Chapter 11: Time to bust Isabella out of Prison

Phineas's Point of View

We had a plan, we had the weapons, we had the skill, we had everything we needed to go and get Isabella. The one thing that I didn't have was courage… I still highly doubted whether Isabella would still think were friends once this was all over. All I knew was that I was going to fulfill the promise I made to her all those weeks ago… We snuck in at night and rushed towards the barracks. My friends were doing a great job of distracting the guards, but we weren't out the hook ourselves, my group got stuck in a prolonged shootout with some twenty guards. I ran ahead and left my group to "finish off" the guards before rejoining me once I found Isabella. I opened the door to the old dorm that we had together and found her bed empty. I shot the guard before he drew his own weapon. I asked the nearby prisoners some questions to find Isabella.

"There was a girl here at most a month ago, do you know where she is?" I asked around. Finally one did know the answer, he pointed to a different building and I thanked him and rushed over there to indeed find Isabella there hugging her friend and staring at me blankly… Did she even remember me at all?

"PHINEAS!" Isabella shouted happily as she got up and hugged me… I pushed her down as a bullet went past us. I shot the guard who had almost killed Isabella. "I was beginning to doubt whether or not you would come back for me."

"Isabella, I promised you that I would come back for you, even if I had died out there, I would still have fulfilled my promise to come back and try to bust you out of this place," I said.

"Then why are you wearing a cowboy hat?" Isabella asked looking at my hat.

"Ah, I'm not entirely sure, but it sure is cool!" I exclaimed. I noticed girl behind Isabella, and looked up at Isabella questioningly.

"Oh, what? Her?" Isabella began to say quickly. "She's Tasha, my best friend in this place."

"Howdy," I said tipping my hat at her. Isabella giggled at my response to Tasha. "So are you guys going to come on or not? There are more than just soldiers out there." And to prove my point you could begin to hear the drone of planes in the distance.

"Right, Tasha do you remember your promise?" Isabella asked.

"I made it only a few hours ago, so how could I forget?" Tasha asked.

"Good point, well shall we get going then?" Isabella asked turning to me.

"Isabella?" I asked. "Are you content with the life that you have here?"

"I…" Isabella responded being caught off guard with the question. "Yes… Yes I am…"

"I thought so," I said and turned and left the building leaving Isabella and Tasha by themselves. Every fiber of my being screamed at me to go back and apologize and get Isabella back, but I couldn't bring myself to, if Isabella and Tasha really wanted to come back, with us, then they would need to prove it to themselves, rather than having me prove it for them by dragging them along with us. I reached my group and helped fight the guards. We could be here a while. Nobody asked questions on where Isabella was, I just said that she would come when she was ready.

Isabella's Point of View

I just stood there after he left. Tasha just sat on my bed and waited for me to make a move. She got bored and finally decided to snap me out of it… "ISABELLA!" Tasha yelled waving her hand in front of my face which after about two minutes did snap me out of it.

"He just left me," I said to her. "He just left me here and now, he's probably going to go home thinking that I don't want to leave with him."

"Then go chase him down and leave with him," Tasha said bluntly.

"And leave you?" I asked. The question was valid. I couldn't just leave her.

"Well, take me with you at least," Tasha exclaimed. "I told you that I don't want to stay here."

"Well, let's go!" I said running out the door with Tasha not far behind.

We ran until we saw a group moving slowly backwards to the exit of the enclosure. I feared that they would get pushed out until they couldn't save us anymore. Then we ran until we caught up with them, with only seconds later, the guards closed the gap that Tasha and I had gotten through.

Phineas's Point of View

"So you guys did come after all," I said to them…