Wake Up And Run

Resistance is futile

In a dark alley in the capital city of Angadiya, which is called "Andoradiya," she woke up Nana with the same severe pain all over her body and an unbearable headache. It was hard to even open her eyes. She tried her best not to scream loudly from the pain she was feeling, holding her head with both her hands; she was capable of doing that and moaning, laying down on the hard surface of the alley floor.

Finally, after almost 30 seconds, which seemed like eternity to her, the pain subsided and finally she was able to sit up and look around her. After almost a few more minutes, she stood and went to the lights that were coming from a nearby opening in front of her. With a few balanced steps, she moved slowly forward, falling sideways like a drunk person. 

There was nothing in her mind, her brain was totally black. As soon as the light hit her eyes, she started feeling the same severe headache aging, so she immediately closed her eyes and held her hand again. This time, fortunately, it only lasted for a few seconds. She looked around her, hopping to see something or someone familiar, but what came to her sight was something else.

With tall towers above the clouds everywhere, strange shaped vehicles moving on the road, even some of them flying in the sky, with the shock appearing on her face and open mouth from the surprise, she kept watching around her for a few minutes, leaning against the wall, she started wondering where she is now and how she ended up here, and how she had arrived in to this alley, trying to remember what happened so far, but nothing came back to her. All she knew was the scene in front of her and that this was her first time seeing it.

May i help you "you seem lost" is the words that woke up Nana from her deep thoughts, beside her she saw a young petite girl with a long black hair wearing what looked like a school uniform, smiling at her, "Where am i" was the first question that popped up in her mind and she asked without a hesitation.

"It seems this is the first time for you here" then welcome to Androdiya the capital city where did you come from asked the young girl after she thought that she explained everything to the lost woman in front of her.

Without waiting for an answer the young girl pointed at a building at the corner of the road and said "go to that building and register yourself they will be able to help you" and left still the wide smile appearing on her face, Nana looked at the building then nodded to the young girl and said "thank you" and went straight hopping to find out where is exactly this Androdiya and how she had arrived here.

Without waiting for an answer the young girl pointed at a building at the corner of the road and said "go to that building and register yourself they will be able to help you" and left still the wide smile appearing on her face, Nana looked at the building then nodded to the young girl and said "thank you" and went straight hopping to find out where is exactly this Androdiya and how she had arrived here.

In front of her she saw a large sign board on top of the door of the building written in symbols and strange letters, un able to read it or even figure out what language is it Nana decided to enter the open door, as soon as her step went through the door a loud alarm sounded through out the building and suddenly appeared four men around her from each side and said at the same time "freez, stand down, don't move or resist, resistance is futile".

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The heat of the sun's rays on his face woke him up. Immediately, Tahir clunched into his head from the severe headache he felt as soon as he opened his eyes, a headache that he had never felt the like of it before in his life, which made him close his eyes again.

For a while, even after the headache went away, Tahir didn't open his eyes. Instead, he tried thinking and searching through his memory for the last thing he remembered, but it came up blank.

Nothing at all. It felt like his whole life had been wiped clean. Slowly, he sat down on the bed he was lying on and looked around the room he was in, except for the one he was sitting on.

There was one cabin in the corner and a small table and a chair in the other corner. And a doorway into a smaller space seemed like a toilet.

He didn't see anything familiar around him, which added to his confusion. Nothing was familiar to him and he couldn't remember anything.

He tried to stand but felt disoriented. He sat down again and waited for a few more minutes. That is when he noticed that there was something hanging on his neck with a string at the end of it.

There was a small card made of metal. Holding it forward to see what it was, he recognized his ID card with his picture on it, but the writing was totally unfamiliar to him and he couldn't read it.

That made him think to look through his pockets, after going through all of his pockets he found in it 6 items the only familiar one among them was a leather wallet which contained a bunch of some currency notes, he could figure out the nomination of it from the numbers which was the only thing that he understood.

Counting it the total amount was five hundred thousands, he had no idea the value of it but apparently its a lot of money, disregarding the wallet he tried to figure out the other five items but to no avail, the first item was a small Cristal cube the size of table tennis ball, the second item was a rectangle shaped metal box the size of his palm.

Looking at it from each side and touching it nothing changed, it has no opening in anywhere, so he had to leave it a side , the forth item was a pouch filled with small round items with different colors but all is the same size and shape of olive he counted 30 of them.

The other 2 items was identical about 30 centimeters long and 2 centimeters thick made of transparent material and very light holding it felt like he not holding any thing, still wherever he touched nothing changed.

Finally he decided to but them back in his pockets and go out of the room he may find out something sheds the light on his situation at least its better than just sitting in this room and doing nothing that is what he told himself.

Once more and this time slowly he stood up and and moved towards the only door opposite where he was sitting which basically the only exit and entry to the room, with a rapid hearth beet from worrying and excitement mixed with anxiety he opened the door and stepped backwards like he is worried something will jump out of it.

But fortunately, there wasn't anything or anyone at the door. He peered with his head first and looked both ways down the corridor. When he found nothing, he went out. The corridor was not long; on one side, it ended with a large glass window, and on the other side, it was apparently the exit.

In a hurry, he went to the exit and found stairs going up and down. Then he went downstairs, but now slowly with couscous, since he didn't know what was ahead of him.

At the end of the stairs, he found a large dining hall with a few people seated at separate tables and a reception desk at the corner, and directly opposite him was a large glass door wide open.

Without hesitation, he went straight to the door to exit the building, glancing to each side, worried that someone may have stopped him, and that's exactly what happened. In the middle of his way, before reaching the door, he heard someone yelling behind him in a foreign language.

Involuntarily, he looked back, and he saw two uniformed men coming towards him from behind. At that moment, he felt scared and the urge to run was the only thing occupying his mind, but unfortunately, his legs didn't receive the command to run and he froze in his place.

Within seconds, the two men reached him and started asking him questions that he didn't understand. The only thing he was able to do or say was speak to them in English, saying "I didn't understand your language. Do you speak English?"