Meteor

Chapter Nine: No Mercy

Shaun smashed the cell bars as hard as he could. Catherine looked shocked. The metal bars went flying all over the place, into the walls, knocking out a few of Abdu's minions. It whacked Abdu in the face and he fell to the ground. The group looked down at him.

"Is he dead?" asked Kate.

"Surely not." replied Dave. "It couldn't have been that easy."

"You did it!" exclaimed Eric. "You killed Abdu!"

"No, no we didn't." said Shaun, confidently.

"There's something off about this," said Wilson. The room they were standing in faded to black.

"Another black room?" asked Shaun. No one responded. "Hello? Anybody here?"

Still, no one responded.

"Okay, everyone say 'here' if you can hear me." said Dave. Nobody said a thing to him.

"Everyone okay?" asked Kate. No answer.

"Hello?" asked Wilson.

"Anyone there?" asked Conor, panicking.

The group had been separated. They weren't sure how. A huge white hologram appeared in each of their 'rooms'. It was Abdu.

"So!" said the hologram. "You have all been split up. If you're powerful enough like you say, you'll be able to escape these rooms, get back together and kill me. If you are able to."

"I just killed you!" exclaimed Shaun.

"Can we have a clue?" asked Conor.

"Why? This is unfair!" moaned Kate.

"AGGH! SILENCE! I can hear all of your rotting voices at the same time! Now, goodbye!"

The hologram disappeared and they were left in the darkness. Shaun kicked the ground hard and looked up.

"Please be a way out, please be a way out, please be a way out." he whispered to himself."

Kate ran and ran to see if there was an end to the room.

Conor morphed into a giraffe in an attempt to reach a high place.

Wilson put infinite fireballs around the room to see if he could see anything.

Dave tried to talk to the others using the microphones.

Leroy sat on the ground, losing hope.

George didn't even attempt anything, nor did Catherine.

"H-llo?" came a voice. It was Eric! Shaun tried to talk through the microphone, but it wasn't working.

"-an -_nywon, h\r mf?"

"ERIC! ERIC!" shouted Dave, trying to get his microphone to work.

Kate heard a very muffled, quiet shout. She stopped running and tried to listen. On the other side of her wall, she could hear a man shouting for Eric. It was Dave! Kate couldn't figure out where this wall was, so she also shouted.

"DAAAVE! IS THAT YOU?"

Dave stopped shouting. He thought he heard someone. He ignored it and assumed he was just hearing things.

"DAAAAAVE!" shouted Kate, louder. This time, Dave knew he wasn't hearing things. It was a human voice. A human voice he recognised. He started to sprint in the direction it was coming from. Kate could hear Dave's footsteps getting louder and louder. Dave could hear Kate's footsteps getting louder and louder. They eventually bumped into each other headfirst and rubbed their heads afterwards.