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Chapter 3: Escape
Julie ran aimlessly through the maze of hallways and corridors within the complex she had been trapped in. She kicked down door after door only to find a dead end down each one. As she wandered down one of the many halls, she caught the sound of sentry drones heading her way. When she reached the center of the hall a sentry drone emerged at both ends of the hallway. They raised their weapons on her, and fired. Julie instinctively jumped up and grabbed on to one of the lights hanging from the ceiling, causing the rockets to go beneath her and blow the sentry drones away with their own weapons.
She dropped down to the floor and looked around to make sure the danger had passed. She then ran past the fiery remains of one of the drones and continued her search for a way out of the compound. The agile young woman continued to fend off various attackers as they came for her, but none of them stood a chance against her.
As she darted past a certain door, she stopped herself and then backtracked to it. The plaque on the door read: Courtyard Turret Control. She used her surprising strength to bust the knob on the door and pushed it open. A man in white armor jumped out of his seat and reached for his stun gun. Julie leapt for him and drove her elbow in to his adams apple. He attempted to grab on to her arm and toss her to the side, but she was too strong. She pressed harder against his throat until his arms fell to his side and he went limp. She let his lifeless body fall to the floor and sat herself down in front of the terminal.
Various assorted flashing buttons and switches covered the entirety of the terminal, and six television screens attached to six separate turrets scanned the courtyard at the front of the complex. Julie read over each of the screens until she read one which was labeled as a Rocket Emplacement. Her fingers pressed a number of buttons seemingly on their own and she flicked a few switches on before gripping her hands around a joystick to her right.
The screen which showed what the rocket emplacement was monitoring started to move around, and aimed at the thirty foot wall which was the greatest obstacle between Julie and her freedom. She pressed her thumb against the button atop the joystick and three rockets fired off and blew a massive hole in the wall.
"Alert, alert, we have a breach in the compound's defenses. All military personnel report to the courtyard immediately for further instructions!" a robotic voice shouted over the security intercom.
Julie was about to make a mad dash for the exit, but something inside told her to stay behind for a moment longer. Sure enough, about a dozen men covered in armor from head to toe showed up at the breach in the wall and fixed their weapons on the only door leading out to where they were.
The 22 year old's hand shook as she reached out for the joystick once again. She placed her hand around it and aimed the rocket emplacement at the soldiers waiting to ambush her. She slammed the button and around six rockets were released on to the unsuspecting soldiers. Large plumes of smoke and fire ascended in to the air, and when all of the dust and debris had cleared, scorched earth and many disembodied limbs littered the courtyard.
A sharp pain ran through Julie's head, and she threw her hands up to her ears to drown out the loud ringing noise she could hear. She dug her fingernails in to the side of her face and screamed at the top of her lungs at the pounding in her brain. She stumbled against the wall and tried to keep her footing, but ended up tripping over herself and falling to the floor.
And then, as quickly as the pain and ringing had come, they were gone. Julie looked around in shock and couldn't tell what had just transpired. Her thoughts then turned back to escaping this horrid place and getting as far away as she possibly could. She got to her feet and ran for the exit. She forced the double doors open and sprinted towards the hole she had made in the wall.
She jumped through, and when she landed on the other side, she realized that the entirety of the landscape before her was completely barren and desolate. Large craters littered the landscape, and barely any plants grew, and the ones that did were pretty much dead. The earth at her feet had been scorched. She looked back at the compound she had just escaped from, and then back at the wasteland in front of her.
She took a small step forward, and with every step she took afterwards her stride increased and soon she found herself running off in to the horizon of this hellish new world…and she hoped it would prove a better place than her previous "home".