Quantum Leap - Vol. 2 Exile Island (formerly Till Death Do Us Part)

C012 Twisted Reality Show

"Ah, Yes... Very good...! I can see everyone moving about right now... So, where do you think you all are going to, eh?! I have hundreds of cameras watching you and hundreds of loudspeakers around so every single movement of yours, even if you were to scratch your nose or hide behind the bushes to pee or s**t, I CAN SEE YOU...!!! YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE MY EYES AND DO YOU THINK THIS REALITY SHOW IS ABOUT YOU BLOWING YOURSELF UP, HUH?!?!" 

The voice sounded threatening at this point of time and I can't help having shivers down my spine. I was wondering what kind of ideas were swimming around that motherfucker's mind as he cooked up his plans for us. If that fucker doesn't want us to survive, he could activate the explosives around our neck all at the same time and then he could gather his so-called winnings from his audiences. I wonder what kind of reality show this was about but somehow I knew that there was a portal somewhere in the Dark Web where games such as this were organised but the authorities had somehow shut it down...!!!

I could even imagine the person behind the voice to be a fat f*****g bastard with a huge potbelly that his shirt cannot even cover half of his bulging stomach and had tufts of hair on his head and wears dark glasses, with a thick gold chain around his neck and piles of money before him on the table as he took the bets that the audiences were putting up. 

Its a dead or alive kind of game and stakes were piled on those who would die first through suicide or homicide et cetera. I had heard of this type of reality shows where hundreds of thousands of foreign currencies were being placed every minute of the show...!

FUCK...!!! THIS IS NOT A REALITY SHOW...!!! THIS IS PLAIN MURDER WITH A TWISTED KIND OF STORYLINE...! 

"One more thing, if you all happen to successfully hide from the camera, the GPS tracker that is attached to your ankle will tell me where you are at all times!!! Don't think all of you could hide from me!!"

"f*****g BASTARD...!!!" I screamed out in frustration and it seemed that this motherfucker had all the angles covered...!!!

"By the way, 3 assassins will also have a tracking monitoring device on all of you. If you entered within 300 feet radius of my assassins, be expected that you are within their KILLING ZONE. You do not have anything on you that will indicate that these assassins of mine are tracking you or even have the ability to notice their whereabouts."

"Remember...300 feet is such a small radius. So all of you are the mice and my cats would be coming after you 24 hours a day. You have to keep on running, hiding and doing all those kinds acts just to survive. Of course, I am not going to be mean all the time and I will announce through the intercom of your break time several times of the day. During those breaks, you would be impervious to any attacks and our assassins would also need to rest too, am I right?"

"Of course, my assassins were all trained to toy with your lives and would make you SUFFER and you would want them to end your life as quickly as possible once you are located right after your impervious state...!!! Hahahaha... My audiences can't wait to see action here on the hundred of cameras that are fixed all over the island right now." the electronic voice chuckled in delight while imagining what the assassins would do when they managed to catch up with any unsuspecting captive.

"LISTEN CAREFULLY...!!! If you are lucky enough, you may find some small chests that are being scattered all over the island that contained the necessities to keep you ALIVE, even for a single f*****g day...!!! Good LUCK to all of you, SUCKERS...!!! MMUUAA HAHA HAHA HAHA...!!!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU DUMB STUPID f**k!!! GO f**k OFF AND DIE!!! YOU f*****g PIECE OF s**t!!! GO AND f*****g DIE ALONG WITH YOUR f*****g PARENTS THAT f*****g RAISE YOU UP AND f**k ALL YOUR f*****g DESCENDENTS YOU MOTHER FUCK...!!!!!" I shouted till I was hoarse and imagined the twisted motherfucking bastard who was holding the microphone. 

I picked up a small rock and threw it against the loudspeaker and it just bounced off with a dull thud." f**k!! f**k!! f**k!!!" I cursed and decided that I better have a cool head in order to survive and walked towards the intended waypoint.

After trudging for about 2 hours in the jungle, my shirt was soaked wet with my perspiration as the weather underneath the foliage was so f*****g sweltering. I took off my camouflaged shirt and hung it instead on the straps of the f*****g china bag. 

I tried to walk as silently as possible while trying to locate the muffled boom sound earlier. At the same time, I kept my eyes peeled for any signs of life that would spell either friend or foe. I deeply hoped in my heart to be able to locate Chikashi who had suffered the same fate as me back at the cottage of the campsite. Flashes of Kagome suddenly entered my mind as I whistled around, hoping to give some sort of signals to those around me and helping them to locate me and vice versa.

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Akitoshi was wandering aimlessly around the forest after he had woken and he was hoping to find a way out from his predicament. It was like having a rude awakening from a deep and peaceful dream as he was walked around the forest and hoping to chance upon a highway that enables him to hitch a ride towards the nearest civilization as well as to the campsite that he was putting up with another student apart from his usual peers.

However, the forest that he was walking through did not show any signs of civilization at all. All he could find besides him the moment he woke up was a satchel canvas bag and some useless items. That was what he thought for the moment when he saw a roll of aluminium foil inside it and thought that someone was pulling a joke on him.

There was a bottle of mineral water that he had taken a swig from it and had about half of its contents left. All he had to do right now was to either chance upon a body of water where he could refill the bottle and walk downstream... If only he could ever find such a stream in this thick and dense forest...! He was walking aimlessly and all he could do was to walk in a straight line instead. In this manner, he would not walk around the unknown forest in circles.

Halfway through while Akitoshi was looking for a stream, he heard soft clinking sounds, and he stopped in his tracks to locate where the sound came from. It was like as if a piece of rock or something solid was repeatedly hammered into a piece of metal of some kind like the weird collar he was wearing right now. 

The clinking sounds continued and he quickly turned into the direction of where the sound came from. After a short while, he reached to where the clinking sounds were coming from. The clinking sounds of rock against metal was crisp and clear when suddenly an electronic voice boomed across the forest. Akitoshi looked up and saw a loudspeaker attached high into one of the tree trunk and was emitting a clear electronic voice that boomed through it.

The voice was actually welcoming the students of Shimizu Higashi High School and announced that the students of the school were in a kind of a live variety game show. Akitoshi ignored the irritating electronic voice over the loudspeaker and went ahead to locate where the clinking sounds come from.

From a distance, Akitoshi saw a familiar figure, about 100 feet away. The familiar figure, a girl with bright green coloured hair, was kneeling on the ground and was using a piece of smooth rock to knock on her metal collar. She was knocking the rock over the padlock at first but then was unsuccessful at first. She was kneeling and leaning across a tree trunk as she kept pounding on the metal collar around her neck.

"M... Megumi...?!" Akitoshi called out to the familiar figure. She stopped what she was doing and turned around, and yes... It was Megumi, alright. She stood up while Akitoshi began to walk towards her as she raised the rock and hit the collar with it. She was adamant to remove the collar that was around her and she was close to damaging the hinge part. Megumi waved back at Akitoshi and gestured the latter to come to her side.

Suddenly, there was a bright blinding white and red flash as heat and shockwave immediately enveloped Megumi where she was kneeling...! The explosion shook the ground and trees around Megumi while Akitoshi was thrown back several feet away due to the shockwave...! Even though the explosion was small but it still packed a punch and this surprised Akitoshi as he was flung to the ground like a ragdoll...!

Akitoshi slowly regained his composure and slowly opened up his eyes which he managed to cover with his hands over his face. What greeted Akitoshi was totally unexpected as he found that Megumi was literally blown about in that explosion and was lying across a tree trunk and was HEADLESS!!! 

There were pieces of skull, hair, eyeballs and brain matter that were blown apart and had splattered all over the forest. The explosion had literally blown away Megumi's head while the headless stump was spurting blood all over the jungle's ground. Akitoshi was speechless at first and then feelings of anguish overwhelmed him and he screamed and struck his fists on the ground repeatedly.

An announcement came over the loudspeakers once again but it sounded dull and muffled since Akitoshi was slightly deafened by the impact of the explosion earlier so he was unable to hear what was being relayed over the loudspeakers at all.

The whole scene that took place right before him looked so unreal!! The decapitated body of Megumi flailed its arms about before falling on the ground with some spasms and then finally lay still to the ground. The air was filled with the putrid smell of thick blood, burning flesh and metal.

Akitoshi bent over on all fours as the pungent stench suddenly invaded his nostrils. He heaved and there was nothing that could stop his vomit from cascading out like the Merlion statue at the Singapore River. His vomit came out like clam chowder and smelled like acidic Cheetos. Akitoshi blanched in the forest's heat and sank on his bottom, was close to smearing his face with his soiled hands

Then he suddenly blacked out.

Some hours later, he finally came to his senses. He thought that he was in a part of a dream once he witnessed Megumi's head exploded in a plume of smoke and blood earlier. However, seeing a headless figure clad in a digi camouflaged uniform on the ground nearby some trees do confirm that the incident was real and not a dream.

Akitoshi can't help but retch against his empty stomach once again. He clutched his satchel bag and staggered ahead, wandering aimlessly as he grappled with the undergrowth around him, cutting his hands and face as he bashed through thick and long overgrown grasses with sharp serrated blades.

His head grew heavy as he was dehydrating fast. He slumped to the ground unable to move an inch further. He then removed his water bottle and then he took another swig and threw away the empty bottle. His dry throat and lips seemed a bit quenched as the water he drank managed to soothe it a bit after his dry retching earlier before he fainted.

The sun was slightly overhead and he was using his hand to shield the sun rays from his eyes as he peered forward. He was unaware of a slight rustling round that was approaching behind him, thinking it may be from a small animal from the jungle instead.

As the rustling sound came nearer, he finally distinguished them as someone's trudging through the forest. As he turned his head to investigate where the sound of the rustlings came from, he felt something grabbed the top of his head and jerked it backwards.