Day-254 continued
As soon as Jess and I waked back out into the main hanger. Into nothing but darkness. "ahh…Its really the end of it all huh…. people really don't give a shit." Jess told me as she faced me. I placed my hand on her lower back hoping I wasn't in that category. "We still have to get out of here." I told her as I glanced to the wall. There was a loose hanging wire so I pulled it off and tied the door shut. The hanger was noisy, a mix of screams and strange growls. Not all the cranks were gone and people couldn't get out of the hanger.
The only light came from red emergency lights that blinked off and on, every few seconds. Bases and ships used these red lights at night so the enemy couldn't see lighting from far off. They were so high up in the rafters that they really had no effect in lighting the hanger-space below. Jess clenched onto my arm as I noticed a group of people walked along the far wall. You couldn't miss em, they were carrying a torch. I couldn't tell where the rest of the crowd was. It was so dark. My flash light didn't help much.
Finding a wall, I followed the wall to the other side of the hanger to see they were headed towards the berg. In the dark, it was just creepy but this was our chance if any to get out of this hanger. "C'mon." I told jess as I took hold of her hand and lead her in their direction. We ran as quickly as possible and got there just as they went into the bay door. I wondered if they were security. Had to be someone that worked here and had access to shit. In the week that I've been here they never used the bergs. I wasn't sure if they even ran.
Jess and I both Hesitated a moment before we walked up the bay door. As soon as we did it closed behind us. To the left was a wall of crates. They were stacked four and five high. Almost to the ceiling. A portion of the locks were left open but I wasn't curious enough to stay in the cargo bay to find out what was in them. I walked up to the door took out the guard's card and swiped the pad. The door slid open. The hallway was dark, not even emergency lights. I quickened our pace to see if we could maybe get somewhere.
The lights flickered on. Right after I heard voices. "The extra provisions are down here…I think we'll be okay for a few months." A male voice said. The hallway curved a little. "I hope so…I can't believe we're doing this." A woman's voice followed. I kept walking, within moments they were on us. The two stopped in their tracks. "How did you get in here?" the male questioned. He was dressed like a guard. Medium build. Military hair cut but he wasn't wearing his uniform. "Door was open just briefly. Look we got family upstairs in the third tower room C12." I explained. "We didn't live down here. Please help us..." Jess said.
The guard reached into his cargo pants pocket and pulled out one of the test guns. "all the same, just to be sure. If you're going with us." He warned us. I pulled up my sleeve nodding towards Jess to follow my lead, we have to go along with this. Test gun pricked my arm than beeped. The paper showed I passed and he moved onto jess. After he tested jess. He turned back to partner and said something. "They would have already cleared the towers…" "We just had a baby." Jess interrupted them. The two starred at us for a minute but she quickly understood. "They have to try. This way." She said. They both turned around and lead us down the well-lit hallway. The berg started to move.
"We know what happened." I mentioned as we trailed behind them, they didn't respond. "the cranks…They got out." I continued. "yea…that's what part of happened. Loads of refugees came here already infected. We weren't ready for the overflow. The hanger was breached so they locked everyone in. Even the guards." he said never once turning to look at us as he walked. "How many guards escaped the hanger?" I asked out of curiosity. "Shhh… not enough." the woman said. "She might as well know, she said she has a family up there, since they are joining us, this rebellion." He argued with her. "Join who? We came here thinking we were going to be safe. If WCKD is responsible? How can going with you be a good thing too." Jess stated. For a second there, I was proud. "I don't want to fight anymore, I just want my baby." Jess continued. I grabbed onto her hand and squeezed a little. I couldn't do much but what little comfort I can give helps.
Jess glanced over at me and gave me a worried smile telling me she was okay. "WCKD started this whole thing, someone has to try and stop them. My brother and I have been stocking this berg for a occasion like this. We knew they wouldn't be able to sustain against cranks. We're getting out of here now. Plan is to go back to the US. I'm thinking there's no cranks in the west yet..." He explained. I nodded agreeing. "after what I've seen in Ashville and here I think finding a place with just a few people might be a good idea. We're in." I told them. Jess nodded.
"WCKD only looks out other WCKD. I wasn't ever in one of the outlying bunkers. I couldn't believe it when heard the horror stories." The woman added. They lead us to the bridge. "This is what we're doing now. It has to count for something." He said as we entered the cockpit of the berg.
The first this you notice is the big windshield that span from wall to wall. Various stations with different nobs and button I had no idea what they were for. For a moment, I wished we were in something a little sturdier maybe a plane. "Think the +
others had the same idea." A woman asked as she approached us warily. "These two did. We're helping them, she needs to go back in. She needs to be able to get around" He said walking over to where the pilot was sitting. "I have a card." I held it up. "That makes things easier. Here you can pose as one of us." One of the other women guards walked over to me handed me her jacket. Since I was wearing black pants the jacket would help me blend in easier. The jacket was nice and thick, I could feel the metal plates. Maybe I should have been a guard too.
The berg rose higher, no one in the hanger seemed to notice it. If not, they were staying away from it. "Take it up to the roof of tower three." He ordered. Jess and I watched as we came out of the hanger and raised higher into the sky above one of the buildings. Some of the other guards left the room.
"There's a hatch, and a hatch door on each floor. It lets out into the hallway. Your floor is two floors down." He explained as he opened the hatch door in the middle of the bridge. They're hovering high enough so that I can jump down. "Here." One of the guards said as he went to hand me a gun. I showed him the one I had and he took out he mag and handed it to me. "Just in case." He said. "I'm Bryan, this is my little brother Kells, the rest you can meet when you get back." Bryan said. "How will I signal you?" I asked him. "here, take these." He said as he handed me a walkie and flare. "We'll look out for it if we can't get a hold of you on this." He explained. I nodded then walked over to Jess and hugged her. She held on for a second and kissed me. When we let go we each smiled. I had a good feeling about this. The kids were safe in the room so I don't think they would have moved when everything went down.
I jumped onto the roof. There was a loud clank when I landed. The hatch was a few feet to my left. The cold it me like a ton a brick as I moved to the hatch quickly. I pulled the latch opened it up and climbed down the ladder, closing the hatch door behind me. There wasn't much of a temperature difference. I gripped onto the cold metal ladder as I moved down. I could hear people and cranks still in the building.
I moved down two levels and stopped. Opening the hatch; the hall was dark. There's no lights at all, I took out my flashlight moving further down the hall. Nothing happened here but for the few papers on the floors the lights being out was the only thing that alarmed me. No blood splatters or body parts. I turned the next corner and found my room door quickly. Getting in, scanning the room first. One of the bunk beds had been turned over. A set of feet laid behind it. I took a few steps to see it was Jacob. A small pool of blood was next to him so I didn't get any closer. The door to the back room was tied so I walked up to the door, took off the sheet and opened it.
Sam sat just inside the door, with her head burred in arms. I scanned the rest of the room. I walked over pulled Sam to me hugging her. None of the kids were here. They're gone. "Sam… Sam what happened?" I asked her. I let her go a little, "I thought the guards were coming in to help us. This lady took Harriet right out of my arms and Nathan, he fought them. Tried to. They took him too. I tried… I tried to stop them. Newt and Sonya," She gave a fragmented statement. I shined the light close to her face to see a fresh black eye. I had no idea of what to do but I know I must get her out of here. "C'mon, we gotta get out here." I told her.
I stood Sam up still hugging onto to her closely so she would have to look at Jacobs body. These bastards kill people so easily. I picked up my bag, Sam grabbed hers from the bigger room. We walked up to the door and walked out into the hall. It was still dark. Red emergency lights were turned on. Sam stayed close to me as we moved. Then we heard it. This long screech. "What was that?" Sam asked. "Shhh." I told her as I took out my gun. "Where'd you get…" I put my finger over her mouth before finish. I could hear footsteps running. "Just c'mon." I said as I started to run pulling her along the hall.
Then there was more screeching, it was an awful sound. I couldn't tell where it was coming from but it got louder. We quickened our pace and running as fast as we could to get around the next corner. As soon as I did something hit me hard. I fell to my back, "AHHHH." As I tried to fight this thing off me. It scrambled to catch a grip scraping and scratching my arms. Nothing was getting through this coat. I just kept moving punching and holding its head up by its neck so it wouldn't bite me. I dropped the gun. Sam stood back, and kept backing up. I gawked up at her, she was scared, "SAM." I called out to her looking at her then the gun as this thing kept snapping at my face. There was something in its mouth, it's not a tongue. Then it started jus ripping and tearing at whatever it could grab on me. My coat started to rip. "SAAAAMMM" I called out and then there was a gun shot. The crank fell lifeless on top of me. I pushed the body off me.
"Did it bite you?" Sam asked as she helped me stand. "No…I don't think so." I told her, I didn't feel anything. I lifted my shirt and shinned the light on my skin; taking a good once over. Its claws didn't get through the thick coat. Thank God. "Check my back." I told Sam. I handed her the flashlight and lifted my shirt again. "Nothing, I don't see anything." She said. "you sure…no scratches, no bites." I asked her. "there's a cut but it doesn't look fresh." Sam told me, "I think I got it the other day." I explained. There was more screeching so we decided to move again. I made a hand motion to the left, started walking and Sam followed.
Sam and I walked all the way to the other end of the corridor away from the screeching sound the cranks would make. As we walked we found the elevator signs and followed them. When we got to the elevators we approached slowly. As I got closer I could hear it. Eating. Someone chewing meat and the sounds of another tearing flesh from a body. I didn't want t to look but I had to. I needed to know how many. Maybe I could take a few on by surprise.
I peeked my head around the corner to see a few cranks knelt over someone and eating them. Two cranks dug their hands into someone torso pulling out an organ and biting into it. Freaked out, I stood upright. "Can't go that way." I whispered. Sam walked ahead of me as I kept an eye over my shoulder. We walked back the way we came. I was ready to look for more elevators when Sam stopped right in front of me. "What about this… isn't this the trash shoot." Sam asked me. "I knew I adopted you for a reason." I said kissing Sam on the forehead.
I moved to the shoot and lifted the latch on the hatch door to the shoot. Once it opened and I went to lift the door the was a creek. It was loud. I stopped for a second and started to move it again but could stop the sound even if I moved slow. "We gotta hurry." I determined and Sam hurried up and got into the shoot. "I'll be right behind you." I told Sam. She looked down the shoot then look up before she let go of my hand and fell.
Cranks rounded the corner, spilling over each other as the ran into the wall. Having no sense of direction. I fired off two shots, then I heard more coming our way. How many were there? Seeing it was helpless I put myself in the shoot and slid down.
At the bottom, I stood up off snow. "Are you okay?" Sam asked and I nodded. There were no infected outside yet. Somehow, they managed to keep them trapped inside. I glanced up to see the berg still hovering over the buildings and I wondered if they could see us. I still had the flares. "Amy look!" Sam said as she pointed to a well-lit area. Then something started to move. "Let's go." I said as we started to walk towards it.
There was a train, guards stood all around it and on top of the train. Keeping people back. They weren't letting anyone board. Everyone was trying to get on the train. The train rumbled to life and I watched as the train started pull to off. The people started yelling and screaming. They were following trying to get on not caring if they were going to get shot. Who was on the train?
The guards standing on it shot their guns in the air a few shot their guns at people. I grabbed Sam. "But the train…" She protested. "We can follow in that." I told her pointing up to the berg. Sam starred up at the berg. "But that's a… We can't..." "Jess is up there, were getting out of here." I said as I walked into the clearing away from the buildings. Where there was enough space to land. I took the walkie talkie out of my pocket.
"I've got Sam… You have to come get us now." I said over the radio. "Amy…Where's Harriet." That was Jess.
Thanks for reading, hope everyone had a good Christmas break. I'm ready for this new year. Thank for the reviews and I'll be sure to put up the next chapter soon. (Webelongtothemaze) Your awesome thank you for your review.
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