Elena: a Fandom Academy novella

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I basically spent the next 5 hours crouched in my "cell", crying. I felt miserable about all of this, and disgusted by the scientists. They were obviously the ones who needed to get their brain checked. There were a series of knocks- 4-1-2-3. The password to Mr. Andrews' room. My ears perked up at the familliar rhythm, and I slowly walked towards the translucent door. A part of me hoped it was Carter. It definitely was not Reed, and sadly, the figure was not like Carter. Before I could react, the door flung open.

Outside was a tall, stocky guy with curly light brown hair and a smirk on his face. "Hello, Elena." he said.

I blinked. I didn't even know who he was, I've never even seen him in my entire life. "Who are you? And what do you want?" I assumed he wasn't a scientist since A, he was smirking and scientists don't have expressions. B, he called me Elena, not Holmes. I figured I could trust him.

He rolled his eyes," Walt Ramsey. How can you not recognize me?"

Walt Ramsey. Right. He went to Fandom Academy and he dropped out after his second year. He was like, the school badboy. "What's going on?" I asked. Then, I heard footsteps. They weren't in the area, but definitely close by. I had a panicked look on my face.

He held out his palm, and there was a pink pill. "Eat this. Now. You have to."

I considered my options. One, was take the pill. Two, was punch him in the face... or somewhere else. Three, scream? I was totally not going to accept a pill from Walt Ramsey. That didn't stop him though. He forced my mouth open and shoved it down my throat with water. Seconds after I swallowed, my stomach started growling. "What the-" and instead of a swear word that came out of my mouth, I started puking my guts out. There was a bile taste in my mouth, "What the fuck?" I coughed.

He grabbed my hand, and whispered,"No time to explain. Run." So I did. When someone tells you to run, you better not hesitate. I learned that the hard way the day I was captured here.

I've never seen much of this place besides my cell, so this was all confusing. I kept thinking we were lost, but Walt knew this place inside and out. "Okay, what's happening?" I huffed. I'm not much of an athlete, to be honest.

"I'll explain later," Walt panted. We nearly ran into some scientists, but we turned around just in time. This was so intense, I couldn't help but imagine that I was the Doctor's companion, and we were on some daring adventure, running for our lives.

Someone must have noticed that I was missing, because alarms started blaring, and the whole place started to lockdown.

"Shit shit shit," Walt muttered under his breath. We heard footsteps again, except this time, it sounded like there were troops of people. He pulled out a screwdriver (unfortunately, not sonic) and unscrewed the vent above. He climbed onto a shelf and pulled me up.

"Crawl in," he hissed. I did a double take. Could I even fit in there? It looked tiny. I heard more footsteps, and without hesitating any more, I ducked my head and pushed myself through the vent. I'd barely fit, so I can't imagine how Walt could fit in, but he could.

It was completely dark in here, and the creepiness level was off the charts. I kinda wished I was back in the tube. At least it wasn't this tight, Walt and I were completely squished together. This place was dark and there were probably rats in here. I shivered at the thought.

"I hope you're not claustrophobic," he murmured. I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Thankfully he turned on a flashlight. He was always prepared.

"Okay, so are you going to explain to me what's going on?" I whispered.

"I came to save you. Isn't that obvious?" he said in a low voice.

"Why me though? I don't even know you."

"Because there's still hope for you. Everyone else has already been here for over 50 days. Once they've had those pills 50 times, then they... I'm not sure, they do stuff to your genes or they try to replicate them so they can make their own Multifandom people. It's horrifying," he explained." You have 4 days left until they change you, so I had to get you out of here."

"How did you sneak in? The security level is crazy," I wondered. I actually admire him for this part.

Even in the darkness, I could sense him grinning. "Wasn't that hard. There are Multifandom Scientist spies. They helped me through most of this, actually."

My eyes grew wide. "Spies? Which ones?"

"Dakota, George, Millan, Adler, Mat, Reed..." he listed.

Wait, what? "Reed? As in my Reed who feeds me those poison pills everyday?" I choked.

"It's complicated, you see," he sighed.

"No kidding," I mumbled bitterly.

"He has to feed them to you. The others would be suspicious," Walt said," That pill I gave you let you vomit out the pill, so they can't track you."

After a moment of realisation I realised that I was nothing but a bitch to Walt, who pretty much just saved my life. "Thankyou, you know. Thanks for saving me."

He scoffed," We're not out yet." I shrugged and he chuckled.

Oh. Then I realised that maybe this wasn't so bad. I was finally free from the scientists- sort of. I was one step away from home. One step away from Carter.