Chapter 77: Chapter 77

Ellie The last thing Ellie had been expecting was to wake up. And she certainly didn’t expect to see the sky.

“Hey, welcome back,” a large face looked down at her, with Viskra’s voice coming from its lips.

“What did you do?” wondered Ellie in awe at this beautiful and massive young man.

“I had to build something that could blast through the walls that I couldn’t test beforehand, as we needed to get the hell out of here before Steve realised he’d only got a stun gun,” explained Viskra.

“A stun gun?” Ellie’s head was fuzzy but they were beautiful words.

“Yes he went off with a stun gun, he’ll be back soon I think.”

“So we didn’t get very far?” she wondered why they were sitting on a cliff edge.

“Tiny island in an apparently vast ocean. We’re screwed, as you would put it,” he smiled down at her.

Ellie sat up and looked around her, at the ruined structure in the centre of the tiny island that was their prison. The prison had now appeared to have grown to the size of the island, but was still a prison.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t be there for you, I really needed to concentrate,” Viskra apologised, his large blue eyes shining down at her, reflecting the ocean below. “I had to blast away your shackles without harming you and all I had was anti-matter, so I had to increase the shielding and decrease the antimatter to as small an area as possible. I had to keep you alive. I had to free you,” he took her face in his giant hand and looked at her so tenderly she thought her heart might break.

“But what about your father? Won’t Steve go after him?”

“If he was going to, he would already have done so by now, and would probably be dead.”

“Dead? Steve? How so?”

“My father doesn’t think I know that he was an assassin before he met my mum. I know he can look after himself.”

Ellie laughed at the lies he’d told her to keep her alive, to ensure Steve didn’t get the gun Viskra held in his other hand. Viskra had demolished their cells sufficiently to afford a good view of anyone arriving.

“It’s time, he’ll be here soon,” Viskra said, taking the gun into both hands. “We need to be ready to blast the next person that appears in the cell block.”