Joshua's Graduation
"This is a story about how I became a Dimensional Guardian, and all its hardship's. I've Traveled for what seems to be forever but it has only been a year since I started traveling with Ashlie helping and warning People... Oh wait let me introduce myself I am Joshua Greenwood age 18 since I haven’t aged a day... Sorry let me begin from the day it all started. I was just a normal Person like everyone else..."
The door swung open as a woman entered the room.
"Joshua Get up, come on get up, you don’t want to miss anything on this big day."
The Curtains flew open bringing rays of light down on my face...
"Aw man it’s only seven." I unconsciously said as I looked at my alarm clock.
"Come on get up you have a big day ahead of you."
As she starts to leave the room. I move in to a sitting position pulling off my covers saying,
“Come on mom! I told you I don’t have graduation until eleven. So why do I have to get up so early."
she stopped at the doorway.
"You have to get cleaned up and have breakfast before you go."
She left the room. That’s my mother, she works as a family practice doctor and rushes with things at home.
I stand up and stretch my arms above my head while I release a yawn. Then I walked over to my metal dresser and grab my nice clothes that I had set out the night before just for the occasion. I walk over to my bathroom to clean my self up and to take a nice relaxing shower. Throw on my clothes and comb my hair and head out the door.
I then head for the kitchen downstairs. My Dad is watching the news on the television.
News Woman, “There have been many small earth quakes the last few weeks around the world. The most recent quake is 4.0 in south Chicago. Scientists believe it is also related to multiple incidents that have been happening this year.”
I sit down and grab the box of cereal, a bowl and the milk jug.
“Hey dad do you really believe that stuff on the news.”
“Yes it goes along with the bible and the ending of the world.”
“ya right and I created the world and all life.”
“My son you need to believe in this so you can be saved from going to hell.”
“there is no such thing as god, Heaven, or hell. I have told you that a dozen times.”
“then where did everything come from, hum.”
“no one knows that except that there is the big bang theory.”
“and there’s my point science can’t prove it only religion can.”
“can we stop this since we have talked about it at least once a week and you can still not persuade me.”
Right then Mother and my sisters walked in dressed in some dresses.
I start to eat and stare off out the window thinking what today might have in store. I continue listening to the news as I finish up breakfast.
"The President has also announced that the United States is also going to change the American dollar to the euros. Many countries intend to follow suit. The president also believes that this will level out the economy of multiple nations."
“ya right the problems lie with the government not just the economy.”
Someone turns off the TV just as I finish my breakfast and head over to the sink to rinse them out.
I head upstairs to grab my packed suit chase and bring it bake down since after the graduation we are leavening to Florida to see some theme parks. Just as I was passing the front door to put my suit chase in the pile with the rest of the families. My older brother Scott with his wife and child came in.
Scott, “Hey what’s up Josh?”
“nothing much just my graduation and a vacation afterwards.
I then walk over to the couch sit down and grab my book that I had just started the other night. I start to read, waiting until it is time to go.
We all hop in the red Honda to head to my school for graduation. On the way we passed the elementary school I went to so many years ago. We passed a few corners until we pulled in to the packed parking lot. We all hoped out and headed for the gymnasium. Everyone was talking while I was just paying attention to what was ahead of me.
Once inside I headed over to where the other seniors where. Grabbed my graduation robe and headed over to where my friends Ben, Zack and Alex where standing.
“hey guys.”
Alex, “hey Josh.”
“so what are you guy’s planning on doing after this.
Ben, "were thinking of going to one of the graduation parties that is after our parents get off of us with all that stuff about how we have grown.
Alex, "we were also planning on a fishing trip after this. Ow and you are also invited."
"sorry my family already made plans to go down to Florida on vacation to visit some theme parks, But that does sound fun..."
over the speakers came the principles voice announcing the start of the graduation.
Everyone headed for their seats for the graduation to get started.
Principle, "hello and welcome to the 2012 Bettendorf high school senior graduation and give congratulations to them."
all the teachers and family's clapped their hands until the principle at the podium put up his arms in the air. the audience slowly died down.
"will the seniors walk up and take your diplomas when I call your names. First up is Trevor Auilar, next is Karly Ahlgren...
Joshua, I slowly walked up through the line that the seniors had been set in. as I neared even more to the stage I became nerves as I came to see the closer to the stage. I could now see the graduates up on stage being given their diploma and shaking the hands of the staff and walking off the stage to the seniors reserved seating section. soon I came up to the steps up to the stage. the principle called the name of the student that was in front of me. then as I was watching the stage I took the first step and waited for my name to be called the principle shock the hand of the student that was in front of me and looked back at the list of senior names. He then leaned over and whispered something to the vise principle looking at me as he spoke. Then after a moment he spoke through the mike calling my name for me to come forward to receive my diploma.
I walked forward felling all the eyes pierce me with their gaze. each step felt like I was walking slowly like in a pool full of water. he handed me my high school diploma with a grim smile, which I new these actions involved an accident from a year ago. I shock his hand and worked my way down the line of staff shaking each of their hands. I then walked down the steps opposite the way I came and to my seat with the rest of the seniors. I then watched as the rest of the seniors where given their diplomas. once they finished with the seniors diplomas everyone that was still standing on stage and the last few seniors from the stage sat down. The principle was still standing at the podium.
"congratulations seniors, soon your parents will be free of you."
the parents started laughing.
"now on to our student's graduation speech."
the honored student in our class stood up and walked over to the stage and then to the podium. she clears her thought's.
"thank you everyone. we would not be here today if it wasn't for our family's, friend's, and the schools staff. our friends and families gave us all the support we needed over these last few years and we thank you for you all being there in our times of need. we thank our parents for all that they have given us that we cannot repay. even through tough times and the times we all argued we thank you. we are also grateful for the patients and time our teachers have given to us for help, and knowledge your have given all of us. we will also learn from our mistakes in the years to come (some heads turn towards me and then back to the stage when she started to speak again) we look to our futures and what we will accomplish. many of us will go on to work and lead secsefule lives. so we thank you once more for what you have done for us through all these years."
she took a breath and took a step back. the crowd went in to an uproar with applause and wisling. the principle walked over to the podium and announced the graduation was over. all the seniors grabbed their blue hats and tossed them in to the air. everyone started moving around to saying goodbye to friends and the parents congratulating their children graduation.
Joshua walked over to his friends and said goodbye and that they would stay in contact.
Alex, "goodbye Josh message you latter and have a good time on your trip."
"I will bye Guys." ( I did not know this at the time but that would be the last time I would see them.
right after that I heard his family behind him chattering away. so I turned right into my Dads bear hug.
Dad, "congratulations my boy!!! you'll be out of the house and on to college in no time."
I returned the hug back to him.
"thank you dad and I'm not out of your hair quit yet."
Dad, "that shear is true but it's still closer then you think."
mom "your both right about that but back to the present please. Congratulations Joshua, you know I love you."
I roll my eyes.
"I know you've told me millions of time's before."
My mom then hugged me and started to peck her lips on my cheeks a few times and backed a step to look at me.
"Why did you do that its embarrassing."
Mom, "it's because I love you my dear boy."
After the rest of the family finished congratulating me. Dad looked down to his watch.
Dad, "if we don't want to miss our flight then we might want to be on our way."
I changed out of my robe and walked out with my family saying goodbyes to other friends on the way out.
once I got to the car door I looked back on my school. It is all that I have come to know over the last few years. It was great even through the difficult times and especially through the fun times. I opened the door knowing I would not return to the school except what I believed to be future reunions. we all finished getting in and headed off on our way.
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Flying Hell
We were on the highway heading to the airport when everyone started talking about our tip.
Joshua just sat there in the back seat listening to the radio's news station.
"there have been multiple reports of major earth quakes around the world ...sweet Home."
my dad had just turned the station on the radio.
we turned off the highway towards the airport. I tuned my head and looked out the window to watch the last of the city pass and we entered into the parking lot of the airport stopping for a ticket for long-term parking.
we waited as the ticket made its way out of the machine at the entrance. we then worked our way through the parking lot slowly to a parking spot and hoped out of the car.
mom, "are you guys ready."
the rest of the family with the exception of Joshua gave cheers and yes's.
Joshua distracted by what was on the news looked up after the cheer to see his parents looking at him.
what? (why are all you guys staring at me?)
dad, "nothing you just didn't answer with us.
"sorry I was distracted."
mom, "that's ok let's start heading in."
we walked in to the ticket desks to get our tickets and headed to the security check point where they scan, and use the metal detector on you. they checked anything and everything, and they also performed random checks on some of us. once through we headed to gate A6 and I sat down to watch the luggage while my parents went to get some coffee and the rest of them went to the restrooms.
they had the news on the TV's. they started with reviews of the military plains going down in the middle east, then the rise in missing people,. then on to the news about the small earth quakes around the world along with the newer major ones then all of a sudden.
...just in scientist have discovered many of the inactive volcanoes have shown signs of being active again."
right as they were about to bring in the specialists the rest of the family came back in small groups talking about the flight's going west have been delayed for unknown reasons. I think they must have delayed them because of the quakes.
"now boarding flight 5309 to Florida zone one."
Dad, "looks like we should get our stuff together and weight for zone 3 to be called."
about 7 minutes later.
"now calling zone 3."
we got in line to board. I gave them my ticket scanned it and got it back and moved to bored.
I worked my way to tow 30 seat a and sat down buckled my seat belt. people continued to come down the ilea and stowed their gear, and continued to buckle in. the flight attendant started their safety review. I've heard it multiple times before so I grabbed my iPod and started to listen to some queen and then kiss as the attendant finished and got seated.
then we slowly started to pull away and headed for the runways. as we turned to the main runway I felt a strong vibration and looked around noticing that no one seemed to be bothered by it we finished the turn and sped off lifting into the air for the third time in my life.
I continued to listen to my iPod and grabbed out my book. I read on about a story of a young man who went on a journey and never returned home.
the pilots flew another five minutes before they noticed something was wrong. their radios only had static on almost every station. with no response from any air field they continued on thinking that it was a small communication error.
everyone on board continued do their things in their seats to keep them busy from boredom.
I touch off my headphone and looked out the window at the terrain and cities as they past. slowly things seemed to be very wrong down below.
After two hours we were over Atlanta and we could start to hear car alarms and screams even though we where miles up.
some other people started looking out when all of a sudden a man yelled "holly shit," when he was looking at his lab top. everyone looked at him as babies started to cry out from all the commotion.
some people asked what was going on
"I was just on a chat room from face book with my friends when some just cut out and others started freaking out. the they all started to say crazy things about the world coming to an end and then all the servers just crashed.
I could barely making out what he was saying looked back out the window.
"oh my god"
he said quietly to himself as he saw a section of land shift up into the air. another person saw it and yelled look to some others as he saw the same thing.
as people looked out the window the sound hit us along with a shockwave. the pilots turned on the belt single again as people scrambled back to their seats multiple things started to happen all at once.
as the last of the people where getting to their seats the plan jerked down and up once again with more force and sent them flying crashing into people and the ceiling causing injury to them and those around them.
luggage rack's opened sending bags and suit cases flying and also hitting people. I barely missed a person flying across the row. as the shock wave passed people that weren't in their seats got back to them some with aid from family members or neighbors and flight attendants checking on people,
my mom got up and assisted a few others and squealed at the sight of my younger sister with a large swollen wound to her head and a kacushion from a flying suitcase. blood was socking into her shirt
She rapped a bandage around her head thanks to the flight attendants first aid kit. they then dragged her back to her seat. I looked back out the window as she buckled up. more ground was starting to shift as the first one slowly sank and crumbled apart. more shock waves continued to hit.
up front the pilots continued to try and stabilize the place as shock waves continued to hit one after the other.
"crap we only have about two hours of fuel left and the Orlando tower isn't responding."
other pilot, "lets head up the coast to see if another tower will respond."
"good idea lets reset the course."
I continued to watch as the y worked their way up the coast with height starting to fall he gradually started to see a eary orange yellow glow.(that's probably lava also known as magma in other terms).
Dad, " you seem unusually calm Josh."
I turned my pail face to look at him.
I'm just as scared as anyone else here but there is nothing good coming from screaming and freaking out."
Dad, "true but your sisters hurt and the world's falling apart underneath us."
I just stared at him and then turned my view back out the window (of course I'm worried but I'm more worried about how we are even going to get out of this.)
his father continued to look the returned his attention back to his wife.
as I continued to look out to the west I noticed a large black cloud or fog from the ground up to above them come rushing at them.
"incoming!!!"
everyone looked off to their left to see the black cloud and dust riding a large shock wave. a few people screamed, others held hands, or said things like bible verses or I love you's.
I continuously wished over and over that I didn't want to die.
up front they heard from a flight attendant what was coming at them and planed to turn and face it head on with the plain. they had just finally got in contact with another airplane but soon lost it to screams and static consuming it as it entered the cloud. they know they couldn't out fly it with their fuel and they would crash if they didn't turn into it. as they continued to turn.
I noticed them turn thought that any course they would take is dangers but agreed with their action. he could still see the cloud coming and stared into what he believed would doom them all. right then the cloud smacked into them rattling the plane with unimaginable force making more items fly through the compartment.
I barley turned his head when a bag smacked into him knocking him unconscious. he woke with a start two minutes later to the third planes engine exploding leaving only one left as the plane slowly dived .
he looked around seeing the oxygen masks have been deployed and that there was a horrible howling noise from behind me. I couldn't reach the mask in front of me because of the luggage bat that had hit me. as he moved the bag he could see his brothers face across the row bloody with his eyes wide open.
I wanted to throw up but couldn't because of the lack of oxygen and space. he finally got the bag off and into the row. I shock my father to wake him. he had put his mask on but wouldn't respond.
I looked out the window we were finally out of the cloud dropping at a steady rate. I then looked down and saw lava all over the place with debris flying into the air. I could barley make out a single shape now out of all the ruins the white house leaning at an angle charred and damaged the flag was still burning away at its finale corner.
all of a sudden I heard the last engine sputter and explode ripping the plane apart a few rows ahead of me.
"oh god we're all dead."
I was ripped out with my seat falling with all the parts of the plane around me. I looked down to my belt and fumbled with it trying to unclip it all of a sudden the wing of the plane with a burning engine flew past me.
I looked back down noticing I couldn't breath. I finally unbuckled myself slowing down a little as I spread my limbs out. a few chairs flew past me from a row with people sitting there with silent screams coming out of their mouths.
noticing more debris around me some in flames and reflecting the light. I looked back down with my eyes widening at the ground that seemed it was rushing up at me. the glow of the magma and burning ruins made my fear rise higher.
then all of a sudden there was a blinding white light making me close and cover my eyes. smack I hit a floor that wasn't suppose to be there. I laid there blinking my eyes from the privies blinding light and slowly started to notice the pain in my body but blocked it out as I started to get up.
All of a sudden I hear a scream and something smacks into my back making me collapse again. I gave out a low moan from the pressure and pain.
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Graduating Cadet
Ashlie woke at 0500 from her alarm. She got off the bunk thinking that the day that she has been waiting for has come. She headed for her trunk at the end of her bunk and gabbed her sweet’s and got dressed.
She headed out for her daily run going around the dorm building. She strectched like usuale. As she ran counting the laps, her thoughts started to drift to whats been on her mind for days. What divishion would she be put in to finish her training. Her cureent academy only has the basics so the send cadets to different acadams from their ranking of their skills. Ashlie headed back in to the dorm after her twenty minuet’s.
Ashlie hoped she could be in speshle forces since she has been at the top of her class in fitness and nolege. She even had a perfect health record.
She went to the shower’s after grabing her uniform from her trunk. She looked at herself in the mirror checking to see if she was cleaned up. she checked her red hair to see if it was in place then started to get dressed.
She first put on her under garments, then her above knee skirt along with her butten up shirt, and her vest on top.
She arranged her sholder stripes and colers. She then puld on her gloves and boots. Her uniform was a light green and each stip was for rewords from her instructers and also her squad groups over all rewards o ocopmplished tasks. Standing up her skinwas mostly coveed except for her face. Her gloves reached up to her elbows and her oots to her knees.
The rest of her dorm was up at 0600.
“hay ashlie your up and early as usual.”
Ashlie turned to see rachil.
Ashlie, “ oh hey Rachle, ready for the big day.”
Rachil “Ready as I’ll ever be.”
She was just getting her uniform on when Rebeca came up and patted Rachil on the sholder.
“Slow as usual.”
Rachi, “unkept as usual.”
Ashlie, “you two might want to be ready by 0630 for the instructors inspections.”
Both looked to Ashlie then the clock and noticed they had less then 5 min left and went to finish putting their uniforms on.
Right as the clock hit 0630 the instructor stepped in looking at one side o the dorm to the other then down the two lines of cadets. They where al at attenchen whith the two lines facing eachother.
The instructer started walking dow the row’s.
“Cadets parade rest.” The cadets put their arms behind their back sepperating ther feet to sholder width.
“To day is a bis day for all of you. With that said you all need to look nice and tidy since the presidents going to be there. Whats with this sloppy collar cadet.”
The instructer had gotten up in Rebbecas face.
“sorry Sir.”
“Sorry dosent cut it cadet fix it.”
Rebbeca fixed her collar as the instruter turned around to inspect more cadets.
“You cadet retie those boots or they’le cause blisters.”
He worked his way down the cadets untile he got to Ahlie smiling to himself.
“now here is a cadet to follow after.”
Instructer, she is one of our top five cadets but lets see if she could survive outside.
“cadets here is your scegiwale for today. If you are ontime you are late. Now dismissed.”
He turned around and walked out the door.
Rebecca, “Ahlie you where great.”
Rachel, “no wonder they say you are one of the top five in the academy.”
They all laughed.
Ashlie, “your over dramatissing it.”
She could also see some cadets jellas and bothered by what they said.
Every cadet in the lat decade or to have been trying to be at the top so they could get the positions they wanted to servein.
Ashlie went over to the Diggetile board for the scedgiwale.
0700 drop gear off at the transport station on parade field. 0800head to acadamys Auditoriem, 0830 serimony, 0930 cadet senior graduation/selection, 1000 bord transports.
Rachel, “looks like they gave us plenty of time to say goodbyes.”
Rebecca, “Looks that way but I really wish I didn’t have to. I’ll miss both of you she started to tear up.”
Ashlie went and hugeged her along with Rachile Standing there a few minuets conforting eachother. They slowly sepperated and packed ther gear into ther dufl bags.
Ashlie grabed her data pad she hesitated about to put in her bag dessided to put it in her vest pocket.
Ashlie grabed her bags strap and throw it over her sholder and walked to the door waiting for her friends to finish.
They then heaed out the dorm acrose the parade field to drop of their gear then over to the main building to say theire goodbyes too other cadets and some well known instructors.
At 0745 they allstarted to head over to the auditorium and by 0800 they where all seated. On the stage st the head of staff and some military offices along with president Robbert Even’s.
The president walked up to the mike. He set some papers he was holding on the stand in front of him.
Taking in a breath before he spoke.
“It has been four decads since this war as roken out. Many of our proude citys and citizens have fallen thanks to the nuclear devistashen. We lost eighty persent of our population in the first strikes fallowed by many years of sorrow and reconstruction after a decade we found a small hand full of untucheed valleys deep in the mountins which gave us hope. With in the secande decade we built our dome citys and slowly have grown to what we are today.”
He toke a deep breath.
“Within the last decade e have found ways to reguvinate the land but not its water. But just as our country has survived so has many others. The soviet union, nazi Germany, Japan, Britian, North and sout korea and the Vietnam, even the deformed middle east raiders. There have stil been many battles after the disaster and there are still more to come.”
Taking another breath he looked around.
“That bring me to why we are here today with our numbers it had become mandatory for all citizens to surve for 5 years in the military.”
It continued on about our history of wars and many things that have come out of the ashes.
“I ame proude of all you cadets that have made it through this year some of you might not get into where you wanted to be but we know you wil all do us proude.”
The head of the academy stood and went up to the stand with diplomas.
“starting with Rebbeca Adams, Meddicle Acadamy,”…
He continued down the list of cadets and they walked up got their diploma, saluted and walked back.
“Rachle Edards, Airforce Acadamy”…
He continued for multiple cadets untile he reached…
“Ashlie Seeder, Speile forces Acadamy.”
Ashlie slowly got to her feet. I walked down the to the stage but it seemed very slow but also in a way fast. Shei was handed her diploma and she saluted turned and walked back to her seat as the last few cadets where called up.
Robbert, “Congradulations cadet after being dismissed head out to the paraid Field for transporation.”
The head of the academy walked to the mike.
“we are proude to have had you and we hope you make our country prode. This conludes the 2012 cadet graduation Dissmised.”
The cadets rose and saluted and waled out of the auditorium.
Rebbeca,” Ashlie you made it.
Ahlie, “you too.”
Rachile, “hey gus we all got into what we wanted.”
Ashlie, “that e sure did.”
They slowly made there wy to the purade field. Rebbeca headed over to the ground transpor’s since her academy was close by.
Rebbeca, “good bye guy’s.”
Rachile, “good bye.”
Ashlie, “we’ll miss you.”
She went and borded turned and waved goodbye and reseved a few waves back. Rachile and Ashlie went to bord a new black hawk not expecting what was to come.
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Fall Out
They toke their asind seats and buckled in. a member of the flyt crew checked to make sher their harneses where ok and gave a thumbs up to the piles.
Pilet, “tower this is Alpha 1 ready for dust off over.”
“This is tower, you have a go ahead. Fly true.”
Pilet, “that we will do.”
The three black hawks lifted off and headed north east to the far end of the valley flying over some of the last untoxic crops.
Ashlie, “look you can see some of the communal farms to save more land for farming.”
Rachle, “true but that might be very tight fro space.”
Ashlie, “true you may be right there.”
They continued crossing streams a small mountin side town. A few birds past which might be the only ones left in the world for anyone knew. They started to head for the last mountin at the end of the vally.
They landed on the side of the mountin that had landing pads jeting out of the side.
Ashlie and Rachile stepped off with two other cadets heading in to the mountin entrence.
Rachle, “looks like this is where we sepperate.”
Ashlie, “ goodbye Rachile.”
“Good bye Ashlie.”
Ashlie walked away following an instructer and another cadet away to another hager ith air tight transports.
We made our way on to one that looks similer to a black hawk but has 2 engins on the sides and one on the back right where the tale would be. Ashlie toke a seat buckling in and giving a thumbs up to the flight crew. They waited for the other cadets from the other flights. When the finished they gave a thumbs up to the pilets.
Pilet, “Tower this is blue two ready for launch.”
“Blue two this is tower, you have a go and have a nice day hot shots.”
The Pilet wormed up the engins and flew for the airlock passing by other airraft and personel. As they passed the inner doors they slowly sycled through into the airlock presherising the inside of the the aircraft. Another black hawk puled in along with a dome construction transport. The inner doors closed darkening the small aircraft tunnel.
The machinery kicked in exchanging the air for the radio active and toxic air. The door sycled open into the dessert like enviorment that was commen outside the valley.
There where dozens of the aircraft in the air ranged from military to the construction vehicles. On the ground was a large multi dome city. The domes wher econected by transport tube’s and tunnels.
Ground vehicles where helping transport goods and constructing new sections to the city. Further out there where boldosers pushing over what was once a living forest but now it is just a bunch of dead standing hulcks of what they once where.
The city is also known as the new capital and is one of our larger city’s with a population close to two million. The smaller city’s that are average usuly have a population of a few thousand.
The pilets where only reaching the outer zone when a message was sent to all the city’s citizens. (Warning inbound nuchlier divices ditected. Find shelter and go to ready stashens.)
A timer showed up in its space with only 4 miuets counting down.
“prepare for acceleration.”
As soon as the pilet said that they jumped forward into a tight turn. As the time passed a minet they where hafe way back to the mountin when the rocket’s came up from the city deffences heading for what was supposivly the nuchlier missile.
The airlock doors could now be seen closing with it full of as many aircraft it could hold and still more on there way. The dome had it’s clast shuters moved hafe way in into place, when the large missle came hurtling out of the sky making a hole in the smoke cloud sky.
There was a last stage sepperation which sent a emp out taking out the city and many unprotected vehicles. Causing even the airlock doors to stop almost closed ith an explosion from aircraft coming out of it.
Most of the military aircraft where still in the air unaffected by the emp waiting for the bomb to hit.The warhead was only seconds away from the main dome.
Cadet, “we’re scrw man screwed.”
He got a punch to the face for a reward.
“Shut up kid.”
The pilet looked back to the city as the warhead hit breaking throught a dome and exploding blinding the pilets for what was left of their live’s. they started to fly out of controle when the shock wave hit them seding them backwards in to a spirale.
Everyone that could grabe the only 4 oxygen masks ath the breach alarms went off. A cadet got up went to the front being ramed in to people and wals but finaly made it. To the controles.
Ashlie followed sute running into a cadet and got ack up and headied for the front.the cadet was leaning across one of the pilets with the controls in his hands trying to bring it back under controle. Ashlie went to the other controles right as the cadet righted it out with only 400 feet to spare.
We barlly got a view of the city and mountin both of them demolished and destroyed bringing the toxic air in to our preshis valley. All of a sudden the same cadet from erliar grobbes the cadet keeping the plain stable and throw hi into the wall.
“you two are morons. Cadets arnt…”
He didn’t have time to finish as another aircraft came crashing into the rear shredding it in two throwing out the two cadets. Ashlie had just grabed a pilets seat holding on as the world went sping being thrown around when her hands slipped and flew out after them. She spred her arms and leges seeing the eary glow of green along with the ground rapidly approaching.
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A sudden plast of whit light mader her close her eyes and felt a rush of freshair go inter her lungs then slammed in to something a little soft and herd what she thought was a mown.
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Shocking Meeting
Ashlie jumped up off the person she had just landed on.
“Sorry… I didn’t men to… can I help you up?”
“No, I’m ok but that was painful.”
Ashlie, “Sorry.”
I rubbed the back of his head.
“no it was the main fall.”
Ashlie, “oh!”
Ashlie finaly got a good view of the person she had landed on. He had ash coverd cloths with a few tare’s here and there. He had a bruse on the right side of his head and a blody left ear. But the woerdest thing was his Red Eyes!
Joshua final looked at the person that had landed on him. She wore a torn up ash covered uniform. She had a scrape on her left check parshaly coved by her red hair but the werdes thig is her yellow eyes!
Ahshlie, “there’s noway your eye’s can be red.”
She blurted out.
“what do you mean red they are blue the lat time ive checked. What about yours there a gold yellow.”
Right then ashlie collapsed to her knees holding her right forearm, while Joshua staggered back grabing his. Both their arms had a glow to it for a few seconds. Once the glow stopped the pain left them.
On their arms where now and armband made of a weird silver gold metal with three spheirs inbeded init. Joshuas was blue and ashlies was red. They looked to eachother with unserten eyes.
Ashlie, “sorry about the red eye’s comment erliear it rlly made me jump.”
“like I said they are blue, but what’s been happening can’t be real.”
I tried to remove the armband but it would not buge it was like it was connected to him.
Ashlie, “well your eyes are red and what just happened hapend even if we cant understand it, and did you just say my eye awhere yellow because my eyes use to be brown.”
Ashlie had gone down to one knee and drew the knife from her boot and started to try and pry the Band off.
“that look’s dangers.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
She stopped trying to pry it off and put it back in the boot.
“and for what you said earlier about your eyes being yellow yes I did, and… and who are you and where are we?”
Joshua turned slightly bringing his arm around jestering about his surroundings.
Ashlie, “ok im ashlie seeder and I don’t know where we are.”
Ok just calm down “im Joshua Greenwood, and sorry about yelling at you im gessing that I might be in shock right now.”
Right after that Joshua feel on his butt takeing in deep breaths to cal himself. Ashlie looked at hime knowing just how he feel’s she sat down across from hime looking around to get her berrings.
It looked like they where in a never ending space. Here and there where what looked like glowing rings, small wall’s of water, doors and some circles all over the place. She turned and saw the small pile of debbries was next to a glowting ring that kept fazzing in and out while another ring was blown to pieces just flowting there.
Ashlie, “im gessing we came out of those but they look unpassable.”
“ya well there’s nothing left for me back there just a unstable lave rock.”
Ashlie, “what happened.”
I waited for a moment collecting his thoughts then spoch about his day. He saw how ashlie was in ah and shock from what he told her. He could tell she had questions boiling up inside her but she held her tong.
“so then I continued to fall with the debries and landed here.”
Ashlie, “did you ever launch a nuchlear missle in you history? What are your city’s like? How much food do you guys get…”
“hold it. We launched two to end world war two in japan along with a test. Our city’s differed some small some large enough to hold millions and they where built in different patterns. We also got as much food as we could buy and we ate multiple sized meals.”
I Had to Catch my breath for a moment.
Ashlie, “yours is entirely diffren from mine. We never joined the war untile everyone stared to launch missles. But what kept you from launching more missles?”
“well I don’t rilly know all of it but we had created the united nations, that helped a little but the main one was fear since no one wanted those lives on their hands, or to die from its unkown effectrs from other countrys if they shot back but why are you so upsesed with the nuch’s?
Ashlie touch a deep breath, well I don’t know why but our countrys launched them causing the world to fall apart. After we slowly gathered back to what was left of the goerment and started to rebuild…”
She continued on with her history that led up to her being in the fall of ther capital.
“im sorry to hear that and it sounds like we lived in entire different worlds. So that’s why you where asking so many questios about where I came from.”
Ashlie, “yes and because I wanted to now the way our world could have ended up.”
“which bring’s me to think that we cam from different dymentions which is inane but this is the ony thing I can think happened.”
Ashlie, “But why did it happen and where are we?”
“I don’t know probable in the space between them or something, but ime only a nerd that watches the discovery channel, and before you ask it’s a bunch of videos abourt science and other things similer.”
Ashlie, “that’s a good conclusion but it does seem crazy.”
“true but we should start by getting on our way and find a way out of here.”
Ashlie, “ok that’s better then nothing.”
We walked over to one of the rings.
Ashlie, “hey josh grabe a large chunk of the debbrie over there and bring it to me.”
“ok.”
I ran back to where welanded and grabed a lon piece of bent and twisted metale that had a few holes in it. I held it a moment to see if it was to heavy then jogged back to where ashlie stode looking at the ring.
Ashlie, “thak you.”
I handed it to her sying, Your welcome
She pushed one end into it.
Ashlie, “hay josh can you see if it passed to the other side?”
“ok.”
I ran to the otherside andsaw nothing but the ring. Then went back around noticing some strance lettering went around the edge of the ring that was un readable.
“there’s no metal but are you able to read the words.”
Ashlie pulled the metal back and It reapered making a ripple go tordes the edge of the ring.
Ashlie, “no but I wish I could.”
Then she stepped forward and throw her hand through before I could think of stopping her.
“stop!”
Ashlie, “its fine just fells cold a second then you fell moving air.”
“you still should have checked the end of the metal or something before you go sticking your hand through it.”
Ashlie, “its fine lets see whats on the other side!”
She walked through so I ran through behind her out into an ally. We looked back and only a wall was there.
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In To The 4th Rike
“looks like we’re stuck shere ever we are.”
Ashlie, “sure dose but let’s head this way.”
We walked out of the ally into a streat, everything was coated in metal and glass. There where dossens of people walking bothe ways gome giving them weird looks. On the otherside of the street was a railing and a long drop.
We went over to it and looked out over multiple levels of similer style. Then as we looked some more we saw flying cas and some weird black transport chips.
“hey you two what are you doing over there.”
We turned to see two men coming tords us dressed in grey uniforms, a gun slung over their back’s and a short police shock batten.
When Ashlie had turned around the two men saw her uniform the went to grab their battens.
“run for ir.”
We turned in the other direction running down the street. Parts of the crowded street partd as we ran through them with the two men right behind us.
Ashlie, “this ay down the stairs.”
I looked over to where ashlie turned and saw one on the side of the street. We ran to it. Ashlie jumed on a railing and slid down past more people with me right after. We reached the bottom and turned to the left side seeing more men running tord’s them from one of the plack transports parcked alon the railing. We turned to the right and continued past an ally when we saw 6 more men coming at us.
We ran back to the ally and went down it nocking trash bins and other stuff to slow the men down. We tuned left as soon as we came to a street. Runing as fast we could stopping behind a large crate to catch a breath.
“Do you think we lost them.”
Ashlie, “no I rilly dought it since im in a uniform and we are both covered in ash they can easily spot us.”
Then how are we going to get out of here.
Ashlie, “don’t know but we should get moving again.”
We looked back tords the ally seeing the first of the men starting to flood out.
“hurry their right on our tail.”
We continued down the street passing some stores when we saw more men coming from the front again.
Ashlie, “crap head for the next ally”
We turned down it only to find it a dead end with no way out.
“great it’s a dead end now what are we going to do.”
We turned to look at the mouth of the ally seeing the uniformed men marching down it in lines of 4 slowly walking over trash and papers.
Three in the first line had their stun battens ready with the 4th redying his gun.
I looked around for something to defend myself finding an old rusted pipe with a bend at the end. I looked over to see ashlie grabing her long nife out of her boot.
“nice but it looks like we aren’t getting out of here.”
Ashlie, “ same here but at least e have eachothers back.”
“true I never thought I would need those ole lesson’s… oh never mind don’t have time for this.”
We stood faceing the men coming at us bringing out weapons to the ready.
The man with the gun yelled, “get on the ground!”
Ashlie, “why are you chasing us we did nothing rong?”
The man yelled back, “you have broken laws just by being here and dressed in that uniform we know who you are.”
“what law’s we just got here not even fifteen mnuets ago.”
Ashlie looked at me, “look’s like we arnt wanted here.”
We looked back at the men, as if on que they ran forward lifting the batton’s. I lunged forward swinging the pipe into the closest mans stumeck. The man growned falling to the ground.
Ashlie had dogged another mans batton bringing up her nife cutting at the inside of his forearm. He dropped his batton screaming in pain grabing his arm to stop the blood from flowing out.
As my first opponent dropped I ducked from another mans swing and swung at the back of the mans head making him fall on his face. I turned around to have another swing when I heard a sound simmiler to a jun go off with in a second I was hit by a chock bullet sending pain through my body, but I continued my swing through to the first mans back.
I staggered letting out a grown. I heard the gun again hearing Ashlie scream.
Ashlie saw the second line move in when Joshua jot shot by the man that had yelled at them. She herd Joshua grown when another round fired and hit her with a sharp pain spred across her body starting at her sholder. She screamed in pain collapsing to the ground.
The rounds where only riot rounds with a shock but I still went over to check on Ashlie to see if she was alright knowing there were men still comeing. She growned and tried to sy something pointing with a shaking hand behind me.
I turned in time to see the men almost on top of me with their stun Battons. I jumped up and slamming the pipe down on his sholder. The other two men used their batton ends making me scream out in pain.
That made me rilly mad. I started to get back u but the three stabed the ends into my back forcing me to my knees. The largest of the three tackled me to the ground nocking the wind out of me. Then the mand that had the gun used some hand cuffs that shocked when I tried to resist.
I tuned my head to look at ashlie with pain going through my eck. She was also pinned and cuffed but looked like she was also in pain.
The men that pined us got to their feet and pulled us up.
“you are under arrest for trespassing, running from athorits, and injuring an officer of the 4th Rike.”
Now I rememberd why the uniforms where familiar they reminded me of the nazi photos from world war 2.
The men that I had hit shocked me a few tims with their battons on their way out of the ally. Some medic’s started to run in to help the injured.
Six of the men formed up aroud me and Ashlie dragging us to the street rail where a section of it was open to a black transport. We walked up the ramp into the transport. There was two pilets and an officer onboard.
“welcome abord interlopers,”the officer said as we where shoved to the floor. “now why are you two here?”
I said, “We don’t know exactly.”
We know you crossed the dimmentional bridge.”
Ashlie, “that’s what it was!”
The officer said, “yes, you necompope.”
One of the two that originaly saw us walked forward.
“sir, she looks like one of the Americans from zone thirteen.”
The officer said, “of course but why are you interrupting get back to your station.
The soldier said, “sir they also have Arm bands.”
The officer looked pu at the soldier again then back to the two captives. His eyes fell upon the parts of the armband that where not covered by the cuffs.
The officer looked back to the soldier, “thank you, now leave us.”
Two of the soldiers saluted and marched back out.
“now get these two to the back.”
Two guards grabed us and dragged us past three rows of chairs and connected our cuffs to the back wall. The soldiers then toke their seats. Two men from ouside came in and closed the hatch and also toke their seats.
Ashlieleaned tord me, they sure are interested in us being here.”
I said, “yes they do seem to be interested in us, they even knew about the lace we met at.”
Ashlie tilted her head to get a better look around, “maby we just got into something very deep.”
We stopped talking as the side wall in front slid out with a large glasssheet. Then moniters apered with views of he areas of the city on it there was a large moniter in the middle tracking moving blipps that were mainly white with green here and there. They also had health moniters and camera views ofrom paroling soldiers in the area.
Ashlie looked back to at me, looks like that’s how they tracked us. They probably have everything, and everyone bugged.”
I said, “so there isno privesy nd they are a monitored. Dose that remind you of something even their uniforms.”
Ashlie looked back to the soldiers then back to me, “what do you mean?”
“well they said 4th Rike, they have uniforms similer to Nazis, and they want to controle everything.”
Ashlie thought over the facts for a moment, “you think these guys are Nazis or something.”
“yes that’s what I think, and it seems that they are not used to much resistance eather. They probably have found a way into the other dimentions. With that said they probably even have influens in other other dimentions since they said you where from… zone thirteen.”
Ashlie stared at me a moment, “so we are probably in a worst case scenario that we can think of and they know more about where we come from then we can even know of.”
“yes that’s basicly what im thinking.”
We sat there running trough our thoughts and what had happened to us.
The piletstarted to talk over the radio to some kind of facility but we couldn’t make out the words. Minuets later we landed
We where pused out of the shuttle landing spraled out on te ground. We heried to our feet loking around. We where on top of a huge building shaped like a large brick made out of metal with no windows.
“welcome to our rehabilitation center and ou may call it hell if you like.”
Ashlie and I looked at eachother then back to a man in a lab coat with two fully armedsoldier’s in some kind of suits.
The man in the lab coat turned, “let’s bring them down to their new home.”
They toke us over to an elevator entrance next to some stairs. We all crowded in leaving four of the soldiers on the roafe. We started to head down in the darck black elevator with an emblem similer to the Nazis but it had a plane behind it on the floor.
We stopped at a level hafeway down through the building. The halls had multiple celles a large lab and more cell’s. we crossed multiple hall’s that all had the sme black walls but they had red floors. We could hear screams all the way through the building.
We stopped at a cell door number 469. The fully armed guards through us in and slamed the door.
I looked around saying, Look’s like e are going to be here for a while.”
The room was padded had two beds and a toilet with a single flickering light.
Ashlie looked down to here cuffs, “looks like our cuffs arnt coming off eather. So we hae all the time in the world.”
She sat down shacking her head. I fallowed suit and waited for anything to happen.
The Exscape
I woke up startled with face down on the bed since the cuffs where still on. I slid off the bed on to my sore leg’s collapsing to my knees from the previece day’s exastion.
Looking around I saw Ashlie as leaning against the wall lissening intently to the cell door. now that i was up and moving I could hear alarm’s going off.
I went over to Ashlie, “how long have the alarms been going off.”
Ashlie did not look over but said, “for a minuet or two…” she stopped for a moment, “are you ok?”
I said, “yes, besides being here.”
Ashlie said, “wheel you started mouning for a whil laying there.”
I looked to the ceilig, “well maby because im soure and stiff from yesterday… oh wait howlong have I been out?”
Ashlie said, “not very ong probably a little over four hours.”
I looked back to ashlie, “that want lon no wonder I fell getting up. oh well, what have you heard.”
Ashlie said, “I Couldn’t make out all the word’s but there seems to be some intruders.”
I hered sound sound outside the door that seemed to be a gun.
“looks like there getting close.”
“sure dose”
We slowly backed away from the door.then a buzzer went off and the door swong open letting in light. We waited hearing men and women running and yelling out in the hall. We slowly krept around the corner seeing people running by in a light tin gray tops and bottem’s all running down the hall to the left. Soon the flow of people gradily dissepered.
We stepped out looked both ways and headed tords the right. After a while running down the hall we ran into five figures in the hall running at us from a side hall. We stopped to turn around.
Someone in the group yelled, “wait!”
They continued running tords us three of them where wearing full body armor and had tinted visors, a forth ad everything except his helmet which was attached to his pack. They all carried some kind of rifle. The fith person was in the gray cloths they hdjust seen.
All their guns where at the ready but not pointed at us.
The man in the gray yelled, “herry come with us we’ll get you out.” Sounding like he was out of breath.
I said, “why should we trust you?”
The man said, “well you need us and we need you if you r who we think you are, but hurry we only have a few minuets untile more security arrive.”
I looked over to Ashlie, she had a unreadable face but shock her head and said, “ok.”
One of the armord guy’s came forward with a small hand held divise.
“let me see your cuff’s.”
Ashlie turned and waited a seconde until the cuffs dropped from her arms.
She said, “its nice to get out of those.”
Then I had mine removed and massashed my arms and sholders for a seconde.
We continued down the hall then turned right runnind down the hall passing dead or unconshes guards here and there. At the head of the group one of the suted men opened a door to a stair case bringing his gun back and forth to ee if the way was clear. We went downto the next level hearing armored boots down below us so we opened the door.
We continued down the hall running through an intersection between another hall. Ashlie was ahead of me almost past the intersection as I as rmed from the side falling and sliding across the floor.
As I restled with the man I noticed he held a battonn trying to shock me. I grabed his arm and continuesly slamed it aginst the ground.
I turned my head and saw the mans face and reckagnized him as the person that had shot us. A unbarible rage weld up inside me trying to resist but could not. I freed my knee and slamed it into his gut and brot it back again loosening the mans grip on the batton.
I slamed his arm again making him drop his batton. We both grabbed for it still kicking and punching eachother.
I grabed the handle while the man held another part. I head butted him once then again getting the batton free and gammed it into his shlder. I shocked the man repededly in the chest while getting to my feet.
I then started kicking him in the gut three time’s causing the man to ball up in pain. Then I started to kick his open face multiple time’s even though the first blow noked the man unconches.
Ashlie had turned had turned to help but was held back by one of the members of the group. She tried to help hime and asked the others to hep but she knw it was usless because it was close hand combat. Then when Joshua got to his feet and kept kicking him she ran to him grabing his arm.
“josh we need to go!”
He turned bringing his batton up to swing. Ashlie saw his eyes in that instant. They held a strange mad glow to themwith a look of pure atred then turned back to the plain red with a hurt look to them he lowered his arm.
“Josh come on.”
I drooped the baton and started to run along side ashlie rounding a corner to a dead end. Two of the fuly suited men ent to the wall and set two plastic like pakes on with a small box and wires attached to it. We all went back around the corner and pulled a detonator out as the rest without hemets covered their ears. Pulling the trigger the resulting explosion sent debbries flying.
We uncovered our ears and went back around the corner as another alarm went off. We wne through a large cloud of smoke to a large hole through a foot of metale. then the group turned back to us.
“if you are going with us jump and go to that red hover car.” The man with out the helmet said pointing to one on the other side of a 50 foot gap.
I said, “theres no way we can cross that.”
Ashlie said that’s impossible with out rope or something.”
The man reached back and grabed his helmet putting it on.
“you just need to jump or we wil push you.”
As if an unspoken word was passed they rassed their gun’s.
“these pulse rifles would be very painful wouldn’t they?”
Ashlie and I looked to each other.
I said, “look’s like theres noway out of this.”
Ashlie, “sure dose.”
We slowly walked forward a few steps then jumped at a prod from the pulse rifles.
We went forward a bit then dropped. The the arm bands on our arms had one of the three sphears glow with a shape of a fether on it. We drooped another 5 more feet before a two large 6 foot wings burst from our back’s.
during the five foot fall I had closed my eyes for a moment the opened them as we whent forward again gliding across. I looked back behind my head a moment to see what was there and flipped unitenonaly. I looked forward again and leveled out with a little smile to myself.
Ashliesaw the arm band glow and the wings bust forth. She could not believe her eyes. This is impossible, well this whole event is supposed to be impossible.
After the two ad jumped one of the armored men jumped and activated his jet pack. The man that had put his helmet on looked at the two bellow and smiled.
“sir you where right.”
The man in the gray clothes looked up to him and smiled.
“and you douted me about their exsistance.”
The two other armored men grabed the man in gray and jumped flying acrossed the gap with the last person turning to see if anyone was behind them then jumped. He was hafe way across when the security team fired at them to lait.
Ashlie and I had a hard time getting across but landed next to the red hover car when they heird the guns go off. As they turned to look the wings dissentigrated into dust then nothing. The man in grag landed with the other two men.
“hurry get abord.
We all turned back an borded.
“hurry buckle in” a lady that I thought was African American bucouldn’t tell.
We sat and bucled up as the rest borded stowing their guns ad buckled up.
We liftedup into the air and headed to the closest sky lane out.
Then out of nohere two of the black transports dropped in behind us moving a small turret at the bottem to aim at us. The driver yelled back.
“you all want to grab on to something this is going to get ruff.”
Shesped up weaving back and forth between other cars even going above and under into other lanes. The other cars all had different colors and shapes.
One of the transports dropped down again into sight and fired missing and hitting a side railing of one of the streets. Then lanched another volley missing and hitting another car.
I said, “this is getting to close for confert.”
One of the armored men looked back, “tell them that newbie.”
I looked to Ashlie, she just raised her sholder’s and looked back forward.
Another volley came at us missing by inches as the red car turned into a gap just big enough for it to fit but plenty to maneuver up or down.
The transports turned in to the gap. The first slamed into the side wall making one of its pulse lifters explode. It slowly drifted down through the levels of lanes spinning out of controle.
The second made it in aiming at the red car and fired a voll missing the red car as it dropped to avoid a bridge crossing the gap. The shot hit the bridge making dubbries and melted metal fall on to the car.
Ashlie said, “that was a close one.”
I said, “tell me about it I thought we where goners.”
We turned into a packed skylane heading for another parked car on the side that was colord a dark blue.
The man in the gray started to yell back. “get ready to switch vehicles.”
I said, “what for?”
The man in gray said, “because their tracking the sevice number on the grid. Now stop asking.”
Ashlie said, “he’s right they probably are.”
We parked at a railing to the street and jumped off running to the car a few feet away. We opened the hach hopped back in to seats and buckled in.
After we borded the black transport slid out of the naroow pass and sloly worked its way through the lanes waiting for back up.
The lady sarted up and flew it into a lane at the same pace as the others around it. As we where entering the lane three black transports. Circled around the red car their canons aimed at it. As men on the street went to board it.
I said, “wow that chase was similer to the movies I use to watch only difference is that I was in the middle of it.”
Ashlie looked at me and probable notice I was a little pale.
“well at least we gotout of that place, but what’s going to happen to use now.”
We looked back at the at the group that had saved us.
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New found hope
We landed at another car switch before we got to our destination at a residential complexe at the lowest level of te city. We followed the group that got us out but stopped ouside the car.
Ashlie said, “before we fallow you any farther I want to know who you are and wh we should trust you?”
The man had switched oout of his gray suit into a black outfit turned.
“just come I and we will tell you everything, or at least everything we know.”
Ashlie said, “that’s not good enough!”
The man looked at both of us, “is it worth it, if you can save many lives if you help us.”
Ashlie looked at his fave knowing he wasn’t lying, but she stil diden’t trust him.
I said, “I know he got us out of ther pointed gun’s at us but where else can we go.”
Ashlie nodded her head understanding but still kept her face blank. We started to fallow them again. The lady who was piletig went to a butten and speaker next to a glass door. A man’s voice came through after she pressed the butten twise.
“may the wind be at your back.”
She held the butten in, “and my you fly strait and true.”
The mans voice came back through, “welcome back comrade.”
A shor buzzer went off and the door opened sliding into a wall. We walked into a long hall that had multiple doors with a light color gray and a black sripe running down the walls.
Our group moved down fifteen doors and stopped. Then one of the previesely fully armed people turned. “you might ant to tell our names when you walk in or else it might bring out some toy’s.
Ashlie and I looked to eachother like what is he talking about. The man in black nocked twice and waited a moment and knocked 8 times more. The door opened to a robot standing there. It had human like eyes but main parts of its body were red the joints where black.
“welcome back master Richard, Vlcorytarisa, warriors jake, bobie, donnald, captin Robbert.”
He turned to us, “you have also got two guests with you may I have your two names.”
“Joshua!”
“Ashlie!”
“please give full names for recagniton.”
“Joshua Greenwood.”
“Ashlie Seeder.”
Richard dressed in black said, “oh pope mark them dow as quardians.”
Hope said, “yes Master.”
Hope turned and led them to a living room that had 2 chouches and a was as a lrge screen. On one of the chouches there was a youn man that jumped up.
“your alright Richard.”
“yes, yes im alright I was only there for two day’s, so don’t worry. They had just put the arm tracker in and where about to start the first stage in the conversion prosses. That’s when Robbert and his boy’s arrived and thanks to Tarisa here we got away so don’t worry Ben.”
Ben looked calmer and said, “what about the tracker.”
Richared raised his sleve and said, “don’t worry Robbert removed it.” On his arm was a red stained bandage.
Ben then looked up to us.
“are these the trespasors that caused the first foot chase in over a decade causing 30 soldiers and 4 transports to get involved.”
Robbert sid, “you know tey are the guardians don’t you.”
Ben looked at us again this time with shock on his face.”
Ashlie and I looked at eachother again then to Ricard both saying, “what do you mean by guardians?”
Richard looked back to us.
“cant go into details right now but in do time. Now lets head in.”
Ben clapped and the screen tuned off. The group fallowed hope into the next room. The room was a unused bedroom. Hope walked next to the bed and pressed abutton in the wall causing the bed to riseflat aginst the wall. Under where the bed was a storage pit.
Hope sank to a knee reached in to the wall of the pit an removed a hidden cap to a keypad, and typed in a code having the storage split open reveling a steep cament staircase. The group slowly started down. Hope was the last to enter closing everything from a wall console.
Richard said, “this is a large network of tunnels and bunkers left by the old government of britan, now its used to keep our group safe or should sa its home to the only resistance left to the 4th rike.
I looked at Ashlie who had the same shocked expreshion as me.
We reached the bottomof the stairs entering a large room that looked like it was once a hager or a garage. There where over fifty people in the room working on all sorts of things, reparing clothes, cleaning weapons, and working on mashinory. The three that had the armour on earlier went over to their friends and family’s.
Slowly the room quieted down seeing the group at the entrance. Then they all started forward giving greetings to Richard and Terisa then moved onto us who where overwhelmed by what happened the last two day’s backed up at all the close contack.
Richard raised his voice “hold on, back up your suffocating them.”
The group backed up a few steps queting down.
“these two are Joshua and Ashlie the guardians and the one’s who caused the ruckase yesterday for the 4th Rike.”
The crowed gave chears and whisles for what they did and said greatings to the crew or welcome and hello’s. Terisa and Rishard lead the way to a side room where tere where two more people looking over maps, reports, new’s and any other information that has come in.
They looked up and gae their greating’s like the last room. They then continued to wha