Nell picks up the phone and goes to line three. "Max, what's the matter?"

Max's angry voice could be heard threw the phone across the room. Nell quickly drew her head away from the phone. "Nell! Guess what happened!"

She puts her mouth back up to the phone. "First you have to calm down please."

But Max just couldn't. "Calm down you tell me! You don't even know what happened!" Capt. Earle rolled his eyes. "I bet he just forgot one of his workouts."

Nell ignored this remark. "Max, you have to calm down, that's and order! You're giving me one of my headaches yelling into the phone like that. Where are you and what's wrong?"

Max's voice died down a little but was still quite loud. "The base I was at was attacked by rioters, thousands of them. They were just too much for even my army. I am at the hospital right now in Staraya Ushotsa and of all the six hundred fifty some men that I had before, only forty of us are in fair condition."

Nell seemed very worried. "Max, tell me everything. An army of rioters that big could take out any of the towns nearby."

Max got mad again at the thought of towns being destroyed. "Well" he began. "I was in my tent reading some reports on the riots when I heard a couple of shots outside. Someone called for help on the radio so I yelled into it and told everyone to get to their posts. I grabbed my rifle, ran out my tent, and looked around. I saw what I didn't want to see. The guards that were on patrol were lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Most of my men were already in position when there was some more shots from the woods to the east. There was a call on the radio for me, the guy said that gas and oil was drained out of all of my tanks, at that moment there was a huge explosion taking out all my tanks and a lot of my men. Then some bazookas started firing out of the trees taking out all of my recons and anti air. I tell you these weren't ordinary rioters, they had tons of military weapons. We fired back until the enemy firing had almost stopped, but then the enemy started shooting at us from all around. I told everyone to run to the eastern woods because the rioters there were probably dead. I was right, most of them were dead, and they were rioters, but overnight they had placed landmines all around the base, more of my men died. So we ran into the woods and killed the rest of the rioter that were in the area and I gave the order to run to the nearest town were most of us got medical attention and are waiting for further orders."

Nell was concerned. "How many guys do you have left? Are you hurt at all?"

Max didn't want to get Nell too worried. "I was only hit once, non-mortal. I lost a lot of men today, I only have a tenth of the guys I had this morning."

Nell wasn't convinced. "Have you seen a doctor?" Max replied boldly. "Not until all of my men have seen a doctor first."

Nell went back to business. "Max, evacuate all of the surrounding towns quickly, send some of your men to each town for extra security. You will meet Colonel Marsh in New Point, take one of his recon units and come here to the capital city. There will be a meeting held here with CO Sami, Andy, you, and some of our best agents and generals. Whoever is behind all of this is going to pay in full for their misdeeds, Nell over and out."

Nell hangs up the pone and looks up at Capt. Earle. "We have big trouble Captain, get all of the intelligence on the riots you can and get some of the COs from other countries to come too. It will be held the day after tomorrow at fifteen hundred hours."

Capt. Earle salutes and leaves the room. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door. "Come in." called Nell.

One of Black Hole's messengers walks into the room. "CO Nell, I have a message from the leader of the Black Hole military, Hawke."

Nell knew that whatever the message was it was bound to be bad. "What does it say?" The messenger hands Nell the letter telling her. "The letter is short because Hawke was a little busy at the time."

Nell opens the letter and reads it. After she was done reading it the messenger asks. "Would you be so kind as to tell me what the letter was all about?"

Nell looks up from the letter. "It's just about him blaming us on all of the riots and telling us to stop them or he will attack us too."

The messenger pulls out a pen and a piece of paper. "What do you say back to him?" Nell shrugs. "Just tell him that we are going to have a meeting here the day after tomorrow and figure out who really is behind it all, and that he can send one of his COs too. That's all."

The messenger bows deeply. "Thank you for your time CO Nell."

With that he leaves the room.

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Greg was doubtful that the Black Hole wasn't really behind the making of this building, but somehow he sensed something fishy about it all, even if Black Hole was making it there was still something wrong. Greg was muttering to himself as usual when his cell phone started ringing. "Hello?"

The voice of Russel could be heard on the other side. "I got some news for you Greg, the person paying for this building to be built is coming out to your job right now. He wants to talk to you about the possibility of hiring a hundred or more guys because he wants to get the building done right away."

Greg started to get irritated. "Look Russel, I have enough trouble with all of the apprentices right now calling every five minutes with the stupidest questions, but to get more would be almost impossible for me."

Russel seemed to be stricken by a lightning bolt. "Do you not realize how much money that guy has, if you do every thing he wants he'll give you a HUGE bonus when you're done, I think."

Greg starts for the entrance of the building. "I hear a vehicle outside I'd better go."

They both hang up their phones. When Greg makes it to the entrance he almost runs into a man with the most expensive suit he had ever seen. Greg was astonished at how muscular this man was also. The muscular man looked at Greg. "Are you the foreman here?"

Greg nodded his head. "Yep, I'm the foreman here, my name is Greg Johnson."

They shook hands. "My name is Regal; I'm the one who wants this thing built. To get down quickly to business I was wondering if you could get this done faster than it is already going."

Greg stammered. "To tell you the truth, no, and if you did it would be extremely hard."

Regal started to get edgy. "I'm paying you a lot more than a usual person would pay you, you should work a lot harder because of this. Let's see, today is Monday, if you don't finish the building by the end of the month which is almost a week now, you'll be hearing from me."

Regal turns and starts to walk away but stops and turns around as if he had forgotten something. "Here is a million dollars for you and you're crew to use to finish the building by next month, any extras you have after you're done is to be split with your crew. Get it done."

He turns around and leaves the building. End of Chapter 2

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