Synchronicity: Floating City

Kyo toki-sei: Tenku no shi (part 5)

A soldier was guarding the cell, his eyes stared forward at the grey walls. I sneaked up to him, the rod in my hands and stabbed him with it. I screamed as I twisted the rod into his ribs.

The soldier jerked and did a mid scream as the electric rod shocked his whole body. He fell forwards, his eyes stared blankly back at me. I quickly duck down and swiped the keys off his belt, then set myself free. I gave the soldier a boot in the ribs to make sure he was really dead and then smiled to myself.

“I got the keys,” I said out loud.

I took a deep breath and looked back my mother’s dead corpse for the last time and then looking serious again. I had no time to waste; I must save my brother like I promised to my mother. A brother that I've never met.

“I will save Lennard, I promised,” I whispered.

I fled up the spiral stair case and onto the ground floor of the building. The whole building was a twisted version of a regal palace, everything was metallic and lifeless. The doors and walls were metal sheets with bolts that screwed on to the walls. I slid down the metallic flooring, killing people who had gotten in my way.

There was a strange magnetic force fulling me along as I went frantic with blood and oil spraying everywhere. I was mad and angry that my mother had been locked up so many years and a twin brother who I’d never met was under the control of an evil robot who enslaved humans for digging for metals to created a new and more powerful city. It was said that Luka’s main plan was to conquer the unknown world beneath us, which was hundreds times the size of our tiny city. Drones and decoys were forced to visit the lands below us but many people did not return because of the air pressure below us was different to the one up here.

I was at the end of the main hallway and two double doors stood in front of me. I’d stopped in a halt and spun around, looking down the hallway. Many were humans lying motionlessly in a dark pool of blood and oil. Guilt plunged into my chest like a dagger. These soldiers were innocent and were forced to be on service. Now that I think of it, I was no difference to Luka.

I turned back to the double doors and squeezed my eyes shut. I took a deep breath and pushed the doors open. Images of men begging for mercy flashed in my mind. I gasped and my eyes flicked opened.