The Forbidden Zone Ch. 01

We would've done so too, if we'd had weapons, but all the guns were on their side and we weren't stupid. Reaching the back end of the ship they had been let through the locked off area we were barred from.

All night long we had heard loud arguing going on up in the bridge of the ship and then in the early morning hours the crew had let down the only two remaining lifeboats and took out to sea, effectively abandoning us.

We were conceivably humanity's last best hope and yet why did it feel like we had just been flushed down the drain right along with our parents and younger siblings.

I brushed at my tears and turned away from the railing.

The time for crying was over.

Moping about my likely doomed fate was no way for a daughter of my father to go out of life like. No, I would go out like he and my little brother had, fighting ferociously.

It was the very least that I could do.

"Nysha!"

Someone called my name out loud and I looked upward toward the sound.

One of the girls from my own helicopter ride, also of Indian heritage was waving from the balcony of the bridge tower down at me.

So they had gotten in past the barricade.

Curiosity sparked alive within me at what they might have found and quickly I pressed through the ranks of all those watching the departing lifeboats.

A few others more interested in their upcoming fates than watching the current theater play out started making their way along after me. With heavy trepidation I made my way up the ladders toward the command center.

All the while, as I was headed there, I wondered as to what I would find in the command center of the ship that had made the crew seek to abandon us, when in reality we were worth more than gold to those they called master.