Terror

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Mark crawled underground in a tunnel created by Conner. His entire body was covered with dirt that kept flying in his face from Will, who was crawling in front of them. It was like something a termite would create in a long line with dirt all over the place.

"This is so weird," Will remarked. "It's like those tubes in a playground."

Will was the eyes in this whole tunnel situation. They had driven a car over, but it died halfway to town, so they had to go with the secret process Zane wanted them to do by creating secret tunnels, which could work for fleeing the scene quickly.

"Not exactly," Conner muttered. "It's just like digging a regular hole in the ground."

Conner stopped to crouch slightly, placing both hands on top of the tunnel. The whole ground caved on top of him, but he forcefully pulled himself out of the hole.

Will stayed put for a moment before closing his eyes. "Eden's going to be using all those moves when she fought Luke."

"Why not Jason and Greyson?" Emma panicked, whirling around to look at Will. "Unless they changed their plan or something,"

"There are missiles," Will stated.

Mark pushed Emma up to the surface, rolling slightly but staring down at Will in the hole.

Mark had no idea how someone would be able to get missiles. Those would be something stored at an army base unless they secretly had some stored at the power plant.

"They're probably from Bella's isolation cabin she stayed at," Nevaeh chimed in.

"We could just ride the missiles and then jump off like a rocket," Will explained.

The rest of them crawled out from behind a backroad that still had some houses intact. Most of the trees were burned or tilted at an angle that wasn't the easiest hiding spot. They hid under one of the houses that was only half burned at the siding, seeing part of the plaza.

"I'm glad I didn't grow up here," Will stated, sticking out his tongue. "I'm from Vancouver. I'm an abandoned teen like Bryce, Mia, and Eden. Like they don't acknowledge our birthdays or anything. Once, Mia got a card, and it said her parents hated her on her birthday. That's how the outside world will see us when we're out of here."

There were no longer just some kids who went to school or played sports. He's had to bury and carry bodies of people who had died, or even fish for them, when the town split happened.

"I have access to my parents' bank account, but they don't know. I've crashed my father's investment by buying drugs and alcohol when I was at Uden. You have to do a lot of running as a delinquent. Okay, let's spy!" Will cheered.

They crept past the destroyed houses and toward a road closer to the plaza. Conner drilled himself in the ground that slowly went deeper and deeper. Mark looked down the dark hole as Nevaeh pointed a small flashlight.

"So, we're army crawling through this hole?" Emma asked. "And hope we don't break a bone."

James went in first, using the walls to slowly slide himself down. Mark held the gun in his hand as Nevaeh and Will did the same thing, except when Emma did it, her hand slipped halfway and ended up screaming.

Mark used one hand and his feet to help him down the deep hole. His arms and legs both felt wobbly, as if he felt he'd fall at any moment. When he reached the bottom, Conner was in front, with Will behind him.

"Okay, so it doesn't look like it's far, but ten meters right," Will called, his voice echoing in the tunnel.

Conner used his melting power, travelling faster than all of them combined. He'd stop at one point to wait for them to come for Will's next direction.