Worlds Collide(The Wish)

Chapter 18

Evacuate? EVACUATE? Suji thought frantically. What?!

"What do you mean?" Angelo demanded; he was the first to get out of their daze, as a boy with a nurse costume burst into the room. "What's going on?"

The boy had tanned skin with melty mocha hair and gray eyes. His baby blue uniform had a silver name tag that wrote, Iason, as it flickered into her vision by his lantern light. "I-I think the Stains found our hiding place!" Iason rambled quickly. "Y-You, all need to get out of here!"

Angelo's hand suddenly flew to his piercing, and he frowned. "I'm needed to help slow down the Stains," he muttered before he disappeared out of sight.

"Wait, where are we supposed to go?!" Suji yelled as Angelo dissolved from their sight.

"Player Adam," Iason said as he rushed behind the bed. "I'll help you to the emergency room," the boy said as he clicked on a button next to the hospital bed, and the end of the legs of the bunk turned into small wheels.

"What about my trainees?" Adam asked quickly as Iason pushed the bed forward and pulled out a long handle from the end of it.

"They have to go to the surface, I believe," Iason quickly replied. "There's emergency transportation at the top of this lake."

"And how do we do that?" Calla requested frantically. "Is there anyone we could go with?"

"No," Iason replied as he heaved the bed toward the flap. "You have to go by yourselves via Infonet, now, if you excuse me. The injured are supposed to be out here first."

"Wait!" Adam said, sitting up. "You could leave me here; I want to go with my trainees."

"Player Adam, you know that's-"

"No, I'm serious," Adam said, as he reached down his bed and clicked on the side of it. Suji let out a gasp as the bunk transformed itself into a denim wheelchair, and Adam perched upon it. "Leave me and go get the other injured player Iason."

Iason paused and gave an annoyed sigh before making a copy of his lantern and handed it to Suji's trainer. "Fine," he turned to the girls. "Good luck," he said before he disappeared out of the flap.

"Adam-" Calla started after a silent pause.

"Come on," Adam said as he gripped a control on the wheelchair. "The faster we go out, the better."

"R-Right!" Calla muttered in reply as the boy pressed a button and jerked forward. "Wait... shouldn't we get our Infonets out first?"

Adam shook his head sideways. "It's not needed. I know the way."

Now out of her daze, Suji rushed forward to push the flap open for both of them and glanced sideways carefully. "No one's out there," she said as she turned back.

Adam nodded and pressed the button again, jerking as he started, but then he rolled calmly out of the tent. Calla glanced at Suji worriedly before she slipped out as well. Suji followed the rest of the others outside, letting the flap fall behind her.

Suji had no idea of how she felt right now. A bubbling sensation of anxiousness boiled inside her, and a rush of relief that Adam was still here with them. If their trainer wasn't here for them, she and Calla would indeed get lost within a few moments.

Adam led them through the empty pathway in his wheelchair. Their footsteps were the only thing that echoed through the silence. Suji glanced around nervously at the tents, half expecting someone to burst out of them, which never happened. Although Suji enjoyed the quiet, this silence was unbearable for her: it was as if it was weighing Suji down as if a heavy rock was on top of her. The silence was eerie and frightening, slowly gobbling her up and sending shivers down her spine.