Ian Hecox
The sun slowly hid behind the tall trees as we get ready for the raid, preparing our gadgets and gizmos by loading them into the van that was provided by the old man. There's no turning back, it's a race against time to save the others, we need to know what caused Alloy Digital to suddenly turn evil and want us captured.
"Ian, come look!" ManSpider called from inside the van.
I approached him, "What is it?" The guy in tights was staring at a laptop screen, face washed with sadness, watching a video.
He turned the computer sideways to I could see, "YouPorn?" I saw the pornographic website on his computer screen filled with censored stuff, lots of thumbnails with girl's massive jugs.
"Shit!" He blushed then turned the computer away from me, clicked a button then he showed it to me again: it was a shaky shot of two girls talking, holding cups and standing in their living room, the wide coverage of the camera was able to get their kitchen and the front door into the frame.
"I've watched 2Girls1Cup to know where this is going." I mumbled, closing my eyes and turning my head away.
"It's not." He assured.
"You sure?" I kept my eyes shut.
"Just watch it." He said and I went back to watching the video, the girl with long ginger hair smiled and waved at the camera and her quirky actions made my heart skip a beat. She looks really familiar, but the quality of the video made it almost impossible to determine her features.
"Who is that?" I asked, "She looks familiar."
"It's one of our friends, Brittni." He replied. Brittni Barger, she played the hot girl in some of our most recent Smosh videos especially the music video, 'The Real Party Song', she is both mine and Anthony's friend but it appears that she is much closer to me since she tends to hang out with me more when we're not shooting a video.
"What's that gotta do with us?" I asked.
"This video was a live stream earlier today and look—" ManSpider fast forwarded the video up until the part where Britt and the girl were playing Just Dance on their Xbox. A series of mindless but cute chatter continued when suddenly the front door blew open, surprising the two girls. Outside the door was a figure of a guy in a brown hood, the blurriness of the video pixilated his shape, he looked short to pose as a threat but he had brought some company as three more silhouettes taller than him stood behind.
"What the hell's happening?" I freaked out and Anthony heard my reaction, he then joined us in watching the video.
"Is that Brittni?" Anthony asked, "Who's that guy?!" He pointed to the mysterious figure in the video. We never replied, we just kept our eyes glued to the screen.
In the video the man said in a creepy and dark tone, "Get her." The goons behind him entered the living room, grabbed her by the arms then knocked out the other girl.
Brittni was helpless in the video, "What the hell do you want from me?" She struggled from the two guys holding her.
"I think you might know where Ian and Anthony is." He said.
"You won't get any information from me!" She raised her voice.
"We know, so we're taking you with us." His head nodded at the two guards. One goon brought out a syringe with orange liquid in it and aimed it at her neck.
"What is that?!" The needle went in, she let out a shriek, "What did you do to me?!" She dropped on the ground unconscious.
We watched in horror as we have witnessed one of our friends being taken away. However, the video wasn't over yet, the three goons took Brittni outside while the figure walked closer to the camera up until the shot only got his shoulders and face, but the darkness of the video concealed his identity.
He spoke directly to the camera, "I know you will watch this soon, Ian and Anthony. I was a little disappointed to not find your bodies among the others in your hideout, so here's my message: There's no point in running, your fates are sealed, you wouldn't stand a chance against us. And soon enough, Smosh will mean nothing. " He paused,"Time is running out..." He gave us a glimpse of the power glove on his hand before tipping over the camera and ending the video.
I was petrified, Time is running out.
They have Brittni and the others.
"We have to hurry." I looked up at Anthony.
"Way ahead of you." Link said and we glanced outside: behind the elf were the others, each holding their weapon of choice, locked and loaded for the biggest breakout in Smosh history. I was hesitant at first, but seeing that everyone was ready, especially Billy, the boy with unbelievable Jedi reflexes.
It's now or never.
I rubbed my hands together, "Let's get this show on the road." The crowd cheered.
The sun was no longer shining as it was replaced by the moon up the horizon. I had mixed emotions, the feeling of excitement, nervousness, fear, happiness, anger and hunger clouded my mind,it's time to save the others and Smosh, defeat the empire, reclaim Alloy Digital and stop this asshole once and for all.
Link again took charge of driving the van to the designated place where we would begin to infiltrate the building through the sewage system. But first, we need to get our leader inside before we attack: Charlie the drunk guinea pig.
I stuck a little piece of headset over Charlie's head, "You ready for this, Charlie?" I asked, slightly worried for him.
"Let's get this on, bitches!" My pet smiled. Looks like someone's excited. I strapped on a little helmet on his head with a flashlight on top.
"This is equipped with a small camera so we can see where you're going."
"Aww, you look so cute!" Billy remarked.
"Sod off wanker." Charlie replied.
"Jeez, I was just trying to be nice." Billy shook his head.
I checked my watch and it was more than an hour past the company's 10PM closing time. We finally stopped in an alleyway a few blocks away from the building. I stepped out of the car with my pet in my hands while the others followed suit. The alley was dark enough to conceal our vehicle while we do the job.
"Over here!" Link called out, who was kneeling on the ground and staring at a manhole cover, "Help me lift it." He said, piercing the tip of his Master Sword between the cover then using it to pry open the lid. Connor went to where he was standing and helped him remove the cover; the lid stood on its side and started to topple over.
"The lid! Catch it!" I whispered out loud. George Washington rushed to the falling cover and caught it with his hands, staining his white pants in the process.
"Now how am I gonna wash this?!" He whined, gently placing the metal object on the ground. I handed Charlie to Sgt. Anous then went back to the van to fetch Anthony. What's taking him so long?
I opened the back doors, "Anthony, time to—"
My best friend froze, he was blushing and kneeling with a guitar in hand as he serenaded my mother, both seemed to enjoy it.
"Really, man?!" I sighed, "You can do that later, we have to go." I pulled him by his shirt and dragged him outside.
"Call me later, Sharon!" He blew a flying kiss at her which made me cringe. As planned, my mom and ManSpider stayed behind in the van, while we gathered around the dark manhole.
"Who's going in first?" Link asked.
"Me and Charlie, I'll take him to the pipe entrance and you wait for my signal." I said, taking the guinea pig from Sgt. Anous.
"Hey guys?" Billy spoke up, and caught our attention, he was standing behind us with night vision goggles strapped on his head, but the main goggles were not properly worn, it was backwards. He walked towards us, "—can anyone help me with these?" He treaded closer to the deep manhole.
"Billy, watch where you're going!" Connor grabbed Billy's shirt as his foot stepped near on the edge, any step further would've ended up with him swimming in filth.
"Let me fix that." Connor adjusted the goggles on his face.
"Thanks." Billy pats the assassin's shoulder then walked another step.
"Billy!"
"AAAAHHHHH!" A loud thud ended his scream.
"Oh shit!" Link stuck his head in the dark sewer, "Billy! Are you alright?!" His voice echoed.
"I'm okay!" He grunted, "—my coccyx."
I sighed, "Now it's me, Billy and Charlie."
Link pulled a red flare from his pocket then smacked the butt of it on the ground, emitting a bright red fire from its other end.
"Billy, catch!" Link dropped the flare in the hole and as it fell, its light illuminated the dark tunnel, only for us to notice that the ladder leading down was broken, eaten away by rust.
"What? OW IT BURNS!" The flaming tip of the flare landed on the boy's arm, "OOOW!" Then the flare fell in the sewage, extinguishing the light.
"We're coming in, it's only a four foot drop." I strapped on a backpack then dangled my foot in the dark entrance, the foul odor of week-old sludge crawled up my nostrils. I put on a nose clip and prepared for the drop, "Close your eyes." I said to my pet, putting him in my loose pocket. Then I dropped in and fell into the dark abyss with my mind imagining the scariest things that my lurk in the dark, Scumbag brain.
After a few seconds my foot landed on something dry, a platform beside the river of sludge. I turned on my lightsaber, lighting the tunnel in a blue hue.
"Billy? Where are you?" I called out. The darkness of the tunnel made it scary, like a cliché horror movie setting, with light only coming from my sword, "Billy!"
"I'm here." He wheezed, turned out I was standing on his back.
"Oh shit, sorry!" I jumped off of him and reached out a hand and helped him stand up.
"You alright?" I asked, dusting him off.
"I think so." Billy said, pinching his nose shut. I handed him another nose clip. "Thanks." He clipped his nose then detracted his sword, illuminating the sewer in purple.
"Where's the night vision goggles?" I asked.
"Well..." Billy looked down the turned around, the goggles were smashed and in between his butt cheeks, "I sat on it." He bowed his head, "I'm sorry." His face racked with guilt.
"It's okay, nevermind that." I unfolded a map I took from my pocket, "According to the sewage system, we go past two corners then make a left then a right and after that we're gonna be directly underneath the building." I said.
"Well let's go then!" The boy replied. I unzipped my bag and took out a little battery-operated lamp, turned it on then placed it on the floor.
"What's that?" The boy asked.
"So we don't lose our way back." I smirked.
"Alrighty." Billy held his saber that lit the dark sewer then took the lead.
We followed the map by walking on the metal bridges along the tunnel, safely away from the river of goo, all while leaving more lamps along the way as a guide for the others. Soon enough, Alloy Digital was just above our heads.
"We're here." I said. Right above us was the solid concrete floor of the basement, riddled with pipes where the waste goes away to.
"Here, take Charlie for a while." I handed the guinea pig to the boy then brought the tip of my sword at a thick pipe but paused when I saw Billy standing directly under it.
"Billy, you might wanna get out of the way or else you'll be bathing in shit." I said.
Billy jolted then moved away and I resumed, slicing a small opening on the pipe and letting the flood of sewage spill on the floor draining the pipeline.
I placed a tiny green flash drive under Charlie's hat, "You can do this Charlie, make your way to the control room and put that chip in the main CPU and my mom will be able to hack most of the cameras in the entire building." I clicked on the light on his little helmet.
"Let's do this." Charlie said.
"Good luck, Charlie." Billy smiled and ran his fingers through his hair.
"Here I go, poofs." The guinea pig announced over the headset as I gently raised him up the hole in the pipe letting him crawl inside.