Episode 7

Episode 7

*Expect problems and eat them for breakfast*

Alfred .A. M.

**Park Se-yoon Pov**

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I woke up, or I don't know....

Found myself in some sort of futuristic wasteland with weirdly advanced technologies.

Like the Artificial intelligence age or something and I'm not a fan of sci-fi books or movies.

Everything felt like a lucid dream and I kept pinching myself.

Different kinds and sizes of robots everywhere and I couldn't see one human.

'Hello Park Se-yoon' I jumped in fear, I couldn't tell what or who was speaking and where the voice came from, it sounded like a female cyborg.

'Welcome to Sector G7....The city of gaming, you have two choices in this dimension, to save or to be saved ( survive), you are permitted to ask me only two questions after every game and I will answer truthfully, on your wrist you will find a stopwatch, it will read 2hours for every game, be vigilant!'.

I looked at my wrist and the watch read 00:00:00.

I tried yanking the watch off but it wouldn't budge.

Damn these seniors are really good, putting all this together.

I'm impressed.

I remained calm plus playing games is like a bonus for me, what's the worse that could happen.

An arrow flew over my head and I followed aimlessly until it reached what Looked like a train station but there were no rails.

I met five other girls standing there.

Finally some humans.

Hey......'

'Listen up' I was interrupted by a different cyborg voice.

'I am GAMES, I'm sure my assistant has given you all the briefing you need to stay alive, you're going to be playing life threatening games, mostly for my amusement. You have a 2 hour duration for this game. The first game is called Cinderella at 12" .

And that was it, no instructions on how to play the game, nothing.

To increase my confusion,

Some armed robots, well I wouldn't say armed,they had shotguns on their left arms , approached us with dresses and heels ordering us to wear them.

I laughed.

I'd never worn heels,

I didn't wear them at my dad's promotion service,

Or even to prom, I'd never worn heels.

Other girls immediately started undressing and putting on the dresses without complaining.

I did so too.

'Do not take off your heels for any reason, ever!' yelled the same cyborg voice.

The robots returned in the same synchronized manner they came and we all stood there confused as ever.

I looked at my stopwatch and it read 2:32:00, the countdown had already started?

I noticed a bright light coming behind us and immediately two metallic walls rose from both sides making where we stood a hallway, I turned back for the last time to see a train, coming as fast as possible.

We all started running.

Pause

Now imagine me, who has never worn heels before, run in them.

Hilarious right? Well not for me.

I started hopping at first but I wasn't making any progress, then I saw a girl sprint past me , she was running with the tip of her toes.

I immediately stole her tactics and started running like that too.

The girl directly in front of me stopped and tried to take off her shoes and immediately she did....

Boom!

She exploded, spilling guts and blood all over me.

And then we were five.

I gasped and trembled in fear but that didn't stop me from running.

I continued to run although the hallway seemed like it had no end.

I heard a scream from someone way in front of me,

She fell and immediately the Train got to her and she was crushed under.

We were four left now, and we still continued with our endless run.

'Argghhh!', came a yell from behind me , the train was less than a footstep close to her and immediately it came in contact with her skin.....

KABOOM!

She was crushed too.

I couldn't breathe properly, my heart raced, my legs were so sore but I couldn't stop running.

I looked around to see that only I and the girl whose tactics I copied were left.

That means I missed a death. I Kept saying to myself. Se-yoon don't look back, you can do this.

I could only see her ponytail swing from side to side as she ran.

She probably wore heels all her life.

Then I realized I was next.

You know that feeling when you're almost the last but because you're not the last , you still had hope?

Now that hope was gone.

All my life, especially as a sprinter I'd never been last or even close to being last but here I was.

The train came closer and closer,the sound of the train filled my brain as fear engulfed me and images of how I would die became very vivid.

Suddenly I couldn't run, not because I didn't want to but because I couldn't move, my mind had given up before my body.

The fear had taken over me, I just stood and stared at the lights of train, I could hear shouts of all the girls that died.

I closed my eyes tightly and covered my ears as I awaited my fate.

Closer and closer it came like it couldn't be more faster, immediately it was a step close to touching me it disappeared and the walls beside us fell like it was never there and I slowly opened my eyes.

What just happened?

I looked at my stopwatch and it read 00:00:00 that means the duration was up.

I fell to my knees still too scared to take of my heels.

We had been running for 2hours, I couldn't believe it.

I just knelt there trying catch my breath.

It was indeed a narrow escape.

'Congratulations you have successfully made it passed the first game, fun right? Please follow the robot to where you'll clean up, be fed and sleep' said the annoying cyborg as a different robot came urging us to follow it.

All I wanted to do was sleep and hope I wake up at home.

To hell with Elliot school and it's prestige.

I just want my mum.

I thought as tears gathered up.

I and the other girl were given a key each with the inscription key 1.

She introduced herself as Marie from France as we both followed the robot holding hands.

- Dinmah