Outside!

Outside! ~ Part 1, Escape

"Hurry! C'mon we gotta get outta here!" Jackie yelled over the sound of sirens blearing.
"Did you know this would happen?" Alex yelled back, tying his shoelaces faster.
"Of course I did, did you really think I'd just throw you guys into this with no idea how to escape?" "What the hell man?! And it never occurred to you to tell us what's going on?!" Alex barked at her. "Hey! No need to get into a scratch fight here and now, you can fight about your differences later! How do we get out of here?" Bhavani shouted at the two teens. Alex grunted towards Jackie as she spoke.
"Ok. You guys run that way" Jackie said assertively, pointing towards a hall marked "elevator". "Me and Adi will distract the cops, don't worry about us, you guys just peg it outta here ok?" Jackie said, patting Alex on the shoulder. Alex and Bhavani nodded at her as she and Adi Ran back towards J- mart.
"Ok let's get outta here!" Alex said, running in the wrong direction, away from the elevator.
"No! This way, see?" Bhavani said pointing at the hall with the large writing on the wall. "Elevator, we need to go that way! There's no other way out!" Bhavani said. Alex looked bashful for a moment and then feigned cluelessness, in truth Alex was still learning how to read and spell.
"Oh ok, sorry lets go." Alex scrambled to his feet and struggled for traction due to his new stolen footwear.
Escaping a seven story building while wearing roller-skates and being chased by the cops was going to be a difficult task for a rat and a red panda.
They had stolen the roller-skates because none of them could afford to buy them, since being considered part of the older generation they weren't given easy access to education, yet they were expected to work, but obviously they were fired before long because of their incompetency. They were wearing the roller-skates because this was easier than carrying a large box while fleeing, for Jackie and Adi at least, who knew how to roller-skate. Alex and Bhavani on the other hand had to learn on the fly as they desperately tried to escape, it would prove difficult however when it came time for them to actually use the elevator.
"Run Alex!"
"I'm trying! It's difficult when the wheels just fly out from under you!"
"I'm struggling too but we need to hurry, use the rubber things at the front for traction!"
"Ok!" Alex yelled confidently as he tilted his feet forward slightly and used the rubber stoppers to precariously run on his toes.
"That's the way, now you're getting it!" Bhavani shouted encouragingly.
They both crashed onto the coral carpet of the strange room at the end of the hall, a large blue tinted window overlooked the whole city dauntingly and two metal doors slid closed behind them. They were on the fifth floor and needed to get to the ground as fast as possible. Not only was the law after them for theft, but wearing roller-skates inside was incredibly illegal, along with bike riding, skate boarding or riding any other self-propelled apparatus with wheels.
"What is this? how do the buttons work?" Bhavani asked, concern lacing her voice.
"I think I've been in one of these things before, you press the button with the name of where you're going on it, and the box takes you there. One problem though, I cant read." Alex said.
"Oh, that's fine, I can." Bhavani said, After that she proceeded to read out all the names of the buttons, it took Alex a moment to figure out, he went to press the button reading "ground floor, inside" but Bhavani stopped him. "We want outside don't we? This one says inside, meaning it'll lead back into the building again."
"Oh, you're right." He moved his hand to the right, to a button reading "Ground floor, outside" and looked at Bhavani questioningly. Bhavani nodded and Alex pressed the button and the room began to move. The metal walls began to screech around them, the city plummeted towards them through the window, they began to feel lightheaded and weightless. Alex hugged onto Bhavani who was quite clearly distressed by this, in an attempt to calm her. This went on for at least thirty seconds before they finally reached their destination and a disembodied, robotic voice seeming to come from the ceiling said; "Ground floor, outside." And the doors of the strange room opened to reveal they were in fact on the ground, outside. The two rushed out of the room uncoordinatedly, still clad with roller skates and collapsed onto the rough outdoor tiles.