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The Battle, Part 2
*Wipes forehead and happily sighs* Oh. my. gosh. I am so glad I am finished typing this! I am giving you... 26 pages, of one battle + extra, I am bushed. With that, I want to say that I have not reviewed this because I was to lazy to do so and find mistakes or changes. So I hope you like it anyways and please don't hate me for any cheesy or stupid parts. But Otherwise Enjoy.
I want to thank Transformette for the idea of Arcee going to Optimus for help, and him not really agreeing with her fighting against the Alphas and her Sorority Sisters getting a bit curious to how and why she knows the Autobots so much, Thank You!
[...] Dream
[Sunday: 0830 hours,Forest,
She was running as fast as she could, there seemed to be no end to the forest. The flag wasn't in her sight, and she was being chased by Brittnianne and her new recruit Araneae. Her comrades were gone, kidnapped, stored in their dungeon, only if she knew where it was she could free them. She could hear them though, faint screaming coming from the other side of the forest. Help is what they were saying. She was covered in paintball shots, but nowhere, where they could say she was out. THE FLAG! Oh how the flag looked glorious to her, sitting up on the small hill, just waiting for her to grasp it and make a run for it to her side of the forest. She was close, 100ft, 75ft, 64ft. She could taste the sweet nectar of victory, it was almost hers, all she had to do was.. WHAM. Everything went black. She awoke, yes she was awake, but.. She was struggling, she was tied up! She tried to get from her rope bonds, she tried but many times failed. She heard groaning, pain, someone was in pain, or was waking up from a bad dream. She looked up and... it couldn't be, but it was. Her friends, they were all tied up like her, some of them were bruised and hurt, she wanted to help them but, she herself couldn't get out of the bonds. A door opening, this had to be Brittnainnes dungeon because she could hear the Alpha leaders maniacal voice ringing through the room. She looked up to see the girls beach blonde hair cascading over her shoulders. Brittnianne turned to another girl who was hiding in the shadows, she wanted to call out and tell her to face her, but in her predicament she knew the two had more power of her than she did of her own self. Then... three words, three words she had heard before, the same three words that created one femme to be her mortal enemy. "You're mine now." She let out a scream, a death defying scream hoping that someone, just one person would hear her. She couldn't stand to see the girls face, it was so cold, evil, deadly, the face that belonged to Araneae.]
Arcee jerked up from her bed hitting her head against the top bunk. The nightmare, it was just so real, but Arcee had to know that it wasn't, it was just a memory mixed with a dream. She rubbed it and then slipped out of her bunk and took out her clothes for the day, she then got dressed and did a bit of makeup. As she did so Jade rolled over in her bunk and gazed at Arcee with tired eyes.
"What are you doing?" Jade asked yawning and Arcee looked at her.
"Just have to do a couple of things, I'll be back in about an hour." Jade groaned and plopped her head right back into her pillow. When Arcee knew Jade was asleep she tiptoed around and silently made her way out of their house.
Jade peeked from her pillow and saw that Arcee was gone, the SIC jumped out of her bed and shook StarDust who just waved her hand and mumbled something under her breath. Jade walked around StarDusts bed and slid her hands underneath the mattress.
"Get your lazy butt out of bed now." She said flipping the mattress over so her sorority sister was landed on the floor with the mattress on top of her. "We have some work to do." StarDust looked up from under her mattress and growled at Jade.
"I was having a really good dream."
"I know you mumbled his name when I tried to wake you." Jade grabbed an outfit and threw it at StarDust. "Now hurry up and get ready." Her friend grabbed her clothes and tried to get them on as fast as she could which resulted in her dancing around the room like a mad man. Once they were both ready the two girls snuck out of the house and started to silently run.
After a couple minutes Jade put her hand up and StarDust stopped, she looked over the pink haired girls shoulder and saw Arcee walking up to the Autobots Frat House. After a few seconds the door opened and their leader walked in. They then made their way to the house and planted themselves right underneath the living room's window and listened in.
"What the heck are we doing here?" StarDust asked, looking to Jade.
"Aren't you curious as to how Arcee is so close to the Autobots?" She asked back.
"Guess I really never thought of that."
"Shhh, their starting."
Arcee stood across from Optimus, he had been an early riser as a Cybertronian, so why not as human. She had come to his house to ask a few questions.
"I am curious as to why you are here so early?" Optimus asked with his arms folded and Arcee looked into his eyes, even as a human they held the sadness of war.
"I came to ask for your help."
"My help?" He asked curious now, Arcee was never one to ask for help unless absolutely needed.
"We are in a 'battle' with the Alphas and I wanted to ask if you would be able to help me and my team? In all reality you are a better tactician and strategist than I am."
"I see."
"We lost yesterday and I really don't want to lose today, my sisters are looking up to me and right now I'm looking up to you."
"Arcee... You know from that night I do love you very much." A smile formed on her face and on his. "But I will tell you what I told the Alphas... this is your battle, it is something you must fight for yourself... Having me help to fight your battle is equal to cheating."
"I understand Optimus... I just thought."
"Your heart lies in the right place in wanting to help your friends, but you must know that if you go about the easy way you will be looked down upon."
"Thank you for that, I guess I needed some reminder."
"Arcee." He said making her gaze into his eyes and his into hers. "You were the strongest Femme I had ever met let alone fought along side with and in a long time the first I had truly loved... I do not want you making any rash decisions that can and will put you and your team into harms way, am I clear." His voice was held full of command, but yet it was laced with kindness and worry.
"I understand sir." He smiled and bit and she did too, silence enveloped the room and for a while they just wandered their eyes around the room not knowing what to say. "I have to be heading back now, thank you for your advice."
"Anytime Arcee, I will be here." She left the house and walked down the porch steps taking in the cool air and the silence. Her smiled faded when she heard rustling in the bushes and hushed voices. She walked over and peered over them to see Jade and StarDust looking up to her sheepishly.
"Do I even want to know why you two are here... Following me to the frat house.
"Well..." StarDust said hesitantly trying to divert her eyes from Arcee's,but Jade wasn't so quiet she stood up from the bush and folded her arms.
"We want to know how and why you're so close to the Autobots, and what you're hiding."
"In my defense that's what she want's to know." Arcee sighed and looked away to see Optimus gazing through the window as if listening to them. He nodded once and walked away. She looked back to her sorority sisters and sighed.
"You guys hungry?"
StarDusts straw hung from her gaping mouth. Arcee had just told them her story and both of them still were trying to take in the information. Arcee was finishing her breakfast from the restaurant that they had went to, going on as if nothing had happened, on the other hand her friends had barely touched their plates when she spoke the first sentence. 'I'm an alien from another dimension.' It wasn't exactly something that they had every day. When Arcee finished her food she pushed the plate away and set her arms onto the table.
"So if you kept this from us, you probably kept your real name from us..." Jade said slowly returning back to reality.
"Nope, my real name is Arcee."
"And Optimus?"
"Optimus Prime, he's our teams leader." StarDust checked her watch and her eyes became wide.
"We've been here for over an hour."
"We should be heading back." They got up to leave, once they were out the doors Arcee stopped them and took in a deep breath. "You have to keep this from the others, I will tell them soon, and also it is of upmost importance to keep this from the Alphas, if they found out about this they wouldn't hesitate to use it against me." Jade and StarDust nodded before starting to head back to the house to get ready for the second part of their battle.
Sunday: 0700 hours, EMERALD ALPHA SORORITY
Brittnianne looked around their new base of operations, she had to admit it was quite perfect for them, except for the disgusting moss that surrounded the area. As she did so a knife swung by her head and buried itself into the nearby tree limb, her deadly gaze diverted from her feet to Araneae who was holding a couple other ready to throw knives.
"Watch it!" She barked at the new girl.
"Calm down, it's not like I'm trying to cut off your head or anything." Brittnainne cringed a bit, even when Araneae was being sarcastic there was something behind her voice that creeped her out. Moesha was in the corner using up some of her ammo to try and practice hitting her target that she had made. The twins were climbing up the ladder and silently talking between each other about something, Rylee pulled out a bag and took out some high tech walkie talkies and threw them to the others. When Brittnianne caught hers she looked at it. The device was an expensive one and she doesn't remember giving Rylee any money.
"What is this?" She asked holding out the walkie talkie in front of Rylees face.
"Clearly it's a way of communication." Moesha said looking at hers and her leader rolled her eyes.
"I know that." Brittnianne snapped. "I'm asking where you got them from."
"Does it matter where they came from." Dana said folding her arms and standing before her sister.
"Kinda, ya."
"If you really want to know... some idiot left them out front of a door in the electronics department."
"Oh so you just thought that you could take them?" Rylee walked from her sister and folded her arms.
"If someone leaves it out to be taken then I'm going to take it. Anyways you should be grateful, now we have a means of communication."
"Grateful? Grateful!? Your the one who should be Grateful!" The girls backed off at Brittniannes sudden outburst. Breonna stepped in and pulled her leader aside to let her calm down in silence. And the twins walked away.
"If I could get that girl with one of my arrows and bet away with it, I wouldn't hesitate to do so." Dana said glaring at Brittnianne.
"Darkie, you know that we couldn't do that." Rylee said mimicking her sisters actions.
"But if I could."
"Just wait, when her amusement is filled we'll be free."
"But that's the thing sis, we're not free, and as long as she is holding that leash we will never be." The two looked away and sighed in unison.
"Guess we better get ready for today or someone will have our heads on a pretty silver platter." Rylee and Dana walked to pick up their weapons and get them ready for the battle.
Sunday: 0700 hours, Deltas, Forest,
The girls walked to their original base and waited, moments later Brittnianne walked out of the bushes and greeted them with a sadistic smile.
"I gotta say, that zipline is fun." She said trying to intimidate them. "You have 20 minutes to find a new base."
"NOT FAIR! We gave you 30 yesterday." Aqua said.
"Ya and that was yesterday, this is today." Aqua went to go after her but Arcee put her hand up.
"Fine..." The Delta leader said keeping her cool. "We'll be ready in 20 minutes."
"Right, and it only takes me an hour to do my makeup." She walked off and disappeared through the bushes.
"You can't be serious about finding a base in 20 minutes!?" StarDust said confused.
"I have the perfect place."
They walked through the forest for in silence, getting over fallen trunks and trying not to get hit by swing branches. After about fifteen minutes of non stop trekking they came up to a small rushing river that had a few rocks making a wobbly bridge across. Some of the girls were hesitant to cross but others just skipped to the other side with no trouble. When it was Queenies turn everyone was freaking out, but it had only taken her a few seconds to get across, and without slipping.
"When are we going to get there?" Phoenix asked in her exasperated tone.
"We're here." Arcee answered stopping and everyone looked around to see nothing but forest. "Here Where?"
"Here at the base."
"Oh so were supposed to just hide in plain site?"
"Of course not." Arcee walked down a small decline and pushed back a few fallen vines to reveal the cave entrance from the other day. All the girls looked at each other before walking down themselves and entering the cave. It was dark, wet and slightly cold, but it beat being out in the sun and getting burned. The cave itself was beautiful, with an underground lake that was reflecting the tall sharp rocks hanging above it. The only light was coming from the small tunnel they had walked in and even that wasn't bright enough to light up the whole area.
"I didn't even know this existed here." StarDust said amazed at everything. "I want a better look."
"NO!" MoonForest and Shelbi yelled in unison, but it was too late, StarDust pulled out her phone and shone it around awing at the beauty with her sisters. But their gazing was short lived when screeching came from the ceiling and sounds of flapping wings rushed towards them.
"Everyone get down!" Arcee yelled falling to the floor and throwing her arms over her head, everyone followed and waited until the sounds were gone.
"Nice." Queenie said getting back up and dusting her suit off.
"At least we don't have to worry about them anymore."
"Well there's an upside."
"Let's stop bickering and get out stuff together." Arcee said breaking up the mildly heated conversation.
Everyone was broken into teams of two. Arcee and Jade, StarDust and MoonForest, Aquanette and Shelbi, StarShadow and StarLight, Phoenix and Queenie. They had all decided to break up knowing that the more directions they went the faster they would be at finding the flag. Although Phoenix and Queenie volunteered to stay back at the base, since Queenie had great hearing she could tell if anyone was getting close and when that happened Phoenix could try and ward them off.
Sunday: 0800 hours, Arcee and Jade, Forest,
Arcee and Jade neared the Alphas territory, they knew that once they got there they had to book it until they were far enough that no one was nearby. Silence was the only thing they noticed, granted they could hear the forest but it wasn't that, it was the fact that Jade knew about Arcee's true self and past. They would occasionally cross glances trying to look and see that no one was near of following them. Arcee felt alright, in fact it had felt kind of good telling someone about her true self and not trying to make up lies to cover hers and the bots butts. On the other hand, Jade was still trying to process the information, she really couldn't get past her friend and leader as being a twenty food alien raging in a war with the Decepticons, and she was sure StarDust felt the same way. They walked a few more feet until Arcee stopped and pulled her hand telling Jade to stop to.
"We're at the line."
"How do you know?" Arcee pointed to a couple of trees that had the letter 'B' carved into them.
"From here we run until we know we're safe... ready?" She looked to Jade and the girl nodded slipping on her hood to hide her vibrant pink hair. "Let's go." They booked it, and fast, in fact Jade didn't even think she could run that fast.
As they got farther into the woods they were starting to think that they were getting safer, but their hopes of slowing down were cut short when a paintball came whizzing through almost hitting Arcee in the face. The looked to their right to see Araneae smirking devilishly. She stashed away her paintball gun and grabbed out a larger one, this time though she took her time in aiming.
A large Bang sounded out and Jade looked over to see something of a net coming her way. It caught her and pulled her against a tree and wrapped around a few times before abruptly stopping and pulling tighter against her. Jade let out a shriek and Arcee stopped to look behind herself and see her friend literally tied up against a tree. The Delta leader rushed over and pulled out a pocket knife. But before she could cut her out a paintball shot her hand and knocked the knife out of it. Looking at where it came from she saw Araneae and glared, she then looked back to Jade and saw that what she was tied up with looked a little to much like Arachnids webs.
"We didn't agree on this kind of stuff." Arcee said looking to her rival who was now closer and leaning against a tree.
"You didn't agree in this kind of stuff." Araneae replied carving a piece of wood. "Call it mild rule change."
"If rules get changed you need to tell us."
"Says who?" The spider like girl asked blowing off some wood carvings towards Arcee and she brushed them from her face. "Would you stay still for a second?"
"What the heck are you doing?"
"I like to make head carvings of my vict-enemies." Arcee shuddered a bit when a cold feeling when down her spine, she was just like Arachnid, except a bit less gruesome, but just as deadly.
"Why are you just standing there when you have the chance to shoot me."
"Awww, and take the fun out of the game... No way." Araneae said looking up from her halfway finished wood carving. "I caught Pinkie here, and I'd like to catch you, but you're making it to easy." She blew off a bit more dust and looked at her almost finished work. "I'll give you a five second head start, and please make it worth my while, I didn't join the bag of snot jobs for just any reason you know."
"I don't run away from those who need me." Arcee said looking to Jade who was getting ready to jump out of her predicament and attack Araneae.
"One."
"You're stupid if you think-"
"Two." Araneae slowly stood up from the tree and looked to Arcee. "Three." Arcee looked to Jade who was trying to point her head away telling Arcee to book it. "Four."
"Gosh Dang't Arcee, get your stubborn self out of here!" Jade yelled trying to break free. Araneae brought her teeth near her lip to form an F but before she could finish her count Arcee ran from her spot as fast as she could trying not to look back, the sounds of someone running behind her was freaky enough.
As she ran she could see the girl behind her, whipping past the trees and bushes. Her heart started to pound remembering her nightmare from this morning. She clenched her eyes shut for a moment trying to get her mind on the task at hand, there was no need to be thinking of something that wouldn't happen. Yes the girl was creepy, in a very freaky way, but even Brittnianne would have to draw the line at actually beating and killing a person, just for the mere thrill of it. She heard muffled talking and looked around to see no one, when she looked back behind herself she saw Araneae running the opposite direction. Arcee took the time to slow down and catch a much needed breath of air. Just as she did so a few twigs snapped behind her. Arcee pulled out her hand gun and shot not even giving a second thought to who she was shooting at.
"Aw come on!" Was the reply she heard.
Sunday: 0800, Aquanette and Shelbi, Forest,
"Get back here!" Aqua and Shelbi ran as fast as they could trying to get away from Breonna. They looked back to see her orange hair flying through the air, looking like a thousand tiny little whips ready to smack you. If there was one thing that they learned from her today, it's that she may look and act stupid and seem like a harmless, but give her a long range gun and you better run as if your life depends on it. Her yelling wasn't so scary, in fact the two girls had to hold themselves from laughing whenever she did. But when she shot her gun they had to watch out, both of them had something to agree with that. Shelbi's pants were covered from butt to foot in a few paintballs, and Aqua's back a few paintballs planted on her, in a smiley face formation.
"Where the heck did she learn to shoot like this!?" Aquanette asked pushing away a few branches from her face.
"Books!?"
"Really?"
"Just a suggestion." Another shot rang out and they moved out of the way to see it fly past them. Aqua moved another branch and it flew forward vibrating a bit. A smiled crept onto her face and she grabbed Shelbi's arm pulling her behind the branches tree. "Hey!" Shelbi said taking her hand back.
"Shh." Aqua put her finger up to her mouth and crouched behind the tree while grabbing the flimsy branch. She motioned for Shelbi to follow and she did, they pulled it as far back as they could waiting for Breonna to come close enough. And she did, when she was close enough the two Delta girls let the branch go and and it smacked her right across the forehead. They walked out from behind the tree to see the red headed girl sprawled across the ground unconscious. "You think she'll be okay."
"I read a book that says getting hit by a branch won't kill you."
"Ok." Aqua said shrugging and walking off. "Let's go find that flag!" Before they could take off something muffled came from Breonna's pocket. Shelbi took it out making sure to not to wake her up. She brought it up to her ear and listened, but that was a bad move.
{BREONNA!} Shelbi and Aqua shot from the device trying to rub their now hurting ears. {BREONNA ANSWER ME NOW!} Aqua knew that walkie talkies were known for making voices unrecognizable some times, she cleared her throat and answered in her best Breonna voice.
{Ya Brittnainne?}
{Why didn't answer me.}
{I was chasing after one of Arcee's minions.}
{I told you to stay near the tree}
{W-}
{Look I don't have time for one of your stupid little explanations. Get back to the tree so I can tell you our new plan.}
{Can you tell me here, I'm kinda lost.}
{LOST!... For crying out loud you half brain, theres a tracker on your device, USE IT!} They both shot back and looked at each other before Aqua replied.
{Could'ya tell me the plan here.} They heard Brittnianne sighing before she spoke again.
{Since I can't explain anything to you in depth anyways... We're going to regroup and ambush the Delta's in their own territory, so that means we let them find our flag, and before they can get it to their set place, which is where their flag will be hidden, we get them and take their flag.}
{So that wo-.} Aqua said in her real voice, she cleared her throat again and spoke. {Wouldn't that be cheating?}
{Yes, but what should we care about cheating.}
{So we're going to trick them}
{I swear I've seen a wall of bricks smarter than you.}
{Sooo that means.}
{YES! We are going to trick them, why else would I allow them to find out flag and bring it back to their territory freely, do you really think I am that stupid to not think a plan through?} Aqua smirked and looked to Shelbi and then to the walkie talkie.
{Yes.} They heard Brittnianne gasp and growl at the same time.
{If you don't want you little secret getting out, I would suggest you respect me.}
{Uh, yes Brittnianne.}
{Good... Ungrateful little brat.} They heard Brittnianne mumbling the last part but it was pretty clear, even over the device. {Get back here now!} The Alpha leader ended the talk and the two girls looked at each other.
"Do you know what she meant by secret?" Aqua asked shoving the walkie talkie inot one of her pockets.
"Not a clue." They heard silent mumbling and looked to see Breonna coming around, her eyes opened slightly and they stepped back. "I would suggest we get out of here before she fully wakes." Aqua nodded while stuffing the walkie talkie into her pocket, the two then ran off farther into the forest.
It was silent for a while, no Alphas in sight or even sound. But they figured so because of what Brittnianne had unknowingly told them. The flag was no where to be seen, and they were both getting a bit antsy to just find it and return it to their side so they could win.
"So what'dya think the new plan is?" Aqua asked keeping her pace with Shelbi's.
"How would I know, that girl is like a security pass code, changes ever two seconds."
"Ya, but really, what could they possibly do different than keep us away from their precious flag?"
"Ambush... I don't know, like I said, you can never predict them." Aqua shrugged at the answer she was given. "Maybe we should stop in a minute, let out legs rest."
"Good idea." The two ran for a few more moments before slowing down, but not without making a whole load of loud noises. Once they were stopped they saw someone moving from the other side of the thick trees, a shot rang out and next thing Aqua knew she was being hit in the chest with a blue paintball. "Aww, Come on!" She yelled looking at her new casualty.
"Aqua?" They heard a familiar voice ask.
"Please tell me that's you Arcee." They saw her face peek through the thicket and a sigh of relief escaped them all.
"I'm so sorry, I thought you were someone else."
"It's okay, you were just keeping yourself safe..." They looked around to see only Arcee. "Where's Jade?"
"Araneae, trapped her and made me run off like a scared child. I didn't want to, but Jade protested."
"Are you going to get her back?"
"When I can, I don't want to be ambushed by that." Arcee shivered and shook her head.
"Well we got some intel that all the Alphas are retreating back to their base for a new plan of events."
"Really, how did you get that?"
"Well, we might of accidentally knocked Breonna out and stole her walkie talkie, and kinda might of pretended to be her when Brittnianne comm'd."
"Nice one." They both smiled at her like they had just defeated the evil side. "So anything important that we could use." Before the girls could answer they heard noises on the other side of the trees and Arcee pulled up her gun and shot.
"REALLY!"
Sunday: 0800 hours, StarShadow and StarLight, forest,
"I know you're here somewhere." Moesha said scouting the forest ever so cautiously. She had heard feet clambering through the thick and immediately knew that it was one of the Delta's. But when she got there, there was no one to be seen. On the other hand StarShadow and StarLight were hidden up on a couple of the branches in a nearby tree, and they could see the Alpha girl trekking around, trying to find them. StarShadow couldn't help but let out a silent snicker at this.
"Blind as a bat." StarShadow said trying to hold in a bit of laughter.
"How long do you think it'll take her to realize that were up here?" StarLight said looking down.
"I really don't care, this is just too funny." StarLight moved a bit on her branch trying to help her now numbing butt. But she had moved to fast, a smaller branch that was underneath her feet loudly snapped and fell to the ground, but not without hitting the searching Alpha in the head. Moesha looked up from her spot to see two figures perched up in the high part of the tree, and she couldn't help but let out a mild smirk.
"Found you." The two sisters looked to each other with worry, there was just something in the girls voice that they found uneasy. She pulled out a smaller hand gun, but the two realized what it was from their previous history class. It was a small hand held machine gun, they were eligible to shoot fast, hard, and far, up or down. She pointed it towards them and they gulped.
"Leave?"
"Leave." Before any of the paintballs could hit them they started to jump down, branch from branch. Although they didn't reach the ground without a few paintballs hitting them.
"You just made yourselves, very easy targets." Moesha said facing StarLight and the younger sister looked to her worriedly. Before the Alpha girl could even think of shooting again StarShadow ran up behind her and kicked the gun out of the unsuspecting girls hand. Moesha flipped around just in time to see the older sister about to throw a punch to her face. She stumbled back a bit surprised, but the shock ended and she herself threw a punch back getting the Delta in the side. They then started to throw blows to each other, a few times stumbling back but getting right back into the swing of things. On the other hand StarLight watched the whole fight, and she could see that there was going to be no end, both girls were too tough to give up.
"Grab the.." StarShadow was knocked to the ground making her sentence incomplete, but her younger sister knew exactly what she was going to say. She wanted to grab Moesha's former gun and turn it against her but, the Alpha was too close to it. So instead she grabbed out her long range and took in a deep breath before pushing her finger into the trigger. The force was a bit harsh, but that was what she expected due to her not using guns, well, ever. StarLight looked up from her shoulder that now felt like it had been punched and saw that Moesha was turned from her sister and ready to tear her to shreds. Apparently she had hit her on the left shoulder blade, not to where they could say she was out, but right where the girl could still fight back angrily. Though before she could lunge for the younger sister, muffled talking came from one of her side pockets. Moesha picked up a walkie talkie and listened, StarShadow took the absent time to grab for Moesha and do a counter attack but her chances of finishing the fight were demolished when the Alpha girl ran off in the opposite direction, not as if she was scared of a fight, but because she was following orders. "Know what that was about?"
"Why are you asking me, I'm in the dark as much as you." The two shrugged and looked at each other in awkward silence.
"We should either try and find the flag or the others." StarLight nodded before the two jogged off into the depth of the forest. The two ran for a bit before seeing something bright pink in the distance out of the corner of their eyes. They ran towards it and found that it looked familiar, that's when it clicked.
"JADE!" They yelled in unison while running faster to get to her. Upon arrival StarShadow and StarLight found that the girl was tied up against a tree with what looked like, spiderwebs. Upon closer look they could see that she was... asleep. The two Delta's slightly snickered at this.
"Either this was one big and nasty spider, or it's on of Brittnianne's devious devises that did this." StarShadow grabbed out a pocket knife and cut the web in half letting the pink haired girl fall to the ground with a thud waking her up.
"Hey, was up?" She asked groggily, trying to keep her eyesight focused.
"Well you were." StarLight rolled her eyes at her sisters slightly failed joke.
"Oh No!" Jade shot up worry filling her eyes. "Where's Arcee, last I saw her she was being chased by Araneae." Her legs defied her strength and she fell to the ground once more.
"We haven't seen her." StarLight said with a shrug.
"We have to find her, who knows what Brittnianne would do to her if she was a hostage."
"Don't worry, if there's one thing we've seen about Cee it's that she will not go down without a fight."
"You're right, what am I worried about... I mean she fought in war for thousands of years and hasn't died yet." She whispered the last part under her breath but the two girl caught part of it, and now were a bit curious. But those were questions for later, right now they had to find the others. StarDust and Starlight lifted Jade up an arm on each girl. They then helped her walk a ways since her blood was still trying to get her legs working properly again.
After about five minutes from their starting point Jade started to fully walk on her own. Silence then passed over them like a cold breeze in the middle of winter, no one really knew what to say to the other.
"So do you know how far Arcee ran for?" StarShadow asked.
"Maybe about five minutes, I really couldn't tell, but I knew something was up when Araneae ran right passed me back to the Alphas base." Jade replied nonchalantly. They came to a partial opening in the forest and heard voices. The three listened in trying to get closer but had a hard time keeping quiet. A small shot rang out and Jade felt something hard hit against her arm. "REALLY!" She yelled. "First being tied to a tree and now this!" She looked to the trees to see Arcee, Aqua and Shelbi walking out.
"Nice... two for one." Shelbi said and Aqua glared at her.
"Sorry, I'm just a bit on edge."
"You're telling me, I can't stand feeling like were going to get shot any second." StarShadow said looking behind herself.
"You won't really have to worry about that any time soon." Aqua said folding her arms to cover the paintball that she was hit with.
"Aqua and Shelbi were about to explain to me what the Alphas new plans were." Arcee said facing her two comrades that she spoke about. Again before they could speak two figures burst through the clearing with none other than a bear chasing after them.
Sunday: 0800 hours, StarDust and MoonForest, forest,
No Alpha's not a singer girl was in their sight. The girls were beginning to think that they had been jinxed by the two timing girls that called themselves college students. Their guns were out and they were ready to send anyone back crying to their leader about how they weren't strong enough to go up against the Delta girls. A couple of times MoonForest and StarDust found themselves yawning and wanting to just head back to their respected houses and sleep. But the determination of wanting to win this battle was too strong even for the both of them mixed together.
Along the desolate way the two girl heard something of a cry, but it wasn't human, more animal like. MoonForest followed it wondering what the sound could belong to but StarDust was more than eager to protest the girls actions.
"We shouldn't medal with the forest life."
"What do you call shooting each other with loud paintball guns?" MoonForest replied raising a brow and StarDust stayed quite, actually having to agree with the new recruit. Upon arriving at the area they saw one thing, a small baby cub crying out for it's mother. "The poor thing, it's lost."
"Poor thing? It's a bear, bears kill people."
"Only if you provoke them... Anyways I don't want to get to close to it, I mean look at those fangs."
"It's not about the baby, it's about the mother, if she see's you 10 feet from her cub she will rip you to shreds."
"Look as long as we aren't showing any signs of hostility, we'll be safe... One of my friends was close to a cub and the mother just picked it up and walked away." MoonForest said stating her facts.
"What kind of bear was it?" StarDust asked with a hint of fear in her voice.
"A brown bear. He said it wasn't one of the ferocious ones but it was pretty big."
"What about a 7ft angry mama grizzly!" MoonForest looked to where StarDust was pointing and her face fell flat. About 15 ft away was a mother bear standing tall with her teeth and claws bared.
"Well... that might be another... RUN!" The girls shot from their spot scared out of their skins, with the grizzly bear following.
"I'm so glad adrenaline exists or we would be dead by now." StarDust yelled over the loud sounds of the forest and bear.
"Agreed, but sooner or later we're going to want to stop and rest."
"That's not really and option here!" The girls jumped over fallen trees and swerved from obstacles looking back every few seconds to see that the mother bear was still chasing them. "Let's just remember that Mama bear doesn't like it when we look at her cub."
"I'll make a mental note." MoonForest thought for a second before looking at StarDust. "Why aren't we shooting at it, scare it away."
"Good question... Maybe it's because We Dropped Out Guns When She Started To Chase Us!"
"Right." MoonForest replied looking down to see that in fact her weapon was missing.
"There's a clearing up ahead, maybe we can lose her in it."
"Good idea!" They tumbled into the clearing to see their comrades, but they had no time to react when the mother bear came bursting through too, letting out an angry roar.
"I just hope someone will find out bodies." MoonForest said covering her body with her arms and shutting her eyes. But nothing came, she peeked an eye open to see the bear growling and walking away from Arcee seeming ashamed. "The heck you do?"
Arcee looked around to see her teammates with wide gaping eyes and mouths, in all their years they had never seen anyone just go at a bear like that and none the less come out with little to no scratches.
"What are you?" One of the girls asked trying to snap out of her trance.
"Another time." Arcee said turning to Aqua and Shelbi. "What was it you were going to tell us about the Alphas?" The two girls looked at each other with questions written in their eyes.
"Shouldn't we tell Phoenix and Queenie too?"
"Ya, but they don't have any communication Devices." Aquanette grabbed out the walkie talkie she had taken from Breonna and switched through the frequencies. "What'cha doin?"
"Trying to see if maybe they took one for themselves." All the girls were thankful when they heard Phoenix's spitfire voice talking through the device. Once explanations were done Aqua and Shelbi explained what they had come to learn by the Alpha leader and what they could be doing as a plan.
Sunday: 0800 hours, Phoenix and Queenie, Delta Base
Queenie was sitting on one of the rock like ledges resting her head against the wall, while Phoenix was across the cave using one of the rocks as a drawing utensil. Phoenix looked up from her spot and saw Queenie was fast asleep against the rock. Out of pure boredom she slowly got up and made her way over to the sleeping girl. She learned from yesterday that the blind girl was very in tune with her other senses, so if she wanted to scare her, she had to be extra stealthy. Phoenix tip toed over to Queenie and took in a deep breath before actually scaring her.
"BOO!" Phoenix jumped back and fell straight into the lake at Queenies sudden outburst. "HA! HAhahahahah!... Oh man, I got you good!" Queenie held her stomach while trying to contain her laughter.
"Bu- you."
"You thought I was asleep!" Queenie let out a little snort, falling back onto the small ledge.
"Yes I thought you were asleep. You looked like you were dead out."
"Look." Queenei said calming down now. "There's one thing anyone should know about me, and that's, that I'm a really light sleeper."
"Don't have to tell me twice." Phoenix got up and looked at her suit that was soaked from her waist to her feet. "Dang't, now I'm gonna freeze." Queenie held back her laughter trying not to make her new friend feel bad. When she was about to stand up again she heard something making her stop. "What?" Phoenix asked seeing that Queenie seemed tense.
"Alphas, there here..." The fiery girl looked to the corridor that led to the enterance and sure enough there were two shadows passing by and couple muffled voices. The two Delta's grabbed out their weapons and made sure that they were ready.
"Don't let them know you're here." Queenie nodded and they both positioned themselves on each side of the cave entrance trying to listen to the conversation.
"Why did we even agree to this?" One voice asked and Phoenix realized it as Rylee's
"We didn't, we were made to do this, remember... The question is, is why aren't we out there defending our flag, and why were we stuck with the task of finding the Deltas?"
"Brittnianne knows we both don't really agree with harassing the girls Darkie, she probably thought that we wouldn't shoot."
"I'm not that soft hearted... I just don't agree with the way 'Miss Princess' is doing everything."
"You mean how she's controlling the school?"
"Duh, you know we wouldn't be here if..." The voices trailed off and the two Delta's looked at each other. After a few more moments of silence and knowing that the two were gone, Queenie and Phoenix moved from their spots. Silence passed over them though as no one spoke, each knew what was on their minds, and they wanted to know the rest. They nodded to one another before walking out into the bright daylight.
"We should get them before they find our flag." Phoenix said pointing the obvious and Queenie gave her the 'No Duh' look. The two girls heard twigs snapping and looked that direction to see the Alpha girls running away from them. "Let's hurry!"
The chase went on for a good ten minutes and the Delta girls were feeling a bit satisfied seeing that they were directing the girls away from their flag. That was until the two Alpha girls made a sharp U-turn in some thick and darted towards the flag. Phoenix growled twisting around in the soft mud trying not to lose her balance. Queenie had heard the girls running the opposite direction and did the same as Phoenix. When they were fully balanced they ran off in search of their enemies.
"I'M SINKING!" Phoenix and Queenie looked towards where the sound was coming from.
"I can't tell where they are, the forest it to dense." Phoenix said remembering how sound can bounce off of solid object making the thing or person sound as if they were somewhere else.
"Just follow me." Queenie said taking a sharp left turn into some bushes, they trudged through the thick mud trying to find the twins. After a little bit their search came to an end, the two Alpha girls had gotten themselves stuck in none other than Quicksand, and they were sinking fast.
"You gotta help us!" Rylee said trying to get herself out of the sand.
"You know the more you try to get out the faster you sink." Phoenix said holding her elbow in one hand and tapping her chin with the other.
"Please!" Her sister Darkie, as she had been called, pleaded.
"Maybe... What's in it for us?" Queenie asked looking at the two girls.
"Anything! Please!" Rylee's hand had already sunk into the sand and she was frantically trying to get it out.
"Anything?... Hmmm." Phoenix looked up as if taking her time to think about the offer.
"Look, we'll radio the others so that you can have ten minutes of free time! Now please!"
"Alright... Alright." Phoenix looked around and grabbed a vine from one of the trees, this was against her better judgement but 10 minutes free time was a good bargain. She threw the vine to the two sinking girls and they grabbed onto it, then she and Queenie used all their strength to pull them out. "A bargain, is a bargain." Rylee's sister grabbed out her walkie talkie and pressed a side button. But before she could talk she acted as if she was sneezing and threw the communicator into the quicksand. "Why you!"
"Look, I'd like to keep my head." She said flatly shrugging and Queenie growled at her.
"That was a very unwise move."
"Really?" Queenie stepped a tough foot forward and Darkie stumbled back into the quicksand, just far enough to where she couldn't get out. "Rylee." She screeched clawing at the sand.
"Get her out!" Rylee said giving a death glare to the girls.
"Not until you tell your comrades to back off for 10 minutes... A bargain is a bargain and were gonna make sure you keep it."
"Fine," Rylee looked as if she was about to reach for her walkie talkie, but instead she swooped down and grabbed the vine. But Phoenix ripped it from her grasp and threw it a ways away to where Rylee couldn't get to it without being pummeled to the ground. She shot another glare before actually grabbing out her communicator and pressing the call button. Seconds later a crude voice came over.
{WHAT!} Everyone cringed at Brittniannes shouting.
{I think we need to regroup and figure out another strategy.}
{Oh really, and why would that be?}
{Me and Dana, need to figure some new plans out so we can get the flag.}
{Well you have your device, use it to track the dang flag!} Rylee looked to the two Delta's and then to her sister.
{It's broken in that part.} They heard angered growling and something breaking.
{GET BACK HERE! I'LL COM THE OTHERS!} The line went dead and she looked to Phoenix who grabbed the vine and pulled her sister out. Dana ran over to Rylee and glared at the other girls.
"I'll take that." Queenie said holding out her hand for the walkie talkie.
"Why should we give it to you?"
"Look, You're lucky we're not capturing you and sending you to our prison."
"Oh really." The two Delta's stepped forward aggressively and Rylee threw her the walkie talkie, which in turn Phoenix stuffed it into her pocket.
"Run." The Alphas took off leaving Queenie and Phoenix to themselves.
When they were back at the entrance of their base the two stopped for a rest. Their arms and legs were a bit soar from pulling up and chasing the girls, but otherwise they were perfectly fine.
"Well... that was eventful." Phoenix said smiling a bit.
"You're telling me." The walkie talkie in Phoenix's pants began to make the usual buzzing sound, she took it out and eyed it warily. But her suspicions of it being an Alpha were subsided when she heard her teammates talking over the device about how it was them. After Queenie clarified that it was in fact them two that they were talking to Aqua and Shelbi got into an explanation about the new plan Brittnianne was going to ensue on them and that's when the team of Delta's decided to come up with their own plan.
Sunday: 2000 hours, Delta team, forest,
Once the girls had all grouped up the flag was fairly easy to find. It had just been hidden in a small cave right before the Alphas territory hit the outside world.
They had to trudge back to their side but weren't dreading it, in fact they were ready for the little surprise they had cooked up for their enemy team. Phoenix and Queenie had stayed on their side to hide away the bombs that aqua and Jackie had built, while also secretly keeping track of where the Alphas were going on their territory.
Upon getting back the Delta girls had to watch their step to make sure they wouldn't step on any of the mines. It was getting dark out, with the sun threatening to go past the rising mountains. When they were back at their base Arcee silently motioned for the girls to go the ways they had talked about. Five one way, and Five another, each team carrying a flag, but one was a decoy. When the first team walked out they could hear silent whispers from the other team and light footsteps following them, they girls looked to each other and smirked.
The second team waited about 10 minutes before going out themselves, and they too could hear the other team trying to be quiet.
Minutes passed and only silence could be heard, nothing more. The birds had ceased their singing, the rodents had decided it was time for bed, the only real sound they could hear was the one of the owls asking 'who' was there. That was until they heard one sound that was like music to the ears. One of Aqua's mines had been stepped on and triggered making it go up in a blast of slate grey, a color they knew Brittnianne would despise. The five girls high-fived each other while giving off the largest smiles yet. But the game wasn't over, the Alpha's were ones to cheat and no matter how many times they were metaphorically killed by the paint they would never deem themselves out, they had their sights on winning and they would not give up for anything.
"How much farther?" Jade asked Arcee hearing the Alphas getting closer.
"Not much, just a few more feet until we hit out winning point."
"Will it really work."
"It should." They stopped talking and walked on, knowing that every second they stopped was another second the Alphas were getting closer to winning. As they started walking they heard another mine go off, and then another one following after that.
On the other side of the Delta's territory the girls were having a bit of trouble trying to decipher where the mines had been hidden. It was getting pitch black outside to where the girls could almost not see their hands in front of their faces and it was starting to rain a bit, but they knew soon enough it would begin to pour.
"This is why I hate it here, the sun goes down waaay to early." MoonForest said annoyed.
"It's not that bad." Queenie said shrugging.
"Pro-" The newer recruit was shot a glare and she bit her lip.
"We just need to be quiet so that Alphas don't know where we are."
"Right." They walked on for a while longer until stopping near one of the marshes.
"How much more longer?" Aqua asked loudly.
"Shhhh."
"Come on, we've been at this all day, shouldn't one of us of won by now."
"If you don't be quiet it'll be the other team that wins."
"Does it look like I care."
"I would say no, but I can't exactly see you right now." After a bit of silence they heard feet walking ever so closely to them. Moments later some of the Alphas jumped them and grabbed the flag from their hands. "HEY! Give it back!"
"HA, Never!" A voice said before running off into the dark of the forest. Once the girls knew they were gone they smiled.
"And that's what happens when you assemble a pack of boneheads into your group." The Delta's laughed at StarShadows remark.
"So how do you think until they find out that the flag is just a long stick with a leave tied to it."
"Beats me, I just can't wait to see their faces when they do." They all laughed for a few minutes before walking off into the forest to find their other teammates.
The Alpha team was trudging through the forest when they heard the others running up to them.
"We got our flag, now all we need to do it ambush them for theirs." Breonna said holding it towards her leader who seemed a bit stiff.
"That's a tree you nimwhit, I'm over here." Breonna turned and handed the 'flag' to her leader and she tried to look it over best she could. But her SIC's happiness was short lived when the pole was bonked against her head. "This is a stick with a leave tied to it! I swear if I ever choose someone else to be my SIC, it will be the best day of my life." Brittnianne yelled throwing the stick down.
"Sorry." Breonna said looking to the ground ashamed.
"Sorry's not good enough. Just come with me and we'll all go get those girls." The team started to walk off again with Brittnianne fuming and Breonna rubbing her now sore head.
They were almost there, not even half a mile away from where their flag stood and where they needed to drop off the Alphas. The other five had met up with Arcee and her team ready to get this over with and get back to their homes. They could hear the other team behind them, and they knew that they were coming close, fast.
After a few more moments they could see it, their flag! It was one of the most beautiful things the girls had seen, but they knew they had to get there fast or their victory would be cut off. And it was. One of the Alphas jumped down from the tree and landed right in front of Arcee, who was at the time holding the flag. The girl tackled her trying to reach for their flag, but each time she would keep it out or range.
"JADE!" Arcee yelled, not it help, bit in a more come here manner. The pink haired girl ran over to Arcee followed by the other Delta's who proceeded to surround the girl and her oncoming comrades. When Arcee pushed the other girl off she more or less slapped Jade's hand, making the girl turn away and run. But she didn't make it far without another Alpha tumbling her over and splashing into a puddle of mud. She looked back to see Arcee and Brittnianne fighting over to flagpole both trying to gain control of it.
"StarDust!" The TIC of the Delta's ran over to Jade and kicked her foot at Jade's hand, the supposedly rude action deterred the Alpha girl just long enough to get Jade to push her off.
StarDust was next to go down by being shot in the arm with a paintball. Her arm swung harshly letting go of what she was holding.
"Aqua!" The texan girl looked over and saw that StarDust was occupied in trying to get back at whoever shot her, so she ran over and slid in the mud that was creating by the rain trying to catch the falling object and to her luck she did. Aquanette shot up and ran as fast as she could but also shot, but not by a paintball pellet, no by a paintball arrow. She didn't care though and kept on running, it was when the object in her hand was shot out she yelled.
"Shelbi." The more quiet girl looked to Aqua and ran towards her. Her friend pointed to the thing and Shelbi grabbed it running as fast as she could from the now fight scene. Their flag was so close, she knew that if she ran fast enough she would make it. But her chances were gone when someone tackled her to the ground and wouldn't let go. She looked around to see the rest of her teammates fighting off the Alphas, there was no one available to help her. At least she though, until she looked up to see MoonForest was the one holding her down.
"What the heck MoonForest." She burst out aggravated.
"Look I'm trying to help, if they think I'm one of them tackling you and them running to get the flag they won't suspect me." Shelbi nodded and gave her the object in her hand. "Now just act like you've been knocked out or something. Shelbi rolled her eyes and laid there for a few moments before getting up to join her sisters.
MoonForest ran from the fight scene and to the flagpole. She was about to make them the winners when a girl walked out fro the shadows.
"Well well, don't we think we're so sly." The voice said.
"Back off, or I'll hit you."
"Please, you wouldn't hit someone was smaller than you." MoonForest looked to the girl and saw that she was at lease a couple inches smaller, but that didn't change what she said.
"Eat My Dust!" MoonForest spit in her face and the girl stumbled down the hill, not being helped by the mud that was underneath her. MoonForest took off their flag and replaced it with the one that she was holding. "WE WIN!" She yelled jumping up and down, which in turn made everyone look to her with wide eyes, Delta's with estatic ones and and the Alphas with angered ones.
"That's not fair, you just changed your flag with ours!" Brittnianne said pointing an accused finger at the girl.
"Exactly, you said we need to get each other's flags to the the others side, you never said we had to bring the flag pole too." Brittnianne shot daggers at Arcee and growled. "There's no way in getting around it, we won, and you lost." The Alpha leader took in a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"You won today, but next time you will lose."
"Let's, let time to the telling."
"ALPHAS LET'S GO!" The other girls growled at the Delta's as they walked off with their leader. Arcee wiped away a wet stray hair that was plastered to her face and smiled.
"WE WON! HA WE WON!" Jade yelled jumping up and down while pumping her fists.
After they all got back to their houses they all got washed and ready for bed. Then that was followed with a movie and much needed rest.
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