Disclaimer: I don't own Alias, if I did there'd already be Sarkney on the show…
A/N: hehe, like the title of this chapter? Inspired by 'That '70s show'.
Previously:
Everyone stared at the person, but it was Jack's face that was most interesting. For on his face was a look of surprise, surprise and horror….
Chapter 5~ Playtime's over
***Sloane's POV***
The woman stepped beside Kendall beaming at everyone. She had crimped blonde hair down to her shoulders, was about Sark's height and wore a tight leather miniskirt that matched with her tight leather shirt. In her hand she bore a whip. They watched as the woman licked her lips and walked up to Jack.
"Hello Jack, long time no see?" she asked, her voice firm with no hint of any friendliness what-so-ever.
"Hello Angenetta, yes it has been a long time. So, what brings you to this business?" Jack asked.
"Well Jack, are you gonna introduce us? Or must we sit here and ponder it for ourselves? Acquaintance of Irina's? Old lover? New lover?" Sloane asked pumping Jack for information.
Suddenly the whip in Angenetta's hand shot out. "Silence! You will not speak unless spoken to!" she yelled in a Sergeant like manner.
***Sark's POV***
Sark sat silent saturating in all everyone's behaviors.
***Irina's POV***
She walked over to Irina and extended her hand out to Irina's face. "Laura? No, you go by Irina now, hmmm… interesting, definitely intriguing." Angenetta spoke in the same voice.
***Sloane's POV***
It wasn't until she reached Sloane that he saw her piercing blue eyes as she studied his face.
***Sark's POV***
She walked confidently over to Sark, amazement dazzling in her eyes.
"Long time no see Julian." she whispered. Her eyes darted over to Sydney for a second. "She's a fine choice, except for the unwanted baggage she carries." she spoke starring at Vaughn.
Sark stared at her with no hint of absolution in his eyes. "Can't say the same for you and Jack, I saw you eying him."
Angenetta smirked at this and stood up, walking toward Kendall.
"You may be an interesting group of people with your own abilities and interests, but playtime's over boys and girls. I have only one day to work with you guys and we will not waste it. Today, we will be working on something that may resemble an obstacle course, except much, much worse. I am warning you upfront that today will be difficult and that the training is dangerous. You may not survive, so you'd better shape up. When you go undercover, you may not survive taking down the Concurrence so therefore you need a training session that is more like a sample of the real thing. Any questions relating to the topic?" Angenetta declared.
"Hello, Miss Angenetta, my name is Arvin-" Sloane stared.
"I know who you are, state your question." Angenetta barked.
"I couldn't bypass the similarity between you and Mr. Sark over there, is there a reason behind that or is it just coincidence?" Sloane questioned.
***Glory's POV***
Angenetta frowned and shot out her whip at Sloane. "Are you in kindergarten Mr. Sloane? Obviously not, so why is it that you do not follow directions? I will answer your question, but if later on you have are inquisitive about a subject, I will not satisfy your curiosity. Understood?" Angenetta asked.
"Yes." Sloane answered.
"The answer to your question will be answered after today's training is completed." she answered. "Follow me."
She walked towards the door she had entered the room in as the others followed her. Glory glanced back at Kendall before leaving the room.
***Kendall's POV***
He watched at Glory stared at him before continuing with the others. As soon as everyone had departed he exited out of the original door that most of them had come through.
***Weiss's POV***
He was the last one to step into the room. The room was pitch black. Maybe. A light kept blinking on and off every millisecond as if they were in a haunted house. It made everyone think twice about where they were going. It didn't help that the walls around them were decorated white in some places and black in the other or that some walls were checkered those colors. Weiss tuned his attention to Angenetta as she barked out the intrusions.
"Listen up, since your weakest in groups of three and undercover you'll be working as a group we're going to slightly tweak your groups. When I call your name please go stand in a spacious area. Sydney, Weiss, and Sark, you're group one, stand together. Vaughn, Glory, and Sloane, you're group two, please stand together. Jack, Irina, and I will be group three. Jack, Irina please come stand by me. Ok, each group is going to be given a map to lead them to a replica of 'The Commuter' a Rambaldi artifact that will help us take down the Concurrence. First team to find it will be going undercover tomorrow. The others, if they survive, will be doing technical work or retrieving other artifacts for us until the termination of the Concurrence. Remember, if a group's in trouble continue to carry out your mission. What's worse? 1 failed mission of all 3 of them? Remember this is your final day of training and we need to use it wisely. The point of this is to see that if discovered, you can retrieve the information quickly and escape before handing over the information to the CIA. Any comments? Questions?" Angenetta asked.
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I refuse to be used as the CIA's b-" Sark started before Sydney clamped her hand down on his mouth. "Biggest loser." she finished for him. To him she whispered, "Not now Sark."
Angenetta smirked at this and turned on her heels. "Now, here are the maps." she told them handing them out. "Be attentive and be cautious, trust your team to watch your back. Dismissed."
***Group 1's POV***
"Are any of you worried about how pessimistic she was and how much she was stressing the gravity of this mission?" Sydney asked.
"I'm sure that was just her way of making sure we don't mess up this mission." Weiss comforted her.
"I believe she was warning us." Sark disagreed.
"Maybe Sark's right." Sydney agreed. "Let's go."
They studied the map and found themselves heading down a long and dark hallway. A red light flashed back and forth down the hallway illuminating for a brief second the hallway features.
"I think we have to go down this hallway." Weiss suggested and they began their journey.
***Group 2's POV***
"Glory, you hold the map." Vaughn instructed the teenager.
"Ok, it says we have to go through this door." she told them.
Vaughn headed in first, followed by Sloane and then Glory. The room was almost pitch black except for a faint light on the ceiling. The room looked bare except for a big box like item in the middle of the room.
"What the fuck?" Glory asked just as the door slammed close. They walked around looked around. The light flickered before going off. A scream was heard in the room, most likely made from Glory before she bumped into Sloane and hit the wall.
A cutlass was propelled out of the wall and decapitated Sloane.
Glory screamed again upon hearing this sound while grabbing her hair and calling out her group members' names.
***Group 3's POV***
Jack, Irina, and Angenetta stopped dead in their tracks when they heard the screams.
"Trouble already." Angenetta whispered.
"We've got to help them!" Jack yelled.
"Wait!" Angenetta yelled grabbing his arm. "If this were the real thing you would never make it in time to help them. Let them solve their problem on their own. They need to. Let them be." Angenetta practically cooed.
"Angenetta's right, it's ok, they can take care of themselves, Jack." Irina agreed.
"Ok, it says we must go up the elevator, which should be… 10 paces to the left and 5 paces forward after that. Let's go." Irina read to them.
***Group 1's POV***
"What was that?" Weiss asked referring to the screaming still going on.
"Another group. Sounds like they're in trouble. We've got to-" Sydney started.
"Listen to me they can take care for themselves. It's probably Glory freaking out or it could be a test to see if we're really following the directions." Sark argued.
"I cant just leave it like that, I'm not emotionless. I-" Sydney argued.
"I know, I know." Sark told her. "But you know the rules, just as I do."
Sark took the paper and carried on. "It says to watch out for unexpected items, look for anything out of the ordinary."
"How? I can barely see as it is." Weiss argued stepping on the piece of tile in front of him and spikes began shooting out of the walls.
"Move it!" Sydney shouted as she commenced her back flips to doge the weapons.
Sark dove for the group and began crawling with Weiss right behind him.
"Shit!" Weiss cried out. The bottom of the walls now had spikes and needles sticking out of them and blood began escaping form a small wound on his hand.
"Guys, we gotta go!" Sydney called form the other end. True to her word, gas began escaping form vents, as the spikes continued to shoot out of the walls, and the needles and spikes were still sticking out of the walls.
Sark turned around and helped Weiss by semi dragging him as they crawled.
Meanwhile on the other end Sydney struggled to open the door.
Sydney retrieved an object form a pocket in her black outfit as she began picking the lock. "Got it" she yelled. "I just need the code." What could the code be, shit!
The gas was rising steadily. They werent quite sure what it was. Sydney turned around and saw Sark and Weis now right behind her. Punching in the word 'Rambaldi' the door beeped and opened as the hurried to the other side, locking it behind them.
They had each be given tranquilizer guns which meant that people would come after them.
"Be on the alert gentlemen." Sydney told them looking around. The room was a huge square room, about the size of an average house with a few things scattered here and there probably for their protection. Weiss dashed behind a pile of boxes that looked like he boxes stores got their shipments in. Sark hid behind a Toyota Corolla and Sydney took out her gun, looking around for trouble.
***Group 3's POV***
The elevator in which they currently found themselves seemed to be nothing but wood on the inside, save for the buttons and the display.
"What happens if almost everyone dies in this training session?" Jack asked.
"Then they were not prepared properly to successfully take down the Concurrence. Either that or-" Angenetta began talking inside the elevator when it suddenly jerked to a stop.
"Shhh" Irina whispered and motioned for them to boost her up.
"Hold on, did you know this was going to happen?" Jack asked.
"no, I didn't design this course. I have no clue what's gonna happen, I just asked for a difficult course to test agents' readiness to take down a powerful organization." Angenetta asked.
"perfect." Irina mumbled and motioned for them to give her a boost. She removed a ceiling block from the ceiling of the elevator and climbed out.
She took out her tranquilizer gun and looked around.
"What the hell?" she asked.
***Group 2's POV***
Glory had allayed down since the incident and now tried her best to direct Vaughn to her location in the dark.
"I can't feel you." she cried.
"Hold on. I'm going to take 2 steps forward. Then I want you to take 3 steps forward. Ok?" He instructed.
"Ok" she echoed.
Upon taking her 3 steps she swung her hands around looking for Vaughn, but instead found her hands upon the box.
"Vaughn, I'm touching the box." she informed him.
"Ok, remove your fingers from the box." he instructed her.
"But, there are buttons on the box." she argued.
"Ok, try pressing a button, any random one." he drilled.
Glory closed her eyes and pressed the 3rd button away from her. A sound was heard as an axe came crashing down 2 feet away from Glory. She screamed again quickly before pressing another button. This time the sound of friction was heard as the walls began to close in around them.
"Ok, obviously the wrong buttons. That's ok, you may or may not be bad at choosing randomly. But, listen to me, I need you to focus. I would love to live to see another day, so please try to choose more carefully." Vaughn calmly stated.
Glory reached her hand over to almost the other side of the box. Licking her lips she chose the button underneath her pointer finger and crossing her fingers on her other hand, she pressed the button. The walls stopped moving and Glory let out the breath that she'd been holding.
"Good, now do that again." Vaughn instructed.
Keeping her fingers crossed she pressed another button. This time a light came on, it wasn't the light from the ceiling but a light form a lamp on a shelf that hadn't noticed before. It was on the opposite wall from the door and illuminated their situation.
"Ok, now see if you can open the door." Vaughn told her.
Glory moved to press a button when she perceived Sloane lying dead on the ground with his head cut off. She screamed and began to run towards Vaughn.
"Listen to me, I need you to stay focused. We don't want to set off any more booby traps. Go back to the box and press a button." Vaughn ordered Glory.
She retreated to the box and began to press a button when she realized that the box wasn't exactly a box. Well it was, but to be more precise, it was a coffin- with different colored buttons attached to it. Glory screamed again, backing away and towards the door.
"Glory, calm down, I need you focused." Vaughn told her.
"Why don't you press the button?" Glory asked.
Vaughn mentally kicked himself. He hadn't moved since all the commotion because he had a feeling he was surrounded by traps. He stared at her in the eyes and muttered, "I cant."
"Great, just great!" she yelled, walking back towards the coffin. She pressed a random button, and a door opened. She ran out the door before Vaughn could warn her to be careful because the door she exited the room form was not the door they had originally come from. It was on the wall left of the door they had come from. Now that Vaughn could see the room clearly he noticed that the walls were Forest Green. A color which he had always loved. Sydney didn't seem to care for it though.
What am I forgetting? He wondered. Shit! Glory! He ran out the door Glory had a few moments before.
***Group 3's POV***
Irina glanced around and found herself staring at glass windows. Behind the glass window lay offices. Those offices were surrounded by cubicles.
"I guess this is our stop!" she yelled down to the people below in the elevator and began to punch a hole in one of the windows.
"Watch it!" Angenetta yelled as glass fell down through the hole. "We're still trying to get out!"
"OK!" Irina yelled and paused what she was doing. It wasn't long before Angenetta and Jack had climbed out of the elevator.
"Gee Jack, I guess this is not the right situation for you to be wearing a suit." Angenetta told him and commenced helping Irina punch a hole while Jack tried the other.
"Like you should be dressed in leather?" Jack sneered.
"Hey, it's stylish and I can work in this." Angenetta replied.
"That depends on what your work is." Jack retorted.
"Shut it Jack!" Irina and Angenetta yelled simultaneously.
"done!" Irina yelled before slipping into the hole. She landed on blue carpeting inside the room with all the cubicles.
"Irina, it'd be nice if you would move so that we could get inside the room." Jack sneered.
Irina was about to comment on this, but then as if remembering something she moved aside and helped him into the room. Jack, in turn helped Angenetta getting into the room. Pulling out their tranquilizers the scanned the room for people.
The cubicles seemed to be packed together to overall form a huge square of them.
"I'm gonna go left, Jack, you go right, Angenetta you search for any main offices." Irina ordered and turned left.
*** Group 1's POV***
Sydney spotted one man, dressed in all black and launched an attack as she fired at the man and he fell to the floor. Sark and Weiss stood up and walked to a corner of the room, where they'd heard noise and began shooting.
***Group 2's POV***
Vaughn caught up to Glory and spun her around to find tears in her eyes. "Why isn't this working? Is it my fault? Why does my group always have problems? I am the weakest link, as weird as it sounds, Sloane didn't deserve that. He could have dodged it." She cried. She dove for cover as she heard shooting.
***Group 3's POV***
Irina peered into a cubicle and then another. The last one had been the eleventh one she had checked. She walked to the last one and checked everywhere. "Clear!" she yelled.
Moments later back echoed back what she had said.
Angenetta walked around, but she still hadn't even found a door. She had spotted fake plants, tables, chairs, water fountains, water coolers, bulletin boards, but no doors or offices.
"Found one!" she yelled. She spotted Jack before she entered the office. Jack and Irina hurried after her.
"Something's wrong." Irina stated.
"This isn't an office" Angenetta spoke the obvious.
They heard shooting and ducked before getting up again to investigate.
***Group 2's POV***
Vaughn, unconscious, slumped to the ground after being hit with one of the tranquilizers.
Glory picked hers up and began shooting at them before she realized it was Sark and Weiss.
"Stop!" she yelled. "It's me, Glory!"
***Group 1's POV***
Sydney ran up to them, but didn't shoot because she saw Glory. Spotting Vaughn, she ran up to help him.
She cradled his body before picking him up and carrying him over to the others.
Sark shot a look of disgust towards Vaughn, but didn't say a word.
"Sloane's dead." glory stated. "He died in a different room."
Sydney smiled briefly then turned her attention to the situation at hand.
***Group 3's POV***
They had stopped shooting once they had heard glory and ran up to the others.
"Do any of you guys know what's going on?" Irina asked.
"Which one of you shot him?" Angenetta asked.
"I did" Sark told her.
"Figures." she answered.
***Group 1's POV***
"Hey, why I this room so spacious?" Weiss asked spreading out his arms and hitting the wall beside an open door.
Four walls immediately dropped down, shorting the space of the room and all the doors began to shut. Everyone began to move around including Weiss and happened to step in front of the door he was beside.
The door slammed shut, extending spikes not previously seen on the door and cut through Weiss.
Glory screamed again and crumbled to the floor as Jack rushed to help him.
A mace came gliding down and hen it and crossed the length of the room and came back again.
"I am not touching… anything!" Sydney yelled.
"Leave him!" Angenetta ordered.
"No! Fuck you!" Jack yelled.
"He's dead, I can see that, as well as you can." Angenetta argued.
True to her word Weiss eyes were open wide in fear, and the spike on the door extended trough the other side of his body, and through his heart.
Sark winced and mumbled, "he's lucky he's dead, look."
Everyone looked where Sark was pointing and saw that a spike went through his crotch.
***Group 2's POV***
"Look!" Glory yelled and scrambled over a few boxes. She held up an octagonal prism. "It's 'The Commuter'!" she yelled.
Everyone turned and like she had said it was the item they were looking for.
"Good!" Angenetta yelled. "now you and… the remainder of your team, must now go through a door and escape back to the original room, we will meet your there. Good luck." She called.
"Come on! You can do it! Pick a door!" Vaughn cheered.
Glory closed her eyes, licked her lips, crossed her fingers, and picked a door. "that one she yelled!" pointing to the door ion the direction that group 3 had come from. She spotted an axe and began chopping a hole in the surrounding wall. Vaughn took over after a few minutes in within no time they were in the room with the cubicles.
"Ok, remember, watch out for booby traps! You can do this!" Vaughn yelled.
He took the route Jack had taken and Glory took Irina's route.
Vaughn grunted as the lights began to fall and the glass fell. They met on the other side and spied the hole in the window the Irina and Angenetta had made.
The wires from the lights were flipping everywhere and from cubicles men burst out hooting at them.
"Go! Go!" Vaughn yelled and pushed Glory through the hole.
***Groups 1 and 3's POV***
Angenetta pulled out a remote and a door opened to an elevator.
"Everyone in!" she yelled as everyone filed in.
They shared a look of confusion as the elevator did not display what floor they were on, but a series of weird symbols.
Angenetta pressed the emergency escape button and a laptop unfolded from a compartment. She typed in something that was not displayed on the monitor of the laptop and typed far to quickly for any of them to even begin to comprehend what she was typing. Soon after, the elevator began moving. It seemed to be descending quickly, but Angenetta reassured them, that this was ok. When they started slowing down, they all assumed that they were coming to a stop. Finally, it stopped and the laptop refolded and disappeared. The doors opened shortly afterward and as soon as they had all exited he elevator the doors closed and it disappeared into the scenery. They found themselves back into the black and white room with the white flashing every millisecond.
"I see they have not returned yet, that's perfectly fine." Angenetta spoke.
***Group 2's POV***
Glory gave a yelp as she fell down onto the elevator covered with broken glass. Glancing down she saw blood beginning to escape from the multiple wounds on her hands. She grasped the sides of the opening on the roof on the elevator before she jumped down into it. Vaughn jumped down into it a few moments later with blood trickling form his hands too.
"Think the would've warned us." Glory muttered. She pressed the button to go down, but it wasn't working. Vaughn stepped up to help, but she blocked him with her hand. Her black outfit had been ripped running out of the room and there was quite possible form the way she was feeling other cuts that she couldn't see right now.
She ripped open the compartment with all the buttons and pulled on the wires. Ripping one slightly she pressed her bloodied hand to it and sparks began to erupt from it. She removed her hand and the doors opened.
Let's go!" she yelled.
Vaughn hurried after her, as she took the stairs two at a time. They came to a stop at a door that was locked. She kicked it open after her 3rd try and ran through it to find herself in the white and black room wit the light flashing on and off every millisecond. Vaughn hurried after her as she rounded a corner and then another before meeting up with the group.
***Group 1 and 3's POV***
Everyone turned around to find a cut, bruised, and bloodied Glory with a cut and bloodied Vaughn behind her.
"You made it." congratulations." Angenetta called. "Don't complain about this mission, because I told you guys, playtime's over. You all with be treated for your injuries, but first, to answer Sloane's question. I should hope I look like him, because I'm his mother."
A/N: Wow, long chapter. So, can I have a review? Training's over and tomorrow they go under cover. Wow, this is the longest chapter I have ever written… I think. Wow, this chapter is 4163 words, so if you read this whole thing, MAJOR kudos to you. Hehe, twelve pages baby! So, can I have a review? You can have a cookie if you do.