The Adventures of Wesley and Philip

Chapter 11 The Sacrifice

"Guys I need help, its Caleb. He's not waking up,"- Sarah

I cannot describe the carnage which happened within Numetrix Incorporated. All I can say is that a lot of bad people died at that moment. What did I do you may ask? All I did was turn some people into balloons. They didn't look happy after I did that.

"Hey guys, what should we do now?" I asked.

"We need to get to the main control room before Mr. Ten can release the game. That's where we'll find the source of the game," Caleb said.

"Can I shoot a bunch of people while we make our way there?" Poofy asked.

"Sure, go ahead," Caleb responded. At that moment, more guards came running into the room.

"If we're going to do anything, we better do it now," Philip said. We all agreed that it was time to move. As we made our way through the building, we tried our best to fight off the bad guys. Poofy was having the time of his life with his gun while Sarah was doing some seriously cool sword tricks. She could almost kill a bad guy in one stroke of the sword. Enoch was laying down some bombs for later so that we could blow the place when we're ready.

"Charges are set in place. How the hell are we going to get out of here once we've destroyed the source?" Enoch asked.

"We'll signal the van to pick us up and then we'll blow the charges once we're out of range," Caleb said. More and more guards were starting to appearing out of nowhere. It was almost as if there were endless amounts of guards.

"Look, we're almost there. Poofy shoot down the door," Caleb said.

"With pleasure," Poofy responded as he shot the control room's door off of its hinges. We entered the room and were shocked at what we were looking at. It was a hologram of a brain.

"Is it just me, or does this brain remind you of something?" Enoch asked us.

"Is that the digital copy of Sarah's brain?" Caleb asked.

"No, it can't be. It was destroyed during the battle with Milton," Sarah said.

"It was destroyed, but this is the copy of the copy," a voice said as a hologram of Mr. Ten appeared in front of us. "Milton was one of our biggest consumers. We had access to almost all of his files. It was easy once we found the file containing the code to Sarah's brain. All we had to do was hack our way into it," he explained to us.

"Too bad you won't be able to use Sarah's brain to suck my universe dry because we're going to destroy it," I said.

"Did you really think that we would have the key to our plan and not have copies of it?" Mr. Ten asked.

"What do you mean?" Philip asked the hologram.

"We have multiple copies of her digital brain. If we lose one, then we can use a spare," Mr. Ten responded.

"Guys, it looks like the only way to destroy all of the brain copies is to wipe the entire database," Caleb said to us. At that moment, he made his way towards a computer.

"I'm sorry kid, but you won't be able to hack into the database in time before the explosive in the control room goes off," Mr. Ten said, smiling his evil grin.

"We'll see about that," Caleb said as he began to type faster than ever before. "You guys get out of here. I'll hack into the database and wipe everything," he said.

"But what about the bomb?" Sarah asked.

"Just go before it's too late," Caleb told us. Just then, we heard a beeping noise. In the far corner of the room, there was a bomb that said we had five minutes before it blows. I gave Caleb a radio so that he would stay in contact. Finally we made our way to the van. The guards were trying to kill us again, but this time we weren't in the mood to play around. We were going to get to the van even if we had to kill everyone in our way.

"Caleb, how's it coming?" I asked into my radio.

"Don't rush me," he replied. I told him I was sorry. I just hate it when something's about to blow and people are trying to attack you in the process.

"There's the van. I'm driving," I said. It's a good thing Caleb left the keys in the van. We all got in as fast as we could. "Here goes nothing," I said as I pressed my foot on the gas. The van instantly started zooming through the lobby of Numetrix Inc. I'm pretty sure I accidentally ran some people over, but I didn't care about them.

"Wesley, I don't want to criticize your driving skills but-," Sarah began to say.

"If you won't then I will. YOU ARE GOING TO GET US KILLED WITH YOUR CRAPPY DRIVING YOU IDIOT!!!" Poofy yelled to me.

"Someone please put a muzzle on him," I said as I swerved to avoid a wall. I decided that the only way to get out of the building is through the giant glass wall. "Everybody hang on!" I said as I drove through the window.

"Oh no!" everyone cried as the van fell in the air. Thankfully, I was able to turn on autopilot mode so that the van wouldn't crash. The van flew away from the building.

"Wait guys, we have to save Caleb!" Philip called.

"Caleb you need to get out of there right now!" I yelled at him through the radio.

"Sorry old friend, but I don't have time to make it out. At least I was able to wipe the database of all copies of Sarah's brain," he said to me.

"Don't do this Caleb. You have get out," I pleaded with him.

"Wesley, the prophecy said that one of us must fall. I can't have one of you guys dying. Tell the others I said goodbye," he said as he turned off his radio.

"YOU HEROIC BASTARD, DON'T DO THIS!!!" I cried into the radio, but it was no use. Suddenly, in the distance, the sound of an explosion from inside the Numetrix building could be heard. A second later, the building was in flames. Caleb was now dead.

"Oh. My. God. This can't be happening," Enoch said his face pale.

"A great savior will lead them all, but to win one among them must fall," I said with tears in my eyes. Suddenly, the van began to descend rapidly. We were out of gas.

"Everybody hold on to something!" I cried as we headed towards the ground.