Chapter 12
Before us stood five large S.G.U.'s. Each one was triple my size. They pushed Kat out of the way and grabbed Sauli and I.
"You did this!" Yelled Sauli at Kat, "You liar! How could you?"
"No!" Replied Kat, "I didn't do this I swear!" She looked at me. "Adam, please believe me!" I turned away from her. How could I trust her again? I said nothing to her as the giant S.G.U.s took us away. Sauli was crying and I tried my best to stay strong. I reached for Sauli's hand and held it.
"Shhh," I whispered to my love, "we'll be alright. I promise." Sauli sniffled and gripped my hand tighter.
"I love you Adam," he said.
"I love you too Sauli," I responded. Suddenly, the guards holding us began to separate. Sauli squeezed my hand tightly. "No!" I shouted, now crying. "Don't let me go Sauli!" Sauli screamed as the guards ripped our hands away from each other.
"Adam!" He screamed, "No! I need you!" I cried as I watched the guards throw Sauli into a dark room. They threw me into a similar room shortly afterwards. The doors flew shut and I began to bang on them.
"Let me out!" I cried, tears pouring from my eyes. "You can't keep me away from my love! I'll get out of here! You'll see!" I eventually broke down completely and cried even more. I sat upon the small wooden bed that accompanied me in the gloomy room. "Oh Sauli," I said weeping, "I'm so very sorry I got you into this. Oh my poor Sauli. Cold and alone...with no one to hold you..." I stroked the wall, imagining it was my Sauli's back. I turned and looked and saw that the wall had become blue. My power! I had completely forgot I had it! I tried my best to remember what Kat had said about it.
"S.G.U.'s could easily be distracted by the large amount of color." It was something like that. I quickly rose to my feet and banged on the door once more. "Hey!" I cried, "You stupid guards! Let me out of here!" A small slit in the door flew open and a pair of dark red eyes were staring at me.
"Knock off that noise this instant!" Came the voice behind the door.
"Why?" I said with attitude, "What are you gonna do if I don't?" I spat at the guard's eyes and he growled with anger. The slit closed and the door began to open. I backed away from the door and the S.G.U.s approached me. The one I spat at tightly grasped my neck and lifted me off the ground.
"I'll show you what I am going to do, little work droid." He smirked and grasped my neck tighter.
"Oh please," I sobbed dramatically, "before you finish me off, oh powerful and respected Superior Guard Units, I ask that you allow this pitiful and shameful work droid one last request?" The guards laughed.
"Very well," said the largest one, whose hand was still wrapped around my neck like a python, "What is your dying wish?" I smiled and pointed to the left with my eyes.
"Look over there!" I pressed my hand to the wall. A large puff of blue smoke emerged from my hand. The guards' eyes became wide and the large one released his grip over me, dropping me to the floor..
"Ooooo," they said in unison, "the colors!" I quickly picked myself off the ground and ran down the hall. I tried to flee as fast as I possibly could. Suddenly, I remembered Sauli being tossed into a dark room like my own. Every room I saw could've been holding him captive inside. I broke every scanner with my elbow and tore open each door, hoping my love would be inside. He wasn't. Frustrated, I ran my fingers through my hair.
"They must've moved him," I said to myself as I ran down another hallway, looking for an exit. I began to hear a siren going off. "Oh no," I said, "They know I'm out." I flew down each hall and slid past each corner. I never knew I could run that fast.
"Halt!" Came a voice from behind me. I looked back to see 10 or 20 S.G.U.s chasing me. I began to panic. I couldn't get caught. I just couldn't! I knew what they would do to me if I did. There would be no mercy. All of a sudden, a large wall stood before me. Dead end.
"He went this way!" I could hear the S.G.U.s approaching. I quickly surveyed the area around me. At last I saw an escape route. A stairway. I jumped on the rail and slid down the I reached the bottom, I looked up to see if my assailants were still on my tracks. I sighed with relief. They weren't. I looked up at a holographic banner that spanned across the wall in front of me.
"WANTED," it read, " DEAD OR ALIVE: WORK DROID A.D.A.M. NUMBER 28743. CHARGED FOR PLOTS AGAINST THE SUPERIOR AND ALL DROID KIND". I shuddered in fear. Me an outlaw? I never thought it would be so. I had lived my whole life obeying orders and working as hard I as I could to please The Superior. As I leaned against the wall and thought about it, I realized how invigorating it was. I had never felt so alive before. I had experienced emotion, true emotion such as love and happiness and fear and anger! I had accomplished, seen, and done things that no droid never even knew existed! And even if I was an outlaw,I knew it was better than living my whole life never knowing what I knew then. I knew who I was then. I knew what I had to do. I put my hood up so no one could see my face and I walked towards the work bridges, trying to be as inconspicuous as I could be. I knew I had to defeat The Superior and free the droids, but I also knew there was no way I could do it on my own.