Chapter 2: Movement in the rubble
As they reached the bottom of the shaft they heard what sounded like several heavy things hitting the ground far, far above them and then the ground began to shake. "What about mom and dad?" Zoe asked Alexander sighed "My job is to protect you two, if anybody could handle themselves its dad and mom is with him" Zoe started to cry as they got out of the elevator leaning on Alexander's shoulder. He looked around and saw it was only one room that was empty save 5 sleeping bags, food and water, enough to last about a month for the three of them and quite luckily a working toilet. "We need to set up grab the sleeping bags and let's get some rest" Alexander told them "I'll stay up and watch for a while and then I'll wake up one of you guys and we will just take turns for a day ok?" The girls nodded and grabbed the sleeping bags, walked in the corner, laid next to each other and fell asleep right away. Alexander wandered around the room making sure to check on the girls every few minutes, even though they were in the room alone he doubted they would have the luxury of having lax security again for a very long time. They took turns for the next day or so only eating, sleeping, and talking. On the third day they heard a beeping like a computer noise and spread out to look for it. Neither of them could find it when Pandora said "wait you guys, I think it's coming from under the floor." They all stopped and looked at where she pointed and you could make out a faint outline of a hatch. Alexander told the girls to back up as he leaned down to the hatch and listened and surprisingly heard a muffled voice below them. It sounded like it was yelling to get their attention but the metal was so thick they couldn't hear him.
Alexander knocked on the hatch yelling down to the voice telling it to open the hatch. All of a sudden the hatch swung open and smacked Alexander right in the face cutting his cheek but he ignored it more interested in who was down there. He looked down and saw a computer lab with a man in a white coat looking up at them. The man in the coat said "My name is James, I have been trying to get your attention since you came down but I was afraid you might have weapons so I didn't want to just pop up." Alexander still wary of him said "Ok fair enough but what are you doing down there?" James looked at him ashamed saying "Well I hid down here when I heard the alarms but I was in such a hurry I forgot to bring the ladder down with me so I couldn't get back up I could only open the hatch" "Do you have any weapons in here?" Alexander asked. James looked confused "Uh why?" Alexander looked at him "To be honest I don't trust you no offense but I don't know you" James looked at him asking "Ok well if I open the hatch to the weapons for you will you let me out?" Alexander looked at the girls and they nodded and Zoe leaned over the hatch saying "Just remember James if you try anything we will kill you with your own weapons" James laughed "Fair enough" James opened the weapons hatch and the group went in and took out everything and then each grabbed one as they lowered the ladder for James to get out.
"Thanks" James said "It's not exactly roomy in there" As James shut the hatch behind him Alexander realized something. "Don't I know you from school?" James looked at him and said "Yeah I think so! You were like 3 years younger than me right?" Alexander laughed "I remember you now; you're the James who hacked into the school computers and deleted everyone's permanent files." James smirked "yeah that was me but I don't do things like that anymore I use what I know for helping now" Well James it looks like we're going to be spending a lot of time together now ha ha" Alexander said as he looked around. "Wait" Zoe said "What about mom and dad?" "Look Zoe" Alexander said saddening "We can't do much for them right now. I am pretty sure those were those new nukes they invented, powerful blasts but the radiation in the air dissipates after about 3 weeks. So I'll tell you what that's about how much food we have so after the food is gone we will go up and try to figure out what happened. Ok?" The girls both looked sad but nodded and went to bed.