Jailbreak by Chris Bostic

Author:Chris Bostic [Bostic, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

I needed to put an end to the antagonizing, and said, “Let’s go, Officer. Show me the way.”

Nasalt grumbled a bit but seemed happy enough to put me between him and the others. He took us down a narrow, industrial hallway. Thankfully the white walls gave us a bit of help seeing where we were going, since the dark windows didn’t do much.

“Up here,” he said, stopping outside a solid metal door. “Could be a dozen in there if they’re full.”

I could barely make out the Holding Cells sign next to the door. So far, so good.

I turned the handle, expecting it not to budge, but the door opened right away. Inside, thanks to the dull glow of some kind of emergency light, there were a dozen cells, each made of solid metal rather than bars. The sides were painted white, other than shiny metal trays and thin vertical windows. All solid structures, so not much pointing in yelling. I did anyway.

“Austin! You in here?”

“Big A!” Mouse shouted too. She ran to the nearest door on the left and had to stand on tiptoes to get to the bottom of the window.

I went to the right, pressing my face against the glass. I couldn’t see anything inside, so I kept yelling and beat my fist against the door. It made a dull thud and nothing more.

“How do we open these?” Spotted Owl said, asking the more appropriate question.

“I’m not sure.” Nasalt glanced toward a desk at the back of the room, situated at the end of a little hallway between the cells. “Probably back there.”

Spotted Owl went to the desk and around it, shoving papers aside and generally making a racket.

I gave up on looking into cells to go to him.

On the side of the counter, underneath an overhang, I spotted a panel with at least a dozen buttons.

“One of those?”

“All of those,” Spotted Owl said, mashing the buttons one at a time.

A siren went off, piercing the air with an ear-splitting shriek. I went to cup my hands to my ears reflexively, but pulled up short with my left when my shoulder protested even louder.

Strobe lights flashed. If anyone was around, they certainly knew where we were at.

“Wrong button!” Spotted Owl yelled over the racket. He kept mashing others. Finally, when I thought I might be permanently deafened, the siren quit.

Spotted Owl cursed under his breath. Or maybe aloud. All I could hear was ringing in my ears.

He hit a few more buttons, finally finding the right ones. With a heavy clunk, the first door on the left swung open under its own power.

Mouse and I ran to it, as Spotted Owl kept working behind the desk, arms stretched out awkwardly to reach whatever he needed to press. A couple more doors opened.

“Empty!” Mouse shouted when she beat me to the first.

The next two were also empty.

My heart sank. If they’d already loaded up, we might have put untold bullets into the side of a loaded prison bus.

“Hurry up!” I snapped, rushing back to the desk.

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