Power

Chapter XXVI

I lead Ivel, Isaac and Charlie through the hallways, turning at every section, every time we turned Charlie put a wall behind us. In the hallways were many locked doors and the occasional pointless window. The windows were mostly pointless because they were dark, and I speculated that they showed nothing but dirt and rock because we were underground. We ran for a little while more until we got to a dead end with a door at the end of it.

"Great," Charlie mumbled as we got closer to the door. We stopped at the door and checked if it was locked. It was.

"What do we do now," I asked looking back down the hallway. I heard running footsteps and an occasional zoom, indicating that the shields Charlie put down were getting destroyed.

"We don't have much of a choice other than trying to break through the door," said Ivel, already flames in his hands. He shot at the door, but the fire bounced back and hit him in the face, and Ivel fell down. When he got back up there were burn marks on the left side of his face.

"Shit," said Ivel as his face started slowly going back to normal. Isaac , Charlie and I tried to do what we could to open the door, but it was sealed shut. Behind us we could here the zooms and footsteps getting louder. I looked to my left and noticed another door with a glass window beside it. Behind the window was a button, presumably to open the door. I got a spark of an idea and quickly froze time.

I ran back toward the IPSF guards that were chasing us down. When I got to them, they were all frozen. I proceeded with my plan and looked for keys to the door to the button room. It didn't take long until I found keys at all. On one guard there was a ring of keys, I took them and ran back to the button room and tried to find a key that fit the keyhole. It took a while but, I did eventually find one. I unfroze time and pressed the button. The big doors opened up.

"We did it," said Charlie amazed.

"No, I found a button," I said as I turned to Ivel, "see, I'm useful." Ivel glowered and entered through the door. The rest of us followed afterwards.

"Why is it so dark," asked Charlie worryingly.

"Probably because the lights are turned off," said Isaac matter-of-factly.

"And you would be absolutely right," said a voice out of the darkness. The lights turned on and blinded me for a second. Then my eyes adjusted to the brightness as I heard the door behind us slam shut.

"Hello, new prisoners of the IPSF," said a man on a glass platform above us.

"Prisoners?" Exclaimed Isaac. I looked around. There were IPSF guards everywhere, all of them were either high-fiving or staring at us with cold eyes.

"Yes, prisoners. We have finally caught more creators, and this time, we are going to keep you," said the man with a sinister voice. He was tall, had smooth black hair and yellow-green eyes. He had a white lab coat and white suit with a red tie. He took out red shades and a white trilby with a red band around it and put them on. Then he turned around, reached to his right and grabbed a white cane with a red dragon imprinted onto it. Then he motioned at the guards.

"What are you going to do to us," I yelled after him.

"Oh, you'll see very soon," he said as he walked away. Then the guards shot at us, but not with bullets. They shot darts. I started to feel drowsy.

"You can't make me do anything, just know that," I said as I started to slip away.

"We'll see about that," he said as my eyes closed. The last thing I heard was the maniacal laughing of the man in white.