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Monday: June 3rd, 2010 – 12:34 (Concrete House)

They had only twenty minutes…twenty minutes to blow those game makers to bits of barbeque scraps and make it out of there without their necks blowing apart like water balloons popping…The remaining group members had successfully maneuvered through the deadly island in order to relocate the bomb to this stiff concrete home that sits idly by on a towering hilltop. The house was outlined by the soft moon's glow and all four of the exhausted 'warriors' huffed like they had been trekking across the great plains.

"C'mon babes! Just a few more pulls," Jake heaved as he tugged the bomb another a foot up the hill; his face as red as the maroon colored bracelet he had tightly on his wrist that said "Make a Difference or Die Trying"…how ironic. Beck felt his entire spine twist as if it were about to crack like a toothpick at any given moment thanks to the overbearing pressure this bomb was giving.

Katniss, however, couldn't be more of a show off. Her dress shirt was completely discarded like a pointless piece of garbage leaving her only in a bright white tank top that revealed her toned muscles as she hauled the huge detonator to the tip of the brightly lit hilltop. "Easy as pie," Katniss sighed with a chortle coming from her mouth while everyone else collapsed to the floor instantly; letting out relieved gasps of air. The moon bathed them with pale blue light as they laid upon the dying grass in agony.

It wasn't until a melody of terrifying gunshots tore through the peaceful night skies when Hayley scrambled to her feet in an upset. Her frizzy hair thrashing about on her head as she looked around in all directions with stretched eyes. Hayley cringed in disgust as she heard the disturbing mixture of bullets and blood-curdling screams echo throughout the refreshing air. "Do you guys hear that?" she bleated with her eyes glued to the source of the sounds that radiated within her eardrums. Jake barely gave a visible nodded before rising up onto his grass stained knees with a look of absolute dismay.

"Gunfire…screams," he said under his hot breaths. Beck listened sharply with his callous hands cupped around his damaged right ear in order to get a better sense of what was happening…thanks to all the ringing he endured from Katniss' shotgun Beck's hearing has sadly fallen short of average.

"What in the hell," Beck hissed with his eyes twitching in pain as felt the aches of the past day creep into his muscles.

"I recognize that sound anywhere!" Katniss growled with her silver arrows intact. The bow, crafted from fine wood, was held tightly within her tough grip as she aimed it at the edge of the towering hills; waiting for someone to emerge so she can nail them perfectly.

"What do you mean you recognize that sound anywhere?" Hayley asked frantically as the gunshots finally became silenced except for a few screams of mercy here and there.

"Camille! Remember yesterday morning on the viewing platform? That little ordeal between Moze and Suzie? Those are the exact same shots…I knew she couldn't be trusted!" Katniss screamed shrilly while feeling her hands go numb from tightening her hold on the bow. The wood cracked underneath her fingers from all the pressure she began to apply to it due to the rage building inside of her.

"Tori!" Beck screamed after coming to a harsh realization. "She could be dead right now! We have to hurry! We have to go!"

"Hold up! Beck we can't just-" Jake met a huge push from Hayley's brute force while trying to reason with the group.

"Jake!" he heard a feminine voice shout in a panic from just over the edge of the hill. Everyone immediately stopped their actions like clockwork and flew to the side of the concrete house like a pack of frightened mice except Katniss. She held her ground firmly with the bow in her grasp. Her gray eyes became illuminated in the gleaming light like a leering cat's as she glared at the emerging figures that were waving their arms hazardously.

"Help!" one of them sobbed terribly which made it almost impossible to understand them…but Katniss immediately recognized it to be Tori. "Please!" she wailed while toppling over her two feet as she made it to the top of the pale white hilltop. Her body lit up from the moon's spotlight and the hunting prodigy known as Katniss Everdeen simply stood there with her mouth slightly open.

"Tori," Katniss softly began to speak while running over to her in absolute concern. She threw down the weapon she adoringly held and put her hands over Tori's quivering form as if she were trying to immerse her in a hug. Tori almost felt even more frightened as she felt Katniss' strong arms wrap around her in a friendly embrace.

"Hey!' another voice cried…it was Camille's. Katniss rose Tori to her feet swiftly before getting her arrow ready. She was ready to send this magnificent bolt of metal straight through Camille's neck.

"What are you doing?" Tori screamed as she watched Katniss bring the arrow up to Camille's unveiled head as she staggered up the hillside. Katniss simply gave her a look of confusion before mouthing the words 'Didn't she…'

"No…i-it…Felix he…he tried to k-kill…us! Andre…killed h-him and…he," Tori's words were intertwined with panicked sobs as she wept into her hands.

Felix? Katniss thought in disbelief while bringing her eyes over to Camille's horrendous shoulder wound. The rich little wuss? The same little wuss who would spray air freshener whenever I walked by because he knew I was from a small little farming town?

Camille's lips were trembling from all the pain that was surging through her severed veins. Blood profusely flowed from her moonlit shoulder and streamed all the way down to her limp fingers as she made her way to the invincible looking building.

"Felix! He's right behind…us!" Camille reported with sharp breaths leaving her shaky lips. The fearful group began to come out from the side of the buildings shadows with shocked expressions on their bright looking faces.

"What the hell happened?" Katniss boomed while jetting over to the injured Camille. Her shining eyes thoroughly examined the bleeding wound as Camille tried to explain the violent situation before Felix caught up to them. Beck and Hayley where on each side of Tori's weeping body with Hayley's hands stroking her back as well as holding her to her color-drained hand.

"Tori…Andre and I were just sitting there were…you told us and…Felix came out of the blue and tried to convince us that he was looking for some friends," Camille moaned while hisses interrupted her sentences.

"And…" Katniss impatiently muttered while whipping out her water bottle stash as well as a few towels she pillaged from the farmhouse to sterilize and cleanse the messy gunshot wounds.

"And then…they both got into a huge fight."

"Who got into a huge fight?" Jake asked with his hands placed upon the bomb they were planning to detonate in twenty minutes. Jake was unknowingly chewing on his tongue nervously as if it were a piece of gum he retrieved from the store and his confident smirk was replaced with a fearful look of sadness.

"Andre. Andre and Felix got into this argument and then…Andre shot him. Andre shot him but he got right back up and began shooting at us…with my gun…he got me with three bullets," the agonized brunette sighed as she finished the grueling story.

"I can see that," Katniss replied in disbelief as she spotted the three gumball sized gun pellets in her flesh. Jake completely ignored the single-braided girl's remark as he looked around rapidly after realizing something.

"Where's Andre then?" Jake blurted with his arms open wide in a 'what the heck' sense. "Where is he starlet!" he began to say a little louder causing Beck to wince a bit. His grip on Tori was light and caring as she hugged her knees for support. Her tear streaked cheeks were flushed with red as Andre's death freshly played in her mind…his tattered body was etched in her brain like an unpleasant childhood memory.

"Dead," Tori whispered with her mouth pressed against her legs as she continued embrace her bloodstained knees. Jake slowly gazed over at Tori with a confused expression before letting out a gullible laugh.

"W-What?"

"Andre…Andre's d-dead," Tori repeated with emotion overtaking her voice as she revisited the pain of losing her friend. First Trina…now Andre. Who's next?

"No," Jake simply stated with a smile of denial on his sweaty face. "You're lying."

"No…Felix killed him."

"NO!" Jake hollered while bringing his fists up to the bright starry sky. "He…He can't be! He was my man…my brother! He can't be dead."

"No…I'm going to avenge him…Mike. I'll avenge him…and Amanda…Kevin too! I'll avenge them all!" Andre shouted into the thick treetops that heavily blocked the sunrays.

"What! Don't be a moron," Jake laughed while staring into Andre's rage filled eyes.

"It's not- I'm not a moron! I mean it Jake! I'm gonna do this! I'll take it to me grave if I freakin' have to!" Andre snapped back with a smile of hope…He laid back on the ground and stretched his sweaty limbs to feel the small breezes that passed through the thick vegetation.

"Andre…dude that's…" Jake whispered with a proud grin. "That's impressive my man, who knew you had that much kick in ya."

"Ah shut up you geek!"

"J-Jake?" Hayley sighed incredulously with her eyes down casted gloomily.

"Hayley! Andre was right here with us! He didn't go anywhere!" Jake roared while grabbing her shoulders quickly with tears filling his eyes. Hayley jerked in his grasp while feeling his tears splash onto her cheeks.

"Jake! C'mon man stop this!" Beck pleaded with a smile of reassurance on his face as he slowly left Tori on the ground in order to calm the jumpy 'whiz kid'.

"Fucked up…Fucked up big time," Jake felt his emotions overcome his well-being as he continued to hold onto Hayley's shivering shoulders for dear life. "Andre…I left him…He trusted me and…I let him die."

"No…Jake. No, Andre was ecstatic to help out," Hayley began to say while putting her hands on his own shoulders so that their arms were forming a conjoined bridge of skin.

"But…he was the best guy anyone could come to meet. He never had something bad to say," Jake recalled with a still frantic undertone to his voice. "I screwed him over…his cold body is rotting down there cause I gave him stupid ass orders."

"Jake…you're like an agent, man. Like James Bond you know," Andre laughed while staring up into the crowded sky. Jake tilted his head in confusion but let out a grateful laugh.

"Thanks bro. Never been called something as legendary as James Bond, much appreciated," Jake replied.

"Jake," Beck began with a slight feeling of sympathy radiating from him. "Hello! Andre did what you said because you were the most confident and kick-ass guy he knew!"

Everyone eyed Beck surprisingly as he praised Jake spontaneously. Tori looked up from the comfort of her lap and looked at Beck in utter confusion before feeling a grin come onto her face. He's back…the stupid, optimistic Beck Oliver is back!

"Beck? What're you…why are you…" Jake still had his hands placed on Hayley as he spoke to his overly bright friend. Hayley plainly smiled at the sight while keeping Jake close to her with her soft hands on his shoulders.

"Andre died for what he believed in Jake! Remember that! He will always be with us…but we can't lose sight of the big picture okay? We still have a part to play!" Beck cheered with a bright smile. Jake felt his eyes begin to fill up once again with tears, but this time they weren't from sadness or from fear…they were from pure joy.

"Beck's right!" Hayley continued the joyous upbeat motion that Beck had started. "We have a school to blow up, remember? Operation Avenger is about to be a go, and as always…I know you'll be there to make sure everything goes smoothly."

"Like always," Jake laughed authentically while looking at everyone else. Camille even tried to smile through the pain that was eating away at her. "Smooth sailing…right my friends?"

"Then it's settled," Katniss sighed with a smile as she finished dabbing the torn flesh on Camille's shoulder. "Now…are we done with the psychotic outbursts?"

Jake did nothing else but nod rapidly as tears fell from his amber toned eyes. "Yeah…don't have to worry about me!" he continued to laugh whole-heartedly while sliding his hands down to Hayley's delicate arms to pull her into a hug.

Hayley yelped in shock as she felt Jake's body press against hers and his arms snaked over her neck to hug her tighter.

"We're all we've got huh?" Jake mumbled into the crook of the Blonde girl's creamy neck. Hayey hugged him back with a sincere smile while looking around at everyone surrounding them.

"You bet…" Hayley whispered with her eyes now staring straight up at the brightly lit sky as if it were a vast sea of flickering candles.

"Hayley?"

"Yes?" Hayley giggled quietly with her hand stroking Jake's hair.

"I'm glad…I'm glad you joined us. Andre always had a thing for girls with blonde hair."

Hayley did nothing more but laugh tremendously at Jakes blunt statement while in the safety of his arms. Beck stood there with his arms crossed as he gave a smirk to the hugging pair and tapped his foot on the dead blades of grass.

"Just to let you two know, we've got thirteen minutes before this spot becomes a danger zone and these," Beck; still with a smile on his face, paused for a moment to bring his fingers up to the pesky edge of his metal collar that still gave him a horrid chaffing feeling, "Blow our heads off."

"Right!" Hayley began to sing with enthusiasm. "Time's a wasting."

Tori only felt her heart sink once she realized one bitter thing…Felix was following them…which meant. Tori promptly jumped to her feet; her leg still throbbing faintly from the gunshot she received from Eikner last night, and started to run to the edge of the hill at full speed hoping that he gave up on the chase.

Before she could even make it half-way she saw it…a nozzle poke up from the hilltop horizon like a deadly snake coming in for a kill. The nozzle was followed with a scarlet blood stained hand that was wrapped around the metallic handle; finger achingly placed on the trigger. Felix had found them at last…

"No," Tori gasped with wide eyes before ducking to the ground in a heartbeat. Katniss instantly knew what that meant and began to bark orders rapidly.

"Duck! Go! Hide for cover!"

Beck felt his arm being tugged relentlessly by Camille who still kept cursing under her breath from the pain in her shoulder. Beck sped over to the unhinged door of the concrete house that was masked in brilliant light. Tori followed suit as well and Camille kicked the door wide open with incredible strength.

Who knew this acting queen had so much spice in her? Beck thought obviously impressed as the ebony haired beauty pulled the two teens into the building with one steady yank of her ghostly arm.

Hayley and Jake were completely oblivious to the danger that was imposing upon them as they continued to smile warmly to one another with their arms enveloping their bodies. "Jake! Hayley!" Katniss cried hysterically as she burst off towards them with her hand reaching out longingly so she could grab them.

Flames of bullets and indigo fire spewed from the nozzle that continued to peek out from slope of the hill. Jake's eyes grew to the size of baseballs as he heard the ear ringing shots flood the atmosphere around him and the girl in his arms.

"Shit!" he foul-mouthed as he felt a bullet scratch his forehead ruggedly causing him to jump back in reflex. As he let Hayley go, he watched her fly from his shaking arms like a paper doll being blown away in a gust of wind. She slammed into the itchy patches of grass with an innocent smile on her bleeding face… "Oh Shit…Hayley! Damn it! Hayley!"

Quarter sized holes from the bullets were laid out all over her face like a specific pattern and rose-red liquid poured endlessly from her face forming a slosh like puddle around her head. Blood rushed from her smiling mouth and her lips became painted with the crimson water.

"H-Hayley? C'mon…don't do this blondie," Jake laughed uneasily as he sank to his knees next to her lifeless body and stared into her umber specked eyes. Katniss sat there with her mouth agape as she stared absent mindedly at Hayley's blood-soaked corpse on the ground. Her blonde frizzy hair was tossed around her head with dry grass blades stuck in the locks and some of it even became submerged in the blood puddle.

"Jake!" Katniss snapped out of her state of shock as another round of gunfire swept over the hilltop. Felix's twisted smile became visible as he climbed to the top of the hill; becoming a glowing angel of death as the moon shone bright. "Jake! Jake hurry up and get over here!" Katniss wailed causing a burning sensation to ring from the depths of her throat.

"Hayley…please. You can't leave me here. I don't think I can make it on my own!" Jake sobbed in-between his maniacal laughs as he lifted her head from the cherry red puddle. "Things aren't looking good for us!"

"Right!" Hayley began to sing with enthusiasm. "Time's a wasting."

"Yeah…time is awastin'…" Jake laughed while cradling her head in his arms.

"Jake! Damn it!" Katniss screeched while looking at Camille's head that was peeping out from the doorframe after gunfire ceased and Felix began to laugh psychotically whilst waving the Uzi around above his head in a 'halo' motion.

"Come and get it you vulgar pieces of trash!"

The silver eyed girl heard Jake shout over to her with a tear stricken sound to his voice, "Kat! Get them outta here!"

"But I-"

"Just go! C'mon! Hurry!" Jake blared his powerful voice over the next sweeping of shots coming from the Uzi. Katniss hesitantly nodded her head making her braid swoop around her shoulder and into the crook in her neck. She bolted for the door in the concrete fortress and left a faint trail of dirt leading to her location.

The bullets danced rapidly in the air and raged through the breezes that blew past the hilltop. Jake softly placed Hayley's head back down to the ground before turning on his heel to retrieve one of the guns left in Beck's duffle bag. All the bags were in a heaping pile on the side of the bright house. However, Jake scrambled to them he felt and heard his insides rip apart like Velcro…he fell on his knees once again with a painful groan escaping his dry lips.

"F-Fuck," Jake groaned while tasting iron in his mouth, but what happened next made him jump in disgust. He began to cough violently into his hand with his eyes open wide in fear as blood splotches painted the palm of his hand. "Big trouble…Jake…memorial fuck up!"

He felt the dull pain of his insides shredding apart rage from his stomach again as the violent coughing ensued. The sight that filled his eyes as he looked down slowly sent him into a spiraling state of panic…his entire stomach looked as if it had been ripped open with a chainsaw. Liquids were gushing from the abdominal tear and his dress shirt fabric was collaged with various colors (red, brown, green…).

"Gah!" Jake screamed in disgust as he watched fluids mixed with red and various others burst from his wound. "T-T-Too f-fucking gross! D-Damn that…B-B-Bastard!" Tears stung the dome of his eyes as he held his wound closed with his hand to keep his innards from coming out any longer. Jake spit the iron tasting globs of blood from his mouth and wiped his lips with the cuff of his shirt.

"B-Bastard…Felix! S-Screw you!" Jake gritted his teeth in agony as all the pressure began to hit his stomach while he lifted himself up to make a run for the guns. Felix spotted Jake's drunken form in the corner of his bulging eye and swung the gun around so that it was pointing directly at him.

"Time to exterminate the rest of the cockroaches," Felix snarled with his lips in a sinister sneer. Felix instantly pressed the trigger madly with a huge smile; his teeth bared with specks of red on them. Jake took off at his fastest pace even though every muscle in his body screamed in torturous pain. The bullets raced towards Jake's sprinting body causing the dirt to fly up into the sky like little volcano eruptions coming from underground.

Some of them riddled Hayley's body in the process as they reached Jake's exposed back and began to pummel it mercilessly. Jake screeched in misery as red liquid spurted from his mouth like a fountain leaving him limp on top of the heap of bag assortments.

"G-G-gun! G-Gotta g-g-get gun!" Jake cried in torment while blood began to stream from his mouth like drool. He slowly brought his fingers over to the nearest bag and the nearest compartment hoping to God that it held a certain silver beauty. He felt like vomiting…but if he did it would probably finish him off as much as another round of bullets would.

As Jake heard another outburst of gun rage, he nimbly unzipped the bags around him with shaky and unstable breaths. "C'mon! C'mon!" he croaked in impatience as he dug through each bag with high hopes. He was finally searching Tori's ruffled bag when he came across a gorgeous .45 Caliber (Robbie's original weapon) and felt his bloody mouth turn into a hopeful smile that glistened in the condensed moonlight's glow.

"And bingo…was h-his name-o!" he chirped arrogantly with a cocky smirk before bringing the gun behind him so that it was aligned with Felix's jerking head. Meanwhile, Beck, Tori, Camille and Katniss were all holed up within the damp safety of the concrete house. All they heard were gunshots being rapidly fired along with a few frantic shouts being thrown back and forth.

Beck pressed his ear against the rattling front door with his lips parted slightly anxiously to figure out if Jake was okay. It wasn't until he felt a tremendous amount of strength pull him straight from the door and onto his two feet in shock…Katniss' stern face only inches from his own.

"I'm starting to get the impression that you do want to die!" Katniss scoffed with her eyebrows arched in dubiety. Beck responded with a roll of the eyes before wriggling from her tight grasp and ran to the opposite side of the room with his hands pressed against the stone cold walls.

"We have to help Jake," Beck sputtered as ear blasting shots flew back and forth outside. Katniss tilted her head comically with an amused smile that only made Beck stare back with a puzzled look.

"Are you insane! Oh yeah…you're just stupid, ha! My mistake!"

"Look Katniss! You have your shotgun and arrows! There's also a hatch leading outside back here. Camille, Tori and I can go out that way and sneak over to our weapons while you create a diversion and blow that rich prick to bits!" Beck exclaimed in ingenious with his fist raised and his other hand gesturing to the obstructed opening at his feet.

"There's a back exit?" Camille babbled with wide eyes even though the statement didn't top the importance list.

"It's worth a shot," Tori shouted in determination with her head nodding in agreement to the plan. "Anything's better than being stuck in here."

"But…"Katniss began to take a deep breath of the moist air they had surrounding them as gunfire sang loudly from outside the walls.

"Katniss! It's the only plan we've got!" Beck chided with that all too familiar spark in his eyes that made Katniss know he was trouble from the very beginning…

She stood there with her head down and her eyes were fixed on the dusty floor underneath them as she thought about it. "Alright…fine. Let's do it!"

Everyone began to jump in enthusiastic cheer before getting to their positions in a hasty manner. "Ready?" Beck called out with a bright smile. The rest of the group nodded with their thumbs up saying, 'Ready as we'll ever be!'

Jake was right outside with his gun pointed unsteadily at Felix as he hobbled to the opposite side of the building for cover. "M-Mudderfudder! Come an ged meh!" he mumbled through the vast amounts of blood pouring from his mouth as he fired numerous shots in Felix's direction. Felix sent out a shriek of fright as he ducked for cover to get away from the zipping bullets causing Jake to smile in amusement. "Widdle…fuddin' girl."

Jake suddenly heard a door burst open followed by a loud booming shot that made his ears pop painfully. It was Katniss Everdeen, her shotgun aimed carefully at Felix Garcia as she readied herself for yet another deadly blow from her gun. Jake toppled to the ground while muffling his ears with the palms of his hands and looked over to the fearless girl with a huge grin on his face. 'Couldn't have timed it better myself,' he mouthed causing her to smile back confidently. She realized that Felix still hadn't resurfaced and fled over to Jake's bloody body; nearly barfing at the sight. His intestines were poking out from his torn open stomach and blood was rapidly draining from his bludgeoned body…it was a miracle he was still functioning like this.

"Jake! My God! We need to get you out of here!" Katniss screamed in anguish while examining his physical state. He simply laughed at Katniss' frantic statements before slowly raising himself off the ground and grabbing onto her shoulders for support.

"Jus' get to da b-bomb," he hissed as she raised him up. Katniss swung her head over to where the bomb was which was right around the corner of the building and nodded before taking careful steps so Jake didn't fall apart next to her. As they did this, Jake accidently kicked Hayley right in her smiling face which made him hiss in regret. His heart shattered while looking at her tear-filled eyes as they kept staggering past her body. Sorry! I'm so sorry Hayley! Jake cried within his head.

"Tori! Beck! Camille! You guys ready!?" Katniss barked which made Jake raise his drooping head in bemusement.

"B-Beck? Camille? T-Dori? What are you-"

"Already!" Beck cheered with his hands on Hayley's designated yet unused weapon; a machete. Camille held onto the mace she retrieved only moments before running into Beck and the group with pure revenge in her heart.

Suddenly, another loud round of shots blew across the hilltop causing everyone to dive to the dry grass haven. "Sh-Shid!" Jake coughed painfully as he leaned against the side of the concrete building; his eyes glued to the bomb only a few feet away from him. "Sucky way to die…" he groaned with an amused tone which made Beck look at him negatively.

"No! Jake you're not gonna die! We're going to get through this…" Beck scanned the hill as they hid behind the concrete wall. Felix advanced towards them with his gun intact until he made it up to Hayley's smiling body; her hair still flying in all directions…the tallest girl in class.

'Hey…Hey Jake! Hahaha! It's Hayley! Just wanted to tell you that I'm going to take all the pain I can! Andre's going to help me too! We can't take it all…but we can take enough so that you can get the job done! So…do what has to be done Jake! Do It!'

Jake could hear Hayley's giddy yet soft voice resonate within his head and it made him smile sadly. Felix, on the other hand, couldn't stand the sight of that girl's annoying smile anymore.

"Disgusting rodent," he growled hatefully before aiming the gun at her frizzy head and pressed the trigger. Red mist flew through the air as Hayley's head blew open in a mixture of orange and blue flames coming from the gun's nozzle.

'D-do…what…has…t-to be…done.'

"Hayley…I'll get 'er done. Sure…my guts are poppin' through, but…I'll get it done. For you…Andre…and for yours truly!" Jake breathed as the bloody mist from Hayley's death flew over to the Jake and the remaining group members.

"Tori!" Katniss interjected with her form still crouched cautiously. "Get moving down the hill! We've got five minutes before this place becomes a blow-our-heads-off zone!"

Tori nodded hysterically while grabbing her bags and stooped down low to avoid any stray bullets. She slowly made her way down the backside of the hill to keep herself from tumbling down to her death.

Beck and Camille were assigned the task of moving Jake down carefully whilst Katniss escorted the bomb with her free hand clutching the shotgun; aimed directly at Felix as he edged closer and closer to them.

"Plan's r-ruined…chrissake! B-bastard ruined everything…wonder if…m' stomach's gonna fall out now…prob'ly will," Jake whispered in sharp breaths as everything became white noise around him. The shots. The frantic orders of Katniss. Beck and Camille carefully picking him up. Everything was blocked out except for his thoughts. "Damn…m' legs are…ugh, can't feel them at all…not good…not good at all babes…"

As they made it halfway down the hill, Beck began to feel the sweat on his brow drip into crunched grass beneath him. Jake was absolutely limp in his arms and all they could do was pray that this wouldn't be the end…

Katniss carefully descended the steep hill with her feet doing a tricky swiping motion to keep her and the bomb balanced. Felix was stumbling towards the edge of the hill like a blood-thirsty giant and began shooting off the Uzi which made it look like shooting stars were flying over their heads. Tori was swiftly landing on the foot of the hill as the rest of the gang followed suit. She quickly spun around to help carry the dying boy in both Beck and Camille's tired arms.

Felix was now stumbling down the hill behind Katniss with his gun shaking in his sweaty hands. Katniss threw her gaze around so her eyes were locked with his and she immediately started firing with gritted teeth as she moved down the hill with the bomb tugging at her Olympic-worthy arm.

"S-screw it…Hayley…Andre! Still a team my friends…always gonna be a team! Betcher' ass!" Jake could hear everyone begin to wail in hysteria as gunfire began to break out once again. He could feel three pairs of hands maneuvering him awkwardly through the unleveled fields while the stars entwined with the fiery bullets raging over them.

"Go! Go! Go!" Katniss grunted while coming down to the foot of the towering hill; she was trying desperately to evade every blast from Felix's gun while keeping the bomb safe from destruction. Tori and Beck immediately nodded their heads in unison while Camille let them carry Jake away; bringing out the spiked mace from the navy blue gym bag swaying recklessly from her unwounded shoulder.

"Urgh! Pain settin' in! Damn it" Jake thrashed violently in Tori and Beck's holding grip as his stomach began to burst once again like an overfilled water balloon. Tori almost fumbled him before regaining her composure and feeling disturbed tears moistening her burnt eyes. She finally understood why veterans were so mentally scarred due to World War II…she finally knows why. All of the gunfire…all of the blood…all of the bodies…all of the pain and screaming. Tori wouldn't be surprised if she was going to be forever scarred like those WWII veterans once she made it home like this…if she made it home.

"T-Tori! Put him down! We got fix up this wound!" Beck cried while horrifically scanning the boys organs as they spilt from his shredded abdomen.

"There's no time though Beck! Felix is right behind us..." Tori wept as she felt the sticky red blood from Jake's body become slippery paint in her hands.

"We have to! Jake can't go on like this!" Beck replied with the same look of fear and overwhelming emotion on his face. Tori hesitantly nodded before bringing a soft blue blanket out of her backpack that she packed for the trip to sleep with. Without another second going by, she wrapped it around Jake's bubbling wound with a scrunched up face; crying hysterically as she tied it in a sturdy knot.

"Perfect! Jake how you holding up?" Beck quickly asked while hoisting him back into the breezy air with Tori's help.

"Well…t-to be honest. I would have preferred a few stitches but I guess a little blanket ain't so bad. Always good to keep the blood warm," Jake laughed as blood bubbled from his open mouth and ran down his bruised cheeks.

Katniss kept firing an endless amount of shells as well as Camille stealthily running around with the mace; trying to get Felix with a perfect smack to take him down…but it was hopeless because just couldn't get close enough to him.

The fancy gun wielder held his destroyed glasses in place on the bridge of his nose as he fired even more bullets in spewing fire. One of them landed Tori right in her kneecap causing her to fall to the cold ground with a quick yelp ringing out of her mouth. Beck instantly lost his grip on Jake and all three of them became a heaping mess on the swaying blades of grass.

"Shit!" Jake groaned from the impact which only intensified the pain he was enduring. Tori was grabbing her bloody knee in hysteria as she cried from the pain that surged through the nerves around it.

"AH!" she roared while feeling the tears fly from her face and into the soil around her; possibly nourishing it.

"Tori! Damn it…Jake! You alright?" Beck cursed as even more shots were being fired.

"Peachy," Jake groaned while shutting his eyes tighter than he ever achieved possible. Tori tried to suck in the air around her to keep herself from screaming to the skies above as Beck tried to examine her wound carefully.

"Tori…can you go on?" he asked hopefully.

"M-Maybe…" she breathed deeply as she steadied herself to get up. Right when she put pressure on her torn up knee she immediately collapsed with a series of painful whimpers leaving her. "No…I-I can't," she cried with tears of pain slicking her eyelids.

"H-Hold on…I got an idea," Jake moaned slowly as his breaths became more and more shallow. Beck averted his attention towards the smart-mouthed punk lying stiffly in the fresh scented grass.

"What did you have in mind?'

"The bomb…I need the bomb."

"The bomb?"

"J-Just get it Beck! D-Dammit!" Jake hissed as a wave of devastating pain rolled over him again. Beck merely nodded with arched brows before turning around on his dirty heel to fetch the explosive. Katniss was crying out in hysteria after being winged by a few bullets as Camille threw the mace on the ground in utter defeat in order to tend to Katniss' needs. Felix did nothing but send another tide of ear splitting shots their way with high hopes that after tonight…more vulgar insects would be extinguished.

Beck finally made it to the bomb unharmed with his eyes shut as he grabbed the bomb with both of his bloody hands. He groaned as he tugged on it for dear life only watching the heap of detonating destruction move an inch…a measly inch.

"We can't hold out much longer!" Camille shouted hopelessly while helping Katniss walk over to Beck's aid. "What are you trying to do?"

"Just help me!" Beck replied with a loud scream as he pulled the bomb once more even though it was hardly budging. Katniss took a low groan as she stepped away from Camille and threw her shotgun around her shoulders so that it was hugging her back along with her anxious quiver of arrows.

"Help Beck on that side!" she roared to Camille as she hauled the bomb a good feet or two with one tug; avoiding the rampage of Felix Garcia. Camille sped around the circular corner of the bomb to take her fair share of labor and helped Beck pull the bomb over to Jake. Within a minute it was at Jake's feet…ready to be tampered with thanks to Katniss' muscular talents.

"What're you plannin' to do here?" Katniss asked with concern as she ceases her pulling with heavy breathes of air.

"Just…w-watch. Tor' h-h-help m-me…up," Jake shallowly moaned as he gave the four brightly blue moonlit people above him a glowing smile of ecstasy. Tori tried her very best to return the favor but just couldn't as she felt the brittle bones in her knee crack and break whenever she moved. She placed her hands under his back like she were about to lift a mattress and hoisted him up into a semi-sitting position.

"Thank y-you oh s-s-so very m-much beautiful l-lady," Jake beamed mischievously as he brought out a type of keychain that dangled on a silver necklace chain he wore anround his neck. The necklace interlaced with the titanium collar he had attached as he fiddled with the little trinket on the end of the necklace chain. "Ignition key…never thought you'd be the thing I'd fall in love with…I prefer girls but…you'll work."

Beck rolled his eyes at Jake's unnecessary humor as he and the three other girls watched him with full suspense in their hearts. Jake pulled it over his head slowly while Felix screamed in anger at his victims' incompetence and began to fire another blazing round in their direction.

"Jake!" Camille wailed as the bullets flew past them like raging hornets. Jake threw the necklace to Katniss with an ounce of strength left in his frail body.

"Kat…P-Plug that little beauty…i-i-into our l-little creation."

Katniss didn't have to be told twice as she turned around in a quick second with a smirk of victory and jammed the tiny key into the top of the bomb.

For Jo…Gibby…Suzie…Moze and True…Stevie, Kev….Sam and Freddie…Andre! Hayley! Everyone! This is for you guys! Jake screamed ecstatically in his woozy head with a small grin of pleasure.

"Alright! Give 'er a push and make a run for it…Felix's gunna be g-getting Fourth of July…early dis…y-y-year," Jake laughed violently as he held his stomach to keep himself from falling apart like a building of blocks. Beck gave a wide smile before placing his hands on the explosive contraption along with Tori, Camille and Katniss' diverse pairs.

"Don't even think about it!" the frantic voice of Felix, shrilly screeched from in front of them. He held his gun high in the sky and began to jump wildly around like some banshee. "Don't you fucking dare!" Without even thinking he fired more shots in their direction causing them to fall back like brittle leaves. Felix continued to fire his-or…Camille's Uzi like a impregnable nerf gun. Tori felt Beck's lean arms wrap around her to help her become stable so she could walk. Katniss bolted in an opposite direction with a look of relentlessness in her sterling silver eyes. Camille aided Tori's injured form; her chestnut colored hair bobbing behind her back faithfully as she carried her away with Beck on the other side.

"Where…da..h-hell are you all g-going?" Jake groaned while feeling his stomach twist and turn as if he were on the gut twisting Space Mountain…if only he were actually ON Space Mountain instead of in this endless night terror…

He got no answer…they were out of sight…out of mind. "They left me…they abandoned ship? Not f-fucking cool. Not cool at all babes!"

Felix had now reached Jake's pathetic display with a look of gratification on his twisted face.

"I see the filthy crew has left their pathetic excuse for a captain," he sneered as he leaned down ever so slowly with a set of brown eyes fixed on Jake. "Left you here with me did they? Well…I guess I'll have to finish my job."

"Fucker!" Jake spat; blood flying from his tainted mouth and onto Felix's hideous face. The pristine boy instantly jumped back spastically onto his bottom while scrubbing his face with his grungy hands.

"You little vulgar piece of crap!" Felix screamed in great irritation as he finished deep cleaning his 'pretty' face.

"Whatever, priss…You…need to fucking grow a pair. Anyone can fire a damn gun…but it takes real guts to stand up and fight!" Jake preached with his lips quivering from the tremendous amount of pain building from within him.

"Shut Up Collins! You were the most hideous beast in our class. Cussing! Profanity! Those pathetic excuses you mistake as friends…all revolting."

"Like you ever had any friends! Newsflash Gar-prick! We all just pretended to like you- no scratch that last! We pretended to TOLERATE you!" Jake screamed as his veins began to throb in intense anger. Felix sat there with his eyes wide in disbelief behind his rimmed glasses. Everything seemed quiet…everything except the breezes flying by and Jake's painful wheezes. After pondering the words that left Jake's throat, Felix gradually brought the spout of the death-bringing gun up to the dying classmate's trembling face that began to shrink in response.

"I hate you," Felix giggled lowly with a sick smile playing across his chapping lips. "I hate all of you. And I won't rest until all of you, including you, are lying somewhere on this island…dead."

Jake closed his eyes as tight as he could and braced himself for the deadly impact. His mouth reeked with the taste of iron as blood swished around within his mouth and he slowly opened one eye…just to take one last view in before he left this crappy world. His eyes glanced down at his limp wrists that were gripping onto the patches of grass and spotted his bracelet.

Make a Difference…or Die Trying…

"Hell yeah…that's just how it is," Jake laughed quietly which made it resemble a low whisper of breath as Felix pressed down on the trigger agonizingly. Before a ringing sound of gunfire filled the air, Jake spotted a glimmering stick shoot across his vision; behind Felix's wavering head.

The Hell…

A…A…A bow! The bow was shot at an incredible angle as it soared through the sky like a bold rocket and after a few seconds…a flash of light flooded both of their eyes. The ground shook horribly as if an earthquake was taking place at the moment and a series of deafening roars blasted through the once quiet air in the form of rough sound waves.

The bomb exploded. The bow hit the bomb and blew it up in the process. Jake and Felix both flew into the air sky high like a pair of super enhanced kangaroos. They were performing somersaults in the fire glowing sky and Felix couldn't help but shriek like a little girl as he was thrown onto the ground with a thump.

"We did it! Hayley, Andre! We fucking did it my friends!" Jake cried in happiness as he soared through the glorious air along with vast amounts of dirt and debris as his aerial companions. He landed on the ground harshly but couldn't stop laughing like he had just been told a timeless joke by one of his friends. He clutched his abdomen as the laughs endlessly poured from his mouth and they mixed with the sound of the rumbles that came from the explosion. Jake stared up at the ember burnt sky and felt his heart blossom from the sight. Streams of pure white fire were spewing from the top of the blazing masterpiece and little meteors flew into the dirt and soil like seeds ready to be planted. Everything around them gleamed and reflected the bright orange light that was radiating from the fiery aftermath.

But who shot the arrow?

Girl # 2: Hayley Steele (ELIMINATED)

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Monday: June 3rd, 2010 – 1:16 A.M. (Deserted Island: High School Classroom)

Mr. Eikner was pleasurably reading the classic novel 'Lord of the Flies' before being blown out of his concentration mode.

"Sir!" a lieutenant boomed in fear after the entire room became illuminated instantly with a fiery red flash that sent many of the officers into a fantasy-like daze. The aligned wooden desks glistened from the glowing light that was nesting only a mile way…

"My God!" a female combat officer snarled with her hands plastered to the control board; her mouth forming an 'o' in absolute shock. "T-That was no grenade sir!" she sputtered with her eyes grown to the size of fists themselves. Mr. Eikner simply stared at the distant flames that were burning gloriously bright and everyone could see the orange glow radiate from his meager facial expression.

"We're lucky," he chuckled with a slight bit of nervousness as the other soldiers began to frantically talk to one another about the brilliant explosion before Einker slammed his meaty fist down onto the teacher's desk to snap them out of their hysteria. "Back to your posts!" he barked which caused everyone to flee back to their assigned stations.

"We could have been blown to bits!" a petite girl soldier whispered to her partner who merely nodded while taking a nervous gulp.

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GAH! This was hella crazy to write! Anywho...What did you think about the little war affair between Felix and the group? Will Felix be taken down? Will Jake escape? Give me your thoughts and stay tuned for the next Chapter of The 61st Annual Battle Royale Competition! HAHAHA...Ha!