Black as Day (ON HIATUS)

Chapter 5- The Facility

Listen to that song. LISTEN TO IT!!!!!!!

Also, I don't know if you guys remember, but this is set on Dust, an alternate world where they live in the night and Phase instead of puberty. I haven't mentioned anything in a while because it's all been inside but if you need to, the beginning of the prologue has some stuff. 

THAT SONG. LISTEN TO IT. 

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"Jay..." I muttered, the name rolling smoothly out of my mouth. "It feels familiar." An expression of happiness lit up his face.

"Really?" Jay said hopefully. I nodded.

"Yeah, it feels, familiar or something. Like I've heard it before." I frowned. The name itself gave me a feeling of comfort, and I didn't know why. It scared me. Why should I be feeling this about a stranger? I shook off my strange feelings and looked at him.

"What now?"

"They've probably figured out what's causing the interference."

"What is it?"

Jay lifted up his shirt and strapped to his waist was a thin, black box. A wire was wrapped around his chest and connected to a small device taped on the small of his back. Two little red lights flashed on and off in unison, one on the device and the other on the box. And, not to mention, a very nice set of abs. He dropped his shirt back down and had a very self-satisfied smile on his face.

"It's a blocker. It sends out a signal within a four mile radius that interferes with and shuts down everything, and I mean everything." Then a shadow crossed his face. "Unfortunately, this means they know where we are."

I was shocked. "What? How could they possibly know where we are? You said the whole place was on shutdown."

He shrugged. "Yeah, it is, but it's a lot bigger than four miles." I was shocked, but Jay had more to say. "We have multiple runners scattered throughout the facility, distracting them and leading them away from us." With this, he grabbed my hand and made me start waking again.

"The four mile radius basically extends outwardly in a circle, and we have lots of people running around. There's going to be gaps where the circles aren't touching where their stuff will work." he explained as he pulled me down a set of stairs.

I stumbled a bit as Jay sped up.

"Where are we going?" I asked.

"We have a bomb set to blow in the lower levels. We aren't there when it goes, then that's our chance to get out of here gone."

Alarms started blaring somewhere in the distance. Jay cursed and he sped up, practically carrying me he was dragging me along so fast. We turned one more corner and entered a stairwell.

"Seriously though, where are all the guards? They should be everywhere by now."

Jay turned to me with a smile. "I have some... friends... making some trouble elsewhere." As if on cue, there was a loud explosion somewhere above us. The floor shook and I grabbed the handrail to keep from falling down the stairs.

"Those are your friends?!" I gasped out.

Jay didn't miss a beat. "Yup! And soon they'll be your friends too!" I just shook my head. He looked way too happy about that.

We ran down many more flights of stairs until I was gasping for breath. We turned down a poorly lot hallway. Even the emergency lights were flickering a whole bunch. Jay pressed a hand against the wall and walked along it until he apparently felt something and stopped. I looked at the wall where is hand was and couldn't find any difference.