2003: WAR IN IRAQ! As soldiers fight against Saddam and his army, the media has us believe everything's fine. The army meanwhile, is trying to keep this information out of the media. About a week ago General Paul Brook and his platoon went missing. Army reports speculate that General Brook and his platoon may have gone AWOL.(Absent Without Leave) Rumours spread that the fighting may have been too much for the General mentally. About two weeks later, reports got back to the army that a group of about thirty people with military weapons have taken over the city of Sogo.

As Jabo sat in the bed of his hotel room, he had both the tv and radio on. Laura walked into Jabos room to see him watching coverage of the war in Iraq, the sound drowned out by The Rascalz song "Crazy World."

"Appropriate music, eh?" said Laura, getting Jabos attention.

"My thoughts exactly!" said Jabo, as he looked over at Laura, a smile on his face.

"So you ready?" asked Laura

"Ready for what?"

"We're gonna hit a bar before we leave tomorrow, remember?"

"Oh yeah!" said Jabo

***

As the group sat in the bar, Jabo looked around at the different people in the bar. His attention turned to one of the tables that had two girls and a guy, they all looked like they were at least twenty. As Jabo listened to the music, "I'm Gonna Get You Good!" by Shania Twain came on.

"It's our theme song!" said one of the girls excitedly. Jabo watched as they seemed to dance in their chairs, he also watched as the guy at the table laughed.

"Looking at other women?" whispered Laura, into Jabos ear.

"Ho, Ho," said James as he pointed at Jabo "busted!" Jabo kicked under the table, hitting James in the shin. "Oh," said James an immature sound in his voice "real mature Jabo." Jabo turned his attention to the televisions above the bar. Some of them were showing sports, and some of them were showing coverage of the war.

"This war is pretty crazy, eh?" said Laura

"Really," said Gordon "but look at that." The group turned their heads towards one of the televisions, to see war supporters waving American flags and talking about their support.

"Yeah," said James "they're showing some real patriotism."

"Bullshit!" said Jabo.

"What do you mean, bullshit?" asked Laura.

"I mean their quote patriotism disgusts me!"

"Why do you say that?" asked Gordon

"Well," said Jabo "if people were patriotic as they say, shouldn't they have flags waving from their homes all the time? Shouldn't they be talking about how great the country is regularly? I mean holy shit, some hijackers crash some planes into the World Trade Center, cops and firefighters die, and the country is in mourning. It's only then, these people start putting out flags, not bad mouthing the country or it's leaders...it sickens me!" As Jabo finished speaking, a large, hairy man walked up to him, and turned his chair around.

"Hey asshole," said the man "I heard what you said, and frankly I didn't like it. Now I think you should take back what you said, or else you're gonna have to deal with me."

"Oh yeah?" said Jabo, as he stood up "You and what army?"

***

"Holy shit," said James as the Hummer sped down the road "that was fucking crazy!"

"I'm gonna have to agree with James on this." said Gordon "Jabo, you're the only one I know that can get practically a whole bar after you."

"Well," said Jabo "how the hell was I supposed to know the bar was mostly full of Americans?"

"Why would that be a surprise?" asked Laura "Our, beer is a lot better then American beer."

"Yeah," said James "American beer is a lot like making love in a canoe."

"Making love in a canoe?" said Laura

"It's fucking close to water!" laughed James. He then felt Gordon slap him across the head.

"I told you before James," said Gordon "Only I can quote lines from Monty Python.

***

As the Hummer came closer to the city of Sogo, Jabo noticed that there appeared to be no movement in the city.

"Huh!" said Jabo

"What is it?" asked Laura

"This city we're coming up to," said Jabo "looks pretty dead!"

"Maybe, everyone in the city was wiped out by some chemical bomb placed there by a terrorist!" said James

"Get real James," said Gordon "that kind of stuff would only happen in fictional stories!"

"Yeah," said James "you're right!"

As the group drove into the city, they came up to a hotel. After getting their stuff from the Hummer, they walked to the doors of the hotel. As they began walking in, Jabo could hear a whistling sound from the distance coming closer. In the distance, he saw what looked like a small

missile coming towards them.

"ROCKET LAUNCHER!" yelled Jabo, as the missile hit the Hummer blowing it up, knocking the group to the ground. Jabo quickly got up, opened a duffle bag he was holding, and pulled out his M16. "And so it begins!" he says as he loads in a clip. The group watches as a guy holding a rocket launcher, and four other people come towards them all holding guns.

"You have a choice," says the rocket launcher guy "surrender or die!"

"Oh," said Jabo "well when my choices are that, then..." He quickly lifted the M16, and fired a round into the guys chest, knocking him to the ground in a puddle of his own blood. The caused the other four guys to begin their attack. As Jabo looked over at Gordon, he watched as a guy holding a handgun pointed it at Gordon, his hand shaking because of Gordons size. Before the guy could do anything, Gordon pointed the barrel of the shotgun at the guys chest, and pulled the trigger. As James and Laura finished off the other guys, Jabo knelt down in front of the guy he had killed. Looking closer, he noticed the guy was wearing the military uniform of a private. Jabo proceeded to fall to his knees in front of the body.

Having finished off the last of the guys, Laura looked over at Jabo who was on his knees in front of a dead body.

"Jabo?" said Laura, as she ran over to Jabo, and placed her hand on his shoulder. As she looked at his face, she saw that Jabo looked very upset. "What's wrong?"

"The...these guys we just killed!" said Jabo "..They're soldiers!"

"Oh my god!" said Laura

***

"How is he?" Gordon asked Laura, as they stood in front of his hotel room door.

"Still messed up by everything," said Laura "I've never seen him like this."

"Well," said Gordon "I'm gonna go back to my room, let you do your thing to try and help him. I'll be back later."

As Gordon proceeded to walk back to his room, he tried to think why the city seemed so deserted. As Gordon put the key in his door, he only hoped that the soldiers today were the only ones.

Across town, the echo of guns could be heard coming from the inside of an abandoned factory. Inside the factory there were people in military uniforms, some doing target practice, others doing workout regiments and other military type things. Watching from the railings above, was General Brook. As the General watched his soldiers, he saw one quickly enter the factory and run up to him.

"Private Marshall reporting, sir!" said the soldier

"Yes Private," said Brook "what do you have to report?"

"Intruders, sir." said the soldier "Four of them, they killed Castle, McDonald, McDermott, Smith and Martin."

"Shit!" said Brook. He proceeded to place his hands on the railings, the soldiers knew this meant he was going to give orders. "Alright maggots!" announced Brook. "Looks like we got more of these getting their rocks off, by sending people like us to die in another country motherfuckers! Davis!"

"Sir!" yells Davis from the crowd.

"Davis," says the General "I'm sending you and your squad on an early morning ambush on these people. There are only four of them, should you fail, prey they kill you cause I don't want you coming back."

"Sir, yes sir!" says Davis.

***

As the sun rose, Laura walked over and looked out the window. As she looked outside at the deserted city, she could see three figures walking into the hotel. All of a sudden she heard gunfire, and found she was being shot at.

"Shit!" said Laura, as she crawled over to her weapons. "Look's like there's more of those assholes." As Laura grabbed her weapons, her hotel room door opened revealing James and Gordon.

"We heard gunfire," said James "I'm ready to blast some motherfuckers away!"

"No!" said Jabo, as he sat up, put his trenchcoat on and attached his weapons. "We're not gonna kill them, they're soldiers for Christs sake!" As James was about to speak, three soldiers holding guns ran into the room.

"Intruders," said one of the soldiers "for trespassing into our territory, you have been ordered to die!"

"Don't think so!" said James, as he held up his handgun. Acting quickly, Jabo ran in between James and the soldier, forced James gun down, and knocked the soldier unconscious. Two more lightning quick punches later, the other two soldiers were knocked out.

"Tell me something then Jabo!" James said angrily "Is this the kind of shit soldiers do? Kill innocent civilians living in cities? Cause it sure as hell looks like that's what they did here! What about trying to kill us Jabo? Is that what soldiers are trained to do?"

"They're still soldiers!" said Jabo

"Well," said James "I'm going to take care of some of these "soldiers," when you can face reality come and join me!"

"You're not going anywhere!" said Jabo sternly.

"Yeah?" said James "try and stop me!" All of a sudden, James felt the butt end of an M16 hit him in the face, knocking him unconscious.

"He's right, you know!" said Gordon

"Shit G," said Jabo "Not you too!"

"I understand how you feel Jabo," said Laura as she walked over to the window. "But the fact of the matter is.."

The sound of a gun being fired interrupted Laura, and caused her to fall to the ground. As she moved her hand from her shoulder, Jabo and Gordon could see the bullet hole. "Damn," said Laura "I forgot about them." Laura looked over at Jabo, who had a pissed off look on his face, as he walked over to the window with his M16.

"MOTHERFUCKERS!" yelled Jabo, as he fired a round from his M16, killing the two soldiers outside with guns. With barrel smoking, Jabo looked over at Laura and Gordon who had smiles on their faces.

"Alright," said Gordon "we got the old Jabo back."

"Damn straight!" said Jabo.

"So," said Laura, as she pointed at the three unconscious soldiers. "What do we do with them?"

"I got an idea." said Jabo

One of the enemy soldiers regained consciousness, to find himself tied up, a liquid being poured on them by Jabo.

"What's going on here?" demanded the soldier "What are you pouring on us?"

"Gasoline!" said Jabo, a mischievous smile on his face.

"What?!" exclaimed the soldier.

"Yeah," said Gordon "he's gonna ask you some questions, I suggest you answer or...POOF!"

"Thank you Gordon." said Jabo, as he walked up to the conscious soldier. "Now, why were you trying to kill us?"

"You're intruders," said the soldier "we were told that like the others, you would try to send us back into Iraq to fight YOUR war!"

"Others?" said Jabo

"Yes," said the soldier "the people in this city were also like that, we had to eliminate them."

"Who ordered you to do this?" asked Jabo. The soldier looked at him, and said nothing. Jabo snapped his fingers, which caused James to pass him a Zippo.

"Okay, okay!" said the soldier "We were ordered by General Brook."

"And where might we find this General Brook?" asked Jabo

"He'll find you." said the soldier "Now that you have your information, are you going to let us go?"

"No!" said Jabo, as he flicked the Zippo, and brought it closer to the soldiers. "Well, you're buddies should be glad they're unconscious, cause this'll probably hurt like hell!"

Jabo lit some of the gasoline, which created flames that engulfed the bodies of the three soldiers.

"Sick Jabo," said Gordon "real fucking sick!"

"Thank you!" said Jabo, as he looked over at James and handed him his Zippo. "Look James, I'm sorry about what happened earlier."

"Don't worry about it," said James "you were in a screwed up state of mind at the time. I've been there, it's just good to have our killing machine back!"

***

Weapons still in high ready, the group continued their search for other soldiers.

"This is some strange shit." said Gordon

"What do you mean?" asked Laura.

"Well," said Gordon "I'm sure there was more then just ten people in this city...so where the hell are they?" As the group continued their walk through the city, a grenade came out of a window, and landed at Lauras feet.

"LAURA, WATCH OUT!" yelled Jabo, as he pushed Laura out of the way, seconds before the grenade exploded.

"My God!" said James, as he looked at Jabo who was on top of Laura. "I think you two should wait till we're finished here, and FYI it's more effective with your clothes off."

"Shut up James!" said Jabo and Laura simultaneously.

Acting quickly, Gordon pulled out a grenade, pulled out the pin, and threw it into the window. As the grenade exploded, the top half of a soldier hung out the window. In the distance, the group could hear gunfire. As they looked down the street, they saw six soldiers firing at them with high powered rifles. The group loaded up their weapons, and took aim. Jabo aimed his M16 at the soldier in the middle and fired, he watched as the soldiers body convulsed before falling to the ground. Shotgun in hand, Gordon fired off two quick shots, creating holes in the

chests of two of the soldiers. Grabbing an MP5 from Jabo, Laura walked forward as she fired at one of the soldiers. Laura kept walking closer, until she was at the point were blood from the soldier was landing on her. Jabo looked over at James who, with two handguns began firing at

the two remaining soldiers. James continued firing at them, until he heard the sound of the clips drop.

"James?" said Jabo

"Yeah Jabo?" said James as he looked at Jabo, a grin on his face.

"You've been watching too damn many John Woo movies!"

"You're point being?"

"Nevermind!"

As the group began to walk away from the bodies, a shot was heard and Laura fell to the ground.

"For fuck's sake!" said Laura, as she placed her hand over the gunshot in her leg. "First, my damn arm and now this!" As she looked in the distance, she saw three more soldiers coming at them. She pulled out her handgun, and began firing at the soldier that shot her. She shot the

soldier in the kneecaps, causing him to fall to his knees. Lining up the shot, Laura fired one last shot straight into the soldiers forehead. She watched as the bullet exited out the back of his head, and he fell into a puddle of blood with small pieces of brain. Laura looked over at Gordon, who picked up the other two soldiers and held them by their necks.

"One of you assholes gonna tell us where this Brook guy is?" asked Gordon, as he tightened his grip on the soldiers necks.

"Fuck you!" said the one soldier, a choking sound in his voice. Gordon tightened his grip on the soldiers neck, until he heard a snapping sound and the soldier went limp.

"What about you?" asked Gordon, as he looked at the other soldier.

As James turned his attention away from Gordon, he saw a figure in the distance. Attached to the figure were numerous C4 explosives, all connected to a remote with a button he held in his hand.

"DEATH TO THE INTRUDERS!" yelled the soldier, as he ran towards the group. James quickly lifted his handgun, aimed, and fired at one of the C4's. He watched as this caused the rest of the explosives to go off, causing the soldiers body parts to go flying.

The group walked over to Gordon, as he dropped the limp bodies of the two soldiers.

"So," said Jabo "did they tell us where we need to go?"

"Yep." said Gordon

"Well," said Jabo "let's go!"

***

The group stood in front of the abandoned factory, waiting for Jabos orders. They watched as Jabo walked up to the bay door, and placed his ear up against it.

"Hear anything?" asked Laura

"Yeah" said Jabo

"What?" asked James

"What we were looking for." said Jabo "Gordon?"

"Yeah Jabo?"

"Go press that button" he said, as he pointed at a button by the door. "Then lock and load, cause there's gonna be more bloodshed!" As Gordon walked over and pressed the button, the rest of the group loaded their weapons. As the door opened, the remaining soldiers plus General Brook

looked over at the group.

"Catch you fuckers at a bad time?" said Jabo. He brought the barrel of the M16 down from his shoulder and fired, hitting one of the soldiers. This caused the remaining five soldiers, to begin scrambling to grab weapons. As the group began firing at the remaining soldiers, Laura saw Jabo heading towards the stairs that lead to the railing.

"Where the hell are you going?" yelled Laura

"You guys take care of the soldiers," said Jabo "Brook's mine!"

"Always the dramatic one aren't you Jabo?" said Laura. All of a sudden, the butt of a assault rifle hit her in the face. "Oh!" said Laura, as she loaded a fresh clip into her handgun "You son of a bitch!" She fired at the soldier, until he fell to the ground.

As Jabo chased after Brook, he pulled out a handgun and fired at Jabo as he ran.

"Nice try asshole!" Jabo said to himself.

"Nice try asshole!" said Gordon, as he held the arm of one of the soldiers. The soldier had tried to shoot Gordon up close, before he knew it, Gordon had his arm, and he was pointing the gun at himself. Gordon brought his hand up to where the soldier had his finger on the trigger.

"Please!" pleaded the soldier "Don't kill me! I was just following orders, I had no choice!"

"Sorry buddy," said Gordon "there's always a choice."

Gordon caused the soldiers finger to pull the trigger. As the shot hit the soldier in the face, he fell forward getting blood on Gordon's shirt. "Damnit," said Gordon, pulling on his shirt "I just washed this!" He looked over at James, who had a soldier on his stomach, wire wrapped around

his neck. Gordon watched as James began laughing hysterically, the soldier making gurgling sounds as blood flowed out of his neck.

"James?" said Gordon "James!"

"What?" said James, as he let go of the wire and looked at Gordon.

"I think it can be safely assumed that guy's dead!"

"Well, you can never be too sure!"

Laura meanwhile, had a soldier on the ground. Gordon and James watched as Laura sat on the soldier's chest, her handgun in his mouth. They watched as Laura grabbed some of the soldiers hair to hold his head up, and pulled the trigger. The area under the soldiers head was covered by

blood and brain matter. Laura stood up, and walked over to Gordon and James.

"Alright," said Laura "let's go find Jabo."

After some running, Laura, Gordon and James finally found Jabo. They watched, as he was engaged in hand to hand combat with General Brook.

"What the fuck's going on here?" asked James "why aren't they shooting each other?"

"They're both soldiers," said Gordon "so they're trained to fight other ways rather then using guns." They watched as the fighting seemed to be going both ways. They watched as Jabo kicked General Brook, knocking him across the floor. Laura looked at Brook, and saw him pull out a combat knife. Brook ran at Jabo full speed, knife in hand. At the same time, Laura grabbed Jabos Samurai sword and threw it to Jabo. Catching it, Jabo made a quick swipe and the hand holding the combat knife was cut off.

"You war mongering cocksuckers!" Brook said angrily "First, you send me into a war I didn't want to go and fight in, which none of you would ever survive. And now, you cut off my fucking hand!"

"Don't give me that "I didn't want to be there" sob story bullshit!" said Jabo "I know what it's like to fight in a war, it's not pretty, but sometimes it has to be done."

"Fuck you!" yelled the General "Just, fuck you!"

"Well, there's only one thing that can be done." said Jabo, as he put down the Samurai sword and pulled a handgun out of his shoulder holster. "General, you are dismissed!"

Jabo fired a shot, hitting the General in the forehead.

"So," said James, as they stood outside the factory "we got no Hummer, how the fuck are we supposed to get out of here?"

"We walk!" said Jabo

"Walk?!" whined James

"C'mon," said Gordon "it'll be good for ya."

"Fine!" said James.

The group walked out of Sogo, and on towards whatever will come their way next.

THE END