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Alex turned suddenly. "Ssshhh! I think I hear someone coming!"

Virgil and Kat were closest to him and motioned him to move back towards their flag. Brandon came from around the backside of their fort, silently indicating to Virgil his intentions to move around the back of where the noises were coming from.

John held up a hand to stop Brains and they both stood silent in the undergrowth. From here, John could see Kat, the fort and the flag. He knew Virgil would be hidden, but close nonetheless.

Brandon crept along in the undergrowth, taking care not to make any noise. Some of his best friends outside of WASP had been Navy Seals and they had taught him a thing or two. Now he listened carefully as two people whispered and discussed strategy. Brains... and John. Not easy targets, but....

He watched as the two split up to scout out Alex's fort. Brains was closer, so Brandon followed him.

Even though Brains's eyesight wasn't the best, his other senses compensated for it and he was aware of the slight rustling in the underbrush behind him. Whoever it is, they're very good. Maybe I can lure them into a false sense of security. So, Brains crept along, trying to make noise, but not too much, attempting to sound and look like he didn't know what he was doing.

Brandon chuckled internally. Okay, Brains, if that's the way you want to play it.... He waited no longer, but raised his paintgun and fired!

Brains rolled out of the way, but not quickly enough. A large stain of red paint decorated his sleeve. He looked at the stain. "Ow! I can't believe I'm out already!" He lifted up his wrist and called John. "John, this is Brains, I'm hit. You're on your own, I'm afraid."

Damn! John sighed. "Thanks, Brains. Take care, buddy." He moved towards Alex's fort with the stealth of a panther and saw his victim in plain view. Kat! She'll never know what hit her!

She moved about restlessly, wanting to call out to Brandon, but not doing so. Her eyes darted back and forth but didn't see anything. John aimed his gun, carefully lined up his victim in his sights, and pulled the trigger. By the time Kat realized what the 'whooshing' sound was that she heard, the paintball had found its mark.

"OUCH!" Kat grabbed at her thigh where bright blue paint was now all over her leg and dripping downwards. She dropped her weapon and fell to the ground.

"Gotcha!" John said more to himself than Kat. Raising his communicator to his lips, he called Scott. "Scott, Brains is down, but I just knocked out Kat!"

"FAB, John, good shooting."

********

In the meantime, Alex and Virgil were making their way to Scott's fort, Virgil pointing out the way and Alex moving quietly along with him. Suddenly, Alex stopped and pointed, grinning.

"Well, well," Virgil whispered in his brother's ear. "What do we have here?"

What they had was the duo of Tin-Tin and Dom slowly moving along the path as quietly as possible. Alex and Virgil ducked, and Virgil took aim at Dom.

The paintball whizzed by Dom's ear, missing him by a hair or two. He instinctively ducked, pulling down Tin-Tin automatically. "Saints alive! What the hell was that?"

"We're being fired on!" replied Tin-Tin. They both scrambled under the nearest bush and waited.

Across the pathway, a disgruntled Virgil and Alex also remained hidden. "Aw man! I though for sure we'd get him!" moaned Alex.

"Calm down, little bro, we'll get 'em." Virgil, it seemed to Alex, had never-ending patience. Alex would have rather stormed the clearing, all barrels blazing. Instead, he waited with Virgil.

"Can you see who it is?" whispered Dom.

"Not yet, but the color of the paint over there indicates it's from Alex's team," answered Tin-Tin.

"Hmm," Dom said softly. "Perhaps we can get behind them and do a little damage of our own. Tell you what. I'll provide a distraction and you slip around behind them and take them out."

Tin-Tin grinned. "Sounds like a plan." She began to slither through the underbrush as quietly as possible, going around the position where she thought their assailants were. Dom, on the other hand, stuck his head up enough to look around. He knew that his head was safe enough. Then he took a deep breath, and standing up full length, began to lope up the pathway.

Surprisingly, there was no action on the part of his opponents.

It was only when he heard Tin-Tin's cry of, "Aagh!" that he realized the problem. Whoever had been shooting at them had anticipated their movements and taken out Tin-Tin.

Dom sped up from a lope into a full run, hoping to find one of the assailants still close enough to retaliate for Tin-Tin. As he neared the spot where he heard Tin-Tin's cry, he saw Virgil stand up. Without a second thought, Dom raised his gun and fired. He missed! Virgil heard it coming and spun round, getting off a paintball of his own. His shot missed, too!

The standoff continued and at least 3 more paintballs were launched across the clearing, the third one finding its victim. Yellow paint splattered all down the front of Virgil as he went down. Dom laughed triumphantly, and called Gordon on his wrist comm. Virgil swore later he heard Gordon rolling with laughter when Dom told him that his brother was out!

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