Long Way Down Elevator Novels & Stories

“Let’s get you out of there first, okay?” I nodded. “Do you think there’s enough room to pull her out?” Dillon asked whoever was behind him. An unfamiliar face appeared. His eyes scanned me and the hen looked at the doors. I finally got a good look at the predicament I was in. The elevator was close to the floor, but it wasn’t all the way there. The space between the door and the floor was only about four feet high. Dillon and the other man must have been on their hands and knees.

Getting a slight nod from Derrick, the two men hurried over to help HD lift Ice into a standing position and they all moved Into the elevator. Just like the one at the entrance to the underground hall, this elevator also had no buttons. Just two red arrows indicating up and down. Once everyone was inside, the tech guy pressed more buttons and the doors slid shut. The elevator groaned and started moving. But unlike the first elevator that gave them the feeling of dropping, this one was quite slow as it struggled to return to the surface. "I have no idea what is waiting on the other side but this is our only exit." "Your partner is going to slow us down." Derrick looked pointedly at Ice who wa

I used to be one of them, and I was fairly certain I once held the same view of the world these people held. Caroline drove around the back of what she called, ‘Club Ninety-Nine’ but it looked more like an upmarket, five star hotel to me. She parked her car in the basement, completely hidden from view. There were two lifts against the far wall – a service elevator and a guest elevator. She took me straight to the service elevator, unlocking it by punching a pin into the keypad next to it. There were no numbers inside the lift that would indicate which floor we went to. Caroline entered the same number into the keypad on this side of the elevator and the doors slid shut. My stomach flipped ov

There was not even a hint of a window. Several elevators stood around a huge central column at least forty meters in diameter. The car stopped in a dark corner next to the elevator. Brook-ta-man slowly got out of the car, with a habitual movement, pressed the button for the elevator in the distance. The doors slowly opened. The inner surface of the elevator was all dotted with small holes in which something sharp could be seen. The last six floors were distinguished by a special limited access frame.

He key-padded a six-digit security clearance code with rapid, practiced speed. ​The heavy mechanical gears screamed as ancient hydraulic pumps surged to life. The iron cage doors parted with a deafening screech of metal. ​"Move," Julian commanded softly, ushering Maya into the reinforced elevator cage. ​As the iron platform began its steep, rapid descent three hundred feet into the dark earth, the temperature plummeted. The smooth concrete walls gave way to jagged, dark granite bedrock carved out during the Cold War.

The frozen operatives at the tunnel entrance instantly snapped back into motion, their submachine guns unleashing a barrage of silent, blue kinetic pulses that tore through the stone floor. Vikram and Devashish dove headfirst into the open iris of the elevator shaft, followed closely by Anaya. Kabir jumped in last, slamming his fist against the interior emergency close button just as a kinetic round grazed his shoulder. The brick segments violently snapped shut, cutting off the gunfire and plunging them into a rapid, smooth descent into the depths of Geneva. As the elevator hurtled downward, the digital display on the glass wall flickered to life, bypassing normal floor numbers and displayin

The descent from the penthouse felt like a fall from grace. The elevator, usually a silent, high-speed capsule of luxury, groaned as it bypassed the lobby and plunged into the restricted levels that didn't appear on any corporate directory. The orange glow of the Blackwood sunrise was replaced by the flickering, sickly yellow of industrial fluorescent tubes. Elena could feel the pressure changing in her ears, the air turning cold and smelling of damp concrete and the heavy, metallic scent of ancient machinery.

He reached up and punched the heavy metal casing of the elevator control panel, ripping the steel cover completely off to expose the complex wiring and hydraulic governors inside. "The lift is equipped with emergency magnetic freefall brakes located at the very bottom of the shaft," Julian stated, his large hands tearing through the thick bundles of analog cables. "If we disengage the primary motor governor, the lift will drop in an unrestricted freefall. Gravity will pull us down faster than the collapsing debris. The magnetic brakes will catch us before we hit the subterranean bedrock." Elena let out a terrified sob, clutching the iron bars of the cage. "We will be crushed when we hit the

As soon as we were next to the elevator, the elevator, which was supposed to be on the second floor, unexpectedly went down. "See? He can't wait any longer." As Shirley spoke, her face didn't change at all. She seemed to know what Shelton was thinking about at her fingertips. Sure enough, the elevator went up with Shelton standing inside. After the door of the elevator opened, he came out, looking somewhat gloomy. He had realized that it was a single-sided glass elevator. Walking out of the elevator and seeing that Shirley and me both standing at the door of the elevator, Shelton managed to curl up the corner of his mouth, asking, "Are you done measuring the size?"

XXV –Descent . . . Descent (noun): it can be an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling… or it could be a moral, a social or psychological decline into a specified undesirable state . . . PROSERPINA: Before she and Alastor can go shopping later–does this count as a date?–Proserpina had fully intended to leave the house not too far or for long seeing as she no longer felt that secure ever since they’ve been attacked there) when she returned to the shadows to rest.