Series of Dangerous Events

Episode 1: Three Hours

It was a very early Friday morning and I woke up feeling cold and exhausted on a dirty floor in a main room of a home I did not know. I wondered where I was. This was not my home. I just lay there looking at the ceiling. I got up looking around my surroundings and feeling confused.

Where the hell was I? I asked myself. Who brought me here. I was about to scream. My name is Alex Gibson. I am a 24 year-old UTECH student. After my classes were done, I drove home, ate dinner and went to sleep. Now I wake up in this creepy abandoned house with no shoes and no shirt. It was a cold morning. I looked to see any doors and I found the front door. It was barred with three long woods. The windows are also barred and the curtain drapes were torn down.

"HELLO!" I yelled. I only heard my own echo. I continued walking around looking for a way to escape this big house. I went to the kitchen.

"OUCH!" I shouted, something cut my foot bottom. There were a lot of broken glasses all over the kitchen. I didn't go any further at this point. I went back to the main room and all I see is a dusty old chandelier in the ceiling. As I walked in a hall, I see a long dining table with eight chairs and a large white plate. There were glass windows that had wires around them. They looked so suspicious, red, blue, green and yellow string around them. I didn't touch them but I could see the backyard. I saw the main gate and it was large and white. It looked like it was an electronic gate because there was a control pad with buttons on them.

"What the hell is happening!?" I said to myself sounding scared. I tried to open the front door but it was tightly locked. I even tried kicking it bearing the pain of my cut foot. The door wouldn't budge. I walked back to the dining room and looked for the CD I found earlier. I took and kept it because it should mean something. All I needed was a player to use it. I walked around the dining table and went to another room. This house was really big. It seems like a mansion but it is not a mansion. The room I entered had a 32inch HDTV with a DVD player and it was dusty. I found a letter size envelope with my name on it. I took it up and opened it. A paper with notes written on it. As I read:

"Mr. Gibson, If you are reading this, you have to understand why you are here. You have done a bad thing that caused a suffering for a special innocent person. You have to pay the price for that."

I was confused, scared and angry all at the same time. What the hell is this? I asked myself that. Who wrote this?

"In order to redeem yourself, you must survive this dangerous mission or die being the ungrateful person you are. After this message you have three hours to either escape or defuse the bomb that is set in the basement. You will find a few clues to help you survive. I will give you one hint and remember it. 'The safe has the answer to your problem'. You can either find a way out or defuse the bomb. However, you have three hours starting now." The video stopped and showed the timer on it starting at 3:00:00 and ticking.

How the hell am I supposed to do? What did I do so bad that I end up here? Unless I got into a fight with a bully at school which was three months ago and I was harsh to my cousin judging him and his lifestyle. I need to find a way out of here and I need to hurry. Even though it is two days and a half. What the hell?

I played the message again. Well there are clues that can help me. I walked around and looked for a basement. I haven't explored the big house fully. I walked into a room opposite the dining room and it was like an office. It has two shelves with a few books. They were really dusty, a lot of papers were scattered on the ground. I looked through some and they were information that doesn't interest me at all. It's like they came from the books from the shelf. There were old newspapers dated from last year and up to early this year. Parts of the papers were torn and I see a Sunday Gleaner and I took it up and review it. Some sections of the paper were missing like the entertainment and the career sections. I went through other gleaners and it was the same thing. I see the entertainment section but it wasn't full. Pages were missing.