Chapter 2
I was left there standing by myself with nothing more than questions, like why they chose me or why I had to do this but I just shut up and figured that there was no way to get out of this. Then I heard the voice over the speakers " Please take two steps forward and wait for the beep to start your race, Good luck to all participants" said the computerized voice. So I followed the instructions, I took two steps forward just ask the voice had told me to. I ended up stepping into a room enclosed in all 4 walls. In which case there was a creaking sound above me like something heavy was being help above me then I heard the beep, but nothing opened up instead the ceiling above me caved in and water gushed down on me faster than I could react to get out of the way. I was engulfed in water before I knew it the attack of the water was done. I was dazed and now cold with no clue where to go next I sat there for a few seconds trying to take in my surroundings as fast as I could, but I was confused because nothing else new happened but the water continuously poured down the room hadn't filled up with water yet it was a small room but no change in water level had appeared to change. The hole in the ceiling looked to be about 2 feet wide and 2 feet long which is 4 feet of total opening for water to come gushing out, In a 10 foot by 10 foot room something wasn't right. I sat in the water for about 2 minutes with the water at about my belly button. Then something spectacular happened. The walls suddenly retracted into the 4 corners of the room and were immediately replaced by glass. We were all submerged underwater in little square rooms with the same tube of water in the centre of our rooms. As I looked around I had noticed that there were 10 kids, 2 were swimming up the tubes which seemed like the right idea, 4 kids were looking around sitting in a corner and looked to be crying, 3 kids were looking to be passed out from the water….I felt bad right then and there for those kids who didn't know what hit them, but there was this 1 girl next to me in her glass box we looked to be about 20 feet apart. We looked at each other and locked eyes she looked to be about my age, my height, long dark hair she smiled at me and pointed upwards, I returned the smile and also pointed upward through the tube of water still pouring downward. She nodded her head and looked at the stream of water for a second before jumping in but she didn't go upward she went down and popped underneath her tube and started her swim toward the surface of the water. This raised the question of what was happening to the 2 trainee's swimming up the tubes but when I looked into their tubes I saw them sinking and not moving….they had passed out due to the lack of oxygen in their lungs which reminded me to get going before I ran out of air in my cube. I took one last deep breath before plunging into the cold stream of water in which case I didn't go underneath like the girl before me had, So I put my feet on the floor while still inside the current of water and realized that my feet were going through the floor and then suddenly poof I went straight through the floor and into the cold water. The swim was very easy up to the surface because the armour that I was wearing had miniature air bubbles which really help get to the surface. It was a good 30 seconds before I broke the surface to find that I was in a pool surrounded by my trainers.
As I sat there I was being admired by my trainers being told how smart I was to wait and watch others and observe some mistakes made by others. I paid little to no attention to their comments on how good I was or how smart I was, instead I was looking for that girl that saved my life the one who helped me through that mess. Then I spot her exiting her pool and she looks over at me and then quickly looks away to meet her trainer's eyes. Then horror took me by the throat and shook me like a ragdoll I saw her standing in front of her head trainer but the head trainer wasn't happy instead he motioned for his trainers grab her by the shoulders and then he motioned to his trainers in which case threw her underwater again and then they hopped in as well at seeing this I had fury I jumped out of the water and ran at the head trainer full throttle in a few seconds my head met his gut and we both went flying into the pool of water. He was out of breath and rose to the surface for air meanwhile I swam to the bottom of the tank where the trainers were busy attempting to drown this girl who saved my life. One trainer had both of his hands on her throat meanwhile the other trainer was trying to tie her feet together with a coil of some rope. She was fighting like a wild beast, those two men were 3 times her size and they were still having a hard time to control her, but none the less they overpowered her just as I reached the bottom of the tank. I grabbed the man who was attempting to tie up her legs with the coil. I came up behind him and put my feet on the bottom of the tank, grabbed his arms and before he knew what was going on I threw him upward so he was on his way up to the surface. I knew I had a short amount of time before he would be back for more. The second guard was a lot more aware seeing that he watched me get rid of his comrade. He took his hands off of her throat for 1 second then the girl took her feet and drove them backward like she was doing a backflip and drove her feet into the second guard and all of the air in his lungs had escaped quickly causing him to be knocked out. She smiled at me and hugged me and started for the surface, but I felt bad for the guy trying to kill her so I grabbed his left arm meanwhile the second guard was making his way down from his air break, he flew past the girl and came flying down to me he grabbed the second guards right arm and helped me lift him to the surface. It was a good 30 seconds before the 3 of us reached the surface but when we did we were all out of breath. We threw the unconscious guard into the hands of 2 paramedics who went to work immediately.