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((Alright, Goodnight, Waffle! See you sometime tomorrow. This will be my last post for tonight as well.))

Luciano couldn't hear anything over the alarm or the gun shots, which were repeating over and over. He was getting very pissed off now at this; the shots seemed so endless and he knew he was going to run out of ammo soon. This worried him so much as he took his shots. Moments earlier he felt the ground shake, he was scared that maybe Skotti or his teammates had been killed with a grenade or something.
His rifle finally ran out of bullets and so he pulled out his duel revolvers and began shooting at as many people as possible, getting a couple in the head, another between the eyes, and the other right in the face and chest. He needed to get Michelle and himself out soon.

(Alright, turns out I can't get my stuff installed until sometime tomorrow. I should be online for the full day.)


Waffle switched her earpiece to 'off' and turned to Sabe, who was looking at a particular shoulder wound of hers that she didn't even bother worrying about. He picked up some tweezers, disinfectant, and gauze and tried to remove the bullet from Waffle's shoulder, then bandaged it up.

"Y'know, you worry about me too much."
"It doesn't seem to be a problem, does it?"

Waffle shook her head as the two walked down the hall.

"Do you recall seeing a map by any chance?"
"Why yes, yes I do. It was a GPS map, and it had all of us except for me pointed out on the map."

Waffle just looked at him, her expression full of shock.

"I looked at it for a small while before breaking the screen with a handgun. I got into a bit of a scuffle with one of the people here, so I took his handgun when I had the chance, and broke it."
"Do you remember where I happened to be on that map?"
"Yes, I think so, and we're probably at the door to the room itself right now."

They stopped at a heavy ironed door. The door itself was reinforced, so magic nor explosives could tear it down, much to Waffle's dismay. There was a keypad next to the handle. The door was locked, and when Sabe nudged the handle, it asked for a 4-number password.

"Oh, great. A password to crack." Sabe complained.

Waffle, however, had other ideas.

"Hm...let's see here... One, one, one..." she said, punching the '1 key' three times.
"...and uh.....ONE!" she said, hitting the same key a fourth time.

Sabe facepalmed at such a stupid move, and almost fell over in disbelief when the door actually opened. Waffle giggled as she headed inside, dragging a dumbstruck Sabe with her. They were now in the same room as the enormous crystal, which Waffle's father had told her to come back to when she was finished with the general and any goons that got in the way. At the same time, Koteki's image appeared in the orb once more. His jaw almost dropped when he saw Sabe in such a disheveled state.

"Holy ********, it looks like you went through hell and back!"
"You could say that."
"Pfft. No kidding!"

"...anyways... Waffle, set this thing down on the ground. It'll only take a second."

Waffle was confused as to why, but she did as she was told. Her question was far from answered when a beam shot out of the orb and sucked everything into one particular point, then leaving the room empty.

"What did you just do?"
"Oh, nothing. Just sent everything in the room elsewhere, so I could pick out a few things and set them where they belong after being displaced for so long."
"Would that have anything to do with the crystal that you still didn't explain?"
"First, don't talk to your dad like that. Second, I can hold back information as I damn well please."

Waffle rolled her eyes as her father continued.

"Now about the crystal...remember Mum saying something about the huge crystal being the life force of Serole when you were knee-high? He wasn't kidding. Even though Serole looks exactly the same over here as it did over there, and still does, everything was much...duller. Nothing was being created; just destroyed. Isn't that right, Sabe?"

Sabe looked away from the other two, a look of heavy guilt on his face. There was a vast number of things that he kept hidden from Waffle.

"Well, good news is, now that we have this crystal back, the place should be at its former glory, minus the view of any landscapes. Did you know that we just happened to be in a dimension full of other floating islands?"
"No. That does seem interesting though."
" Yeah, well, you ought to prepare yourself for a long talk with Mum when we come to visit. He already planned the whole thing out, so I can't weasel you out of this one."
"Wait...WHAT about you two coming to visit?!"
"Oh yeah...one more thing: I've been working on a portal that could let anyone travel around. There's no limits, as long as there's an entrance and an exit to it. I have one set up; It's just the other that needs built. Sabe will be building that one tonight. Anyways, see you tomorrow."

Sabe had no time to protest when the image in the orb disappeared.

"Aw...aren't you the miserable one today?" Waffle said, trying not to snicker.
"Can we get out of here now?"
"Ugh. Fine." Waffle responded as she picked up her orb.

They headed out of the room, but Sabe noticed a tiny black box near the door, and pocketed it without anyone noticing. He would end up looking at its contents at a later time.

((E-cookies to whoever gets the passcode reference.))

((Actually it's a reference to the Team Fortress 2 'Meet the Spy' trailer within the first 24 seconds of the video. I had a feeling nobody would get it. A soldier runs through the base to the intelligence, and there's a passcode-protected door in his way. Guess what code he punches in. wink ))


Waffle and Sabe had no problem navigating through the rest of the building, now that nobody gave a damn. Their general and Sargent Luke were dead, not to mention all of the guards taken down by the rest of the team. Right now, they were looking for everyone else. The sight of blood staining the walls, floors, and sometimes ceilings didn't bother the two one bit.

"If I'm not mistaken, the others should be nearby." Sabe said casually.

They turned around a corner and saw Luciano, Michelle, and the entire Blackheart Unit, minus Skotti. Pen wasn't around either. Waffle grinned now that they found everyone else.

"Hi guys!"

Waffle's expression changed from a happy one to one that read 'WTF?'

"What are we waiting for, again?"

Waffle and Sabe ran after them, seeing that there just may be consequences if the C4 goes off on its own.

Skotti drowsily looked up at Pen "ready like a Popsicle in a young lady's mouth... or something... yeah I am ready." Skotti rambled due to the blood loss.
Once skotti was in a hospital bed on a morphine drip, a nurse came out to talk to pen.
"Needless to say, he is going to need a blood transfusion, the says that his wife will be his donor, if you could get her on the phone and tell her to come down her, that would be fantastic" she said.

Pen rubbed the back of her neck as she processed the information from the nurse. "I will contact her nurse, thank you for all you have done."

Pen walked to the front desk to call base. "Hello, Mandi? Its Pen....we need you down here...yeah its the boss...hurry." Pen with defeated sigh hung up the phone and sat in Skotti's room. She laid her head back and gave a tired grimaced.

I hope her being pregnant won't cause any complications...

(I am gonna go ahead and play mandi since she does not feel like it)

A little later, Mandi pulled up in her jeep and trotted as fast as she could, into the hospital.
"Good lord, our medical insurance can't take this, Skotti.
she said as she found pen. "Oh penelope, I am glad to see you brought him here, now I at least know he was in good hands." she said as the nurse came to prep her for the transfusion.