Welcome to College
The Battle: Part 1
Yes you read it right, Part 1. I really couldn't figure out what to do for this chap, I had ideas throughout the week but was to busy to write them due to school, and when the weekend hit, well, they kinda left me. I really hope you enjoy this chapter it took a lot of writing, re writing, and more re writing. *Wipes forehead*.
I want to thank Miko873 on the OC of MoonForest, Thank You!
I also want to thank Autobot SlipStream for the idea of Shelbi working in the library, Thank You!
Saturday: 0600 hours, Arcee, Forest,
The forest, one of the creepiest places to be at 6 in the morning, at least for most girls, not Arcee. She was up in their tree base pacing back and forth, trying to figure out how everything was going to go down.
She knew the Alphas would have something up their sleeve since little miss perfect had all the money in the world. But Arcee wouldn't let that stop her from winning.
At times she wanted to just pound Brittniannes pretty face into the ground but then she would remember what Optimus would say, he would say to fight with honor not hate, and she knew it was true, Megatron was a prime example. Arcee had to be sneaky, but she knew she would be because she had gotten up and three in the morning to just scour the forest and figure out where she could and couldn't go. She checked the time and sighed, it was only 6:30 in the morning, and to tell the truth she was dead beat.
Arcee sat down on the mossy tree and set her head onto her hand, she wanted to keep thinking on ways to win but her tired mind was winning the battle between staying awake and sleeping. Before she knew it blackness engulfed her and she was out.
MoonForest walked through the forest enjoying the quiet time, at least she would be if she wasn't listening to her speed metal and acting like she had a guitar in hand.
As she got further into the forest she found herself more and more lost. MoonForest sighed and took out one of her headphones, looked around, shrugged and put it back in.
She sung along with her tunes nodding her head jerkishly sometimes just to get into the beat. She stopped again to look around and saw a large tree in front of her, but that wasn't what was intriguing, on the tree hung a rope ladder reaching all the way to the top. Seeing that she was practically lost she decided to climb it and see if she could find her way out from the top. MoonForest climbed the ladder and tried not to look down, but out of instinct she did and she cringed.
"I am so going to die." Moon bit her lip and kept on climbing.
Once she reached the top she found it was what one of her teachers called a platform tree, very rare. MoonForest moved from the edge and tried to walked to the other side but tripped on her way there.
After getting herself back up she looked to see what she tripped on and almost screamed. It was another girl, she looked to be sleeping but MoonForest couldn't be sure. She reached her hand out to check the girls pulse but before she could even touch her the girl shot her hand up and grabbed MoonForest's wrist. Moon tried to take it back but couldn't, the girls grip was too strong.
"Who are you?" The girl asked more tired than angry.
"M-MoonForest."
"What are you doing up here?"
"I kinda got lost and wanted to see if I could find the path out from up here." The girl starred at her as if to see if she was telling the truth, seconds later she lightened up on her wrist and took in a deep breath.
"So you're not an Alpha spy?"
"Never! I can't stand those girls..." Silence passed between them and MoonForest was the first to snap out of the trance. "What's your name?" She asked.
"Arcee."
"You mean the girl who is battling against the Alphas?"
"Ya... how did you know?" Arcee asked taking her head back.
"It's the biggest news around the school, your like everyones hero."
"Really?"
"Ya, everyone is waiting for you to kick her sorry butt back to where she came from."
"That's... great to know we have a lot of fans."
"Ya, you and your team are really famous, even more famous than those alphas... Ok maybe the same, but everyone likes you guys." Arcee nodded and smiled. "So do you know how to get back from here?"
"Ya, when you get down go to the other side of the tree, take a left and go straight from there."
"Great thanks!" MoonForest when to walk off but Arcee stopped her.
"MoonForest." She turned around and looked at Arcee.
"What?"
"How would you like to fight with us today." MoonForest thought it over an bit her lip.
"If I do there's a chance the Alphas will come after me once the battle is done."
"They agreed to do this, and that means if they come after you or any of us we could get them into serious trouble."
"Her dad is the chancellor." MoonForest said wearily.
"Yes but he isn't the only chancellor, and anyways he can't get her off the hook just for being his daughter."
"I... gu-uess.." She paused for a moment thinking it over. "Sure."
"Great! Meet at De'Andra Delta Sorority around 12."
"Ok, see you." MoonForest smiled and slipped her headphones back on getting back into its beat.
When Arcee checked her time again she saw that it was eleven, almost time to gather up at the house. She gathered up the rope ladder and connected it to a hook making sure it wouldn't fall down for the Alphas to find. Afterwards she ziplined down and walked off to the Air Field, since she had to pick up the rest of their ammo.
..
"Arcee right?"
"Yep, and its NightWarp?" Arcee said watching as a man her age walked up to her and nodded
"Got your stuff all ready and packed."
"Great."
"Follow me." He waved his hand towards the building and she followed him inside thankful to feel the fresh cool air that was around. "Soooo-." He started walking into a room and disappearing for a minute.
Arcee looked around to see many pictures of WW2 planes and their pilots, and one newer picture of the man and someone who seemed to be his brother in a side hug smiling, they were in front of an jet that looked all to familiar like StarScreams alt-mode. She was snapped out of her thought process NightWarp was standing right in front of her talking a bit.
"Sorry what?" She asked taking the box and looking at the contents.
"What's this stuff for?" He asked curiously looking into the box also.
"Fight with the Alphas."
"I heard about that, hope you guy-girls win."
"You and me both."
"So, afterwards you want to get some celebratory dinner." He asked sheepishly
"Nice try, but I'm already in a relationship." He snapped his fingers and jokingly frowned. "Got'a get em when they're free." She said smiling.
"Ya, just trying to find her."
"I don't think that asking every girl you meet qualifies as 'finding her'."
"Snippy."
"Tired." He nodded once agreeing with her.
"Understandable." She raised a brow and started to walk off but was stopped when he took the box from her. "I'll carry them out for you, help lighten the load for a distance."
"Thanks." They walked out to the middle of the field and he handed her the box back.
"Thanks again NightWarp, you're a lifesaver." Arcee said thankful that everything was now ready to go.
"Anytime for someone as gorgeous as you."
"I already told you that I'm taken." She rolled her eyes whiled trying to get a better hold of the box.
"I know, but either way I'm glad I could help... All of us here pretty much hate that girl."
"You and the whole campus." Her and NightWarp laughed before waving goodbye and walking off.
As Arcee made her way back to her house she spotted movement out of the corner of her eye, she looked over and saw a very familiar looking man, after a few seconds it clicked. It was StarScream, she'd notice that pompous walk anywhere. She couldn't help but glare at him, they may be human but that doesn't erase the fact that he killed her partner.
Once she snapped back to reality she looked away and walked faster, wanting to get as far away as she could from him.
Saturday: 1000 hours, Shelbi, Library,
Shelbi walked to the large building and opened the doors, she checked her time and saw that she had a couple hours left before she actually had to be back at the house. The shy girl walked up to the front desk and smiled at the lady who was intently reading a book.
"May I help you Ma'am?" The lady asked kindly, with a voice that sounded like it had been through many years.
"Yes... I was wondering if I could get a part time job here?" The woman set down her book and smiled.
"You can help whenever you like, just know this isn't a paying job."
"I know ma'am. Thank you."
"If you could, I think the young man who also works here could use a bit of help putting away some of the books." Shelbi nodded and walked off to the isle the librarian had pointed at to see the silent man that she had seen before. "Just to warn you he brought a bird today so I'd be careful." Shelbi nodded and made her way over to him.
In all truth she had kind of gotten this job because of him, he was just so cute and it seemed that he loved books just as much as she did. Shelbi walked up to him and smiled, but didn't get a single emotion from him. She looked at the bird that was perched up on his shoulder and wearily backed away at its coal black eyes that were starring at her. She grabbed a few books from the rolling table and took them to the different sections they belonged. Once she was done she walked back and grabbed a few more.
"Sooo your name is SoundWave?" She asked trying to strike a conversation but he didn't answer, instead he turned and placed a few books back onto their respectable shelves. "What frat house are you part of, or, are you in a dorm?" She grabbed a few more books as he grabbed some and their hands touched, she blushed a bit and forgot to take her hand back.
She did take it back when his bird flew down and pecked her hand harshly. "OW!" It squawked quietly and she rubbed her hand trying to ease the miniature pain. "Nice Bird." SoundWave didn't pay attention instead he just gently smoothed his birds head when it perched back onto his shoulder.
Silence filled the air, not even the sound of a page turning was heard, and Shelbi was starting to feel uncomfortable. "Uh, what's your birds name?" She asked feeling out of place a bit. He picked up a deck of books and walked over to her, he then dropped them into her hands and walked away. Shelbi sighed and walked down the different isles to get the books put away. Some way, some how, she would get him to speak to her, no matter what she did, she would make him talk. But right now she couldn't, she had to get back to her sorority to know how their battle was going to go down. Before Shelbi left she checked out a few books on fighting and the forest. The forest book was a request from Arcee that she read up on as much as she could so that they could have best coverage possible, the fighting book was more for her so if she did encounter that problem she could get through it.
Saturday: 1200 hours, DE'ANDRA DELTA SORORITY,
The girls were running everywhere, trying to get everything done at once. Phoenix had just shown up and regretted coming back, in fact she had half a mind to turn around and head back to her work, she assumed no one would notice with how crazy they were. Before she could leave though Jade ran up to her and grabbed her hand, next thing she knew she was being dragged through the hall, up the stairs and into the bathroom.
"I need you to get the makeup all sorted out." Jade said out of breath.
"Makeup?" Phoenix asked a bit confused.
"Ya, camouflage colors."
"Why aren't you doing this, you're the makeup lover." Phoenix said crossing her arms.
"Because as leader when Arcee is gone, I have to make sure everything is in order." Phoenix rolled her eyes and grabbed out the make up kits. As she did so they heard the front door close shut and Jade ran out to see Arcee walking in. The pink haired girl left phoenix behind and rushed down to meet her. "You're finally here, everything is hectic."
BOOM
"Dang't not another ONE!" They heard Aqua yelling from the kitchen and saw her walk out covered in green paint. She wiped it off from her mouth and growled.
"The mines don't exactly work well when they're set on top of each other." Jade said trying to stifle laughter.
"I know that." Aqua said through her teeth, "The motion sensor bombs that Jackie made, he set them to any type of movement." She wiped away a stray drop that was rolling down her face and walked to the bathroom. "I'm goin to go clean up."
"See." Jade said turning to Arcee.
"Oh I see, we just need a bit of reassurance that we're going to win."
"Are you positive that were going to win, I mean Brittnainne can pay for anything, she could beat us in a matter of seconds if she wanted to."
"Yes she could, but we have two reasons as to why we will win."
"Really?"
"First: She is the worst leader in the history of leaders, even worse than Megatron in my say."
"You mean Megatron from the D-con Frat house?"
"Long story." Arcee said waving her off. "And second: We are a team and at that a strong team, if we stick together and keep trying even when Brittnianne and her team knock us down we will win." Arcee placed a hand on Jade's shoulder to reassure her and the pink haired girl nodded trying to smile.
The doorbell rang and Arcee turned to answer it to see not only Queenie but also MoonForest. "Welcome, I'm just about to tell everyone the game plan." The girls walked in and sat down on the couch just as the other girls came in and made themselves comfortable. Arcee made her way to the front and stood in front of the TV, she held a pad and pen ready to speak. "Aqua, bombs?"
"Yep!"
"Triple Stars, weapons?" The three girls nodded while high fiving. "Phoenix makeup?" She held up a large bag and half smiled. "Great!... Shelbi, did you read up on the forest?"
"Uh-huh."
"Would you be able to tell us a few of the important tips on maneuvering around it." Shelbi hesitated, ya she was comfortable talking around her sorority sisters a lot, but around a few she barely knew and one girl who was a complete stranger to them all, not so much. Though she deiced that if they wanted to win that she would have to tell them all that they needed to know. Shelbi got up from her spot and took Arcee's place.
"Alright, well pretty much, stay away from damp areas because they're filled with quicksand... any plant that has three large leaves, don't even touch it, it's poison ivy." Shelbi talked for about ten minutes of what to stay away from and what was good coverage to hide behind or even in. After she was done she sat back down and Arcee took her place again.
"Ok, we all now know what we need to know, does anyone else have anything to add."
"Uh ya." Moonforest said confused. "What are we using as the ammo, we can't be using real weapons or we'll be in serious trouble."
"Since real weapons aren't permitted and they are completely out of the question either way, we are going to be using paintballs."
"Sweet..." Her smile went to a mix of worry and confusion. "The Alphas know this right?"
"Of course, even though they are our enemies by far, we must play fair and honorable. Not like them who play hard and however they want to get what they want." The girls looked around each other and nodded knowing that even though they hated the girls they had to be the better team.
"What if they win, what will we do then?"
"IF they win it will most be likely by cheating and everyone knows cheaters never prosper. It'll end up biting them back in the butt." Phoenix said folding her arms and leaning against the couch and MoonForest shrugged.
"I guess."
"Seriously are you going to be pessimistic the whole time because that really doesn't help anyone."
"I just don't want to be chased by the girls and beat down."
"Scaredy cat." Before MoonForest could answer Arcee spoke up and stopped her.
"If we fight we won't win, simple as that... We need to work as a team not as separate individuals, got that." She said eyeing them both.
"We understand." They said in unison.
"Alright, let's go kick some Alpha tail!" The girls cheered and shot up from their spots, they then all walked down to the forest knowing that their vehicles would be ruined by the Alphas if they were allowed to get their hands onto them.
Once they were at the forest Shelbi and Aquanette showed the others to the platform tree stopping a few times to make sure some of the others could remember how to find it again.
After arriving at the tree they all found that the ladder was missing. A few were scared the Alphas had found it and others were scared it had fallen off. Arcee shook her head and smiled as she pulled on a small hidden rope letting the ladder fall down to the ground. She hid the rope once more and started to climb up followed by her fellow comrades.
Soon after they all arrived at the top the girls started to stare in awe at the place. It was a large platform created by the tree itself, it was covered in moss that masked most of the wood and branches hung down while swaying in the wind. Other parts of the tree were large thick branches hanging over them like a side sweep providing coverage from the hot sun. Other Branches were hanging down low some of them even reached the ground, giving them the perfect cover to where they could see down but no one could see up.
"So how did you guys find this place again?" Phoenix asked looking down.
"Well..." Aqua began. "I almost drown in quicksand, once Shelbi got me out we just ran into it." Arcee looked around to see that a few of the girls were trying to hold back their laughter at Aquanette almost losing to quicksand. They all quieted down when they heard faint talking down at the base of the tree. Arcee leaned over and smiled.
"They're here." All the other girls ran up and leaned over the edge to see also and frowned at the sight. All the Alphas were dressed in camouflage outfits like theirs but they seemed to blend in more.
Arcee went down the zipline and was thankful that it ended on the opposite side where the Alphas were, just so their coverage wouldn't be blown. "I see you're here, ten minutes later." Arcee said walking out from the bushes and getting a better look at Brittniannes outfit, even on the ground it was hard to tell that half her body was there.
"We had to make sure to put our suits on properly or they would tear. I'm not letting 12grand fly out the the door like that."
"12grand!?"
"Duh, haven't you already noticed that I'm richer than you girls and can get what I want when I want." Arcee folded her arms and sighed angrily, this was going to be long day.
"How did you get them so precise?"
"Oh their called chameleon suits, they actually blend in with whatever scenery around." She moved her arm in front of a tree and the suit became a bark type look. Arcee looked away and bit the inside of her lip, this was going to be harder than she thought, but they would still try to win.
"You brought your weapons right?"
"Of course, do you think I'm dumb."
"If I did would I get an award." Brittnianne glared at Arcee and the Delta leader smirked. After a bit of agitated silence Arcee went to walk off but was stopped by Brittnianne.
"I almost forgot to introduce you to our new recruit." Arcee rolled her eyes and turned back around to see a girl about her age walking out from the shadows. "This is Araneae." Araneae wasn't that the one of the scientific names for 'Spider'. Arcee cringed and looked at the girl. She had long black hair with unnoticeable dark violet streaks, she had on one of the suits so she couldn't tell what the girl normally wore, and her makeup was very dark and sadistic, in fact she reminded Arcee a bit of Arachnid. She clenched her fists at the thought of the wretched femme.
"You have thirty minutes to find a base, then we start." They walked their own separate ways, although Arcee waited until they were completely gone before calling for the ladder. Once she was back up all the girls crowded around her anticipating for her to talk. "We start in thirty minutes."
"What about their suits, we could see you talking but couldn't hear."
"They're called chameleon suits, they blend in with their surroundings like the creature... If we are to win this we have to be on our toes."
"What was with new girl, the way you seemed around her made us think you knew her."
"I had an encounter with someone who looks just like her, it wasn't a good one." The girls nodded and backed off a little. "We should be getting ready, we leave in 30 minutes." Arcee picked up her paintball gun and went over to a bench like area in the tree and started to clean it. She was trying to get her mind of Arachnid, the last thing she needed was memories from war filling her mind and deterring her fighting. And the last thing she wanted was the new girl Araneae becoming her enemy, but in all reality she didn't have anything to worry about since they didn't have the same past that her and Arachnid did, so what could be the big deal. Arcee let out a deep sigh and started to fill her gun with paintballs.
Jade was getting her stuff ready but couldn't take her eyes off of Arcee, there was something behind her leaders eyes that said sadness and heartache, but she didn't know what. In fact, ever since Arcee had arrived at their sorority she had noticed it, something else she had noticed was how close she was with the Autobots, it was like they knew each other before they arrived here and to say the least Jade was a bit curious as to how. But those were questions for later, right now they had to focus on fighting the battle and trying to win, they last thing they needed was to lose and be humiliated in front of the whole campus and then criticized by the Alphas for it.
Arcee checked the time again and saw that is had been a few minutes past their starting time. She stood up from her spot and slung her paintball gun over her shoulder while stashing another one on her leg belt. She then walked to the middle of the tree and cleared her throat gaining everyone's attention.
"We've been preparing for this for a long time, these girls have tormented you long enough, now it's your turn to show them that you are strong and won't take what they give you!" The girls all stood up and cheered feeling pumped for the battle that they had entered themselves into. "We will separate into two groups of five... StarShadow, StarDust, StarLight, Queenie, and Phoenix, you are Group One." The five girls nodded and stood by each other. "Me, Jade, Aquanette, Shelbi, and MoonForest will all be Group Two." When the two groups were formed Arcee gave the all clear to go and meet back in two hours. Her team waited for the others to go down before they went down, just so that they could be more separate and not caught close together.
Saturday: 1300 hours, Group One, Forest,
Everyone was silent, the only sound was the leaves and sticks crunching under their feet. They were all anticipating that someone was going to jump out in front of them and start shooting. The triplets were mainly back to back protecting each other, and Queenie and Phoenix were walking next to each other following the three girls barely holding their guns lightly but ready to shoot if need be.
They all heard rustling in the bushes and they froze, looking around the girls could see no one, but they knew someone was there by the small sounds they were hearing. Phoenix raised her handheld paintball gun and grasped it in both her hands ready to get someone. StarShadow, StarDust and StarLight all held their long shots and pointed in different directions. Queenie on the other hand kept her gun down and listened, she could hear that the rival was on her left side, probably seven, eight feet into the dark forest. She raised her gun and pointed to where she knew the culprit was, pulling the trigger she stumbled back a bit not used to the the strength of it.
Her success was met with an ouch and a paintball whizzing past, and almost hitting her. The other girls pointed their guns towards the spot and started shooting, when they stopped they could hear distant running and knew that whoever was there got scared off.
"Nice work Queenie." StarDust said.
"I may not be able to see, but my hearing is impeccable."
"Remind me not to ever try and sneak around you." Phoenix said sarcastically.
"So when this fight supposed to be heating up, I want some action!" StarShadow said putting her hand on her hip.
"Whenever the Alphas decide to walk out of their cave and fight us." StarDust said stopping everyone and looking down the midly steep hill. "Alright let's all be a bit careful here." They all slid down the hill carefully trying not to rip their suits. Once they were all at the bottom they all let our breaths of relief. "Should be flat from here."
"It may be a flat walk but with the Alphas it's going to be a bumpy road." Before they could start to walk again they heard something in the forest, but as fast as it began it stopped. The girls shrugged it off and started to walk again eager to get fighting.
Keeping their vision straight ahead they didn't notice four girls jumping out and attacking them. Before they knew it they were all tied up and had sacks over their heads and were being either dragged or carried away from their spots.
The triplets were kicking and screaming but found that they were only pounding into the ground. Phoenix was banging against something but couldn't tell what. On the other hand Queenie was staying still and silent trying to map out where they were going in her head just in case it was the Alphas basae they were heading to.
After about ten minutes of getting dragged they came to a stop and were thrown against a hard wall, next thing they knew their ropes were being connected to something and any knives or sharp objects were taken away from them. Soon the bags were thrown off their heads and the found that they were engulfed in darkness.
"Welcome to my dungeon." They looked towards the voice and saw Brittnianne with a flashlight shining in her face, which made her look even more evil.
"We didn't say anything about prisons in this battle."
"I know, but I wanted to add my own little spin to things, make it my way."
"You disgust me."
"The feelings mutual... Come Moesha, lets show those Delta's who run this college." Brittnainne let out a small chuckle and pointed the flashlight away from them. "Oh." She said turning back around. "And mind the spiders." They heard footsteps walking out and away from where they were, the girls looked to each other but it was to dark to even see their own hands. Phoenix and StarShadow fought agains the rope but they were losing in the battle.
"She's cheating, theres nothing in the rules that says you can do this." Phoenix yelled trying harder this time.
"Ya, but there's nothing in the rules that says you can't." The fiery girl stopped her struggling and looked towards the voice. "We never said you couldn't, in fact we never said they couldn't make up their own stuff... This is a battle, it may be on a smaller scale of a real one, but either way-." They girls nodded at the words and sighed.
"So we're kinda stuck here aren't we?" StarLight said leaning against the jagged cold stone wall and flinching. "Ow!"
"What!?" StarDust said worried at her sisters pain call.
"The wall it's sharp."
"Well then don't lean against it." StarShadow said rolling her eyes. Silence etched its way into the girls and they didn't know what to say, until.
"Wait you said that the wall was sharp?" StarDust said looking at who she assumed was her younger sister.
"Ya." StarLight said as StarShadow rubbed her hands against the wall and cringed when she cut her hand.
"Everyone, rub your ropes against the wall!" They five girls started to do just that and before they knew it they were getting themselves free from bondage.
Once their hands were free, they untied their feet and stood up. "Let's go show those girls who's boss!" The others cheered and ran down the rocky cave, that is until they reached they mid center and found that they had three different ways they could go.
"What are we going to do now, it'll take us all day just to figure out which one is which." StarLight said looking at all three caves.
While the other girls were trying to figure out which cave to take Queenie thought back to when they were being brought here. She walked to the far left cave and cleared her throat.
"I think I found your exit." She said leaning against the cave wall.
"How would you know?" Phoenix asked confused.
"While you four were trying to break free from their grasps I was staying still and listening to where they were going."
"What about our guns?" StarShadow asked remembering that they had all dropped them due to the sneak attack.
"Ya, were kinda venerable out there without weapons." StarLight added.
"Entrance of the cave." Queenie said. "I believe the Alphas put them there as their extra recourses." The others smiled and nodded at Queenie thankful that she was on their team.
Reaching near the exit they saw their weapons and grabbed them, they then rounded the last corner and had to shield their eyes to the bright light that was shining on them. Once they were used to it they walked out and headed back to the base, needing to refuel their guns and report about what had happened.
Saturday: 1300 hours, Team Two, Forest,
The five girls made their way deeper into the forest, sounds were everywhere, from animals moving around in the trees to the wind whipping past them and rattling the leaves. Their path was becoming more and more invisible, at some times Arcee even thought that they had gotten off the path.
Everyone had their weapons raised and ready to shoot, except for Aqua who had her hand on a grenade with her thumb floating over the activate button. Everyone was quiet, taking in deep breaths and letting them out slowly. Ever so often a bush would jerk and scare them a bit thinking it was one of the Alphas, but it usually ended up being a rabbit trying to find its way around.
All of a sudden out of no where there was a terrifying scream, the others shot their heads around to see Jade stomping on the ground like a mad dancing five year old. When she was finished she looked around at the others and sheepishly smiled.
"I saw a spider, and it was a big one!" Aqua looked to the ground to see something small and squished near Jade's foot, she then looked back up and raised a brow.
"I wouldn't classify that as a big one."
"I Would!"
"Really Jade?" MoonForest asked unamused. "We'er in a battle with crazy girls who have the element of surprise and heavy duty paintball guns, and your afraid of a daddy long leg?"
"I still wouldn't blame her, spiders are the most disgusting and revolting insects on the face of this planet." Arcee said shaking off the feeling that washed over her. Aqua rolled her eyes and folded her arms. The talk was broken up when they heard footsteps and twigs cracking not to far away. The girls got their weapons ready and aimed them at where the sound was coming from. "Come out and we won't shoot." Arcee said demandingly and the girls looked at her oddly. After a bit of silence Brittnianne came walking out with Araneae right behind her.
"I have a new proposition for you." Brittnianne said brushing off some stray dust from her suit. "This game seems to be going no where in particular, with us just wandering around waiting for our enemy to come into view. Soooo I have decided that we should play capture the flag/paintball."
"You decided?"
"Ya, I can decide what I want to... Do you want to do it or not!?"
"Unless your father dies and makes you boss, you don't make the 'decisions around here." MoonForest said glaring at Brittnianne who retuned the glare.
"If it'll make things more interesting, I think we can take you up on your idea." Arcee said setting her rifle on her back again.
"Great, I have the North side and you have the South side." Brittnianne looked to Araneae and she grabbed out a couple of flagpoles from behind a tree. She then handed one to Arcee that had a violet flag on it and she took it. "We each have thirty minutes to hide it." The two girls disappeared into the darkness and Arcee looked at the flagpole in her hand.
"Okay, game changer, but none the less it can still show the Alphas who's better." She looked to the others confused. "Do any of you know where we could hide this?"
"Sure." Shelbi said grabbing out a map from her small bag. "Since we have the south side, we have a small river near us, that is a bit hard to get across but at the other side there is the perfect hiding spot."
"Wait are you talking about.. Deadmans Cave?" Jade said a bit hesitant.
"Yep, it would be the last place anyone would look for a flag."
"No Duh, that's because it's an underground cave."
"That's what would make it perfect."
"I think it will be the perfect hiding spot... Aqua do you have a few mines left."
"Ya sure, I always have extras."
"We'll be needing a few."
"There is no way I am stepping a foot into the cave." Jade said folding her arms.
"And you don't have to, Shelbi, Aqua and MoonForest you can all come with me if you want, Jade how about you go back to our base and make sure the others made it back safely, and also tell them about our new game change." Jade nodded and they went their separate ways.
When they reached the river Arcee was taken back at its beauty, trees surrounded the river, and a few rocks paved a wobbly path to the other side. The four girls took their time in getting over but made it without slipping.
It was a few more minutes before they actually reached where they needed to be, but it was so well hidden that Arcee almost walked right past it.
"Right here." Shelbi said stopping in front of vines that were drooping down the sheer rock. They had to walk down a small hill to reach it but once they were down Arcee could see that in-between the gaps in the vines there was something of a cave. They all walked in and had to walk down a rocky hallway for a while until reaching the inside of the cave.
"Perfect." Arcee said hiding the flag in a larger crack in the rock and smiling. "They'll never find it here."
"Sheesh it's dark in here." MoonForest said reaching for her phone."
"NO!" Shelbi snatched the phone and hit the light underneath her hand.
"What was that for!?"
"Do you want bats swarming around you and through your hair?"
"Not really."
"Then no light." Once the light was gone Shelbi handed MoonForest's phone back and they walked out of the cave.
"Man, you don't know how cold it is in there, until you walk out... Brrr." Aqua said rubbing her arms to bring back the warmth.
"Come on girls let's get back to base." They walked through the forest, and it seemed to take them longer to get back to their tree than it did getting to the cave.
"Hey Cee?" Aqua started asking looking around the forest as they climbed up the ladder. "Doesn't it seem that our tree is on the North side, ya know because it's so far away." Arcee stopped climbing the ladder and looked down to Aqua and the others who seemed to be contemplating the question too.
"I find it odd too." MoonForest said grabbing onto another plank of wood. Arcee looked back up to the where they were climbing and thought that it was odd herself, that's when it hit her.
The Delta leader climbed as fast as she could up the ladder and pushed herself to the top. Her eyes darted around the area and what she saw made her fists clench tighter than they had before.
"Have a nice trip?" Brittnianne said pointing a paintball gun to Arcee's sorority sisters who were at the time tied up and in the middle of the platform. When the others reached the top their mouths dropped open. "It was too easy to outsmart you... you were so enthralled into beating us the combat way that you forgot to think of what else I could do."
"So the whole flag thing was a frod?" Arcee asked clearly angered.
"Of course not, I knew you would make this too easy for me so I had you hide your flag for tomorrow."
"How did you even find our base?"
"Ask your sorority sisters, I'm sure they'll be happy to explain."
"I'm sure you'd be much as happy."
"Your right... Well I set up an ambush, and then carried them to a deep dark cave and tied them up. Knowing very well that the ragged rocks behind them would work perfect in cutting them out of their ropes. When they walked out I simply had a few of my girls follow them knowing they would want to return to their base. After that we ambushed them again and got them all tied up.. When Jade came she put a bump in our plans but none the less we stuck her in with the others and waited for you to come back..."
"This was not what I meant when I said battle."
"Yes you said battle, but you never said if it was battle of the strong or battle of the wits." Arcee growled and stepped a foot forward towards her enemy. "Oh, and I am herby claiming your tree as mine... Have fun looking for a new base." Aqua went to say something but Arcee stopped her knowing that anger could make a person say exactly opposite of what they should.
"Fine, you win this round, but tomorrow you can bet that we will win."
"I doubt that, I have only a few people but they all have something unique to fight with, while you have many people but they only have one thing in common, they can't think for themselves and even that isn't a skill, in fact in order for them to even rise up to me they needed you to push them."
"Don't ever talk bad about my friends!"
"Snippy... Meet back here tomorrow at 7o-clock and we'll get started..." Arcee folded her arms and raised a brow.
"Aren't you forgetting one thing." Brittnianne looked down at the six girls tied up.
"Right... Araneae." The girl took out a knife and cut the rope allowing the girls to get free, once they were Arcee allowed them to climb down the ladder before herself.
When they got home all the girls collapsed onto something. They were dead beat and having to go back the next day was making them even worse.
"I can't believe they did that." Phoenix said punching the couch.
"It's not fair, we worked hard to get here and they did nothing."
"We deserve to win, not them."
"We're to weak to fight them, can't we just say that now so we don't have to humiliate ourselves again tomorrow." The girls nodded and Arcee got up from her spot.
"Look at yourselves." She said standing on the chairs arm. "You're acting like you have lost all hope in life."
"We have."
"No... you haven't... You're just to scared to try and fight for what you believe in."
"Ya so what if we are?"
"Fate rarely calls upon us at the moment of our choosing." All the girls looked up to Arcee when she said this.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that this is what you are intended to do, you are to fight these girls and win, show them that they aren't allowed to rule you anymore." Some of the girls nodded with tired heads at what she was saying.
"But Brittnianne said we couldn't even think for ourselves, how could we win?"
"And I don't believe that... Aquanette." The texan girl raised her head when her name was called. "You built us your mines and bombs, and not just that they work like a charm... Shelbi, You built us these paintball guns, just by reading on how to do it, that is a skill of its own... Queenie, you may be blind but your skills are out of this world, half the people who can see wish they could be as alert as you... StarDust, you are great at keeping things together and organized especially when they get out of hand." The girls were listening now and seemed intrigued. "All I'm saying is that all of you have a talent, whether big or small it has an impact... tomorrow we're going to do the best we can, and not just that but I'm going to put your skills to the test, show you that all of you can stand on your own." Smiles were shared around the room as Arcee got down from the chair arm.
After ordering dinner and eating the sorority waved goodbye to the others and reminded them to be on time. Afterwards Arcee and Jade went up to their room to get ready for bed.
"What if we lose?" Jade asked pulling up her pajama shorts.
"Even if we do, we'll know that we tried and the Alphas will too... It will show them that we aren't willing to give up our freedom to do what they want us to do." Arcee crawled into bed and pulled the covers over herself and Jade did the same on her top bunk. It was going to be a busy day and maybe even a hard one, but if there was one thing Arcee knew for sure, it was that they were going to win.
TWIST! I love twists! But I will make it up in Part two. Originally I was going to have the Deltas win but just wandering around the forest with no absolute reason, just really didn't work well, so I wanted to incorperate something that would add a bit of action into it. Blah Blah Blah that's for next chap though, which I will try and get put up tomorrow.
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