Chapter 3 - Capture

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH”Amanda and Danny halted in there tracks. Up until now they had been avoiding contact with each other, avoiding each others eyes and even trying not to mach each other’s footsteps. They hadn’t spoken a word when the silence was shattered by an ear-piercing scream. And still not a word was spoken when another was heard, sounding much closer. The silence was almost unbearable for Danny, who was naturally a talker. It was much easier for Amanda, yet still tough. They both yearned for one of them to start a conversation. And yet the silence pressed on. It seemed that nothing was going to settle the grudge that the silence was defending ever so well, until they heard a voice.“Arg! Where are those humans? The others have almost certainly caught the other prisoners. Grr, they must have cheated somehow. Otherwise they would never have surpassed my skills with tracking! Yaarg!”The voice was metallic, and obviously frustrated. Amanda and Danny didn’t like each other, but they both thought very much alike. They quickly glanced at each other and nodded, agreeing that they needed to find a place to hide. They actually were alike in many ways, walking in a way that their footsteps were unheard over their pursuer’s constant ranting. They quickly found a pile of wooden crates and soundlessly hid behind them. They crouched in silence, the dark hallway masking their faces. Then they saw a green light coming their way. They both assumed that the hunter had a strange flashlight. Nodding to each other again, they crouched lower and looked from the sides where shadows still remained. The thing coming was red, probably metal, and obviously not human based. It looked menacing, green glowing eyes shining in the dark, the light reflecting off of the knife like claws on its large metal hands. The robot walked by, its constant angry ranting getting louder with each metallic footstep. As it walked by they were able to hear some more of its frustrated speech. “If only my sensors were working, then I could find them instantly. Grr, If I ever find those two…”Its voice started to fade. As soon as the escapees were unable to hear it, the first word form them was spoken from Danny.“It’s broken, that will probably give us an advantage.”Amanda was a little startled, but she replied quietly. “Yeah, it would have found us sooner if it was in good condition.”“Well we still need a way to get out of here, and now we have this guy to worry about.”“Right, so what do we do now?”Danny paused. He didn’t expect Amanda to ask him that question. But even though he was a very smart person, he couldn’t think of a fool proof way to get out of the situation that they were in. “You do have a plan, don’t you?”It was like Amanda had read his thoughts. Usually he would have thought up a smart remark, but the situation was too dire.“…no”They stared at each other for a minute, than Amanda looked away. “I was hoping you had a better idea than mine, but I think we should just chance it and keep looking for a way out.” “And if we run into the robot?” Danny questioned. She paused to think, “Run?”Danny was quiet for a little while, then turned to her and smiled. “Sounds like a good idea to me.”……………………………….................................................................................“AAAAAAAAARRRG! WHERE DID THOSE BLASTED HUMANS GET TO?” Robo Knux was angry. The others had obviously found their humans due to the constant screaming going on. He would never get that upgrade! The only reason he kept looking for the pathetic flesh bags (as he liked to call them) was so that the doctor wouldn’t disassemble him. He dispised the doctor almost as much as he loathed Robo Tails. That pompous fool thought all the others were highly inferior to his “great powers.” “Great powers,” he said to himself. “Yeah right. I’ve never seen anything so great from that idiot.”He walked on, cursing all living and nonliving things in existence until he came across one of the few power boxes on the whole facility. He quickly found the control panel in the dim light. He punched in the code and opened the box. There he found a multitude of switches, knobs, and buttons. Robo Knux found the switch that controlled the lights for the warehouse and flipped it. ………………………………...................................................................................Danny and Amanda continued walking, but this time there was less silence. They talked almost the whole way, mostly about strategic actions, but on the occasion there came conversations about their fate. Weather anyone would believe them if they got out, what would happen if they got caught, and once they wondered if they would get out alive, a topic that had been on their minds ever since they herd the first scream. Now they were talking about what fate would befall the others. “Maybe they will be fed to some horrible monster!”“Oh please, that’s just silly.”“I know, I was just joking. Jeeze Danny, you don’t have a sense of humor do you?”“That wasn’t really funny.”“…Well what if they got put into slavery?”“Probably in a factory or something”“What kind of factory?”“A factory where they make Ductape for people who won’t shut up.”“Oh, so you do have a sense of humor then?”Amanda and Danny quarreled on with the smart remarks for quite a while, until they heard the robot’s voice. AAAAAAAAARRRG! WHERE DID THOSE BLASTED HUMANS GET TO?” They were instantly quiet. They knew the robot was somewhere near, but where did the noise come from? It seemed to echo from every wall. Then they heard the robot’s footsteps…coming from behind them. Luckily they found another pile of crates and hid behind them just as the robot turned the next corner. He almost walked right past while cursing things if he hadn’t noticed a box on the wall. He typed in some numbers and opened the front of the box, where he found buttons and switches. He looked at them for a minute, then chose a white switch and flipped it. Instantly the hallway was flooded with bright light, so bright the two of them gasped shortly as the light stung their eyes. Unfortunately for them, the robot turned around quickly, obviously hearing the small, quiet noise. All he could see in front of him were crated piled high upon each other to the high ceiling. He looked as of he was going to turn around and walk away, but he didn’t. Instead the robot shot over quickly and drove his foot long claws into the box right in front of Amanda and Danny. With little effort he lifted the dusty crate just high enough to see their faces etched in pure terror. “Aha!” he said out loud. Robo Knux enjoyed playing with his victims, and especially with the feeble little human minds. He liked to terrify them, to watch them scream for mercy before he lopped their heads off. He couldn’t lop any heads today, but he wanted to hear a scream. “Well well,” he said menacingly. “I’ve been looking for you annoying humans for a long time now. Tell me,” he leaned closer to them, “how did you evade me for such a long time?” He knew that he had already lost the bet, so he had plenty of time to toy with them. Amanda and Danny simply sat there, too petrified to move. “How about you?” He leaned so close to Amanda that she could feel the cold metal tip of his muzzle against her nose. “Why did you insist on delaying the inevitable?”And yet they just sat there, not moving, hardly breathing, just being terrified. “Well? Why aren’t you answering me? Are you SCARED?”He lifted the box high above his head and chucked it as hard as he could (witch was very hard if you didn’t know) at the wall of crates behind them. That turned out to be a very bad idea, for as it hit the other crates, the ones on the bottom smashed, sending about twenty crates toppling down upon all of them. Robo Knux was hit hard in the head by the corner of a big heavy crate, temporarily disrupting his circuitry and giving him the appearance that he was unconscious. Amanda was able to duck and escape any injury when a pair of long crates wedged only inches above her head. But Danny ended up unconscious with his leg trapped underneath two crates only feet away from the “unconscious” robot. She came over and tried to pull him out, but it was no use. His leg would be ripped out of it’s socket if she tried to pull it out, and the crates it was suck under were to big to be lifted by a fifteen year old girl. She decided it would be best to leave him, and hope that nothing bad happened. But right when she started walking away, she heard the sound of metal on wood. She didn’t need to turn around or stop, because she knew exactly what was happening behind her. The robot was waking up.Pure instinct took over and she ran. She ran as fast as her human legs could go, and she yearned with all her heart that she could go faster. Her heart pounded, her muscles burned, water was streaming from her eyes. And yet she refused to stop. She ran through hallways, past piles of boxes, and through intersections. And she just kept running. ………………………………...............................................................................Robo Knux was back online. He found the unconscious boy trapped underneath the crates and quickly hog-tied him. Then he found another one of the power boxes, punched in the code and opened the box. “Let’s see her flee when she’s blind as a bat!”He flipped the light switch off. ………………………………...................................................................................Amanda was still running. Her legs were numb and burning and she couldn’t breath. And yet the pure terror of getting caught by that inhumane psycho kept her going. Then the lights went off.She stumbled blindly in the darkness, almost tripping over herself about three times within the first twenty seconds. She came to whet she could make out in the dim light to be a large room, with pillars supporting the high ceiling and piles of boxes lining the walls. She tried to look behind her, to see weather the robot was following her, and weather she could afford a break. That also turned out to be a bad idea, because as soon as she turned around again, she ran headfirst into one of the iron support beams. She instantly fell unconscious.            

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