Chapter 15, not much to say but, Read, Review, & Enjoy.


Chapter 15

Bolt and Balto kept completely silent the entire trip, which had begun simply with a car ride to a well forested area with only the moon and stars for light, that too proved difficult considering it was partly cloudy so the moonlight was constantly fading in and out. Bolt had a hard time keeping up with Balto at first as the wolf-dog would move unhindered when the moon wasn't visible and Bolt would be forced to stop for fear of wondering off but soon he realized if he used his ears instead of his eyes it was much easier to keep the pace. Balto wasn't too concerned with stealth while they were in the forest but suddenly he came to a complete halt. It could Bolt off guard and in the low light he thought he had lost Balto but was soon relieved when the hybrid spoke.

"Alright just ahead is the compound I figure we do this two fold: You wait here while I sneak in and corner Calico so he can't escape, then you can strong arm your way through the front entrance, and remember these are the same people who caused you nothing but pain for five years…break some shit." Balto said all in a whisper to keep anyone from hearing, not that anyone was within earshot, but he wasn't one to take chances.

Bolt was almost about to object to Balto's plan when he noticed he had no part in it, but the second half more then made up for it. Bolt just nodded to signify he understood.

"Here take this and I'll contact you once I'm in position." Balto said handing Bolt a small radio.

With that Balto took off leaving Bolt alone among the trees. Bolt walked back a few feet and sat in the snow under a tree and watched Balto scale the fence and enter the military compound. By the time Balto had hit the ground on the other side he was off and running and out of Bolt's sight.

Balto knew the compound well enough to know that the side he had entered on wasn't very well lit and he quickly reached a door undetected. He; however didn't approach the door as a stationary camera was carefully standing guard. He instead opted to scale the wall just outside the camera's line of sight. Climbing wasn't one of Balto's specialties but he seemed to make it up the wall without any major incident. On the roof he was far more exposed so he quickly hide behind an A/C unit. He looked around for an entrance when he noticed an air duct just large enough for him to squeeze through.

'This is too easy' Balto thought to himself.

Balto approached the air duct and after removing the grate put one ear up to it and heard nothing so he hastily slid in landed on the hard floor of one of the many hallways, in doing so he managed to made quite a lot of noise as he smashed through the grate on the other side of the duct. Balto couldn't hear anyone heading towards him but to be safe he ducked into the next unlocked door he happened across. He found himself standing in the camera control room and just his luck the guard was asleep. Balto carefully walked up to the guard and tapped his shoulder. The dog, a brown rather rotund chow-chow, awoke with a bit of a start.

"B…Balto? What the hell are you doing here?" The dog was quick to recognize Balto but failed to notice he was armed.

Balto made no verbal reply but simply pulled back a clenched paw and brought it down across the brown chow's face.

"Sorry, Nikki no time to talk." Balto said the now unconscious Nikki.

Balto then turned his attention to the camera monitors and continued to scan them till he saw his target, Calico sitting at his desk in his office.

'Perfect' Balto thought to himself.

Balto turned to leave and as he opened the door before stepping out he listened for any movement, satisfied when he heard nothing he moved out of the room and down the hall. After a relatively quick trip through the building and dodging a few armed guards Balto managed to make it to Calico's office unscathed. He quickly opened the door and wasn't surprised when Calico jumped.

"Balto? Just what do you think your doing?" Calico asked accusingly as Balto drew his gun.

"Getting revenge. Your gunna pay for everything you've done Calico." Balto growled at the older man.

"You really think you can get away with this? As soon as you fire that gun this office will be swarming with guards ready to take you out, is that really what you want? To leave that pretty little family of yours fatherless?" Calico said relatively calmly still trying to control the situation.

Balto laughed, "Who said I was going to shoot you? Bolt go." Balto said the last half into his radio and it was quickly followed with a large explosion.

"You brought 14 along with you? What can he do? Set a bomb?" Calico asked obviously nervous now.

Once Bolt heard the command over the radio he wasted no time in speeding around to the front of the compound and destroying a pair of jeeps with is heat vision causing quite a large explosion. A flood of guards came out of the main entrance which was just what Bolt wanted, as the last of the guards filed through he let loose a bark which smashed against the building carrying the guards with it. Bolt simply laughed.

"That all you got!" Bolt yelled to the mutilated group of soldiers in front of him.

Suddenly the area he was standing in exploded, an RPG had been fired, and once the smoke cleared Bolt stood undamaged. Well almost, his clothes where tattered.

"This wasn't mine asshole!" Bolt yelled motioning toward the now destroyed outfit.

Bolt jumped up and landed on top the compound building just behind the soldier who fired the rocket and sent him flying with a firm kick. Bolt then jumped down and walked into the damaged building.

Balto stood in the corner of the room gun pointed at Calico who had surprisingly not tried to escape put simply sat quietly at his desk starting blankly at the door. All of a sudden he jumped up and made a dash for the door. Balto was quick to react and fired hitting Calico in the knee, crippling him.

"I'm not going to kill you till Bolt get's here but if you refuse to sit quietly I make you." Balto's threat sounded more like a growl than words.

Calico simply lay there on the floor of his office bleeding heavily and waiting like a pig to be slaughtered. Who had this happened? How had two dogs seemingly gained such an upper hand over him to point where they were his masters and he was the dog they deemed obsolete and therefore disposable? In the last ten minutes he'd fallen farther than he even thought possible. Then the door opened, well more ripped from its hinges than opened. Calico looked up form his place on the floor at the face of Bolt, the monster he had created. Bolt wore a fierce but calm stare as he looked down on Calico. Effortlessly bolt lifted Calico off the floor and stared into the man's eyes, one green one normal.

"He try to run?" Bolt asked.

"Yep" came Balto's simple reply.

"Why?" Bolt's next question was directed at Calico.

"Why, what?" Calico answered the question with another.

"Why did you make me like I am? What could I possibly be useful for?" Bolt asked again.

"You were an experiment Bolt nothing more nothing less. We planned to run tests on you and when we were done you were thought expendable." Calico confessed seeing no reason to resist given the circumstances. "But, Balto, might I ask you a question?"

"Go ahead." Balto replied.

"Why did you turn on us? Why side with Bolt all of a sudden? Had the military not given you all that you asked for?" Calico asked Balto a slew of questions.

"I was tired of taking orders from people like you. People who think life is expendable and the cost of blood is less than any monetary value. When I meet Bolt and he told me his story I realized the only way to free myself was to free him, and the only way to free him, is to kill you." Balto spoke in a very calm non-emotional way when addressing Calico's questions.

"So this is how it end's eh? Caught between a self righteous half breed and a powered up half wit." Calico said accepting his defeat.

Bolt smashed Calico down on the desk and grasped the man's neck, chocking the life out of him. Once the deed was done Bolt stood up straight.

"Well looks like I'm finally free." Bolt said simply

"END SCENE!" yelled a man dressed rather causally in cargo shorts and a tee shirt that suddenly walked in through the doorway "Excellent work you two. And you to "Calico" ha!"

"Calico" stood up from the desk very much alive and very much unhurt, as the walls began to be disassembled.

"You die pretty convincingly Rob." Bolt remarked shaking hands.


Okay so I know what your thinking WTF JUST HAPPENED!? it will all be explained in the next chapter which hopefully will be up sometime tomorrow or in the early hours of Monday morning, I promise.