Roomscapes I - survive

Chapter 27~ Back to the tubes

  ** CAITLYNN'S POV **

If this gets any weirder I don't know how I'll survive. We were just in an abandoned city with serial killers and now we're in our tubes again. This is insane. Not only that--but there was an empty room in the middle, since the tubes were forming a perfect circle. I spotted Matthew and forced a weak smile, but he didn't return one. He seemed too terrified and paranoid. I had never seen him like this and I promised myself I would never let him suffer like this again. If we survive this--that is. I doubted that as more tubes started to fill up with people brought down from above. Everyone's face was pale and some people were at the verge of tears, I could tell.

"Hello again lovelies!" a voice said, making me want to throw up. She sounded hideous and fake, and I fought the urge to make gagging noises. "I know you have been through a lot..." I could tell she was smiling her fake smile through the speakers, "So we want to end it here..." her tone was nice and soft, making her sound like a real person--almost. I felt my body tense up and all of a sudden I wanted to scream at her, choke her. What a little-- she interrupted my thinking, which made my wrath towards her grow even more, me barely holding in the urge to punch the glass and choke her. "So... ever heard of teamwork?" she said, her voice too perky. I looked around and my face went instantly pale. I knew what teamwork was, but I doubted some of these people did, so I panicked. I looked at Jordyn, whose purpose was obviously to kill everyone and win. That's all she wanted. And I was standing here, scared out of my mind, wondering what the hell was going to happen and how on Earth I would survive it.

 ** PARKER'S POV **

My leg was hurting too much from the explosion, and I felt like I might as well die right now instead of going through all this bullshit again. No one told me when I kissed Nicole Jordyn threw a bomb with a gas that would put us to sleep until the bomb exploded. I was done, I had no chance of survival and it didn't really make a difference what I did out there because I was going to die here sooner or later. I stole a glance at Nicole, who was raising an eyebrow at no one specific, just challenging the creators. She didn't mind. She was too much of a bitch to care about anything, not even her life. But I guess she was okay... "Well... anyway, that's what you'll depend on for survival. You'll depend on your teammates' behavior, not yours." I felt a bit better at her words, but scared, too. I knew I wasn't going to make it myself, so I decided this would be better than anything else that involved any physical behavior. 

"Well...anyway...this is what's going to happen...each one of you is going to go through your fear landscape. If you fail, the person to your right will die, and you will live no matter what…" I started to think about something, what if I just fail on purpose to make the person to my right die? I didn't bother checking who the person to my right was, but I was still curious about it. Just as if I had been asking the question to her instead of myself, she answered it through the thick speakers on the roof, "But... if you are found failing on purpose to make your fellow neighbor die...." she trailed off, and I was scared of what she was going to say, "If you are found doing that, you will be...executed." The room tension increased by a thousand, and my eyes widened. Not that I was going to do it, but I still felt scared... what if I couldn't help it? What if I couldn't help but lose and they thought I was doing it on purpose? I prayed before looking to my left that the person there was talented, and I felt a wave of relief but fear wash through me as I saw who it was... she didn't hate me, right? I hoped not as I looked at her one more time to make sure I wasn't blind or something. Nope, still there.

Please try, Val…

 ** VAL'S POV **

I felt dizziness being poured on me as I heard the words that emerged the speakers abruptly, and I pressed my face against my hands. No, no, no, no, no, no.... I thought I had it when we were back in the city, I thought I was going to make it out alive, but now my confidence had faded to a point where you could no longer see it there like before, when it stood by my side, shining all the way. I rubbed my eyes violently and cursed under my breath and swore I would kill these creator bitches if I made it out alive. They had killed my two best friends, a random little girl, Ben, Maria, Austin, Carlos, and all the other people --most of them I didn't know-- that died. Reality slapped me and I once again concentrated fully on the woman's words.