"Same as last time," Wolf said indicating to Cornelius to open the door. Although this door gave way much easier, not requiring the aide of Wolf. He moved into the room with his light on, and swept from left to right. This room was stripped bare of any artifact. That was not what caught Wolfs attention however. First there was illumination do to candlelight. Second was the large black box in the center. Thick cables ran from the box and throughout the room into holes along the wall.<br/>Wolf lost all tactical bearing. He stood there mouth agape, holding his M4 by the pistol grip and letting it hang by his right leg. His stomach dropped and chills ran down his neck.<br/>Wolf knew what this was. A bomb. A particularly well built bomb. Wolf knew this wasnt the work of Mouj. No this is professional government contractor grade ordinance, not some back water charge made with a washing machine timer.<br/>"Oh shit."<br/>He looked at Cornelius.<br/>"That, uh, that's a bomb," Wolf said matter-of-factly. "Not sure you know what that means but... at some point its going to..." Wolf made an "exploding" gesture with his hands along with sound effects. "Basically ...we're boned."<br/>Wolf noticed lights in the box.  Further inspection showed a timer.<br/>"Oh good... a timer... now we know how long we have until we're vapor," Wolf smiled grimly and nodded.<br/>"Nice, only 2 and a half minutes. Better say last rights Corny ol buddy cause we- da hell?" He interupted himself. The timer blinked and jumped to over eleven HOURS!<br/>"All right thats better, now we got plenty of time to-" the timer blinked again, this time just over fifteen minutes"-D'oh!" He dropped his head for a moment then hopped up and opened the case. Multi colored wires ran left to right, north to south. Wolf wasnt EOD trained nor was he any self proclaimed expert. He has read training manuals but had almost no hands on experience.<br/>Wolf knew however that the multiple running wires meant one thing.<br/>"There's more," he said," and this aint even the main. By the looks of it there may be as many as half a dozen or more." He looked at Cornelius "Yknow in Die Hard it was only three wires. THREE!," he shook his head.<br/>"Yea and its on a simple series circut, which means that if the power to any bomb gets cut, they all lose power, and blow...unless you can remove the trigger device in each bomb or diffuse the main...cheecky sonsofbitches."<br/>The fact that the timer was fluctuating meant that someone was screwing with the main device. Wolf was certain they'd not enough time to escape this place, but maybe that meant the others had found it.<br/>"Lets follow the cables through the third door," he began to quickly run for the door.<br/>"I think its best we pick up the pace," he said to Cornelius.<br/>As they were leaving, Cornelius in the lead, he was bowled over by someone flying through the third door. It was that alien looking thing. It babbled to Wolf, they had apparently found another bomb, and were trying to flee. Helping Cornelius up he spoke," this ways a dead end, also another bomb." He pointed at door number two<br/>"If you're trying to escape," Wolf pointed up with the muzzle of his weapon,"we need to go up not down. Or try and figure out whose messin with it," Wolf said heading for the newly opened stairwell. He stopped toward the door. "I don't think theres enough time to escape."<br/>***<br/>"Yea," Hirsch replied," I dont give a tit what you call it...but it aint right." Magic. Hirsch thought that stuff was fairy tales, apparently not.<br/>"Our squad is dispersed thoughout these hills, and our team leader is in that hole," he nodded toward where the mound had used to be.<br/>"And we ain't leavin' him. Dead or alive he's coming home with us," Hirsch said, determined. Wolf wasnt just his team leader, he was his best buddy. Wolf didnt have no parents, and Hirsch decided to have him tag along to his moms house for Christmas leave. Wolf was just going to spend the time reading training manuals in his barracks room. Hirsch's mom for the most part adopted him as her own the moment she heard his story.<br/>He had to find Wolf, or else his mom would kill Hirsch.<br/>"Only reason we're out here is because we lost contact with a piece of shit drone." Hirsch said, "sent on a serch amd rescue for a damned RC plane, go fuckin figure something like this would happen."