Chapter 10

POV: Percy.

I stared at the corps in shock. I jest shot the guy at point blank range. I had killed people before but not like this. I tried to wound them. If they kept attacking me I would kill them but I only killed those who tried to kill me. This was different. The boy had begged me not to, he was wounded, and I loved it. These were the guys that took me from Annabeth. These were the guys that put me through the experiment. These guys deserved what they got.

"Hay." Stealth said to my right. I looked up at her. "You hear me?" She asked.

Surprised I said "Oh, no. Sorry." She frowned at me in disapproval.

"We're going." She said.

"Right." I said and followed her out of the room. The fire team walked down the hall and found the rest of the squad by following a blood trail.

"Looks like Maniac had fun." Doc commented.

"What?" I asked a little disturbed by the amount of blood on the floor.

"I don't think so." Stealth responded to Doc. "Maniac wouldn't drag an Eraser off. He would jest shoot it."

"Not if he turned." Doc said. Stealth looked uncomfortable at the last comment.

"Maybe." She said.

"Turned?" I asked. They both turned to me as if they forgot I was there.

"Jest forget about it." Stealth said. I wanted to protest when we followed the blood trail into a room and found the squad gathered around a figure on the floor. Scout noticed us walk in.

"Doc!" He called out. "Get over here. We got a man down." As Doc ran over it occurred to me that I didn't see Annabeth.

"Who's hurt?" I asked starting to get nervous. The Idea that Annabeth might have been the one to be hurt terrified me.

"Gunny." Scout answered.

As Doc set to work on Gunny I asked "Where's Annabeth?"

"She went ahead with Maniac." Scout said.

"Where?" I asked, not satisfied until I could see her with my own eyes.

"Out that door and to the right" Scout said. "I don't know where they went from there."

I nodded and left to search for Annabeth. I got half way down the hall when a hand grabbed my left wing. I whipped around and raised my rifle, ready to kill the Eraser that garbed me when I stopped in surprise. It was Stealth.

"Easy." She said, gently pushing my gun barrel towards the floor.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, a little angry.

"Same as you." She said. "Trying to find my boyfriend." My eyebrows went up in surprise.

"You and Maniac are dating?" I asked. Stealth nodded.

"I hate it when he runs off on his own in these places." She said. "One of these days he's gona bump into something as stubborn as he is." I nodded. She was concerned for Maniac's safety the same way I was concerned for Annabeth. It didn't matter to us that Maniac and Annabeth were good fighters, we jest want to be able to be there for them if they need us.

"Any idea where they might be?" I asked. She nodded.

"This way." She said turning left the the next T shaped intersection in the hallway.

We walked in silence for a few minutes before we herd voices behind a door to our right. Stealth held up her hand to stop me and put one finger to her finger to tell me to keep quiet. She then walked to the far side of the door and flattened her self against the wall. She then signaled me to do the same on the other side of the door. I did. Then she counted down from five on her left hand. When she hit one she kicked open the door and we ran in. I raised my rifle to shoot even before I processed what I was seeing. There was a white coat leaning over a figure on a table. The figure was gaged and bare chested with a syringe in the chest. The white coat was pushing the plunger down. By the time Stealth and I pulled our triggers the syringe was empty. The white coat screamed as he was ripped apart by two assault rifles. I ran forward to the figure on the table as Stealth double checked the white coat was dead. As I approached the figure on the table I realized I knew her.

"Annabeth!" I screamed. I ripped off her gag and started to untie her restraints.

"Percy." She said. "They..." She started to grimes in pain.

"No!" I shouted, recognizing the symptoms. "No, No, No!" I had jest untied the last of her restraints when she blacked out. "Dam it!" I shouted at the unconscious girl. "I told you not to come! I fucking told you not to come!"

"Percy!" Shouted Stealth. I ignored her. "Percy! We need to go." I nodded.

I threw Annabeth onto my shoulder and followed Stealth to the door. In the doorway stood Maniac. My temper got away from me.

"Take her." I told Stealth.

"Percy?" She said in a warning voice. Apparently she knew what I was thinking.

"Jest take her." I said. She reluctantly did as I said. Then I walked up to Maniac and Punched him as hard as I could in the face. "You bastard!" I screamed. "Why the fuck did you leave her alone?!" Apparently I hit him at jest the right angle because his sunglasses flew off his skull. He glared at me with his storm gray eyes. Then I understood the comments the squad was making back at camp. Maniac was a son of Athena. He was Annabeth's brother. "She's your sister?" I asked in disbelief. "She's your fucking sister! You left your fucking sister for those psychos to toucher!" Maniac looked pissed. Than he hit me hard on the side of my head and I lost my balance.

"Don't you fucking dare!" he screamed. "I never left her!" He looked like he was literally stopping himself from exploding. "I was jumped by fifteen Erasers and dragged off. When I finally killed them I went right to work trying to find her." I stood there glaring at him when Stealth spoke up.

"We really need to go." She said. "Gunny's down and so is Annabeth." We returned to the squad in silence. When we finally got there the squad was waiting.

"YO." Scout said as we entered. "So I guess you guys didn't have any luck either?"

"Building secured." Maniac said.

"Nice one boss." Said Doc.

"Went right for Annabeth, huh?" I said in a sarcastic tone. "You guest so happened to clear every room in the place in the process."

Maniac glared at me. "I got the job done!" he screamed.

"Oh, yeah?" I yelled with sarcasm dripping from my voice. "Jest got two people hurt and possibly killed in the process."

"This is war." He growled. "Casualties happen."

"Such a nice thought." I said. "You hear that guys?" I asked. "We don't mean jack if he gets to finish the mission."

"Don't you dare try and tell me how to run my squad!" Maniac screamed.

"You know what?" I said. "I think I know why your called Maniac." I turned and took Annabeth's unconscious body from Stealth and headed for the exit. My only thought was what Annabeth would go through when she would finally wake up.

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