Chapter 11 is here. Enjoy!

Spartan vs Elite

The reds were going over their next plan inside the red base. Max, who was still possessing the elite's body, was giving out the orders.

"Since the main problem every time has been because of Kevin carrying the flag," said Max. "I think Jake should grab it this time."

Jake just stared at him. "WHAT! I'm not carrying that thing!"

"Well, do you want to get out of this place or not?"

"I do but that flag is dangerous! Therefore, I think Kevin should be our official flag barer of this squad!"

"Why me?" asked Kevin.

"Were you not just listening?"

"No! It's me, remember?"

"Oh yea! You never listen. Anyway, I don't know if you noticed, but……..hm….how should I put this in the nicest way possible………hmmm……nobody likes you…very well………..at all!"

"Yea, I know! But what does that have to do with me carrying the flag every time?"

"Because whoever is carrying the flag has the most dangerous and life-threatening run back here."

Kevin thought a minute and then understood. "ooooooOOOOOOOOOHHHHHhhhh!"

"Wow! Kevin learned something!" mumbled Jake as he turned back to Max. "Another thing, I don't think it really matters on who's carrying the flag, I think it depends on how good the whole team is!"

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Max.

"I just can't believe we failed this task twice already! We must suck at this."

"Either that or you just don't want to carry the flag!"

"…….Well……………that's part of it."

"Yea, I'm sure it is! Then what's the other part?"

"One of the other parts is……yea, I don't want to carry it. But the second other part of it is if I were to choose who would die out of the both of us, it would be Kevin!"

"Too bad! Your carrying the flag!" commanded Max.

"Don't worry Jake" said Kevin, trying to comfort Jake. "It's fun to carry the flag!"

"Yea, to you!" said Jake turning to Kevin. "You still think that this is a game."

"No I don't!"

"WHAT?"

"I mean…….Yea…I……no I don't!"

"Yea sure!" said Jake as he turned back to Max.

"Another thing, I thought you went along with everything Jake!" said Max.

"I used to!" said Jake. "But since you died, I kinda stopped."

"Anyway, back to my plan, I think you should at least try carrying the flag just this once. If you don't like it, try, try again. and if that doesn't work, then you just waisted a lot of time trying to do something that you just couldn't do and you failed miserably……then I suppose Kevin can go back to carrying the flag again!"

Jake sighed. "Fine. I'll try it once. ONCE!"

"Good! Kevin will cover you!"

"WHAT! Why don't you just kill me now and get it over with! Plus, PLEASE tell me that your coming too!"

"Why would I?"

"It would be helping the team and I don't know about you but I don't think Kevin is very accurate with the sniper rifle!"

"Who says he's using it?"

"He's not?"

"COURSE NOT! Would you ever trust him with it? He's kill us all!"

"Good point! But I think you should come along too!"

Max sighs. "Alright! But only because it's your birthday!"

Jake starred at him for a moment! "It's not my birthday! You never remembered my birthday anyway!"

"No I don't! Well it's just to make you happy then! Are you happy?"

"…(sniff)…..a little!"

"GOOD! Now let's MOVE OUT!"

They both turned to see that Kevin, for the very first time, was still there. He sniffed once.

"I was standing here the whole time when you were talking about ME! WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAA-AAAAAAAAAA!"

Max and Jake starred at him as he cried. "………..So…..you ready?" asked Max.

Kevin looked at both of them. "Yea, let's go!" he said, not crying. In fact, it sounded as though he never did cry.

All three of them ran out of the base with Max leading and still in the elite body.

"Wait!" said Jake, everyone stopped. "Won't the elites notice you in that body? I mean, your wearing red armor now. Why don't we slip you in your blue armor and you can sneak in and cover for us?"

Max looked back at him. "As I told you before, stop making sense! The way I see it, the other elites will see me, their friend, as a traitor!"

"So….they'll kill you and your cover will be blown?"

"What did I just say about making sense?"

Jake sighed. "sorry sir!"

"No seriously, I forgot!"

Jake took his chance. "You said make as much sense as possible!"

"Oh, ok." Said Max as he turned and continued running with the other two. They ran to the left and hid in the area of rocks and hid behind a rock.

"Ok! So do we all remember the plan?" asked Max.

"I unfortunately do!" said Jake.

Max turned to him. "What's that attitude supposed to mean?"

"NOTHING!"

"Where's Kevin?"

"Over there by the teleporter!"

Kevin was looking down to see Bill's body still there. "HEY GUYS!" he called to them. "Not that I care or anything, but we should ship Bill's body out of here!"

"WHY?" asked Max.

"I DON'T KNOW! IN FACT NEVER MIND! WE CAN DO IT LATER!"

Kevin ran back to Max and Jake. "In fact, his body blocks the teleporter quite nicely."

"You see? It works out! NOW, we all ready?"

"Ready!" said Jake and Kevin.

"CHARGE!"

Max ran out into the open and fired his carbine to the top of the base. The elites noticed, screamed their elite scream, and ducked for cover. They spoke to each other in their language.

"(Where did that come from?)" asked one elite.

One of the elites peeked out to see a red elite firing at their base. Max fired and killed another elite. The elite that had peeked out hid again.

"(I think that's the guy who went to kill that cowardly sniper! He has betrayed us!)"

"(He has a name you know! You never remember anyone's names!)"

"(Nobody does! Let's just kill that friggin traitor!)"

All of the elites rolled out of their hiding spot and fired their plasma rifles and carbines once more. Max kept firing his carbine and killed an elite. Plasma bullets fired at him but even the elite armor could take it but not as much as the Spartan. Max noticed his armor was going down faster than his old one so he hid behind the rock on the opposite side from where Jake and Kevin were waiting. Max gave them the signal as he reloaded.

"THAT'S IT KEVIN!" screamed Jake. "LET'S GO!"

"Right!" said Kevin.

Since they were running closer and closer, Jake pulled out his pistol and fired at the crowed of elites killing one. Max finished reloading and ran out. Guns blazed back and forth between the two sides. Kevin fired his battle rifle, Jake his pistol, and Max fired his carbine from the very back.

"WER'RE GOING IN!" said Jake over the radio.

"I GOTCHA COVERED!" said Max back to him.

Jake and Kevin ran in the front entrance. An elite ran inside too. They ran into the elite in the big room where the flag was. The elite reached inside his armor and took out a small handle. He swung it once and it turned into a sword.

"OH CRAP!" yelled Jake. "KEVIN, COVER ME!"

"GOT IT!" answered Kevin.

Jake ran back behind the wall and the elite chase him. Kevin fired at his back but this elite had slightly tougher armor. Jake grabbed the flag and usual alarm and voice went off. Jake jumped down the hole and ran outside. The elite ran down after him and Kevin followed. Jake ran as fast as he could and he ran past Max who was out of ammo now and hiding behind a rock, not noticing Jake run by with the elite right behind them!

"HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!" screamed Jake.

"HOLD ON!" shouted Kevin firing his rifle.

The elite, however was slightly faster and caught up to Jake in the middle of the canyon and swung his sword at him. Jake fell to the ground unconscious and dropped the flag. The elite laughed as he walked over to where Jake was laying to kill him.

"(he he he! Say good night, Spartan!)"

The elite picked up his sword, held it high in the air, and was about to swing down on Jake when he suddenly lost his balance and fell. Kevin had jumped on him out of nowhere. He jumped on the elite and hit is head with id rifle. The elite swung his sword over and knocked Kevin over. The elite got up and ran to Kevin and swung his sword again. Kevin quickly rolled over and threw a rock at the elite, hitting his chest. The elite took out a plasma rifle and fired it at Kevin. Kevin responded by taking out his battle rifle and firing at the elite's hand, braking his plasma rifle.

The elite shook his hand and jumped high into the air over Kevin who was still firing his battle rifle. The elite came down and kicked Kevin's head in mid air. Kevin fell over and dropped his battle rifle. He rolled over onto his stomach and pushed himself back on his feet only to see the elite pick up his battle rifle, toss it, and slashed his sword, breaking Kevin's rifle in half.

Kevin and the elite started circling around each other waiting for the other one to strike first. Kevin ran forward and punched the elite in the face. The elite swung his sword up and cut Kevin's arm. Kevin backed off and felt for his arm. The elite ran forward but Kevin jumped aside. His armor recharged as he ran back toward the elite. The elite swung his sword down but Kevin grabbed his wrist and pushed the sword back to the elite as hard as he could. They both pushed the sword back to the other one for a little bit. Kevin lost his balance and fell. The elite tried to take his chance and put all his might down at Kevin but he still resisted as the sword came toward him closer and closer.

Just then, Kevin jerked his foot up, kicking the elite in the groin. The elite bent forward in pain. Kevin got up panting as he ran behind the elite and kicked him over. The elite laid there as Kevin pulled on the sword but the elite wasn't going to let go easily. Kevin punched the elite in the face which caused him to let go. Kevin steeped on the elite's chess, picked up the sword, and stuck it right through his chess, where the heart was. Kevin left the sword in the elite's corpse as he kicked him over.

"He-he-he, noob!" Kevin said with pride.

Max finally ran over to Kevin.

"Did I miss anything?" said Max panting.

Kevin thought a minute. "No! Not much!" he said sarcastically. "Spite the fact that I just almost died fighting an elite!"

"…….Good for you! Now, where's Jake?"

Kevin turned toward Jake, who was still knocked out. "Over there!"

"Well, let's get him inside and call in a medic." said Max.

"You mean you didn't see me fight that elite?"

"What elite?"

Kevin sighed. "The one that I just killed with no weapons! The one that lays dead over there!" He pointed to the elite's corpse. Max looked at the corpse and then back at Kevin.

"Nope! Didn't see it!"

"FRICK!"

"Calm down! I believe you! Good job!"

"Ok, good!"

"Now, let's take Jake inside!"

Jake's view was pitch black. He moaned as he woke up to see bright lights above. He heard someone talking to Max saying that he was awake and would be ok. He then heard Max say thank you to the voice and then he heard Max complain about the bill. Then he heard a ship take off which woke him up completely. He sat up.

"WAIT!" Jake screamed. "I'M COMING TOO! DON'T LEAVE MMMEEEEEEEE!"

"The ship's already gone Jake." said Kevin. Jake looked at Kevin to see a bandage wrapped around his arm, where the cut from earlier was.

Jake looked away from Kevin and crossed his arms. "Crap!"

Max walked into the room. "You look better!"

"I'm fine, but where's the flag?"

Kevin and Max looked at each other, then at Jake, then back at each other, then back at Jake.

"What flag?" asked Kevin.

"DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU LOST THE FLAG AGAIN!"

"Calm down Jake!" Max said. "Kevin here apparently saved your life. He even got a cut while doing it. He sacrificed the flag for your li……"

"YEA yea yea!" interrupted Jake. "But if Kevin was busy, then why didn't YOU grab it?"

"I was trying to stick to the plan!"

"HUH?"

"As in, you were supposed to carry the flag, not me!"

Jake covered his eyes with his hands in disbelief. "HOLY CRAP!"

"I have a feeling we will get it soon."

"Here he goes again!" said Kevin

"NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Shut up for a second Jake!" said Max. "I think it's only fair that from now on, whoever is in the base first should grab the flag. I'm sure that it could work that way!"

"Well, your plans used to be good! Maybe you'll get a break through soon……soon."

Jake got up and out of bed. "As long as I stick with my sniper rifle!"

"Oh yea! I sold that in order to pay for your medical bill!"

Jake turned to Max. "WHAT!"

"But, I bought you this one!" said Max as he pulled out a brand new sniper rifle.

"Ssssoooooo, what is the point of this one? It looks completely identical."

"It is the same brand! I just felt guilty and sold Kevin stuffed bear collection in order to pay for it!"

"Oh, your forgiven then!"

Kevin turned to Max with a slight upset sounding voice. "What!"

Max turned to Kevin. "NOTHING!"

WOO! That was probably one of the longest chapters of the whole story. So what will happen next? Will they ever get the flag? Will you keep reading? Will I ever stop asking questions?...NEVER! Keep on reading in order to find out and KEEP on sending in those reviews and the story will continue on. There isn't much more to go so I will continue if I get at least 10 reviews.