Chapter 5 the great escape
The woman turned around and her eyes lit up red like the devil had risen to the surface of her body, like it had been hidden in her soul waiting for the right moment to strike. Her face also appeared to light up as her blood rose to the surface. It was like she gained great power but at the same time suffered pain of the same level. Romana couldn't bear to watch so with that she ran down the darkened pathway and up to the golden doors. Grabbing the handle she pulled the heavy door with all the power her muscles could bare to stand. As soon as she was through the door way she didn't stop. The president who was sat at his desk yelled for the guard, as she ran past his eyes, she was just a blur.
Her running tired her out quickly slowing her down. Her lungs couldn't take any more of the constant heavy breathing and with guards at every turn her unplanned escape could end before it even started. Leaning against a wall her body filled with air as she struggled to breath. She could see the shadows of men running around looking for her. It was like she'd escaped from a maximum security prison. When she gained some of her strength back she was up and running again. She found some sort of cupboard and nearly ragged the off door opening it. Once she was inside she sealed the door shut with the pen.
With the door sealed as tight as a chest she slid down the door as a sign of relief. But her troubles weren't over yet as the guards were still on the lookout for her. As she sat on the floor fiddling with her pen, thoughts were running through her head of what the next step of the plan was as it was made up as she went along. She ran her hands through the bag she'd had all along, but nothing useful came up in the short search. Standing up in fury she took off the watch nearly snapping the ancient strap and slammed it the metal table in front of her. Suddenly her eyes opened wide as she had realised she'd had the answer all along. The sonic pen could do a lot more than just open and close doors; she clenched it tighter in esurience it was still there. Putting the pen to the back of the watch she pushed in the button slowly in hope. For a couple of seconds the pen buzzed away but the watch did nothing. Failing a result she gave up and put her arms to her side and put her head down in shame even though there was no one watching her.
Suddenly a beeping noise filled the room as Romana put her head back up right. She peered down at her arm and to her amazement it was the watch bursting into life. The same battery symbol from before flashed on to the screen. But it only had one bar of power. It didn't matter to Romana; she was just overjoyed that the thing had come on in the first place. She quickly put the pen to the back of the watch again to give it more charge. The sound of guards rang through the hall way as they edged closer to her hiding place. She knew she didn't have long until they found her. She murmured to herself to make time go faster but it didn't help as the watch took its time. All of a sudden there were voices outside and she could hear the poking on the door. The watch was still only three bars done and with no time left she would have to continue later if she stood any chance of escape. The guards were almost through as the door was nearly bent in half due to the weak metal it was made from and the constant pressure of the guard's staff. Then the door was fully off its hinge's causing it to come crashing into small room nearly landing on top of Romana.
The president came round the corner with that smirk on his face, his eyes focused on Romana. She put up her hands in surrender as the guards raised her from the floor by her arms.
"We'll make sure that doesn't happen again wont we" he said with that false smile. With that they dragged her away and the next thing she knew she was back in that same cell with the mad hatter next door. It was as if he was happy to see her again. He never left the window and it became rather creepy. So she curled up in the corner where she was out of his view. With the guards gone and the master out of her sight she could now focus on getting the watch charged up and ready to go.
It seemed like waiting forever as the watch took its time to get fully charged. When it finally reached the top she jumped up in excitement and struggled to get the strap fastened as she was so eager to get going. The master's face changed from a smile to a frown as he saw how frantic she was about something.
"You don't expect to just walk out of here without getting court do you?" said the master in puzzlement.
"You don't, but this thing is my ticket out of here" Romana said proudly as she pointed to her wrist.
"They will catch you, no stupid teleport is going to get you out of here" he told her sternly as if jealous.
"They won't if I travel through time, because this is no teleport it's a time vortex manipulator and with this I can go anywhere I like!" she stamped with a nod of her head.
"You can't leave we're in a time lock, how do you expect to walk away from that" he argued.
"The same way I got here" she said confidently.
Remembering what she'd done before she pushed buttons to get it warmed up. Before her appeared a huge time portal leading the vortex, she looked back over her shoulder to stare upon the master grinning from ear to ear as if successful in victory. Looking back in front of her she leaped into the portal not looking back as it closed up behind her. The vortex swirled around her like she was trapped in a cylinder vacuum of rainbow colours. It didn't bother her as much as the first time as she was used to the fast travelling. Pushing random buttons to try and land her expression changed when the watch did nothing. Then she started pushing the buttons violently to try and make it do something. Sparks suddenly flue off the watch as Romana started to spin. Circling out of control she disappeared out of the vortex and was sucked down another portal. She woke up in the middle of a road in the country side. As she looked around her as nothing was familiar to her. All that surrounded her were trees and farmers fields. Out of nowhere a car came and beeped at her to get out of the way. Quickly she rolled away so she didn't become a pancake. The car drove past without even stopping. Romana give a huff as she was just glad be away from that planet what she once called home.