The Escape

I woke up when an explosion happened. I rolled out of my makeshift bed and got up. My name is Jessie, I'm 13 years old and I've been living underground for most of my life. I walked to the main room, there John planning how to escape these wretched lands with everyone in the room.

"I called some ally ships on the makeshift radios to pick us up and get us out of here earlier today so we will be safe!" said John

"But," someone said, "If the Reformed spots us, they will capture us and make us into slaves." John states

"No we won't, the ship will come in a couple of more minutes, anyways the ship will go into a hatch that the splicers will not see, everyone got that? Anyways we won't be enslaved like what happened during the invasion!"

I started to remember the invasion. 5 years ago, I was walking down the street with my family. My dad was a soldier while my mom was an architect and my brother was a funny person to me. Then it happened. Multiple giant ships appeared in the sky. Pods fell through the sky, crashing on the streets, and people ran and screamed. The pod's doors opened, and inside were different aliens, there were ones with four mandibles called elites, the other aliens had four arms and four eyes called the fallen, they had machine bits on them. They started to catch people, and my dad came in by helicopter with some help. They got down and started to shoot the aliens, my dad yelled 'GO SAVE YOURSELVES!' an elite appeared behind him because of his invisibility cloak. The elite was in black with a red glowing crest on his helmet. The elite stabbed him with a red energy sword in the back and then dropped him on the ground, dead. The elite starred at us then pointed to our family I ran and fell into the sewer, I yelled 'MOM.' My family was captured and was put to work.

I escaped the small glassings on all of the surfaces that happened after the invasion and lived by myself for a year feeling sad. During those months I saw new alien races on the ground after the invasion, there were grunts, jackals, brutes, cabal, and the locusts. Some of them had machine bits on them with modified armor and vehicles like ghosts, banshees, choppers, pikes, wraiths, spider tanks, and more. some were normal then the machines started to come to like the vex and the terminators which were upgraded. All of them had modified weapons. They were all capturing more people by the day. I lived in the sewers by myself, walking around getting random clothes and remaining food that I could find. Later in the 3rd year, I was still in the sewer, when I found John who was looking for other survivors. He took me in to help for the next couple of years.

"So we'll escape," I said,

"Yep we'll be safe," said John. then a green ship arrived in the hanger. Everyone was going into the ship. Then the entrance of the hideout exploded. Reformed soldiers started to go in. The ally soldiers started to shoot at the Reformed, the Reformed shot back.

"Is everyone on the ship," I said.

"Yes," said an allied soldier "Why do you want to know."

"Get everyone out of here now, I think they want me," I said.

"But we can't leave you behind."

"Just go," I said. An elite in black armor with the red crest on his helmet went through the entrance with a red energy sword, the ship started to go, but John jumped out.

"You idiot why aren't you going with everyone else," I said,

"if you're staying here, I'm staying here too," he said.

The elite with the red crest on his helmet went up to us,

"Cuff them!" the elite said. We got handcuffed and they made us go on our knees. "My name is Vel'Dam, I believe I saw you on the battlefield 5 years ago."

"You killed my dad and captured my family!" I yelled,

"Well human I could've killed every human in this dimension if I could, but the Leaders have spoken to us not to and said to make them into workers," said Vel'Dam,

"You killed my dad and other people," I said,

"He said to kill humans that are a threat! Soldiers take them to a factory," said Vel'Dam staring at us with distasteful eyes of hatred

We were in a ship going to a factory, Where we will be put to work, I looked down at the ground, the land was full of pollution and destroyed buildings and cars. The smog was thick and the fumes of war and factories were almost toxic to breathe. Reformed soldiers were near bomb craters trying to make it into trenches. Ships full of slaves were near our ship. I asked John,

"Why did you stay behind, I want the truth."

"Well," John said "I kinda….,"

"You like me don't you," I said,

"How do you know," he said,

"Well I like you to," I said. The ship stopped, and the doors opened. An elite said, "We're here."

We went inside, they unlocked our handcuffs and they showed us the factory.

"This will be your room at night where you will be served food at night as well and over here this is where you work," said a Reformed fallen captain, the room that we work in has stairs and 5 lanes of different objects "You go to the middle lane to work on making our weapons and your partner and also roommate is named Mike and it says that he's your brother." looking at a pad. My brother I thought, I had a tear in my eye, I wiped it off my face, "Anyways if one of you die, we'll burn your body. And if you say that you don't want to work or try to sabotage of weapons we'll whip you, and you will not say anything or do anything but make weapons and if you try to start a rebellion, well we will kill you." we went down the stairs and went to the middle lane where Mike was. Mike looks about 18 or 17 with no fractured hair on him.

"New Slaves, teach them how to assemble our weapons." the Reformed captain went out of the room muttering "I wonder how YipYap the Terrible is doing in dimension 104 commanding his troops to look for those infinite stones!"

"So you're new," said Mike.

"That Captain said that you're my brother, Did you have a sister named Jessie that's my question to see if that's true," I said.

"So you're my sister," he said in a voice that sound happy "You changed quite a bit since I saw you five years ago."

"Yes I did," I said.

"It's weird that your voice changed, it sounds sad but angry at the same time!" he said.

"Huh didn't know that," I said. A whip hit Mike in the back

"Get back to work slaves or else I'll feed you to the jackals," said a guard.

"Come on I'll show you how to assemble a weapon," Mike said. Assembling a weapon was easy. All of it has to put in the plasma shooting mechanism in the shell and send it to a machine to screw it in. "The other lanes have to do other things like making bombs or making ship parts," Mike said.

"So we have the easier job," I said.

"Yep," said Mike "but I have something to tell you right now!" I shook my head, he went close to my ear and said "I called for help from the ally units near here, they said that they're going to blow up the front of the building and that they're going to take down the splicers that are going to shoot us and the other people, they said they're going to do it tonight," I shook my head in understanding.

I was laying on my bed waiting for the breach to happen and I kept busy. "So how'd you call them?" I asked Mike, said,

"Well, I made my own radio to call them, Should start in a couple of more minutes, so get everything ready we're getting out of here."

The explosion happened everyone started to run out of the building. When we got to the frontal ships were in the area, the soldiers shot at the Reformed soldiers on the guard post area. We got outside and started to run, the Reformed started to shoot at us. The ally shot them down. Then I tripped, it felt painful and it was like getting hit by a hammer. I roll onto my back and saw Vel'Dam with a red energy sword. He grabbed my neck and choked me while he lifted me up.

"You and your family has been a thorn in my side for the last time," Vel' Dam said. He was about to stab his energy sword into me, but then Mike jumped at his waist stopping him and dropping me onto the ground. Vel'Dam stood up and slashed his energy sword across Mike's stomach, Mike fell to the ground in a small puddle of blood. Vel'Dam started to walk towards me ready to kill, then gunshots hit Vel'Dam, he turned invisible and ran away leaving footprints on the ground. "Call YipYap the Terrible to send reinforcements," Vel' Dam announced to the other Reformed, I ran over to Mike.

"Don't leave me," I said, I yelled to the ally soldiers "Help my brothers dying I need medical attention," They ran over to us.

"He won't make it on the way back," said a Medic.

"No he has to make it back," I said with tears in my eyes,

"They're right I won't make it on the trip back," Mike said "I need to tell you something before I die," I shook my head so he knew that I would listen.

"Put your ear near to my mouth," I did, he said "You were adopted,"

"What do you mean," I said.

"Our family found you in the alley and you were in a basket and the signature on the basket for whoever found you had an A, {he took a breath}. We took you into our home. You were very intelligent when you were 3, you were very smart, I'm starting to realize what the A stands for now sis. Anyways for my wish is for you to have a good life and that you bury me," he said, he closed his eyes. I cried when it happened. I wiped my tears away and said

"Bring his body back to the ship to be buried," to the medic and the soldiers, they responded

"Yes ma'am," I ran to John who was at the ship area.

"I'm sorry about what happened," he said

"It's okay," I said, "let's get out of here." When we got to the safe haven we'd had a burial and I went to my room and sat down on my bed John came in and sat down next to me,

"So what did he say to you," John said,

"Well," I said "I was adopted and he said for me to have a good life and bury him!" he said

"Well if he said to have a good life is it like this," he kissed my cheek. I blushed a bit

"Shouldn't you go somewhere," I said. He stood up and left smiling. I lay down thinking maybe I should hide in a barrel of food they bring to the war areas. I should see if Vel'Dam is on the battlefield and maybe just maybe take revenge on him. I've got a lot of questions, but I should sleep, I've done a lot of things today and I need to grieve still. I then closed my eyes and fell asleep.