The Tunnel Run Chapter 6

Music and Lyrics by: Martin Nethercutt

© 2019 Ruth McCartney Music Publishing

(‘Hello?’) echoing voice of Martin Cole.

(Anybody out there?)

I stood at the top of a vast underground tunnel network. A former subway system that had been repurposed. No one was there.

In the distance, like a Ghost, I could hear an oncoming train.

My mind was still reeling from what I’ve just experienced.

EMOCANICS were real!

Mankind was being emotionally infiltrated and corrupted.

I had heard about this place they called: ‘Underground City’

A place where ANRAC kept the rich and powerful, the new generation.

Did this tunnel connect to it?

I had found an escalator going down to a deeper level of the station.

I arrived at another platform.

I noticed a kiosk with a station map and a protruding keyboard underneath.

It showed an elaborate rail system in the background and a password prompt appeared. ‘Password? What’s the password?’

I noticed the letter D on a sticker on the side of the display.

I grabbed the keyboard tighter with my hands. I closed my eyes and thought hard. ‘Disciples, maybe? Could it be that simple and obvious?’

I started typing in the 8 letters carefully.

ACCEPTED the screen read.

The carriage seemed rather small. It was a glass tube inches away from the tunnel walls. I got in and on the H.U.D. I pressed “Destination 2 - The Complex”.

The glass door shut tight and the engine started winding up.

The last thing I felt was being pressed into the back of my seat.

The pressure knocked me out for a moment that seemed like an eternity.

(Tunnel Run Sequence, Music)

(VO Effected…) I went faster and faster….faster and faster…faster

The ride took no more than 5 minutes in total and the vehicle came to a halt at

Platform 2 “The Complex”.

A large door of the underground vault opened with a metallic sound.

This wasn’t what I had expected from the map, this wasn’t The Complex.

I was confused, this looked more like an entrance to a grotto or a cave.

This goes deeper?