“NaNoWriMo 2020 Pt. 36”

Author’s Note: This is a Take Ten to Write story and has not been proofread for errors. If I feel inspired or if there’s interest in the story, I’ll post a revised, edited, and extended version at a later date. Happy reading!

Additional note: This is a continuation of the NaNoWriMo 2020 TTtW story.

Read the compiled NaNoWriMo TTtW story here!

MASON’S POV

Somehow, now there’s four of us. Skye? I’m glad that we found each other again. Maddie? I don’t really mind if she comes along. Ryan? I’d rather let Skye burn me to a crisp than be with him for another moment.

Then again, at least he’s helping us escape. At least, I think he is…

We slip into the room and I see that it’s basically an underground garage for submarines. Yup, because that’s completely normal.

A few guards and staff mill about, tuning up the submarines or checking screens on the walls.

“Okay Skye, you’re up,” Ryan says, nudging her.

She looks at him with wide eyes. “What do you mean?”

“I know what you can do,” he says before gesturing at the people between us and the submarine. “They’re in the way.”

“I don’t just burn people for fun,” Skye hisses, wrapping her arms around herself.

Ryan rolls his eyes. “I’m starting to think that you don’t really want to get out of here.”

“I do!” she insists. “But can’t we do it without hurting anyone?”

Ryan glances at Maddie. She shrugs and he sighs. “Fine, I’ll do it myself,” he mutters.

Wait, what does that mean?

Slowly, Ryan rises off the ground. And by rising off the ground, I don’t meant that he stands up. He literally starts flying.

Ryan is flying. What even is happening right now?

Maddie shakes her head as she glares at him. “I can’t believe that you took the offer,” she mutters to him under her breath; I have a feeling I wasn’t supposed to hear that.

Ryan ignores Maddie and floats to the nearest guard. Without hesitation, he jabs something at the guard. The guard drops to the ground with a dull thud.

My eyes widen. Did what I think just happened actually happen…?

Ryan continues flying around the room, felling guard after guard. I’m frozen in place, unable to even register what’s going on right now.

Finally, Ryan returns to us. The front of his shirt is dark red.

“Come on, let’s go,” he says, wiping red off his face with his sleeve.

Without a word, I scurry past him and onto the nearest submarine.

Final Comments: I was going to use the prompt today buuuuuut this happened instead…

Overall Rating: 😳