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On the other side of the hatch, he hears alarms and sparking. He sees flashing light and no movement. The smell of the coming from the other side was of burnt plastics, metals and other materials. Elisha slowly peeks his head through the open to get a better look. As his head slowly go through the opening, his heart drops. Scatter below him was bodies of his friends and co-workers. Smoke and steam was slowly filling the room. He could see Culveck, Jasrick, Thomas and others just laying there in the floor and the walkways. No one was moving. Elisha quickly pulls his head back in and softly speaks, “Oh, God. What happened?”
Elisha sits for a moment to gather himself and starts out the opening with his feet first. As he climbs down from the hatchway, he turns, looks and yells, “Hello! Can anyone hear me!” As he keeps climbing down, continue to yell for anyone to hear him. Half way down, his head starts to ache and the room starts to spin. Elisha quickly stops and grabs tightly on to the ladder. He waits until everything stops spinning, then continues down. Once he reaches the bottom, he moves over to one of his co-workers named Jameh and touches her. Her skin is cold to the touch. He looks at her and sees that the breath of life has left her. Her eyes are partially open and the look of death shows on her face. Elisha closed her eyes and then closes his. Tears start to flow down his cheeks and he starts to weep. After a few minutes he gets up and turn to look around the room and every one he sees is dead. He also notices that the room is on emergency power. The column that usually pulsated with energy was dark and most of the workstation panels were either dark or flashing “RED ALERT”. As Elisha check every body for life, he was startled by a loud noise that shook the room. Then there air seemed to shimmer and a wave motion passed through it. It moved so fast that it knocked Elisha off his feet landing on one of the bodies on the floor. He let out a loud scream as his the wave passed though him. The pain was so intense that he fell unconscience and in his mind floated with images of strange visions that he could not describe.
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Darkness surrounded Elisha. In his mind floated images and sound of home. The green fields, the bluish purple sky, the warmth of his home. All this was interrupted by noises. Elisha was startled and opened his eyes. At first, all see could see is a reddish glow that pulsated and flashes of white light. He tried to move and focus his eye to see what was around him, but a sharp pain coursed through this mind. He move his hand, touch his head , it was wet and his head ached with pain. As his eyes started to focus, he could make out items around him. He notice that he was in a small tunnel with piping and wiring. As him looked around, his eyes focus on a panel with the word, in red, flashing ALERT. At first he could not remember what happen, but within a few seconds his memory slowly was returning through the pain. “That's right” he mumbled to himself. As he tries to get up, the room starts to spin. He catches himself on a pipe just to the right of himself. He reaches to a gold emblem on the right part of his chest and touches it. There was a click and Elisha spoke with a hoarse voice, “Pendleton to Jobs”. He waits a brief time and repeats his call with a little more volume in his voice, “Pendleton to Jobs!”. Still no answer. Then Elisha takes his emblem again calls out, ““Pendleton to Medical! Is anyone there?” He waits and there is still no answer. Elisha starts to get a little nervous and he taps his emblem a third time, “Pendleton to bridge”. He waits and calls out again, “Pendleton to bridge”. Still no answer. Getting very nervous, he mumbles to himself, “Where is everybody...Pendleton to anybody! Can any body here me?” Still no answer. Then Elisha taps his emblem, again with a little more force, “Computer, can you hear me?” Some garble noises come from his emblem. It sounded like the computer's voice, but very distorted. He called again and still garbled noised. Elisha starts to slowly get up still holding onto the pipe with his left hand. The tunnel starts to spin, but he ignores it. He finally gets into a crawl position, since the tunnel is only 4 feet tall, and he starts for a hatch at one end of the tunnel.
Every movement he makes his head spin, but he continues to ignore it. Finally, Elisha get to the end of the tunnel where the hatch is and he presses his fingers on a display next to the hatch. He hears a beep and nothing else. He tries again and the the hatch partially opens. He grabs the hatch and tries to open it all the way, but it moved only a little. Elisha turns his body to get the move of his power to open the door and with all his strength he tries again. This time the match slide slowly to than stops. Elisha looks and sees he could fit through the opening. |
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