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Chapter 21
Down the Drain

Nate was in the vaults where the warheads were kept with Alex and Kyle – haven been given a weapon each to defend themselves with by Dan after he had found Nate in the science department. It didn't sound or seem like anybody was down in the vaults – they hoped there wasn't anyway. And they certainly hoped there were no warheads set to detonate.

They made sure the door was shut properly and locked behind them upstairs in the Explosives Room which would lead them to the vaults, not wanting anybody to follow them in. "You go down there, Kyle go straight on and I'll go this way." Nate said, directing Alex and Kyle.

The reason they were down here was to make sure that none of the warheads had been set to detonate by Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey whilst Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke and Ashton were gone – and if they have been, it's up to the three of them to disarm them.

Before they were sent down here, Kyle quickly taught Nate and Alex how to given that he works in the Armoury and has to deal – or will have to – on a daily basis.

Calum was by himself because everyone had their pair for this job but he ended up on his own for some reason. He was wondering the hallways near the entrance when he seen a random person. "Hey! You! What are you doing up here? You should go and run somewhere! It's not safe! Go hide!" Calum said.

"He's not wrong." A voice said from behind.

Calum froze, recognising the voice "Run. Now. Hide."

The person looked at Calum and the person behind him before turning round and running for their life.

Calum spun round and tried to punch the voice behind him in the face but missed 'cause he moved quickly – it was Isaac. Isaac tried to hit Calum, but he ducked and managed to kick Isaac in the stomach as he went down, and once Isaac lurched over Calum kneed him in the face before taking out his gun. He held him by the back of his top, aiming the gun to his head "You do not know how much pleasure I'm going to take in doing this." Calum said.

He went to pull the hammer back and fire the gun, but he suddenly got an unbearable pain in his stomach "Ah…" Calum groaned, painfully.

Isaac hadn't even done anything to him so he couldn't understand why he was getting this pain.

Due to this pain, Calum's grip loosened on Isaac so he took that as his chance to push Calum away from him, and it made him fall to the floor. "Aw, what's wrong? Didn't you have the heart to do it?"

"No, I—ahhh…" Calum shouted, suddenly becoming full of pain and his vision started going from clear to a blur constantly.

He got up from the floor stumbling but Isaac kicked his hand that he was holding his gun with and took it from him after it fell onto the floor. Isaac aimed the gun at him, ready to fire. Calum lunged for Isaac to grab the gun off him as he pulled the hammer, but he didn't have enough strength – he didn't know what was going on or what was happening to him.

Isaac put his finger on the trigger, going to pull it, when he got hit round the head by the butt of a gun by Rydel. He fell to the floor and Rydel seen Calum about to collapse onto the floor "Calum! What's wrong?" She asked, in concern, running to him with Rocky.

Rocky caught him before he hit the floor.

Calum shook his head "I-I don't k-know…. There's an u-unbearable p-p-pain running throughout my b-body… a-and my visions going funny… R-R-Rydel… Nothing's… I'm not… Nobody's hurt me… I don't understand."

Rocky and Rydel both tried to think quickly as to what it could be and Rydel's eyes widened when something hit her "Oh, no…"

"What?" Rocky asked.

"He's phasing out of existence."

"How do you know?" Rocky asked.

"I know who he is but I can't remember my childhood with him – and it was pretty memorable."

"How would you know if you can't remember?"

"Rocky! Not the time!" Rydel scolded "we need Ross and Brad! NOW! Pick him up!" She said, panicking and getting up off the floor.

Rocky picked up Calum who was still conscious.

Michael and Luke were wondering around, being on the search for Ashton as well as looking for Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey or any of the guards that may be in their way they needed to get rid of. As they came onto a hallway, Luke looked left and right before deciding to go left. He and Michael proceeded to go down that way when:

"Luke!"

Luke turned round and seen Ashton coming the opposite way. He smiled and made his way towards him with Michael following closely behind. "Ash, you're alright!" Luke said.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Ashton asked, a little confused as they were still walking towards each other.

"I don't know, I heard Har—WATCH OUT!" Luke shouted.

Before Ashton could react and turn round to whatever Luke was seeing, he felt two arms grab hold of him tightly so he couldn't move – it was Harvey. Michael went forward to lunge and help out but someone grabbed him from behind too.

Luke turned round, seeing Abasi having hold of Michael. He kept looking between them both. "What are you both doing? Let them go." Luke said.

"Now where's the fun in that?" Harvey asked, fiddling with the wrist-epoch Ashton was wearing.

"What have you just done to that?" Ashton asked, but Harvey didn't respond.

Abasi also fiddled with Michael's wrist-epoch and didn't say what he had done to it either.

Ross and Brad were hanging round the hospital unit and were coming to a stairwell.

"Ross! Brad!" Rydel called.

The two boys turned round and seen Rydel coming towards them with Rocky behind her carrying Calum. "What's wrong? Is he hurt?" Ross asked.

"No, he's starting to disappear out of existence! We have to do something!"

Ross rolled his eyes as he knew what that 'something' was "As bad as this is going to sound we can't exactly do that 'something' right now can we?"

Rydel shook her head "Yeah, I know, but there is something else. Remember what we did first to make Brad pregnant? We can do that easily and more quickly."

As Rydel said this, nobody noticed Mariah down the hallway behind Ross and Brad hidden behind the wall, setting up a grenade before throwing it so it rolled down the hallway towards them.

"How long exactly is that going to take because we don't exactly have all the time in the world right now?" Ross asked.

"Wait, what's that on the floor?" Brad asked, looking down as he noticed something near to him and Ross.

Everyone looked down at it.

"Grenade!" Ross shouted.

Brad kicked it away from them but it exploded as it rolled away from them and it sent them all flying onto the floor harshly – or if you're Ross, down the stairwell. And given it was closer to him and Brad, it was going to do the most damage to them two.

Rocky groaned as he knelt on the floor, having Calum laid next to him completely out of it. Rydel was a little way away from him but she was waking up, and Brad was laid on the floor a little further down the hallway knocked out – obviously 'cause he was the closest to the grenade as well as Ross – and his head was bleeding.

"Rydel, check on Brad." Rocky said, getting up from the floor because Ross wasn't there. The stairwell was the only place he could have ended up and he looked down it to see him at the bottom out cold "Oh, no…"

"Rocky! Brad won't wake up!"

Rocky ran his hands through his hair, becoming stressed. Brad wasn't waking up and Ross is now possibly on the brink of death after being thrown down the stairs like that – and where the hell were Luke and Ashton? 'Cause this plan of theirs was now slowly starting to fall apart spectacularly.

"Where is everyone?" Harvey asked.

"Why should I tell you?" Luke asked.

Harvey drew out a knife from his pocket and held it at Ashton's throat "I'll kill him."

Luke turned and seen Abasi still had hold of Michael. He looked back over to Harvey who was still pointing the knife at Ashton. "They're here but I don't know where." Luke said.

"Not exactly the answer I was looking for."

"Well, unfortunately it's the only answer I can give you. Now let him go. Both of them." Luke said, still looking at Harvey.

Abasi let go of Michael "Don't make a single move," Abasi said quietly to him before walking up behind Luke "don't worry, he's not going to kill Ashton, he's safe." He said, as he discretely did something to Luke's wrist-epoch "for now."

Luke gave Abasi a small glare and Harvey let Ashton go "See," Abasi said, walking backwards towards Michael "now, I hope you both don't mind but I'm gonna go on a little trip with Michael around time."

"Excuse me?" Michael asked.

"Don't worry, I'll bring him back safe."

"Um, no, you'll leave him here." Luke said.

Abasi rolled his eyes as he typed stuff in on his wrist-epoch "Tough. I too know how to link up wrist-epoch's just like Courtney. Where I go, he goes now. And also… Did she also tell you there's a setting on them that makes you disappear into the future or past but without the wrist-epoch? So… You're pretty much trapped wherever you are. Sometimes you can even set a timer for when you want it to go off."

Luke furrowed his brow in confusement as to why he was telling him that but remembered he and Ashton were both wearing a wrist-epoch – Abasi was stood behind Luke and Harvey was fiddling with Ashton's.

He turned to Ashton "Take it off!" Luke raised his voice.

But it was too late.

As Ashton went to do so, Ashton disappeared and the wrist-epoch he was wearing fell to the floor where he once stood.

"No, Ashton!" Luke shouted, running towards where he was but stopped and faced Abasi who waved at him.

"Bye!" He said, waving as he disappeared – taking Michael with him.

As Luke turned and lunged at Harvey to kill him, Luke soon disappeared too without his wrist-epoch because of Abasi tampering with his.

Great.

Just brilliant.

Ross is quite possibly at deaths door.

Brad won't wake up.

Now Luke and Ashton were trapped anywhere in time with no way back.

And Rocky was the only one still almost alright.

Yup.

This plan had definitely gone down the drain.

Next: A Race

*slow claps for BRRAL*. Well, the plan going well lasted long didn't it? WHOOP.

There are now 18 chapters left until the final chapter.

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