sparkled brightly. She seemed to have been beaten badly. Brent reached out to her, but she snapped at him.

‘’Get away from me, you filthy bastards!’’ she exclaimed.

‘’Calm down ma’am,’’ Brent replied, ‘’we’re friends. My name’s Brent MacWolf. What’s yours?’’

The collie gave a sigh of relief and answered, ‘’Ginger. Ginger Clayton.’’

She grabbed Brent’s outstretched hand and got to her feet. Both dogs stared into each other’s eyes. Balto cleared his throat to get their attention Brent shook his head and asked, ‘’what’s a beautiful girl like you doing out here?’’

Ginger sighed.

‘’I was kidnapped by this mean dog and brought here. My family tried to stop him, but the dog just murdered them. My parents and my siblings. I’m an orphan.’’

Brent shed a small tear.

‘’I know what it feels like,’’ he sniffled, ‘’I’m an orphan too.’’

Balto and Ginger gave him equally confused looks.

‘’Really?!’’ they both asked. Brent nodded.

‘’When I was a pup, I remember my parents, but they’re only a few fuzzy memories. I wish I could see them again. (And little did he know that he would.)’’

Brent then handed Ginger a gun.

‘’Can you use one of these?’’ he asked. Ginger grabbed the gun and reloaded it.

‘’Of course.’’ She said. Brent nodded and pointed into the bush.

‘’I want you to head for a boat down the river. I have a comrade waiting that can protect you, but use that gun if you have to.’’

‘’What about you?’’ Ginger questioned.

‘’Balto and I are heading to the base up ahead. We have to save his family.’’ Brent explained. Ginger nodded and ran off into the bush. Brent and Balto’s attention were then drawn to the path ahead. There was another drone gun, two snipers and a slue of guards carrying K7 Avengers and MagSec4s. Balto pulled out his K7 Avenger and pointed to the guards ahead. Brent nodded and aimed his rifle from behind a tree. He took a deep breath and fired at the snipers. Both fell from their posts.

Balto was next. Luckily, the K7 had a slight zoom on it, so it was easier to hit the enemies heading his way. Balto pulled the trigger and fell all the guards and the gun within one clip. Brent and Balto ran up and grabbed some more guns and ammunition. The path that led to the base had three more drone guns and a few more snipers. Brent sprinted to another bush, but tripped over something on the ground. Recovering, Brent saw that it was a rocket launcher. He picked it up and aimed for the front drone gun. Firing only one rocket, he destroyed all three guns at once. Brent then threw Balto his rifle.

‘’Do the honours Balto.’’ Brent replied. Balto armed the gun and aimed.

‘’It would be my pleasure.’’ He answered and fired. The first sniper fell backward onto the next one. Balto then shot the tree branch that the two were on. The branch was about ten feet off the ground, so the guard who was still alive didn’t stand a chance. The branch broke and he fell to the ground. The final sniper aimed and managed to land one hit on Balto. His health took a big hit, but he still had enough health to aim and fire back. When the coast was clear, Brent radioed Team Nenana and entered the base. It was simply a hallway with cameras on each side. There was a locked door just down the hallway. When Team Nenana showed up, Charlie pulled out a laser and melted the door hinges. The door pivoted on the lock and swung inward. Charlie pulled out his Magnum and aimed it at the two technicians inside. They turned and threw up their hands.

‘’Calm down, I’m no gonna shoot you.’’ Charlie remarked. One of the technicians reached for the alarm, but Charlie was too quick. He aimed and took out the alarm just seconds before the technician triggered it.

‘’Next time it’ll be your head asshole, ‘’ Charlie exclaimed, ‘’now shut down those cameras and alarms! And give me your access cards!’’

The technicians nodded nervously and swiped their cards. They then disabled the security systems and handed Charlie the cards. Charlie threw them into the air and put a hole in each. They were useless now, which was good for the five agents. Charlie then bowed and replied, ‘’thank you gentlemen. But now we have an appointment with your boss.’’

At the end of the hallway was a steel door. Brent pulled out his Data Uplink and started to hack his way through the security lock. The link gave a small beep and the door opened. All five agents pulled out their strongest firearms and walked toward the door at the end of the hallway. Balto kicked it down and saw Jenna and Aleu tied to chairs in the centre of the room. Jenna wore a pink jump suit, while Aleu had a faded blue one. Balto was about to free them, when the room went dark. Klondike gave an evil laugh as he appeared.

‘’Balto and company I presume,’’ he remarked, ‘’you seem to think you can beat me. I highly doubt it though.’’

‘’Why would you say that bolt-brain?’’ Brent exclaimed. Klondike just blew him off.

‘’Because you foolish mortals, I am a perfect robot sapient, a specimen of technologically advanced robotics that can and will destroy this planet! How do you think you can defeat me with those pathetic guns of yours?’’ Klondike questioned. Balto growled.

‘’We’ll defeat you with courage and our friendship!’’ he exclaimed. Klondike laughed even harder this time.

‘’Pathetic with a capital P!’’ he retorted. Brent stepped forward. In his paw was a small chip. He smiled and plugged it into the game. Klondike stopped laughing and watched as the game’s programming was customised even more.

‘’What did you do to my precious level?’’ Klondike wailed. Brent grinned.

‘’I added a small little feature that will benefit us. Since your level is custom, it was easy to add a small addition,’’ Suddenly, Brent’s ammo meter went up to infinite ammo, as did Balto’s, ‘’it was Game Shark™ cheat I put in. It gives Balto and I unlimited ammo for all our guns. I also received this.’’

Brent then pulled out a laptop. He pressed a small button inside it and the small computer changed into a gun. Klondike still seemed confident.

‘’One little problem with your cheat code hotshot,’’ he pointed to the gun, ‘’I knew this would happen, so I added my own little feature. Whatever a cheat is used, every gun in your arsenal becomes useless. The only way to restore the guns to working order is to make a sacrifice of four persons in the game. Normally, four guards would work, but since there are five of you, I thought it’d be a bit more interesting.’’

Kodi and Charlie grabbed Balto and held him back.

‘’You sick monster,’’ Balto yelled, ‘’you planned this the whole time! You wanted us to complete those objectives easily so we could just fall into your little trap!’’

Klondike smiled.

‘’I commend you Balto,’’ he replied, ‘’you’re smarter than I originally thought.’’

‘’Blow it out your ass!’’ Balto blurted out. Klondike’s smile melted away and was replaced with a snarl. He reached out and grabbed Kodi with a strange tentacle. Kodi struggled to free himself, but soon, he was being electrocuted.

‘’Kodi!’’ Balto shouted.

‘’Dad,’’ Kodi answered painfully, ‘’beat this bastard for me!’’

Kodi then disappeared. Klondike laughed.

‘’One down, three to go.’’

Balto snarled and almost lunged at the robot, but he held it back and turned to Brent.

‘’I’ll go next.’’ He said and turned to leave. But Sasha and Charlie grabbed his shoulder and pulled Balto back.

‘’We’ll go.’’ They answered together and stepped up. Klondike threw out the tentacles and grabbed them both. Soon, they too were being shocked.

‘’Balto, beat ‘em good!’’ Charlie exclaimed.

‘’And make him pay!’’ Sasha added as the couple disappeared. Brent turned to Balto.

‘’You heard ‘em Balto. I’ll go in your place.’’ He replied courageously and walked toward Klondike. Before Balto could stop him, Klondike was already shocking his best friend to death. Brent turned to Balto and yelled, ‘’this should help you beat this son of a bitch! Do it for all of us! Yeaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!’’

Brent then disappeared. Balto fell to his knees and clutched his fists.

‘’I won’t let your sacrifices be in vain.’’ He whispered and stood up. Balto had acquired all the weapons and ammo his friend had had. Balto pulled out Brent’s Laptop Gun and loaded it. Klondike smiled.

‘’Ready to die, half-dog?’’

‘’You first.’’ Balto answered angrily and pulled the trigger. The Laptop gun unloaded its payload pretty quick, and he managed