The Truth About The Universe : The Coup | TATU |

10 : The Miserable

"Preak let's go, we need to find Sam and get out of here, I don't know what I'll do to get out, I will blow the walls away even if that is what it takes to get out of here.", Texas said, with anger in her eyes, as she grabbed my shirt and pulled me.

I got up and walked behind her, she wasn't even being cautious with every step, she looked scary so I didn't say a word.

Another button was triggered as we walked down the hall way, a large photo which was hanged on the wall tore apart and a machine gun erected from the wall. 

"Run!", Texas screamed. We ran down the hallway, the machine gun started shooting but it was slow to turn. Soon all the paintings in the hallway were torn and machine guns turned towards us. "Damn it!!", I exclaimed, then I was shot in the leg. I stumbled then I ran faster. I was shot again, that was when we hit a turn in the hallway. I collapsed on the floor. 

"Ah", Texas yelped as she touched one of her bullet wounds on her leg, " What the hell is this place?", Texas asked me, almost in a whisper, she wasn't angry anymore, her voice was full of fear. " We're going to die here... all of us...".

I couldn't say anything to that. I was already so occupied with the four bullets in my legs and three in my back. It hurt. but not as bad as the first time. There a mechanical clank, like some gears changing. Then the walls of the hallway started shrinking, towards us, coming closer, about to crush us. We might have like a minute. I got up ad started wimping to the end of the hallway. I wanted to scream, tell Texas to run but I couldn't, not even a sound came out of my mouth.

She saw the walls coming closer so she ran too. She put her left hand over my left shoulder and pulled my right hand over her right shoulder, helping me run faster. The walls were still closing in, it felt like the hallway was getting longer and longer...

Then the walls started touching my shoulders and then we twisted, the walls were touching my chest...

***

I was on the floor, facedown, I tried to get up but someone put a hand on my shoulder and said, "Stay down we're safe for now". It was Texas. "Ugh... What happened?", I asked. " We both were being crushed by those walls", she said pointing to a hallway,"Yeah it then went back to normal, you pushed me out jumping out yourself. Thanks I guess... ", she said grimly. "We should get moving", I said as I struggled against the pain of my cracked bones and bullet wounds. 

We started walking towards a double door. "I'm done with this mansion... let's get out of here... I don't care what tricks... ", just as I said this the double doors opened and I saw Sam sitting on his knees on the floor all bloody, as if he had bathed in blood, he was sitting beside Linda who was bleeding on the floor, her left shoulder and her left arm was gone, blood all over the floor. Sam wasn't crying but he had looked broken... from the inside.

"Sam... we... we need to go", I said silently. "SAM! We need to go! NOW", Texas said loudly. She grabbed him by his arm and pulled him up. She dragged him to me. "Come on. Let's go.", she said. "What about her... ", I asked. "She's dead... ", she said grimly. "No... ", Sam said quietly, almost a whisper.

"We can honor her by surviving this", Texas said and we started walking through the hallway. I saw the staircase through which we walked up. The armor of the mannequin whom I fought. We walked downstairs and I heard Enter barking while he ran towards us, his tail waging wildly. Vadar ran to us to help us with Sam.

"Linda? Is she...", he asked. " Yeah... ", I replied. Enter licked Sam's cut wounds and we applied some bandages he had in his pockets. "Umm... where'd you get these Sam?", I asked Sam. He didn't reply for a moment. "What happened out there, Sam?", I asked. "I... I don't remember correctly... it was... like a dream... not a pleasant one... ", he replied with long pauses, he looked like it was a strain to say this.

"Let's go!", Texas said loudly as she helped Higson get up from the floor, and Tyler helped Sam walk. We reached the boat and me Vadar sailed it.

***

"What do you think was going on in that mansion?", I asked Higson. "I don't know.", he replied. We were lying on the bed in the cabin on shore. It was early evening right now, about 1600. Everyone slept after we bandaged our wounds.

"We should keep going... you know... the message Roughy saw on the chat... to go to the military base due north.", Higson asked. "Yeah... you're right. We also need to get dinner.", I replied. "Yeah right", Vadar said as he entered our room."We gotta go".