Untitled Chapter 5
A soft clicking noise broke the silence just before the sun completely lit up the sky. The two sleeping Gears inside the cave never heard it creep closer and closer.
Sam had slid further down, until her head was resting in Baird's lap. They still slept peacefully, so exhausted from the long constant fighting. Their exhaustion had put them in such a deep sleep that any non-extream noise would wake them up.
Baird's dirty blond hair nolonger spiked up, some strands of blond hair had been stained with blood. The make-shift bandage around his head had been stained and shifted some during the night, exposing a small portion of his injury.
Tick...tick...tick...tick...
Slowly it creeps closer to it's unexpected victoms and still they continued to sleep.
A small glowing barly lights up the ground around the Lambent Ticker as it passes by the tree that had the armor hanging from it.
As the sun slowly begain to rise, the sun shone on the armor which reflected onto Baird's face. He groanedand shifted slightly as he tried to get away from the warm bright light.
He groaned and shifted to get more comfortable. Both his butt and back made themselves known with a sharp pain. He tensed.
The sudden movement startled Sam, and she quickly sat up. Her ribs protested at the sudden movement and she hissed in pain.
The noise woke Baird and his eyes flew open.
"Sam?"
Slowly she turned and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."
Sam's short dark hair was messy, sticking up in diffeent directions. She wasn't the same, loud Sam when he had first met her.
"The sun is finally up." Baird said. "Let's hope that people are looking for us.'
"they will."
"How do you know?"
Sam smiled. "Because Cole.
Baird smiled. "Good ol' Cole. We both joined after E-Day. He has saved my ass many times. I don't know what I would do without him."
"It sounds like you two are pretty close."
"Yeah. We have been together since the begining. He and I have each other's backs."
Sam ran her fingers through her hair. "What did he save you from getting your ass beat up because you opened your big mouth?"
"Yeah...pretty much..."
Sam chuckled. "Why am I not suprised."
Baird stood and streached, causing his back to pop. He reached out to give Sam a hand up.
"Thanks."
"Let's get out of here..."
"Good idea..."
Tick tick tick tick tick
Baird grabbed Sam's arm. "Shhh. Do you hear that?"
"Ticker?"
"Probably Lambant Ticker. Let's get the hell out of here."
They ssilently turned off the safty to their side arms and carefully made their way to the front of the cave.
"Keep an eye out. We need to stay to one side and make it out of this stupid forest."
Carefully they made their way toward the front of the cave.
"Clear." Baird Whispered.
They made their way across the clearing and lowered their armor from the branch.
"Okay, let's start heading North. We flew south for a while so my guess is that if we just head North for a while, we will eventually get to the shore or the base."
Tick tick tick tick tick
"Oh crap!"
Baird grabbed Sam's hand and they took off through the trees, the branches scratching their face and arms.
Baird glanced over his shoulder to see hundreds of Lambent tickers rapidly approaching.
"Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!"
"Just keep going!"
They begain to weave through the trees hoping to get some distance between them and the tickers.
The tickers rapidly gathered ground, rapidly getting closer and closer. All at once, they made a high pitch sound.
"Not good."
"Jump!" Baird pulled Sam suddenly to right, just in time to advoid the first round of explosions.
"We are so screwed!" Baird quickly stood, pulling Sam to her feet. "Come on!"
Once again they were running and once again the tickers were getting closer. There was no way they could keep up this pace for a long time.
They made a quick left, which gave them only a little distance, but that didn't last very long.
"So what now, Baird? You're the smart one, right?"
"Not now..."
They kept weaving, but nothing worked. Then they made another left only to skild to a halt.
Baird and Sam now found themselves at the top ov a ver large cliftand surrounded by hundred of small, very dangerous enemies.
"Oh fuck..."
"Good job, Baird! Now what do we do?"
All at once, hundreds of high pitched whines filled the air. Baird and Sam turned quickly toward the approaching danger.
Baird's baby blue eyes scanned the area for any escape route, only to find that there was none.
He said a silent prayer and hoped for a quick and painless death.
The story is finished it's just typing it up and getting it all up tonight i've actually been a little distracted. LOL I've had drunk entertainment and I had to stop and record it hahaha the things I do for laughs. I am working hard to get this all posted. Thank you all who read this and all those who have written reviews