Cartoon

Chapter One

"Oh..." I groaned.

One small bit at a time, I could feel myself begin to awake.

And it was more painful than waking up before nine o'clock.

I leaned my upper body forwards and focused my eyes on the situation around me as soon as they were opened.

At least, opened enough.

"What..." I muttered to myself.

I had to blink a few times at what I saw.

A few stiff, unmoving bodies were laid face down all around me. Each one had at least one stain of blood to cover their clothing.

"Um..." I whispered, now looking around to observe the room I was in. 

No windows, no furniture. Plain and simple.

Suddenly, a soft, static-like voice arose from what seemed like nowhere.

"Hello? Agent Wolf? Come in..."

I took a guess as to where it came from, and then slowly gazed over to its direction.

"Come in, please..." it continued.

Only then did I realize it was coming from a Bluetooth type of device, which was just kind of thrown onto the floor a few feet from my right.

"Uh..." I mumbled, again.

The voice repeated itself a few more times, so I eventually decided to respond.

I began to reach out towards it, but stopped when a sharp pain struck me in the back of my head.

"Ah..." I softly sputtered out, quickly following up on the sound by pulling my hand back to touch my, apparently, wounded scalp.

I felt around where the source of my sudden pain was, and then brought my hand back into my view. I swiftly saw that a few drops of blood were laid upon my fingertips. 

Whether or not they were actually mine, I had no clue, but I definitely knew something, besides my brain, was wrong with my head.

"Hello?" the static voice reiterated, for the millionth time.

"Ugh..." I muttered, brushing the thought of my injured head off. Or, at least, attempting to.

I continued my efforts to retrieve the Bluetooth receiver and pulled my body up to my knees. I then reached forward with my right hand, again, and snatched the device from the ground in front of me.

I brought it up to my mouth.

"Um, hi..." I began.

"Who is this?" the blurred voice snappily replied.

"I-I'm... This is..." I tried to answer. "Well, I can't quite remember that right now, but I will be sure to get back with you on it when... when... when I do."

"Where are you?" I could now make out the voice as being more feminine.

"I'm... Well, I'm not sure of that, either, but I know I'm not home. Or anywhere near home, probably." I glided my eyes around the room a little more before continuing. "And I'm a little confused as to, um, how I got here..."

"That doesn't matter right now. Listen, you may be in danger..."

"Yeah, I... I kind of got that..." I remarked, scanning the number of unmoving bodies scattered around me.

"You need to get out, and we'll help you..." the woman said through the device. As she continued, I placed the Bluetooth speaker securely over my ear, making it hands-free, as I assumed it was supposed to be. "Listen closely... There should be at least one hand-held gun nearby, and you'll probably want to grab it before you do anything else."