A.N. First of I would like to say that I was overjoyed when I got my first review and that I realized that I did seem to be rushing it a bit to much so I put a little backstory in this one so I hope you enjoy and as always review :)

first review from Agent New Jersey so thanks and I hope you guys like this chapter enjoy

CHAPTER 3

"What the hell happened" moaned a disoriented Agi. Just then Buck said "must have been covi AA" as he got to his feet he yelled out "okay everybody lets do a headcount" Buck then started to count the people with him in the crashed pelican. "Okay listen up everybody theirs only thirteen of us that are able to fight so we have to figure out how to get us all out of here".

That's when Kirito spoke up "we need transportation above all else so that should be our top priority".

"I agree but how do we do that, if we drive through the city we'll be massacred" said Asuna.

"I know, Buck by any chance would you know if the ONI building is still standing" said Argo?

"Why, might ask" Buck asked confused.

"Well my dad works for ONI and I heard something about ways to escape unseen so it could be an underground tunnel possibly or maybe a cloaked pelican or something" Argo replied.

Everyone just stood around gawking at this while Kirito just shook his head and said "I'm not surprised you were the best info broker in the entire game".

"What is it that weird?"Argo pouted.

"No, it's just...never mind I mean i guess we should have seen this sooner but never mind, so how do we get to ONI if its quite literally a war zone out there, we can't just walk there and we have no transportation" Asuna practically murmured to herself.

Everybody just looked at each other with a sense of hopelessness until Agil said "why not the sewers?"

Kirito looked lost in thought until Asuna told him "wouldn't that work I mean there probably aren't that many aliens in the sewers right?"."but remember Jericho IV we thought that it would be easier to go in the sewers then and look what happened" Kirito said.

Everyone looked dejected at this.

FLASHBACK START

( "Kirito we need to move NOW we

Can't stay here the inies are argghhh." Kirito paled as a clearer by the name of 'Jojobinks' next to him exploded into a million polygons after being hit by a rocket. Kirito was still stunned when Asuna ran over to his position with worry in her eyes. Asuna collapsed down next to Kirito and hugged him while sobbing and saying "your alive, thank god your alive". "We have to get of this street were getting mowed down out here it's a slaughter."

Kirito shouted into his radio so that the other squad leaders could here him over the bombs and gunfire.

"Kirito what if we go into the sewers it could take us all the way to the airstrip were are evac is" Kleins voice could barely be herd over the sound of BR's, assault riffles and DMR's exchanging fire and every now and then the audible crack of a sniper rifle or the whine of a rocket being launched.

Kirito thought of this for a minute, Kleins idea did seem to be the only logical way to get out of here. "Okay listen up everyone" Kiritos sentence was cut short however by a rocket blowing up a squad of marines behind a destroyed scorpion and someone yelling for a medic and a person screaming in pain while everyone else looked for where that rocket came from.

Asuna spotted a faint smoke trail to the balcony of a seven story apartment and screamed into her radio the location of the inie while shouldering her SMG and firing a burst of shots at the window.

After about twenty seconds of fire some squad leader yelled over the radio to cease fire.

Kirito then got back on the radio and told the rest of the squads Kliens plan to go through the sewers to avoid hostiles.

Even though he thought it was a good idea he thought that it just seemed to easy.

Time was up though so when they blew a manhole cover and started going into the sewer system he could do nothing about it. After ten minutes of nothing happening and covering quit a bit of ground Kiritos suspicions were proven right.

Suddenly gunfire ripped through the tunnel turning the advanced squad to shreds. There was no cover to be had so the players did what they did best ... they fought.

Three people came running up and placed portable defense barricades (A.N. Those metal barricades you could hide behind in halo while standing up i don't know the actual name of it tell me if I came close) that stopped most of the deadly barrage of bullets from reaching the rest of the players.

Despite the cover no matter how many hits they put down the tunnel they couldn't kill whoever was down there. Suddenly Klein shouted out "could they be automated turrets and not people, because nobody could survive the amount of bullets going down this tunnel without cover. And I haven't herd bullets pinging of of mettle."

A soldier from sigma squad yelled over the radio that was likely considering the punishment raining down the tunnel. Nobody knew how to deal with them if it was possible though.

"What if we used rockets to destroy it" shouted a player from alpha squad. "Nope not possible if it misses then it could cause the tunnel to collapse" Kirito replied calmly. Although on the inside he was going over possibility a a mile a minute.

A little while later Kirito had an idea and was about to tell it to the rest of the group when someone yelled "CONTACT REAR, CONTACT REAR"!

Suddenly shots started to strike people from behind and the sound of players shattering was indistinguishable. Everybody suddenly hit the ground but it only slowed the inevitable. After a few minutes of gunfire and death somebody shot a rocket that impacted with the ceiling collapsing the tunnel behind them but also opening up a hole in the ceiling.

Kirtito relived from being alive suddenly was throne into fear as he looked around and didn't see Asuna anywhere. "ASUNA, ASUNA Where are you!" Kirito shouted holding back tears.

"Kirito I'm here, I'm here" she said rushing over to him and hugging him. As she hugged him both of them sobing slightly she herd someone say "where's Kline?" Suddenly Kirito started but couldn't find any sign of the man he had et on his first day in the game that would turn into the death game they were in today. Not wanting to check he slowly opened up his menu and looked at the deceased players menu. As he was scrolling through he menu he grew sadder and sadder as names of clearers and friends flashed onto his screen. One player after another until he saw what he was dreading the bright red words of Klien were lit up on the list with a big slash through it. After a minute of staring at the screen shocked to the bone all he could think about was the first person he had ever met in the game and someone who had grown to be like a brother to him. Kirito collapsed crying while Asuna belt next to him uttering that it would be all right. He knew better though and after a few more seconds got up and started climbing the pile of rubble. When people asked him what he was doing all he said was "I'm getting out of here". Three minutes later the rest of the company began to move out running to the airfield with a sense of despair. Ever since that day wasn't talked about and was only called the tunnel of doom. )

FLASHBACK END

Everyone looked dejected as the memory of one of the bloodiest days in the games history was heaped upon them. The thought of repeating that was probably too much for some people.

Asuna began to speak to everyone in the most soothing manner that she could " look I know that your all thinking about that day and trust me so am I, but we have to move on if not for our own safety then for the safety of the ones who we fight beside and it going through the tunnel is the safest option then shouldn't we take it so that we have a slightly better chance of survival? I won't say that everything will be all right and that it will all be better because I don't know if it will all I know is that her and now we have to stand and fight side by side if we even have a hope of getting out of here and seeing our loved ones again. So anybody that doesn't want to go in the sewers can go by street but it will most likely get you killed but we will hold nothing against you if you do so form into two teams, ones on the left will go underground and the ones on the right will go above ground understood if you arnt in one in two minutes well be assuming you'll be staying here so move know and make your decisions because either way WE ARE LEAVING!

Two minutes later team 2 made up of around nine people left going door to door heading straight towards O.N.I. HQ. While everyone else gathered their gear and made for the basement.

Two minutes later everybody that had gone in group one was making their way into the basement and going into the sewer through a hole that a bomb made. With Kirito, Buck and Agil making up the forward part of the group and Asuna in the middle helping with the wounded and lower level players who never were in the thick of it.

Everything was going great and Buck said that they were right across from O.N.I. Headquarters when everything went to hell.

As explosions sounded of and dust and rubble started falling down all that the group could think was 'not again please not again'.

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