By: Spencer Woodruff
“Japan is fighting the rebels with no success. They have asked help from many countries but they have declined. Everyone is evacuating Tokyo after the attack of Kyoto. Boats have been transporting people to…”
Click. As I walked in my mom turned the TV off.
“Edwin, we need to leave” said my mom with concern in her voice.
Boom!
Something exploded downstairs in our apartment building. Then I heard a high pitched scream.
“Go” said my mom.
I sprinted out of my apartment building and raced down the stairs. Sweat was going down my face. Screams were everywhere. The screams were driving me crazy.
The next thing I knew me and my mom were surrounded by many men with guns in their hands.
The men started talking in a different language and took my mom down the stairs. Tears were rolling down my cheeks.
“Come with me” said a man in the back.
A man with big muscles walked up and took me by the neck. The thing that stood out the most was that he had a big scar on his face. He took me out of the building and threw me in a truck. When I opened my eyes I saw children of all ages. They were many about my age.
Then the truck started moving and I started to think about my mom. I wondered if she was being taken to the same place I was going. Or if they killed her.
We stopped and I heard the truck door slam. Then I heard two men talking and then the other truck door. The sun burned my eyes. The big man motioned us to get out of the truck.
When I stepped out of the truck a man with a ski mask put metal clamps on my arms and neck. When the hot sticky metal was clamped around my neck it was hard to breath. We walked until we went up to a metal gate. Around it were many other men with ski masks and guns. The man who took us out of the truck started talking to the man in the center of the gate. They started talking and the man who drove us started to turn around. At that very second the man with the ski mask took out a gun and shot the man.
The man was on the ground motionless. The dark blood was becoming a pool around him. The man spoke his language and a different man with a mask started to take all the kids through the gate.
As we walked further and further I saw an old factory. But through the broken glass were more men with guns. As we got closer to the building I got more scared of what was inside. Then the man in the front of the line started talking and everyone stopped moving.
People started sitting down and the men started to pass out pieces of bread. We ate the bread and got up again. When we got to the building the men with masks took kids to different parts of the building. A man took me to a part where many kids were working with gunpowder, making bullets, and guns. I looked in the corner and another man was cutting off a Childs finger. The man took us into a different room and he handed tools to make clothes. Masks, shirts, shoes you name it we were working on.
As I was making my fourth pair of shoes a bell rang. The other kids lined up and a man with a mask took a hatch in the floor and opened it. All the kids went down the hatch into pitch darkness. I went in the line and looked in the hatch. There was a little light but not much.
As I walked down the hatch I heard boys talking about something.
“We just need one to escape” said a boy with curly blonde hair.
“How? There’s no way out except the front door” said a boy on his right. “We won’t step a foot out the door with so many guards” he said again.
I walked over and went on the left of the boy with blonde hair.
“Hi, I’m Edwin” I said nervously.
“Hi, I’m Martin and that’s Jason” said the boy with blonde hair.
“Where do we sleep?” I asked Martin.
“Are you new here?” he said.
“Just got in today” I said.
“Find a spot anywhere, nobody gets a pillow or anything” said Jason.
I said bye to my new friends and found a spot at the end of the wall. Once the guard shut the light off I kept on thinking about a lot. I wondered where my mom was, where I am at, who these people are, and why am I here.
After about an hour of thinking about that I fell asleep. That night I had a dream that I was at my house with my mom and that this whole thing was a bad dream. That’s when I woke up. The first thing I saw were a group of girls giggling and a group of boys surrounding each other. That’s when the hatch opened and a man fired a bullet in the air. Everybody got up and headed toward the hatch. Once I got in line a boy about four times my size threw me on the ground.
I got up, anger growing in side of me. I punched him in the face and he got me right back. That’s when a man came in and took us both to the corner of the room.
“That’s your last straw Davis, you’re going upstairs” said the man.
“Please don’t bring me up” said the boy.
He grabbed the boy and went up the hatch.
I sat against the wall and it broke. Inside the wall there was a small door. I sat and looked amazed and then turned the knob and saw there was a tunnel. The cobwebs were bigger than me. I walked and walked and heard voices above me.
“Omen, we can’t keep all these kids if we’re going to D.C. It’s just going to slow us down. We should just kill them and get more in D.C.” said a man with a very deep voice.
“We don’t have enough weapons, well never make it” said a different man with a light voice.
“Omen it’s your choice” said a woman.
“We will stay for 1 more week. By then we will overpower them and the President will be dead” said a man.
I heard a door open and a man walked in.
“We’ll never beat the American army. We need a plan to distract them” said the man who walked in.
The room fell silent. I sat waiting for the answer.
“The Vice President, Jimmy Clanton will be in New York Friday only for two days. He is staying at the Ritz room 7B. I have a team of highly trained professionals going and taking him hostage” said the man.
“Good, kill Clanton on Saturday night. The president will be dead by then” said a man.
I was too scared to move. After I knew everybody was gone I went further in the tunnel. After about a few minutes I found a door. The tunnel went so far I couldn’t even see the factory anymore. I was about to leave when I remembered Martin and Jason and all the other kids.
I made up my mind and was going to help the kids. It took about an hour until I got back to the little room and all the kids were sleeping. I shut the door and made a loud banging noise on the concrete wall. Everybody looked at me and I was nervous.
“Everybody if you want get out of here follow me” I said.
Everybody got up and I opened the door. I led everybody in to the tunnel and they were on their way to freedom. When they were halfway in the tunnel we heard gunfire and a child screamed.
“Run” I shouted.
I started sprinting as fast as I could. Then I saw the door on the side of the tunnel. I opened it and dived out. I sat there staring at the door. Then Martin appeared out of the door.
“Where are we?” asked Martin.
I didn’t even notice where we were I just wanted someone to come out of the door.
“I don’t know” I said even though I hadn’t even turned around.
When I turned around we were in a burnt down house in the woods. I stood up and looked around.
“We have to leave now” I said.
I started to run out of the house when the knob started turning. I knew I only had a few seconds before I would die so I went behind a tree.
“Matt, is there anybody here?” said one of the men I heard in the room.
Then I heard footsteps coming toward me. I stepped in front of the tree and punched the guy in the face. I tackled him and took a branch and hit him many times. After a few hits Martin tackled me.
“What are you doing?” I yelled at him.
He punched me so I hit him with my branch and he fell unconscious.
I got up and ran through the woods. After an hour of running I reached a big city. The second I took a foot into it I knew it was D.C.
“Spare change?” said a man on my left.
“Sorry” I said.
I looked to my right and saw the White House. I ran as fast as I could towards the door. I reached for the handle but a man in a tuxedo and sunglasses stopped me.
“Can’t go in this way” said the man.
As I turned around, I saw an open air vent.
“Ok” I lied.
I waited until the man was gone then went in the air vent and crawled inside. I crawled until I saw the President in his office. I opened the vent and told him everything.
