The Dead Mans Games

Tick-tock

"NO!" i scream out as I jolt to life. I find myself on a cold hard ground. The room is dimly light and I can only see the area around me. It feels a bit wet where my right hand is resting. I look over to it. "blood?!" I jump to my feet and back away from the blood.

"Hello" a dark and ominous voice calls down to me, "You must be very confused. You'll understand everything very quickly." More lights turn on around me and I can clearly see my surroundings. The walls are a dark gray tiles and the floor is hard concrete, both have blood on them. To my left is a table, to my right is another person (unconscious) and behind me is a thick metal door.

"On the table is a blade and a bomb. The bomb has a button pad on it. You have one shot to type in a code, so if you type it in wrong it's all over. One of you has the code." The voice says to me. "You have ten minutes. The code lies within the two of you," after the voice says that a loud scratchy noise goes off in the speaker.

I walk to the table and inspect what is in front of me. Like he said, a bomb and a knife. I reach for the blade and feel a stabbing pain in the right side of my body. I lift up my shirt and see a sewed up cut. "Is that what he means by the code being in us?" I walk  to the other person. She looks at peace to be honest. I bend down besides her and carefully lift up her shirt. She more than one cut, and all of them seem scarred over. "How long has she been trapped in here?" I think to myself. She looks familiar, but I can't make out who she is.

I dig the blade into her skin and she wakes up with a scream. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" She yells. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. We're trapped here I gotta dig through you to get it. He said the code is in one of us and I've seen enough horror movies to understand what that meant. If we can do this correctly then we can both leave alive." I respond

"Ok... Just don't get me killed..." The girl said in a scared tone. I gently touch her skin with the scalpel and mouth the words "I'm sorry." I press into the skin on her stomach and after I made a good cut I take it out. I spread the wound apart to look around and she starts to wince in pain. Nothing. I ask "you ok?" "Yea, I'm just great. I have a person digging around inside of me with a scalpel."

"You ready to go again?" "No... But that's as ready as I'm getting so let's go." She says. I open up a part of flesh on her bicep. I open it and yet again find nothing. "Wait," she says "we shouldn't have to dig to far in, to far could kill. So maybe we can feel around for it." We start feeling around at all the scars until we feel a thin slab of something. Without haste I dig the blade just under her armpit. "God damn it that hurt!" She yelled. "Sorry," I respond. I pull out a thin sheet of metal with numbers on it. It read "0721." I run to the bomb and disarm it as fast as I can. The numbers stop ticking and we had six minutes and five seconds left.

The thick door behind us creeks open. All I can see is light, so bright I need to cover my eyes. I walk to it. The girl follows me in. "Where are we?" I ask. She doesn't respond quick enough. The floor falls out from underneath us.