Middleton, December 22nd, 2027.
A giant explosion shook the entire building, part of the ceiling fell on top of me while standing above Drew, making me lose balance and fall to the ground.
*argh* "What the hell happened... Drew, are you ok?"
"I'm alright, working of the power cell now, almost done here. How much time do we have?"
I looked on my pad and the screen was cracked but I still could read that we had a minute and a half left.
"Bit more than a minute to wrap things up."
"Good, but what caused the explosion?"
"I don't know, I'll call Omega, to see if they can fill us in."
I move closer to the exit so the connection to the other pad would be better and sent the call.
"Omega?"
Nothing.
"Omega do you copy?"
Still nothing.
"For god's sakes Sheila, do you copy?"
The voice was so small that I almost didn't hear it.
"He's here."
"Who?" I asked before realizing."You need to get out of there NOW, where is..."
Her voice was ragged.
"She is fine... We got separated...Nerd Linger... please... tell Drew that I..."
"Sheila? ... SHEILA!"
But only static came from his screen.
He stares at his screen, confused, and trying to process what he had just witnessed.
"No..."
It had happened again, he lost someone that was under his protection how did this happen, the plan was perfect, nothing was supposed to go bad.
"AHAH! I got It Load. We can go now."
"..."
"Wade!"
"What?"
"We have to meet with Omega and get the hell out of here, now!"
*I have to focus on the here and now.*I thought.
So they both start running throughout the place, backtracking, finding more and more pieces of the few robots they destroying in their way in.
Once outside, the light of the alien facility started lighting signifying that the whole facility had rebooted and that their ten minutes was passed, also an alarm could be heard from within the place.
They kept running until they got to the trees they were earlier, but when no one came.
"They must be at the mall already, of course! She would just not wait for us..."
"Drew, I..."
"What?"
"... We should go now, we can't get caught now that we have the device."
"Sure let's go."
They resume running for about twenty minutes, until they got to the mall, not meeting any kind of resistance, in their escape.
Another explosion not far from us got our attention, a red glow emanating from it.
Drew pick the piece of metal covering the sewer escape.
"Dr. Load, I think you need to go first."
After I jumped in the sewer, I made few steps to give Drew some space to get down but he didn't follow.
"Drew Come here, hurry."
"No, I can't Omega isn't here yet, and HE is close."
"Drew... Omega... Shego is not coming... I'm sorry."
A few seconds of silence.
"Drew, I..."
"I know, I heard you earlier."
"But, then why stay?"
"It's time to get serious Wade, HE is way too close I have to slow him down, I am the only one who can and I need you to complete the mission."
"No I can't do this alone, you need to come, we can make it together!"
"You have all the data to build it in my computer, my password is... well it's always been her... now go Wade."
Drew close the lid leaving me in the darkness of the sewers before turning to face the incoming enemy.
"You were a great friend..."
Drew was facing him now, and even if he knew his fate, he would give his damnedest to stop him, he had to for her...
The red glow pulled his blade, Drew grew twice his size, and the two clashed.
Walking in the sewer, I review the event of the night for the next hour until I got outside, I turned to face the mall and where the glass dome was, now a giant Oak tree stood up high, like a sign of hope in the middle of all the desolation.
I stood there until the sun started rising in front of me, showing for the first time that the two third of my face was cybernetic, a single tear managing to escape from my sole human eye, but I knew.
I knew that despite all the loss, I now had the capacity to change things, and I will make my damn sure that everything will work out perfectly if only for the memory of my fallen friends, even if it means doing the impossible.
As someone wiser than me said once, "Nothing is written in stone" so if I made a mistake or mistakes, please let me know.
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