S.W.A.T
Chapter 9
Aimee-Lee cracked her fingers restlessly as she watched Kyrie, Riley, Roxie, and Caitlin come looping back from the end of the course. Katrina was standing next to Aimee-Lee, talking to her to get both their minds off of the course.
Cameron Dancer shouted a good luck to Aimee-Lee as she stepped up to the start line. Aimee-Lee nodded at her, ignoring the deathly glares sent her way from Rachel, Tyler, and Tai. Her teammates stepped back from her to give her some space while she stretched.
Looking around, Caitlin saw that they had drawn a crowd. Some teams had gathered here, lying on the ground, watching to see how the new teams would do. She pointed this out to Riley, who looked around. Speaking in a quiet voice not to disrupt Aimee-Lee, she told them that three teams were there. The team leaders were Stone Cold Steve Austin, Victoria, and the Undertaker, who, Riley had explained, had been around for a decade or so.
Chris Benoit finally approached, taking one glance at the crowd, and then focusing his eyes on Aimee-Lee. "Let's hope you do better than your teammates," he said. Riley restrained Kyrie and Roxie, grabbing their shoulders. The Rock glared at Benoit. "Ready?" he said. Aimee-Lee crouched down, her fingers in a triangle in front of her. "Set? GO!" She took off at a fast sprint, her back slowly coming up from the crouch.
Aimee-Lee didn't slow down as she neared the wall. She leapt off the ground about a foot away, grabbing the rope as her feet hit the wall. Climbing, she felt her arm muscles tighten. She got to the monkey bars at 1 minute, 20 seconds. Swinging like Kyrie did, only skipping one bar at a time, thus going faster; she hit the canvas at 3 minutes, 50 seconds.
Aimee-Lee ran into the bars, going side step the whole way. Rising up from ducking, her head collided with a bar, and her foot tripped across another near the end, ranking up her time to 7 minutes, 40 seconds.
Knowing that walking on the bars that held up the canvas would be time consuming, she ran on the edges near the bars, avoiding any patches of canvas that looked white and worn. She tripped on a bar she should've leapt over, and went sprawling into the canvas. Luckily, it held long enough for her to sprint off to the shaft. Breathing a sigh of relief, Aimee-Lee crawled into the shaft. She held her arms and legs out so they braced the sides, but light enough that they didn't stop her. Every four feet, she pushed her arms and legs out to stop, and then brought them back in to go sliding back down. At 13 minutes, 40 seconds, she leapt out of the shaft, firing the paintball guns in her hands wildly, 'killing' six of the ten shooters.
Running into the tunnel, she looked back to see Jeff Hardy hot on her tail. Near the end of the tunnel, she could hear his heavy footsteps right behind her. Aimee-Lee jumped for the overhead light, wrapping her legs around the wire that led to the metal shade. Jeff, sweat pouring into his eyes, didn't see her jump. He skidded to a stop under the light, and took a glance backward. Aimee-Lee took the chance to leap over his head and take off running. With that head start, she was able to climb over and down the second wall without him tagging her, and with a time of 21 minutes.
Aimee-Lee managed to get the logs in quickly, her training helping her along. Still, her arms protested with pain, but she dove into the net at 24 minutes, 50 seconds. She climbed up the net easily, and got to the pillar section.
Aimee-Lee jogged on the board to the last pillar, which was slanted downward so she could jump off, and slipped. The board caught her in the ribs and the jaw, but she managed to hold on, black dots in her vision from the hit to her jaw. She climbed back on, grabbing the paintball guns set out for her. By the time she successfully downed all 10 shooters; her time was at 31 minutes. She shimmied through the air duct in 2 minutes, disengaged the bomb in 30 seconds. She made it to the finish quickly.
"34 minutes, 53 seconds!" shouted Benoit as she dove past the line, landing in a sweaty heap past it.
Caitlin let out an amazed whistle as Katrina said, "Good job!" Roxie offered her hand to Aimee-Lee, and she took it, standing up. The Rock and Riley said their congratulations.
"I'm hungry," she complained, and they laughed.
"Don't worry, its lunch time after Benoit writes your time down," The Rock said.
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A/N: Lunch time next chapter! Yippee! L Today's Friday, and I only have 2 more full days after this until the s-word starts. It really sucks. Really, really sucks. Anyway, please review!
LittleKnux2008
P.S ~ I'll try to get as many chapters updated today, tomorrow, and Sunday. We don't have school on Friday or next Monday, so I'll be able to update next weekend.