Good and Evil

Save Jack

There has got to be something here like a key or even just a crowbar so that I can open the tube Jack is in. I started looking around when I heard someone running down the hallway. I ran over to the door and looked out the window. It was Dark and Jessie. I thought for a moment if I should go out there and try to explain to them about Hack, but they are still brainwashed, so I decided against it. They looked like they were heading here, I need to hide.
CRAP there is nowhere to hide. I tried hiding under the desk, but that is to obvious, so I ran to the open tube. I closed the door and hoped for the best. I looked around for somewhere I could put myself, but there was nowhere. That is when the bottom part of the tube started going up. I thought I was going to be crushed against the top, but it was flexible and it bent around me. I stood up through a hole in the fabric and climbed out of the top part of the tube into a whole other room. I heard the door from the room below me open and I could hear Dark and Jessie talking.
"Maaaaaark" Jessie said kind of sing-song like.
"Oh shut up, he isn't gonna be dumb enough to come into a forbidden area, Jes" Dark replied.
"Then why are we looking?" Jessie said with a chuckle.
"Just to be sure."
"Let's go, he's not here"
I heard the door open and close again, so I knew I could move. The platform I was standing on did not go down again, so I decided to explore up here. It's a dark room with black walls. The only light is coming from the room below. I could see down into Jack's tube, and there was a button to the right of it. I figured that the situation couldn't really get any worse, so I pressed it. A loud noise broke the silence, almost making me crap my pants. A tube came from the cylinder Jack is stuck in and it started draining the green liquid from his tube to the other one that was empty. After a minute or so, Jack's tube was bolo her filled with liquid and he had fallen limp on the floor. There was a switch next to the button that had "up" and "down" written on it. I pressed up and the platform started raising.
Once Jack was all the way up to the room with me, I frantically took all the wires and tubes out of him.
He woke up slowly an opened his eyes. It was great to hear his voice again.
"Hi Mark"
"Hey Jack."
"I missed you" he said softly.
"You better not get all sappy on me right now" I replied with a laugh.
"Fine" he said, smiling, "what took you so damn long"
We both laughed pretty hard.
"I'm cold" Jack admitted.
"Well, that makes sense since you are all wet and almost completely naked"
"That sounds kinda dirty"
"Shut up" I said and stood up. He stood too and I took off my jacket, handing it to him. I put it around him and he slid his arms through the sleeves that were too big for him. Out of nowhere, Jack just came up and gave me a big hug.
"We need to find a way out of here." He said. "And how did you get up here anyway?"
"Well, I needed to escape being caught, so I got in that tube over there and it started going up like yours did."
"Wait... I thought those could only be operated from up here" Jack inquired.
"Yeah, that's what has got me confused too. There is no one else up here, but I didn't press anything down there." I said equally confused.
"Well, first of all, if someone helped you get out of trouble, there is at least one more decent human here that isn't brainwashed. That is a plus, right?"
"Yeah, I guess, but that also means that there is a way out of here."
We went to the walls and felt from corner to corner of try to find a hollow spot or something.
"Wait. Should we make these platform things go down again so that if we need to use them again, they are down?" Jack asked me.
"Sure"
We pressed the switch down and went back to checking the wall.
"Over here" Jack half-yelled to get my attention as he pushed on the wall. I walked over and pushed on it too. It reveled a false wall that could turn so that we can get to the other side of the wall. We both looked at each other curiously and walked through the door, closing it behind us.