Virus

A guy leans in and says in a deep voice, “My name is “Cris Carter.” Then Amulya holds Fizza’s shoulders and asks, “How did you guys come here? Did everyone come from the lift…I don’t know that lift I guess I have seen it before but I don’t know where or when? So how did you guys come out of the loop?

Cris looks at Fizza and says, “You wanna tell, or should I go first?”Fizza replied, “Oh, you should go first.

Cris starts telling his story, “Oh…to know the reason why I woke up from the loop you need to know one thing from my past, it was 10 years ago when I was 12, at that time I use to live with my parents and I had a happy life, I was arrogant and ignorant at that time.

I use to play chess a lot so I thought why not join a chess tournament, I was sure I would win but then I played with this guy who was older than me but he opened my eyes, that game was one special game for me, from that day I changed so much I thought why not just remember that game and re-play it on my board.

So that morning I woke up arraigned those pieces played those moves and realized that I did a mistake I swore to myself that I would never do that and continued with my usual day but then I did that mistake again…And again, at first, I didn’t know what was happening but then one day I played a different move, and that day I realized I was doing the same thing over and over since quite few days.

It was that day I thought something is wrong…That match was important for me because I had a chance to meet this charismatic person, I don’t think I would ever forget him.”

Then Amulya asked, “So, how is this guy? Will you show me his picture or anything?”

Cris smiled and said, “Ohhh…Wait let’s not gun the jump, I will show you once we are out of here. So back to the main topic, then I went outside and slowly Things were disappearing, and then I saw that yellowish membrane, the lift and I got into that. That’s how I came here.” Amulya then shouted “Nerd!” and laughed

But then Amulya asked Fizza about her story, then Fizza replied, “ Oh…To explain my day you should first know about a festival called Bakrid or Eid-al Adha to explain in nutshell is a festival of sacrificing a goat.First, they get that goat and feed it proper grass and then they kill it and distribute it.

When my dad told me he would do this for this Bakrid at that time, “I was like no big deal we eat some mutton”.

Suddenly my dad brought this goat which I thought was scary and ugly in the beginning but then after a few days I began to watch him eat, shout and poop, slowly I tried to touch it and that was the first time in my life when I touched any animal.

After a week whenever I come from college I see that goat and I don’t know why but I started telling it my bad things happened in that day and what all I did…How I spoke with more people and how I saw a superstar shooting a movie. How I tried to shout that actors name but I wasn’t able to, How a girl saw my face for the first time. I was nervous to show my face so I hide it with Bhurka.

Then one week was left before Bakrid by that time I named it G.o.a.t thought that was a great name in this whole universe but now I realize it was a terrible name, right!?”

Her eye were filled with tears but she went on telling the story, she continued saying, “Then for that week I gave him food, I cleaned his poop and I bathed him, G.o.a.t began to recognize me, we were good friends, He use to shout when I use to come.

But then the day came…Bakrid is known for sacrificing something from our life…That was the day which I was in a loop…”

Fizza began to shiver and she was breathing heavily, then she said, “That day I woke up and did namaz (Prayer done by Muslims) at 5am, I had to get dressed up well for today’s festival so I thought of getting grass before bathing and I went as usual taking some grass for my G.O.A.T but it wasn’t there.

I asked my sister where it was but she said grandpa took it mosque to sacrifice it, I ran towards mosque with a pink cloth on face my covering with naked feet, then I saw something I didn’t want to see…I saw G.o.a.t chopped in front of me,I cried and slowly accepted the truth about him being died.

Then I woke up the next day I was feeling that nostalgia of doing the same stuff and the same thing happened I saw my G.O.A.T dying in front of me again and again and again…the same happened next day…

But after that, I never asked anyone where G.O.A.T was but instead directly went and took him away and ran, but something was off…It was acting weird and I Looked carefully it was like a robotic goat with hair then I left it there and kept on running then I noticed a few buildings kept on disappearing.

I passed though a membrane,saw a lift and I went inside it and came to this floor, few weeks later got to know what's happening up there, the politics and we both escaped together. But I would never forgive those who are making us go through this much pain once I see them”

Amulya replied, “Wow…That was intense, You both keep mentioning people above who are there, and what’s this about ?” then Fizza said, “Long story short they are bad people and as we know for the latest info we need to stop them.”

Then Cris stepped in and said, “Yeah, I got to know that they went public about the thing they are doing, and everyone there is handcuffed and is under control…I don’t know why they are doing this, It seems like people saw some girl who had fought against that robot and had a chance and these three pushed her onto that robot, the news spread like wildfire in the jungle…People are now not even trusting them…We should take this as an opportunity and catch them.”

Amulya, “Yeah…count me in, I would love to hear the plan.” Fizza says, “Cris explain her the plan and lets three of us do it…”

“The more, the better…I think she is trustworthy.”

Cris says, “So In the beginning it was only me and fizza but let’s do it together…

The plan is simple, “When the game starts when we hear the countdown we have 300 seconds to do this…First, we need to get Vikram…A tall guy with a beard tries to take the human shield and cover himself while he is doing that he usually goes alone so…

One person from our gang stays on the ceiling of the room and one come with me towards the outside of the room…Amulya, you stay and watch from the ceiling if they are any traps and use the laser light to say yes or no…I and fizza will capture him…Then we will wait inside the room you tell us if anyone is coming.”Amulya saluted him and said, “Sir! Yes sir”

The countdown began, and those three were at their positions everyone was tied up and kneeling on the ground with their hands tied behind them, They were sitting facing each in a straight line with a carpet in between, and at the end of the carpet, there was a throne where Vikram was sitting…

The countdown starts and everyone gets ready…Ae cha was in the room of sacrifice tied up and with face covered with a black cloth…Ae cha was so scared but Ae cha did well and began to cry.

But something unusual happened that day…Instead of Vikram coming alone he came with his partners, “Casey and Rohit.” With that upsetting moment, Cris quickly gave Amulya a signal for plan b…

That plan was all three will meet in a secret room just near the thrown so when someone is down they will attack vikram…But even this plan went differently…Now, Cris and Fizza reached their positions but Amulya didn’t come still…

Cris panicked and was waiting for Amulya, slowly he lifts the tile under which these two are staying and he saw vikram get his human shield and that person was kneeling just near vikram…There were only 5 seconds left and Cris heard some footsteps sound then he saw a girl's long hair and asked, “Where have you been! Amulya, I was worried!?” The timer was on 2…ThAt girl said, “My name is…AE-

people began shouting…They chanted *virus, virus!!* Cris tried to peek at what was happening and He saw Vikram trying to take that human shield’s mask off, it was half removed and someone from those people started shouting “VIRUS” and everyone followed but then once vikram removed the mask…Everyone saw that the person behind the mask was  Amulya…She quickly jumps and kicks Vikram’s face…His face was so badly kicked…He flew and fell a distance…After seeing that Everyone felt courageous, they went berserk. Cris didn’t know what was happening and he saw Amulya standing in front of vikram who is badly injured and unconscious. Cris turned towards his left and he saw Ae cha beside him. Cris asked ae cha about how Amulya went there, Ae cha said, “Ae cha was kinda crying so Amulya took Ae cha’s place and told her about this place. It seems like Amulya doesn’t remember Ae cha. Ae cha was the one who wrote that Code behind her back”…Cris and Fizza were shocked about Ae cha knowing Amulya and Asked Ae cha, “Was amulya here before?”

To be continued…