Key:
"Speaking"
'Thought'
"Jutsu"
XxXxX=Break
Sasuke sat atop the inner wall of the Speck camp, looking at the towering ship that loomed before him. Snow whipped past his face as he scanned the various windows across the ship.
Anakin jumped up next to him.
"What are you thinking of?" Anakin asked as the two older men looked at the steel tower.
"I'm wondering what we are going to find. Why have so many people disappeared in this tower? Why have the Specks built an inner wall? So many questions need to be answered." Sasuke said.
"I know, but the higher Specks refuse to release the information to us along with the lower Speck grunts. I don't understand..." Anakin said.
"We got to get moving guys." A clone said over the radio.
"Copy that. Lets move." Anakin said as the two men jumped down to the ground and ran to the dropship that everyone was gathered in.
"All in. Lets move." Anakin said to the pilot as the dropship lifted up off the ground and into the air with the side doors open.
Their ship began to circle the ship while going up towards the top.
Sasuke watched the steel of the ship fly by as they continued to ascend to the top, but something caught his eye.
Time seemed to slow down as Sasuke looked into a window to see a white cloaked man with a straw hat watching them fly by. Sasuke looked at the darkness that was underneath the hat as his mind brought him to one thought.
"Naruto." Sasuke said softly.
"What did you say?" Anakin asked.
"Nothing. It was nothing." Sasuke said as he looked back out the door.
XxXxX
"Landing in ten! Get ready!" A Speck pilot shouted as they neared the top of ship. A clone trooper turned to on of the two Specks that was in the ship.
"Why don't we just go in threw the bottom instead?" the trooper asked.
"Because the ship was never damaged from the outside besides the engines you guys are going to have to enter from the top. So, the only holes in the ship are by the engines at the top of the ship. The steel on this ship are reinforced, that's why Naruto went inside the ship to take it out way back when." the Speck replied as the dropship landed on the top.
Everyone piled off as the dropship went up into the air and out of site with some advice.
"Once inside the ship you will lose signal with anything outside unless you reach one of the radio stations scattered throughout the ship. It seems that short range radio works inside though. Also lookout for other adventures that also took the challenge of reaching the bottom they may help you." the Speck pilot said before cutting his connection to them.
The group of fourteen walked to a hole in the ship. They looked down at the hole to see pitch black. Sasuke looked up at the group that volunteered to go with him. The ten clones all had the shortened blasters for close combat situations as well as backpacks full of supplies. All ten clones had flashlights and night vision. The two Specks wore their standard uniform as well as a white trench coat. They where equipped with their long rifles as well as a RPG looking rocket launcher connected to their packs on their backs. The Specks had a flashlight on the end of their guns and a bayonet as well. Both Specks had a small jet pack for small bursts for further jumping if one can not use their grappling hooks. All twelve of the listed troops had pistols and grappling hooks in which to climb. Anakin wore a brown cloak that all Jedi wore in colder missions, but the cloak looked similar to his own. Anakin also had a pair of night vision contact lenses in for such occasions.
"Are we ready?" Sasuke asked as everyone looked up at him.
"Ready." Anakin said as everyone else nodded. The twelve troops activated their night vision while Anakin put in his night vision lenses at the same time Sasuke activated his Sharingan.
"Lets move." Sasuke said as the fourteen men jumped down into the hole.
They all landed and took up positions on the hallway. Sasuke landed last and looked down the sideways hallway. The doors where all shut and snow covered the ground from the various holes on this floor. The air was cold and quiet as snow continued to fall from the holes.
Sasuke looked up from where they just jumped from to see a man wearing a white cloak and straw hat standing there looking back. Sasuke quickly rubbed his eyes and the man disappeared.
"Sasuke. Is something the matter?" Anakin asked. Sasuke looked back at Anakin and sighed.
"Everything is fine. Lets get moving." Sasuke said as he walked down the hallway towards the end. Everyone followed him in a relaxed position as they reached the end of the hallway. Again they where met with another hole. This time they could see another hallway beneath them.
"We'll go first." a Speck said as they jumped down hole and landed on their feet. They immediately pointed their rifles in separate directions.
"Clear." They said over the radio. The rest of the group soon jumped down.
"Alright Sasuke, what's our destination?" Anakin asked.
"Lets find us one of those radio stations and camp out there. Agreed?" Sasuke asked.
"Fine by me." Anakin replied as they moved down the hall.
The group continued down hall until they saw a door on the ground that was open.
"Strange, all doors should have closed when the system failed. How did it open?" one of the Specks said to no one in particular. They reached the door and Sasuke and Anakin looked down inside and was shocked by what they saw. A tail was sticking out the side of a hole that connected it to the next room. The Specks soon joined them as the tail slithered into the hole and out of sight. The tail looked of bone with a thin coating of flesh over it except at the end. The end looked to be like a spearhead and it looked very sharp.
"What was that?" Sasuke asked.
"I'm... not sure." Anakin replied. A few more seconds of silence pasted before one of the Specks said the one thing that they didn't want to hear.
"I suppose we should go check it out since the end of the hallway has caved in." the Speck said as he he lifted his flashlight towards the end of the hallway. Indeed the hallway was caved in.
"I really don't want to, but lets go." Sasuke said as he jumped down into the hole. A Speck was on his back almost instantly as they looked around the room they where in. Nothing strange except the blood that dripped from the broken edges of the hole. The two approached the hole and walked threw the hole. The two men where flabbergasted.
"My lord. How could this have happened?" Sasuke said as they look around at the contents of the room.
Blood coated the walls of the room as mangled bodies where scattered throughout the room. A hole was in the center of the room with a blood stain dragging towards it. Sasuke and the Speck finally looked at a writing that was drawn into the blood. The two regretted ever looking at what it said.
'HE'S ALWAYS WATCHING' was what the writing said.
"What's going on-." Anakin said as looked at the contents of the room. "Holy shit."
"What are we going to do? Continue on or turn back?" Anakin asked. Sasuke was still shocked at the room, but snapped out of it.
"We continue on. I must reach the bottom, no matter what." Sasuke said.
"Fine, maybe we'll never see what did this." Anakin said as Sasuke and the first Speck jumped down the hole. Anakin and a clone followed close behind and the flow continued until only the second Speck was left.
The Speck took a few pictures of the room before following the rest of the group down the hole.
XxXxX
Little did the Speck know a sinister pair of eyes watched him from a vent near the side of the room before disappearing into the darkness of the ship.
XxXxX
'We have dived deeper into the belly of the ship. Everyone seems to be on edge since the incident on the third floor. I can't really blame them. That creature could be anywhere lurking in the shadows, but the two Specks seem slightly more comforted then the rest of us. Do they know something? Or am I just over thinking things. I haven't been this paranoid since the Great War all those years ago.' -Sasuke's Journal
"Looks like we finally made it." Anakin said as they entered a room that had the words 'hologram room' etched into the top of the door on the way in.
"Looks like someone has been here before. The equipment has all been repositioned." Speck A said. It has been decided that both Specks would be given a letter to decipher between the two. Eventually the clones just began calling Speck A Al and Speck Z just Z.
The room was above them in the hall so they all had to climb up into the room.
"Here's the plan we'll take turns in lookout. Team A will watch for an hour then Team B and so on and so forth until Z and I take the last watch. Everyone get some rest and prepare to move out. Al, think you can connect to the outside world?" Sasuke asked while two clones jumped down into the hall. Al was currently typing things into the computer and connecting a holopad to the computer.
"Sure. Just got it online." Al replied as a picture of a Speck appeared.
"Good to see you guys make it to outpost one. I suppose that you will be resting there for the night?" the Speck asked.
"Yes sir. We'll be resting for the night. We will warn you promptly when we begin moving again." Al replied.
"Copy that. Just remember that the further you go into the ship the harder it is to contact us. So the holopads will be unlikely to work the further you go in."
"Thank you sir. Wish us luck." Al replied. The holopad disappeared and Al stood up.
"I suggest you get some rest, we got a long way down to the bottom and I'm trusting you guys have my back." Sasuke said.
"Agreed. Good night." Al replied as he took off his pack and used it as a pillow.
'Something isn't right here. I don't know what, but something feels... off. At least there isn't any vents in here and these walls have been reinforced. We can rest easy... for now.' Sasuke thought as his tired bones began to feel their youthful flame flicker once more.
XxXxX-Next morning
"Rise and shine boys! It's time to get moving!" Anakin shouted as the clones struggled to get up.
"Come one commander, let us sleep for a few more minutes." A clone grumbled.
"No can do. Al and Z already moved ahead and scouted the area for the next best path and we need to catch up." Anakin said as the clones began to stand up. Sasuke was already up and ready to move.
"We need to hurry and get moving. Something may happen to them." Sasuke said as he jumped down the door and into the dark hallway.
"You heard the man, lets get moving." Anakin said as he followed Sasuke down into the hallway.
XxXxX-Z's POW
"How many floors have we moved threw?" I asked as we crept down the hallway back to back.
"At least three, and the same thing on every level, but have you noticed the strange fog?" Al replied.
"Yeah, it's disrupting my night vision. I can barely see." I said as the only thing I was able to see was the light coming from my flashlight at the end of my rifle.
"Agreed. Lets take off the night vision until we can get of this shit." Al said as we turned off our night vision.
We saw the difference immediately as we are able to see a little better in the dark halls. The night vision gave us a little bit of protection against the darkness that made up the halls of this ship. Now the only sorce of light was coming from the light at the end of their rifles and the light that was connected on the sides of their helmets.
Suddenly we heard clanks against the metal of the walls.
"Shh, did you hear that?" Al whispered as we began to look down our separate halls.
"Yeah, what was that?" I whispered back.
"Stay frosty. Don't let anything get the jump on you." Al said as we crouched down and slowly moved down the hall. The fog continued to get thicker and thicker until it was almost blinding.
"You still there?" I whispered to Al who was watching our backs. No answer.
"Al-" I started, but when I turned I was met with a skull with a thin coating of flesh on the outside. The eyes where simply black as no eyes where there to be seen. Its jaw was large and powerful from the looks of the bone structure. There was only one thing that went threw my head when I saw it.
"Hey there beautiful." I said as the creature screeched into my face as I jumped backwards and started to fire my rifle at the large 'thing'.
The bolts of white light smacked into the creature, but it didn't seem to faze it as it relentlessly charged towards me. I continued to backup until I fell down a hallway going to the next floor. My back smacked into the metal ground and I looked up at where I once was. I saw the creature screeching at me before piercing its sharp claws into the metal and crawl towards me against the sides of the wall. I pointed my rifle the beast and began to fire.
The creature was almost at the bottom of the wall as I aimed the rifle at the creatures head and pulled the trigger.
'Click.' Out of ammo.
"Fuck." I said as the creature lunged at me, but just as it was about to dig into my skin the monster came to a halt in mid air. I glanced behind it and see a grappling hook wrapping around its tail. Further towards the top stood Al barely hanging onto the creature as is desperately scratched towards me.
"Fucking kill it!" Al shouted as I rolled out of its reached and put in a new magazine. I pointed my rifle at the beasts head pulled the trigger. A white bolt smacked into its head and it stopped moving immediately. Al dropped the creature and jumped down next to me.
"So this is what we saw." Al said after kicking it in the side.
"Yeah. This was it. Should we wait for the others?" I asked as we glanced around. A howl could be heard echoing down the halls.
"I say we keep moving until we get out of this damn fog." Al suggested.
"Agreed. We keep moving then." I said as we continued down the new hall we where in and into the dense fog.
XxXxX
A/N: Sorry for the late update, but I have been extremely busy. Between graduation and attending D-Day Oklahoma I have been busy and stressed out of my head. But, here it is and I hope you all enjoy it. ^^