Falling: Chappy 5

Roba jolted up. The offender was surrounded by many other guards and employees, all brandishing guns.

"Run for it!" Weevil shouted, unable to come up with a strategy.

Rex and Roba hid behind a filing cabinet, dodging bullets.

"This is madness!" Roba screamed. He quickly stuck his hand out with the raygun and fired 5 consecutive shots, then took his hand back. Rex tapped him on the shoulder.

"Look!" he said, pointing to a table.

There, shining brilliantly, was the crystal. Roba gazed at it, marveling at its shininess. Without thinking, he stood up, and reached for it. Rex watched him, as suddenly he stopped. He was frozen for a moment, and it seemed everything was frozen. Then, he slowly began to fall, onto the floor in front of Rex. Rex ran over towards him, wondering what went wrong.

"Roba! What happened?" he asked, worried.

Roba said nothing. He unbuttoned the top three buttons of his shirt, and pulled it open slightly. Behind five ripped holes in the shirt were five bullet-holes, bleeding profusely. Roba's eyes met Rex's for a moment, and then he fell into Rex's arms, crying.

"Rex, I don't wanna die! Please don't let me!" he said, clinging to Rex's jacket like a scared child.

Roba kept clinging, tears falling. He was truly scared. Rex stared at the slightly-older boy clinging to him and blushed. He pushed Roba aside for a second, and aimed the dagger at the offenders. He pulled the trigger and held it down, firing a blast that would've torn off the opposite wall, had it not hit the guards first. Rex immediately grabbed the crystal and shoved it in his backpack. He then turned his focus towards Roba.

"My god..Roba.." Rex said. He heard footsteps, and immediately unsheathed his dagger again, hovering protectively over Roba's injured body. Weevil appeared from the other side of the table, holding his hands up.

"Relax, Rex! .oh my god.." Weevil said, turning his gaze over to Roba.

"He's been shot." Rex said, but got cut off.

"Shh.I'll examine the wounds. They look pretty serious, this doesn't look good," Weevil said, turning Rex's head up by putting his finger to his chin, "but just you relax for now."

"More guards are coming! We've got to get out of here!" Mako screamed.

Rex and Weevil nodded, Rex picking up Roba's body and running through a different door. Weevil and Mako followed, but the lights suddenly went out. No one could see. A snarling sound came from inside the room, followed by the sound of a slamming door. They were locked in. A light flipped on, and Roba was no longer in Rex's arms, but on the floor, faint evidence of the crescent symbol on his forehead.

"Rex...." Roba managed. "I've locked us in. My Demon-form can see in the dark, so I used it to turn the light on....I think we're safe here. But I feel weak..."

Weevil turned pale. "Listen." He said.

"Warning! Warning! Last Resort Option selected! Building will self-destruct in T-10 minutes." A voice said.

"Those bastards..since they can't get to us, they figure they'll blow us up!" Mako said.

"Very good, Mako." Rex said sarcastically.

"We can use the Cloaking devices for five minutes; hopefully we can find the exit by then!" Weevil said, pulling out four chokers. All four slipped them on, becoming invisible to everyone but each other.

"Hope this works." Rex said. "But just stay by me, Roba.I'll protect you."

Roba smiled sweetly at him, as best as he could while in pain.
"This way!" Weevil shouted, running down a corridor. He had forgotten which door they'd come through, as did the rest. "Oh, man..we have to calm down! Otherwise, we'll be too high-strung to even think!"

"This one." Rex said, pointing to the third door from the right.

"Ya sure?" Mako said. "Positive." Rex said, walking through. It was the room with the upturned table. They'd gone in a circle.

"It's not this one, Dork-a-saurus!" Weevil snapped. He went back through the door. Suddenly, he lost sight of all three for a few seconds.

"You guys! The cloaking devices are almost out!" he said. But just as that was said, the cloaking devices gave out completely and all four were visible again.

"Great. And the building's got five minutes until it blows!" Mako said.

"Correction. Four minutes. It took us a minute to get those devices on." Roba said.

"Wow..you're getting smart, Esper Roba." Weevil said. "Someday, you may be as smart as me."

"If we live through this! Move!" Mako said. There were two elevators, but there wasa problem.

"Capacity 300 pounds. You've got to be kidding." Weevil said, glaring at the sign on one. "Well, looks like me and Fish-boy get one, you and Psycho- boy get the other." Weevil said, walking into one, Mako following. Rex and Roba followed suit.
"Can't these go any faster?" Rex grumbled.

"I doubt it." Roba said. Then, the whole elevator was pitched into darkness. They'd stopped moving.

"Oh, crap. Just what we need! STUPID THING!" Rex screamed.

"T-2 minutes." The voice reminded.

"We're gonna die in an elevator!" Roba panicked.

"Stupid.thing!" Rex screamed, bashing the buttons with a clenched fist. He jumped through the trapdoor in the ceiling, standing on the halted elevator.

"Ever been on a roller coaster, Roba?" he asked.

"No....why?"

"You're about to find out what it's like!" Rex pulled a gun, shooting the cord that connected the elevator to the top of the elevator shaft.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Roba screamed, before they started plummeting. He got no answer.