around and then brought up his hands as he continued "…whatever this is." he finished with.

"It may not be much, but it is all because of those damn girls and their organization." She said with a bit of hatred.

"And is that why you want to eliminate them?" Dan scoffed. "Not much of a good reason."

"No. It goes far beyond that. I started this organization, to start a chance, against those who oppose." She said with a bit of passion, but Dan didn't buy it.

"'Oppose'? Kind of giving me the wrong idea don't you think? I thought you wanted to sound good, in order to convince me." Dan said crossing his arms.

"Yes. But I realize that you will not be easy to convince and that it may be best if I be honest, seeing as how you are obsessed with finding the truth." She said as Dan raised an eyebrow.

"So does that mean that you are going to finally give me answers?" Dan asked as he sat back, leaning on the monitors.

"I will." She said as she walked a bit towards Dan. "First, let us begin with how it started. At first their agency was made before mine and I joined, but I soon left and then I was pushed into creating my own organization."

"So this is like some sort of rivalry. You left because you thought you could do better or something." Dan scoffed. "Your reasons are pathetic." He said as he sat down in the seat next to the monitors.

"No. The hatred between us two organizations goes further than just a mere 'rivalry'." She said as she crossed her arms. "I've been trying to show the public the truth of their organization, that they are not, who they think they are!" she said with the hatred coming back as Dan only laid back on the seat. "Recently as I came up with another attempt to take out their best so that I may weaken them, I failed and they captured me."

"That still doesn't answer as to what they do. You're telling me how this all started, which is not answer I was looking for." Dan said as he was about to get up from the seat but had noticed that Geraldine was just beside the seat.

"That is very interesting." she said as she seemed to have picked something up from on top of the monitors, but Dan only kept an his eyes on Geraldine until he noticed that what she picked up was his sketchbook.

"Hey!" Dan almost shouted as he stood.

"Relax." she said raising a hand. "I am only admiring these fantastic works." she continued as she flipped through the pages and had stopped at a certain page that contained one of the hooded man that had a much better detail and view of its left arm which had a bracer and noticed the small tip of a blade from underneath the wrist.

"Alright could you just give it back and just answer me what they did." Dan said sounding a bit impatient. Though Geraldine seemed very interested in the weaponry that the man carried.

"Very interesting." she said noticing the others details of the drawing. 'This truly seems like something that I could use. That is, if there is experience.' she thought as a devious smile appeared on her face.

"Hello!" Dan said as he finally caught her attention. "So are you going to tell me what they did?" Dan said while sounding annoyed.

"Fine." she said as she gave back Dan's sketchbook and as soon as he got, he sat back down. "What they do is interrupt my plans for the world and put their own plans into place. They have been more successful in their own plans than I have." She said as the hatred was still there, which gave Dan more uncertainty.

"So if they are as evil as you say and if they are more successful than you, plus if they started earlier than you, and then shouldn't they have already succeeded in taking the world or something." Dan said as he felt more suspicious about this. He's thinking that if an evil organization started earlier than the good and that have so much success, shouldn't there be more evil around.

As Dan continued to think about it more, Geraldine walked behind the seat Dan was in as she reached in her own pocket and pulled out a small device, but Dan had no idea until Geraldine jammed whatever she had into the back of Dan's neck which made him instantly stand up with a scream of pain.

"AAGHH! FUCK!" Dan screamed out in pain as when he stood he felt a bit off balance by the pain and leaned on the monitors as he kept placing his hand on the back of his neck. "What… the…What the fuck… was that!?" Dan struggled to say in anger but the pain made it difficult.

"I implanted a device that will allow me to take control of you." She said as Dan fell to floor on his back because of the pain as the device was working its way to his brain.

"W-why!?"

"Because I know that you will not be convinced when you know the truth." She said as she knelt down to get closer to Dan as he struggled to look right at her. "Truth is… I'm the bad one."

"Wha- AAGH!" Dan yelled out as he squirmed on the floor.

"And now you will help me to eliminate those girls by becoming my new... Assassin."


Irony... cruel, cruel irony.