Spider-bear: Yes, I try to make you people laugh sometimes. I hope my next humour fic that I told you will about it will happen more often.

Adrian jumped up and shook the ground as Sean fired. Adrian had a shield though which repelled the shots, he returned fire with the Mauler but only one shot hit but the rest Sean dodged as both exchanged fire. Adrian started heading backwards up the stairs and Sean followed firing and reloading hitting him a few times but suddenly Sean realised it wasn't a Shrine that was on top of the stairs. It was a place that held weapons. Adrian went for a rocket launcher and fired it. Sean dived out of the way of the incoming rocket, and just saw another coming and was just about to roll but the ground shook in an unusual way lifting the ground up.

"Huh?" Sean said from the ground as the ground rose to meet Adrian's level and wet stones were raised from the murky water. Some were raised high enough to be used as walls against Adrian's attacks.

Before he could take a look around another rocket was fired, but however Sean saw it and moved out of the way and fired a few rounds off at Adrian, who ducked behind one of the weapons holdings and threw the rocket launcher away. He then came out with a strange metal weapon that looked like a fan. Sean quickly discovered it was not a fan but a weapon. Taking cover Adrian fired this strange weapon and it fired really quickly but it did no good as Sean was hiding. Adrian suddenly transformed back into a human.

"How do you like that? Now you know why the Skedar are superior, this Reaper is quite an awesome weapon" Adrian said but Sean jumped out and fired and Adrian fired again but forgot he was human and it shook violently and it didn't even hit Sean who was firing back, Adrian's shield was yellow but Sean had only taken a few hits.

"Some weapon, didn't you Skedar know the weapon actually has to hit the target" Sean taunted as he reloaded

"Indeed, but like a lot of things humans are far too weak to control it" Adrian replied changing once more into a Skedar and reloaded the Reaper and fired it and Sean took a few hits on his shield and ducked for cover again. Adrian took out another rocket launcher but this one looked different, Sean jumped out as he heard the Reaper seem to stop and fired as Adrian swapped weapons and changed into human form.

"See how you like this!" Adrian said pulling on the trigger of the rocket launcher

He fired the rocket launcher and it seemed to be controlled by Adrian himself as it swerved in and out the walls. Sean tried to back away but the rocket was closing in, however he ran around a wall looking like he would go for cover but he didn't, instead he was heading straight for Adrian by going around the other side of the walls and the rocket continued to chase, having nothing for it, Sean charged at Adrian firing who was surprised and the rocket came right at him. Sean jumped over Adrian and the rocket came right at Adrian.

Adrian swore loudly as he realised the rocket was heading his way he dived out of the path as the rocket exploded on the roof of where the weapons were being held and it sent the structure crushing down. Adrian turned to see if the rubble had crushed Sean but he immediately rose up from the ground. Adrian fired once more at Sean using his Mauler but Sean used some of the structure as cover from Adrian's attack but then his gun clicked and Adrian swore to himself and threw it backwards. Adrian's shield was gone, from taking so much damage from Sean's shots, but Sean's was dark green and nearly gone because of the explosion near by. Adrian drew his rocket launcher again and fired where Sean was forcing him to come out of hiding, the explosion however caused Sean to drop his weapon and the ground underneath them to shake…

Jonathan was continuing to work his way up the tower. Still on the second floor, Jonathan looked around for somebody with a key. That had to be the way up, he thought to himself. As he checked the doorways one guard suddenly jumped out and tried to punch but Jonathan shot him down before he even got in range. However another rushed for the alarm and Jonathan shot him, but his dead body fell on the alarm.

"Ah darn it!" Jonathan said as the alarms sounded.

Several guards came running where the alarm was sounded and saw the dead body and started scouting. Knowing how to use the CMP150 was a big advantage to Jonathan as the guards despite their numbers were been mowed down easily by the accuracy of the weapon, no matter what they tried there were easily beaten.

Eventually Jonathan found the alarm and shut it off, but he knew that probably wouldn't be enough. He found the third floor key sitting on a table where the guards had rushed in from, conveniently enough it was even writing on a tag on the key third floor.

"I bet this opens the third floor" Jonathan said to himself sarcastically.

"Well duh…" A guard said who had been shot down

"You need to get a sense of humour, and you also need to know when to shut up" Jonathan replied "Oh yeah and get some damned skill" Jonathan added before knocking the guard out with the Magnum.

Jonathan continued up the tower and repeated the process for the above floors clearing out all the guards and finding the key. On floor 5 he was more careful as it was probably better guarded. There was a door marked control room but predictably it was locked, and predictably enough there was a guard around with the key. Jonathan carefully opened the door and looked inside. There were many computer consoles. Mr. Blonde and Cassandra were talking as Jonathan took cover behind a console.

"I still don't understand how this will help you find your ship" Cassandra said looking outside the window

"It's simple. We want to use our ships and do tests, but we don't want the authorities able to see us, that will draw much unwanted attention" Mr. Blonde replied

"I see, so you simply use effects like this rain and fog and other stuff to make it impossible for others to see?" Cassandra asked

"Correct. Water is 70 percent of your planet so it won't exactly be easy, but I guess eliminating 30 percent of your planet is better than nothing at all" Mr. Blonde replied

"Miss De Vries, we've got word of an intruder here. Many guards on this floor are already dead" somebody joined the conversation; Jonathan couldn't see who it was.

"Then he can't be far away, find him!" Cassandra replied

"Yes Miss De Vries" the voice replied

Jonathan took his opportunity and stood up firing at the guard but what Jonathan didn't know was there were 2 others. They fired at Jonathan who ducked behind the computer console. Jonathan jumped out once more and took them down, however Mr. Blonde and Cassandra had disappeared, Jonathan threw a charge in the middle of the room and left. He saw Cassandra and Mr. Blonde running down another flight of stairs he chased them and fired but they were too far away. Eventually he came to another cave similar to the one at dataDyne, they were getting on the boat and Mr. Blonde suddenly threw a grenade but Jonathan saw it and stopped himself just before it exploded. Unfortunately this gave Mr. Blonde and Cassandra an opportunity to escape as Jonathan fired pointlessly at the boat.

"Dark to Carrington" Jonathan said

"Carrington here" Carrington came in about two seconds later

"That blonde guy and Cassandra got away again. I left a charge in the main control room, if I only I had been my normal self I would have caught them. Anyway Sean and I hopefully will be at the drop off point in 10 minutes" Jonathan said

"Okay, I'll ask for what happened later. Jumpship should be there in 10 minutes" Carrington replied

Should be? Jonathan thought to himself, it has to be otherwise we are dead…

As the ground shook around Sean and Adrian it collapsed sending both of them down into the water but the water wasn't calm like before it seemed to be flowing as both of them went down the water having no choice but to follow where ever it would lead them. Suddenly a platform came into view and both were flung to it and grabbed onto it with the fingertips. As Sean looked behind him it seemed the water flowed into what looked like a bottomless pit. He also noticed that the water seemed to be cycled back to the top as it was stopped by a platform of some kind causing the water to flow the other way. He climbed up the platform and Adrian did as well. Suddenly an object came on to the platform. Sean's dropped Falcon 2. Both dived for it, but Adrian got it and fired once but it only depleted Sean's shield to nothing and Sean kicked the weapon out of his hands sending it a fair distance. The platform was round and it had no barriers so there was nothing stopping them from falling if they got too close to the edge.

Sean and Adrian circled each other.

"It comes to this, although this time I have an advantage" Adrian said as he tried to become a Skedar but it wouldn't work.

"So much for that" Sean went for his weapon but Adrian blocked him off and elbowed him.

He staggered backwards and tripped him in return however Adrian was quick to get up. He dived for the weapon again. Adrian picked it up and Sean tried to get it out of his hands, and Adrian fired pointlessly as Sean eventually sent the weapon flying but it was still on the platform. He elbowed Adrian but he blocked the blow and returned with a low punch, Sean grabbed it and threw Adrian over his shoulder, but as Sean went for the weapon Adrian tripped him up by grabbing his foot. Sean rolled and stood against Adrian once more and gave a low kick trying to trip him so he would have time to get the weapon, Adrian parried the blow and used the back of his fist to hit Sean hard in the face and then head butted him sending him to the ground.

"This is mine now" Adrian said running over the weapon, Sean tried to get up but it was no use.

"You were a good match, now it is the end" Adrian said and Sean just stood there.

Adrian went to pull the trigger but nothing happened! It just clicked, it was out of ammo. Sean took advantage of Adrian's surprise and did a jump kick sending the weapon out of Adrian's hands as he went over the edge.

"Nooooooooo!" Adrian shouted as he fell.

Sean breathed heavily as he picked up his weapon.

"I did it…" Sean breathed in and out. He looked around to find a way out, he saw a portal in the distance which he could jump to if he made an effort. He was about to take the jump when something hit him from behind knocking him down. It was Adrian flying in the air.

"You forgot about my jetpack as I predicted you would" Adrian said as he flew through the air. The jetpack seemed to be invisible until it was required.

Sean looked up to see him flying around and suddenly he made a dive for him. Rolling out of the way he just missed Adrian sudden diving attack.

"I may surprise you, but you have no surprises left for me" Adrian replied laughing continuing to float over the edge and took another dive across the area. There was no way Sean could counterattack, and Adrian would never give him chance to reload his Falcon.

Adrian continued to dive on Sean, he grew tired he couldn't keep dodging Adrian was just too quick. He had to think of something. Then a possible tactic he could use.

"You can't avoid me forever" Adrian said and begun to go into another dive.

Sean was ready for it and took his Falcon and threw it hard at Adrian who dived and didn't see the weapon coming. Because of the jetpack the impact of the blow forced him to stagger back further and the jetpack flew off his back and into the wall and blew up. Adrian held on to the edge and climbed on and stood up, but he was dizzy from the impact of Sean's thrown Falcon. He saw him coming but wasn't sure from which direction as Sean went for a high punch, Adrian tried to block but he couldn't see it coming properly so took the blow and staggered backwards. Using this opportunity Sean used his right foot and kicked Adrian in the stomach causing him to fall of the edge but just as he was about to fall Sean made a dive and caught him by the hand.

"What?" Adrian said out of surprise

Sean merely smiled down on his beaten opponent.

"Do you beg for mercy?" Sean asked

"Yes, DON'T do it! Please!" Adrian shouted handing Sean his other hand

"A Skedar begging for mercy, that would immediately get you killed. Skedar never beg for mercy" Sean said ignoring Adrian's other hand

"You would kill your own father?" Adrian said getting desperate

"The father I knew died 9 years ago" Sean replied and let go of Adrian

He screamed as he fell to his doom and it echoed and soundly stopped followed by a loud thud. Sean immediately took the jump into the portal. He ended up back in the room where it went up two paths and Jonathan was running out of the control room path.

"Hey Sean? What happened?" Jonathan asked

"Again long story" Sean replied "Adrian's dead, that's all that matters" Sean replied breathing in and out, he was bleeding quite a bit.

Jonathan nodded "Tough fight huh?" he asked

"Yeah, how did you go?" Sean asked

"I found the main control room, this place is going to blow in 10 minutes, Carrington sent a jumpship for us" Jonathan replied

"Okay, how many charges have you got?" Sean asked as he broke into a run but not a very fast one as he was fairly tired.

"3 more" Jonathan replied

"Leave one here" Sean said as Jonathan threw one in the room

The two continued to run through as they went through the portal leading them to the forest and back through the ice maze which they made through easily and Jonathan left another charge. Coming onto the final part of the island and through both forests they threw another charge. The jumpship was waiting for them on the main island as they got on.

They both breathed in and out as they were out of breath and Sean continued to bleed as he used some of the basic equipment over his blows, but it didn't matter as they watched the island be blown up.

"Mission success?" Carrington asked

"Yes. The Island is destroyed along with their device, Sean is still alive and he's with me now. Adrian was killed as well, as I reported previously Cassandra and the Blonde guy got away" Jonathan said

"Still you dealt with the threats for now. Well done both of you" Carrington said

Jonathan and Sean congratulated each other on another successful mission as the Jumpship continued to head for the Institute.