Wonderer's Wish World 2: Evolutionary Rebirth

The End of Us

Day 12

Time: 7:30 AM

Location: Fourth Moon Quarter Detention Building

Miko pushed herself up, looking startled. Darius looked down the hall, nervously waiting for the cops to come running down the hall again, but to his surprise, no one did.

"Miko!" Molly cried, trying to reach out to her, but she was stopped by the bars.

"Your door was unlocked?" Robyn yelled. She grasped her own cell doors and shook them, but unlike Miko's, they stayed stuck fast. "Oh. Just hers."

"Miko!" Darius hissed at her urgently. He didn't want to be mean, but just because the police hadn't shown up yet didn't mean they never would. "You have to go get the keys for our cell doors! We have to get out of here!"

"While's that alarm going off?" Greg was wondering. Ai shook her head.

"I... I have no idea," she answered, sounding worried. Apparently, she had figured out exactly what Darius had.

"Miko!" Darius called, who had, just like him, gotten distracted by Ai and Greg. "The keys."

Miko's head snapped up. "Oh, right!"

Miko turned quickly, and then suddenly paused. Darius' stared at Miko's back as she looked down, kneeled to the ground, and then stood up and turned around while jiggling keys in her hand.

Darius' jaw dropped open. "W-Where did you get those?!"

Miko shrugged, stepped forward to unlock Molly and Robyn's cage. "I don't know! They were just in the floor over there."

"So... the cops just dropped it?" Darius asked, frowning.

"That's lucky," Robyn agreed, also looking rather suspicious.

"Maybe we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth," Molly pointed out, looking nervous. She turned to stare the hall, at, according to Darius, was nothing. "Miko, hurry up with Darius' door, we don't have a lot of time!"

"I am, I am!" Miko told her, sticking the key in the lock with enthusiasm. Still, it took her a couple tries to open up the door. "Man, I hate these types of locks."

As soon as the click, sounded, Darius pushed open the door.

"I have an idea," he said, quickly. He was already moving down the long hall filled with many other cell doors as quickly as he could, and the other's followed him closely. "We'll get off this planet the same way we got on it, with Luca and Sandy's ship!"

"Right," Ai agreed, while Miko, Molly and Robyn looked at each other with the obvious question of 'who's Luca?' on their faces. "But where is he? We can't spend a lot of time looking, or we'll be caught!"

"I..." That was a good question. In truth, Darius realized he had no idea. "I... Where do pilots, or ship captains or... whatever they are, where do they usually go when they come here?"

This was a question directed at Molly, Miko and Robyn. The former two shrugged, unknowing, but Robyn frowned, thinking.

"Usually, they don't go anywhere," she explained haltingly, like she only short of knew. "They stay at the docking station to unload and then they leave again. But I think last night was a different matter, because I saw them going to the barracks. Maybe they stayed there."

"You saw them?" Molly asked, looking surprised. "When? I didn't see anything."

Robyn visibly cringed. "It was when you weren't looking. Er, when you were asleep."

Molly blinked, and then frowned. She didn't look overly suspicious of the strange answer, but Darius could tell that answer troubled her. Still, she shook her head, obviously letting it go.