SPECTRE

CHAPTER XIII

This was really just me practicing writing a decent fighting scene. 1 vs 12 or 10 I forgot how many. Anyways I was focusing on making the fight scene easy to follow etc.

Outside Carter’s office on the fifth floor, AJ stood. With a gun in hand, he wasn’t sure what to expect when he walked in. Victor could be there waiting to kill him like last time. If that was the case, he had an extra wave bomb he scavenged off Mike. He wasn’t worried about the spectres Carter talked about. He could easily take them down.

He took a deep breath and opened the door. He walked into the room where Carter was. The man sat behind his wooden desk with Sev tied up on the floor in the middle of the room. Along the walls stood ten spectres. They stood at attention with their arms behind their backs and chins held up.

Unlike the typical soldiers AJ has seen before, these soldiers were well equipped. Black clothing with high quality combat gear. Helmet and black ski masks with red visor to cover their eyes. Like him, they carried pistols in their belt holster.

“I’m glad you can join us AJ,” Carter said. “Why don’t you close the door behind you.”

Without looking away from Carter, AJ stepped back and closed the door behind him. He then stood back in the middle of the room, scanning the other spectres. He noticed he had a silver spade insignia on the side of their helmets.

Lightning streaked across the sky behind Carter, lighting up the dark room, and was followed up with the boom of thunder that echoed in through the closed glass windows. AJ clenched his fist, his fingers began to twitch like before.

“This world is dying, did you know that?” Carter asked.

“Yeah, it’s the whole reason why all the countries are still fighting,” AJ said. “To gather up as much resources as they can.”

“True, and this fighting does what?” Carter asked. “We focus on fighting nothing. We're but corpses who fight just to fight. We think if we destroy the other countries somehow everything will be better.”

“That’s why you have to find something to fight for.”

Carter smiled. “That’s true, if you don’t have anything to fight for or live for then you might as well be a corpse.” He pulled out a pistol and rubbed the side of his head with the cold metal barrel. “So tell me, what do you fight for?”

“I fight to save people,” AJ answered. “That’s why I’m a spectre.”

“Wrong, you fight to save your people,” Carter shouted. “You’ll easily allow chinks, ruskies or candies die. But once an american is in trouble, you gotta save them.”

He stood up and walked around his desk. He leaned against the front of it and pointed the gun down at Sev who was struggling around and muffling.

“If Sev wasn’t your friend and wasn’t american, you’d let him die.”

AJ’s eyes grew sharp and his fist clenched. “What are you getting at?”

“You talk about saving people when really you’re just talking about saving a select few.” Carter switched off the gun’s safety with his thumb. “For me and the Gaia, we’re talking about saving everyone.”

“Bt your plan involves killing millions of innocent people,” AJ said.

“I’ll admit, we’ll get our hands bloodied, but that’s just the way it was.” He glanced at his spectres. “Spectres, do me a favor and kill AJ.”

In synchronization, the spectres all flashed stepped at once. Vanishing with a boom. AJ also flashed stepped. The plague rain outside  slowed to a halt and the streak of lightning slowed down as it seared across the dark skies behind Carter.