Chapter 11
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Now, onto the chapter!
-Chapter 11-
"LOOK OUT! THE PRISONER IS-Ugh..."
Damn it, I didn't expect the guard to be this loud!
"He's over here! Quick!"
"Anna, need some help here!" I think.
"Right! Activating Hack: Speed!"
I run in the opposite direction of where the guards were coming out. Thanks to the hack, I'm gone in the blink of an eye!
"Right, Anna. Where do I go?"
"Already done. Go left!"
"Right!"
"No, left."
"Ha ha, very funny."
After taking a few turns, Anna tells me that I'm close to the exit of this prison. Turning off the speed hack, I slow down at the final corridor to the exit.
The only problem was that it has Notch only knows how many traps.
"Is there any possible way to get past that?" I cry out in frustration.
"Well, there are tripwires on the floor, in the ceiling, and in the middle of the wall, which will set off dispensers filled with arrows. And pressure plates that make you fall into a deep pit if you set them off, if I remember correctly, as well as a nine-button code at the end, where if you type the wrong code, it sets off a lava trap. Well, this is going to be easy." Anna calmly says.
"Easy?"
"Because the guards has to have a secret entrance or code to disable the trap, which would be right... here." Suddenly, an arrow appears on my HUD.
"Let me guess. Follow the arrow." After walking to the arrow, I notice a small hole in the wall, where I looked through to see a button. After pushing it, Anna told me that the arrow and pressure plate traps are disabled. Quickly running to the exit, I prepared to run though.
"Wait!" Anna shouts. "The traps just went back up! We need to be really quick. So, we need both hack speed and timer."
"Right." Quickly running back to the button, I prepare to press the button while Anna activates both hacks at the same time. "Ready?"
"Hit the button... now!"
Smashing the button, I ran to the exit. With Anna activating both hacks my speed and thinking speeds up to an unbelievable rate. Quickly running through, I get to the nine-button code door.
"Right... bottom left, bottom right, middle, top left, top right. Quickly, we're cutting it really close!" Anna cries out.
I quickly hit the buttons in the order Anna said. After hitting the last one, the door opens. With a few seconds left on the clock, I dive through the door, and it closes just as I go through it!
"Well, we made it." Anna says, while I pick myself off the floor, and disabling my hacks at the same time. Rubbing my head, I say "Just." I begin to look up to the long and huge corridor ahead of me. It had a lot of doors. Some doors were on the left, some were on the right, and one set of double doors in the back. It was clear of any guards whatsoever.
"So, any traps?"
"None at all. Must be because of all the traps behind us."
"So, we're in the clear?"
"I guess so." Right as Anna says that, suddenly a loud voice booms "ALERT. PRISONER ESCAPING. ALL AVAILABLE SOLDIERS TO THE CORRIDOR!"
Right as the voice finishes speaking, all doors open and about one hundred soldiers with full iron armor, bows and iron swords pour into the corridor, with of course Ender leading them all.
"You were saying?" I think to Anna as I slowly put my hands up.
-Timeskip-
"Zero, please stop trying to escape, it's not helping you at all." Shadow says above me.
"Well I can't help it. Of course I want to escape" I reply testily, looking up at her.
"It's still not helping. We're having the trial as we speak. Of course I'm defending you, so I put it on hold for a while. It should be over by tomorrow."
"You guys are having the trial without me!"
"Well, we were getting you, but you tried to escape the first time. You broke out of your cell just as the guard was getting you. Of course, there were fifty more soldiers there, with some potions of harming as well."
"I saw an opportunity, and I took it. I didn't realized that the trial was taking place at the time."
"You knocked out about forty of them before you they forced back into your cell again."
"They got lucky."
"The second time, you got out, and knocked out the two guards at the door, but you fell to the traps at the exit."
"I didn't see the pit traps at the time. Thank Notch that I had a hack for that fall"
"The third time, you got caught by about one hundred soldiers in the corridor, with about three hundred more backing them. You didn't seem to realize that the soldier's barracks are in front of the prison."
"I was wondering why there were so many people in range of my radar. I thought it was your faction's city members."
"And now you are in the top, heavy, ultimate security cell. That we can make. Believe me that the designer and the builders had a field day with you breaking out of their other cells designs."
The cell I am in right now had not only obsidian walls; it is also a small pit with an iron trapdoor at the top, and surrounded by lava. As soon as Shadow leaves, the guards will activate a system that would pour lava at the top, covering the trapdoor. So, if I break the iron trapdoor, lava will pour into my cell and burn me to death. Which is not really an option for me.
"And all this for little old me. Can I just say: overkill?"
"Zero, I am trying to get you out of there, but it is not helping if you escape every few hours. Though, to update you on the trial, X and I are rooting for you to stay. While Ender wants you out of here, most of the faction council, which has 10 members including me, Ender and X by the way, see that you could be the answer to take down the Empire."
"So basically, I'm a weapon."
"No, not just that. I am also arguing that you are a living person as well. Your loyalties are against the Empire, so that we can offer you to join our faction."
"Well, at least you're arguing for my freedom. Thank you."
"Your welcome. But please, don't break out anymore."
"I won't."
"I'm holding you to that."
"I promise that I won't try to damage your argument for my release."
"Alright then. I have to go now, will you be okay?"
"Yeah, again, thanks for visiting."
"You're welcome." With that, the trapdoor closed and as Shadow walks out, lava pours onto the trapdoor.
"I never really liked small spaces."
"And you just realized that, Zero?" Anna says, appearing on my HUD.
"By the way, is there anyway of taking off this bloody eyepiece?"
"It's an attachment, so I can remove it. Give me a sec." With that the eyepiece came off.
"It's design to attach to your temple, for vision guidance."
"Then why can I still see you?"
"Because there are small things in your eyes that help you see more than a normal human could, including the HUD."
"Oh. So my eyes aren't even human."
"No. The earpieces as well help your hearing, but the ears themselves are not covered. You can't remove the earpieces though."
"Oh. So do I look close enough to be human?"
"Despite all your upgrades, you do look human. Nearly all of them are body fitting, such as the nanobots. With exceptions such as the eyepiece and the joint areas, you can barely even see them."
"So what about the metal glove things on both of my hands?"
"They're how you summon your items from storage. They are more or less skin tight"
"So here is the question again. Do I look human?"
"Zero, you are human."
