`The stark blankness of it is too much for me with its white walls and grey floor it was as if it sucks all the happiness from my soul. This cube was supposed to keep us safe
“Yeah really safe.” I mutter to myself grinning. Then without a second thought, I kick the flimsy door off its hinges and sprint into the night the silence is deafening as everyone else sleeps through the curfew. Suddenly I hear a shout “don't move!” screams a guard, I keep running waiting for the crack of his pistol,Yet it doesn't come. Then, as if I'm a puppet on a string I am yanked back hitting my head on the concrete my blonde hair flapping in the wind as I roll into unconsciousness.
I wake up in a damp and cold room I notice a door and I try it, but it’s locked. I look around and I see a bed with a thin mattress on it and a window with metal bars blocking any attempt to escape. A guard walks past the window He wears a suit of armor and a black helmet that covers his intiers head and suddenly the door swings open and two guards march in and gesture for me to follow them. I walk out into a cell block, where I'm flung into a cell the same as the last one. But for a barred door siting their I look around there are hundreds of different inmates all doing their business. Pacing my cell as the hopelessness of my situation weighs down on me. Suddenly the door swings open walking out I look around and see everyone walking towards a door on the other side
Of the cell block. I follow them to the door finding myself in a cafeteria inmates are sitting at a tables eating what looked like slop covered
With sawdust. Looking around I see a tray that is unoccupied I go over and grab it and sit down at the table. Scooping up the slope I take a tentative bite and nearly cough it back up “Thats horrible” I get out in between coughing fits “here the sauce makes it close to bearable” looking up, I See a man with a scared face like leather “my name's daniels”
He said “Thomas” I replied.
“Well Thomas what did you do”
“I went for a stroll during a curfew”
“What's he doing I said” guestring over to a man in the corner.
A rough hand grabs my shoulder and pulls me back tipping over my chair
My vision blurs on the edges. letting out a moan I see daniels wrestling with a bold man. Soon everyone's Fighting I roll out the way as a fat man collapses down getting up I look round the racket of shoats and grunts pierce my ears, ducking round I punch a man in the side of my head but I trip and fall suddenly a voice echos over speakers in the roof.
EVERYONE DON'T MOVE booms the speakers I hear the cocking of stun guns and close my eyes opening them again I watch a man step forward before a shot from a stun gun puts him on the floor.
“Everyone go to your cells” Booms the voice again getting up I follow daniels to the cell block. Walking up the stairs entering my cell I look up to two guards are waiting follow me one says in a tinny voice. Then they march out turning around I follow them they flank me as me walk down a corriod that I had not noticed I find myself in what looks like a changing room. One of the guards flings me a fighting suit pulling it on I am giving a pair of gloves that have metal studs on the knuckles pulling them on. I follow the guards into what looks like a old roman arena a camera follow me as I walk forward on the other side Of the arena another inmate marches across the sand hands raised for the cameras.
Watching the other inmate I raise my fists knowing what will come next.
“FIGHT” booms the voice the other inmate charges at me he throws a punch I'm knocked off my balance he punches me again in the gut. I raise a hand to my head and it comes of wet with blood I throw a punch and it connects but to no avail. The inmate upper cuts me in the chin which sends me sprawling on the sand coughing I look up. Im pulled up by the scruff of my collar the he starts punching me over and over again blood pours from open wounds “STOP” booms the voice again the inmate release me as I look up I relles all my fury punching him in the temple he drops uncoinces.
Sitting in my cell I realise I have to get out sneaking out of my open cell door I tip toe
Into another corridor.
like a cat I sneak across the room to a door that's ajar opening it slowly I peer inside.
The warden is slumped asleep on a chair I creep over to the door on the other side of the room trying it is locked. looking around I spot his desk on top lays a half finished copy of lord of the flies. opening a draw I find a key going back over to the door I unlock it creeping through the door. I peer around there's a guard standing on a mezzanine overlooking my way to escape I see a stun pistol in a crate sneaking over I aim and shoot the guard he collapsed unconscious. I climb down the stairs I rush out to the outside world but the gate starts closing turning around a semicircle of guards block my escape. closing my eyes the hail of machine gun fire tears through my body the pain is like a wave then nothing…
By Jack.D