EXPERIMENT X
CHAPTER 2
So I jumped into the elevator and hit the close door button. I couldn't go anywhere because there was a keypad that you had to know the password to start the elevator. I heard the people coming closer and closer. I looked up and saw an emergency door in the roof. I then stood up on the railing and opened the emergency door and crawled on to the roof of the elevator and shut the door until there was only a crack left open. Then two lab workers walked in and went to the keypad and hit the numbers, 6,9,3,8,5,2 and then hit the button marked b8. Which I guess stands for basement level eight. The elevator jerked suddenly and we where off. About forty five seconds later the elevator stopped. The two scientists got out and I could hear their footsteps grow fainter and fainter. Then I opened the door and quickly crawled down and sunk out the door before it closed.
When I looked around I saw three different hallways. One to the left, right and center. I decided to take the left one. I don't know why I did it. I started walking down the hallway and then I saw a light up a head on the wall. Since it was kind of dark down here I could see the light clearly. I slowly approached the light and discovered that it was a window with a door next to it. I crouched down and slowly crawled to the window to see what was beyond it.
When I looked through the window what I saw was amazing. There was a huge room beyond it. The room was about the size of an airplane hanger. There where lots of computers in this room all hooked up to this one circular platform thing in the middle. Then I noticed that there where a lot of scientists monitoring the computers. Also there where a whole load of guards in this room with very big guns. One scientist began to signal everyone in the room that something was about to begin. He went to the main computer and typed something in. The lights started to flicker. I heard the crackle of electricity, and saw some sparks flying from the circular platform. Then in a bright flash a glowing circle like thing appeared.
The best way to describe it is a sphere if liquid crystal. All eyes in the room where trained on this thing. All of a sudden the computers started to spark violently. One of the monitors blew out knocking down the man in front of it.
"Shut off the power, hit the emergency kill switch!" somebody shouted. A scientist ran to the nearest wall and hit one of those red, emergency power kill switches. The power instantly cut off, and the glowing crystal like sphere vanished. Every one started to check out their computers or the stations they where working at to see if they could figure out the problem. I saw one man walking toward a door on the side of the wall. No one seemed to notice him; he turned around to see if any body was looking and then slipped away.
"Hey that was Bob!?" I shouted. I saw that face so clearly. One of the guards must have heard me because he pointed toward me and started yelling something. Two of the guards started to run up the stairs toward where I was hiding. "Crap!" I then turned and ran away. I rounded the corner and realized I didn't go back toward the elevator. There was a long dimly lit hallway to the left and right. I was about to go back the way I came but I heard people running towards me. I ran down the hallway to the right. I hit a dead end. The footsteps where getting closer. I backed up against the wall hoping to blend in. I felt something cold and hard press into my back. I grabbed it and discovered it was a door handle.
I turned the knob and prayed that it wasn't locked. Click, the door opened! It was pitch black inside of this room. I felt along the wall and found the light switch. I flicked it and the lights instantly came on. I froze because I saw a man lying on the floor. He was just lying there not moving. That is when I noticed the three empty bottles of vodka on the floor next to him. I thought I was safe but right then the door handle started turning and I heard the people who where chasing talking right out side! I franticly looked for a place to hide. My eyes came to rest on some large boxes near the far left corner wall. The space between the wall and the boxes looked just big enough for me to hide behind. I just squeezed behind there when the door opened.
"Hay its Jack, that's where he went, dumb janitor always getting drunk. I'll bet he was the one snooping around. If he saw anything we have to get rid of him, you know the orders." "What if he didn't see any thing" the other person said. "We can't take any chances", the first man said. So I heard them grunt and I guessed that they picked up the janitor. Then there was a soft click and the lights went off and the door closed.
I waited until I couldn't hear any thing before I dared to move. After about two minutes I crawled out from my hiding place and stumbled my way to the door. I felt along the wall until I found the light switch. I turned the lights back on and only now did I stop to examine the aria. I was in a typical janitor's closet but the one thing I noticed was a big air vent in the sealing. The space looked big enough for a person to fit through. Then an idea popped into me head, I could crawl up in there and find out more about what was really going on around here. I found some of those stacking crates and I piled them one on top of another until I could reach the vent. I carefully climbed to the top crate and slowly stood up. I all most lost my balance but I steadied my self. The vent cover was easy to pry off; it hung there slowly swaying from side to side. I started to crawl my way up there. I was a lot harder than I first thought. I just before I got to where it got flat I stretched my foot down and kicked at the crates they fell with a crash and the lights suddenly winked off.
"Wow, that was pure luck that a crate hit the light switch" I said to my self. I made it to where the vent duct was flat. I turned around (witch is very hard in a tiny vent) and reached down and grabbed the edge of the grate and slowly pulled it up and pulled it until I slightly bent it into place. Now I started crawling forward and discovered that I came to a T intersection. Witch way to go; off to the right I saw a faint glow of light. I guess ill go right I thought to my self. Up a head the light was getting brighter and brighter. There was another grate in the side of the vent shaft. I crawled to it and slowly looked down. I was looking into an empty office. Since there wasn't any one in there I decided to go down and take a look. I undid the grate and put it to the side. I slowly inched forward and tried to flip down. Instead of landing gracefully I landed hard on my but. I stood up and dusted my self off and looked around the office. I saw a red folder with big black letters marked CLASSIFIED on the cover. I opened the folder and saw the name "Experiment X marked on the first page. I was about to read more when the door handle started to turn. I heard some one muttering out side and a jingle of keys. I immediately leaped up on the desk and jumped a high and as far as I could toward the vent. My fingers caught the edge and I pulled my self up and pulled my feat up just as the door opened. I held my breath as a man walked in. I kept praying that he didn't look up because he would see me there and the grate hanging down.
The man had a navy blue suite on. He went to the desk and opened one of the drawers and took out some papers and walked out. Fortunately he never looked up. I exhaled my breath witch I didn't even realize that I was holding it. I decided to get another look at that folder. This time when I jumped I landed on my feet and not my but. I walked to the desk and opened the folder.
There where plans for the machine thing that I saw earlier. There where also two other folders in the red one. One had my fathers name on it and the other was bobs folder. I opened my dad's folder and there was nothing in it.
"Figures" I said to my self.
All of a sudden I felt a hand clamp down hard on my shoulder and a gruff voice say "What are you doing here?!"