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“Then give me a cellphone,” I said.
It created one. I was so excited, I could barely wait for it to finish before picking it up and pressing the buttons.
Nothing happened.
I put it to my ear.
“Hello?” I said.
The damn thing didn’t have any power. I handed it to Chax.
“They’re not going to make it that easy for us to escape,” he said.
“Then what do you suggest we do?” I said.
I was growing frustrated. How could he be so relaxed about this whole thing? Didn’t he hate being locked up like this?
“We need to figure out another way to get out of here,” he said.
“Like what?” I said. “There’s no door! What do you expect us to do? Make our own?”
He stared at me and I stared back at him.
We had infinite amounts of food and water and plenty of time on our hands. Why couldn’t we do it?
“Move out of the way,” I ordered. “Computer, give us a jackhammer.”
“It needs power,” he reminded me.
“Then give us a power generator!” I spat.
“It’s too big,” Chax said.
“Gah!” I yelled. “Fine. We’ll have to do this the old-fashioned way. Give us hammers and chisels. And safety goggles.”
“You can’t be serious,” Chax said. “What makes you think they aren’t on the other side of the wall armed with blasters?”
“I don’t. But they put us in here somehow. They might be technologically advanced but there’s nothing a hammer and chisel can’t break.”
I scooped up the instruments from the replicator and handed them to Chax.
“You’re one of a kind,” he said, shaking his head at me.
“You better know it,” I said with a wink. “I’m an engineer by trade. I can tell you we can tunnel our way through anything given enough time and will.”
I lowered the goggles over my eyes and slipped the work gloves on my hands. I put the chisel to the wall’s surface and hammered at it. The material chipped off and fell to the floor. I breathed a sigh of relief. The one thing I was concerned about was finding the wall was built of some kind of impenetrable substance. It turned out our abductors weren’t as advanced as Chax warned me they were.
I grinned up at Chax.
“See?” I said. “It can be chipped, which means it can be destroyed. Now, pick a section of wall and get to work.”
Twelve hours later, and I’d dug a tunnel through the wall three feet deep. My hands hurt and my wrists were tender and sore from the constant hammering. I developed a rash on my arms where the shards of stone had embedded themselves in my skin. And the dust was itchy as hell.
Chax worked on a separate area on the other side of the room. He was so much stronger than me that he managed to carve two tunnels in the time it took me to dig one.
I leaned back on my elbows and removed the protective goggles from my face. I wiped the sweat from my brow.
“Anything?” he called to me.
