Disclaimer: Except for Jaela, Colby and Syd, all these characters belong to Fox.
When Lydecker first put us into two teams I was confused. I had Max, Jondy, Tinga, Syl, Zane and Eva. It was obvious we'd win. Jace had Krit, Ben, Brin, Jaela, Colby, and Syd. They're good, but we're better.
Escaping and evading the enemy was easy. I split us up into two teams to make it even easier. I took Max, Jondy and Eva. Tinga, Syl and Zane I sent in the opposite direction. We were making good time back to our territory, until Max and Jondy fell.
I don't know what happened, I was infront of them. All I herd was some cracking of branches and the crunch of dry leaves. Eva and I turned around to see what happened, but Max and Jondy weren't there. I looked down the hill and saw Max and Jondy lying at the bottom. Not even two feet away from them was a venomous black and yellow snake.
"Max, Jondy, don't move," I warned them. I saw Max's eyes widen when she saw the snake.
"Zack, Eva what do we do?" Jondy asked us. I could hear fear surfacing in her voice. I didn't know what to do, but luckily Eva was there.
"Stay still. Don't even twitch a muscle." I don't think Eva got them to relax any, but that made sure they wouldn't move.
Suddenly I got an idea. "I'm going to distract the snake. I'll make sure you have time to get away, just wait for my signal."
I started to distract the snake, and it was working. Once Jondy and Max started to move the snake swung around and went to strike Jondy's leg. Max saw this and pushed Jondy out of the way. The snake sank its fangs into Max's leg.
Except for Jondy yelling Max's name, the forest was dead quiet. The snake then just calmly slithered away.
"Keep her still and warm." I instructed. "I'll go get Lydecker."
I took off in the direction I knew Lydecker would be in. I trusted that Eva and Jondy could take care of Max.
I forgot that we were still playing escape and evade, so I wasn't paying attention for any ambushes. Jace, Ben and Brin suddenly had their guns pointed at me. "Freeze."
"You have to let me go. Max was bitten by a snake. I need to get to Lydecker," I explained. Jace told Ben to go tot where Max was and then Jace and Brin took me to Lydecker, I was still their POW.
Lydecker and some of the officers were standing and talking around a hummer. They were waiting for the game to be finished, but were surprised when I ran up with Jace and Brin guarding me.
"Something wrong, Soldiers?" asked Lydecker.
"Yes Sir," I replied. "Max was bit by a snake."
One of the officers quickly grabbed a med. kit from the hummer and passed it to Lydecker. Lydecker told the officer to get the rest of us together and take us back to the barracks.
Lydecker told me to take him to Max and so I did. Another officer came along with us.
"How bad is she?" Lydecker asked Jondy, Eva and Ben.
"Not good, Sir" Eva replied.
Lydecker opened the med. kit and took out a needle filled with anti poison medicine. After injecting Max with that, the officer picked her up and carried her back to the hummer. Lydecker took me, Ben, Jondy, and Eva back to the barracks.
That night when we were going to sleep Max came back to the barracks. Max and Jondy were talking later that night. They thought I was a sleep, but I herd everything they said. Max was scared of snakes. I knew Lydecker would put her through fear training. I was scared for her. Fear training's the worst. But she'll be ok, she always is. Max is one of the strongest of us.
