Chapter 2
"Jake…man, wake up." Jake, a medium sized sophomore with brown hair and brown eyes, looked at his friend whom was calling him. His friend was Zak, a short dirty-blonde, blue-eyed boy who usually wore a soccer jersey or his New York Giants jersey. He currently had his Giants jersey on. He was a great soccer player, just behind Jake; who was captain of the team. Zak beat Jake in academics, though. "What? I was having a good sleep man." Zak pointed to the front of the room where Jake's other friend; Kyle was going. Kyle had extremely blonde hair and was tall; he was a quiet kid and disliked Zak with a passion, due to jealousy. He was best friends with Jake and was currently presenting his AP World History project.
"What in God's name is Kyle doing?" Jake asked confused, Zak lifted his project (on Peter the Great) to Jake's eye level; Jake's mouth fell; "Oh crap; that was due today?" he whispered in a panic, Zak nodded. Jake began panicking; realizing that his project wasn't finished, let alone with him.
"Alright, thanks Kyle." Mr. Ellsberg, the teacher said, the class clapped; except Jake, whom was still panicking and quickly began scribbling on a piece of paper he found deep in the crevasse in his back-pack . "What the hell are you doing?" Zak whispered to Jake, who wasn't listening; just writing.
Kyle just sat down next to Jake, "Good luck toping that genius." He said smugly to Zak, who was up next. He stood up and placed his poster board up and began to speak about facts on Peter the Great. "Peter the Great accomplished much during his reign in the 17th century; he made the Russian Empire more like Western Europe in style and way of life from dress garment to forcing people to shave or pay a beard tax if they didn't want to. He also wanted to gain a warm-water port on the Black Sea to the south and establish the nation's first army. He never acquired the Black Sea, but did gain access to the Baltic after Russia defeated Sweden in "The Great Northern War". "
Zak continued like this; pointing at pictures on his poster board for about 5 minutes; he wasn't the best speaker since he had a bit of "stage fright", but he got the point across and most likely pulled off another 'A'. "Thank you Zak; very well done." Everyone clapped, minus the still writing Jake and the pissed off, jealous Kyle. Zak sat down, turned to Kyle and very subtly gave him the bird under the desk and mouthed "how you like me now b-tch".
"Alright, Jake your turn." Mr. Ellsberg said, Jake gulped and walked up to the front of the class and held out his paper. Everyone, minus Zak, started to laugh hysterically at the fact that he actually thought get away with it.
"Jake, you didn't do it did you?" Jake laughed nervously; "Of course I did. Hehe." The teacher shook his head; "Another failure Jake, you go sit down. I am very disappointed." He walked back to his seat, with the sound of snickering. Kyle was even laughing, Zak shot him a glare and he, in return, stuck out his tongue and Zak simply shot him a look.
The bell rang, signaling the end of the day. Kyle got up and turned on his phone; "Huh, mom called me." He re-dialed and listened for his mom. "Hey mom, why did you…" he stopped, dropped the phone and sat down in shock. "What's up dude?" Jake asked, Kyle looked up at his friend; "My dad's base in New Mexico was attacked yesterday…they have no known survivors." He put his head in his arms and just sat there.
Zak and Jake tried to comfort him, but he just kept saying; "Just leave me alone." They both sighed and left; thinking it was best to leave him be. They walked down the hall, both hoping that his dad wasn't dead. Zak went to his locker and pulled out his books; "You going to the football game versus Danbury High? It's the big rivalry." Zak asked, which was true since Danbury High and Lexington High (their school) were bitter rivals in almost every sport; especially football.
"Yeah; I'll meet you at the practice soccer field." Jake said; Zak nodded and was about to leave when two girls came up to the two of them. One was a very pretty girl with black hair, very Italian features, and was second shortest of the four of them (Zak being shortest) and her name was Megan and was Zak's crush; the other was a taller girl with brown hair and blue eyes and her name was Alex and she was the star soccer player of the girls. Jake had a mad crush on her and was currently blushing greatly.
"Hey guys, you going to the game tonight?" Alex said with a smile on her face. Zak and Jake both nodded; blushing. Zak decided to stay a while, especially with the pretty chicks talking to them. Just then Jake's sister walked by; her Mint Chocolate cell phone pressed against her ear, while her phone-less hand was in the hand of her boyfriend. His name was Michael Richardson, the starting all-state quarterback and captain, whom was waving a white paper in his hand.
"Hey guys, we are going to put the hurt down on Danbury tonight! Nobody can stop us!" he pumped his fist in triumph; Zak and Jake shook their head.
They knew he was the best player in the school and even got a football scholarship to Michigan, but he still had one major person to compete with.
"Mike, aren't you playing your competition tonight? You know that running-back, Tyson something?" Jake asked, Michael nodded and said, "Yeah, Tyson MacAfee. He is going face our defense tonight, and he will get annihilated."
At this he waved and left; Emily went with him, still not acknowledging her brother's existence. " Is she pissed at you or something dude?" Zak asked, Megan laughed; " Yeah, she seems like she is snubbing you."
Jake shook his head, "Nah, she was with Michael and talking on her phone, she wouldn't say anything even if I said I held a gun to her head."
They all nodded, Emily was pretty air-headed. She had a very sexy body, but nothing more came from her. No body knew what else Michael saw in her since he was a smart guy and was a star football player who already had NFL teams watching him and talking to him.
They all exited the school and went into the parking lot; there they saw Kyle getting on his dirt bike, alongside his close friend Chris. Chris had black hair, green eyes, and was considered the school badass. However, he seemed to be nicer to Zak than Kyle ever was.
Kyle revved up his bike and started down to the junior high to pick up his brother, still looking distraught and upset. Chris waved to Zak, Jake, Megan and Alex and turned on his bike's radio, which started to blare Linkin Park's "What I've Done" before going up to the four friends. "Man, you all are going to the game tonight, right?" They all nodded; Chris smiled at them ad said, " God I hope we kill them, I am sooooooo sick of hearing about that MacAfee kid." Alex looked at Chris and smiled. Megan took out her cell phone and looked at the clock, "Oh crap, my mom is probably wondering where I am. I got to go." She said, picking up her backpack and putting it on her. "Will you be at the game?" Jake asked, she nodded her head before unhooking her bicycle from the rack. "Yeah, we are meeting at the soccer field, right?" she asked, they all nodded and she hopped on her bike, waved and left. Chris also turned his motorbike back on and said, "Yeah, I'll see you all later. 600 at the soccer field alright?" he asked, they all nodded and he gave the piece sign before riding off, Linkin Park still blaring. Zak sighed and sat on the curb before he took out his iPod and began to play music. He left one earphone out to listen in case anyone was going to talk to him. However, Jake was more interested in talking to Alex. "Alex, are you still upset about Tom cheating on you?" he asked, referring to Tom, her ex-boyfriend. He was planning to make a relationship with her, because he always had a crush on her and now was his chance to make the most of it. But she simply laughed, "Nice try, I know you are trying to hook up with me." He looked at the ground, and then heard laughing. "Ha-ha…REJECTED!" Zak said laughing, Jake shot him a stare and he shut up and got back to his music. "I just need time Jake." Alex said to him, but he was already too distraught by her previous comment. "Ok, whatever just…I'll see you." He walked away, Alex felt bad for him, but she really did not want to date anyone yet.
Jake was fuming and couldn't believe what had transpired. "Freaking b-tch, I cannot believe she won't go out with me." Jake said through gritted teeth on his way home. He saw a young 12-year old girl with brown hair and blue eyes running up to him from a nearby driveway. "Hey cousin." She said smiling, "Oh, hey Bella, how are you?" She smiled and shrugged, "Fine, mom would kill me if she knew I was taking a break from my homework." Bella said, Jake sighed and thought "God, my aunt won't stop until she gets into Princeton or Yale." Jake looked at her, "You going to the game tonight?" Jake asked, Bella shook her head sadly. "My mom won't let me. Even if my homework for tomorrow is done, she is crazy like that." Jake sighed and looked back at his cousin. "Alright then, I'll see you later cuz." Jake said, Bella waved morosely and went back into her house. Jake continued down the street until he got up to his house and entered. He saw his mother was in the kitchen; she saw her son and smiled at him. "Hi Jake, how was school?" He simply waved his hand in a "meh" manner, not daring to tell his mom about the project. "I am going to the game tonight, but first I need to make a call. Is that alright?" His mom smiled and nodded at him. He picked up the phone and called Kyle. "Hello" asked a depressed-sounding Kyle. "Hey dude, you alright?" Jake asked, concerned about him after the incident with his dad. "Yeah…I mean, he may be alive, they don't have definitive proof he died." Jake still thought he was in a bit of denial, but shrugged it off. "Hey, you want to come to the game to get your mind off of that?" Jake asked, he heard a sigh then a, "Yeah, I guess it would be best. Where are we going to meet?" "6:00 at the soccer field." Jake said, then he said see you and hung up. He went over to his laptop and flipped it open, revealing a strange blue glow emitting from the screen. "That's weird." He though, however hi mother snapped hi out of it by calling him. "JAKE, YOUR DINNER IS READY!" Jake sighed and called back down that he'd be down in a minute. He ran downstairs, unaware that his computer continued to glow.
Just outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Ok, where the hell are we?" Will said as the trio, plus the other military vehicle that had about 10 people in it. Timothy shrugged next to a sleeping David. They heard over the radio that they were all declaring dead. "We should be near the capital right now." Timothy said while looking at a map. They were about 50 miles away, however they failed to notice a mound of sand moving about ¼ of a mile back. A large scorpion-like creature was moving towards them. However, the creature knew to bide it's time and wait to attack.
"THEY WILL BE MY PREY!" the scorpion creature thought, "NO CREATURE IS A MATCH FOR SCORPIOMON!"
"Maybe we should find a place to stop." Will said, in-between yawns. "No man, we can't stop, I'll wake up David and you can sleep while he drives." Timothy suggested, Will agreed and Timothy shook David awake. "Yeah," he asked in a daze. "You should drive, Will is exhausted." Timothy said, David sighed and reluctantly nodded. "Hey, who is in the truck behind us?" Will asked confused, "I mean, do we know anyone on there?"
After Will threw on the Jeep's breaks, he looked at the massive military vehicle stop right behind them. Out came about 10 men. One of who was a leader of a different squadron. "Hello, I'm unsure that we met. I'm Marcus Renstien and these men are my squadron." The leader said, gesturing to the men that surrounded him.
"So are we it?' David asked, in between a yawn. They all nodded, then Marcus came forward and said simply, "On the radio they said there were no survivors, they think we're dead." Timothy looked at the ground sadly, "My kids think I'm dead?" he whispered, David was also upset; his little 9-year old son though he was dead as well. He placed his hand into his pocket and touched the Digimon cards his son gave him, which he thankfully brought with him.
"We need to keep moving, our families are probably worried sick." Will said sadly, Marcus nodded and said, "Right, let's get moving." They all remained silent for a moment before they hesitantly got back into the vehicles. Will, Timothy and David decided to go with the others in the military vehicle and abandon the Jeep. That way, they could all get rest with the rest of the soldiers. The large military vehicle roared to live and began to drive off, leaving the abandoned dented, soot-covered Willy's Jeep in the desert, to become nothing more than a symbol of devastation that happened, and was going to happen. Meanwhile, Scorpiomon kept following, under cover of the desert sand and the moonlight sky. The vehicles started up again and continued to drive. "Soon, I can attack these inferior creatures. Then we can remain unnoticed."
Timothy, however, had a video camera with him that had about a minute of footage from the attack. He continues to watch it, especially the part where it showed the monster.
"I know I've seen that creature before, but where?" Timothy sighed after this self-question and got back to trying to get a signal on his walkie-talkie to be able to call for help.
-I chose Scorpiomon since it fits the desert land and Transformers again gave me the idea. Also, Zak is based off of me, not Jake. Well that is my second chapter, please review. Thanks and Go Giants!