EDEN /// CHAPTER 09 /// ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT

I’ve been used this whole time. I don’t know fully where I am. But this isn’t Earth. I doubt it is. I hear a noise behind me. It’s the tracker I just ripped out of my skull. It’s releasing electricity. I guess they, the 4-eyed motherf**kers, saw I found their little secret and wanted to knock me out. Probably just to wipe my memory when they find me. Now i’m wondering about what else they’ve done to me. Why they’ve done it. I know i’ve probably been probed with a thousand trackers and monitors i’ll never be able to get out. I come up with thousands of little theories in my head. Probably the most plausible one is that this is a fake environment, an artificial Earth. That would explain why the sky looks off, why the sun looks a bit dimmer, why the air’s a bit more humid than I remember. Where do the zombies come from? Bioengineered, probably. Or they abducted humans. That last one’s a bit corny. But i’ll never know the answer.

I hear a *thud* outside. I don’t give it much thought. But soon enough I realize just who it is. The gray f**kers. I think they’ve come for me. And so fast, too. It was only a few minutes ago I got rid of my tracker. You know what that means. So I scramble to find a weapon. I remember, there was like, a, uh, giant-ass alien gun. In the closet. In a box, with big red words on it i’m assuming means “DANGER”. There’s no time to think about that danger if more danger is coming. I hear an explosion from way upstairs. The raid’s begun. They’ve blown open the wall blocked weeks ago by one of their own. It’s easier than moving the blockade out of the way, and it incites fear into whoever they’re hunting down. I think of the time left I have to prepare. Those guys run like, a bit slower than I do. 4 floors of stairs up there.

I give myself a minute until they’re here.

I grab the weapon from the closet. Take it out of the box. I fumble with it a bit. How do I work this thing?

50 seconds.

I think I know where the trigger is. I’m afraid of test-firing it in the event it makes an explosion. The lights turn off. They probably have a squad in the power room as we speak. They’ve spread out now and I’m scared. Out of my mind.

40 seconds.

I overturn a table. I could use it as cover.

30 seconds.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so useful though. It’s just one of those plastic folding tables. I could probably hide in like, the shower. But that means I have less oppurtunities to escape. I’d be a sitting duck.

20 seconds.

I hunker down behind my table. Slightly scoot closer to the door they’ll be coming from, because they’ll assume i’m hiding *further* from them. Ballsy move, but you need to outthink the enemy.

10 seconds.

I just gather my bearings and hold my gun.

The door’s busted down. I hear a bunch of alien chattering. They sound like fish, or insects, or something like that. I peek my gun out of the table and fire blindly. One of them’s hit in the foot multiple times and it’s shredded up. I see the others. They see me. There’s 3 of them total. I think I killed one. Their eyes glow in the dark and they all have massive shields attached to their arms. But this is not a time to gaze at them. It’s a time to f**king run. Their guns fire, but the table’s still intact. They must have made it non-lethal, just so I can still be tested on. A shame i’m on lethal. They keep firing. They’re trying to create pressure. I search through my bag. They’re smart enough to approach the table while firing so I have to go quick. All that’s in there food, a thermos, and my flashlight.

I take out my thermos and roll it past the table at the soldiers’ feet. They stop firing for a split second and raise their shields. It’s the number one rule in gunfights. If the enemy rolls something at you and you don’t know what it is, it’s probably a grenade. Luckily they don’t know. While they’re distracted, I crawl out of the table’s safety and get behind the leftmost one. Bang. Two down. But now the last one’s pissed. It charges, and I don’t have time to react. I get pushed down. They stomp on my ankle. I scream. I think it’s broken now.

Now I have two options- give in (not an option) or push him over. With that giant shield, it’s definitely the center of their mass compared to their arguably scrawny body. So I do so, with all my might. They sort of stumble, which isn’t enough, but it IS enough to let me get up and limp as fast as I can to the showers. I have an idea.

“F**k off, dude!”
I’m shot in the back. It hurts like hell, and I fall on my own knees. My entire right side is numb. But I can’t quit now. The soldier’s following me into the showers. When it enters the room, I kick it and it’s stupid f**king shield into a shower. Then I go in with it and kick its stupid f**king shield into its face. Finally, I turn on the water and make it as hot as possible. It won’t kill him, but while he’s trying to get up he’ll be scalded like hell. Then, the final part of my plan. My escape.

There’s still downstairs. I can go down there. They know i’ve never gone down there, chances are. They won’t expect me to go there in my panic. I vault over the table and hide, I fumble for my flashlight in my bag, and I grab it, but see something roll past my table. Definitely a grenade. Out into the hallway and into the stairwell. Past the police tape blocking the stairs down, i’m rushing down the stairs with an alien gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other. I don’t feel like making noise, though, so once i’m out of sight I just creep silently down, and eventually, i’m in the clear. I turn in my flashlight. Time to see what’s down here.

This is absolute fire, why does it not have any more upvotes and compliments?

Because bossfights users don’t have the attention span to read
No deadass
Everyone in the discord’s like “i’ll read it later”

huh

you asked why this doesn’t have more attention

what's attention

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What if my freaky ass likes it

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THERE IS ANOTHER EDEN-

Well now I gotta read this

Nvm

This is the story’s name dawg…

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