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And now!
Let the games begin!
*Badly whistles Rue's whistle from The Hunger Games and ends up spitting everywhere*
CHAPTER #10: Sparia Game Face
Italics means thoughts, emphasized word or action. Bolded is a flashback. (….) is an indication that time has passed.
"Alright! This is your RPG scenario…" Noel begins his briefing as he stand in front of a smaller crowd. Earlier he split the prospects into three groups of five, Aria & Spencer being on the same team. While he is informing this team, another colleague is preparing their opposite opponents on how to beat them. "You guys are 'The Right Siders' also known as 'RS'; one of the most promising, up and coming crews in this town called, 'El Gym'. One of the things that you guys are well known for is your quality of products. Your product..." He reaches inside his cart and pulls out a small baggie filled with treats. "Are these suckers."
"Fruit Roll-Ups?" Someone sarcastically calls out causing the group to chuckle.
"No, this isn't Fruit Roll-Ups, dumbass." Noel narrows his eyes at the random kidster. "In this world, to you and everyone else, this is LSD. That's what you will know it as. Acid, Dots, California Sunshine, whatever the hell you want to call it." Noel shakes the baggie in front of him, "What makes you guys so authoritative is the fact that you guys know how to sniff out the good shit from the poor shit." He drops the baggie back into the cart, dusting his hands, "That brings me to your 1st problem. "LS". Also known as "The Left Siders" also known as your competition; the same people who want you guys out. Their whole game plan is to steal your goods and profit for themselves. That's when things get hairy."
Noel grabs a chair, spins it around, and sits on it with the back against his chest, "Prior to this meeting, one of your guys and one of their guys were doing a deal. Shit got real, the drugs were dropped and in the midst of everything, their member was killed. Now it's vengeance. The drugs were dropped in various parts of the basement and half of the first floor. Your goal is to find and collect them all. If that means to raid the other team, so be it." Noel reaches into the cart and picks up a handful of yellow bandanas, throwing one at each person. "This is your team color. Tie it as a headband and get to know your members. The LS headband color is purple, easy to remember. To add to the chaos, people in blue headband are the police. This room here is your headquarters. They don't know this location and you don't know theirs. This is where you guys are going to stash the baggies you find. You have a total of 1 hour to find and stash the 12 baggies that are placed all over." Noel leans forward into the chair, "That means doing whatever means necessary."
Getting up and walking to the front of the cart, Noel picks up the Airsoft Pistols and pre-loaded clips, "Quickly. This is your weapon." Trying to have a quick course on how to use the weapons, Noel points at the mechanisms, "This is your safety. When it's clicked like this, you can't shoot. This is your magazine" He holds up a fully loaded clip, "It holds sixteen rounds. When you need to reload, grab another pre-loaded mag, slip it out like this," He demonstrates by removing the magazine and adding in another one, "and lock in the new one like this. Cock the slider back and you're ready to shoot." He walks up to the crew members and passes out a pistol and two magazines to each person. "If you get shot, you're dead but if you get shot in the leg or arm, you can still live except you'll be without that limb. If you get overpowered by your enemies, they can hold you hostage and do whatever they want with you until you're rescued. Weapons can be taken if a person dies or is taken hostage. Now, other than your enemies, you have to look out for the cops. Police have not only guns but also handcuffs that just so happen to look like some rope. If you get arrested, you're automatically out."
Aria raises her hand, stopping Noel from continuing. He gives her the floor, "The cops have pistols too?"
"Obviously, Aria…" Spencer mumbles under her breath low enough for Aria to hear.
"Pistols? No." Noel chuckles as he nods his head, "Shotguns? Yes."
"Shotguns?!" Aria, Spencer and the rest of the members cry out in pure and utter shock.
"It's a tactical weapon," Noel defines to the sudden worrisome crowd, "More of a reason to stay away from them. They're going to be patrolling the halls. You can walk past them with no consequences. They don't know anything about anything that's going on. But the moment you guys start getting trigger happy, they can arrest you. If you decide to become a bandit and "threaten their safety", they can shoot you with 300 fps. It will sting so don't fuck with them."
"Holy shit." Spencer looks at Aria with eyes of disbelief. Aria doesn't catch Spencer's gaze because she's busy about to ask another question.
"Yeah?"
"If we kill a cop...can we take their gun and handcuffs?"
Spencer tilts her head at Aria with even more amazement from Aria's choice of a question. Aria...What?
"Actually...you can. But this isn't hunt police day. You guys have a goal and must stick to it." Noel looks around at the yellow-headed bandits, "Any other questions?"
Everyone stays silent, prompting Noel to clap his hands, "Alright, everyone introduce yourself to each other. Meet your crew members, devise a plan and I'm going to check on the others and we'll get started." Noel nods at the players and walks out the room.
"This is about to be so fun!" Aria quietly squeals, bouncing in her chair.
Spencer shakes her head, eyes still forward not pleased by a long shot. "Yeah, being shot with a shotgun sounds orgasmic."
…..
The RS group silently walk the first floor hallway, coming across a crossroad.
"Everyone take a path," A male member whispers to his group, "Two is going to have to pair together."
"We got it," Aria volunteers standing next to Spencer.
"Alright, good. Remember, if you guys see any cop patrolling, hide your weapon and act causal."
The team nods in an agreement before they all split their separate ways. Aria and Spencer take the path going right, scanning the floors in hopes of finding a baggie.
"Are you sure they're on the floors?" Spencer leans into Aria with a hushed whisper.
"He said they were dropped so they have to be. Just…." Aria stops and ponders in thought. "Imagine how things would fall if you were running?"
"Well," Spencer turns around facing the path they just came from. "Let's say you were running full speed and hit that corner we just turned at..." Spencer traces the floor with her eyes as she imagines a person running and slipping as they turn the corner. "It would fly off in the direction opposite of the body. So that means it would be stuffed in the corners somewhere."
In the hallway, the walls are held up by different kinds of equipment, so taking Spencer's advice, Aria bends down as she sweeps the bottom crevices of tables, desks, carts and things of that sort. "Aha!" Aria silently gasps as she reaches her hand underneath a large crate. She hops to her feet waggling the baggie in front of her. "Look who got her first bag of drugs? Oooooh."
POP! POP!
Two sudden shots ring out as a shooter aims and misses both Aria and Spencer.
"Shit!" Aria and Spencer duck their head down as they scurry to the opposite side of the crate, putting a barrier between them and a shooter.
"Where did that come from?!" Aria anxiously asks as she stuffs the baggie in her bra.
Spencer pokes her head from the side to see where the shooter was. "I don't know, I don't see anyone."
"Damn, they're starting to unload already? Alright," Aria shakes her head as she cocks back the slider to her pistol, "Let's play. C'mon, follow me."
…..
Aria and Spencer quietly scale the walls with three other male members, approaching what they believe to be LS territory. Going through several close calls with the enemy, everyone is locked and loaded with their guns drawn. With Aria and Spencer in the middle, they follow the lead while another person cabooses, checking for a potential ambush in the opposite direction.
"Stopstopstop." Scott, the guy in the front, put his hand up to halt the group from moving any farther. He hears talking in the distance from what he hopes are the target's headquarters. "Aria. Max." He signals the two to hold up the opposite wall of the incoming door they're about to approach. Aria tip toes her way to the other side, looking for clearance from Scott. He jerks his head forward and the team begins to creep closer to the voices.
Just in that moment, someone walks out the door, immediately spotting the RS group.
"Black! Black! Code black!" The guy scrambles to run back into the room, dogging the barrage of bullets being fired at him. The door slams as RS runs to a different hiding spots, aiming their weapons at the door.
"We got you surrounded!" Max yells to the LS team. "There is nowhere for you to go!"
"Open the door, bitch!" Jackson, another RS member, hollers out.
"Fuck you, Jackson!" A muffled voice responds back.
"EVERYONE FREEZE!"
The group whip their heads behind them down the hall to see two cops pointing their shotguns at the party.
"DON'T MOVE A FUCKING MUSCLE!"
Everyone frozen in their spots, Aria looks out of the corner of her eye in front of her noticing an open stairwell leading back to the first floor. She takes in a deep breath and sprints in the direction of the door, ducking her head from incoming shots from the police.
"Aria!" Spencer shrieks out. The rest of the team decides to run for it as well, shooting back at the two officer who are taking cover. Spencer fires a few blind shots as she runs after Aria.
Finally reaching Aria on the first floor, Spencer bends over with her hand on her knees trying to catch her breath from the sudden sprint. "Why did you do that?! You've could have gotten shot!"
"And do what? Get arrested?!" Aria leans against a wall catching her breath as well. "No way! I was going to take my chances."
"Well can you have at least give me a signal before you decide to dart off? We could have covered you."
"Aria!" Scott calls out as he bursts through the doors from the stairs, "Are you ok? Did you get hit?" He checks over her seeing how she's propped up against the wall.
"Yeah…" She huffs out, "Yeah, I'm fine." She looks around noticing it's only just her, Spencer and Scott. "Where's Max and Jackson?"
"They took off in a different direction. I don't know where they went." He pulls out a baggie from his lower pants pocket and tosses it to Spencer. "Quickly go stash this at the HQ, please. We'll wait for you to come back."
Spencer looks onto Aria who gives her a nod of assurance. "Ok." She turns around and jogs in the direction of the room, leaving the sight of the other members.
Scott turns back to Aria, "Alright, since we have an idea of where they all are located, we can plan an ambush," He whispers, "Hopefully they found enough baggies that we can just take them all."
"Oh!" Aria suddenly remembers. She digs into her shirt and pulls out the baggie she found in the hall with Spencer. "I found this one when we first split apart. Forgot for a minute that I had it in there." She giggles to herself.
Scott starts chuckling as well seeing Aria's secret stash of her own. "God bless bras."
POP! POP! POP! POP! POP!
Before he gets to react, multiple shots ring out as Scott gets pelted several time in his right leg. He bellows in pain, crouching down on the ground.
"Don't you move, princess!" A purple banded shooter shouts seeing Aria about to make a run for it. The tiny brunette freezes.
Two LS members approach the wounded blond with their weapons drawn. "You. You're coming with me, get up!" One rival points the gun at Scott, gesturing him to stand. He yanks Scott by the arm making sure he doesn't try anything stupid.
"Take him to HQ." The bandit orders his colleague as he still has his gun pointed at Aria. "I got this one."
The RS member obliges and forces Scott through the stairwell doors. "I'm sorry, Aria." Scott apologizes before he is pushed, leaving Aria by herself.
A 5'0 girl against a 5'11 guy.
"Aria…" The outlaw sings her name. "It looks like you have something that belongs to me." He points to the baggie in her hand. "Give it and nobody gets hurt."
"No." Aria defiantly retorts back also mentally cursing herself for not raising her weapon when she had the chance.
"This isn't a debate." He steps closer to Aria, narrowing his eyes at her with his pitch rising. "How about you give me the fucking bag or I'm going to rip it off you."
"How about you make one more move and you're going to get one in the back."
The bandit tenses up as he hears a voice from behind him with the muzzle of a pistol pressed into his back.
"Now give me your gun or you're done for." The voice sternly demands.
"You wouldn't dare." The guy sneers trying to see who it from the corner of her eyes.
Spencer cocks back her gun creating an intimidating echo bouncing off the walls. "Try me."
Aria smirks at the bandit, laughing because she knows that he's stuck and, apparently, Spencer doesn't play around. Spencer gives Aria gesture to his gun with her eyes proceeded by a nod. Aria quickly seizes her enemy's gun while Spencer takes a step back, shooting him twice in the back of his leg.
"Arggghhh!" He falls down holding the limb that was pelted at close distance. "Fuck!" Aria quickly pockets her baggie and new pistol as she stands beside Spencer who aiming at the LS member.
"Shut up, princess." Aria responds in the same tone he used with her earlier as she quickly searches him for any baggies.
"Shots fired from another hall! Where is Becca?! I need backup!" The girls hear the rapidly approaching footsteps from what seems to be a frantic officer incoming. They both dart towards the stairwell doors, over stepping the LS member, leaving him to fend for himself.
Trying to scramble to his feet, the guy is stopped by the officer. "STOP RIGHT THERE!"
Running down the stairs and through the basement doors, Aria and Spencer run right into another person. Instantly, everyone draws their weapons at each other.
"Waitwaitwait! It's me!" Max loudly whispers as he waves them down so they wouldn't shoot. Aria and Spencer put their guns down in relief, worried that they were going to get caught in the middle of a crossfire. All three quickly scurry down the hall into an open dead end space in the corner.
"Where's Scott? We lost Jackson." Max asks the girls in a semi-panicky tone.
"We lost Scott." Aria hangs her head, "They look him. Spencer and I just barely made it out up there."
"Damnit!" Max angrily whispers as he runs his hand through his brown messy hair, looking around in thought, "I saw…I saw that there is three in their HQ room recuperating. I don't know how long they're going to be in there for but I'm thinking we should raid it. I figure we can take them all out and run off with whatever they have. How much ammo you guys have?"
Spencer slides out her magazine trying to see how much bullets she has left. "About half a clip still left with another unused one." She clicks the magazine back in.
"I'm set." Aria responds, "Took another gun from one of the LS upstairs." She nods at Spencer and Max, "I think we can take them."
"I have a better idea. Follow me." Max whispers, slowly leading them through another hall into an open storage closet. "Before Jackson got shot, we were in a standoff between two cops. Although we lost Jack…" Max pulls out two shotguns that he took from the police, "Guess what we won!" He happily taunts.
"Holy shit!"
"No way!"
"Yes way! Perfect for an ambush." Max checks the ammo count in both weapons. "What do you say? You think you can handle this?"
…..
"1…"
"2…"
"3…!"
Max bum-rushes inside the LS room with Spencer and Aria behind him blasting shotgun shells at the unsuspecting members. Being stuck inside the small room, the crew yell out in shock, trying to hide behind anything that could give them protection. Taking guard as well, Aria and Spencer stake out as shootout begins.
"THEY GOT SHOTGUNS! THEY GOT SHOTGUNS!"
"RYAN! CONTACT STRAIGHT AHEAD!"
"MAX! TEN O'CLOCK!"
"FUCK! SOMEONE ONE COVER ME, DAMNIT!"
"WHERE THE FUCK IS RICHARD?! WHY WASN'T HE GUARDING THE FUCKING DOOR?!"
"I'M OUT OF AMMO! I NEED A CLIP!"
"LYDIA! WHY AREN'T YOU SHOOTING?!"
"IF I GET UP I'M GONNA GET LIT BY THAT SMALL GIRL!"
"I GOT A NAME, BITCH!"
"ARIA! ARIA! I'M RIGHT HERE!"
Aria follows the direction of the voice and sees Scott squatting in the corner. He gestures her to pass him a weapon to help defend. Aria pulls her pistol from her pocket and slides it over to him. He quickly checks the ammo and gives her a thumbs up.
"UNDERNEATH THE TABLE TO YOUR RIGHT, SPENCE!" Aria warns Spencer over the shooting, ducking behind a desk. Spencer changes directions and fires two shots at a peering person in the corner.
"SPARIA! I'M GOING IN! COVER ME!" Seeing 8 baggies in their opponents' cart, Max hunkers down and quickly runs to the corner of the room to reach the bags with Spencer and Aria protecting him. Grabbing all the baggies, Max gets pelleted in his chest from a hiding LS. He purposely throws the bags outside the room giving Aria and Spencer a chance to grab it and run.
"THEY GOT THE BAGS!" Someone yells out as Aria frantically crawls out and stuffs the baggies in her sweats. Lydia pops up from her hiding place to go after Aria when she gets a rude awakening from shots flying in her direction.
"GET DOWN!" Spencer roars. She quickly throwing a glance in Aria's direction to see if she's collected everything.
"Come on, let's go!" Aria waves Spencer as she picks up her gun and runs in the direction of the staircase. Spencer takes a deep breath, fires some more shots and ducks her way out of the door, following after Aria.
Running as fast as they can, trying to avoid getting hit by the other team, Aria bursts through the stair doors with her shoulders and sprints up the stairs with Spencer right behind her. Hearing the door swinging open again, Spencer turns around and fires at the incoming person, making them retreat to a corner. "SPENCER! COME ON!"
Running down the hallway, tripping as they hit the corners, Aria runs into their HQ room with Spencer slamming the door close with her body right behind them.
"Good job, ladies…" Aria and Spencer jump at the sound of Noel's voice, not even noticing him. "Oh, didn't mean to scare you guys."
Aria and Spencer huff out in tiredness, Spencer's body still blocking the door. "We got….We….We got the baggies…" Aria wheezes as she tries to stand up straight. Noel walks over to her with his hand out prompting Aria to tug out the bags she stuffed in her pockets and bra. Noel nods with a smile at the halfway dead girls, "Excellent."
…..
"Oh my god! That was perfect!" Aria jumps as she and Spencer walk back to their dorms. "My adrenaline is rushing so much right now."
Spencer shakes her head in amazement, "I actually can't believe we just did that. That-that was so awesome."
"You were like bang bang! And I was like pow pow!" Aria reenacts their gameplay with a finger gun. "And we were like click clack! Bangbangbangbang! And they were like oh shit! And we were like Fuck yeah!"
"Great story-telling ability, Aria." Spencer laughs at the smaller brunette bouncing around like a little child who just left Chuck-E-Cheese.
"I'm just saying!" Aria beams, "You were so badass in there, Spencer. You were kicking ass and demanding people. You were looking like you just came out of the Gangster Squad movie!
"Me?! You were the one out there looking like a female Scarface." Spencer purposely bumps into Aria, "Now, I'm afraid to do anything to you because you'll whip out a gun from your bra and shoot me."
Aria gives a good, kindheartedly laugh as she leans into Spencer, holding onto her arm.
"You're laughing because you know it's true!"
As her laughter dies down and they see their College house in the distance, Aria recalls something. "Did you notice when we were in that shootout and we had to cover Max he called us Sparia?"
Spencer raises an eyebrow trying to remember Max saying such a thing. "Really?"
"Yeah, he was like, "Sparia! I'm going in! Cover me!" What is that? A combination of Spencer and Aria?"
"Sounds like it." Spencer shrugs, "Sparia...It has a nice ring to it. I like it."
"I do too…" Aria rests her head on Spencer's arm, looking up at the night sky, "...Sparia."
The moment when your ship realizes their ship name *insert smug Pepe the frog meme here." ;)
I just want to thank all the movies, shows, and video games I've watched/played my whole life because for this chapter, I had to really dig into my imagination to create this scenario.
Hopefully it translate well to you guys!
I can almost guarantee it's different from what you guys are used to but screw it! Let's go out of the box and put our OTPs in bizarre scenarios! That's more entertaining than the same old set ups, don't you think?
*Chants* SPARIA FTW!