It was surprising when Chris and mike's traning was stopped by Samson and his newly recruited goons.

"Hello Chris, I've asked Tian and he told me that I can help you train"

Chris didn't know why but he felt strange after hearing these words, but before he knew it, both him and Mike were surrounded.

Two pairs of hands took off his backpack and then begun holding him in place as Samson begun beating him up.

"You know Chris, you should be thanking me, I'll be giving you special endurance training, until you bleed, you see with 200 points in cell vitality you can't use them all up by training, but if I beat you up you'll use them all in no time"

This explaination might have worked if he was a masochist, but all he felt was the pain from Samson's kicks and punches, at times the two goons would also throw a punch or two and then they begun kicking him as he lay on the ground.

It felt painful and the only thing he could do was make sure they didn't kick his face, protecting it with his hands.

"Have you had enough yet?"

Samson suddenly stopped and asked, there was no smugness in his voice, acting as if he was doing him a favor or something.

"To tell you the truth I didn't want to do this, but take this as an advice, if you take the Relic again, you're dead meat, are we clear"

Samson didn't even wait for a reply as he took his goons and left.

Mike arrived to give him a hand, but Chris already felt betrayed.

"Don't Mind this, after the mission I'll make sure you will be the leader, as for Samson, he'll be at your feet asking for forgiveness"

Chris was skeptical, but what else could he do other than taking Mike's hand and standing up. Samson looked at them somewhat puzzled, but he didn't say anything, this was all according to plan.

Tian looked at this with some suspicion, but didn't really care what the two were doing, as long as they didn't kill Chris everything was fine.

Tian on the other side was more interested in what was going on, he had seen mike approach multiple people, talking to them one by one with a friendly face.

Nick had approached one of them, but all he learned was that Mike advised the person to go to the survivors, because he was too weak to be a hero.

Nick was smiling as he found this really interesting, he then went and told something to Hera and Chrysa, before he went to a corner and begun to sleep.

The other survivors were rather surprised by this, since before that he had been running with them and doing extensive training, even Hera and Chrysa were puzzled by his behavior.

The most however puzzled was Mike, he didn't know if he had been found out or not, but he felt a pressure out of nowhere by the sleeping guy, as if all his plans had already been seen through.

Mike didn't mingle with Chris for more than needed, he went off doing his things, his eyes however were glued on Nick the whole time, not letting him off his vision for even a second, like a predator locked onto its prey.

His actions however weren't too candid, there were others that were also trying to figure out what he was doing, but after seeing him trying to rope Chris and some others, they believed he was trying to create his own group.

While running Chris couldn't take his mind off the deal he had just made, could he really use the bounty hunter to kill Nick?

Then his mind went on, asking why not killing Tian as well while he was at it, it, but something inside of him made him feel like both thought were just wrong.

Did he really want to be leader of the Hero team?

It would feel awesome in a way, but what did the leader even do, he had no idea, in his mind it was no different than an empty title.

At the same time looking at Nick he felt inspired for some reason. How could Nick be sleeping, in a few hours the new mission would begin and everyone would once more fight for survival.

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Hearing the plot of the next movie he could tell that it wouldn't be easy to survive, especialy once darkness falls.

He looked in his inventory and sighed, seeing only a small flashlight inside he could tell that it wouldn't be an easy mission. He wondered if the others even had a flashlight, but there was nothing to indicate that they had, some of them didn't even have a backpack, while others seem to only had gotten food and water for the newcomers.

This time it was different than the last few times, the new players were more relaxed, but due to the lack of equipment a fight over the smallest item begun.

It was insane how a gunshot suddenly sounded out and one of the new people suddnly fell down probably dead.

"I didn't mean to do this"

Were the last words before the woman with the gun and the corpse begun to fade away in front of their eyes.

Some new players thought that this was the way out of this so called death game, but Tian's words woke them up.

"They are dead"

"How do you know?"

One of the new players asked with disbelief.

"Because I can kill all of you and still not disappear, she just didn't have enough points to pay the 1000 points penalty when killing other players, but I have enough"

Tian said raising an Iron fist over all the new players that thought they had found the easy way out.

Reality however struck them hard, unlike before the morale became really low.

Fear begun to slowly conquer their minds, non of them wanted to die and new and old players suddenly found themselves in a rather bad situation. One group had no points and the other had spent most of their points.

The atmosphere however didn't last for long, because of Samson. For some inexplicable reason he decided to beat the crap of another person, a rather cheeky guy that insulted him, thinking that the other wouldn't be able to touch him.

"I'll brake both your legs and wait for you to die naturaly"

Samson said as he was beating the crap out of him, causing everyone to understand that there was no deterence at all.

If Samson wasn't a rookie with guns maybe the cheeky idiots dead would have come faster.

To Samson's misfortune, Hera arrived with a gun to his head, telling him that she still had 1000 points left, if he doesn't get off her team mate she would blow his brains out.

Samson spit on the poor guy and left to his own side. There was strength in numbers and the heroes had the numbers on their side.

The so called players, whom were supposed to be a group suddenly found themselves on two different sides and unlike before, there was no turning back, all they could do was stay on their respective side, while at times glance at the other side.

Chris sat haggardly at the side, his equipment all stolen by those bullies and his eyes full of hate. He wasn't however the only one, there now were others whom had suffered under the oppresion of those stronger than themselves. Some were even raped by those idiots, after the incident of that woman shooting a guy and disappearing, those who were weak felt helpless, while those that were physicaly strong felt as if they were in the right.

The one most affected by this development was however Mike. How could he had known that his manipulation in trying to divide the two groups would end in this. As things were now, there were more than two groups of people. One were the survivors, whom were united by their own weakness and helplessness, the other teams were those among the heroes, there were at least 5 different groups among the heroes, but whether they would even listen to Tian in the end would be questionable.

Mike thought he had everything thought out, but the current situation wasn't exactly to his advantage. He wanted to get rid of Nick, but he didn't want to die in this mission, if the Heroes were divided the chances of success would fall, what he wanted was to divide the two sides not to create chaos and unrest.

As he viewed the two sides right now, there was no unity in either of them, because the only survivors with guns were Hera and Chrysa, while Nick had decided to take a nap and let life take its course.

Mike hated Nick for not intervening at all, it was the same with before, if Nick had moved everything would have been so easy, he was sure of it. Unlike Tian he could feel how strong Nick was, even when he did nothing, Nick only needed one move to show off his dominance, while Tian had to do so again and again, lest they forget that he's the boss.

Of course Mike knew how it all got down to hell, it was all Samson's fault. He took it too far, all Mike had told him was that he could beat up people without any penalties and do what he wanted, but Samson took it too far.

Tian didn't really care about unity in the first place, while George and Jason were beaten up, because they wanted to act the hero.

Of course the main problem were the two punks that Samson recruited, with their help and fearlessness they could do anything.

Mike seriously didn't know what to do about the situation, should he tell Chris to add Samson on the bounty hunter's kill list.

It was one Hour before the start of the mission and the atmosphere was worse than ever. Nobody talked and the multiple Hero groups were all over the place.

Mike had approached Chris twice already, but the other was in his own world and didn't even greet him.

Everything was going to hell, but Mike was sure that once the mission begins he would find a way to achieve all his goals