25
Luca Caci
L.A. 8/2
March 30, 2006
Previously on 25:
“The sintox has been released!” Jack screams on the microphone.
“There might be another way Jack!” Cloey replies, “first run over to the natural gas section of the plant, and then place c-4 on the gas tube with the red arrow.”
“I’m on my way”
Jack runs over the grail over the natural gas. He jumps down a story, and lands with a somersault. He quickly finds a red arrow on one of thousands of gas tubes. He quickly runs over to place the c-4. He connects red wire to blue wire, blue wire to red. He clicks the detonator.
00:30
The red light on the c-4 reads. Jack turns and runs for his life.
“Jack, can you read us?” Cloey inquires.
He ignores the call and runs and jumps over a fence. He takes a look at his detonator.
00:05
“Jack you have to get out of there!”
00:01
An explosion emerges from the gas. One by one the gas tubes start to explode. Jack runs without taking a look. A final explosion takes him off of his feet. He goes flying into a car, and hears cracking of bones. He looks up in pain, he sees Bierko on the ground 100 yards away from him. He ignores the pain in his arm, and sprints towards him. Bierko picks himself up slowly, reaches in his pocket and takes out a gun.
“Jack Baur, have I longed to see you at this moment,” Bierko gives a smirk where you know he has something planed, “You may have foiled my plans now, in 2006…”
“What is your point?” Jack snaps back.
“My point is if you’re in the future, how will you stop the past?”
Jack is puzzled at this remark and charges towards Bierko. Bierko pulls the trigger.
11:59-12:00
The Following takes place between:
8:00-9:00
Jack wakes up to the sun on his face as it warms up the day. He groans, as if he has a hangover. He looks at his arm, no pain in it. He makes a attempt to speak only to groan out “What even happened?” He notices he is in his own house, only it looks slightly different as if remodeled. The walls were perfectly painted. The blotches and scratches were all gone. He likes the new look and decide to leave it at that. He gets up and puts some clothes on; they were freshly cleaned and ironed.
“I wonder if any food was prepared for me too,” he chuckles to himself at the thought. Suddenly a robotic arm comes out of a unnoticeable hole in the wall and holds out a tray. Out of reaction he gives a kung fu chop with his hand. The tray falls and another arm coming from a different hole catches it quickly. It puts the delicious food up to face as if coercing him to smell the aromas of the bacon and eggs. He takes it in confusion and decides he might as well eat it. He runs over to his car and starts it up,
“What is your destination Mr. Baur?” a voice from the dashboard makes. He slams his head on the ceiling in surprise.
“Ow, go to CTU,” he replies in pain. The car slowly levitates off the ground then a flash of colors appear before him as if going in hyperspace. He doesn’t even know how to react to all these new gadgets. He thinks of what life would be like with all these devices.
“It must have been Bierko, he was talking about some nonsense of taking me to the future,” he concludes in his headache. He arrives in CTU after a minute “drive”. The sky was completely grey even though there were no clouds. The building was all chrome with two doors that were light silver. He was even standing on a metal sidewalk. He walks in to be stopped by two robotic arms. A scanned comes and gives him a retina scan.
“Welcome John Baur,” another automated voice comes out.
“John Baur?” he thinks oddly.
He walks in to a tiny room with a elevator, with a couple dozen buttons. The room like almost everything else was chrome except the doors which were light silver.
“This whole place looks the same,” he mutters as he looks on a wall with a list of names. One caught his attention.
“John Baur…” he then presses the button next to his name, and walks in the elevator. Some elevator music was playing but he never even heard this type of music. The elevator doors open to a ring straight into a office with a man almost identical to him sitting in a chair. The room look like a ordinary office, a window with on one wall, and some trophies on another.
“Hello?” he knocks on the wall.
“Um, yes, oh my god,” he gives a look of despair and runs over to Jack.
“What are you doing here, your not suppose to be here,” John says with fear, “Do you know what you could cause?”
“What are you talking about?” Jack replies getting scared himself.
“What year were you made?” John says with inquiry.
“You mean born, 1956, why?”
“Oh jeez how…when…we have to get you out of here,” John pushes Jack in the elevator and presses the away button.
“Ok this is what has happen, the human race was destroyed,” John tells out flatly.
“What?”
“A man whose name shall not be spoken took over this world and made a vaccine to stop aging, his word goes, what he has done is destroyed everyone and made clones of them to make them obey his every word.”
“Then how come you don’t obey him?”
“Because my great,great grandfather named Jack Baur, never was destroyed and had a baby,” Jack thinks back to his daughter kim.
“I am Jack Baur,” he replies to John.
“You are Jack…Baur?”
“No this can’t be unless, this is pefect, we can go back in time because you obviously brought yourself here to stop this apocalypse,” John says with enthusiasm.
“I’m sorry, I was transported against my will, Bierko…”
“Do not say the almighty name! You want us to get killed right here and now?”
The elevator doors open…twenty soldiers wearing all black stood carrying huge guns.
“John Baur, surrender Jack or be forced to,” they spoke in a eerie chorus.
“Oh Daaa…” Jack pushes John out of the way just as all soldiers took fire. Bullets could be heard in the air as they destroyed the elevator. They jump into a man hole.
“We’ll sneak into the car and escape ok?” Jack says as they recuperate from the fall.
“No, they probably already turned to car off.”
“Then I’ll turn it back on, it’s that easy,”
“No you don’t understand, he controls everything, I can’t even explain it now.”
They heard splashing in the distance.
“C’mon, we need to get out of here.” A shot rings through the air. John falls in the water. Jack quickly crouches down besides him and checks his pulse. He feels nothing.
8:59-9:00
The Following takes place between:
9:00-10:00
Jack is paralyzed by fear of losing his one escape point from the future. The splashing gets louder and he realizes he has to run or die. He reaches into John’s jacket and pulls out his gun. Then he takes of in a full out sprint. He can hear the splashing getting softer but he can’t keep this sprint up long. He sees two grails on each of his sides. Quickly, he takes off his jacket and sets it on a hook in one of the grails. Then he hides in the other grail. He can hear the splashing again, then silence. Quiet footsteps close in on the grail. The robots shoot; Jack pulls out of the other grail and takes out the three. The robots disappeared in the water. He took his jacket, now fully covered in bullet holes and took off. A light could be seen in the distance and he runs towards it. He got out of the sewers and got fresh air in his nostrils. But he saw the same chrome building with two silver doors, chrome sidewalk. Then he sees his car and seventeen soldiers standing around it. Then he hears a voice,
“Ah, is it Jack Baur” Bierko walks around to Jack’s front.
“Now I have the opportunity to put a end to this time chase,” he replies with a smile on his face.
“Good bye Jack,” and Bierko pulled out the same gun he shot Jack with to put him in the future. Jack pulls out his gun and shoots Bierko in the head. Suddenly all the robots fell to the ground. The sky turned red with anger. Jack picks up Bierko’s gun and sets it to the past. He then points, and shoots himself.
9:59-10:00