Wed, July 12th, 2056
Grey Wolf, White Wolf, and Wolf Woman slowly made their way to the back of a white house, or the White House as most called it. They crept along silently, careful to not be spotted by the men with machine guns; one noise at the wrong time could get the President killed.
When they got to the back of the White House, they took out their Wolf ropes and threw them up as high as they could; if they used their rope-guns they’d make noise, so instead they had small anchors on the ends of their rope.
They tested their weight and climbed up quickly and quietly. When they finally got to the right window, they peeked through it to see what was going on inside. They saw what they expected: some dude with a mask pointing a gun at the President. The guy’s back was to the window and he was facing a video recorder, which he’d somehow gotten hooked to all the major TV channels in the area.
They could hear a little through the window, and they heard him say, “…demands aren’t met, I’ll shoot the President. Again I say that I want 5 million dollars in cash within the next hour. Any attempts to stop me, and I’ll shoot…” He went on with this over and over again.
White Wolf had slowly and quietly been using a glasscutter on the window, with Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf holding on to the window with one of their hands, each keeping their other hand on the rope. Once White Wolf was done cutting the glass, Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf aimed and dropped the glass onto a large piece of foam that they’d put down before they climbed.
White Wolf climbed through the gap, followed by Wolf Woman, and then Grey Wolf. The guy threatening the President was obviously an amateur, for he was so busy looking at the camera that he didn’t notice them come in.
Grey Wolf went behind the guy and quickly kicked his legs out from under him. “Oomph,” the masked man landed with a thud. Grey Wolf jumped on him and tried to wrestle the gun away from him while the girls untied the President.
The gun went off, aimed at Grey Wolf’s head, but he easily evaded the bullet. He grabbed for the gun, but it went off again and hit him in the chest.
“Grey Wolf!” Wolf Woman almost screamed.
The guy with the mask turned and pointed the gun at the other two. “As you can see, these fools tried to stop me, and now one of them is down. If you want the President alive, you’ll bring me the money, but the Wolf Pack won’t live because they tried to stop me!”
He fired the gun at White Wolf, who jumped out of the way. Wolf Woman ran towards the guy while he was focused on White Wolf. She almost got there, when the guy turned and shot at her. The bullet hit her in the arm.
White Wolf charged at him and he turned to shoot her, but too late. She knocked him to the floor, but as they were falling the gun went off, and the bullet hit the President in the head.
“Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated…”
The surroundings changed back into the interior of the simulator.
“That mission could have gone better,” Grey Wolf said standing up. “Although I have to say, you and the other techies did a good job with the program, White Wolf. It was all so real, I almost felt really dead!”
“Thanks, Grey Wolf.”
“I completely forgot we were in the simulator,” Wolf Woman added, “Although that’s all the worse for us, since it didn’t go so well…”
Robin walked up to them, “How was the new simulator program? Did it work?”
“Oh yes!” Grey Wolf said, “It was great!”
“But the mission wasn’t,” Wolf Woman said, “We failed, if this had been real, the President would be dead now.”
“And so would I!” Grey Wolf exclaimed.
“Well, that’s what the simulator is for,” Robin said, “So you can practice and learn.”
“Exactly!” White Wolf said, “And it all worked perfectly! The team did a really good job!”
“Yep,” Grey Wolf said, “Now let’s go get something to eat, I’m starving!”
“You ate just before we went in!” Wolf Woman exclaimed, “And we were in there for how long?” she asked Robin.
“About 10 minutes.”
“Really?” Grey Wolf asked, “It seemed like we were there for about an hour!”
“I know,” White Wolf said, “That’s one of the things we programmed this to do; in a simulation, time goes by about 6 times faster. So our hour in there equals ten minutes out here.”
“Sweetness!” Wolf Woman smiled.
“Yeah, now let’s get to the kitchen!”
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Raven sat straight up in bed, breathing heavily. Another dream. This was the fourth time in the last week that she dreamed about robbing a bank. Just another thing to show that I’m truly evil inside. All I ever dream about is doing stuff that’s against the law; I was a fool to think that there could be any good in me!
I can’t stay here; this place is for people who are truly good deep inside, not like me. All I have deep inside of me is blackness. Raven stood up and started to walk over to her dresser, to get some of her stuff.
But then she stopped and a voice came into her mind, “No Raven, I’ve told you that I will help you to achieve what you want. I led you here to Earth to accomplish this. You just need to keep trying and stay here with the Titans.”
“But you’ve told me that for such a long time now, and nothing is getting better, in fact it’s getting worse!”
“You doubt me?”
“I don’t know; I don’t know anything anymore.” And with that, Raven closed off her mind. She climbed back into bed and tried to go back to sleep, but she couldn’t. He was keeping her from sleep.
A tear rolled down her cheek, Stop that, Raven! She told herself, Emotion is weakness. But she couldn’t stop it, any more than she could stop the dreams.
~Wolf Woman
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