Power

Chapter XXVII

I woke up in a tube of water. I panicked and started to punch at the glass that was holding me captive.

"Ahh, you're awake," said the man in white. I stopped punching the glass and looked at him.

"Today we start your testing," he said looking at the control panel next to my tube, "do you know what kind of testing you're here for?"

"What do you think," I asked. The man laughed.

"I realized I haven't even told you my name yet," the man laughed, "it doesn't even matter though. You don't need to know my name." The man pressed a button on the panel.

"We'll see you very soon," he said as a hole opened up beneath me and I was sucked into it.

***

"Where did they go," said Louie looking around the parking lot. Louie and Drake were in a drive-in movie theater. Why were they here. Louie still didn't really know the answer to that question. He didn't know what kind of aliens they were chasing. Louie was still fairly new to the job. He looked around some more and then turned to Drake , who was lighting a cigarette.

"Drake, you aren't supposed to smoke on the job," said Louie angrily.

"We aren't doing much right now," said Drake blowing a smoke ring into the air, "because we've lost them."

"Wasn't there a IPSF base entrance near here, Drake," asked Louie.

"Yeah. Why," said Drake.

"Perhaps they stumbled into the base," said Louie.

"Are you kidding," Drake said throwing his cigarette to the ground and crushing it under his black shoes. "We aren't even allowed to go there. I don't think that it was even possible for them to just so happen to stumble into a high-security base like one of the IPSF wings."

"We should still look around," said Louie.

"Alright, but if we find the base entrance, we can't go in there. No matter how much curiosity pushes us," said Drake finally complying to Louie's suggestion. They went to the building next to the theater screen. Inside it was run down completely. Drake was the first to notice the burn marks, blood, and gold on the ground.

"Louie, come look at this," said Drake crouching down. Instead Louie walked over to a lever near an armchair that was pushed down, and pulled it. Then they started to descend.

"Good job," said Drake sarcastically.