[i]Chapter Four: You called down the thunder. . .[/i] MinkOWar fought as he was being pulled down the hallway, after turning a corner the man whispered into Mink’s ear, “Don’t fight, they have really good hearing.” Mink stop struggling, he knew that voice, The man let him go and he turned to face Frankie. “Come with me.” Frankie ran off down the hall and Mink followed. He followed Frankie for fifteen forum blocks before getting to a thread labeled “.the7thwar”, he entered to a destroyed thread. Frankie walked over to a table and tapped it nine times, the thread’s code changed and with a blink of an eye they were in the middle of a huge room, packed with survivors. “Welcome to the resistance.” “In this place we have over two hundred survivors and were finding more everyday, were not going to give up to Gnome.” Frankie Told Mink. Mink gasped at the sight, “There is another group like this, a hideout made by The Soul. Halifax, VII Toast and dmbfan are still out there with the gnomes, you have to help me find them.” Mink told Frankie, then he explained everything he knew and Frankie hurried to assemble a group to help Mink find the others, and another group to get in contact with the Souls group. - - - - - - - - - Anton studied Impurity’s body as GameJunkieJim stood guard, Impurity had a fracture on the back of his skull that, Anton assumed, was the cause of death. All of a sudden Anton jumped up and tore out his ban-hammer, “What’s wrong?” Jim asked. “His ban-hammer is gone.” Anton answered jim, “Grab his body and pull him in, quick!” He ordered. Just as he finished a low rumble echoed down the hall. Anton didn’t have to wait, he knew it was a pack of gnomes headed their way. “Grab the body and warn the others, I’ll try and hold them back” Anton ordered Jim, who did so with out hesitation. Anton raised his ban-hammer and waited for the onslaught. The rumble grew louder and louder and finally something came running at full speed around the corner, a human. The man, dressed in black, had a cape that flew behind him as he ran, a blood red hue surrounded him, dark hair and eyes that would kill on sight. “Gnome.” Anton whispered in horror. - - - - - - - - - The past few hours Halifax, dmbfan, Twitch, Toast, Obbi, and Joey, had been jumping from thread to thread hiding from the huge number of gnomes that had dramatically increased in their area. After running into a thread, they noticed a body on the floor, it was still moving. The group helped the man up who was battered, beaten and laying in his own blood. “What’s your name?” Halifax asked the man. “A-A-Aarlos.” he coughed out with a dry and scratchy voice. As they checked to make sure Aarlos was fine, Halifax had heard talking outside the thread. Jumping to the door, he pressed his ear up to the wall and listened in, “gnomes” he whispered. There were three loud bangs then the screaming of gnomes filled the hallway. Curious Halifax started to open the door, it was kicked down from the outside, throwing him halfway across the room. In the dusty light of the door way, MinkOWar stood tall, with Ghandi 2 and Psyched behind him. “Come quick!” Mink yelled, as Ghandi and Psyched ran back out in the hallway to fight off a few gnomes. The Group ran behind the three rescuers as they swatted gnomes out of the way like flies. Halfway down the fourth corridor Halifax and Twitch had to help Aarlos run, he was in too much pain to do it alone. They ran for what seemed like miles, any gnome that stood in their way was whacked with a ban-hammer with force that would send it flying across the hall, and hitting a wall before it was deleted. The reached the destroyed thread and doubled checked to see if anyone was watching as they entered. MinkOWar tapped the table inside the thread nine times and the thread transformed, Aarlos stood in amazement. - - - - - - - - - - - Anton raised his ban-hammer and braced himself, he had to buy time for the others inside the hideout. Gnome raced towered him and raised the war-torn master ban-hammer that once belong to the late Achronos. The two swung at the same time, both banhammers collided with each other, They struggled for a few second before Gnome overpowered Anton and pushed him back. Hitting the ground on his back, Anton rolled to doge Gnome’s attack, he jumped to his feet and was able to see the gigantic hoard of gnomes charging down upon him. Gnome swung his Ban-hammer with all his strength, Anton dodged and Gnome’s ban-hammer got stuck in the wall code. Anton wiped his ban-hammer and whacked Gnome in the back, it barely scathed him, because Gnome was more powerful than Achronos, who was almost immune, he too was immune from deletion. As Gnome struggled with his ban-hammer, Anton saw his chance and hopped into the hideout and watched as the code speed up right in front of the gnomes. Locking the door down as tight as he could, he ran down the dark hallway screaming for help. Great Pretender and GameJunkieJim were the first to reach him, Anton told them to try and hold the door shut as long as they could. Anton ran into the main room, he looked around as saw the Soul working on a piece of wall. “What are you doing?” Anton yelled to him over the crowd. “I’ve created a back exit to a thread in The Flood.” The Soul Answered, “All the survivors are to escape through that exit then I’ll stay back and delete it so Gnome can’t follow.” “Then you’ll be stuck here with Gnome.” “Don’t worry about me, All who are deleted come back to me...” The Soul replied with confidence. Anton stayed back with The Soul and made sure everyone got threw, just as he was about to go get Pretender and Jim, they came running in screaming that they couldn’t hold the door anymore. The three ran through the exit, Anton took one last look back at the soul as the door was deleted. To Be continued.... -Gnome-