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This is not "How your story ends".
It's simply where it takes a turn you didn't expect
- Cheryl Strayed
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"Maybe, when you get out of this you'll get to thrown in prison, instead of thrown in detention this time, Lee" His ear piece rang out as Lee ducked behind a corridor opening as an employee passed by, unknowing of Lee sneaking passed. Step by step. Lee was getting more clues to what had happened to his principal and what's happening in his school. Why doesn't anyone remember their principal, and why did the school board hire such a idiot to run this damn school?
"Sounds like paradise when the other option is my mother, Biffy" Lee snorted quietly as he snuck behind a crate, taking out a miniature screw driver, he knelt closer to the small vent.
"Biffy Baby, I don't think I can fit in this one.." The red haired boy muttered as he touched his ear piece, and glanced around, and unscrewed the vent, looking in it.
"You'll fit Lee, I know, now listen to directions" Biffy scolded as he guided lee through the vents. Straight, right, hop down and turn left. Lee hopped down out the ventilation shaft. He looked around, it was dark as ever, he hit's his knee against something and stumbled upon a light switch.
"Ow-Gee... Hey! found the light switch" Lee smiled before it faded as he looked around, not knowing where he was. He was suppose to be investigating the basement of the bakery, a donut shop, that was very far from his school. really far from detention.
"Biffy.. where am I?"
"The basement, duh"
Lee looked around.
"This doesn't look like a bakery basement, Bif"
As lee talks, he walks around and found what he stumbled over, a huge arm, it held a gun. He kicked the arm, with minimal aggression. His eyes followed the arm, satified but it didn't last very long as he found a cleaner bot body, it was wrecked, oil spread around it like a pool of blood and a robot guts.
"What... in hades name..."
As Lee hesitantly stepped closer, he found a pipe sticking out the robots body, like a spear. He reaches to touch it.
So close.
Too far.
"Lee?"
"Hey, Ping Answer!"
Biffy's voice was drowned out as Lee was shocked back when he heard guns firing on the other side of the wall, it's faint. Then explosions that shook the ground he was on, he grabbed the gun from the cleaner bots hand.
Lee glances around, eyes landing on a door. the door had odd oil stains and smelled like a sewer system, but before he could leave he found his eye catching the faintly glowing words on the wall.
It read,-The seismic disrupter can shake the ground, only activates when hit with an explosive shell, usually used to topple buildings but when used on the ground it destabilizes anything within 300 feet of its range, especially huge towers-
"Biffy, look at this"
Lee took a photo and sent it to his tech friend, he then ran out the room, shoving his phone in his pocket, the other hand was used to hold the gun, one he recognized as a assault riffle, as lee walks down the hall way, he still faintly hears gun firing, walking scared and confused as the gunfire abruptly stops, he notices something on the corner of his eye he sees a gates and behind the gate is nothing but darkness...
then he sees a cleaner buts head get rolled towards his feet.
"Oh. Bif... I think, I might need an extra set of pants after this.."
He walks towards the gate and them he sees two pairs of eyes, but he saw a mix of three colors; red blue and purple glowing eyes looking, staring dead at him. Lee would need an extra pair of pants now.
The lengthy boy then saw fusion rushed at him hitting the gate, lee panicked and shoots the assault rife then watches in horror as fusion starts bending the bars to get to him.
"Biffy, biffy-Get me a way out!"
"Lee-... You're cuttin-.."
"Biff? BIFFY"
Lee ran out of bullets. He threw the gun at fusion.
"...start... running..."
Biffys sound gets cut, he's frantically trying to reconnect the call and get to Lee.
"Lee?! LEE!?"
However, Lee had bigger concerns than a connection, he ran once he heard the word 'Start', He jetted.
Run. That was all Lee could understand at the moment, he ran, and ran, hearing the stomping of the huge horror that followed him. Everything felt so different, this morning he woke up and got dressed, it had been sunny, such a nice day, but now it didn't feel so bright or so nice out.
Thump, Thump, Thump—
His heart felt like it was in his ass and his chest was on fire, he was panting, when did he open his mouth? He doesn't remember.
His legs have never ran like this before, with all the force to try and make it back, back to the surface to the sun.
He didn't want to die.
Least, not here.
Oh how he begged not here, not now. He was barely in his sophomore year.
He went far as he could running, making it to a cut off, he turned right, and BANG. Weird, he didn't see a door, then again, he was also running off of half a lung full of oxygen. He ran a bit farther, just in case and collapse on a wall, eyes teary and full. Terrified and relieved when he heard the mech walk away.
Walking away displeased and annoyed but not willing to waste time on this hunt of his.
"Biffy.. Please answer.."
He whispered, barely, heaving due to lack of air and over working his body, his muscles sore, And he's swore his bookbag as never felt so heavy but right now wasn't the time to stop.
Or maybe he just won't make it home. The tunnels smelled like a sewer that was cleaned out but still stunk with the smell of rats—ugh... Rotten food, that wouldn't ever leave. The tunnel he was walking down twisted and turned, he was lost his phone had no WiFi connection and he was sure if
"Biffy, please—PLease.. answer, come on..."
Out of the side of his eye making him look up from clutching himself, he wiped away his teary eyes, making sure to catch his breath just incase he needed to run for his life once more. whenever that mech found him again, he was sure it was just looking for another way to get to him, Lee wasn't any version of stupid.
"what was..." HIs voice trails off as he sees-
"Barrage!"
"Oh Thank-Where were you?! I was looking for you everywhere-We need to get out of here-You scared me half to death!" Lee rambled trying to put words together as quickly as he was thinking which wasn't working for him, but to his surprise, he didn't get any kind of response, not from Barrage.
The hallways were growing foggy, probably a messed up pipe, or fucked ventilator.
"Barrage, You have to come back to school-the.. they're trying to replace you and-everything's a bit messy, Well... Really messy honestly, you gotta fix it-" Lee walked closer, using the wall, his lungs still aching, his feet hurt from all the movement and having slapping them down on the pavement from running.
Barrage started walking closer, entering where the vertical hallway, intersected with a horizontal hallway of the tunnels.
He was still silent which was odd for the usually yelling and scolding of Principal Barrage.
Lee didn't care, he was scared, alone and happy to have finally found who he had been looking for, for a few weeks now.
"-everything..." The tall boy trailed off as metal was hurt and he ducked down, as the mech once again came into his vision, he was petrified in place. He couldn't move if he wanted tom not right now, his heart spiked up.
Then as barrage walks into the cross, his steps slow and too steady. Even for a half robot principle with a bad grudge.
Lee takes a barely step forward, before fusion, huge and almost brimming with the will to kill anything in sight, from the left hallway, tackles shadow Barrage.
Watching utterly in horror, Lee sees Barrages silhouette get turn and instinct took over, turns around and takes another dash. Then finally makes it to core room, scared out of his Witt, Lee hides, taking the first shred of protection he can get, the world around him felt shaky and everything he's ever known felt like a dream compared to the brutality he just saw.
He didn't have time to wonder, he ducked down behind a research table, papers old and stuck to the multiple surfaces around the room, a glow lead his vision to spotting, what he thought, would be a core generator, something that powers cities or nations, hard to say. it was more than 30 times bigger than him.
A long thick beam of dark gray metal, with a thinner line of glowing energy showing in the middle of the beam, he couldn't say he's ever seen something like it before, definitely not taught in class that's for sure.
The beam had a semi circle around the base, a barrier?
Lee couldn't help thinking, if it needed barrier it couldn't be safe.
The semi circle around it look as if it was made of electricity, like it was something like an electric fence, that kept animals in, or people out. either way, he wasn't interested in touching it.
before core fight, fusion had barrage's head on one of his blades, tosses it aside. Oil blood stuff.
The core fight happens.
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3:34:23 PM
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At four-fifteen detention gets out, the only problem?
I'm not in detention right now, that's a huge problem.
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The lean boy moved with great speed as he grabbed his skateboard from his bag, trying to escape the hazmat cleaners, he threw it down and hopped onto the board, weaving through people scattered around the back of the bakery.
It smelled like freshly baked bread and Green Apple Splat, mixed with muffins, A hint of honey somewhere, as he passed a dude with a box of donuts in hand.
"Watch out!" Rang in his ear piece.
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Now you may be wondering what on earth have I been doing well I’m so glad I asked, I have been trying to find clues on what happened to the principal, but Lee why would you be trying to find the principal, I hear you asking and normally I would be ecstatic only problem being is that our new principal is some how worse!
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"I know, Biffy! Don't yell, my head already hurts enough with Barrage missing!"
He dodged the man and took a donut on his way out, as he sped out the door and over the sidewalk, and into the street waving through the cars and through traffic
Lee looked back glanced around than stopped long enough for the hazmat cleaners to rush and then he pushed forward on his skateboard, leaving the cleaners to get hit by a semi-truck, leaving bits and pieces of robot guts and bolts everywhere.
"Lee, you need to get here, like yesterday, Got it?" Biffy grunted in his hear. "If you get expelled from school again, I'm going to kill you, myself"
The dyed red head winced at that, Biffy's a big dude, and getting punched by him would hurt seriously bad. "Alright, alright don't get you're arms in a cross"
"Then don't cross 'em, turn right—"
Biffy lead his friend through the city streets, Alleys and even backyards to get hid Lee back to school before the principal got to the detention room. From the corner of Lee's eye he sees something blue watching him he thinks nothing's of it probably thinking its a cleaner bot