the game

reunited on the battlefront

KATIE

i'm running. the second anyone catches up to me i will be a target. amy is by my side for now. and for now we keep away from most people. i don't know what my goal is yet. i just know that amy's freeze ray has come in handy one too many times. it makes me smile. i can't bear to think about doing this without amy.

"so which way should we go?" currently amy and i are surrounded in woodland area. i can hear monsters from here. there's a thick fog covering the surrounding area. there is nothing to see out there except something. something in the distance. something red.

"hold on," i stop in my tracks. so does amy. there are a pair of red gleaming eyes in the distance.

the enemy.

i gulp and pray it's not terrence.

i race in the opposite direction. the base is bigger than i thought. there must be someone that will take amy and i under their wing.

it's better than facing my friends. i guess, i don't know if we're still friends. i'd like to think we are though. it makes my heart hurt. i miss them more than i should. more than i should be able to.

"don't worry i'll find her," it's ima's voice.

but her voice is too close. i gulp and turn back around just in time for the door to open and ima to step out in front of me.

"well what do we have here?" she smiles.

the next few things happen so fast i can't keep my head above the tides.

first my head slams into the concrete below. my head throbs and blood is already spreading on the concrete. i stay still.

"not going to put up a fight?" she scoffs. "well that's fine. easier for me that way, hey you guys, keep her by the jail and don't let her get away. i can't have her wracking up good stats," she's about to send them away when she thinks of something. "but whatever you do don't kill her," the words send a shiver down my spine. i see. they're trying to make sure i can't clear the score gap. they're making sure i don't make it out of this. i look around desperately for amy. i don't know where she went. somehow this makes me feel worse.

my whole body cramps up at once as someone shocks me. my powers are overflowing. i don't know what it is.

ken flashes in front of my mind.

not again.

i will not let him save me.

ever.

he's trash.

my fists clench as pain from someone throwing me ricochets through my body. i know what this is.

torture.

and imas using only a few people to do it. i need a plan. i need some kind of way out. i need a plan.

the thought of amy not being here is getting under my skin. she was just here. i could have sworn she was just here.

TERRENCE

I'm on my way into the forest. I don't even know what I'm looking for and then I see it. There's a cabin in the distance with a furl of smoke emanating from it. I furrow my brows. Level 1 doesn't have borders? Or does it?

There's a rustle in the trees in front of me. I gulp and step inside anyway. I need to figure out what happened to my dad.

I keep running. The trees are getting thicker and I can no longer see the pillar rising from the cabin. I gulp. I need to keep pushing forward. Worst case scenario I die and regenerate. It will be fine.