The Tower

Alex

She opened her eyes; the world seemed to be going in slow motion. Muffled shouting, screams and a loud ringing filled her ears. The room was filled with a cloud of dust that caked her face, and piles of rubble form the doors that where spread out across the wreckage of the lecture room.

Suddenly the ringing stopped. Her head was filled with the loud noises of her surroundings. Peering up from her spot behind a pile of seats Alex could see the students being wrestled away by a large group of metallic, amongst them Clarisa struggled screaming at the enforcers and shouting to the students that everything would be okay. She ducked down as a metallic scanned her area, "Anything left?"

"No one's here boss, we got all of them." It glided off leaving Alex to silently scream as tears ran down her cheeks.

Peeking back through the gap she watched as C4530 was dragged, not without resistance, out of the hall. She caught her eye, nodding towards the door in the far right corner and smiling sadly as she was pulled into the darkness of the night.

Alex waited for the door to close and beep to show it was locked. She stood up, dust and pieces of the once elegant room fell off her bruised and cut shoulders. Her nose stung, and a touch revealed blood leaking from the large gash across the bridge. Now was not the time for crying. C had tried to tell her something as she was captured, something about the back door. Alex ran to it waving her hand across it to unlock the door. It lead down a completely white corridor to yet another door, this time a code was required. Alex only new one code that related to the President, but it couldn't be that easy. She tried it backwards; 0354asiralC

"Access granted, welcome Clarisa4530." The door slid open with a whoosh revealing a controls room, there was a one-way mirror in the middle, which revealed a boy not much younger than her with his head on his knees, leant against the wall. The room he was in was completely white, to Alex it looked like he was floating in nothing, but she knew that was impossible. To the right of her was a door with a hatch at the bottom, is that a food hatch? Oh Jesus this is a cell.

Alex was cautious slowly walking up to the door and tapping four times.

"Hello?"