Chapter 50
Gotta Get Through This
"Love changes people for better or for worse."
-Unknown
Sarah opened the door and we walked inside back to back forming a tight circular formation. We each scanned the area.
"Clear"
I stood up straighter relaxing my muscles. I turned around and looked at everyone else.
"Ok, so we need to get to the lobby, which shouldn't be packed I mean its midnight there shouldn't be anything going on. But once we get through the lobby we need to make it to the elevator on the farthest left hand side. That's the elevator that is going to get us through the different security levels."
Storm Shadow and Snakes Eyes nodded their heads.
"Wouldn't having a pass code be lovely?"
"Tell me about it"
Sarah let out a breathy laugh at my remark and we made our way to the lobby. Sarah took out one of her guns and started twisting something quickly to the front of it. I raised my eyebrow and she whispered "it's a silencer".
Smart.
When we got to the lobby there was two men behind the desk, Sarah shot them down with ease and we jogged over to the elevator.
I looked for the button to get the elevator doors to open, but there was only a slot to put in an ID card.
"Shit"
I felt a tap on my shoulder, and Snake Eyes handed me one of the ID cards for the security men.
"Thanks"
He gave me a nod, and I slide in the card.
The doors opened and we got inside. The doors slide closed and I held my breath, waiting for the first security measure.
When the doors opened there was a hallway leading to another elevator.
"Well this looks easy enough"
Sarah was about to walk through when I held out my arm in front of her chest.
"Wait."
"Why?"
I turned around and looked at Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
"One of you guys had the ninja dust on you right?"
"Ninja Dust?" Storm Shadow gave me a look.
I rolled my eyes and Snake Eyes handed me a few pellets. I smiled and turned back around.
"This is why."
I bent down and slowly rolled them on the floor revealing blue lasers moving around.
"Oh."
"Yeah, so who wants the honors? Are we going to rock paper scissors this bad boy?"
"I'll do it."
I looked at Sarah. "Are you sure? I mean-"
"No I can do it, trust me."
I bit my lip "OK"
I saw her stretch out a little. From the corner of my eye I could see Storm Shadow looking a little pale, looks like I'm not the only one that's nervous about this.
"Just try not to have any of the lasers hit you, and deactivate them when you get to the other side."
"Relax Chase I know what I'm doing."
"Of course you do."
She took a deep breath and stepped inside. She moved her feet around the lasers as if she were dancing. She flipped and landed ducking down various lasers. She was actually handling this like a pro.
She did a back handspring and landed lightly on her feet, but as she turned her head a small piece of her hair got taken off by a laser.
"Great."
She ducked down and laid down on the floor as lasers moved above her body, she jumped up, and finished the last stretch of the lasers. She took out her gun, and she shot out the control panel deactivating the lasers.
"See I told you, piece of cake"
"Not bad."
She grinned and we got on the other elevator. "One down 58 more to go"
When the elevator dinged again we were met with yet another empty hallway. But from a closer look you could see small holes on both sides of the wall.
"Who's next?"
Storm Shadow stepped up, and I could see Sarah whisper something in his ear, causing him to blush, and clear his throat.
I raised my eyebrow at them and he caught my eye, and rolled his eyes back at me.
I smiled as he took out his sword and waved it in front of him in the empty hallway. Spikes shot out where his sword was. Oh how fun.
He closed his eyes and started running. He did a few flips and turns making his way effortlessly to the other side. He took out his sword and stuck it in the panel, and we made our way to the other side.
"That's my guy"
Sarah punched him in the arm, and Storm Shadow tried to look anywhere but us.
"You guys are the cutest couple ever aren't they Snake?"
I nudged Snake Eyes in the ribs, and he nodded his head in agreement with me.
We continued the never ending cycle of going up te different levels, and it was exhausting. Even though we switched out almost every different level it didn't really seem to make much of a difference. There were just so many different levels.
God, why in the hell did they need this much security?
When we finally got to level 58 I was ready to all it quits. We were all breathing hard, my hair and Sarah's hair was frayed, and I all I wanted to do was go back to the room and talk a hot bath.
As we heard the ding I turned around "I don't care what the hell is behind those doors I am going to get it done as quick as possible ok?"
They all nodded at me. Sarah had her hands on her hips "You bet go for it"
When the doors opened I saw the biggest most ripped woman I have ever seen in my life.
She sat on the floor and got up. She was about 6 maybe 7 feet tall, short black hair, and the most hulked up build I have ever seen.
"So you're the vones that have veen causing all of de trouvle?" oh just perfect she was a hulking Russian woman.
"Umm Chase are you sure you still have this one? I mean we could try helping you out a little bit here-"
"No I got this."
"Come tiny vittle vomen. It is time for you to die."
I felt a hand on my shoulder and I saw Snake Eyes looking at me. Are you sure?
"Yeah totally." Not.
I walked up to her taking out both of my swords.
She smirked down at me. I swung both of my swords at her head and she dodged them. I kept swinging when she kicked me with her leg and I went flying 2 feet until I hit the floor. I groaned and I jumped up resting my hand on my stomach.
"Belly ache?"
She punched me across the face, and I went down. She made a stomping motion as I rolled on the floor trying to avoid getting my head squished by her gigantic boot.
I grabbed her leg as it was about to come down, I tried to pull her down to the floor but she was too heavy and wouldn't budge. She laughed and bent down and picked me up and threw me across the room. I landed by Sarah's feet and she tried frantically to help me up.
"Now do you want help?"
I wiped some blood off of my cheek "No, this bitch is mine."
I walked back over to her and punched her in the gut. I made a move to punch her across the face when she grabbed my arm and elbowed me in the face with her other arm. She then grabbed my shoulder and flipped me onto the floor.
Oh God. I groaned and laid on the floor. She started walking towards me again, when I tried to jump off the floor trying to quick her in the process but she just grabbed my leg. I did a couple of back handsprings away from her and landed ready to fight.
"Running away?"
She came at me and we started fighting I was able to block her punches, but unlucky for me she was able to block mine too. She managed to catch one of my punches and twist my arm back, pushing me to the floor.
I let out a small yelp as the pain started to flow down my arm.
"Alyson!"
I was able to get my arm free and land a kick to her face.
"Don't help me!"
I grabbed one of the punches that she was trying to throw at me. With my other arm I grabbed the back of her neck for support and climbed up her body to flip her over. It took everything I had to do it, but I managed to get her on the floor.
I quickly got up and pulled out my sai's. I twirled them in my hands and watched her get up.
She came out me, but I managed to make cuts on her arms and legs using my sai's. I stabbed her in the stomach and she wobbled. I tried to move as quickly as I could stabbing her in as many places as possible.
She landed on her knees and I flipped over her using her shoulders for support.
I held her head in a scissor hold. I had a smirk on my face and was breathing heavily.
"Time to die"
I twisted her neck and let go. She fell to the floor with a loud thud, and stumbled back in a sitting position.
Snake Eyes quickly ran to me.
Are you ok? Are you hurt?
He was checking me over to make sure I wasn't bleeding badly or had any broken bones.
I cupped his chin and brought it up so that he was looking at me.
"I'm fine, don't worry. Just help me up."
He slowly helped me up, as Sarah and Storm Shadow made their way towards me.
I rubbed my side, and winced a little knowing I would have a lot of bruises by tomorrow morning. Sarah handed me my swords and I thanked her and put them on my back.
"Nice job Carter."
"Thanks Brandt she hulk was a bitch to take down"
She laughed and we made our way to the final elevator to take us up to Tara and Franz.
I grabbed my guns and held them out by my sides.
Sarah followed after me, while Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow took out their swords.
When the ding happened and the doors opened we were surrounded by armed men. In the middle was Tara and Franz both looking panicked.
"Kill them all!" she yelled out.
The man starting firing as we dodged bullets; taking out as many as we could until we were left with only them.
"What do you want? We will pay whatever you want if you let us live!"
"Honey you couldn't afford me"
Sarah shot her in the leg and she went down. Franz bent down to help her when Storm Shadow sword caught his chin.
"Bad idea"
"What's the code?"
"What are you talking about?"
I bent down Tara and I grabbed her hand. "What's the code to shutting down your system?"
"You're crazy if you think that I will tell you anything! They'll kill me!"
I pulled on two of Tara's fingers and broken them. She yelled out in pain. "Tell me now, or broken fingers are going to be the least of her worries."
"Fine, fine! Just stop! The code is eb 04 af c2 bf a3 81 0c fe."
Snake Eyes stood by the desk typing things into the computer. There were panel screens covering all of the walls. The screens went black and fuzzy, and voice came on.
"Warning System Failure. Operation will destruct in T- minus 2 minutes."
We all looked at each other, how the hell were we going to get out of here in 2 minutes?
"Looks like you all are going to die with us. I guess it's a total lose."
"Shut up already."
Using the butt of my gun I hit them both in the back of the neck and they fell to the floor.
"Alyson!"
I looked over at Sarah who was hooking up a rope to her pants. "Come on!"
We all ran over to her by the by the windows.
"Where the hell did you get these from?"
She pointed to a wall with an assortment of different weapons on it.
"Well that's convenient"
We quickly tied the ropes around us and made sure they were secure.
"T-minus 50 seconds"
We all looked at each other and we jumped.
Oh wow, the adrenaline rush was insane. I felt like my stomach was going to come out through my mouth. When we hit the floor we started running down the alleyways, until we heard an explosion, and the building set on fire.
We could hear a fire department truck racing its way towards the building, and we continued our way through the alley.
"Well that was fun"
I gave Sarah a look and she shrugged her shoulders.
"Looks like we have to walk back to the hotel."
I saw Sarah pull out her phone "It's almost 6 in the morning, did you want to catch some breakfast? I know a great diner nearby."
I laughed "Sure, but don't you think we would look a little suspicious walking into a diner looking like this?"
She pursed her lips she pulled my by the arm and we made our way to a back entrance of a boutique. She picked the lock and we went inside.
"So your plan is to steal clothes?"
"NO. I am totally going to leave behind a 100 on the counter don't worry."
She started rummaging by the racks, and I shrugged and started looking for some clothes.
I finally came across a pair of jeans, a white shirt, grey leather jacket, and brown boots. I went into the dressing room and quickly changed. I took my hair out of its pony tail, and let it fall loosely. I stuffed my suit and weapons (leaving a gun on the back of my jeans of course) into a nearby bag I found.
When I walked out I saw Sarah, khaki pants, white blouse, green blazer, ballet flats, and red knit hat, with her blond hair in waves framing her face.
She had a smile on her face, "Oh I love shopping in New York."
She walked over to me and put a burgundy scarf around my neck. "Here fall in New York can get a little chilly"
I smiled. I grew up in cold Russia; I think I could handle a cold fall in New York.
When we walked out of the back we saw Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes leaning on the brick wall looking bored.
You look beautiful.
I smiled always one for the complements.
I looked over at Storm Shadow who looked a little taken aback by Sarah, which just made her smile bigger.
"Well are you guys changing too or what?"
"What do you mean?"
"You can't go walking around New York like that! Come on, you too Snake Eyes."
As she led Storm Shadow through the store she found him some clothes and shoved him inside a dressing room.
"Now for you."
"Wait Sarah, Snake Eyes doesn't take off the suit."
"Ever?"
"Well-"
"Exactly. I promise I won't take a peek at your mans secret identity, I'll make it work trust me."
She pulled on Snake Eyes arm and led him away. He looked back at me as if he was asking me to save him, but he was on his own on this one.
I sat down in the corner of the store waiting patiently for them to come out.
"Alyson I present to you the finest men in New York City!"
I saw Strom Shadow first; he was wearing a black leather jacket, grey shirt, and jeans. Wow, he actually looked pretty good.
Then I saw him. He had on a light blue hoodie, jeans, a grey beanie on his head to hide his hair, and black ray bans to cover his eyes.
"See I told you we wouldn't let the world see his face"
I only half heard her as I walked over to him.
Do I look ok?
I never thought I would see him wearing, normal clothing.
"Perfect."
I leaned my face close to his and kissed him. He put one hand on the back of my neck, and his other on the small of my back pulling me in closer.
"Wow really guys, get a room."
I laughed as I pulled away from him.
He kissed me once more and held my hand.
"OK let's go eat."
As we made our way out of the store and down the streets of New York I couldn't help but feel like an actual normal person. Besides what we had just done last night, this felt nice. And oh how badly do I not want this to end.
(A/N) didn't expect an update this soon did we? Anyways I hope you guys liked this chapter, I literally spent all morning writing this. Let me know what you liked, or possibly didn't like. I will try and update as soon as I can, but that might not be till sometime next week maybe.
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CHAPTER 50 PEOPLE! I NEVER THOUGHT WE WOULD MAKE IT THIS FAR. YES WE NOT ME.
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