Adolf “I think you'll vant to see dis!”

“Fine, fine, I'm coming!”

When Balto watched it with Adolf, he was blown away. He got up and brought Jenna in so she could watch as well. The Oriental man that was narrating the film continued for some time about this particular hatches' job, the jobs of other hatches (the Swan, Pearl, Flame, Hydra, and Snake), and about the man who ran the company and the man who funded it, named Alvar Hanso. Then it got good. The man said “Very very few people know this, but this island was a testing ground for an ancient and extremely advanced civilization. Their true name is lost forever, but legend knows them as 'Atlanteans.' While the island of Atlantis was located in the Atlantic Ocean, they had this island and the other nearby here in the Pacific to conduct experiments considered too dangerous to conduct on their home island. We call this island 'LOST'. That is an acronym for Land Of Scientific Testing. The Atlanteans had various projects going on here. For instance, they managed to breed many forms of animals and plants that had radically different natural habitats. They had polar bears and kangaroos, elephants, et cetera. However, their ultimate project, and eventually, their cause of destruction, was an incredible experiment called...” Then the reel ended.

Chapter 6

“Vhat? No!”

“Is there another reel?”

“No! This is the only reel they have here!”

Balto looked at the reel and examined it closely.

“It's been cut!” he shouted.

“Vhat?”

“Somebody cut the reel!”

A woman ran through the forest. She was the one that shot the polar bear and then sealed the three people inside the hatch. Her name was Juliette.

“Ben!” she shouted when she made it to the camp. “There's some people in the Diamond station!”

“What?” asked Ben. “Do you happen to know who they are?”

“Well, I assume they're survivors from that plane crash. They stumbled across the station while they were running from a polar bear.”

“Then what happened?”

“I shot the bear and locked the people in.”

“Tom! Assemble a team of twelve men and get those people out of the hatch before they find out too much information! Juliette, you're coming too.”

“Dang it! That reel is nowhere to be found!”

“I know,” said Adolf “Vhere could it be?”

Balto and Adolf where searching everywhere they could. They had done everything short of rip up the floor.

“Hey guys?” shouted Jenna. “Have you seen this?”

Adolf and Balto walked over to what Jenna was pointing at. Imprinted on the wall was a small logo. It was an octagon with a series of three odd dashes below each side. Some were complete, some were broken in half. And in the very center was a picture of a diamond with the word 'DHARMA' printed over top of it.

“What is it?” Jenna asked.

“The lines are the same symbols as the ones in the corner of the South Korean flag.” said Balto.

“Ya, they represent opposites and balance. Der lines are tri-grams used in Pa Kua. Der tri-grams describe der eight phenomena of der universe. Sun, Earth, Lake, Sky, Vater, Mountain, Thunder, and Vind.”

“So... what exactly does all that mean?”

“Vell, it could be...”

Suddenly there was a loud clamor of the hatch opening. A dozen men quickly climbed down the ladder, and before Adolf, Balto, or Jenna could respond to any of this, they were surrounded by twelve men with .22s in their hands. Then a man with bug-eyes came forward.

“You're coming with us.”

Adolf, Balto, and Jenna were taken to another island nearby, and then Adolf was thrown into a large cage. Balto and Jenna were taken to a sorta-kinda hospital. Balto's head was treated, but the doctor had some not-so-good news about Jenna.

“He back was broken. If we had gotten to her sooner, maybe we could have done something. But her back is broken for good. She'll never be able to walk again.”

Jenna was put in a special room inside the compound they were in, and Balto was taken back to the cage Adolf was in.

“Vhat happened?”

“They treated my head, but they say Jenna will never be able to walk again.”

“You need to get out of here.” said a voice.

Balto and Adolf spun around and saw a teenager standing outside their cage.

“Vhat did you say?”

“You need to leave. You need to escape. No matter what it takes.”

“Vhy?”

“Look kid, we need to know what's going on here.” said Balto.

“These people are trying to finish an experiment that never got completed.”

“Are you talking about the one that... destroyed the Atlanteans or something?”

“One and the same. The experiment was designed to protect them from anything that could hurt them. But it backfired.”

“What's this 'experiment'?”

“You might've seen it already. It basically looks like a cloud of black smoke.”

“Ya, ve've seen it.” said Adolf.

“How did it backfire?” asked Balto.

“They designed it to destroy dangerous people. Anyone that could serve as a threat to them, this black cloud would detect and destroy. Then it realized that the Atlanteans were conducting dangerous projects, ruining their own island and this one, so it sunk the island of Atlantis, and killed most of the people on this island too. Only our ancestors survived.”

“So you people are really descendants of the Atlanteans?”

“Yup.”

“One more question. How can we escape?”

That night, Balto and Adolf made their escape, with the help of the kid (named Carl). They managed to find where Jenna was, and got her out.

“Now there's one final step in escaping.” said Carl. “You need a boat.”

“Where can we get one?”

“Well, it's not quite that easy. You see, our ancestors wanted no one to be able to find their island. So what they did was, and I have no idea how, there is only one specific heading you can take to leave. Otherwise you go in circles, and always end up right back here.”

“What's the heading?”

“Hey!” shouted someone. Who had a gun. “What's going on?”

Carl quickly turned to Balto, Adolf, and Jenna and said “There's a boat hidden along the beach under a large bush. Find it quickly. I have the correct heading written on it. Go.”

Without hesitation, the three of them ran.

“Poor Carl,” said Balto. “He's probably getting put in our cage for this.”

They found the boat (not exactly a sea-worthy vessel, but it worked) and got in it. Adolf and Balto laid Jenna in the middle and pushed the boat into the water. As they sailed away, Jenna said “We can't leave all the other survivors. They're still stranded.”

“Well, we certainly can't fit them all in this boat. They'll get off eventually.”

Meanwhile, back on the island...

Sayid Jarrah had gotten the transceiver to work, and him and a group of other survivors had climbed a mountain looking for signal. After they got some, Sayid tried sending a distress call. But it didn't get through. There was already a distress call in French being sent! Shannon grabbed the transceiver and held it to her ear. She translated the message.

“Help me. They're all dead.”

“Guys...” said Charlie “Where are we?”

THE END