S44

2. Underground labratory

S44's POV:
That night was, probablie, the longest night of my life. At least that's how it felt. I couldn't fall asleep, so i thought of everything carefuly.

I remembered all the white hallways and the guard's shifts. Thinking of a way out. Taking note in my mind that there are survailence cameras everywhere exept cells and bathrooms.

Gradualy, a map of this building started creating in my head. But....demn it! I have never went above lab rooms! I don't know anything above there. Hell, i don't even know how is this exit supposed to look like! It can be some kind of big door or just a top of the building. If that is the case how am i supposed to climb down. And talking about the outside. I was never there, eather!

Am i thinking about this just NOW!? Where in the world was my brain this whole time!? Did i seriously expect to stay here my whole life!? Was i hoping for some miracle to come!?

I sigh at my stupidity and focus. I have read about the outside in books, but there was too much outside worlds so i don't know which one is real. I mean some books are about it being spacecraft others describe forests or sea. I sigh once again, this will take a while.

Ok. Step by step. First i need to know what is above the lab rooms. But the only time i'm alowed to get there is in the morning when taking tests.

The worst part is that i can't use my ability because it will notify them the moment i try.

So i need to examin it myself. Tomorow when we take our tests i need to sneak out and see. But first i have to distract both guards and doctors. That won't be easy.

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Morning routine. Wake up, shower, eat and then take a test. We were all going to the lab. While walking everyone's steps echoed in the white hallways. Not a word was spoken on the way there.

That didn't bother me. I mean, it is kind of painfull to see all my friends like this, sad and hopeless, but it also helped me to concentrate on my plan.

There are not much guards around the lab. They are all usualy guarding during free time and when they are not, they are or in front of our cells or resting and sleeping. So the only guards there are the ones who came with us. I need to distract both them and doctors. Which is about 20 people, 12 guards and 8 doctors.

We entered the lab and i took my test first, which was a good thing. Now i am free until others finish. Still that shouldn't take more then 5 minutes each and there is 6 kids left. Now, how to distract them?

The moment i sat down and took a note in my mind on how many guards are around me i heard someone scream. I could sense that someone's power has gone out of control. All the guards around me exept one went to help.

'What a convinience!' I smirked to myself. There is so much energy and all the power alarm systems are on that kid so i used my power of hypnoses on the one guard left and run to explore.

I wasn't worried about that kid. This had happened before. Everything will be just fine. So now i can focus on my task.

I ran throught long white hallways, too long for my taste. On my way there was no door or anything worth watching, really. Then i saw an opened door. I peaked inside to see a monitor room.

It was full of computers and on all of them are camera survailence images. There also was a map whose part looked kind of familiar. IT WAS THE MAP OF THIS BUILDING!?

'I am too lucky today.' I thought and memorised the whole map, which wasnt a problem really. I already knew half of it and the rest, even if it was big, looked really simple, plus i have good photogtaphic memory.

I looked around a bit more and then on one of cameras i saw that area around the lab was starting to calm down. I quicly ran out and back there. Nobody noticed that i was gone and the guard that was hypnotised didn't remember anything.

The kid that lost control was stabilised. It was Masha, no surprise there. She is one of those who are very talented in power, A class, has a lot of power but has trouble controling it. She often looses it.

The rest of the tests went smoothly. Everyone survived COLOSEUM and in free time, after lunch i visited librery. Even before my suden wish to escape, i liked to read, but now i have even more determination.

On first pages of 4 my favorite books i drew a part of a half the building map that i didn't already know, just in case.

While i thought of escape a suden thought that never really came to mind apeared.

'What are thise monsters that we are fighting every day? Where did they came from?'

The thought was rendom, but worth looking into. But right now i have biger problems so i, mentaly, put it on my long list of 'things to do and think of'.

After my free time was over i went to my cell. I just finished reading some novel in which the main character said thet whenever he feels lonely he just looks up in the blue sky and think that there is someone on the planet doing the same, and he wouldn't be lonely anymore.

Too bad. I have never seen sky in my whole life. We don't have windows here. That's when it hit me. I stoped walking and started looking around just to chack something i already knew.

'There are no windows. And the exit of this place is on the highest floor. Doese that mean that this laboratory is........under ground!?' I thougt es some guard pushed me to start walking back to my cell.