Where's Troy? Part 3: Split Views of Nighttime Runaways:

Side note: If you haven't watched High School Musical 1, High School Musical 2, or both, please do before reading this fanfiction.

Right before Troy tries to flee again…

Gabriella decides, "Troy, I'm going with you."

Troy asked, "why? I didn't even tell you about the other reason why I ran away. I thought you'd panic if I did, since I've been investigating…"

Gabriella insisted, "we can talk later, but…"

The police officer from earlier finished the sentence from earlier, "he looks like Troy Bolton, the other runaway."

Gabriella nervously added, "the police are coming."

Troy considered, "then since you're coming with me…" He thought to himself as he said this, "how do we get away from police, and find Zeke and Chad? That is, if they're still alive from the car crashes I read about in newspaper articles." Troy finished the sentence, "I'll drive us away in my truck. It's nearby."

One of the police officers figured, "half of us will go after Troy while the rest of us go after the other runaway."

Carniva added while driving her police car, "can I choose who I go after?"

A second police officer concluded, "sure. Who will you go after then?"

Carniva deduced, "I'll go after…hmm…Zeke." Half the Albuquerque police force, including Carniva, drove after Zeke…while Troy and Gabriella in Troy's truck were being chased by more police. Carnvia carefully called Sharpay and Ryan with her cell phone while driving with one hand.

Meanwhile, at Lava Springs…

Ryan and Sharpay both asked over the phone, "hello?"

Carniva explained, "it's Carniva, and I found Troy and Zeke, but both of them are driving away."

Sharpay asked with concern, "where are they?"

Carniva concluded, "I'll text you the answer." While she sent both Sharpay and Ryan a text message, she started gaining on the car that Zeke was driving. Zeke drove down a deserted part of the road.

Zeke was muttering with worry as he glanced outside the borrowed car's windows, "there's no time to stay, or I'll be captured again." Suddenly, a quick speeding car crashed through a number of police cars in pursuit of Zeke.

Meanwhile, at Lava Springs…

Worried Sharpay and Ryan went down some stairs to Sharpay's car, and drove away. Sharpay wondered in worry, "is Zeke and Troy ok?"

Ryan assured her, "we'll find out when we catch up to them with this shortcut." He was carefully driving Sharpay's car on the road as he said this.

Sharpay insisted, "I don't see Zeke or Troy yet. What if they…?"

Ryan insisted, "don't worry. It's probably gonna be…ok. Why is there police car wrecks?"

A third police officer called out over the police radio, "we've got trouble! A gray car's crashing through anything in its path."

Carniva realized as she looked at her rearview mirrors, "it's backing up towards…me." The gray car crashed through more police cars, with a bulldozer shovel bolted to its front. Carniva shouted through her police car's windows, "Zeke, get off the road!"

One of the police officers suggested, "Carniva, you can get onto one of our motorcycles."

Carnvia muttered as she unbuckled and jumped onto the back of one of the police officers' motorcycles, "thanks…"

Sharpay noticed in shock, "I see Zeke…and a gray car moving towards him."

Ryan gasped, "oh my gosh! The police car that Carniva was in just got rammed by that car, and it's charging at…"

Sharpay called out, "Zeke!"

Carniva urged, "thanks for the ride."

The police officer that saved her added, "you're welcome."

Carniva figured, "I think I'll stay on for a little while."

Ryan gasped, "phew. At least Carniva's ok."

Sharpay bitter sweetly reflected, "yeah, but there's still Zeke…"

Ryan finished the sentence, "in trouble." He stopped Sharpay's car, noticing the wreckage of the blue car that was borrowed by Zeke.

A police officer got out of a motorcycle and called out, "Zeke Baylor! Are you in there?" No response came from the wrecked car. The same police officer concluded, "Zeke's gone again, and so is the ramming car."

Sharpay muttered, "again?" Carniva got off of the motorcycle she was on and walked over to Sharpay and Ryan.

Carniva added grimly, "yep, again."

Sharpay wondered in alarm, "now what?"

Meanwhile…

Troy and Gabriella were at a hotel next to a gas station, after eluding police for a while by driving fast around a lot of confusing traffic. A miscellaneous someone was at the reception desk, who was looking a little shocked to see Troy and Gabriella by themselves. The figure figured, "and you'd like a room, mister…umm…Alen?"

Troy concluded, "yeah…got one?"

The figure concluded, "but…you look just like Troy Bolton!" Suddenly, the receptionist figure fell with a thud onto the desk.

Gabriella concluded uneasily, "it's working. Let's get a room." Fifteen minutes later, Gabriella and Troy were in a dark purple coated bedroom.

Troy concluded with realization, "it did work. The receptionist will probably think seeing Troy is a dream…since you knocked him out and no one else was there at the time."

Gabriella nervously added, "and also put a "Under Repair" sign on the door to be sure no one else in this hotel finds us. So Troy, what's so important to tell me…that we had to break the law to get this far?"

Troy insisted with a sigh, "it's much worse than that."

Gabriella insisted with a sigh, "Troy, I almost left months ago. What can't I handle now?"

Troy concluded, "well, Zeke and Chad have been captured."

Gabriella asked in a worried tone, "how did you…find out?"

Troy answered uneasily, "through a…personal experience yesterday, after Sharpay drove me to my house. My dad let me go with Chad to get the new car he's been saving up for since last summer. It was blue on the front and black on the back, which also got good mileage. After we bought it however, the trouble started. We saw a gray car, with a bulldozer shovel in its front, driving after us. We sped up the car we got to 90 miles per hour. But, after a long car chase, we saw smoke and fire trucks around us. I drove down a street away from the smoke, but Chad was gone. The seat where Chad was sitting was torn off. I saw smashed cars. I saw that that gray car was still after me…with Chad knocked out on one of the gray car's front seats. I drove away, and hid the blue car in a bush. I rested in it until this morning…the first time that I skipped school. I thought that I might be chased again by that car driver that captured Chad. When I read a newspaper article this afternoon about Zeke having a similar encounter 3 days ago…"

Gabriella concluded nervously, "and you think it was more than a coincidence?"

Troy added, "yep."

Gabriella wondered, "before figuring out on how to rescue them, can I get some sleep?"

Troy figured, "why not? I'm tired too." They both went to bed shortly after.