The partners are: Uriah and Marlene, Lynn and Alesandra, and Leticia and I. Of course, they would want the master to teach the rook. Okay, I might not be the master. Or 2nd place. Or 3rd. But the point is, I'm better than Leticia, so I can teach her. Who knows, this might even help her pass initiation with the gun handling and all. I reload my gun as I peek around the corner and signal Leticia that the coast is clear.
"What the hell are you doing?" She whispers.
"It's the code!"
"Well, you're gonna have to use the code with words." I roll my eyes.
"The coast is clear, let's go." We go around the corner and we find Cody and… and…
Alex.
So that's who they recruited. There's no way that Leticia can take Alex as an opponent. I aim my gun at Alex, but it ends up covering Cody. With the help of Leticia, Cody get's covered up in a synch. He drops to the ground as Alex rushes towards me. I try to slow him down with string to his face, but he just dodges or brushes it off. He tackles me to the ground, places his knees on my upper thighs, and starts bashing my forehead with his gun. Hopefully, it was a silly string gun. He continues to bash me as he pins my arms and legs. I launch my fist up in the air as I get it free but it just hits the air as he pins me back to my place and starts bashing me all over again. Leticia stands there with a blank, scared look on her face. I try to call for help, but Alex won't give me the time of day. I decide it's time to make actions. I manage to slip my right leg from under his knee and kick him where it counts. He screams and runs away, not bothering to revive Cody, but he doesn't care. Noticing that he did harm to me, Cody scrapes the silly string off of him and runs to my aid. I feel for blood, and my hand returns a bright red mess. I stand up walk a couple steps, then feel my knees buckle and me falling down, face planting on the ground.
I wake up to somewhat familiar faces. Somewhat. Meaning they've changed, and I'm pretty sure it's not just my mind playing pranks on me. At that I wake up fully and sit up on a bed I've been placed in. I realize that the faces are Alesandra, Leticia, and DreySean.
"What… what the hell happened to you guys?" Alesandra is the first to react.
"Well, Leticia and Cody dragged you into my room, so I cleared out a bed for you to lay down in. After they told me what happened, Leticia and I, along with DreySean, who just got back, went to confront Alex. We got in a fight, and that's how I got a swollen eye, Leticia got a bloody lip, and, well… DreySean just has some crust on the corner of his mouth from dry drool." I blink twice.
"You guys did that for me?"
"Well, DreySean was sticking up for you. Leticia felt bad about not doing anything while she watched it all go down, and I just thought Alex was being a jerk." I smile at her honest response. Instead of saying "We all did it because we're great friends.", she just said "We did it for our own reasons.". And that's why she's my friend. I crawl out of bed and stretch out a little bit.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get some payback!" I claim, raising my string gun into the air. Everyone grins at my quick recovery and we all head out. Great, now we have DreySean on our side. At least now the opponents can be adjusted, since Cole recently joined the Stringy Wars, as everyone is now calling it. The new oppositions are Uriah and Four, Tris and Marlene, Lynn and Cole, DreySean and Will, Christina and Leticia, Alesandra and Cody, and me and Alex. This is going to be good. Very good.
DreySean and I make our moves and try to infiltrate the enemy base. There will probably be 2 guards and a password for their information, so we come prepared. We're all loaded up, but sadly, we don't have a computer geek like the other side, who has Four, Cole, and Cody. They probably did good on the password. So, what? We'll just take the whole laptop. I peek around the corner, swing myself around, and start shooting at Four, who is one of the guards. DreySean shoots at the other guard, Will. We dodge and scamper and do whatever is necessary to get them down. Eventually, the outcome is us winning. We drag them both into the room with us and lock the door behind us, so they can't be revived. We blindfold them and give them earplugs too, so they can't know what we're doing. DreySean takes the charger while I take the laptop, and we head out back to our base. After a very risky trip, we finally make it back. Uriah immediately looks up at us.
"What's our status?" I grin and respond back.
"Base: Infiltrated. Information: Gathered. Guards: Owned." I give Uriah a high five and we set up the laptop. It's Cole's laptop, and Uriah opens it up and types in the password, which he knows. Then the information file has another password. I start to think about the possibilities, but am distracted by Uriah's cursing. "What is it?"
"It's a trick! He pretended to type information on his laptop, but he was just typing gibberish!"
"How do you know?"
"I've been a victim before."
"Ah. Alright then, let's just keep his laptop hostage. We all know he can't live without it. He probably expects us to return it and get a different laptop, right? Wrong. We'll just keep it here." He ponders over that for a while.
"Good work, General Stoner."
"Shut up. That's not my name. That's just messed up, bro."
"Haha, fine. Good work, General Yogurt." I started to adapt to that nickname, so I'm satisfactory. The war goes on for a while, and a new rule is made: Since the war has to end at one point, no more reviving. Uh oh. Now, we have already lost some members, but so have they. On my team is me, Uriah, Marlene, and Alesandra left. I was surprised she made it this far. On the opposing team is Alex, Cole, Tris, and Christina. You can pretty much guess the match ups. We decide to end this once and for all and talk peace to the other base. I'm the one to go. I walk up there with the peace signal, and they open the door and let me in.
"I come in peace. Cole, I'd like to make a deal."
"Which is…"
"I'll return the laptop if you drop out."
"You have it!? I thought it got lost!"
"Yes, we have it. And we know that you typing rapidly was a trick." He seems to think about it.
"Alright, fine. But don't tell them that I dropped out because of this. Tell them Uriah killed me or something."
"Deal." I shake his hand and he drops out as I hand him his laptop and charger back. I return to my base and tell them the news. Uriah assigns everyone's positions.
"Alright, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you two go find and kill Alex, he's a strong one." I respond before she does.
"Excuse me? What did you just call us?" Now Alesandra joins in.
"Yeah, I don't think we're married or even dating or even on the best friend level. Shouldn't you two be Mr. and Mrs. Smith?"
"That sounds pretty fair, don't you think?"
"To me, it does. And I don't think we would sleep together either. Insider information told me that you two have. That insider information is Ygor, so you can blame him. Payback, chump." I punch her arm. Uriah seems to have had enough of this.
"Okay, okay! Fine! What do you wanna be? Agent O and Will Smith?"
"I'm not a man."
"You're not? Oh, well in that case, just be yourselves. NOW GO!" I'm still laughing from Uriah's remark to shut her up as we leave the base to go find Alex. We look and look and even sneak into the enemy base, but we don't find anyone. Not Tris, not Christina, and definitely not Alex. We return to our base and find Uriah and Marlene dead on the floor. I instinctively turn around and see the enemy team. They had planned this, obviously. Alesandra and I take Christina down, but we're almost covered up with string. I see Alex's evil smirk and remember what he had said. I scream and slam into him like a bull, leaning into the charge. I body smack him against the wall and he drops to the ground, too hurt to move. I cover him up instantly with the help of my comrade, and we both point our guns at Tris. She tries her best to dodge and swerve around, but it's no use. We lock her down and the war ends. I make the announcement and everyone gets up, but Alex immediately starts to charge me instead. I step to the side and extend my leg so he trips and face plants. When he rises, his nose is bloody and he mumbles something about revenge. We don't let that keep us down, so I high five Alesandra and everyone on my team cheers. They lift Alesandra and I on their shoulders and start chanting our names through the pit.