Mirrors and Shadows

Chapter Eighteen

We all hop into the jeep and fly! (whee)

(A.N. okay maybe the jeep can't fly)

We all quickly hop into the jeep and drive off towards San Antonio where the dean says is where a friend of his lives. We need some shelter and a food source obviously.

I watch as the greenery flashes by. I miss the X school. Years of memories within the magnificent building, the corridors, the dining hall... It's going to get destroyed by the Emergent, just like that.

As I think about the X school, I hear a distant boom from behind us. I look back and see the Sam Houston forest on fire. Well, I guess, it's all gone, just like that...

We all sit in silence for a while, mourning for the destroyed X school. (I know it's silly but we have so many memories there....)

Then Ally says, "Look here guys. I found this just now."

We all look at his phone screen. The words TRAITORS OF THE STATE can be seen clearly, along with a photo of us escaping into our helicopter.

They had to put a photo of us escaping, huh?

Ally reads the small body text aloud, "These are the traitors of our magnificent Texas and also the country. They spun lies about us to the White House but we will fight for the truth!"

"What?!" Benjamin exclaims. "We're the traitors?"

"Well," Ally says. "It seems so. At least on the news it is."

"So that's how they manipulated the police and the army," I say.

"Seems like it is," Christoph says.

"Um... guys?" Timothy says. "There seems to be stuff following us..."

"What do you mean, stuff?" Ally asks.

"Look," Timothy says, pointing behind us.

I look back 3 jeeps, helicopters and fighter jets are tailing us. Just great. Great.

"Take cover!" Christoph yells as a wave of bullets come from the jeeps following us. We duck. What the heck were the designers thinking when they made this jeep? Why didn't they install a darn bulletproof roof?

Yeah, I need to talk to the dean about this but it's too late for that now. If we don't get out of this alive, I may never get a chance to talk to the dean about upgrading our equipment.

The jeep swerves violently, narrowly avoiding a grenade fired from the jeeps.

They really want us dead huh.

Then the jets above swoop in front of us. We're surrounded. Everything just went from bad to worse.

Christoph quickly checks the GPS device thingy he has. "We're pretty close to San Antonio but it'll take us a long time to reach there on foot."

"Well, either way, we'll still gonna have to leave the jeep. We're surrounded here, can't you see?" Ally says.

"I can see perfectly!" Christoph snaps. "I was just seeking for an alternative way because walking to San Antonio on foot take 12 hours! I'm trying to avoid that, can't you see? And if we're slow the Emergent can send more reinforcements. Look!"

Sure enough, even more of those jets and jeeps are heading our way. Seriously? Three is enough.

"Well, looks like there's no other option!" Ally shouts over the noise of the helicopters.

We jump out of the jeep as another grenade nails our jeep head on and explodes, throwing us into the grassland on the sides of the road.

Thankfully nobody's hurt, but now our jeep is gone.