Fallen

Chapter Nineteen: Barricade

The now forty-six start breaking furniture, trying to make homemade weapons. Ash breaks a wooden chair before picking up the leg. It has enough weight to it to get enough momentum behind it to be effective. The doors start to open and guards start to enter. Ash swings the leg of the chair at the closest one to her.

 Another grabs her wrist and twist her arm behind her back. She gets pinned against the wall. 

"Is everything alright?" she hear Dr. Tsing ask.

"Everything's fine," a familiar voice answers from the other side of the room. There is a scream as someone is being pulled out. The cries for help hurts Ash more. Tears threaten to fall from her eyes as she knows another person she was looking out for is being taken.

"Y'all are monsters," Ash snarls, mostly directed at Dr. Tsing.

"I hope you know," she responds, "you're all incredibly special to us."

Ash is released and the guards retreat out of the room. Jasper stands up and quickly hides something. She saw just enough of it to see he managed to get a hold of a gun. It was Bellamy then. 

"We have about a few hours before they will come back," Jasper states. "We need to fight harder this time." Ash walks over to Jasper and he quickly hands her the gun. She shoves it into the band of the back of her pants and cover it with her shirt. "Bellamy said to make sure you get it."

"Dumbass breaks into the place we're trying to escape," she jokes, shaking her head. 

"Are you really surprised?" he chuckles softly. "Maya is probably helping him."

"Let's hope."

Everyone prepare to fight as the clock ticks down. The hours somehow seems to drag on while at the same move quickly. The group gather together tightly as the doors slides open. Everyone links arms together. Monty, Jasper, and Ash are in the front. Dr. Tsing points to Monty. The guards tear him from the group. 

People try to stop them, however they start to get pinned down again. Ash quickly pulls out the gun and aim directly for Dr. Tsing. As soon as her finger squeezes on the trigger, a guard steps in between the barrel of the gun and the doctor. He grasps his shoulders as blood starts to pour from the wound.

"Take her instead," she orders. Several guards quickly go to Ash, pinning her to the ground. They manage to get the gun out of her hand. They pull her up and start to drag her out of the dorm. The other guards keep the other delinquents from fighting. Ash struggles, trying to get free from those pulling her out of the room. 

The guards find it easier to just pick her up by her arms, her feet barely an inch above the ground. She keeps kicking, trying to break free. The group stops at the elevator, the door still closed. Dr. Tsing presses a button before blisters start appearing on people's skin. Dr. Tsing quickly pulls out her walkie.

"Breach on level five," she says into it. "Seal it off."

An alarm starts to blare. Ash takes advantage of the guards weakness and gets free. Jasper, Monty, and Miller come running down the hall. One of the guards on the ground reaches for Ash. She slams the bottom of her foot into his face, knocking him out. The elevator doors slide open and Dr. Tsing crawls into it. The doors try to close, but Jasper stops it. He picks up an abandoned gun and aims it at her.

"I hope you know how important you are to us," Jasper says before shooting her in the head. The doors close shut, sealing the body in it. Ash picks up another gun, checking to make sure it is loaded. She heads straight back to the dorm room.

"Gather anything that will be useful and start barricading the level," she orders. "We have this floor for now, so let's try to keep it."

People start breaking things before rushing around. Monty finds a port to start hacking into the monitoring systems. Ash quickly starts going through a nightstand, pulling out a map.

"What's the plan?" Harper asks as Ash grabs a pen nearby.

"Block off these entrances so they'll be unusable," she orders, marking them. "We need any possible way in or out under our control to prevent a surprise attack. If we can get to the mess hall, it would provide more weapons. Knives, forks, and shit like that."

"They may try knock out gas as well," Jasper points out. "So we may need water."

"Smart," Ash mutter, scanning the map. "There is bound to be more places we don't know about yet but this is a good start. We survived a battle once, we can do this again. Also get all the weapons from the bodies."

"They will be trying to get in."

"Well no shit," Ash softly chuckles. "Not only are we their supply of 'Survival Juice' we now control their food supplies."

She pats his shoulder before walking away from him. She goes into the kitchen and start grabbing all the knives she can. Others seem to have the same idea. She orders them to start filling pots with water and place them around the mess hall. They do as told and hurry to get the water to the mess hall. Ash gives out the knives to everyone. Soon the level is set up the way the want. Or at least as close as they can get it to that way. Everyone is in the mess hall.

"They're on their way," Monty states, his eyes getting wide. "And they aren't wearing hazmat suits."

A slew of curses leave Ash's lips as she picks up a knife. Several canisters fly in and gas starts to spew out. Just as expected, but they need to be ready to fight.