My eyes were blurry and my ears were ringing as I felt two hands gently shaking my shoulders. "Hey?! Come on! We have to move, now!" a voice shouted from the end of what seemed like a long dark tunnel.
My eyes slowly came into focus as the features of my brother came into focus.
"Connor?" My mouth felt like marbles, "What's going…" but before I could finish my sentence I remembered the answer and we were on our feet.
My converse hit the ruble scattered around the ground as fire whizzed passed me and smoldered on buildings in blinding flickers of hot red flames.
I tried to rationalize my thoughts with terrorists or bombs but as strange objects shot through the air and odd things walked through the streets I knew this was not the case.
My feet slowed as I took in the hopelessness where were we even running to? We were like hopeless rats scattering around a maze. Stupid.
But as I glanced around I noticed one man who stood out amongst the chaos the screaming people one man stood strait and unfazed. He jogged into an alley and glanced back at me.
I realized how I must have looked, unmoving in the storm as well.
I gave him a questioning look for he was unarmed but he looked like he wasn't the slightest but scared or confused. He looked determined.
"Connor, did you see-" but Connor was gone. Lost to the crowd.
I turned again back to the alley and saw a flash of green light radiate from it.
I was torn. But as I heard a shout of pain come from just outside the alley I made my decision.
I darted in the direction the mysterious man went. A police officer lie on the ground as first responders began circling around trying to help. His gun lay a few feet away and I snatched it up quickly before rounding the corner into the alley.
A gun like robot stood in front of the skinny man shrouded in darkness pointing it's weapon at him.
"Exterminate!" the robot chopped out.
"No!" I shouted.
Without thinking I aimed for the easiest place to see in the dark. The eye piece was glowing blue and I pulled the trigger. Once. I missed and heard the bullet ricochet away in the dark and as the robot turned to face me my plan seemed less affective.
I took a deep breath in and exhaled, "Exterminate." I whispered as I pulled the trigger one last time.
The blue light went out. "Cannot see cannot see!" the robot yelled turning in circles.
The man swiveled around on his heels. "Nice shot!" he said in the British accent I had already come accustom to on my trip.
"I uh…" I stumbled trying to form words and feeling a bit dizzy.
"Time to go!" He smiled grasping my hand and pulling me forward into the darkness.
His spikey coppery brown hair shined in the dim flickering flames from the top floors of the buildings.
"where are we going?" I questioned finally finding my sense of speech as we rounded another corner.
"Just keep your eyes out for a blue box" his face turned to mine, "And then we're going to save planet earth." He smiled and winked.
"Oh and all before breakfast." I breathed. He didn't flinch. "Okay. Blue Box. Got it."
Just this morning my family and I were on vacation but now I don't know where they are or if they're even alive. Somehow though the only way to save them it seemed was to help this man. So As we began running again I kept my eyes peeled for a blue box.