Supernova

Breaking out

Date: June 7th, 2067

Time: 9:25 am

Subject: Breaking out

------- Chase-------

I sat in the front seat tossing paper at the cell wall. I kept thinking of ways to get out. I was one of the few survivors from the nuclear supernova explosion that happened about a year ago. Every survivor they found they put in a rehabilitation camp. It wasn’t really a rehabilitation camp it was a jail. They kept us people here and experimented on us to check for radiation poison at first. Of course we all had it; we went through a ton of space debris. But the explosion had altered us. The nuclear energy gave us unnatural abilities normal humans couldn’t possess so they kept us in these solid concrete cells. No windows, just television walls that taught you lessons each day like you would learn in school.

Wednesdays were the worst of the week. That’s when the males were taken in for experimenting. The government altered our abilities for war use against the extraterrestrials that had taken over above ground when they crash landed from our space craft. The scientists pricked needles in us, treated us like diseased animals, forced us to do painful tests, and even tattooed a number on are wrists for identification. I was number 12. They didn’t call us by names they called us by our numbers.

I had the ability to access all of my brain. In school I was always the top of my class in everything. I guess when the radiation seeped in, my highest skill grew. I could see every molecule around me, see the sound waves, calculate faster than time, and remembered everything. I had been planning an escape plan for months now. I knew wires ran through the walls and if somehow I short circuited them someone would have to come in here and re wire them. So I did short circuit them. When the maintenance crew arrived they had entered from a small crawl space under my cot. The lock needed a skeleton key, the key of all keys. I memorized every small aspect of the lock and began constructing a key out of the plastic spikes of my fork I got when my nutrients were carried in through the vacuum tube. We didn’t eat normal food. We ate canned nutrients which had no taste. They were supposed to rid are bodies of poison slowly. Due to radiation none of us would live a day over 16. I was 15 so I was really hoping these nutrients were working.

It took two hours to make the key and I knew I'd have to get out fast. Escapees were not treated well if caught.  I slid the plastic key in the lock and held my breath. Slowly, but surely, the lock turned and a click sound echoed.I slid my hand across the floor until I felt the extremely slight groove in the concrete floor. I slid my pinky finger underneath it and opened the hatch.

I saw the way the air currents moved down the staircase giving me the map of the ground I was about to be entering. At the bottom of the stairs were two hallways. I’d go right for the closest exit but there were armed cameras everywhere. I used my brain to focus on the electrical currents in the area. When I felt that tingle in my brain I focused on turning the cameras off which would give me about 12.5 seconds to burst out of the facility. They cameras were off. I bolted down the hall as fast as I could. At the end was the exit door which I thrusted open. I instantly got the next map. I had run out of time. Alarms were sounding as I ran. Huge garaged doors were closing as I slid under them. I saw a ladder at the end of the tunnel as the doors were closing. I pushed myself forward to make it under the last closing door. I made it by chance not by accuracy that time. I levitated up the ladder to buy me more time and forced the lid of the manhole open with my mind. I was on the surface, the burnt crisp surface. Every thing was burnt and debris was surrounding the road. I had longed to see the surface since the day I was put in that jail which was the day the explosion happened. I had a long walk and had no idea where I was going but it was worth it. I know that.