We ran till our feet hurt, but the maze of hallways and doors seemed to only get thicker. It was like we were in the labyrinth from Greek mythology. At every point where the key card I had stolen didn't work, we were forced to turn around and open another door. The person who had originally owned this card, some guy named Pete Fuddruckers who looked like a complete geek, apparently didn't have as much security clearance as I had originally thought. It turned out that we were just lucky the first few times that he had clearance for those doors.

            It was creepy running through the facility without people in lab coats and suits walking around. I knew that I hadn't been here long at all, but something had been bugging me since I got here. This place looked eerily familiar. Like I had seen it in a dream. It was honestly kinda weird.

            We hit another door and I insert my stolen keycard, the light turns red and we try it couple more times before giving up, this door was too high of a security clearance for poor little Pete. We turn and try the door next to it, the light turned green. Thank god, I was starting to lose all hope in Pete and his keycard.

            "Any idea where this one goes?" We ask Amy the same question as we did after opening every other door we were able to get through. Lately the answer we'd been given was leaning more towards 'no', which meant that Amy, who had been here for only days, had had a higher clearance than Pete, who had been here for three years according to his card. When they tied the others up, they took Amy's key card, which could have helped us much more than the one that I had gotten to.

            "No, I don't know where we are going anymore. I never went to this part of the facility.  This was where the top secret stuff happened, I never got access to this area."

            "Well, why did the key card work in this area if you probably need more security clearance to get to this part of this place?" Patrick states exactly what I was thinking. The others look dumbstruck, obviously they weren't thinking about more than just getting out of here.

            "Maybe the different areas were like separate places inside the facility?" Lauren speaks up. " I mean - Amy had special clearance in the main part, or what I am guessing is the main part because we were taken there and it was where Mr. I'm-a-scary-guy's office was. Now we've probably entered an area where Pete had more access than Amy. Guessing from his picture on the card" Lauren gestures towards the key card in my hand. "He was more of the tech guy, or a he was a guy who I would trust with my secrets - I mean - who would he tell his secrets to?"

            "You've got a point there." Brandon pipes in.

            "Well, we should probably keep going, who knows what time we might've lost just standing here and talking about things we don't know about for sure. We need to keep moving." Julian tries to convince us to get a move on.

            "He's right, let's go." I announce.

            We took off at a jog, seeing as most of us were tired of running through the maze of hallways and doors that make up this facility. And then it happened, all of a sudden the lights went out. Well, the red flashing alarm lights. Then the blaring alarm noise turned off. It took me a while to get situated with the newly almost quite atmosphere. I could actually hear my own labored breathing and we wouldn't have to yell to be overheard by the alarm.

            I started to hear voices at the end of the hall, so I stop everyone. We huddle in a small closet that was hidden in the corridor. It didn't need a key card, so we squeezed in and closed the door. We must've closed the door in time because the voices kept going on in a nonchalant tone, oblivious to the children hiding in what I was assuming to be the janitorial closet.

            "- but you can't be too sure, Joe."

            "I can be as sure as I want to. The storm has blown out the whole of the south hall, and the main building as well. The boss might be mad about his office being torn to shreds, but he can always take up the real offices like the rest of, he can feel our pain of being stuck in that little cubicle all day."

            "So the children who crashed here, they won't be a problem anymore?"

            "Oh, no. they were tied up right next to the windows in the south hall, they are either dead or dying. The boss might be mad about the dark haired one being stuck in his office when the majority of the storm hit. The storm broke through and destroyed that part of the facility only ten minutes after the alarms went off for everyone to get in the storm shelter."

            "Ahh, but you need to check the power, the storm is still raging outside, why is it even safe to leave the shelters? Why can't we-"

            They must've turned the corner finally because we stopped hearing them. I did the math in my head, we all must've left the south hall, and the majority of the main building only a minute or two before the storm destroyed that area. We were only seconds away from death.

            We all pushed our way out of the closet and stood in the hall. I looked from person to person in this group of misfits, we were all still mostly tired and ragged looking in all retrospect.

            "Did he say what I think he said?" Amy said, shocked.

            "Yeah, the storm destroyed half of this place and they're letting people out of the shelters, even though it's still going on. That is so unsafe. Think about how many more people can get hurt because they did that!" Kasta said, being the softy he is. Caring more about the lives of others than his own.

            "They were leaving us for dead!" Amy whisper yells.

            "But the important thing is that we don't be seen by any of the faculty. Now that they're letting them out of the storm shelters, we have a more chance of being caught. At first I had thought it was just luck that we hadn't run into the faculty. They also think we are all dead, even Payton. It would be a shame to lose that as an advantage." Brandon speaks up.

            "But wait, does nobody care that we were about to just die!" Amy screams this time. Her scream echo's throughout the hallway. We all freeze in fear, anyone could of heard that.

            My fears were confirmed when loud running footsteps were heard coming from the direction that we had come from. I could hear deep and loud voices, probably security officers. We look at each other, maybe for the last time.

            "Run!"