DAY 148 (sun) cont ...
Kirk spent the next five hours getting the computer based part of his escape plan sorted out.
First an intrusive program called 'Fire Alarm Cascade' would set off all the alarms from floor 30 to
40. Thirty seconds after that a 'Camera Loop' would play back pre-recorded images of all the corridors while they were quiet.
Finally the doors on his floor and up to the roof would unlock.
This took him five hours to do.
His breakfast came, and once he had eaten, he set off all the programs from the terminal in his room and began his prison break.
His plan met with initial success, but after a few floors up he was spotted and chased by armed police to the loading bay. Here he hijack a hover car, with a woman in it, and attempted to drive it out.
He crashed against the wall to begin with and the woman jumped out. As cops came up the stairs and shot at the car he managed, somehow, to drive it out the exit, crashing through the roller doors as they came slamming down.
The car was badly damaged though and began to plummet towards the street far below. Kirk screamed, planted his feet on all the pedals and pulled back on the wheel. In truth he had no idea how to drive a car of any kind, let alone an alien hover vehicle.
The car descended sharply and crashed through the windows of the adjacent office, three floors from the top. Dazed, but still alive, Kirk pulled himself from the wreckage and made his way to the roof.
Perhaps he was still in a state of confusion, as he lingered on the roof long enough for the circling
cop cars that had followed him out to spot him and come towards the office block. Kirk went back in, jammed the door shut and headed down the internal fire escape stairs.
The building was clearing of people, morning workers being hustled down the stairs by police as they came up. Kirk could hear them just a few floors down so before he went down much more than a few flights he had to duck into the open plan offices and find a desk to hide under.
It wasn't long though before the whole office floor was full of cops, methodically searching the main area and side rooms. By a minor miracle he was not spotted in the sweep, but the lingering police officers were cutting off his escape route.
He pitched an ash tray across the office and lured two of them away and headed for the stairs.
Kirk managed to get three floors further down, but spotted cops coming up again so headed back into the building. Unfortunately there were more cops on the floor he entered. Kirk threw a chair, but was no better at unarmed combat than driving a car and they police quickly closed on him and beat him with their nightsticks then handcuffed him.
Initially he was taken to the medical centre back in the police tower where he at least got a bit of a lie down while the doctor healed him up.
He asked to 'see a priest' but this was not how Vhnori culture worked. The priests (and Thanatologists) did not visit prisoners in the same way they did back on Earth.
Kirk's body clock told him it was late evening by the time he was put back in a cell. A smaller one this time with no computer terminal in it. Luckily though he had managed to hide his comms badge again.
He was exhausted and escape seemed even harder now. He tried to think of another way to get out of the police station, but as he lay back on his bunk he was quickly asleep.
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