Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Adventure

FIVE- Chapter 21- John Benderson


Day 2

Seriously want out. This is getting ridiculous! I'm trying to take advantage of the situation and get some inside info, but it's not working! They hide so much from us. Just this morning I saw some shady looking workers disappear behind a door. I saw an ominous green glow from behind it. The work is also unbearable. Today I had to run around activating switches. Easy? I think not. Each powered a nuclear reactor. The fast moving particles were created by hand. It took a lot of force. There were 60 of them. Also, they were a quarter mile apart, and if each set of ten wasn't activated within 15 minutes of each other... Boom! Then I did a similar task except with buttons and passwords. 59 characters long. Random. Had to be memorized. Now I begin to question my sanity. If I do something wrong, the glass will break, and all the humans there would drown. It drives me mad. They ever offer me water and I refuse. I can't take it much longer.


FIVE- Chapter 22- Paul Hues

Carter called me today. He wanted me to send him the explosives equivalent to 3 nuclear warheads, a tracking device, and a good sandwich down there by drone, stat. It will arrive in a few days, but I wonder... He said he wanted John's co-ordinates programmed into the tracker, which makes me think they've lost him. His signal didn't disappear like it did when Carter was missing, but it is further away from the others than usual. Also, though I have the tools to make them, I'm missing some ingredients, so it have to go stop by a store... Which means I will have to change the appearance of my vehicle as not to get tracked. You can never be too careful when on the run. Currently I'm 500 miles from my house. I may have taken a few short cuts... But anyways, I better find a store and a dark alley to do modifications in.


FIVE- Chapter 23- John Benderson


Day 12

I made it into the green light room today.It was late, after my day's work. It calls me. The light. The machine... So big and complex, with one little red button... It took all my control not to press it. So, I returned to my cell. I looked out the window, before quickly backing away to the opposite wall. Ignore it. The water... I'm safe. It won't come in. It won't kill me. Probably. I shook the bars- 
"Let me out!!!"
"Transfer me!"
"Take me to a windowless cell- without water!"
I got my wish. I cannot let water reach my mind again. The light is all that matters now. I must burn this book! Ha ha ha ha!


FIVE- Chapter 24- John Benderson

It took five straight days away from that light, and any kind of water, for me to return to sanity. I was then transferred to another cell. There I decided the button must be a self destruct for the building, the machine was the core. The reason to team entered earlier was to attempt to seal a leak. Evidently they did a bad job, as I was exposed to some of its gas. The gas is highly toxic, and causes insanity by amplifying the already present paranoia and worry within the organism. I only got a small dose, luckily, and I can't believe what would happen to someone who got more than that. Luckily that was all over, and I could go back to my semi- normal life in prison, totally unaware of what would happen in the day following.


FIVE- Chapter 25- John Benderson

I had no idea Carter was such a lunatic. He attached anti-grav spheres under the base, raising it out of the water. Total starfish notified: 180. He then attached 85 high power explosives around the base and shouted warning through a megaphone to back away. Total starfish notified: 305. He then activated the explosives and flew down in a helicopter picking me up. Total starfish notified: 7008. 

"Thanks Carter and Eddie." I said.
"Thank Paul for the explosives." Carter said.
" But wait, " I started. "Where did you get the anti grav, megaphone and helicopter?"
"That, " the doors to the cockpit opened, "would be me."

I stared blankly at the new figure joining our little rebellion.
"Who in the world are you?"