"I didn't spot anything from the air that looked suspicious, Ash," Misty said. She and Ash were walking on a pathway. "I did see what looked like a shack though, over that way." She pointed down the path and Ash, with his good vision, saw a tiny shack.
When they walked into the shack, they found it was some sort of computer room. "It seems that they left everything on," Ash said. He then noticed a large vent. "Looks like something needs air..."
"Why do I have a feeling we're about to split up again?" Misty asked. Ash smirked.
"I'll go down the vent and see what Harold is up to," Ash said, but before he could put his hand on the vent, he felt Misty's hand on his shoulder. He turned to see a worried face.
"Ash," she said. "Be careful."
"I will. Don't..." but before he could finish his sentence, he felt Misty's lips upon his. First a bit surprised, he then wrapped his arms around her. After their first passionate kiss, Misty let go.
"Be careful," she repeated. He smiled and pulled the vent door out of place, going down the ventilator shaft.
He found he was above a room he knew was guarded. He had to be very careful and not get the alarm set on him, for his plans would be ruined. But even with all this danger, Ash kept his mind on the kiss.
"Ash, be careful not to set off the alarm in any way," Misty warned over the earpiece. "Do your best to infiltrate without being noticed."
Ash nodded and got out his P2K and put the silencer on the end. He opened a vent and dropped down into the room before, making sure he made no noise. He found that he was behind a walking guard and he took him out silently, stealing his gun. Ash then opened the automatic doors to the outside, killing the guard at the door in the process.
Misty was watching the monitor on the computer screen in the shack. It showed all corridors of the complex below, and she could see everyone. She was very worried about Ash, so she kept an extremely close look on what was ahead of him.
The kiss had felt just as Misty had imagined it would, surprising and pleasant at the same time. She wished Ash didn't have to perform such a dangerous task, but she knew it was for the world's safety.
Misty noticed a familiar face in one of the corridors.
"Ash has penetrated our security somehow," May complained to the two guards who were standing by a sliding metal door. "Lock down the sector at once and deactivate all access codes."
"Yes, May," one guard said.
"I'm going to do a full sweep of this facility," May said, getting out a weapon. "You stay on guard here. And stay alert," she said to the other guard.
"Yes, May."
"Ash," Misty said over the earpiece, "I've hacked into their security system. All I can see are the camera's, though. May is our only option. She's locked down all security codes except for her own. You'll need to find her, and stay close."
Ash walked forward and took out an unsuspecting guard. He stepped into the security room beside that and took out another guard in there. He saw a box that read "Security Laser System" and opened it to see a green and a red wire. Remembering how the last time he had used his laser to destroy the red wire didn't work out so well, he decided to try the green one. It worked, and he had successfully deactivated the security laser system.
He walked into the camera room and successfully deactivated the cameras as well, taking out a guard along the way. He walked to the gate to the right and saw two men standing behind a large door that opened like a garage. He pressed the button and thankfully it was a silent door. The men did not notice, so Ash took out one of the men. The other man stood shocked for a second, and Ash took advantage of that second.
Ash went through the next gate to find the same exact setting, so Ash took out the second pair of guards without even an ounce of suspicion on him.
"May is in corridor A8 now, Ash," Misty told him. Ash looked ahead to see a door that had the symbol "A8" above it. He walked through to see a guard running towards the alarm. Ash shot the man numerous times and he went down. He made a sigh of relief and then went on.
"Ash, she's in corridor A12 now," Misty said. Ash walked until he saw the door to A12 and walked in it. He didn't see the guard that noticed him when he walked in. Ash unknowingly left someone with the knowledge that he was there. He walked into a room that said "Alarm System" on the door. He found a box with the same setup as every other electrical box he had seen, so he destroyed the green wire. Little did Ash know that if he hadn't cut the green at that very second, the guard pushing the button would have succeeded in raising the alarm.
Ash walked out of the alarm room to see something he found quite amusing. He saw a guard angrily pushing a button and then hitting it with his gun, trying to set the alarm off. Ash had a little silent laugh and then shot the unsuspecting man.
Ash found May walking into a room. Ash followed her and found that it was the main security room. He hid behind a wall and listened.
"The launch time has been put to an earlier time," May said to one of the two guards. "Lock down this room, we cannot have anyone tampering with the system."
The guards entered something into the computer and then both left with May. Ash smirked at how stupid the idea of leaving no guards in the room was, but it just made things a bit easier for Ash. After the door had closed, Ash came out of hiding.
"Ash, see if you can find someway to disrupt the base's security systems," Misty said. Ash looked around and saw that there were two all too familiar electrical boxes on each side of the room. Ash destroyed the green wires on both of them.
"Systems critical," a robotic voice said from the computer. Ash walked up to it and saw a "Terminate" button on it. He pushed it, causing the machines in the room to start exploding. Ash quickly ran out of the room to see that there were many guards waiting for him. He took each of them out, but not with the silencer anymore. The enemies were holding huge military-like weapons, and Ash grabbed one from on of the dead guards hands. He saw that you could switch from shooting bullets to grenades.
He switched to grenades and started blowing everyone up he saw. He went through a room to see something that surprised him very much.
"Drew?" He asked. Drew was standing there with a space-alien looking gun that seemed to shoot plasma. Ash had never seen one before, but even that couldn't take the shock away from seeing the villain in front of him. It was Drew's fault May had turned evil
"Yes, Ash," Drew said laughing. "It's me. And this is where you now die." He lifted up the gun, pulling the trigger. Ash jumped and ducked behind some boxes, barely dodging the beam of plasma that left the wall sizzling. Surely the shot would have killed Ash in one contact. "You can't hide forever, Ash!" Drew kept shooting plasma beams that kept the wall sizzling hot. Then the shots stopped for a split second.
"What?" Drew asked, angry. "Stupid gun..." Ash jumped out of hiding and shot a grenade at Drew, blowing him against the wall, and taking his life. Ash took the plasma gun and then found a metal door that had a sign above it that read "Omega Sector". Ash incinerated the locks with the plasma and walked through to see a round, tall room with a rocket in the middle. Ash walked through many of these rooms until he found himself in a large room with a pool in the middle.
Ash took out a man, causing quite a stir. It turns out there were many guards in the room that Ash did not see at first. Ash shot them all with the plasma rifle and went upstairs to the security room to unlock the door to the liftoff pad.
Ash went through the door and found a circular room with a circular platform in the middle. There were three doors, all to different rockets. Ash opened one of the doors, not knowing that someone had been watching him. The door led onto a walkway which led to the rocket.
May laughed and walked up to the door Ash had gone through and left open. Ash heard the laugh and looked back to see May. She gave him an evil look as she pressed the button that dropped the walkway to detach it from the rocket. The walkway gave out and Ash fell to the floor. An alarm started sounding as a sign of the rockets were about to lift off. Ash had to get to one of the safety rooms on the side which were sealed to protect people from being burnt to ashes by the flames of the liftoff. Ash sprinted as fast as he could and rolled into the safety room just in time. He temporarily went blind as the first rocket went off. When he gained his vision back he heard something in the large room.
"2 minutes until liftoff," a lady's voice said over the intercom.
"Ash," May said. Ash looked up to see May in some sort of enclosed tube in the middle of the room. Ash tried shooting at it, only to realize it was bulletproof. May laughed evil-like. "You will never win. How does it feel to be beaten?"
"I'm not beaten yet." Ash said this too soon, as many guards made their way towards him, shooting. Ash shot as many of them as he could before thinking straight. He could just close the door. Then his foes would be burnt to a crisp. He pressed the button and heard the countdown for the next rocket to lift off.
He was blinded again, but when he gained his vision back, he saw the elevator-type thing May was in was going up so she could get to her rocketship.
"Damn you, Ash," May said in a defeated sounding kind of tone. Ash ran and grabbed onto the moving elevator. May thought she was safe when she went through the door that led through the walkway into the third rocket. Little did she know that she was wrong. Ash used May's idea and hit the button that made the walkway give out. She looked back when she realized that that could happen, but it was too late for her.
"Liftoff in 10 seconds," the voice said over the intercom. May panicked and ran towards a safe-room that the doors were closing at. She was too late, and she let out a horrible scream as the rockets flames incenerated her too ashes.
"Ash, I'm losing your signal," Misty said over the earpiece. "Are you alright?"
"I'm just taking a little trip," Ash said from the seat of the rocket that was lifting off into space. Ash knew that now it was do or die. If he succeeded, the story would have a happy ending and he and Misty could run off to some paradise somewhere. If he failed, the world would be destroyed.