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Guard were seen running down the endless hallways of the facility, urgency written over all of their faces. Prisoners of all kinds stood behind the bars, either watching the men running past, or doing god knows what. One of the men, in the cell, had called out to one of the guards, a blank expression written over his face. "Hudson! What's going on?" He had gotten the guards attention, who quickly turned his head towards the prisoner. "..There's been an infiltration."

"Infiltration?"

"They claim to be under the andragathía syndicate, but never revealed their purpose other than attacking the base. They've caused quite a bit of damage.. Anyway, I've got to go, don't cause any trouble."

"I won't."

. . .

"Ah, got it."

CLICK.

"Finally. It was getting stuffy in there."

BOOM.

'Wow... It really is a mess out here. What's the purpose of all this?'

"Move-"

"I will land on you, Tyler! Shut up!"

The seven kids were seen jumping out of the vents one by one- with the only one remaining being the brunette, who was holding onto the vent for dear life as she tried not to land on the others who were all panicked under her. Taking too long— a pair of arms around her waist have helped her down, as everyone was finally out of the vents.

'Kids??'

'..I'm glad the vents outside of our rooms were big enough to crawl in.'

'Who's this? White outfit.. is he a prisoner? Did alex already get here?'

"Ashlyn!" The caretaker of the red haired girl was seen running towards the group of kids, who all stood in the middle of the hallway. "Go for the east exit, the 4th one, it has the least traffic right now."

'Ah.. these are the kids boss has been obsessed with. Are they the reason for all this? Should I just pretend I didn't see em or report them?'

"I saw some guards headed this way, so you kids need to hurry. Don't worry about the prisoners, I'll free them. Just follow your plan and get out of here." The red head gave a firm nod to the adult, as the group watched the exchange between the two. "We'll message you if we make it out. And.."

"..Thank you Alex."

"Be safe."



"THEY'RE OVER HERE!"

"Shoot!"

The group hug had been cut off, as everyone let go off each other, and broke out into a sprint. "Go!" Alex yelled from behind the group of kids, who were now all turning around and running towards where the care taker had instructed them to go. The boy with the glasses and Ashlyn were infront, while Aiden, and Ben holding Taylors wrist followed. The brunette girl who was frozen down for a moment was yanked by the boy twin, as she broke out into a sprint too. While running past the prisoner just standing by the side, Ashlyn called out to him. "Hey, you. If you want to escape, follow us."

'Well.. Why not? Seems interesting.'

"Sure."

The group of seven kids continued running down the hallways that they had memorized countless times when they walked through it. Their pace was fast, wanting to get out of here as fast as they could, and the man following behind them seemed to struggle with keeping up with the group. Ashlyn ran infront, with a device in her hand as she called back to the group. "We have five minutes before the andragathía pulls out." They were about to turn a corner, but not before a guard had yelled at them, and reached his hand out to grab one of them- that lucky one being the brunette girl. But Tyler was quick to tackle the man to the ground with force, as Ashlyn trampled on his legs, and kicked the gun out of his grasp, sending it to the side, where Logan had picked it up. It looked like the red head had broken the knee of the guard who laid on the ground in agony, while the prisoner behind them stood with an expression a mix of disgust and fear?

'...Brutal.. These kids arent normal..'

"Ash, the ones behind are catching up."

"And there's guards coming from the right."

'And there's more this direction too. We're about to be surrounded.'

"Let's-"

"ALL UNITS REPORT TO THE CRYO CENTER IMMEDIATELY! I REPEAT, REPORT TO THE CRYO CENTER IMMEDIATELY!"

"-INFECTED HAVE ESCAPED!"

'...This isn't good, there's more security still here than we expected. There's a mafia hit squad blowing up your resources and buildings outside, what are you still doing in here?! Bug off!'

Ryan stood by the side as he watched Jasmine type away on the computer, his eyes twitching in annoyance. "Are the security systems back up? Did you figure out what happened?" From behind them, Maverick spoke up as he began putting on his coat, his attention turned towards Jasmine. "Someone planted a usb bug into the computers. I was able to cleain it out, but... I'm not sure who did it." Adjusting the neck of his coat, the black haired man gave a nod to the woman. "I'm going to get a call from headquarters any second, and I'll have to deal with those fools."

'Now isn't the right time for this place to be destroyed... we still need it."

"I want both of you to gather teams and capture those kids. I'M pretty sure their caretaker has a large hand in this mess, grab him too."

"Aye, aye!"

"..Roger."

"..Hey, Ryan?"

"What do you want?"

"You didn't get attached to those brats, right?"

"What are you on about? I was the biggest advocate for their capture. I'm tired of dealin' with 'em."

"..Alright, just making sure."

"-I'd hate to have to shoot you after everything."



"I'll go this way. You gather the guys in the south wing. We can properly cut those kids' path off if we come from opposite directions."

'She already know. The kids need a second distraction, or they're defenitely going to end up cornered. No matter how well they know the layout. But.. that's not my problem anymore. I did what I could.'

HALT.

. . .

YELL.

The groups head was turned around as they watched an infected run out from behind the corner, slashing at the guards who were shooting at them. Logan, who had the gun in his hand, had aimed it at the sick- but not before he was yanked back by none other than Tyler. "Leave them, they can handle themselves, we need to go!"

"Hey, brats! This way, hurry up!"

Their focus was now on the man yelling at them- their eyes windening slightly as they took in his appearance. 'He has a shaved head, bulky, and looks like he didn't finish middle school.' They remembered Alexs words, as they all stood while watching the man.

THAT HAS TO BE HIM.

"Ryan? What are you doing here?" The man who has been running along with the kids pointed an accusing finger at the guard, who just furrowed his brows. "Charlie?? Aren't you supposed to be locked up as punishment right now-" But his words were cut off as the kids began pushing past him, wanting to leave as fast as they could. "Okay, yeah, whatever reunion this is, it can wait. Some idiot let the infected loose and we're running out of time." The red head said, as she put a hand on the guards back and made him turn around, as everyone broke out into a sprint. "Hey- I did it cause we needed another distraction, you should be thanking me!"

"It was you?!"

"You do know that they're attracted to us, right??"

"WHAT?!"

"

Everyone, stop!"

LUNGE.

Just as the redhead had called out to the group tailing behind her, an infected lunged from the corner of the hallway, hiting the ground infront of them. But it was quickly up on its feet again, as the yell of the boy twin could be heard. "Logan, shoot!"

"I can't! The others are in the-"

BANG.

"Well,"

From the corner, Jasmine had stepped out. A gun in her hand, which she had used to take down the infected just second ago, now infront of her face as she had her eyes set on the group.

"Ryan, I was expecting, but Charlie's a suprise. What should I do in this situiation? I feel so betrayed on Mavie's begalf, y'know?"

'...I was worried about this. She seems pretty laid back on the surface, but.. she's actually extremely sadistic.'

"Wait! I was just tagging along for fun, I'm not actually with-"

BANG!

"HELP!!!" Charlie had ducked down the moment she heard the gun go off, meanwhile Jasmine just stood a couple steps infront of them, with a blanl expression on her face as she lowered the gun. "I didn't ask and I don't really care. I'm just trying to decide if I should kill you both, or let Maverick use you for the infected. So shut up while I-"

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

?!

The shots were fired by the boy with the glasses. He had his arm raised with the gun in it, pointed right at Jasmine, who now had three holes on her body, filled with bullets. While Ryan stood there shocked- the seven kids all stood straight, their gazes locked onto the girl infront of them.

.....That's her.

The lady from Savannah.



'Why... do they feel so dangerous?'

I should put a bullet through her skull...

..But I don't want human blood on my hand..

'Ryan and the girl were blocking the other brat, I didn't know one of them had a gun. I'LL just shoot the kid. Maverick can make do with five of them.'

But the shot wasnt aimed rightly, and the infected next to her had taken her attention, leading to..

BANG!

"Ryan!!"

The guard had crumpled to the ground, clutching the bullet wound formed on his side as he closed his eyes. He pressed his hands even tighter to the wound, but spoke to the kids. "Don't bother, you kids need to leave while she's still distracted. Charlie, help the kids get out."

"WHAT?!"

Options:

A. escape with the scary teenagers

B. betray Maverick and help Ryan☑️

C. let Ryan die and help Jasmine.

"Look, I'll take care of Ryan, don't worry about him. You guys seem to know the way out right? Just hurry and go." Charlie had instructed the group of kids, while he bent down and wrapped Ryans arm around his won shoulder. He helped the wounded guard stand straight, as he watched the kids. "C'mon- let's go." The blonde boy had taken the red heads hand, as the two off them broke into a sprint, the others following. The brunette, who had her eyes locked on Ryan- who was still breathing heavily from the effect of his wound- had to be yanked by Tyler to get her focus back, as the two of them quickly caught up to the group.

'We're almost out..'

"New York?"

"Yeah. That's where the facility's main location is according to their documents. But the communication between their headquarters and this place is full of contradictions and false reports, the higher-ups here have been trying to create an army with the infected, using them as weapons and selling the idea to the government. But they've been sendind reports out that they've been making progress on reversing the effects of the infected instead. Which means, they've gone off script from the original plan of helping the coma patients and that the parent organization in New York is unaware of this... They could potentially be the good guys and your only possible allies in taking this place down. So, when you kids get out, strart heading to that location. "



Our parents, Alex, Ryan.. we're leaving them behind..

But we aren't running away, we'll find a way to get them out.

"..I'm sorry.. I should've taken her out before Ryan got shot.." Logan had mumbled out as all of them huddled into the lift. Rylee had her back resting against the side of the lift, her head tilted back as she catched her breath, while the others reassured the boy with the glasses. "It's ok to not want to kill anyone. We've been through a lot, but we're still just kids.

"Where'd you get the other gun?"

"..Picked it up from the woman when she started running."

DING.

We got outside.



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