Here is chapter for of Numbuh C4. School just re-started for me. Meh.

KND Arctic Base

Cadet Training: Day 14

Sim Room: 3

"Teams One, Two, Three, and Four on Sim Room 3."

"What's a 'Sim Room'?" Josh asked as he and the rest of his team entered through one door.

Carol walked to a table where she found several training weapons. "I think this is a team exercise." Carol spoke aloud to her team as they approached the table.

"Gear up cadets. These Sim Rooms are where you're going to hone your skills and learn to actually work as a team. Sim Room 3 specializes in combat situations. Your goal is to tag out all opposing forces. There are four teams just to add an extra sense of pressure. Try to last as long as you can, I've got a side bet with another Sergeant."

"You hear Numbuh 68.09." Carol grabbed a training pistol off the bench. "Gear up." A second bench rose out of the ice floor, revealing five sets of armor.

"These suits of armor are to insure you stay down once you get tagged out, not to mention they give off the feeling of real combat in KNDefense armor. Your helmets were randomized, all battle weary from year of being worn by cadets. You are all expected to keep your helmets until graduation, if you graduate that is."

"Yeah." Carol muttered as she pulled a helmet off the bench. "We got it."

"These helmets aren't in order." John spoke up as he inspected the helmet with the designation 'C85'.

"At least yours doesn't have writing on it." Nolan said as he turned his helmet, 'C203', and inspected the writing on it. "'Fodder', 'Easy Pickings', 'Owned', 'Target', 'Bait' 'Tagged'. Who wrote this?"

"That helmet must be bad luck." Carol spoke up as she placed her armor over her clothing. She inspected her helmet once more, noting the designation. "'C4'" Carol read aloud.

"T-minus two minutes to simulation."

"You guys ready?" Carol asked as she loaded her training pistol.

"Weapons training was just yesterday. Does he really expect us to have gotten it down already?" Thomas asked aloud as he fiddled with his training weapon.

"This is a team exercise; we'd better work as a team." Josh spoke up as he placed his helmet atop his head.

"So what? You want us to just stick together in a group?" Nolan raised a brow.

"Won't it be easier to pick us off then?" Thomas spoke up.

"Maybe…" Josh trailed off in thought.

Carol turned to her team. "We all go at it alone. Keep them all off guard and eventually mow them down. Anyways, I don't won't to be anywhere near John, I bet everyone wants to tag him out first out of all of us."

"Wait, why me?" John raised a brow.

"You keep preaching to everyone about the bible and God, they're all probably mad with you. Not to mention this is purely based around shooting one another." Thomas said, causing John to lower his head in sadness. "There, there buddy, there, there." Thomas said as he patted John on the back.

The floor the group stood began to rise as the ceiling spread apart.

"This is it Cadets, try not to kill one another."

The operatives emerged through the opening in the ceiling, finding them in an ice wonderland. "Alright, spread out, try not to get shot." Carol spoke to her team before dispersing.

"This ain't gonna end well." John frowned as he stepped behind cover.

Stun rounds and shell casings clattering on the icy floor echoed throughout the Sim room. "This is nuts!" Nolan shouted before he dove for cover, evading a stun round from Kimberley.

"Keep up the pressure!" Kimberley shouted to the rest of her team as they closed in on Nolan. "Sooner or later, either way, he's tagged!"

Carol slid down a frozen corridor, evading stun rounds from members of Team Four. Carol spun around; carrying with her the stun gun she was given. She clicked the trigger rapidly before pushing off the wall and sliding towards Team Two's position, leaving Team Four to regroup.

"Oh no you don't." Carol muttered as she charged towards Team Two.

"Behind us!" Volt exclaimed before Carol slammed into him, knocking the boy off his feet and onto the floor.

"Crap." Souster muttered before being tagged by one Carol's stun gun.

Kimberley and Vana spun around and began shooting at Carol. "Come on, Nolan." Matthew shook his head. "Just stop hiding so I can tag you out."

"I'd rather you not." Matthew turned around, his eyes widened as he found Josh holding his stun gun to his forehead. "No hard feelings." Josh said before pulling the trigger of his stun gun and tagging Matthew out of the simulation.

"Can you stop dodging Carol? You're acting as if this was a real fire fight." Kimberley sighed as she and Vana failed to tag out Carol, who was dodging every shot.

"This is preparing us for the real thing…" Carol trailed off as she pushed off a wall, sliding towards Kim and Vana. Carol slammed into Vana, grabbing for her stun gun and pushing her to the ground. Using Vana's stun gun, she tagged out Kim and tagged Vana out with her own at the same time. "…so I treat it as if it were the real thing."

"Thanks guys." Nolan said as he climbed out behind cover. "I would've been tagged if it weren't for you two."

"Well we won't be here to help you next time." Carol glared at Nolan. "Stand up and fight for yourself, actually contribute to the team." Nolan looked at the ice floor, frowning at Carol's words. "Come on; is this really Q's legacy? Cause if it is then you're a waste of a sector."

"Too far." Josh said as he placed a hand on Carol's shoulder.

Carol sighed as she squeezed her temples. "Okay, yeah, that was really messed up of me to say. But Nolan, next time you're cornered like that at least make them fight for it." Nolan remained silent. "Uh…we okay?"

"Sure yeah." Nolan said without taking his eyes from the floor.

"Anyone know where John and Thomas are?" Carol asked.

"Not sure about Thomas." Carol and Josh turned to see Team Four standing shoulder to shoulder, their stun guns raised. "But we tagged out John."

"Well then, that's good to know." Carol muttered before opening fire on Team Four with both her and Vana's stun guns. "You two gonna help me or what?" Carol asked as she made her way behind cover.

"I thought we were going to go with the whole divide and conquer plan." Josh muttered as he leapt behind cover, dragging Nolan with him.

"Well it seems it didn't exactly work out." Carol said as she jumped up from her cover and shot at Doug, tagging him out.

"Dang…" Doug muttered as his armor shut down, locking him in place. "I hate this."

"Join the club!" Matthew shouted.

"Focus your fire on Carol!" Ian shouted as he directed his team. "She's our only real problem."

"Hey!" Josh shouted as he and Nolan stood up from behind their cover. "We take offense to that!" Josh and Nolan pulled the triggers of their stun guns, proceeding to tag out the remaining members of Team Four.

"Awesome." Josh smirked.

"You guys missed one." Carol, Josh and Nolan turned to see Thomas kick a stun gun out of Volt's hand. Thomas then placed his own stun gun to Volt's chest and pulled the trigger. "John got tagged already."

"We heard." Carol said as she dropped Vana's stun gun. "Where were you?"

"I thought we were doing the divide and conquer thing." Thomas shrugged.

"Well, anyone see Rachel?" Carol narrowed her eyes.

"No…" Josh said as he rubbed his chin. "Any chance they got tagged out?"

"Actually…" Team Three turned their attention to Kimberley, who lay frozen on the ground. "Wouldn't Numbuh 68.06 unlock our armor then?"

Before anyone could comment, Nolan yelped as his armor locked on him, causing him to fall to the floor. "Crap! Run for cover they were waiting us out!" Josh shouted as he and Carol ran behind a wall.

Thomas spun around, getting off a shot before getting tagged out. Carol peered around the wall, her eyes searching for Rachel. "There's only room for one number one on that board…"

"What is with you?" Josh asked as he leaned against the wall. "Why do you have to beat Rachel?"

Carol sighed, turning to Josh. "I just have too."

"Fine then." Josh rolled his eyes. "On the count of three we rush them, okay?"

"Fine." Carol said as she got ready to run. "One. Two."

"Three." Josh muttered as he and Carol out behind cover, stun guns blazing.

Molly's eyes widened, her armor locking as she hit the ice. "Crap!" She exclaimed.

Josh raised his stun gun, his eye looking through the scope at Fanny. "Oh no you don't!" Patton shouted as he tackled Josh to the ground. Josh punched Patton across the chin as he tried to force the boy off of him. Patton merely shook it off and held his stun gun to Josh's helmet. He pulled the trigger, causing Josh's armor to lock up, freezing him.

"Dang, girl." Abby muttered as she dodged one of Carol's shots. "You really need ta chill out."

"Funny." Carol muttered as she kept her stun gun trained on Abby, despite her eyes searching for Rachel. "I was thinking the same thing." Carol pulled the trigger of her stun gun, blasting Abby. Abby grunted as she hit the ice covered floor.

"You've got a real problem, you know that?" Carol turned around, finding Rachel standing behind her. "I don't want to sound mean, but it seems that you do. We overheard you and your team; we heard what you said to your teammate. I see how vicious you fight, and just…you have a serious problem with your temper."

"Are you going to just stand there and lecture me? Or are we going to settle this?" Carol glared at Rachel.

"Settle what? I honestly don't know what you're talking about." Rachel frowned, almost looking at Carol sympathetically. "You glare at me all the time and I don't know why. So tell me, why are you so mad at me? What have I done to earn your animosity?"

"I have to be the best…" Carol gritted her teeth. "I need to be the best. You are the only thing standing in my way. Does that answer your question?" Carol said as she raised her stun gun.

"Yes, but I have another question." Rachel narrowed her eyes as Carol pulled the trigger of her stung gun. Rachel dodged to her left and shot Carol, causing her armor to lock up. Rachel walked over to Carol's frozen form. "Do you deserve it?"

"Alright…that was interesting…" Numbuh 68.06's voice echoed throughout the Sim room. "The simulation is over. The winning team is Team One. Now all of you hold still as I unlock your armor."

The sound of thankful sighs erupted from all of the tagged cadets. "Man that felt horrible." Gwen muttered as she rubbed her neck.

"Let's not do this again." Souster muttered as he helped Volt onto his feet.

"Need a hand?" Carol looked up to see her team standing around her.

Carol sighed. "No, I can get up on my own." Carol forced herself up.

"Keep the armor Cadets, you'll be needing it for some time later. Until then, everyone go and get some chow in the mess as I set up the next session for the rest of the cadets."

All of the Cadets exited the Sim room, all but one heading to the Cafeteria.

"Yo, Carol, where are you going?" Nolan asked as he noticed Carol walking off in a different direction.

"I got to check something out, go on without me, I'll catch up." Carol said as she walked off.

"Come on Nolan." Gwen said as she and Doug ran over to pull Nolan along. "It's time to eat."

"Sure, yeah…" Nolan said as he watched Carol walk off.

The Board

Carol looked up at the board, tears welling up in her eyes. Carol was now placed in fifth. Rachel was now ranked first, Fanny second, Patton third, and Abby fourth. Carol lowered her head in sadness, beginning to cry as she stood alone in front of The Board.