"EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!" I heard the robotic screech making my blood freeze in my veins, my face blanch.
"No...No..." My voice was soft like a whisper in the wind, I knew, I knew what that creature was, I could see it just out of the darkest corner of my mind.
Mr. Smith stood up as the class began to erupt in sound making my ears ring, blackness was creeping in on the edges of my vision, it felt like my mind was cracking, my head screaming in pain. I fell to the floor in a heap, the pain taking over my limbs, my body, my mind, it clouded my judgment, I felt a warm glow, it felt so familiar, like when I was a kid before I had my seizure when I was six. It was like I was letting out this golden warm glow, I felt a hand on my waist; it brought me away from that feeling.
My mind little did I know at the time was ready to open up to the timelord energy that I had fought so hard to lock away. Almost about to regenerate, but from the mere touch of another time lord it stopped the process, I looked up... it was Mr. Smith worry creased into his face like a chisel into marble. I rolled over with a groan and sat up he placed his tweed jacket around my shoulders as he pulled me up to a standing position. He gave me a reassuring smile, it would have been reassuring but in the background I heard the screams and pleas of mercy as people died.
I could feel it, feel as their hearts stopped beating, as they took their last breaths, as their life force seeped away from their bodies. I began to weep silently not even feeling the tears roll down my face.
"You know when adults say that everything is going to be just fine and you know that they're lying?" he asks and I nod, "Everything is going to be fine."
I look at him coldly and he grabs my hand whispering in my ear, "Run."
A phrase that for my entire life I had been waiting to hear. To a have knight in shining armor to take me away to safety. In that instant I decided to trust this man with my life. We took off, in my heart I knew him, that I would set my life on the line to keep him safe. We ran through the back classroom door, I saw large metal salt and pepper shaker like robots in the hall, one arm a whisk the other a plunger. My heart sank, I knew what they were, they were the most terrible things in the universe, and the name was on the tip of my tongue. Mr. Smith pulled me through the mobs of high schoolers flooding into the hall; I felt elbows dig into stomach knocking the wind out of me.
Mr. Smith pulled me more as I heard the sounds of a ray gun from the movies then people falling to the ground; I had a river of tears coming from each of my eyes. We were finally able to make it through the crowd and out into the field running across the slick grass, he kept urging me forward.
"Don't look back, don't look back," He kept saying over and over every time I wanted to look over my shoulder.
My old converse with their worn soles couldn't grab traction at all; I was just sliding across the grass drug by Mr. Smith. Then I heard a shrill scream that stood out against the rest, I froze sliding even Mr. Smith couldn't keep pulling me forward. Tara. That scream was Tara. I looked over my shoulder; Tara was charging on of salt shaker things with a color guard flag pole in her hands, she struck it the pole barely affecting it.
"The human has struck me, the human shall be EXTERMINATED!" Time seemed to slow down as I reached towards Tara.
The sound of a ray gun blast, a scream, this time one of pain, I saw Tara fall, her eyes open in shock her mouth agape in a scream. I screamed loudly and sobbed as one of the machines came towards me and Mr. Smith, it aimed whisk thing at me then another ray gun sound. I fell to the ground the dew from the grass collecting in my hair, I wasn't dead, and I wish I was though. My whole body, every cell was burning, I thought I was on fire, I felt Mr. Smith kneel by my still body. He should run, leave me here, let them kill me, but he slipped a cold thin metal chain around my neck then kissed my cheek.
"I'll save you Alexandra," The he was gone and it all went to black.