What Would Happen?

Part 12: Return

"Ah, god dammit." I sniffled.

"What's wrong?" Veronica asked.

"Whaddya mean 'what's wrong?' Have you seen our faces?! Our eyes are completely swelled up!"

"Whatever. We should be worrying about how to get out of here, not swelled up eyes. They'll be back to normal in no time." Barry commented.

"Well, how in the world do we get? We've been walking in circles for like, what, 10 minutes now?" Ashton complained.

"Well you know what? I'm starving. We haven't eaten jack squat for two days." Ethan interrupted.

"Okay,okay. I get it. We're all exhausted from saving the city and/or world." Leyna spoke in a monotone voice.

"I have some gummies but they're pretty chewy due to being exposed to the air for quite some time." Amber informed.

"At this point, we don't really care as long as we don't die of hunger." Veronica whispered.

"Too true." I agreed.

And so we spent about an hour munching on three gummies per person and talking about how much we destroyed the world during the process of trying to save it. We had then talked about the sadist and what the public would think of him. We eventually made a plan to call the police and say he was being a stalker or pervert and then we all use our powers to destroy the plane that held a few tanks of the virus, PROJECT BL'S DVR.

We talked and talked until we had finally reached a rusty ladder that was about nine to ten feet tall and directly above it was a hole being covered by a large, square plate of metal. Barry had climbed up the ladder first and he punched the piece of metal off to get out. We looked up and we saw the orange sky that we all longed for. We could easily tell that it was dusk and it started to get windy again.

Once we all got out, we headed to the location of our high school from the stranded area filled with debris. All three large buildings with 40-50 broken glass windows were there.

We walked in and saw that the halls were trashed with paper, dirt and dust. Some locker doors were open as we passed through the halls. We quickly ran up to the roof   And looked around. Our homes were safe but the main city was obliterated.

As we stared at the cold and starry night sky, we all suddenly realized that our bags were destroyed along with the buildings. We laughed at the thought of our idiocy and how we forgot such important things.

"Oh god i just lost twenty bucks and my science text book." Barry complained.

"That's why you only put in maps and a compass. We probably should've brought food and water too, though." I nagged.

"Wait, did you also put your books and wallet in your locker?" Veronica smirked.

"Yeah." I laughed.

"Jeez, you two." Amber sighed.

All of a sudden, our phones vibrated like never before and they got our thighs numb. We checked our phones and I had about twenty-something missed calls and a million text messages saying "Where are you? Marissa? Are you safe? Please answer!!"

We figured that we should all speed home but looked down at our ragged clothes, messy hair and ripped up shoes.

"First, we all get into our gym clothes and then run the hell out of here. Sound okay?" Ethan quickly suggested.

"Yeah." We all nodded.

I texted to my mom that I was still practicing volleyball with the club but she scolded  me and told me to come home immediately. Even though it was only through texts and no words were in all caps, her lecture definitely had a 'Ima take away yo phone tonight' feel. You know what I mean, right?

As soon as I got home, I took a shower and cooked two packs of ramen to eat. I honestly stopped caring about how late or how unhealthy it was that night but bear with me. I was starving for two days trying to save all of you and yet I still don't have a restaurant-quality meal or any respect. But that's fine.

Pretty cool that I saved the world but now i have a very noticeable scar on my shoulder blade but it was luckily on the same spot as my birth mark.

Now you all now the pride and stress of saving the world.