I wrote this chapter with a little bit of writers block so it may not be as good as my other ones
"Robert," I said. "What are you doing here?"
"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm following you."
"I mean why are you here, in Wilmington, why were you in Maggie Valley, why are you following us?"
"I'd like to know that too Robert." Jake said.
"I'm following you because I was instructed to."
"By who?" Jake asked. When he did I heard a hoot. An owl landed beside him and began to change form. First a head appeared the head then grew chestnut brown hair that lengthened till it was almost on the floor.
The owl then grew, as she grew it grew shoulders which put the hair length in perspective, it was really only shoulder length. Soon I was staring at Jade. The entire group seemed surprised and glad to see her. Marco moved over to hug her but Jake grabbed his arm.
"We can have a welcome party later. Lets just get inside, now you said there's an alarm, how do we bypass it?"
"Well this secutiry system is based on breaking in, if we can pick the lock then there's no problem." Robert said . He then took a credit card out of his pocket and began to pick at the lock. After a few minutes of his cursing he got in. When the door opened Karen found out she was too big to enter. She had to morph and go in as a human.
We each went into our various battle morphs. Marco into Gorrila, Jake into tiger, Cassie into wolf, Fred into spitting cobra, Becky into salt water crocidile, I morhed into cougar.
Anna must have decided to go with a different morph than her usual salt water crcoidle She first turned dark gray. Then her teeth retracted into her mouth. After which She grew to about twelve feet long . He legs turned in and she fell forward onto new hoofs. Her eyes moved to the top of her head and I saw the pain in them. Her face exploded outward making a large mouth in which grew two tusks. She grew a tail and was soon a full grown female river hippo.
(Nice where'd you get that morph?) I asked her.
(A zoo. Duh.) She said. James then decided to morph. Two horns grew out of his head. Hair began to on his body. He fell forward onto hoofs. The base of his horns grew to cover his head. He was soon a cape buffalo. Robert became a polar bear, and jade went into a Siberan tiger morph.
(OK so now what?) Robert asked. Jake quickly filled him in on the plan. We then entered the museuem. Jerry walked over to the receptionists desk turned on the comuter and began typing. It was a funny sight a man typing away at a computer while surrounded by deadly animals. While he was typing Karen went into the ladies room and emerged as a moose, unfortunately she took half the door way with her.
(Hope they have insurance) She said. Jerry stopped typing.
"Okay found it, the enterance is hidden in an exhibit on some guy from this state who signed the some important document, all you have to do is press in on the copy of the document and a trap door opens, so lets go." He morphed kommdo dragoon. We walked thourgh the various exhibits, like the cast of The Lion King on a field trip. When we reached the exhibit we wanted to Marco pressed the document.
Nothing happened. He pressed it again. Still nothing.
(It's a trap isn't it?) Anna said.
(No,) Jade said. (It's just that the trap door opens slowly as a matter of fact…) She was cut off. We all fell. The next thing I knew I was in a brightly lit hall. We were met by gunfire. Thanks to the speed and rough skin of the hippo the four human controllers that were firing found there insides coating the ground.
(What the fuck! Bishop I said no human casualties.) Jake yelled.
(Bite me Jake!) Anna said. (It was them or us now lets go.) The hallway opened into the computer room it was large and already filled with controllers. We all broke apart and began attacking. I came to a Taxxon first. I literally jumped through him. Spilling his guts, several other Taxxons ran over to feast on their new victim. The room had become engulfed in a cacophony of gunshots and screams. I saw that people continued to file in faster than they could be impaled, disembowled blinded… you get the point.
(Hey Jake!) I yelled. While fighting a group of Taxxons (Are we planning to take out this entire base or what?)
(Don't worry, Marco is going to to take care of it when he gets free.) Marco was fighting two Hork-Baijar and a Taxxon. I saw James with two Hork-Baijar impaled on each horn. Anna was slashing at a human with her tusks. Jerry was dragging the intestines of a Hork-Baijar around the room, Karen was trapling a few Taxxons, Becky had a human head in her jaws, and the scene of chaos just got worse.
(Oh what's Marco going to do anyway?) I asked as I fought with another Hork-Baijar.
(He's going to close the blast doors, it'll give us enough time to do our job, oh and get Karen to destory that sattilite.)
(Jake I am this close to ramming you into the wall, don't give me orders got it? Karen you heard the asshole get that sattilite receptor out!)
Karen ran through four Hork-Baijar, six Taxxons, and two humans into the large stailite recptor. It fell over and broke apart. The blast doors that were made to protect the computer room from Dracon beam fire all began to close. A voice came over the intercom.
"Warning! Warning! The recptor is under attack. Blast doors to close in 10 seconds, inating fumigation procedures."
(Fumigation… oh shit. Get out NOW, EVERYONE, abort mission NOW!) I yelled. I noticed that all of the people we were fighting were running for the exits. Most made it but about ten didn't and four were cut in half by the closing doors. The ones who didn't make were set upon by my teammates.
"Warning! Warning! All security cameras are now disabled, fumigation to begin in one minute." The computer in the center of the room flashed a large timer with 1:00 counting down.
(Jerry demorph and see if you can get into the computer and shut off this thing, I have a feeling we don't want to be here when…)
"Countdown overridden, beginning fumigation process." Large vents opened up and green gas began to enter. Jerry had demoprhed and was hacking quickly, I only hoped he could find a way to reverse the process.
(Hold you breath everyone!) Jake said. Anna had an advatage in this area, Hippos coud hold their breaths a long time but the rest of us were, in a word "fucked". The gas must have been designed to move slow, in case someone got stuck in here, I looked around for someone to get it from but the only remaining members of our enemies' team were all dead.
"Come on Come on…" Jerry was saying. The gas was getting closer I got ready to inhale and hold my breath. "FUCK! Oh FUCK! There's no override here, guys we're trapped it's over, I can't believe it's going to end like this…" No override meant that the gas would kill us. There was no hope. Amy was at a sniper post, Jake had left three more of our potential rescuers clear across the state. I knew I should have kept someone outside in case this happened, but…
(Sorry guys this is all my fault.) I said. There was no way we were escaping, this was how it was going to end. (Sorry Kare,) I found out then that cougars could cry. (I broke my promise, demorph please, I want to die holding you hand…) We both demorphed, everyone followed our lead. Even Anna.
"I don't want to be the only one left it's lonely ." I didn't argue, the gas would likely have lasted past her hippos breath ability. I walked over to Karen and took her in my arms. I saw Jake and Cassie holding each other as well Jake was running his fingers through her hair holding her in a kiss, it was the first time I could look at him without thinking of Neville Chamberlain.
Jade and Marco were in a similar postion. Anna and James were almost having sex right there. Becky was kind crying and Jerry went over to comfort her. Robert was trying to pry open the doors with his hands, I heard him murmering swear words under is breath, I saw into his eyes, they were filled with an anger, an anger that I felt, how could it end like this gas why couldn't it be in a blast of glory. Well I knew it was up Rachel Tobais and Ax now, they would win they had to.
I kissed Karen, I knew it would be the last time I tasted her lips here on earth. I saw the gas was just over our heads. Still holding Karen I knelled down, I wanted to make the most of my last seconds with her.
I ran my fingers down her nose to her neck. She put her hand on mine, I put my other hand on hers stoking it. I whispered in her ear.
"I love you more than anything Kare I want you to know that, I'm sorry I ruined everything." Everyone was kneeling now the gas was almost on us. Karen looked into my eyes and I looked into hers. In that moment I knew that the love we had would survive death, I saw in her eyes my world, everything in life that I wanted that I needed it was there in green and blue. My life, my soul, my everything. The gas was right over us, we only had a few seconds.
"I love you." I said, it was three simple words, but everything I had was in them.
"I love you too." We held each other resting our heads on each others shoulders closed our eyes and waited for death to come.
Note: I'd like to see what you thought of the emotions I put in this chapter were they as powerful as I wanted them to be? I'm sorry for the rushed quality of it, I'm not very proud of the start.