I have gone back to edit through this entire story and give it a new look.

This is my first ever fanfic. I started ages ago. I did not edit it to much to preserve the visibility of my natural progression in writing. I have, though, made it more readable. There are no changes in terms of story, or detail.

First off, this is a gay interest piece, and if you do not like that kind of thing, you should not be there.

Full disclaimer can be found at the foot of the chapter.

Lockdown by Tertiary Genesis

Chapter 1: Lockdown

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East High had been updating its security measures since the New Mexico State Government told it to. Terrorist attacks, shootings at schools, gunmen, massacres, its enough to put a country into some sort of panic. All government schools had been asked to increase their safety measures and update their emergency plans.

In addition to the fire plan, where students were asked to go to the safe zone, there was now a Lockdown procedure. A different warning bell indicated whether it was a Lockdown, and instead of students leaving to go to a safe zone, they were to remain in the room they are in and lock the doors and windows. The people remain put until the all clear bell is sounded. That was the new procedure.

Now, East High decided to take this a few steps further. Electronically locking doors that require pass codes were already in place to protect the computer rooms and administration offices which housed the more valuable hardware. The students' lives were finally considered as valuable, if not more valuable, so every other door had this technology installed. This major operation required many people. That was how Troy found himself inside his school on a Saturday.

Coach Bolton, Troy's dad, had been roped into helping complete the task of getting the new security system up and running. He got the Wildcats to come in on the Saturday, telling them that they need to do some volunteer work and help the community as good citizens or else they would not be allowed to remain on the team, because the team could only have "good citizens". He was really just trying to lighten his workload.

Therefore, the team was going around the school to every door to set the codes and make sure they worked. Each Wildcat had a clipboard with a list of the doors they need to go to and the pass-code the school wants for that door. Each door has a factory setting standard code of '0000' which needed to be changed. Troy was set to do the Arts block, which included the Music corridor, the Visual Arts corridor, and the Performing Arts corridor.

Troy had already completed the Music and Visual Arts corridors and was just on the Performing Arts corridor when the PA speakers in that corridor made a crackling sound. The speakers needed to be replaced in that part of the school but the present focus was security. Troy had dismissed the sound, assuming it was not that important.

The brunet was just up to calibrating the door for room D17, one of the Drama rooms. It had black walls, black carpet and some black foam boxes scattered around the room. The windows had blackout curtains to totally block out the sun which could make the room completely pitch black. This was so that when actors were acting, there is less distraction for the audience.

The room also had some spotlights on one side, pointing to the back wall; it was a mock stage. Inside the room, Troy found Ryan Evans, the male half of the Evans twins, the prima Performing Arts duo of East High, practicing the opening soliloquy from Shakespeare's Richard III.

"Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this son of York," Ryan recited before an imagined audience. This must have been part of an English project. He stopped immediately when he saw Troy at the door.

"I didn't think anyone comes into the school on weekends," Troy mused out loud.

"Well, I needed to practice for my English assignment. The janitor let me in. I know him personally, and Sharpay is on the warpath back at home," Ryan explained.

Troy gave a look that resounded confusion.

"Something about her facial cream not being delivered to our house," clarified Ryan, with a chuckle, "How about you?"

"That's cool, man. I'm here to help with the new security system," Troy replied.

Since Troy and the other Wildcats worked and the Evans' resort over the summer, Ryan and Troy had become friends. Ryan had made a voice for himself and was now very much included in Troy's cohort, but was still somewhat on the outside because of his twin sister, Sharpay.

Ryan returned to his recitation and Troy turned to do what he had come there to do. He had just deleted the factory standard code on the door lock when the cackling sound coming from the PA system returned.

"Do you know what they are trying to say?" Ryan asked Troy expectantly.

"Beats me," Troy replied with a shrug.

Suddenly, as Troy was halfway through entering the new pass-code, the door slammed shut and the sound of the bolt sliding to lock the door could be heard quite clearly. Sounds of the other doors in the corridor slamming shut in succession could also be heard.

The administration office, it would seem, was testing the Lockdown Protocol, which automatically closed and locked all the doors in the school. It would seem that the boys had now discovered what those cryptic messages contained.

The doors were locked in a way that they could not be opened even with the pass-code from the outside until the Lockdown was concluded from the administration office, but they could be unlocked from the inside with the pass-code correct.

Troy tried the pass-code to unlock the door but because he was only half-way through inputting it, it did not work. He tried the standard code but that did not work either. He did not know what to do. The code to open the door might not even exist anymore. He was trapped.

They were trapped. Troy and Ryan were in the room together with no means of escape.

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TBC…

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