What Happens Tomorrow
Within
eighteen hours, everything will change. The woods and mountain shook. Isis’s
full form was awake.
“Yes!” Gill
shouted. “It’s working!” The tank started glowing.
Outside,
Ichiro and Rei felt the shaking.
“What the
--?!” Ichiro asked. The wasps dropped dead and crumbled. The shaking grew worse.
“Get inside!”
Ichiro shouted. He and Rei ran inside.
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More wasps
filled the tunnels. Tracy lifted her head.
“What the
hell?!” she shouted. The Red Woman headbutted her off.
“Oof!” Tracy
said as she hit the ground. Jiro tackled the woman from behind. Tracy dragged
herself to her feet. The walls started to glow.
“Oh no…”
Tracy said as she looked around. She clicked the back of her right teeth.
“Luke! Luke,
can you hear me? Luke? Luke?” she asked. The Red Woman charged but Tracy slid
out of the way.
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Luke,
Mitsuko, and Marasu made it downstairs. The shaking hit them too. The humans
could barely stand.
“What was
that?” Mitsuko asked. Luke opened his mouth.
“Luke! Luke,
can you hear me? Luke? Luke?” Tracy asked in his ear. Luke jumped to attention.
“Yes?” he
asked.
“She’s been
activated! Get to San now!” the android shouted.
“What?” Luke
asked.
“Just do it!”
the android yelled. “I will lead you to her!”
“Okay!” Luke
shouted.
“Start
running to the door!” she shouted.
“Mitsuko,
Marasu, come on!” Luke yelled. Brother and sister followed behind.
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By now, Isis
was awake. However, there was a problem. How did she get too powerful? Gill saw
what was wrong too late. His body lay burned on the floor. Face frozen in
horror. Meanwhile, San floated in her tank. There was nothing there. The wires
glowed. Some were starting, to burn up.
“San! San!
San!”
Luke ran up
to the tank. The glowing walls nearly blinded him. Still, he kept going. He had
to prove Tracy wrong.
“You have to
destroy her,” she said.
“What?” he
asked.
“She’s gone,
kid,” Tracy said. “Gill made her into the ultimate weapon. You have to stop her
before she kills us all.”
“But…”
“Don’t be a
pussy!”
Luke had to
save San. She didn’t have to be destroyed. He could see her in the distance. The
boy reached out to her.
“San!” Luke
yelled. His fingers touched glass. She could not see him. She did not recognize
him.
“Do it!”
Tracy yelled. Her voice sounded distant in his ear. Luke’s body felt like it was
on fire. Still, Luke would not break down.
“San,” he
said. His voice came out into a hoarse whisper. She looked like a lifeless doll.
The wires were on fire. Tears ran down Luke’s cheeks. He pressed his lips
together.
“Luke! Do
it!” Tracy yelled. A tear ran down his cheek.
“Luke!” Tracy
yelled.
“San, I love
you,” Luke said as loud as he could. He began to speak the shut down code. Tears
ran down San’s cheeks. The light engulfed them both.
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It’s quiet
now. Everything looked so green. Plants and nature grew everywhere. The wasps
lay crushed on the ground. The Red Woman, Tracy, and Jiro let on the ground
where they were. Tracy and Jiro were in one piece but out cold. The third
android was broken into pieces. The same happened to Ichiro and Rei.
In the
basement, Mitsuko and Masaru lay on floor still alive but unconscious. Where the
tank used to be lay Luke and San. What remained of her lay in his arms. Could
she be fixed? Luke was going to try.
They would
all be found hours later.
Data: Complete