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Chapter 24: Hero, Part 2
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Lexi called to her. Her voice echoed off dark cold walls as she ran. It seemed like her voice was getting further away. Alex ran through the maze, but only got more lost. A warm orange light appeared in her path, she was drawn to it. She fought the feeling, her need to find Lexi burned within, but she couldn't stop. She reached out and touched the fuzzy orange light. It was warm and comforting. Her surroundings became fuzzy. Her head drooped, she tried to stay awake, to visualize the place, but it faded and became dark.Alex woke from her dream. She was indeed warm and somewhat fuzzy, or at least itchy. The water that soaked her stunk of sulfur and felt grimy. Her knees were propped over something warm which seemed to continue up and to her left. She flexed her hands. The right one was stiff, but no longer crumpled and unusable like before... before what? What had happened? Where was she? She stubbornly kept her eyes closed. It was a little game that she liked to play; it forced her b
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They walked along in silence for the next hour as they traversed the waterways into the next rundown city. The white eyed vultures cawed at them, as they jumped across the broken ceiling of the cement pipes following after their prey. The curved edges of the channels crumbled under their talons, sending dust flying into the humid night air."One sec." Alex halted Jack with a hand and knelt down to the dirt. "Can you give us some light?" She grabbed a stick and poked at the dirt. "Before we go any further into the city, I want to show you the building plans."Jack lit a small fireball in the palm of his hand and squatted down beside her as she drew squares of buildings in the dust. "See here." Alex indicated a large circle to the left of the large square. "This is where we will enter. It's deep and flooded with water. There's an entrance below the water level. That's where you are going to make a huge fireball. The hatch opens outward, which is why no one watches it. The hatch is de
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Alone now and listening to the fading footsteps of her defecting partner, Alex faced the large red letters. "Level 32" they read. Lexi was behind that door. This had to be it. Her two year fight would be over. She would be safe, Lexi would be safe. Alex sucked in the stale urine stained air and stilled her excited heart. She pushed the door open enough to peek in. Using the face of her watch as a mirror, she looked down the hallway.Alex slunk down the darkened hallway like a cat. Only the floor edge lighting showed the way. Something didn't feel right. Either everyone was asleep or there was no one here. If no one was here, then why would they leave the floor lighting on? She stopped and listened for a moment. She heard no breathing coming from any of the rooms. There really was no one here, at least not on this level.Alex poked her head into a couple of rooms. They were children's rooms, with toys scattered all over the place. She took note of each room as she went, a classroom, a
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Down, down she fell until she hit the boiling water. The steam made her eyes water. She plunged into it, afraid of being boiled alive, but it just felt warm. Alex swam upwards in the murky water. She surfaced to see Jack looking down at her, just the silhouette of his head against the ceiling, and then he disappeared. The bodies of the four Alphas rose to the top, face down and definitely dead.?The end of the other rope still hung down, she gave it a good yank and it didn't fall.She started to climb. Again. Her muscles were already sore from doing this once. Stupid Jack. What was wrong with him? What an asshole. How could he do this to her? She brought him here. She upheld her end of the bargain. Damn it, if it weren't for her, he would still be getting raped by those creepy mole people.She climbed higher and higher. Why? Just why?Finally, she reached the top. Again. Alex poked her head up over the edge looking for Jack. She imagined him sitting there, ready to kill her or push h
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Around nineteen hundred hours, her stomach danced painfully. There was nothing she could do about it. There was no food on the surface, and even if there was, it would be poisoned by the sun. It stared back, straight ahead of her now, sinking just below the clouds and into the horizon. Tall buildings of an old city appeared, taller than the ones in the previous city. Close to her, two unusually shaped buildings loomed kilometers high. The buildings were large at the top, caved in at the sides, and large at the bottom. Some of the building's greyish-white tiles had fallen off and parts of the top were cracked, but overall, it was in the best condition of any building she had seen yet.Alex pulled her hand in her sleeve and tried to block the sun out so she could get a better look at the buildings on the horizon. It must have been a pretty major city; it was as big as the one she had broken into on the west coast of this continent. It was much bigger than the one she had just broken int
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