What Happened To The World We Knew Of

Chapter 5

I am out of breath by the time I reach the entrance of the ship with Megan close behind me.

"Are you trying to get us killed Alec?!"

"My sister! She....... She needs our help!"

"What if they're jut trying to set us up by mimicking her voice? Then what? We would be dead too!"

"But we at least need to have hope that she's still alive Megan..."

I sneak inside the ship and see tables and syringes spaced out across the room. There is little light. The only light is coming from the dim lamps over the metal tables.

I crouch down and sneak behind one of the tables. Megan was right behind me and I could feel her heavily breathing on my neck. I heard a whispering voice from a different room and then a light came on from that same room. I had a knife clutched tightly in my hand, ready to attack anything that comes out of that room.

As a shadow strolls past the door opening, I maneuver around the table to a area where the light was not shinning. Megan was still close behind me. She say her hand on top of the table we were now by and knocked over a tray of utensils. The whispering stopped in the other room and a scream came out instead, "ALEC! HELP ME!"

My eyes grew wide and my first instinct was to lunge forward to go save my 'suppose to be' sister, but I felt Megan's hand on my shoulder pull me back. She whispers to me, "Just wait and see. We don't want to get ourselves killed." I nod my head.

From the other room, a shadow slowly crept around the corner, and a head peaked around it with beady rat eyes that were back like a bottomless pit.

Thankfully the Alroid did not see us and went back into the room. I motioned to Megan to follow me to the door. We tip toes quietly across the room we were in to the door opening of the other room. We hid around the corner so the Alroids inside that room could not see us. I whisper to Megan, "We attack on three. I think there are only four monsters in that room. Kill them quickly and quietly so we do not get caught." She nodded.

I counted down on my fingers. In my right hand I had a sharp knife that was shaking and a gun in my pocket. Megan had a dart gun in her hand ready to shoot. Once I got to three I jumped around the corner and stabbed to closest Alroid in the head, looking into its eyes until it was lifeless. Megan kicked one back that was going to jump on me the shot it in the heart. It fell to the ground and died without a sound.

The other two Alroids looked in our direction. Megan shot one and I threw my knife at the one standing by a table with a motionless body strapped down to it. After I retrieved my knife, I went to get a closer look at the body. It was a little girl. Her eyes were closed and her mouth was tapped shut. I fell to my knees and buried my face in my hands. Megan placed a hand on my shoulder giving me support.