An Immoral Beginning

IX: Escaping the grinder

I get the chains off, I search the unconscious fellow for any weapons. I get packed and loaded, I leave what was supposed to be my death room, however I once again somehow survived, it's crazy really. Now, where are Henry and the others? I remember that we got ambushed with darts laced with a type of toxin strong enough to knock out its prey without killing them.

"Jeez, what's with the pointy stuff? The windows have sharp ends too, Jesus what kind of place is this?" I mutter to myself, this place is creepy as hell. It looks as if it were abandoned, the smell reeks of blood and booze.

"You think someone might have happened to Jake? He hasn't come back to report yet." A voice said.

"I don't know man, the boss told us to keep watch for anyone that might have escaped. We can't disobey him, we have to continue patrolling." Another disgruntled voice said, shit I need to hide, maybe if I stay hidden and they don't turn, I'll have a winning chance in hell of surviving. I hide behind something and wait for them to walk away into the distance, I sneak past them, I did-

"Huh? Hey, what the hell?! How'd he escaped?"

"Doesn't matter, we take him down!"

Dammit, I wanted to sneak my way towards the others, not go aggressively because that will result in death!

"Bang!"

"Huh? The hell? We got a snip-

"Wham!"

I punched the guy directly in the head, pushing him back into those spikes. I quickly rush away, now where are they or at least one of them so they can help out at least. I hear something, it sounds like a... oh shit! One of my friends is gonna be ground beef if I don't hurry!

"Don't worry this will only hurt a lo-"

"Wham!"

I busted down the door and pushed the sick bastard into his own grinder, god the noises, the blood too... disgusting..

"Shit! Mike, you saved my ass!" Henry said

"Yea no shit about that, anyways we have to hurry, we need to rescue the other!"

We get out of there and continue to search for the others, we're barely alive as we don't have any ammo, meaning the gun I have is useless.

"Hey, Mark?" Henry asked.

"I'm not Mark, I'm Mike." I respond

"I know, it's just that our ally seems to think that these are our real names."

"That's what we're trying to do, we left our old life in California when you guys broke me outta prison."

"Yeah, I know. It's just that maybe we should tell them. I mean our bounty is quite high, so it's only a matter of time before they know who we truly are."

He does have a good point, after all Ms. Pendleton is probably arousing suspicions about us. I mean it's not Nick told her, we were going to keep this a secret, it might as well remain one.

"Listen, we kept it a secret and that's how it's going to stay, until the others say otherwise, ok Henry?"

"Yea, I guess you're right..."

"Look, we'll talk it out with the others, alright? Right now our goal is to save the others."

"Yeah, you're right, let's get going."

We get going and up the way, another two guards patrolling around.

"Okay, you take the guy on the right, I'll take the guy on the left, ok?" I whispered that to Henry and he nodded, we carefully snuck behind them and then..