Now Or Never-Chapter 1
***SMASH*** The kids broke the big window in the northern section of the building that looked out onto the Wyoming woods and started to run at blinding speeds. They had gone over the plan hundreds of times alone at night. They'd bust out, split up, and run to their rendezvous point, in the midst of the forest. Max lost sight of the others as she ran, but she knew where to meet, so she concentrated on making it to timber line. The giant spotlight had swept over many times, and she knew that they were aware of who she was and where she was.

Soldiers on their snow mobiles and choppers were catching up on her, but the trees were not very far in front of her. Max heard the choppers fade away as if they had found something more interesting to look at. Max was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes as with all the other children. Max reached the tree line just as the light sweeps over her again. She looked up at the light moving away from her and continued. Max ran through some thick of trees into a clearing. Behind logs and tree trunks, several other children are crouched down hiding. She joins them wordlessly, exchanging hand signals with Zack. There are eight of them. A moment later, Jondy joins the group. After anxious waiting, and no more children show up, Zack began to pair off the kids into escape and evade teams. Max and Jondy are put together and soon after they all split up in their groups and run towards the perimeter of the base.

Max and Jondy began to sprint through the trees. They reached a chain link fence topped with barber wire. Jondy climbed a nearby tree, runs out along a limb. She leaps out into space, grasps the top row of the wire and does a gymnast's move over it, into a perfect dismount in the snow. Max follows and does the same stunt.

Max landed in a rather high snowdrift and whirled around to see soldiers attacking Zack. She wanted to go help him; she never wanted to leave him in the first place. Jondy grabbed her arm and encouraged her to come along, and she did.

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