Chapter 2 Snow and fire

He walked down the stairs and looked around and no one was in the lobby but in the main hall it was crowded with people and the sound of the band blaring out. Alex walked over there and saw Fidget with some guy talking, he had blue hair and had his eyebrow and an ear pierced. She looked over and saw him and waved to him to come over. Alex cautiously walked over there.

"Hey Alex what are you doing here?" she yelled out over the sound.

"I'm leaving now!" Alex yelled back.

"Oh, sorry this is Ray he is the bass guitar in the band,"

Alex held out his hand and the man greeted him.

"Hey man," he yelled out and Alex saw something shiny on his tong and realized that was pierced as well. What the hell else does he have pierced? Wait I don't what to think about that. Alex thought to himself and just said hi back.

"Well I better be going see ya!" Alex said.

"See you later be careful k?" Fidget said hugging him.

"Don't worry I'll be fine!" he said and walked back to the lobby and stood there for a little while until the ringing in his ears stopped. He looked at his watch and it read 3:57a.m. He did a mental check of every thing he had in his backpack. He was dressed in a very warm coat and snow pants he had a took on and snow goggles, on his feat he had specially designed boots and snowshoes on his back. He felt around in his pockets and was relived to feel the two-way radio there. He walked outside; the air was crisp and cold. The sky was still dark and the moon was in the sky shining a dim light on the snow.



He walked threw the quiet little town down the streets that were covered with dirty snow. Up ahead was the forest that look deep and dark and quit intimidating. He entered the forest and got onto a crude sort of path that animals had made. He kept on that path for around five hours and by now he was far away from the town and at the mercy of the wilderness. He came to a clearing and looked down and saw a small dot at the bottom of the valley that was the town he sat down and took out a small flask that he had brought with him full of brandy.

He took a small drink and felt the liquid warm him up, he would not stop for a little while longer and make something to eat. He had to learn to go long periods without stopping if he was going to win this race. He got up and started walking again, he was thinking about the face he had seen in the fire the other day. Could it be some sort of warning that Dr. X is planning to come after me soon? But why here there is really nothing he would need up here there are hardly any people that live here. He just shrugged his shoulders and started to hum to himself.

That afternoon he set up his small stove and made some lunch from the dried food he had brought with him. Alex was about to start to eat when a voice came out of no where. He looked around expecting to find someone lurking in the trees but it was Rikki on the two-way.

"Alex? Alex are you here answer me," the voice demanded.

Alex took out his radio and pressed the button. "Yes mom?"

"That's not funny, why didn't you answer right away?" Rikki asked.

"I was eating."

"Oh, well is every thing alright?"

"Yes don't worry I'm fine," suddenly a low rumble filled the air, Alex looked at the radio wondering if maybe it was coming from there but it sounded like it was coming from above. He looked up and saw Dr. X's blimp looming overhead. A burst of electricity came down and hit the radio causing it to burst into flames. Alex had no time to put it out he had to dodge another coming at his head. He ran and the bolt hit the snow, before he new it he was being shot at again this time it was Asazi shooting at him with her cross bow.

"Oh shit!" he yelled out as a missal flew by his head and blew up a tree just behind him. The only choice he had was to run and find cover he had no weapons and no way to contact anyone. His legs ran as fast as they could in the deep snow, and at the same time trying to avoid getting shot. He managed to find a small cave that was at the very edge of a steep rock ledge. He looked down and all he could see was jagged rocks poking out of the side of the cliff and far below was a thick forest of ever greens covered with snow.

The sound of something above him blowing up into a million pieces jostled him out of looking at the picaresque seen. A rope came down from Dr X's blimp and Asazi came down shooting. He watched as one missal came down and hit the snow but didn't blow up. He ran over to it and carefully picked it up.

"Please don't blow up please don't blow up!" he said as he pried it out of the snow. He looked at it for a second then threw it up at X's blimps engines. A burst of flames filled the sky as the engine exploded. Metal fragment flew every were and one flew and hit Alex in the left shoulder. Pain filled his entire arm as he felt the metal slice into his flesh. He looked at his back and didn't see the tip pointing out, the bone must have stopped it. But in the front a jagged edge was poking out of his shoulder.

"Well my mother always said I needed a place to hang my coat," Alex grunted in pain. He saw Asazi fall and disappear in the snow; she appeared a few seconds after that and ran a few feet away from him she had her cross bow pointed at his head.

"Now I'm going to get rid of you once and for all lover boy," she laughed.

"Asazi don't!" Alex pleaded but it was too late, she pulled the trigger he ducked as the missal flew by his head, it hit the edge of the cliff and the rock exploded. The edge that he and Asazi were standing on started to crack and break apart. Alex felt the ground below him give way. He set off his grappling hook it managed to hook onto a rock but was broken as another hit it. He looked down and saw rock and snow sliding down the side of the cliff with he and Asazi. But before he could try any thing else to stop himself he was hit in the head with a rock and his world went black.