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They made it out of the city but the helicopters and armored vehicles still followed, and they ran. They ran as fast as their now giant legs could take them.
One of the helicopters announced something, maybe a warning of sorts. Jack couldn't tell, the only thing he wanted was to collapse and scream. But he knew he can't do that. The same moment they stop could be the same moment their entire lives end.
There has to be a way to get back to normal.. Right?
Ryan pointed at the mountains "Maybe we can lose them in the mountains!" he shouted at the other two.
Adam nodded and took the lead, jumping over one that was a little bit more than half his height, and disappeared behind it. Ryan followed and so did Jack, only to discover it was a valley, and that on the other side of the mountain was taller then what they had jumped over.
Much, much taller.
'Shit shit shit shit' Jack repeated in his head. Even with their new height, it was still a long ways to go.
They slid down as carefully as they could as Adam, who had just made it down and regaining his balance, suggested to duck down and hide behind any mountain that would cover them.
And so they did. The armored vehicles couldn't get in the valley, so the helicopters had to take it from there.
What was 5 minutes felt like 5 hours, and 5 hours felt like 5 days. But 5 hours it was when the last helicopter finally left after searching for them, the sun had set already.
"I... I think their gone" Jack who was shaking, whispered out. Despite Jack being who said it, Ryan was first one to come out. Then Jack, then Adam.
Ryans glasses were skewed and cracked in one eye, Adams hair was down and a knotted mess, and Jack had bloodshot eyes from silently crying.
Adam sat down on a clearing and rested his back and head on a mountain next to a small stream... or rather if they were normal size would have been a river.
"What the fuck..." he groaned quietly. Jack leaned on a mountain and put his hand on his forehead, looked up to the sky.
"We gotta fix this..." Ryan murmured
"Fucking how?!" Jack snaped back. The other two brothers look at Jack in surprise, as he looked down and met their gazes.
"Were fucked. Were so fucked." He could feel a lump in his throat "Were never going to be normal again" he gripped and clawed at the hat on his head "Were never going to be able to see anyone again, no Dad or mom or..." Tears formed in his eyes as he was about to say his girlfriends name. "The second we leave this fucking hole" voice cracking, "were going to be blown up by the fucking military."
Jack slid down the mountain and held his knees to his chest. Adam let out a shakey breath and closed his eyes trying to keep a steady breathing pace while Ryan sat down as well.
He took of his glasses to inspect the damage done and looked at the one cracked lens in his hands, but his vision became more blurry than usual. Tears dripped down from his face and hit his glasses that he held in his lap.