Fortieth entry!
SunSera: Thank you, and keep in mind what Klondyke is involved in the present. You could say he's much worse now than before.
"Yep... that's how we lost them. It was only us three that got out alive by some miracle, but that came with a cost of us losing everything we had. We had no home, only a little money left and the feeling of revenge burning in us all. For two months me and Leo worked hard to find that bastard that betrayed us. Klon was slippery but we managed to find him surprisingly in Station Square, at a skyscraper penthouse that he was booked by the people he was working with, so we decided to kill him then before he'd disappear for good."
August 14th, 2010, Sky-High Hotel, West Station Square
"You ready for this?" I asked, sharpening my knife.
"I was born ready." Leo replied, loading up a high power pistol.
"Without a doubt, gentlemen. Let's head out." Liz said and we got out of the car. I put my knife into a sheath on my chest and got ready a gun. Here we didn't care about specificallly sticking to our blades, we were going to be efficient as possible.
We all charged into the front door of the hotel, however there were no enemies and we all stopped, embarrassed. People just gave us weird looks.
"Ahem." I cleared my throat. "Where's the stairs?" I asked. One of the tellers pointed to the left, where an emergency staircase was. I thanked her and we made way for the stairs.
Once there, we jumped up the flights of stairs to the top level of thr building where the penthouse was, which felt like it took half an hour. Thankfully our jumping abilities made it much quicker.
We were nearing the top, and I quietly told everyone to stop and to be quiet. We could hear someone whilstling, and that someone was obviously a guard. We quietly went up the stairs and to the end where a steel door was.
I quickly jumped up to the human and got out my knife. Before he could scream I slit his throat. I set the body down quietly as the others came up behind me.
Leo tried the door, but it was locked. We noticed a weird device next to the door. Biometric security. Liz took the guard's hand and scanned it in the scanner, and the door unlocked.
"Easy. Let's go." We entered, weapons drawn. I peeked through the door only to see a short hallway with nice paintings on the walls and a fancy carpet. Carefully, we trekked down the hall quietly to the first corner. I went around it without thinking and ran smack into several suited guards.
"Enemy!" One of them shouted with a thick Shamarian accent. Great, so we're fighting foreign bodyguards probably armed with military-grade gear. I thought
One aimed a gun at me, and I jumped up before they fired. I kicked them square in the face, knocking them about ten meters away. I got out my gun and shot the other two.
"Go loud!" I shouted, landing on the floor. More guards came at us. I cracked my neck and we got to fighting, and with all our skilled combined, we were easily able to clear out the guards.
We ran upstairs, shooting or stabbing anyone who got in our way. The guards were fearless but quite stupid. We looked through the rooms for Klondyke. I hoped that he hadn't left yet.
We had no luck, until I looked out the front window towards the pool, and that's when I saw him. The brute of a jackal I called my worst enemy. Our worst enemy.
"Klondyke! I'm coming for you!" I snarled and smashed through the window with bloodlust in my eyes. He was being rushed to the helipad, where I helicopter was waiting for him.
I threw my knife at him, but missed. I shot the guards trying to protect him instead. Klondyke noticed me coming, and threw a chair at me, which I easily dodged.
He made it to the chopper and got inside before I could kill him. I fired the last few rounds of my gun at it, and then threw the gun angrily.
"Damn, he's getting away!" I heard Leo shout.
"Not on my watch he isn't." I grumbled and jumped off the building and over the street, making it to the next roof. I landed with a running start and kept my eye on the heli which was just out of my reach.
I noticed a ledge just up ahead that was pointed upwards. Perfect. Here's my opportunity.
I ran up the small ledge and performed a powerful jump right at the aircraft. I got out my knife and by all odds, I had managed to build just enough speed and air to make it to Klondyke's chopper. I stabbed my knife right into the side of it and held on.
I threw my attention to the engine. I climbed my way to the top being very careful of the rotors rotation just above my head, and plunged my knife into the panel for the engine, tearing it open. I then stabbed my knife into the engine directly, which resulted in a fire starting in the engine bay.
I didn't jump off just yet, and instead climbed towards the cockpit. I looked through the back passenger windows, right at my worst enemy. I gave him a salute as a final "Fuck you." and jumped off the heli.
I misjudged the jump slightly, and I nearly missed the nearest rooftop, only holding onto the ledge with my hands, but my friends were quick to help me up.
We all watched as the chopper spun out of control with flames burning out of the engine. It hit the side of a building before finally making way to the street, and exploded once it hit the ground.
All of us immediately dropped what we were doing and cheered. We all did a big hug together.
"And that's how you avenge your fallen ones." I said cheerfully.
"Damn right. Let's get out of here." Liz said and we agreed.
We walked down to the ground floor of the building we were on, all laid back and feeling good now that Klondyke was dead. We thought he could betray us and get away with it, but oh man was that sore loser wrong.
Once on the street, we all stared at the burning wreckage of the chopper. I looked down and noticed a piece of a jackal's ear on the ground. It obviously belonged to Klondyke and gave me further pride and satisfaction from his death.
"So, what now?" I asked.
"It's time you became leader." Leo told me, giving me a smile.
"Me? Leader?" I asked, pointing at myself and raising an eye ridge. He nodded.
"You were probably the most loyal to Matilda, survived this idiot's attack and not to mention put him six feet in the ground." He stated, putting a hand on my shoulder. "You'd be a great leader."
"Oh, thanks. What do you think?" I asked Liz. She shrugged.
"To he honest guys, I don't care all that much. Because of everything that's happened these past few months, I think I'm gonna leave for my own safety. I want to start living the life I want to live, if that's okay." She explained to us both. I frowned.
"You're really leaving?" I asked.
"Yeah. It's been fun, guys and I wish you luck on rebuilding the squad in the future. I might drop by every now and then, though." I looked down, but I accepted her decision.
"Alright. Best of luck, Liz." I waved goodbye, and she waved back before walking down the street and going her own ways.
"We have a lot of work to do." Leo told me, looking back at the wreckage. I nodded.
"Yeah... Let's get out of here."
Present day
"I couldn't believe how naive I was all these years thinking he was dead. I never got solid proof, or even saw the body for myself. Only that piece of ear and what-have-you-know he fucking survived. How does someone survive a chopper explosion like that?" I asked to no one in particular.
"Dang... and to make things worse he's working with a corrupt foreign government years later." Gadget said, stroking his chin. I wiped a tear from my eye.
"Apparently." I got up and confronted Gadget. I put both my hands on his shoulders and stared into his yellow eyes behind those glasses. "Gadget, we're not leaving this country until that bastard his dead. He made the mistake to show his face around me again, and this time I'm not letting him get away with what he did to me back then, or whatever the Hell he does that. Promise me you're gonna stick by my side while we do this." I said, and he gave me an innocent nod back.
"Of course." He replied, and with that I pulled him into a hug. We stood there for a moment before letting go.
"Thank you." We had a moment there, but it was broken up by the sounds of footsteps coming towards the cells. We looked to see who it was. It was that scientist from earlier with a couple of guards at their sides.
"Come on, gentlemen. Let's go." The guards opened up the cell and began manhandling us, handcuffing us both. Without a word we reluctantly followed the doctor through the halls, and into an elevator to the basement. We waited for the doors to open up.
"Where are we-" Gadget was cut off mid sentence as I witnessed him be smacked into the head with a baton.
"Shut it!" The guard barked. The elevator doors opened up and we went through another hall into a big room. We were taken to a large door that raised open another large room of concrete walls and another large door on the other side with a window up top on the right in the wall. I knew exactly where we were.
We were inside a test chamber.
Apon that realization, I also realized that my earlier predictions were correct. We were going to die after all. Most likely very slowly and in agony.
They released the handcuffs on our wrists and pushed us inside. The door then closed and we were trapped inside.
"Are we ready to commence NECORAVUS specimen testing?" A voice was heard on the loudspeaker. It was that blue fox scientist. I could see her through the window above.
"Everything's primed and ready." I heard my number-one enemy reply. "Infinite, it was nice knowing you and seeing your pathetic attempts in the time I've known you. It was only a matter of time until you die from your mistakes." He laughed.
"Once I get out of here, you'll beg for me to kill you!" I threatened.
"We'll see about that, won't we?" I heard him chuckle to himself. Our attention was cast over to the other door opposite of the one we came through. When it opened, looks of horror struck both of us.
The door revealed not a regular animal, but some sort of large creature that resembled a mutated feral furless gorilla or something... I couldn't even describe it properly. The face had no eyes, just a large mouth with razor sharp teeth. It stood on all fours and it also sported very sharp and noticeable claws that were covered in blood.
The creature let out a screech, and ran right towards us both. Out of fear, we jumped and dodged opposite ways. I saw Gadget do a homing attack on it, but to my surprise it wasn't very effective.
I didn't want to risk dying to this thing, so I sorted out my options as Gadget captured its attention. My eyes wandered over to the window and an idea popped into my head.
I ran up to the creature and kicked it. It reared its ugly face at me and I jumped up to the window. I latched on and motioned for it to come. It snarled.
"Doc, we need to get out out of here, it's gonna crash through that window!" I heard a guard yell.
"We need to get out of the building. Get soldiers ready!" Klondyke said worriedly. I smirked at his cowardice.
The creature finally jumped impressively at me. I jumped out of the way and just like I expected, it crashed through the lab window and screams were heard.
"Gadget, let's go!" I shouted. We jumped into the observation room and made a beeline for the door while the creature was busy on starting to feast on the lead scientist that brought us to the room. We ran out into the hallway and made our escape.
Those CBRN soldiers we saw earlier came around a corner and shot at us. We dodged the bullets by mere inches and took down the guards quickly. We followed the halls from our memory and charged out the door before anyone else came. We were back out onto the airfield.
"Let's take a helicopter and get out while we can!" Gadget suggested.
"Let's do that." I replied and we ran very quickly across to the helipads, where one chopper was parked. We were quick to get inside. I watched Gadget frantically press buttons to start the engines as we were beginning to be shot at.
Thankfully, we took off in the nick of time and headed off into the snowy abyss.
The first actual look at what NECORAVUS is! Tell me what you guys think in your reviews.