Code Red

Chapter 7

Grecia was extremely bored. Never in her life has she had nothing to do. And it was not good. She looked at Julian. He was asleep. Ew. Was he drooling? She laughed and turned to tell Lucia but then she remembered she wasn't there. Grecia suddenly got claustrophobic. She started banging on the glass.

"Hello? Hello? Help me!" The doors opened, and in walked two faceless figues carrying a pale Commander Dre.

"Sir? Are you okay?" Grecia kicked and screamed. She was getting out. Now. Then Ray walked in. Well, alien leader walked in using Ray's body.

"Calm down, sweetie. He'll be fine. We just needed a little... donation!" He giggled and pressed in the code to the Commanders glass case. They placed him inside, and they closed it again. Ray walked up to Grecia's case. He tapped on the glass annoyingly.

"Please stop." she said to him. He giggled.

"Nope!" He laughed again. She raised an eyebrow.

"Is something funny?" she asked him, crossing her arms. He paced around her.

"Yes. You!" He cackled with laughter. "Come on, we're leaving!" He snapped at the faceless slaves and they exited.

How was she going to get out? She looked around her. The room was fairly empty, except for the three glass cases and two alike ones, but empty. There was also the weird circular console in the middle. She looked inside her tube. Empty.

Except for a nail. She picked it up. It was mildly rusted, but she could still use. She just needed to find a crack. She saw one in the bottom near her right foot.

Here goes nothing.

She placed the nail on the crack, then kicked it in with her foot. At first she thought it didn't work, but then she saw the small cracks that were spreading out like a spider web. She kicked it again and the whole case shattered.

Go, Grecia. Girl power!

She was about to leave but then she saw Julian and Commander Dre. She couldn't leave them there. She went back to the glass shards and picked up the nail.

"Wait, what am I doing?" She dropped the nail and walked to the console in the middle, looking for an open button. None were labeled, and the ones that were were in some alien language. She walked back to the case and remembered that there were key pads. She walked to Julians, eyeing it closely. Suddenly, she remembered that when Ray was tapping her glass, he left grease marks. She walked to the Commanders case and saw that there were grease marks there too. An E, an M, and an I. But there were four letters needed for the code, which meant one was used twice.

EEMI.

MIEE.

MIME. She tried that, unsuccessfully.

MEMI.

IIME.

EMII. Wait.

She tried EMMI. It worked. The case opened and The Commander woke up.

"Hey!" He blinked a couple times.

"What are you doing?" he asked. She smiled.

"We're leaving. Now."