Dream Battle

Playing For Keeps

-Train POV-

After being awake for about a whole day, I was tired, and I wished that we could take a DVD remote and hit pause while we all got some rest. Unfortunately life wasn't that simple. Hey, a guy can wish, right?

Lynn left, and I was still heart broken about that, the sooner this was done with, the sooner that I could see her and my baby girl again. I loved them both so much that it hurt sometimes. They were my world and the reason why I was doing this.

With a shake of my head I pushed those thoughts from my head and focused on what I had to do. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy.

I was nearing my destination, and then I had to wait a little while. It would take Jenos time to get everything where it was supposed to be. I didn't like the plan much, but I knew that it was the best way to get things done. In the end it was likely that all three of would be captured. If that was the case Wiley had a back up plan that she wouldn't tell any of us. That didn't sit well with me.

"Train," Wiley's voice said into my ear. "The door is open. Get going." I didn't need to be told twice. I jumped from the wall that I was perched on, and in through the open window that Wiley had opened for me. A second later I was in the compound and slinking about thorugh the corridors.

They were deserted. I guess that Wiley had cleared the halls as well. This made things so much easier. Wiley deserved a good vacation after all of this. Hell, I think we all deserved a vacation after this!

Even though there were no people in the hallways, that didn't stop me from being cautious. Someone could be lurking around a corner and I'd never know it. I had to meet Yabi soon, she was breaking in on the other side of the building, and we had to meet at the room where the device was being held. That was down stairs, in the basement, under heavy security. Wiley had explained just how heavy that security was.

There were twenty guards in the room with fully-automatic weapons, laser guns, and then there were laser beams that if you touched one you'd get fried instantly. The device was locked in a fire proof, bullet proof, vault with a key pad, voice activation, and a retna scan. Yeah, that's what I'd call heavy security. Wiley was supposed to take out the laser beams, the voice activation, and the retna scan, she'd also give us the combination. After we had the device in hand we were supposed to run like hell towards the nearest exit, disappear, and hope like hell that we weren't being followed.

Didn't it sound easy?!

If you say yes, I'm going to shoot you.

Soon enough I neared the door that Jenos had typed the code into. I saw that it was unlocked. I opened it and then closed it behind me. I was out of the woods for the moment. The guard would be switching soon enough, and they'd come right through here. I had to wait until the guard switched. There was a vent in the ceiling, I was supposed to hide in there. When I saw it, I knew that I wouldn't be able to fit into it. I was dead.

"Train, look straight above you." Wiley said to me. I looked straight up. Heh. I guess that's the vent I was supposed to be hiding in.

"Thanks Wiley." I said.

"Hurry up and get in there, you only have two minutes before they walk through there." I set to work on getting into the vent. I had a minute left. I quickly jumped into the vent and closed it behind me, just in time too. Two guards walked right underneath me. "Go!" Wiley hissed in my ear. I didn't need to be told twice. I kicked open the vent and dashed for the elevator. Wiley had it open and waiting for me. Once I was in the doors slammed shut and we headed straight down. Yabi was supposed to meet me right outside the chamber where the device was being held.

I stepped out of the elevator and Yabi was standing there with her arms crossed over her chest.

"What took you?" She asked me. Sure we were probably going to be shot and killed in the room behind the door that we were standing in front of, but we could still have our jokes.

"Oh, nothing, I was just taking my time to make sure that you got here and I didn't have to wait for you." I answered with a shrug. Yabi smiled and we turned our attention to the door. "Shall-" I was cut off by the sudden blaring of warnings in my ears. Yabi and I looked around to see what was going on, and that's when we heard it.

"INTRUDERS!"

"Shit." Yabi growled. "We can come back later and get the device, the second that we open that door, we'll get shot." Yabi said. "Train, let's go!" Yabi grabbed my arm, and I knew that she was right. I heard something hit the floor, I turned and it was Yabi, they'd knocked her out. I drew my gun and was about to fire, but then I was falling through the air towards the floor. Then darkness.

-Normal POV-

Train and Yabi were thrown into a cell, not so nicely. The door slammed shut behind them, and they were stuck. Yabi was waking up, and Jenos was pacing. He didn't look too happy. He was glad for one thing, they hadn't found his voice piece, or his ear peice.

"Looks like we failed." Jenos muttered darkly.

"Yeah." Yabi agreed. "Did Wiley every tell you about her back up plan?" Yabi asked. Jenos shook his head. "Now I'm worried."

"She's probably going to do something nasty and all over the place, not to mention drastic." Train said as he sat up and rubbed at the back of his head. They'd hit him hard. "Let's just hope that it's nothing too drastic." Train added. Jenos nodded.

"Wiley hasn't answered in ten minutes. Normally she'd answer in five. This is beginning to worry me." Jenos added. "I think that whatever she's going to do it going to happen soon. We should find cover." They all nodded. They all grabbed the tiny mattress from the cot and huddled under it. Yabi in the middle, much to her discomfort.

"If we get out of this alive, then I'm going to be clausterphobic." Yabi muttered. She knew that it was for their own good, but that still didn't fill her with hope that they'd make it out of this alive.

-Wiley-

After not hearing from Jenos, or Train, or Yabi for twenty minutes she prepared for plan b. The secret plan that only she knew. The secret plan that would save them, and get the device all in one shot. She didn't like keeping the plan from them, but she had to. It involved a lot of killing.

She slipped on her clothes that were best suited to fighting, and then loaded herself up with weapons. There were her chopsticks, and a pair of duel katanas. They'd be using guns, and other weapons, so she had to be fast. They were dealing with a half demon, the only thing faster was a demon, or a bullet train.

She left her command center and headed towards the building. She wore a large trench coat with it's collar turned up, no one bothered to look at her. That's the way she wanted it. Wiley knew that this was going to be nasty, and all over the place. She wouldn't want it any other way.

Once the building came into view she summoned all her powers to her, and then took off towards it. To the normal human eye she couldn't be seen. Her trench coat was left on the ground where she'd been standing a second ago, and she was leaping over the gates, and running into the compound. Within seconds she was inside.

They didn't even know about a security breach again. Wiley knew that she only had a few minutes after she got the device to get Jenos and the others. She could do it. Plan B was the best plan that she had, and she could do it. Of that there were no doubts, Wiley couldn't afford to have doubts.

The door that she had to pass through was coming closer, there were people all around it. She'd give them the chance to move by themselves, or she'd kill them, simple as that. The blood lust was great in her eyes, and there was nothing that could stop her, short of the world coming to an end.

"Hello boys." Wiley said as she stopped right in front of them, not even five feet away. "You all have five seconds to surrender or your dead." Wiley added as she smiled at them. Mind you, it wasn't a nice smile, it was a nasty smile that meant blood shed was right around the corner. Their guns were aimed at her, and the little red dots that showed where they were aiming were aimed towards her head and her heart.

"Don't move or else we're going to shoot." the guard in command said.

"Shoot all you want, I'm not there." Wiley said from the side. It was a simple matter to move out of the way of their bullets in a second. "Since you all have decided that you're going to defend that posistion with your lives, then I'll take them." Wiley smiled as she drew her duel swords. She started a dance of beauty and of death, her was more deadly than Yabi was. Seconds later they were all lying on the floor, dead. Wiley was no where to be seen.

The elevator was going too slow for her. She didn't have long before things were going to start getting hard. She estimated that she only had a three minutes before guards came and discovered the ones that she just killed. Not much time for thieving and a rescue. The doors opened and Wiley was on the move again. The door to the vault opened and she was moving again.

The guards with in the chamber were all aiming their guns towards the door, ready to shoot down anyone that they saw there, but no one was there. Puzzled they put down their guns and the door closed again. That's when the first person fell, the rest followed at speed. Before she left she had disabled everything that needed to be disabled. The door opened and Wiley grabbed the device, it was small, but it was valuable.

Hanging from her left shoulder was a small bag that was just big enough to put the device into. She put it in there with the greatest of care, zipped and tied it shut, and then headed towards the cell where Jenos and the others were being held. One minute left. That's all the time she had before things started to get worse.

The cells came into view fifteen seconds later. She quickly snatched the keys from the wall and then stuck the key into the key hole. The door was open five seconds later. Forty seconds left before her time was up.

"Wiley!" Jenos said as he peeked out from under the matress to see who was opening their cell door. At that the others peeked out. The mattress was thrown off and the all ran towards the door. "Glad you made it." Jenos added.

"We don't have much time before the alarms sound. I made it here in under three minutes, but we only have thirty seconds before they come for us. Take these and put them against the wall at the far end of this hallway. They should detonate, and then we'll be home free." Wiley said. She handed the bombs to Yabi who smiled deviously at recieving them. She liked explosives. Perhaps a little too much. At the moment her love for a bomb wasn't being questioned. She set them up in just the right spots, and the moved away. The wall blew out just as the alarms were going off.

None of them needed to be told to run, and fast. Yabi was the first one from the building, followed by Train, Jenos and Wiley. It was no problem for Wiley to over take them, but she didn't want to lose them. They fled as quickly as Wiley had come, and soon enough they were free.

"I have to say," Train said, "Plan B was a success. Let's not do that again though." Train added quickly, the others nodded their agreement.

"We have to get this set up and fast, that rift is growing and more and more Dream Beings are slipping into this world. No doubt they'll be looking for the others. The faster we set this up, the fast that we have the advantage. One of us will have to stay here and protect the device. It can't be moved after it's activated." Wiley explained.

"I'll stay." Yabi said. "I hope you guys can handle it if I'm not there to heal you." Yabi added.

"We'll manage. Jenos and I will heal faster, but Train is the one that we have to worry about." Wiley said.

"What do you mean that I'll heal faster, I'm just a human." Jenos said.

"I marked you, and that gives you the ability to heal faster and live as long as I do." Wiley explained. "If I were a full demon the bond between us would be strong enough to convert you into a full demon like me. That's besides the point at the moment. I've got to start this device up." Wiley withdrew the device from her bag after untying it, and unzipping it, and then started it up. They started at the device.

"It's that small?" Yabi asked being the first to break the tense silence. "Hard to believe that will do what we want it to." Yabi added. After a few more minutes the device was started up, and a shock wave of energy was flooded all over the place.

"That packs quite a punch doesn't it?" Train asked.

"It's started, and it should be stopping the dreams that people dream from getting to the dream beings." Wiley said. "It's now or never."

"Let's do it." Train and Jenos said at the same time. Wiley nodded and then they headed towards the rift. They were about to cross over into another world, a world where there were no rules, and you could exist in more dimensions than three.

The chess game of war was started and they were playing for keeps.

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Another chapter done in one night! Whoo!

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