Netway: Evolutions

Chapter 4: Bullets and Blame

"Calm down Coiny, leave them alone," Leafy scolded.

"But seriously, where are you?" She added.

"Nearly there Leafster, I'd say just another fifteen minutes," Gelatin said, looking up to see where they were.

"That's fine, try speed it up if you can but try not to scare TB, he's not as experienced as you two," Leafy said.

"I think we're beyond scaring him," Blocky snickered.

"Jesus Christ you guys, try not to kill the poor thing," Leafy sighed.

"Kill?!" Tennisball suddenly shouted, fear in his eyes.

"Oh sorry...uh I think I have a bad signal, bye!" Leafy said hurriedly before closing the communication.

"Don't worry about what she said, just hold on a bit more," Gelatin smiled, doing his best to cover what Leafy had blurted .

"What else do you think I'm trying to do?" Tennisball retorted, his eyes watering from how strong the wind was.

As they got closer to where they needed to jump off, Gelatin and Blocky instructing him on what he needed to do.

Make sure you get a good jump, put all your strength into it and when you land, make sure you roll or else there's a big chance you'll break both your legs.

All of these stayed with Tennisball as he mentally prepared for what he had to do, Gelatin was by his side, giving him plenty of warning of when he needed to get ready.

"Don't think too much about it, just go," he said.

Tennisball squinted his eyes shut as he bent his legs and jumped, feeling himself no longer touching any surface.

He opened his eyes just before he got close to the ground and tried to roll but sort of just smacked against the concrete roof and slid.

"Hey, not too bad!" Blocky grinned.

"Owww," was all he got in return.

"Let's move," Gelatin called out as he ran ahead and Tennisball sighed as he pushed himself up.

The three of them continued, Gelatin leading the way as they ran uphill to the electric plant, the pain in Tennisball's legs urging him to stop but he knew he simply couldn't.

"Not much further, bud," Blocky comforted, realizing that Tennisball was having a harder time maintaining the speed as the incline got steeper.

Eventually they got to a very tall fence with barbed wire menacingly adorning the top of it, Gelatin took out his pen knife and began to climb, using all his strength but pretending it was easy.

Once he reached the top, he stabled himself and began to cut through the wire in a few separate places and within minutes, a large chunk of the wire was thrown to the floor.

"Okay, climb up now!" He yelled down.

Blocky went first, Tennisball wasn't that far behind, although when he was at the top, his foot slipped and he fell halfway before he slowed himself by gripping the bars and digging his knees against them.

"Nice save dude, another great reason we have kneepads," Blocky cheered.

"We have kneepads?" Tennisball questioned.

"Yep, Coiny said we needed 'em so we started using 'em, he was right, check your leg out," Blocky said with a knowing smile.

Tennisball rolled up the his trousers, when the fabric rolled past his knee, it revealed a very scratched and very damaged kneepad.