Previously:

The door flew open, a person bolting in. Gunfire sounded.

"Down!" Aries bleated. We all hit the floor, watching the being dressed in black pick off the Instructors, one by one. Before he could finish all of them, Madam hit a button, sending off a fire alarm like blaring.

"Come with me if you wish to find your families." The dark voice belonged to boy. He stood above us, unmoving. I hesitantly got to my feet, snatching a gun from one of the men.

"Who are you?" I questioned.

"They call me Moses."

Ch.13: Escaping Egypt

Rebel's P.O.V.

"They call me Moses," the boy said, blinking his unnaturally red eyes.

"I'm Rebel," I breathed, gripping tighter to my gun.

"We have five minuets to get out and over the wall." Moses peeked out into the hallway.

"Let's go!" I hurried, motioning for the group to move.

Moses' hand wrapped around my arm, keeping me in place. "The doors are locked. She forced this place to go down into defensive mode when she pulled the alarm. We have little time before every H.R.S.C. worker in a ten mile radius drops in and ends us. We can't compete with fifty men with guns."

"What's your plan?" I asked, understanding.

•••

"Eww!" Demi gagged as we made our way through the flooded basement.

"This is your great escape passage?!" I grumbled, trudging along behind Moses.

"I'm just a kid. It's not like I can actually split the water in two so you all wont get your shoes dirty," he spat.

Waist deep brown water sloshed as we walked.

"How did it get so flooded down here?" Aries questioned.

"It was the Instructor's way of keeping people from accessing the passage. It worked pretty well, but when it's life or death I think we will have to handle the swim." Moses made his way to a wall. It was pitch black down here, and it reeked.

Bethany was sitting comfortably on Aries' shoulders, giggling as she grasped at his horns. Nichole was in Eva's arms. Demi and Lani had a grasp on each of Holly's arms, making sure she stayed with the group. Peter was trying to calm Kyrstal because the girl was flipping out once the water drenched her skirt. Cole was shoving Sapphire and Blane was trying to make sure Tigger was okay once he learned about the boy's fear of water.

Moses pressed his hands against a spot on the wall. "Someone help me push this open."

I jumped to action, leaning my weight heavily against the supposed door. The surface gave way, the water rushing with it and washing us off our feet. We were swept down a tunnel. When we climbed back to our feet Eva immediately started calling roll. We were all here.

"Keep moving. Go straight," Moses rushed. We followed him to a beam of light streaming down from the ceiling. I looked up and saw a hatch with a small little window.

"This is it. This is where the tunnel ends." Lani patted the wall that blocked us from going forward. Up was our only option.

"I'm going to need a stepping stool." Moses looked to me, his red eyes flashing.

I sighed and got down on my hands and knees. Moses stepped up on my back and began working on the hatch. A couple of long minuets later I heard a creak and metal grinding against metal. Sunlight now illuminated the small area. Moses's weight left my back. I glanced up to see Moses looking down.

A series of bangs echoed from above. Moses looked over his shoulder. "The H.R.S.C. just arrived. Let's go."

Aries handed me Bethany. I lifted her above my head. I was trusting this Moses guy a lot. I was trusting that he was leading us the right way and I was trusting the youngest of my family in his hands. Nichole and Holly went up next. I would have I work more to get the others up. Lani, Demi, Krystal, and Sapphire took a little longer. My muscles were beginning to tire. Cole, Blane, Peter, and Tiger I got up with the help of Aries. Then it was on to to tuff stuff.

"Get Aries up and he might be able to help me with the girls." Moses talked so fast I could barely hear it, but I, to hi great dislike, grabbed Aries and heaved him up. Moses grabbed ahold of him. I noticed the ram mutant was heavier than us. His bones were hollowed for flying.

"What did you eat, rock?" I grunted as he squirmed out of the hatch.

Aries, through heavy breaths, gave a short laugh. "You're close," he breathed, "Bricks."

I took Eva next, holding her up the best I could with my sore muscles. The minuet her weight left my hands I heard voices shouting from down the tunnel. Someone was saying that 'it' was this way. That's when I knew they found us, and that's when terror and panic sunk in.

"Come on!" Moses shrieked.

I hefted Ava up. By the time she was out and clear I could hear their footsteps gaining on me. They were running. I knew the others above could hear it too because when I looked up at the hatch I saw countless arms reaching down for me. I reached up and found that I couldn't get close to reaching them, not even if I jumped.

Cue the frustrated cussing.

I had taken parkour with an old buddy of mine. I don't know if that'll come in handy now or not. I slammed my foot against the wall and quickly pushed myself upward. I came right back down. The men were gaining. I told myself that I had one last attempt before I shut the hatch and let these guys shoot me. I did the same procedure, but when I forced myself up I propelled myself more toward their waiting hands. Then the gunfire began. I don't know if I was hit, I'm hoping not. Someone latched onto my arm. Numerous other did too, pulling me up. When my chest hit the ground I rolled out of the way. Moses slammed the hatch closed. Eva, Peter, Aries, Cole, Krystal, Demi, Lani, and Blane pushed the green dumpster that sat outside the orphanage's walls over the opening. We all sat down, catching out breath.

We did it. We were out, and safe. Mission accomplished.

"Alright you filthy rats. Hands on the back of your heads!" Well dang. I looked up to see about fifteen men, all armed and wearing white shirts. They had on bullet proof vests and grins like they had just won the lottery.

No. I did not just slosh through water, lift practically my whole family, and then do some stupidly failed parkour move to get up here and find that it was all in vein. I felt like dying. Like laying down in a hole...and dying.

They snatched Moses by the front of his shirt and placed a gun to his head.

"Any last words, mutant?" The man growled.

Moses, to his surprise, smiled back, his red eyes wide. "Just four."

"Spit 'em out!"

The boy took in a deep breath, then snapped, "Let my people go!"

Yeah, I think that's the signal for 'charge'.

I am so sorry that this is terrible! This was my third attempt to writing the chapter. The first two times didn't save. Lucky me -_-

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