Chapter 6


Dylane woke up a little while later in some kind of cot. She looked around and got up. She fell over as soon as she got to her feet. “Ugh that hurt.” Hands that came from nowhere helped her up. It was pitch black but she could make a faint silhouette out. “Here let me help,” a voice belonging to the silhouette said. It sounded familiar. She held her head as she got to her feet. “Where are we?” she asked the shadow. “I’m not sure,” the voice answered. The silhouette disappeared and suddenly a light went on. She covered her eyes as she kept her eyes shut. As soon as she got used to the light she looked around. She saw Brandt over at a light switch. The room wasn’t very interesting. It looked like any kind of bedroom except it was kind of small and had only one desk a chair and a bunk bed. She looked at Brandt and blinked a few times. “Where are we?” she repeated. “I’m not sure,” he repeated. There was a knock on the door. The door opened and a crow flew in. It cawed and pulled off a note off. It had a map and a note on it. “Meet me in the briefing room, signed Project Revenge,” the note read simply. “Great we’re in some kind of compound with him.” Brandt said reading the note. They walked out of the room and into a hallway lit by a bunch of lights built into the walls. A door opened next to them and Eric strode out. He stretched a little. “Jeez I haven’t gotten that much sleep for almost a few months,” he said laughing a little when he saw them. “I’m glad that you find your accommodations so fitting,” a voice said a little ways down. They grew tense as they heard him. Simon stood in front of them in the hallway. He looked like he had on the island. He wore only black as it seemed that everything that he had with his demon and angel form had melted away. He stood in front of them smirking a little. He turned and started to walk down the hallway. “Follow me. We have much to talk about,” he spoke over his back. They followed him still keeping their guards up. They followed him to a room with a large table in the middle. The room walls were made of smooth steel and the room was illuminated by a bunch of large lights around the room. There were a few chairs around the table but other wise there wasn’t much else. They kept their eyes on him but didn’t sit down. Simon walked into the room and pulled out something out of his pocket. He pushed a button and a large screen flipped out from one of the walls. He turned it on and started flipping channels. “Ach never anything good on,” he said laughing to himself as he pressed the change channel button. He settled on one that he actually found kind of amusing. It was a stand up comedian on a comedy channel. He turned to them and pointed to the chairs. “You don’t have to stand you know,” he said turning his attention back to the screen. He kept changing it until he got to a news channel. A large man was standing before the camera and was giving a statement. “We are trying to round him up now. He is very dangerous and everyone should be on the lookout,” the man said as a picture came up. It was a picture of Simon and what he usually wore. “We need to get him so he doesn’t try to destroy another military facility or threaten the president.” Simon sighed and laughed a little. “Ha they think I’m going to kill the president,” he said pulling out his pistols and putting them on the table. He pressed another button on the remote. One wall slid open to reveal a huge storage of weapons. Eric gaped at how many weapons there were. Simon walked into the armory and placed his pistols on the rack. He smiled as he walked out and leaned against the table again. “If you want to kill me then go grab something from in there and kill me,” Simon said not even looking at them. They stood there dumbfounded and then looked at each other. “Ok what’s going on?” Dylane said rushing over and grabbing Simon by the collar. He said nothing and just stared at her with an expressionless face. It was really unnerving so Dylane smacked him across the face and let him go. “You’re a fucktard,” she said as she turned away and went back to Eric and Brandt. Simon turned back to them and placed the remote on the table and slid it to them. “Press the blue button,” he said as he kept watching the TV. Eric picked up the remote and pressed the blue button. Another wall opened to reveal a huge amount of vehicles. There was Simon’s black armored bike from earlier that day. They would have looked at it more if a large explosion hadn’t shaken the compound. Simon turned and grabbed the remote and opened the armory. “Get some weapons and you can kill me later but now we need to defend this place,” he called after he ran into the armory and pulled out his two modified Berettas and picking up his katana and slinging it over his shoulder. He spun and ran to his bike. He turned around in time to see them run into the armory. Dylane picked up a sword with a weird hilt and a belt with shurikens all over it and slung it over her shoulder and hooked it together near her waist. She looked over at Eric just as she walked over to a jeep which was furbished with a large belt fed machine gun on top. Eric grabbed a staff and spun it in his hands a few times before taking a Desert Eagle and shoving it into a holster and belting it around his waist. He ran over to the jeep and hopped into the passenger seat and pulled out his Desert Eagle. Brandt took a belt of shurikens off the rack where Dylane had gotten hers and belted it in the fashion Dylane did and picked up a sniper rifle and slung it over his shoulder. He ran over to the jeep and manned the Machine Gun. The building was still shaking from being pounded by different shells. They were able to maneuver the jeep away from the parking spot and follow Simon out into the battlefield. The compound was nestled in some kind of abandoned town Simon skidded to a halt in front of about twenty tanks that had all their barrels aimed at the compound. They slowly aimed at him but suddenly stopped. “Well we finally found you,” a familiar voice said over the roar of the tank’s engines. Simon showed no emotion as he saw a girl and her boyfriend step out of the dust and into the view. Dylane, Eric, and Brandt had returned inside of the compound and found their way around to a sniping spot. Dylane and Eric had found two vehicles that would be more suitable for them. They stayed in the compound on top of two motorcycles and just waited. The tanks had stopped their engines and a bunch of Army soldiers exited from the top hatches and took cover around their tanks. The girl smiled as she came into full view. Simon wasn’t very surprised to see a familiar face appear in front of him. Caeli wore black clothes with a low shirt so everyone could see her cleavage. Simon wasn’t into that stuff at all though but he didn’t take a defensive stance either. She smiled obviously amused. She beckoned to the soldiers and then pointed at him. They didn’t say anything but they did run to surround Simon. Simon didn’t react but just let them surround him. As soon as they had surrounded him fully, Caeli walked up to him and placed her finger on his neck. “I’m glad I met you,” she said finally after a few minutes. “I’m glad I was able to find you so useable,” She said laughing suddenly. She placed a pistol under his chin. “And now you’ll get my special kiss of death,” she said smiling. She gently pressed her lips against his cheek and then pulled the trigger. The gun went off with a deafening bang. She slipped away and smiled as she walked back to Michael. “Only one problem,” Simon’s voice said through the smoke. She stopped in her tracks turning around with wide eyes. “I’m not dead,” he said. The bullet hadn’t even done any damage all it had done was bounce off his skin. “Now it’s my turn,” he said taking a defensive stance. His hands went away from his sides and his veins started to bulge. The sides of his wrists split open and bone swords sprouted from his wrists and went forward to blades. His eyes went red as his back sprouted giant bat wings. He glared at her and then at the soldiers. He lifted his head to the sky and cackled an evil laugh that sent shivers down Caeli’s spine. He slammed his palms against the ground sending a shockwave that knocked away a bunch of the soldiers near him. Right then all hell broke loose as the soldiers started firing and so did the tanks. Dylane and Eric gunned their bikes outside and joined the battle cutting down soldiers left and right by cutting them and knocking them out. Dylane’s bike was shot and she jumped off the bike as it slammed against the ground and exploded after the gas tank ignited. She pulled out her sword and slashed a soldier in half. She pulled it back in a whiplash and shot another soldier. “How did I do that?” She wondered as she examined the sword. She took it and pointed it at another advancing soldier and used it like a whip. A bullet was shot from the hilt out of the gun that was mounted in the sword into the soldiers head. He fell with a thud and she smiled amused and just started cutting and shooting. Eric looked like some kind of person from a kung fu movie as he spun his staff and shot his Desert Eagle. He knocked another soldier down and shot him in the head. He turned and was almost stabbed by a soldier but instead the soldier’s head exploded in a shower of gore and blood. He looked up into the compound where Brandt was giving him the thumbs up sign. “Lucky basterd,” Eric said before returning to the fray. Simon hadn’t moved from where he had been standing since the fighting started. He finally moved and took two pieces of bone off of his swords. He placed them on the ground and muttered an incantation. The bone sank into the soil and disappeared. He laughed to himself waiting. There was a rumbling from underground only a few seconds after he had planted the bone. Everyone was thrown to the ground even Dylane and Eric. Two huge Skeletons burst from the earth fully animated. They stood there until Simon pointed his hands towards the soldiers and to the tanks. One of the Skeletons ignited in a fire and roared and started attacking the soldiers. The other ignited as well and started stomping the Tanks out of existence. Caeli looked up in horror and started to run with Michael hot at her heels. But she didn’t get far. Simon appeared in front of her and grabbed her by the neck. He then turned to Michael and grabbed him by the throat as well. He smiled evilly. “You don’t even know a half of what I am,” he said simply before throwing them headlong into a building. They slammed against it and were knocked out. He laughed as he grabbed them by the arms and dragged them all the way to a tank that was still intact. He dropped them in it and pointed to the tank. One of the Giant Skeletons grabbed it and some soldiers and placed them on the outskirts of town and then returned to the battleground. The two skeletons disincarnated into charred bone piece. Simon smiled as he reverted to his normal self. Brandt, Dylane, and Eric looked at him with a uneasy look as he returned to the compound.