"Fifteen minutes Everyone!" Zoe shouted out as she ran through town, her sombrero holding firmly on top of her head to block the sun. "Places! Catapults at the ready! And whatever you do... Don't Get Hit!"

Rein looked around confused as others were running about, getting in position.

"What's up, Doc?"

Rein turned his head seeing the white faced woman only inches from him. Taking a step back from the hyper girl he finally answered. "I don't know vat to use."

"Oh! Is that all?" She reached over her shoulder pulling an odd looking gun from behind her. "Here... It's easy to use. Just point and shoot. It's fully loaded and here's an extra clip... Don't get shot, Herr Gottmund."

Before Rein could question her on how she knew his last name or on anything else for that matter, she was gone.

"No, no, no! Use this. Paint is flammable, remember?"

Blayze had time enough to look up and see Zoe running off before looking back down to his hands. What resembled a flare gun was now nestled in his hands, his own flare gun, on the other hand was now missing.

"Five Minutes!"

Cal grinned wide as his hands started moving around a board.

"Cal... Whatcha doin'?"

"Getting ready." He then pulled a large gun from behind him.

"A submachine gun, Cal? No real bullets, right? This isn't a real war..."

"It's paint... Not promising it won't hurt just a little bit though." He grinned again causing Zoe to shake her head.

"One Minute!" She hollered then looked back at Cal. "No jumpin' the gun... Fair and square."

"Aww... You're no fun."

Zoe smiled then hollered out once more, "FIRE!"

Paint balls flew back and forth across the designated war area, paint splattering everywhere. Children were laughing as they ducked behind boulders to elude the Coalition's fire then taking turns to peek out, firing with their slingshots. "Got One!" a small boy hollered out happily, turning around to give his Dad a thumbs up only seconds before getting tagged in the back of the head, green paint mixing in with his dark brown, almost black hair. "Ugh... They got me..." He groaned, falling to the ground and pretending to be dead. The other children watched the show of their friend being taken down by defeat, and looking to each other with wide eyes which quickly squinted down. "We shall avenge you!" One girl hollered out as all the kids ran out from behind the boulders, firing away as they ran towards the soldiers, screaming out their war cry which startled and confused some of the men into stopping to see what was going on.

Zoe was laughing at the sight before her then quickly noticed the other soldiers were moving in fast. "Just a little bit further..." She said to herself, grinning menacingly. "Just a little more... CATAPULTS NOW!" She screamed.

Globs of white paint flew over their head, covering two thirds of the Coalition troops that were left, causing them to all bow out gracefully from the war. The remaining soldiers, stunned by the turn of events cried out their own battle cry as they started running through the field, dodging the globs that were still flying through the sky.

"MY TURN!" Cal hollered happily as he started running his hands over what looked like a wooden board with several nails sticking up and wires running from them.

Several huge explosions were heard going off almost simultaneously. A plume of sky blue filled the area and slowly rising into the air with a madman's laugh ringing through it. Once the plume settled, Cal reached into his pocket, taking out a detonator and pushed the button which in turn caused another explosion, this time being of the color pink but a lot smaller than the others.

"A smiley face Cal?! And you didn't even use our colors... Really?"

As the last small pink plume settled down, it drew a tongue sticking out from the mouth of the blue face.

Zoe jumped down, running through the confused looks of both the Coalition and her townspeople. "General Winters!" She hollered out then suddenly stopped in her tracks as guns were raised, pointed straight at her. She raised her hands, eyes wide as she tried to calm the blue painted soldiers down. "Whoa, whoa, whoa... Hold on there... War time is apparently over... We both lost."

"Lower your weapons men and hit the showers." Came the gruff voice of their General. The soldiers lowered their weapons and turned towards the base, seemingly happy that they could get the wretched paint off. Winters stepped up closer to Zoe, a sour grimace showing his disapproval of the war's outcome.

Zoe tried not to laugh as she looked up at the man now adorning a sky blue look instead of his usual black. "Sorry Ryan..." She started off softly once his men were out of earshot. "I didn't know Cal was gonna play too... Well... I knew he was gonna join but I didn't know he was going to do things his way... But for all purposes noted, it was a good battle and it taught us a valuable lesson." She giggled, smiling brightly.

"And what lesson would that be, Nocturn?" The General grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Aww, so formal..." Zoe playfully pouted before smiling once again and continuing. "Well... There are really no real winners in war... Especially when a single crazed man can take out both sides all by himself." She chuckled softly.

"Seems like you and Cal are the only two not covered in paint..." General Winters observed, still not happy with the play of events.

"Of course not... You think my brother would actually want to kill me?"

"I suppose not..."

"Well... Not purposely anyway... Unless I really ticked him off and even then hopefully he would spare my life..." She said, shrugging her shoulders then smiling again seconds later. "We should do this again sometime... When Cal isn't around... That way we can keep it fair."

The General nodded his head then looked up at her, his head tilted slightly. "We were wondering... Why didn't our landmines detonate?"

"Landmines? You had landmines?"

"Well... It wasn't you..."

"That's not a fair thing to do..." Zoe pointed out with a pout.

"You had the same chance to do it as we did..."

"We yeah... but..." She turned to look around, sighing heavily. "Guess Cal had the same idea..."

General Winters turned towards the rest of his men, hollering out. "Hit the showers... War's over." He turned back to Zoe and grinned. "Let us know when you want a rematch." He said then walked off towards his base.

Zoe smiled as she returned to her side, giddiness running through her veins. "Great Job Everyone! General wants a rematch sometime in the future."

Cheers and groans alike could be heard as everyone started shuffling home.

"You might want to take a shower! Don't know what Cal put in the blue paint!" She called out, warning her people then turned towards Cal. "And you, dear brother, are not invited to that one... Speaking of... Did you mess with their la-"

"Hold that thought," Cal said, raising a finger. Reaching into his other pocket, he took out another detonator, pushing the button with a smile on his face.

Zoe spun around when another explosion rang out, coming in the direction of the Coalition base. A huge green plume lifted high into the air leading in two rows up to the Coalition base gates and the entire front area of the gated section. The sky blue and white painted soldiers now being covered in their own war paint. Her eyes went wide, her mouth dropping open slightly before turning to look back at Cal. "Did you..." She stopped herself, shaking her head. "Nevermind... Now, where is your Frenchman? He lied to me..." She growled, her eyes slitting menacingly.