Mr. Poe put on a calm front and hung up the phone. He turned around and noticed all of his students looking at him in worry.
"Don't worry," he said, hiding his panic remarkably well, "I'll get us out of this." He walked over to the door and peered through the cracks of the door. His eyes widened in shock. The figures in front of him were notably murderous and acted inhumanly. He attempted deep breathing but to no avail.
He turned back to his students, twirling his machete within his skinny hand. "Whatever happens," he looked at each one of them in turn, "I'm sorry."
"We have to get out through the windows." Horace decides, standing and grabbing two of the people near him's hands, pulling them up as well. "We'll climb up to the roof and see if we can spot anything that can help from up there."
Bee and a few other classmate scream as the door groans under the weight of the…things…outside.
"Ohh my god, the door!"
"The roof?!" Lynde hissed, "We'll just end up getting trapped on the roof, if anything. This is a chem lab, for god's sake. Plenty of weapons to be found here, aren't there?"
"You're not even in this class!" One kid exclaims.
"Well, what happens if we're teenagers and don't know how to use weapons against a threat? What do you want me to do, make a bomb?" Horace asks.
Edward ran to push a few more desks towards the door, even if to bide just a little time. He pointed at the book storage closet. There was a window in there, maybe the students could figure out how to get out from there.
He picked up a chair, ready to swing it at anyone who might try to come in and harm his kids.
Lynde frowned. "Wow, you're AP students and my upperclassmen, you must be soooo much wiser than I am. Seriously? Bunsen burners, acid, various things that can cause bodily harm. There's a reason you have to wear gloves in lab, yeah? We are in one of the optimal spots to be during an attack and you want us cornered on the roof?"
Lynde started to walk towards the storeroom. "And solid sodium? Throw that stuff in water? Instant bomb."
Rowan went to the windows and looked at the rest of his classmates, "we could jump out couldn't we?" He asked
Mr. Poe swung open his classroom door and stood behind it. A swarm of murderous animals piled in, attacking each student. Mr. Poe took this opportunity to run for his life and hide in a nearby janitor's closet. He slammed the door shut and curled up against the wall. He prayed that at least one student would survive that onslaught of beasts. He then took out his personal phone and called Edward once again.
Maria and Bee race over to it, opening up the window and peering outside as the door creaked and groaned.
"There's an escape ladder!" Bee shouts with excitement, "We'll have to climb up to the roof, those things are all over the ground!"
Bee and Maria both help the rush of their classmates out the window, and just as Bee was getting Maria and herself out, the door burst open.
"Hurry Edward!" Bee calls as Maria begins the frantic climb to join the rest of her classmates.
Bee crawls out the window and jumps to the escape ladder, hoping her favorite teacher wasn't far behind.
After making sure the rest of his students made it, Edward put down the chair and started up the ladder after them. It creaked as he got on, but that was the least of his worries. One of the creatures grabbed for his foot, but he gave it a solid kick in the head and made his way on up afterwards. His phone started vibrating.
"Poe, we're on the roof," he panted, "Are you… is everything okay?"
(I like the idea that some of these kids call Mr. Moore by his first name, and that he maybe even encourages it. First day: Swivels around in desk chair "Skip the formalities and just call me Edward.")
Horace huffs. "Yeah, I know, but what happens when the supply runs out? It won't last forever."
He makes his way over to the window and opens it, peering around.
"There's people on the roof!"
(So I'm thinking all the people on the roof make it and the rest of the school dies? Should all of Horace's class get out or only a few?)
(Because I think since there's not a safety ladder some of them may fall to their deaths and the others can get eaten.)
(Edgar and Edward…BUT EDGAR'S A JERK! He left his students for dead!)
Lynde paused for a second.
"Wait… so you mean to say there are like… hordes of people out there?"
Her eyes flickered to the door and back.
"Yikes… Here's hoping they can't climb after us…"
"Everything is relative, Edward." He couldn't help but think back to the terrified look on his students' faces. He shook his head, doing his best to dismiss the thought from his head.
"Relative? What's that supposed to mean?" Edward muttered, tightening his grip around the phone.
"You… you… you're going to live, aren't you?"
He kept an eye on all of his students, counting off the individuals again. Everyone was there still. Shaken, but there.
"Fuck this shit, I'm getting out of her." Some boy from behind Horace mumbles, crawling out the window and beginning to scale carefully up the wall as the moaning from behind the door gets louder.
"Anyone else?" Horace asks.
Another boy helps two girls out and Dakota nods, letting Horace help her out after the boy.
Horace carefully climbs out the window to help Dakota climb.
The door begins to suffer under the weight and the rest of the students panic, all making a mad dash for the windows.
Horace curses under his breath and quickly helps Dakota up to the edge, where a few of the students from Mr. Moore's class pull them up.
Bee and Maria watch sadly as a few students are pushed out of the way and end up falling to the ground below.
Only half-a-minute after Horace and Dakota made it to the roof, they can hear the door from their classroom bangs open.
Mr. Poe hears a loud bang over the phone. "Edward, what was that?" He grew increasingly worried with each passing second. "Are you somewhere safe? Please tell me you are!"
"Look!" A kid screams, pointing up at the sky.
Bee turns to look where he's pointing and her hands fly up to her mouth in shock as a helicopter begins to plumet out of the sky.
Mr. Poe poked his head out of the janitor's closet. He looked down the hall and saw the door to Edward's classroom broken open. He didn't hear any screams so he narrowed it down to three options. 1)They were all evacuated. 2) They were already dead. 3) They managed to kill their pursuers(highly unlikely)
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