Radioactive Trenches

Chapter 4

Chapter Four~

Do you know what it's like to be shot? No, of course you don't. But I'm sure you can probably imagine what it feels like.

Well take that feeling multiply it by a million and add it to the number of stars in the sky.

Yeah. It hurts.

I stumble forward, tripping down a few stairs as I grasp my wounded left shoulder. For a few seconds all I see is a red haze, and then a guards face. I punch him in the jaw hard enough that I dislocate it.

Nobody shoots Charlie Diamond and gets away it. Oh no. Thats not how I work.

Deal with it.

Lanky Kid grabs my arm- making the pain go a million times worse. I scream at the poor kid and knock down another guard. "KEEP GOING!" Pain is just combusting with my internal anger towards this place.

I feel like an eruption of twisted anger going off.

I rip a gun out one of the guards hands and barley avoid getting shot in the foot. Screams make me look over my shoulder for only a second. Some of the kids where getting attacked.

I point the gun a guard trying to drag a little girl away from my "wolf pack" of kids. I fire the gun three times. The little girl rushes back into the middle of the pack, safe and sound.

I have to keep going before we all die. Serenity would be able to help me fight. And she was on the third floor. We had to make it.

I get a rock from Lanky Kid and hurl it at the back of the pack of kids. Some of them scream and hurry to catch up with me.

The levels of rooms blur. Kids are fighting anyone who gets to close. Heck, my arms and legs are constantly kicking and punching. I have no idea which level this is. The pain... it hurts so much I can't concentrate. It feels like even though my eyes are wide open, I'm totally blind.

I'm not sure which is worse. Bleeding terribly or seeing everything and nothing at the same time? It makes me want to scream.

So guess what? I do. And I scream as loud as I can because I feel blind and my shoulder hurts and I would never be in this mess if it wasn't for the Fall Out Prison. They put me in this mad house. It's their fault I've been shot. It's their fault I'm going crazy right now.

It's

All

Their

Fault.

I shriek that sentence over and over as I fight. Apparently it gets some of the other kids motivated because they are chanting along with me.

Lanky Kid shoves a rock in my hand. As I light it, I can barley focus long enough to ask him; "Which floor is this?!"

"Four!" He shouts back. "We can make it!" He rushes off to fight another guard who's trying to keep his gun away from three little boys while taking them down in the process.

The fourth floor. We can do this.

At least that's what I think as we run through the third floor.

And that's when I see her.

Serenity is standing there looking panicked. I race to her and she grips my hand- if it where any other time, my heart would leap.

"Charlie they're going to issue the Emergency Protocol!" She sounds terrified as she runs with me.

"What's that?" I shout as I race to the stairwell to the second floor.

A terrible sound seems to tear through the Fall Out Prison. Serenity shoves us out of the doorway as a huge metal wall slides down in front of.

I freeze and look at Serenity in horror. "What does the Emergency Protocol mean?"

Even through solid metal walls I can hear the screams of kids as they try to escape.

Serenity's face is pale. "It means in one minute this place will blow up. We're all trapped."