// OK, here's my response. I am not very good at writing in present tense, so let me know if there are errors or if it's hard to follow. Italics mean the character is thinking. It's supposed to be a little confusing, but please tell me if you're getting sick of that - I'm kind of getting used to writing that way. haha. ;) //
“Come on, Jer, let’s get the heck out of here.”
“No way Max, look around. This place is sick!” Jeremy says, waving his flashlight around the empty room. The thin beam of light coming down from the hole barely lights the floor. They climbed down a hole for at least 30 feet until they found the room. Now the roof of it is only a few feet above their heads.
“Jeremy, we had to dig down to the door, and then we had to enter a security code. I don’t think we’re supposed to be here.”
“A secret entrance should have been better hidden. And their code wasn’t hard to crack. Just trust me. Here, I found the light,” Jeremy hits the switch on one of the walls and smiles, “No power. It must go off if you don’t get the code first try. I wonder if anyone else is down here without the lights.”
Jeremy’s flashlight lands on a door. He examines the number pad beside it. It would make sense for the code to be the same, but what if inserting the wrong one makes the upper entrance close them in? That would be a disaster. Max is scared as it is, he’d kill Jeremy if they got locked in.
“How would the entrance have dirt on it if someone was down here? They wouldn’t have been able to bury it again once they’re in.” Max says, pointing up at the roof with his torch, “Wait, Jer, if there’s no power, what am I hearing?”
Jeremy stops looking at the door and flashes his light around the room again, “um… water. Yeah, there’s a stream nearby.”
“Water doesn’t sound like that.”
“Max, chill. We’ll be okay. As soon as I get the code for this door we can explore some more of the complex. We can figure out what it is and what it’s doing here and then we can leave and be the heroes who found a secret military base.”
“How do you know it’s military?”
Jeremy shrugs and looks at the door again. He scratches his head once and looks back at Max. Max is leaning against the wall with the ladder, looking up at the hole they had come through. He wants to leave, but that isn’t possible right now. Jeremy has to find what he came for. Suddenly, Max rolls his eyes and moves from the ladder to push on the door. It swings open. A vast corridor lies beyond the room. Jeremy just looks at him. Apparently Max knows more than he seems to.
“I saw it work in a movie once. Now let’s get this done.”