A daring Escape

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Jordan

Their plan was simple, but then nothing every goes right in the wasteland. Jordan snuck around behind the guards and killed them. Timebomb then shot the lock open, and the two entered the building. Jordan snuck to the nearest terminal, and hacked in. He found out where Cywren was being held, but then he noticed something else. There was a man dressed in all black, including a hood and mask over his face, standing in the research lab. He knew better than to confront him alone, but what could possibly go wrong? Jordan decided to run for the research lab to see if this was the hacker. Once he got there, he saw his brother tied up.

"Isaac!" Jordan said.

"You know him?" Timebomb asked.

"He's my brother, he was kidnaped." Jordan explained.

"By me." A third voice, sounding male, said.

"Who are you?" Jordan asked.

"Now why would I tell you that? Get them." The hacker said.

Enclave soldiers swarmed into the room. Jordan checked his clip, he had 7 shots left. Jordan needed a plan, one hit and he was probably dead. He couldn't depend on Archetype because he would not know what was happening to him. He would have to think of a way out of this himself.

"Timebomb cover me!" Jordan said.

He drew his tools, and began to make something. He made a flash grenade, and lobed it at the enclave soldiers. The soldiers were blinded, Jordan ran in with his knife and killed all of them. He looked for the hacker, but he had disappeared. He cut Isaac free.

"Isaac, are you ok?" Jordan said, trying to wake him.

"J-Jordan?" Isaac said.

"Oh thank god you're ok." Jordan said.

"Where are we?" Isaac asked.

"We're in the wasteland, more specifically raven rock." Jordan said.

"Why are we here?" Isaac asked.

"Cywren is here, I figured we had best rescue her." Jordan said, "Plus you were here too."

"Where is Cywren?" Isaac asked.

"We need to rescue her; she's being held in a cell about 20 meters that way." Jordan said.

"Not if I have something to say about it." The hacker said, reappearing.

The hacker got out a small gauntlet, and swapped a bunch of settings around, and suddenly everything turned black. When Jordan came to, he was somewhere else. It looked like a prison cell, in the cell with him was none other than Cywren. He looked around the room, there was the bed he had woken up on which had red sheets and a white pillow. Then there was the bed Cywren was on, it looked exactly like the one Jordan was on. There were two desks, one next to Jordan's bed and one next to Cywren's. There was a light hanging from the ceiling and then Jordan noticed the bars. This was a prison cell, and he and Cywren were Cellmates. Jordan heard a bell, and he woke up Cywren. Without much discussion, Jordan and Cywren followed the guard who led them into a courtyard. There Jordan saw Isaac, Bethany, Cierra, Mark, Jack, Timebomb, Wade, and Bob. Jordan checked his pocket, he still had the papers for communication with Archetype, but other than that there was nothing.

Archetype

Things had gone terrible fast, after Jordan left Archetype was told of many problems, so many that he couldn't remain in game because he had to leave to fix them. By the time he had fixed all the code he realized that it was a distraction, and he noticed that the players were no longer in the wasteland, he scanned the game and found them in the escapists. Archetype had no clue what to do, there were only supposed to be three of those worlds, not a fourth. And then he realized that the hacker had changed the format. He scanned the game, and his scan was not what he had wanted. It yielded results showing that they would go through a total of 5 more games! And then they would end up at the end of the Last of us. Great there goes my normal plan. Archetype thought.

"What are we going to do?" Zombie asked.

"We adapt, I can't go back in there, but we can still keep it stable from out here." Archetype decided.

"There's got to be a way to stop the hacker." Zombie said.

"Hmm, maybe not stop, but I think I can slow him down." Archetype said.

Jordan

It was lunch time in the cafeteria. And Jordan and the others were figuring things out.

"Ok does anyone know where we are?" Jordan asked.

"It kinda looks like the escapists." Jack said.

"Ok, if that's true then jack I think you're the leader of this little operation, you know the most about this topic." Mark said.

"Right, if our mission is to escape, what do we need?" Cywren asked.

"We need duct tape, lots of it, files, paper Mache, keys, plastic molds, hot chocolate, and as many weapons as possible." Jack said.

"Right I just checked the job board, Jordan you're on the gardening job, Cierra is in the kitchen, Jack is in the laundry room, Mark is in the metal shop, and Bob is mailman." Isaac reported, "The rest of us have no jobs."

"Good, Jordan you take as many hoes as you can carry. We can use them as weapons, and they aren't contraband." Jack said.

"Right." Jordan said.

"Cierra you get cooked food out of the kitchen when you do your job, just make extra and go and put it in your desk, it's also not marked as contraband." Jack said.

"I'm on it." Cierra said.

"I can get us uniforms, but I'll need a contraband pouch first." Jack said.

"I'll see if I can find or craft one, what do I need for that?" Isaac asked.

"You need foil and duct tape, just combine those and it will make a pouch, once we have that I can get us some uniforms." Jack said.

"Wade, Isaac, Bethany, Timebomb, and I will work on the pouch." Cywren said.

"Good, Mark once we have pouches we can get metal from your job, and Bob you can search desks without getting in trouble, so just do that." Jack said.

"Right, let's do this." Jordan said.

Lunch then ended and those with jobs went to do them, Jordan gathered enough hoes to do his job, and have weapons for each of them. He stored them in his desk(Which had a surprising amount of space in it). He met up with the others at dinner. Cywren and her group had made three contraband pouches, Bob had found a ton of duct tape, Cierra had made a ton of food, and they were almost ready to escape. The only question in anyone's mind was how would they get through the door. Jordan noticed Jack do something, he took 12 forks and 11 spoons from the plastic ware. Jordan was not sure what was going on, but he had his own doubts about their plan. He had no clue how they would get through the cell walls in order to escape. Jordan and Cywren's cell was the only one with a vent, but the other's cells were on opposite sides of the prison, there was no possible way to get into their cell easily. Jordan had left out one thing he had found, he had grabbed a screwdriver from another prisoner's desk. They had everything they needed, all but one thing. How would they get into each other's cells? Later that evening Jack gave them a solution. He had knocked out the guard with the correct key, made a copy, and gave it back. Jack had a key to all the cells, they had everything now. That night they executed their plan. Jack unlocked all their cells and they got to Jordan and Cywren's cell. They unscrewed the vent, and climbed to the roof. From there they all dropped down onto the floor, and found the fence. Jack began to cut through it with the knives, he went through all of them but he made his way through the fence, and they all went into the red portal. And suddenly Jordan found himself in a new, unfamiliar place.

Archetype

Archetype had finally fixed the problem, well sort of. He had reduced the number of games from 5 to 2, but he had to execute his plan to slow the hacker. He entered a string of code, and prayed that he had done the right thing.



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