Bitemarks 4.4

Ok so, I see my cunning plan of starting Bitemarks 4.3 on Sunday and finishing it off on Tuesday made it post as a Sunday update. Gah. Foiled.

Bitemarks 4.4

Skarletta clutched the device to her chest as she fell. To be this close... All those years ago it had all seemed so simple. She'd travelled to the north to see how the Dherroine coped with the extreme climate. The results had been perfect. They were able to survive but suffered from the cold enough to make them easily manipulatable. Exactly as hoped. And all she had to do was activate this device and bury it. A forcefield would protect it against anything once activated and, if placed far north enough, it would gradually alter the climate of the planet to match that frozen north. They'd stopped her then... but not this time.
She ran her fingers across the device's surface, triggering the startup sequence and...
Nothing happened.
"Noooooooooooooooooooo!!"
She ran her fingers across it again and again though she knew it was futile. The electric shock had damaged its circuitry. The device was useless. with one final scream of frustration Skarletta plunged into the Atlantic.


Ed was pulled back by the pilot and landed hard on his seat. His right elbow struck the pilot and the chopper veered wildly to one side until he managed to bring it under control. Ed gripped the seatbelt again and peered down from the chopper door at the ocean beneath them.
"Shit. Where'd she go? Circle round."
The pilot did his best to keep the aircraft going in a circle while allowing Ed a clear view. They circled like this for about five minutes then Ed sat back down in his seat. He stamped his foot angrily on the floor.
"Fuck!"


Skarletta let the device sink down. It was useless to her now. Her mission had failed and all that remained was one last option. Staying a few feet under the surface she struck out and began to swim, heading to the last landmass she remembered seeing from her chopper.