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It's hard to move on

         One look at the ceiling and I knew I was at the vault. How did I get here? What's been happening? Why do I feel this sad? Questions like this ran through my mind.

              An image of what happened came to my mind and I immediately knew why I was such a downer.

           She was gone. The one person that knew everything about me. The one person that I shared my true feelings with. The one person that really understood me. She's gone. Kylee was gone. I was being an over dramatic teenager but that was the truth.

    "Where's Kylee? Where is she? I wanna see her now" I shouted getting up from my bed unto the floor. Tricia who sat on a chair across the room immediately came back from the dream world. The rest of the gang were in the room too including Kristar but they didn't wake up.

        "Scott... you are awake".

       "Yeah....I said where's Kylee?". Her head fell as she looked at the ground that she stood on.

          "Scott... She's gone".

       "Gone? What do you mean by gone?". Within me, I knew the truth but didn't want to accept it. It wasn't possible, was it?

         "She's dead, Scott. She's even been buried".

           "Buried! When did that happen? How could she have been buried?". That word "buried" annoyed me. How could she have been buried without me seeing her body one last time. I was just out for a few hours.

        "Scott, you've been out for four days. Four good days. She was buried two days ago".

       Four days? Four days? I had been out for four days?

        " Where was she buried?". The word "buried" still hurt especially when I was referring to Kylee. I can't still believe she's gone.

           " No one really knows. It's not like it was an official thing. I talked to Paula, the girl that went with you guys on the mission. She told me Kylee was thrown or something. I think she said Kylee was buried in a mass cemetery nearby".

        Mass cemetery? Woodward doesn't even have respect for the dead? I have had enough. It's time to confront this big baddie.

          I walked out of the room angrily and headed towards Woodward's office. I barged into his office expecting to see him in there but I was wrong. Van, Logan, Jake and two other soldiers were in there but Woodward wasn't. It seemed like they were having a closed meeting but I could care less.

      " Where's Woodward? How could Kylee not have been given a befitting burial? Why all this? Why?" I shouted directing the question at nobody in particular.

        "Young man, watch your tongue or I would cut it off for you. I will let this slide because you made us win and because you look like you aren't still well from everything that happened" Van said staring daggers at me.

        I really hadn't thought this through. I looked at myself and realised I looked like a mental patient who escaped from an asylum. I still had my clinic gown on and I wasn't exactly looking my best at that moment. It didn't matter anyways. I came to make my point and it must be heard.

       "I want to see that son of a bitch called Woodward. Let's see how tough he is. Brought us into this hell to kill us all, for what?".  I kept on ranting until Jake took me out of the room. Thank goodness he pulled me out at the right time. Van looked like he would have my head if I talked a minute longer.

       "Bro,keep shut or you would be the next to die" Jake said pushing me to a corner.

        "I don't really care anymore. What's the point? We all live in here to die someday. A day which would come sooner than we expect".

           " In here, they don't really care about us. Just keep your cool or your case is gonna get worse".

          "Worse? How bad can it get?".  He looked to his left and right to check if anyone was close by.

         "You don't wanna know. There are worse things in here that no x-gene has seen expect for the unfortunate ones. Why do you think they make us keep fit? Why do you think we train and fight? Have you ever asked yourself that?". His words had now caught my attention. What could he be talking about?

       "No, not really. I haven't thought of it".

        "All this shit is for exploitation. A day would come when we would all be hooked to tubes and machines like lab rats. To make more of us. To control us. To make a super army out of us".

         This whole thing was now getting scarier by the minute. Tubes? Machines? Lab rats? I now saw the vault in a whole new light.

        "How do you know all this?"

       "That doesn't matter now. The important thing is to keep your cool and stay low or else you would be hooked up to those tubes faster than the rest of us".

      "Ok... I get you. Ehmmm... What did Van mean by I made us win".

        "You can't remember? About a few minutes after you ran into the store with that girl's body, a powerful wave that came from you shook the whole place. It killed a lot of the El macho goons because you were exactly in the middle of their side, dude. It also injured some soldiers but we still won anyway, because of you".

       "Whoa! I didn't know that. When I saw everything slow down I thought I was just seeing things".

         "The doctor said you released that amount of energy because you were in immense pain and sorrow. It drained you of everything you've got. That's why you slept for four days".

        Talking to Jake was just what I needed to get back on my feet. All this revelation was all new to me. I could release a massive surge of energy when in deep pain and the vault was not a place to train x-genes but a place to use us, exploit us and eventually control us. All these made me think deeply and I came to a decision. I had to escape the vault and I had to do it fast. With friends by my side.

      Hey guys....... how do you like this chapter? Scott was finally going to try and escape. Was he going to join the revolution? Or do it his own way?  What do you think the future held for him and his fellow x-genes? Was he going to eventually escape?

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