Ok everyone, I was gonna put Joy back in this chapter, until I found out it would be too big if I placed all of it here. So I had to split it up into two parts. There ain't much gunning in this chapter, but the action's still here. The next chapter will be better. Can't wait for your reviews! Enjoy!

Chapter 10 Fire in the Hole Part 1

The elevator dissented into the ground, its metal rim a couple inches away from the dug out wall.

"At least we can be thankful that....who ever did this didn't make all this hollow" Randall said, shuddering at the thought.

"You scared of heights or something man?" Caylin said, with a small smile. "No.....its the falling part I'm scared of.....tell anyone one that and you'll get yourself a new hair style" Randall replied with a grin, knowing Caylin would put it on headline news.

(BRRRKKKK!)

The elevator shook up and down a bit, but ended. Sean opened the steel "outlined" door, seeing a glass doorway right in front of them. He opened it, raising his Assault Rifle as he did.

*

Everyone got out, following Sean. The room was a hallway that lead into a square area. The room had white tiles covering its ceiling, walls, and floor. Ahead was a steel door in the shape of a large octagon, a keypad on the wall beside it. Sean studied the room and noticed no one around, lowering his gun, he signaled everyone else to come in. Sean went over to the keypad as everyone looked around. Beside the middle hallway which they came out of, were two hallway's leading to some dead ends. A couple light fixtures were around, but simple types.

"Reminds me of that time I went to see my doc...." Caylin said, looking around. "Wouldn't happen to be a shrink?" Leia chuckled, whispering to Randall, who smiled at the comment.

"Nuts......" Sean said, walking back over to the group. "Its gonna take a serious hacker to take care of that thing..." Sean said, sighing.

"You wouldn't happen to have an explosive?" Randall said, crossing all his arms. "Not unless we want to bring the whole place down" Sean replied, taking something out of his pocket, a rectangular object that looked like a calculator. "What's that?" Leia asked.

"Just scanning for humans.........Aww what's the point...I'm honestly sure many humans are here..." Sean said, putting it away.

Caylin noticed what they were talking about. He tied Midnight's leash to on of the poles that ended the walls of the hall that led to the elevator.

"Well, let me take a crack at it" He said, cracking his knuckles. "You?" Randall said, chuckling. "Be....be my guest" Sean said, laughing a bit as Caylin went past him. "If you can get that door open then I'll do the Hula with Randall!" Sean said laughing as Randall placed an arm around him, laughing his tail off.

(BRRRKKKK!)

They stopped laughing and turned to the door, it was.....opening. Caylin came over, dusting his hands together.

"Should you want me to get the skirts or should you two?" He said chuckling. Randall and Sean just gaped at him.

"B....but how did you?" Randall began. "What? You think sitting on my tail all day and playing video games wasn't worth something?" He said, moving to the door.

"Uh....beginners luck right Randall?" Sean said, trying to crack a smile. "Uh yeah..." Randall said with the same face.

"Oh you boys....." Leia said, seeing Caylin pass her. "I'd feel a whole lot better if you guys went first" Caylin said with a hesitated smile, pushing Randall nearer to the door as he went over to Midnight, who was laying on the floor, but then sat up.

"Ok boy, I need you to stay here and guard the....uh.....post....pole thing" Caylin said, seeing his fluppy put on an all but excited face.

*

Sean moved in first, followed by Caylin and Leia, with Randall trailing on the side of the wall. The hall was the same as the other, white. Up ahead was a four-way inner section. Sean stopped in the middle looking around. To the left was a dead end, but a door on one of its walls. The same with the right. Ahead was a double door. Sean signaled everyone to follow.

"Something's not right.......its if like the place is deserted....." Sean said, clutching the rifle. "Maybe they weren't expecting us" Leia thought with a shrug.

"You would think a place like this would have an alarm system...." Randall said with a sigh, wanting something to happen.

"I'm just hoping they have a computer...." Sean replied, "Lets try one of these side halls...".

They all followed down the right hall, stopping at the door. It was steel and had a handle on its side, meaning it was a sliding one.

Sean stepped back, holding the rifle up. Randall came over, getting down low and gripping the handle with his top hands as Leia and Caylin took a step back. Quickly, Randall pulled it back and the door slid open. At first, nothing happened. Sean slowly stepped in, moving the rifle to the side. So far as he could see, the room was empty.

"......Clear..." He said, making everyone come in. "Well that was easy....." Caylin said.

The room looked like a small office. A computer on a long steel desk bolted into the floor. A small trash bin beside it. A couple filing cabinets near the back, left open. A couple racks of CD's to the left that seemed like records from some operation. Sean moved over to take a look at the computer. A halve drunken cup of coffee on the mouse pad. A few mints in a candy dish to the side, and a piece of paper taped to the computer labeled "Gone Home, back whenever". Sean smiled at that and took it off, sitting down on the seat.

"Well, maybe we can find what we need out of this...." Sean said, turning the computer on. Leia was buys looking at the open filing cabinets, finding something of interest. Caylin was busy "testing" the different assortment of mints in the dish as Randall studied the wall of CD's.

"(.....Something's not right about this place.....)" He thought. He looked closely at the disks. Seems they were day to day records of something. Whatever it was, it was worked and watched on constantly. "(........Maybe its just my sick stomach....)" Randall pondered, rubbing his stomach a bit.

"Hmm....good...at least this hacker system for the computer is working..." Sean said, tapping a small key pad on a pocket sized laptop. "Ok lets see...." He said, clicking a couple programs. He came to one titled "Specimen Retrieval". He clicked it and up appeared some names:

SPECIMEN RETRIEVAL

MONSTER RELATED SUBJECTS ARE TO BE DELIVERED TO THE BOSS AS SOON AS SPECIMEN IS IDENTIFIED:

MONSTERS KNOWN:

1.BIG FOOT (Successful)

2.ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (Successful)

3.LOCH NESS (Successful)

4. CLASSIFIED (Unsuccessful)

HUMAN RETRIEVAL:

1. CLASSIFIED (Successful)

2. CLASSIFIED (Successful)

3. CLASSIFIED (Unsuccessful)

"Hmm...guys...." Sean said, signaling everyone to look. Randall was the first to read the text quickly. "!! What's going on here?!" Randall demanded. "Someone is snatching up these monsters!" Sean began, "See! They've already got Loch Ness, Big Foot, the Snow Man.....".

"But how?" Leia asked. "That I don't know.....let me see here......." Sean said, noticing there wasn't a link to the "classified monster". "Lets take a look at their latest Human capture....." Sean added, clicking on the second "human retrieval".

A picture of Joy appeared on the screen. A few simple pieces of data on the side. "......Captured the same day as the date on the letter..." Randall noticed, worry in him. "So she is here..." Leia said, looking at Randall's disturbed look.

"Lets see here......Level 5 Containment Room...." Sean said, scrolling down to the bottom. "Good....lets go" Randall said, urgent to get underway.

"Randall...." Leia said, grabbing his top left arm. "We need to be careful.......whoever is doing this...we can't end up like them...." Leia said, pointing to the screen.

".......We'll just have to get them out too" Randall said, his braveness showing. "Guess we're gonna have to find'em...." Sean said, hearing Randall.

He exited Joy's bio and checked one of the other's. "Unsuccessful?" Sean questioned, quietly, looking at the 4th monster, and 3rd human. He quickly brang up the third one, making sure none were looking.

"!....How?" He asked quietly, finding a picture of himself, along with other data. After a quick look, he exited it.

"Well....what about that last monster? Who are they after next?" Leia asked, seeing Randall would wait for the rest of them.

"The classified one?....Hold on" He clicked it.

(TSSTTTTT!)

In a flash, the screen shut off, and the modem to the side switched off.

"Shoot!" Sean shouted, getting up. "What's going on?" Leia asked. "I think they finally got the welcome mat finished" Sean answered.

"Where? I don't see one....." Caylin said, smiling coming across him.

"Oh Cay" Randall said, seeming to be getting annoyed. "Well.....found out or not....lets get to Level 5" Sean said, getting to the door.

"Those monsters too" Randall added. Sean chuckled a bit, "But of course....".

They continued outside.

*

They waited at the double doors.

(munch, munch)

"Caylin! Would stop eating those mints!?" Randall whispered from the side of the wall. "What? I can't help it" Caylin responded.

"I know this may not be a good idea......but lets split up....." Sean said, looking through the crack in the double doors.

"I'll take Caylin while you and Leia go Randall" Sean said, a slight smirk on his face, as seeing Randall knew what he was thinking.

"Ok then....I'll take left, you two take right...." Sean said as they all headed in.

*

"So.....you scared about this place Leia" Randall whispered as they headed down the hallway, seeming as if no one was around. "No...you Randall?" Leia asked. "No....just uncomfortable" Randall replied. "No one would imagine a scarer to be scared" Leia said with a small laugh. "Hey....I'm never scared of anything!" Randall replied. "...Randall...." Leia said, a little slyly. ".....Ok....a few times in the human world....hardly in ours..." Randall replied, crossing his arms. "See.....I know even a tough guy like you isn't always rough" Leia said with a smile. "....Yeah I guess....but don't let it fool you, I can take on anyone" Randall said, stating. "I'm sure you can" Leia replied, seeing Randall smile.

*

"Well I guess you could say I will own one one day" Caylin said, careless not to whisper. "Honestly Cay.....having you own comedian act and national hair style?" Sean replied, placing on a pair of glasses he had in a pouch on his side. "It could happen...." Caylin replied. ".....Cay....honestly, your percent of your dreams coming true is about the same percent as how many books Mr. Ed has red" Sean replied. ".....Uh....60?" Caylin replied. "The horse...." Sean replied. "Oh......73?". "Uh...your hopeless...." Sean replied.

*

"Uh Randall....Just asking...." Leia started. "Yeah?". "Well...why were you a little shaky when we were in that room?" Leia said. "Oh...that....well" Randall said, looking back, then to the front.

"Well...you see...I've had my share of time spent in a lab" Randall said. ".....It wasn't with your brother Randolph was it?" Leia said, knowing she was right. "No....It was in this world..." Randall replied. "....If you could imagine...." He added. "Randall you don't have to tell me" Leia said. "Yeah.....I suppose now's not the perfect time anyhow" Randall added. "If you want to, we'll talk about it when we get home" Leia said. "....I love that word..." Randall whispered.

*

"12?....11?...10?....9?...8?" Caylin said, still doing numbers. "Cay, you still trying to answer that question or doing a countdown?" Sean said, seeming a little frustrated. "Well?....uh 7,6,5,4,3,2,1?" Caylin said. "Err...its zero! Zero!" Sean finally answered. "Oh...so that's what it is" Caylin said. Seeming to calm down, Sean placed a smile on his face. "?....Hey! My hair and act will come....uh....sometime" Caylin said. "......Sure Cay....hmm?" Sean said, stopping as Cay stopped a little behind him. "Shh" Sean whispered. Caylin stopped, looking to the back for a second as Sean slowly moved forward, nearing a corner.

"(I know that was a voice)" Sean thought. He edged toward the corner, catching Caylin getting himself as close to the wall as he could, slowly moving the opposite direction. Sean shook his head with a small smile, but started moving toward the corner, raising his gun. He turned the corner and pulled his gun up. He had expected to see something, but nothing was there. It was just another hall that lead to a door on the left side. "(Something's not right.....huh?)" Sean thought. He could then see that there was another hall to the right, very close to the corner he just turned. Slowly, he peeked around the corner, expecting to see what he knew was there. Kneeling down to fix his shoe was a man dressed in a black attire. In his left hand was a pistol. "(Bingo.....a scout)" Sean said, but then noticed the alarm button near him. "(Gotta be quiet)" Sean said, raising his gun. "(One.....two....t...)" Sean began.

"Hey Sean is anyone even here!?" came Caylin's voice right beside Sean, bumping him a bit. "Caylin!"

(PHEE!)

The bullet hit the wall beside the man and it hit the ground, alarming him. "What's that!?" He said, seeing Sean, and Caylin right behind him. "! A monster!" He yelled as Sean pushed Caylin back. The man then pressed the alarm system, before he could make another action, Sean shot three bullets into his back, one in the neck.

"AHH!" the man yelled, falling to the floor. Sean waited a moment, seeing the red flashing lights coming on in the hallway they were in, silent alarm. Caylin got up and went back over to him. "Uh...you...killed him?" Caylin said, a little stuttered. "No....he's just knocked out......anyone could pull the bullet out without surgery. "Well....guess we startled him didn't we?" Caylin said. "No! You startled him" Sean replied. "If I just had one bullet...." Sean whispered, making Cay switch back to his stuttered face.

*

At the time, Randall and Leia also noticed the flashing lights above the hall they were in. "What's going on!?" Leia asked, startled when they first came on. "An alarm" Randall replied. "Meaning?" Leia asked. "Meaning Sean's found something or Caylin's done something stupid....come on!" Randall said, heading back with Leia.

*

Bullets flew past in the hall Sean and Caylin were in. They both were in the alarm hall, about 5 men were near the door in the hall they didn't check. Sean was near the corner, but the bullets kept chipping off the corner.

"Caylin! Remind me not to go with ya" Sean said over the roaring shots. "Hey I can make a mistake can't I!?" Caylin said equally. "Normal mistake!? Sure......Mistake in our life's!? No!" Sean yelled. A bullet zipped by, chipping off a piece of plaster from the wall.

"Err, just get low!" Sean shouted as Caylin got himself up against the wall. Taking a second in, Sean peaked around the corner, holding up the rifle. Not worrying, he pulled the trigger. Three bullets slammed into the chest of one of the men, he next shot two into one of the others, and five into another before turning back to the corner.

"What I would give for a really big gun..." Sean said, peeking over the corner with the gun.

*

Randall and Leia were trying to remember which halls they went through from where they split up. "Randall are you sure we aren't lost?" Leia asked, trying to speak over the sirens. "No I'm not lost its just that....ehh...ok fine...we are" Randall said, stopping. "...Just...give me a minute..." Randall added, looking to see they were in a three way intersection. "Ok....think....think....this way!" Randall said, pointing to the left passage. Randall went ahead first, Leia following. "Be ready for anything! Ok Leia?" Randall said, looking behind at her. "Ok" she replied. Randall turned back, but stopped, with Leia stopping at his tail. "What is it?" Leia asked.

She looked ahead to see a man come walking down the hall, a rifle in his hands. Leia slowly back up, Randall as well. They made it back to the intersection plate when...

"Randall!" Leia said, pointing to the left hall they came from. He looked over to see another man. Randall looked behind Leia, seeing a hallway they didn't look through, to see the middle of the hallway close off with a metal door.

"What do we do Randall?!" Leia said. "I can't blend and.....ehh...Leia....back up to the door...." Randall said. Slowly, Randall and Leia backed themselves up to the closed off hallway, stopping at the metal door blocking it off.

*

Sean had already taken out the group of soldiers. He and Caylin were now in the room where the door led to. It looked like an office almost, with its many desks. Sean and Caylin were ducked below the overhead windows lining the wall that had the door.

"........I don't think they're any more..." Sean said, hearing nothing. "....Well...that's that...." Caylin said, dusting his hands with Sean giving him a smug look. They both stood up. Sean moved over to the desks and looked through them all as Caylin looked out the windows.

The room's desks looked like the one's in the computer room they were in. Sean moved over to one of the computers and turned one of them on. Nothing happened. "(Guess all the computers are out....here)" Sean thought. He then looked at the disk sets. The shelf that had disk case pockets in it was completely packed with cases. Sean observed them to see various, yet confusing, labels. One's such as "Night Vision Amplifier", "Temporary Nanobot", "Metal Injection", "Ravage Program" and "Transplant Procedure".

"(What do they do here?)" Sean pondered. He noticed that one of the pockets were empty. He looked around and went into one of the desk area's. He could see a disk case near the keyboard. He picked it up and looked at the disk's title. "Monster Robotic Procedure".

"What?" Sean said, looking over at Caylin, who still had his back turned. Sean placed the case in a zip able pocket on the side of his pants.

*

Randall and Leia were starring at the two humans that had blocked their way out. The two were caught between them, and the metal door behind their tails. "Request contamination crew" one said, speaking into a radio on his shoulder.

"Leia.." Randall began, speaking at the side of his mouth. "Yeah..." Leia said, worried. "When I count to three...I want you to jump behind them..." Randall said, whispering. ".....Ok...what about you?" Leia asked. "Don't worry....one...........two.........three!" He yelled.

In a slick motion, Randall jumped, flipping to the left and his tail hit the two humans in the face. In response, the first one that got hit, flipping his leg to the right, hitting Randall's front pair of legs and stomach, knocking him back a bit into the metal door. The two got up, quickly trailing their guns on Randall.

"Don't move!" one yelled. "Oh...don't worry...I won't.." Randall said.

(Click)

Randall started a smirk on his face. The two humans turned to see Leia, and handgun in her hand. "Excuse me boys....but I don't like people pointing guns at a friend of mine" she said. "Sneaky little...." one began as they both dropped their guns. "Something to remember me by...." Leia began, hitting the right human in the side of the head with the gun, knocking him to the floor unconscious. The other one was about to reach for his gun until Randall flipped it away with his tail and then, in the spin he did, slam his right fists into the human's face, knocking him down beside the other one.

"....Hmph...guess I owe you one..." Randall said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Oh Randall....just stay alive ok?" Leia said, dropping the gun. "Sure" He said. "Come on tough guy...I'll lead" Leia said, walking off. "Hey!" Randall said, following.

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Action, Adventure, Comdey, all sorts of stuff I place into this ^_^. Shows ya how slick Randall can actually be with someone at his side. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, the next one will be up as soon as I start writing it. Enjoy!