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- As soon as the five Finalists entered the gates, they broke off in different directions. Disease ran into some tree-foliage and broke through it towards the cave. It was hot and he needed to cool himself off, but he couldnt risk a dip in the river.


Zero looked on at him from the tree he had climbed. He took his M16 Machine Gun out and before Disease could stop to think, plugged him with 12 sharp shots of lead. Disease was blinded by the immense pain, but he could only endure the shots on his body. He fell down and crawled behind a tree, then took his HPs out. After a few minutes of patching his bullet wounds, he had 23 HPs left with him.


Disease heaved a deep sigh of relief. Fighting back the pain, he peered into the branches of the tree where Zero sat with his empty machine gun. Disease took his .44 Magnum out and carefully aimed at Zero, and rapidly squeezed the trigger three times. The bullets of the world's most powerful handgun ripped through Zero's butt and he fell down from the tree, bleeding. But Zero was alert. He rapidly swung from the ground to behind the tree, using it as cover, and applied 3 HPs to himself. Before Disease could track him down, an injured Zero swung over the nearest branches of the nearby tree and vanished from sight, with his remaining 21 HPs.


Disease picked himself up with a huge effort and walked on. He knew that if he was sitting at one place he couldn't defend himself, so he had to keep moving. Breaking through the bushes, he heard soft rustling just ahead of him. He sat down quietly, all senses alert.


Despare walked forward, just ahead of him, and looked around. Disease took his Magnum out, and aimed at Despare's head. Just then, a twig snapped under Disease's foot, just as he fired, and Despare swung around. He caught the shot on his shoulder, and Disease fired twice in succession again, aiming blindly. Both of those hit Despare on the thigh, and he fell down with a groan.


Gritting his teeth, Despare took his Rocket Launcher out and rapidly fired twice in Disease's direction. Both rockets blasted on either side of Disease and he was thrown backwards from the full impacts, numerous bloody wounds and cuts blossoming throughout his blackened body. He thudded onto a tree and was almost senseless from the excruciating pain. With a display of amazing effort, Disease took out his HPs and applied them to himself all over. 10 used HPs later, Disease collapsed down with fatigue and pain, and passed out.


Despare took 3 HPs out and healed himself in the meantime.


Then all went silent. Not a sound could be heard anywhere. Rapidly, darkness enveloped the entire Zone and it was getting close to the deadline.


Psycom5K sat in the darkness, in the hole. He had found a concealed hole in the ground just after running into The Zone, and he knew that it was the best place to hide his defenceless self. He was praying for the time to be over quickly, so that he could survive the endurance test in which he had no arsenal for himself. The sounds of battle made Psycom5K chuckle. The poor bastards, he thought delightfully, let them blast each other to bits...I will win this in the end. The thought of winning made his smile broaden into a wide grin, and he rested.


He woke up just minutes before the deadline. Checking his watch, he uttered a yelp of happiness. For it was 5 minutes to the deadline, and he was safe and snug. But just then, suddenly, a grenade came flying into the hole and poor Psycom5K had nowhere to go. The grenade blasted right in front of his face, and almost tore his jaw out of his skull. He felt blinded by the huge wave of pain as he took his HPs out to heal himself, cursing the person who did this to him. 7 used HPs later, he checked his watch and crawled out of the hole, a bloody and patched up mess.


Posher778 looked at him with a grin and waved, before throwing his empty Grenade Launcher away. Psycom5K took one look at him, and fainted.