Freakish

Chapter 31: The explosion

10-19-19
8:22pm
Diesel's POV
I'm sitting on a couch in the living room along with Stefan and Diesel.
"How long has it been?" I ask.
"Stop asking that," Diesel replies.
"I'm sorry that I'm worried about my best friends and the guy I like," I defend myself.
"Look, they'll be fine. Why don't you go into the lab and check up on Emmett," Diesel offers. I glare at him before walking away and into the lab.
"How are you feeling?" I ask Emmett.
"Better, hey look, I'm feeling great so I can go with the guys to set the bombs up too," He explains.
"Emmett, they already left," I tell him.
"Chase already left?" He asks.
"Yeah," I answer as he looks away, thinking about what to do.
"When did the bombers leave?" He asks.
"I don't know, like 8:10," I guess.
"It's 8:23. And the bomb hasn't gone off yet, is anybody back from any of the trips?" He asks.
"Not that I know of," I answer.

10-19-19
8:30pm
Krista's POV
As we walk into the soft drinks isle, I hear something fall off of a shelf.
"Did you guys hear that?" I ask. Noodle pulls his gun out and walks out of the isle as Zoe and I follow, leaving behind our carts.
"Who's here?" Noodle shouts before I hit his arm.
"Are you crazy, you're going to attract every freak in here," I tell him. As we walk into the clothing square of the store, we notice drops of blood on the floor. I sigh in fear as we continue to follow the blood. We reach the dressing rooms as the blood goes under the door.
"Stay here," Noodle whispers to Zoe and I. He walks up to the door before slowly pushing it open. There's a girl on the seat, she has a couple scratches and bruises, but on long scratch down her whole right arm.
"Please don't hurt me," She begs.
"We won't. Here, let me help you," Noodle claims as he reaches his hand out to her. She looks to be around our age. She grabs Noodle's hand and helps her up.
"What happened to you?" I ask her as we begin walking back over to the carts.
"I live by the plant. When it blew up, I quickly ran to the side of Keller that wasn't impacted by the explosion. After they helped me to health again, I went to go get some water and accidentally entered there, testing wing, where they tested on alive people, people that haven't even shifted yet," She explains.
"One of the workers saw me and I ran here, I tripped a couple times but I never stopped running, that's how I got this scratch," She adds showing us her arm.
"Did you breath the smoke?" I ask her as we all stop and stare.
"No, I grabbed a gas mask before running out because I overheard the people talking about how the air was contaminated, my gas mask is still in the dressing room," She explains.
"Well, you're going to need it if you plan on coming home with us," Noodle tells her.
"Noodle," I say.
"What?" He asks.
"She's not a blue suit and she needs help, you're the one who sent out a note to invite people there," He adds.
"Fine, but he's right, you'll need your gas mask," I tell her.
"Ok," She replies. We quickly finish up our shopping trip, when suddenly we hear the explosion.
"What was that?" She asks scared.
"We need to go, right now," I demand as we begin running to the ambulance. Once we reach the doors, the girl stops.
"My gas mask," she says.
"Here take mine, I'll go get yours," Zoe replies before handing her the gas mask and running back into the clothing square. We quickly get everything into the ambulance and wait for Zoe.
"Come on, come on," I say to myself as I tap the steering wheel continuing a stare at the doors. Suddenly, a freak runs into the store.
"Shit," I say.
"It's ok, she has a gun," Noodle reminds us. As another freak runs into the store, we hear a gun shot. As my heart begins pounding, more and more freaks begin showing up.
"Krista, we gotta go," Noodle tells me.
"No, we can't leave her here," I reply.
"Krista, I don't want to leave her either, but if we stay, we'll all be killed," He explains. Finally, Zoe runs out of the store.
"Oh thank god," I sigh. Once she gets in the back, I hit the gas.
"Guys," She groans in pain.
"What?" Noodle asks as I continue keeping my eyes on the road.
"They got me," She answers.
"Huh?" Noodle asks in disbelief.
"It bit me," She pants. I look back and see blood dripping down her left arm.
"Don't-don't worry about it, we'll get home and Max can give you a pill," I stutter as I begin driving slightly faster. Suddenly, a freak comes out of nowhere and I swerve before slamming the brakes down.
"Is everybody ok?" I ask. As the ambulance isn't motion, Noodle quickly gets out of his seat and grabs some gauze, napkins, and an ace bandage. He quickly wipes as much blood away without hurting her before wrapping it in gauze and then in an ace bandage.
"Krista, go," He tells me. As I slowly push the gas, the ambulance doesn't move.
"Go," He says again.
"I can't," I exclaim as I slam the gas.
"I think we're stuck in something," I add.
"I'll go check it out," He replies.
"Noodle no, there's too many freaks out there," I tell him.
"It's the only way to get out of here, I'm doing it," He demands before putting a gas mask on and getting out.
"Grover's probably worried sick," I say to myself.

10-19-19
8:34pm
Kc's POV
The explosion went off and my brother isn't back yet. As I'm stomping towards the kitchen, I run into Liv coming out of the lab.
"Are you ok?" She asks me.
"No, the explosion went off, and Jc nor Brianna are back yet, I'm freaking the fuck out," I explain as we walk into the kitchen. I quickly reach into the freezer and grab the unfinished bottle of rum. As I begin drinking it, Brianna walks into the kitchen. My eyes widen before Liv quickly hugs her.
"Oh my god, what took you so long?" Liv asks her.
"Freaks, they're everywhere," Brianna answers after Liv lets go. She hugs me tightly as I suddenly feel a lot of stress leave my mind, even though I'm still freaking out about Jc.
"Where's Jc?" She asks.
"He isn't back yet," I reply.
"They were suppose to be out of there before the explosion," Brianna explains.
"Yeah, we know," I reply as I take another drink of the rum.
"I'm just hoping there waiting in the truck for the freaks to clear out a little," Liv replies.
"Is any of the others back?" Brianna ask.
"Nope," I answer before taking, yet another, drink of the rum.