"Was it death they wanted?........was it to live that mattered?......., all those were just the tip of the fucking iceberg",

  "What the hell do you mean?"...

  "All I'm saying is that death and life, that's just some illusion made by one supreme guy so we all could live out his simulator......, in the end it don't matter, whether you live or die, it's all the same. In the end we die, and in the begining we live, that has to come to an end sometime doesn't it?"

  "I still don't get what you're saying serg"....

  "Kid, when you live long enough to see everything no human shouldn't see, you regret the steps you took that had gotten you there. *Sighs*........., I'm at my limit here......, don't got nothing else to see, I just gotta pull the fucking trigger and end it all"

  "See everything?......., serg no you can't"

  "Don't stop it nick....., this was how he had planned my fall, remember it all just a fucking illusion?"

  *Laughters*

  *Gunshots*

  *Silence*

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  LIFE BY A THREAD

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  "Fuck it!" Chloe yelled, she had her body well hidden behind the room she had just escaped from with her friends, smoke was lying on the floor, he had no strength to stand, Zack could stand by had no gun to join in or to help Chloe. It was death, nothing they could do now would help them out, they were gonna die...., she did want to die....not there at least, why hadn't her life gone as planned, nothing she ever did turned out ok.

  She planned on changing that, she planned on saving both Zack and smoke even if it killed her.

  "Chloe just leave us behind, you're faster and you could escape this place before they realize it" Zack yelled but Chloe wasn't paying much attention to him, all she wanted to do was kill every single person in front of her.

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  "Chloe!!"Zack called out.

  She was back, she could here him, she had almost lost it for a second, why? She wondered still shooting at the men in front of her when a bullet hit her finger cutting it off.

  "Damn!!...mmmmmmm"she moaned feeling excruciating pain, "I'm not falling here, I can't fall here" Chloe sighed, she continues her shooting stopping j's men from advancing towards the room while still killing some of them.

  This was harder than she expected to be, she had never fought this hard before, not since she escaped the facility.

  "You know the game gets harder the more time you waste shooting at us!"j laughed he wasn't taking this seriously, it was all a game to him, a fucking death game. "You should give yo while I still have a little patience in me girl..., wouldn't think twice killing you if I didn't, besides we still haven't had our fun" he continued but Chloe said nothing, she had more things to think about now and j being stupid wasn't in her book.

  "Chloe just go!"Zack yelled urging Chloe, the way the situation had turned got him convinced that they weren't getting out of her alive, two of them at least, Chloe was going to make it if she didn't she didn't, she wants to keep them safe, protect them Zack huffed walking towards Chloe.

  "Give me the gun.........I'll shoot y'all run, am I clearx he ordered but Chloe slammed his arm away rejecting is proposal,

  "I didn't do all this for you guys to eventually get killed......, I'm trying to save you bitch here!"she yelled

  "Screw that Chloe....., we keep this up and we both die, we both including smoke and you sure know we ain't getting out of this alive if we just stay here shooting........ain't that gonna help Chloe"Zack yelled back his hands placed on her shoulder

  "Just let me do it Chloe.... please.... You need to get out of here"Zack smiled trying to take the gun from Chloe slowly but as he tried doing so smoke took the gun from Chloe taking both of them by surprise.

  "What are you doing man?"Zack asked he tried taking the gun back but smoke didn't let him..., he had his mind made up, someone was going to die here and he wasn't going to let it be his friends..., he was dead anyways, he could feel his whole body giving up and his internal organs failing...., he couldn't breath properly anymore so had to buy them a little more time to escape if that was the last thing he did.

  "You two go...... I'll.....*coughs*, I'll hold them up, buy you time to escape"smoke Said his words barely above that of a whisper.

  "No....I'm the only one strong enough to be left behind.....no....no.......you don't have to stay behind"Chloe tried convincing smoke but smoke didn't give in to her request

  "No please.......*smiles* it's all good, let me do this one last thing tlfor y'all...*coughs* as you can see.......I.....I won't last long enough for us to escape......even.....even if I did.... I'll die in no time out there........ I'd just hold ya back" smoke Said with a smile, his face covered in his own blood, he had lost quite a lot of blood and woud die at anytime, Zack had already picked up on that and understood exactly why smoke wanted to stay behind, besides he noticed smoke wasn't in tip top shape and would go out at anytime, he had been beaten way worse than him so it made sense he had those injuries.

  "Let's go"Zack sighed letting out a painful grin, "let's go Chloe..... please"Zack continued grabbing Chloe's arm but Chloe did want to move, she wanted to save smoke even if it meant her life was on the line

  "We....we can't just leave him here can we?"Chloe asked she was angry and confused, she didn't know what to do at that time

  "Damn it Chloe, we have to go!............, smoke will die at anytime, j and his men are approaching and if we stay behind, him sacrificing himself would be for nothing...., right now Chloe its all but nothing, we have to go..."Zack yelled grabbing Chloe's arm and leading her out of the door but smoke stayed behind, he had to buy them some time, he was going to die, that he knew so he had to do it in style. He drew out a cigar from his pocket he had left it there earlier before they got kidnapped, getting it lit he placed between his lip

  "One last puff" he said smiling loading the handgun in his arm he started shooting again.

  Chloe had tried everything she could to go back and help smoke but Zack didn't let her, he carried her on his back and ran as fast as he could, killing those infront of him and not stopping until finally they were outside, still he kept running until he couldn't see or hear the prison and the gunshots coming from it anymore.

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  "Almost there.....just have to keep going"Dave sighed exhaustedlt, altera was just a four kilometer trek in front of him, he could make it, he had to inform them of the horde, save lives he thought getting up and continuing his trek for altera.