Survival of the Fittest

=Characters=
*Ryan Ferris: A sergeant in the US military and stationed at Fort St. James, and is the head of security.
*Peter Gray: A new scientist who is helping create the Delta Virus.
*Dr. Robert Raines: The head head scientists working on the Delta Virus.
*Thomas Warren: A soldier stationed at Fort St. James. He is a soldier so that he can impress his father.
*Alexander Bateman: Another soldier stationed at Fort St. James and a firend of Thomas Warren. He likes to make jokes.
*Roderick Hale: Another soldier stationed a Fort St. James who is cold towards others.
*Philip Vance: A technician at Fort St. James.
*Duncan Fletcher: A millionaire hunter who owns a vacation home in the Rockies.
*Helen Fletcher: The wife of Duncan Fletcher.
*Oliver Fletcher: The six year old son of Duncan and Helen Fletcher.
*Amir Bakar: The leader of the terrorists that attack Fort St. James to retrieve the Delta Virus for the Taliban.
*Ali Hosseini: A member of Amir's team who has always had doubts about how his group operates.
*Asseff Hosseini: Ali's older brother and staunch Al Queada supporter. 
*Omar Benioff: Amir's right hand man. He is a sociopath.
*Jimmy Banner: A young new soldier who is the lone survivor when the terrorists attack the landing strip in Oregon.
*Zachary Lynns: Ryan Ferris' aide.
*Frank Rhames: An African American solider stationed at Fort St. James.
*Lance Campbell: Another soldier stationed at Fort St. James.
=Story=
==Chapter 1: Arrival==
Major Alan Ridley is standing at a landing strip in Oregon near the Rocky Mountains. Alan looks at his watch and sees that it is half past eleven. It is a Friday night in mid July. "Where are they," Alan says looking down on his watch awaiting the arrival of a new group of soldiers to act as security at the nearby Fort St. James. "Call them," Alan says to one of the soldiers standing nearby, "Check their progress." "Yes sir," the soldier says and runs into the radio tower." The soldier, whose name is Jimmy Banner, runs into the radio tower and gets to the radio.
There is a group of American soldiers kneeling in the cargo hold of the jet heading towards the landing strip. They have their hands on their heads and are surrounded by several guards. They are all Arabic in appearance. The soldiers sit scared to death about everything that had happened. Al Quaeda terrorists had snuck aboard and taken over the jet. There was a huge fire fight and now a few soldiers that remained alive were at their mercy. They then had landed the jet in an abandoned landing strip in Iowa where more terrorists had boarded, and now they were heading towards the landing strip in Oregon. One of the soldiers looks to his right and sees another soldier profusely sweating. "We're going to be okay," the soldier says nodding, "We're going to be okay." He then looks up to see a muscularly built terrorist walk down the short flight of stairs into the cargo hold followed by a smaller one. The larger one is Asseff Hosseini, the other his younger brother Ali. Both are holding machine guns. Asseff talks to one of the other terrorists in Arabic so the Americans can't understand what they are saying. Asseff then walks before the American soldiers and shouts in a mighty voice, "Where is the pilot!" The pilot stands and says, "I am." Asseff then waves his hand and two of the terrorists grab him and drag him, following Asseff. 
They go up the flight of stairs and go into the cockpit where a tall, bald terrorist stands by the radio, their leader Amir Bakar. An Al Quaeda pilot is sitting at the wheel. Amir's right hand man Omar Benioff is standing beside him. He is wearing all black including a long coat, leather boots, and a leather belt. "Hello," Amir says to the pilot and then waves his hand and the two men let go of the pilot. The pilot nervously asks, "What do you want." "They are asking how the flight is going," Amir says, "You are going to tell them that you were only a little behind schedule, and the plane will be arriving in fifteen minutes." "Okay," the pilot says nodding. "Good," Amir says with a grin and leads the pilot to the radio saying, "So tell them." The pilot grabs the radio and then presses the button. He hesitates but then says, "This is the pilot speaking." "Where are you," Jimmy asks over the radio, "Major Ridley is wondering why you are not here yet." "Don't worry," the pilot says with a sick feeling in his stomach, knowing that he is betraying his country, "We had a delayed start. We will arrive in about fifteen minutes." "Okay," Jimmy says, "We'll be expecting you." Jimmy then leaves the radio and Amir smiles saying, "Not too difficult huh." The pilot now feels guilt pouring through him and presses the button again and shouts, "Terrorists have taken over the plane! They have taken hostag..." Amir blasts the pilot in the back with a hail of bullets from a pistol and the pilot drops to the ground dead. Amir then puts the pistol back into his jacket pocket saying, "Move the body." The two soldiers that had brought the pilot pull up the corpse by the arms and drag him out of the cockpit. "That's what happens with disobedience," Amir says shaking his head, "We will be arriving soon, kill the rest of them." "You've got it," Asseff says and then walks away with Ali following. "I'll go with," Omar says following Asseff and Ali. Amir then sits down in the co-pilot seat.
Asseff followed by Ali and Omar walk down the flight of stairs and Asseff shouts to the guards in Arabic, "Amir has given the order! Blow them away!" The guards then raise their guns and point them at the captives. "No," the soldier who had tried to comfort the other shouts. "Do we have to do this," Ali asks, "They are innocent." "We are under orders," Asseff says strongly and then shoots down the one soldier. The guards then fire wildly at the Americans as well, and they begin to fall to the ground dead. Omar is dementedly laughing as he shoots the young soldier that the other soldier tried to comfort. Ali looks at this with his gun pointing at the soldiers. He begins to squeeze on the trigger but can't get himself to do it, and seeing all of the American's dying is very overwhelmed. Eventually all of the Americans are dead and Asseff says, "We'll burn the bodies once we land," and then turns and walks up the stairs followed by the other men. Ali stays and sees the dead soldiers and hears a moan, seeing a mortally wounded soldier pick himself up on his arms and looks to see his dead comrades. A gunshot then rings through the air and the soldier falls onto his side dead. Ali turns to see that it was Omar who shouts, "Took care of the last live one." Omar then continues walking up the stairs. After a few seconds Ali follows.
Major Ridley is still waiting on the landing strip and looks at his watch again. "They said they'd be here," Jimmy says reassuringly and they then hear the jet's engines faintly, but they grow louder. They turn their heads and see the jet heading towards them as a speck but it grows bigger and then descends upon the landing strip. "They've finally made it," Major Ridley says as the jet comes to a halt. Major Ridley heads towards the jet with his escort of soldiers as the steps come down from the plane. "They better have a good reason for being so late," Ridley says with a hint of anger in his voice. "Captain," Ridley shouts as the door opens but is shocked to see that it isn't the captain, but Amir with his pistol in hand and blasts several bullets into Ridley's stomach and he falls to the ground dead. "We're under attack," a soldier shouts as Amir moves out of the way for his men to go out with guns in hand and they fire at the soldiers. The soldiers fire back but they see they are being outnumbered so they begin to back away into the building by the landing strip. Amir looks up and sees the radio tower and shouts, "Destroy their radio tower so they can't call for help!" Asseff comes out of the jet with a rocket launcher and blasts a rocket at the tower and it falls to the ground.
"Hello," Jimmy says trying to use the radio inside of the building. "Well," a soldier says. "We can't make contact," Jimmy says, "We're on our own!" The Al Quaeda men suddenly storm the building and there is a huge fire fight. Jimmy pulls out a rifle and helps. He sees that they are being overrun and with some of the last remaining soldiers moves back towards the exit. They run out as the last of the soldiers on the inside are shot down.
Jimmy and the others run into a jeep. "Do we have the keys," one of the soldiers asks. "I'm looking," Jimmy says. "Here," another says and jams a knife into the ignition, and turns on the jeep with it, "Drive!" Jimmy slams on the pedal and the jeep begins to zoom away. "We should warn somebody," Jimmy says, "Fort St. James is the closest." 
Amir is watching with pleasure at how easily his men are winning but then sees the jeep escaping. "Asseff," Amir shouts, "Hit that jeep with a rocket! They're trying to escape!" When the jeep is about to drive into a wooded are Asseff hits it with a rocket, making it fly down a ravine. Jimmy is blown out of the jeep and collapses on the ground heavily battered. He moans in pain and then looks to see how his fellow soldiers are doing and sees that none of them are moving. Jimmy realizes that they are all dead. "No," Jimmy says under his breath. Jimmy slowly gets up and begins to move as quick as he can up the ravine. When he gets up he sees all of the buildings destroyed, and the bodies of American soldiers lying everywhere. Jimmy then turns away and moves as quickly as he can into the woods.
Omar approaches Amir and says, "We've won. A few of the soldiers surrendered." "There are no survivors," Amir says, "Make sure of that." "Yes sir," Omar says smiling. The surviving soldiers are kept in a circle. "Amir says that there are no survivors," Omar tells the men watching the soldiers. The American soldiers are then blown away by gunfire. Asseff and Ali walk over to Amir. "Burn all of the bodies," Amir says, "Including the ones on the plane." "Right boss," Asseff says and turns away followed by Ali. Omar then walks up to Amir saying, "Orders." "Get some choppers ready," Amir says, "We go as soon as possible." "Right," Omar replies.
==Chapter 2: Fort St. James==
A soldier named Thomas Warren wakes up in the barracks of Fort St. James. It is a fort in the Rocky Mountains. It is a lab where biological-warfare weapons are created. It is heavily fortified and no roads lead to it. It is only accessible from the air, because around it are the mountains, and then wide stretches of forest. Is it morning already a fellow soldier says from the bunk below. It is his friend Alexander Bateman. "Good morning Alex," Thomas says sitting up." "Mornin' Tom," Alex says getting out of bed and stretching his arms. Tom then gets out of bed as well. 
After they get dressed Tom and Alex walk down to the mess hall to get breakfast. When they find a table they sit across from each other. Sitting with them is Frank Rhames and Lance Campbell. "Eggs again," Alex says, "Well I guess we're better off then others." "Yeah," Tom says and takes a bite. "The new soldiers are coming today right," Frank says. "Yes," Tom replies, "They should be here in an hour or so.' "So we're going to get to some extra help," Alex says, "That's comforting." A brawny soldier walks by and sits at a table far off in a corner. "That guy scares me," Alex says. "Roderick Hale," Tom says and looks over to Roderick who is drinking coffee and reading a book, "He's a little rough around the edges but he's harmless." "But why's he so," Alex says thinking, "Something." "Cold," Tom says, "Distant. Nobody here really knows. But he spent some time in Iraq. Some figure that's what got him this way." "Too bad," Alex says and takes a bite of eggs. "Yeah," Tom replies, "I can't imagine what he went through."
Dr. Peter Gray is a relatively new scientist at Fort St. James. He's inside the main laboratory analyzing the project he's working on, the Delta Virus. "What are you doing," a voice says. Peter turns to see the head of the project Dr. Robert Raines walking into the room. He is an older man with a grey beard and a bald head. "Just doing some schematics on the virus," Peter says. "That's good," Robert says, "But you should get your breakfast." Robert then walks to the computer monitor and looks down on it and says, "The Delta Virus. The next generation of bio-warfare. With this the United States could be invincible." Peter nods his head and gets up. He then leaves the lab.
"I don't get it," Sergeant Ryan Ferris says. Ryan is the head of security at Fort St. James. "You don't get what," his aide named Zachary Lynns asks. "The soldiers should be getting here soon and we've heard no word from them," Ryan says. "There could have been a delay of some kind," Zachary says. "Then they would have called us," Ryan replies, "Try the radio and see if we can contact them." "All right," Zachary says nodding his head and walks away. "I know Major Ridley," Ryan says, "He would call if something happened." 
A technician named Philip Vance is examining the radar. Philip is a skinny man wearing glasses. "This is strange," Philip says, "There appears to be nothing mechanically wrong, somebody just smashed the interior tech." The radio isn't working either," a soldier says. "Really," Philip says and runs to the radio. Philip then opens up the machine and sees that several of the wires have been cut. "Who would do this," Philip asks, "And why? I'll repair these immediately."
Peter is sitting on a flight of stairs writing something on a small piece of paper. "What's that Peter," Peter hears a voice say. Peter looks up to see that it is Thomas. "A letter to Elizabeth," Peter says, "She sent me one a while ago, but I've been to busy to send a reply." "That's good," Tom says "Don't let her go. Well I'm off to my shift in the tower." Tom then continues walking. Peter thinks of what else he wants to say in the letter.
==Chapter 3: The Siege==
Tom and several other soldiers are stationed in the guard towers on the walls of the fortress. The towers are covered in metal, and have machine guns mounted at the windows. Tom looks out of the tower's window seeing only mountains and forest. "Another day in the dull tower," Tom says, "Nobody knows we're here. Who's going to attack us?"
"Something is very wrong," Philip says to Ryan, "Our communications and radar were disabled." "Something is very wrong indeed," Ryan replies, "Major Ridley and the new soldiers should have arrived by now." "None of these are good omens." "What do you think we should do," Zachary Lynns asks. "Get everything repaired and prepare for the worst," Ryan answers, "Nothing seems right about this. Nothing at all."