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She was sliding faster, uncontrolled with nothing to hang on..! The dizziness engulfed...! 

“Dhatri..... Dhatri...!” someone was banging inside her head...! “Awaa.... Umm....!” she groaned in pain breathing shallow.  The gascious smoke and the filth covered her... She desperately struggled to hang on to something, which was not moving...! 

She hit the ground with a thud and to her shock the ground was moving...! She touched the solid walls... the temperature was rising and the air was unbreatheable...! She coughed hard spitting the filth from her mouth... ! Her right hand clutched the gun tightly...!

“I won’t die...! I will fight...!” she spat again, this time her rage!  The vibrations were unbearable...! She turned and crawled upstream... in opposite direction...! The temperature was rising... She was being pulled along with the filth forcefully..!

“No...!” she turned again thudding her hands on the side walls... something solid struck her... She gripped it... She didn’t know what it was... But that was the last chance she had before being sucked into the vacuum...! Banging the gun on the wall, holding the thing with her left hand, she felt the softness of the wall... “Rubber?” she didn’t recognize.  Holding the gun firmly... she fired.... The filth exploded... The tunnel burst with the pressure and all the medical hazardous waste : Red bags (blood waste), infectious waste, surgical waste, injection needles, rubber gloves and tubing, tissues and bandage, drop-bags, medical remains, scalpels, infectious and pathological waste, blood plasma remains, cloths, laboratory waste, medicine remains, glass pipette, plastic samples, steel tools, etc. Exploded with a bang.   

For Dhatri, the soft material tore... she tore it further thrusting the gun..... the vacuum suction was humming loudly... the filth oozed out .... she held on...! Aiming the gun ahead she fired again...! She could feel the flames zooming into the tunnel.... She frantically thrust her hand inside the soft material still holding on to the gun, slipping towards the engulfing flames...!

“Boom....!” the explosion ahead reverberated....! She tried to grip the moving floor with her hand, finding something leathery under her body...! “Awaa....” Something struck her forcefully hurling in the tunnel...! She propped herself up struggling to stay at one place on the conveyer belt like floor...! The new material chocked the tunnel...! She pushed her head banging it on the material to make some room to move ..! The dry material moved under her body and she felt it... “Files?” she grabbed some of them with the leathery box, again thrusting her gun inside the rubber, propping her head to tear it further..! 

“Huff... Haa...!” She could inhale fresh air...! She found herself propping her head above a tunnel like pipe with the soft bends...! She hopped herself up struggling... gasping for breath...! She aimed and fired a shot at the mouth of the pipe at some distance...! “Four down... only two remaining..!”   she counted the bullets left in her gun...! She held the leather box and grabbing some dry material to her chest came out of the rubber bend...!  She was soaked with filth, blood, pricked several times, bruises all over, with a short surgical, translucent gown, practically nothing inside under it...! She jumped off... and saw a huge erection engulfing in the fire...! The flames rose upto the sky.  She ran for her life...

The sirens blew all over.... Fire alarms hooted out... Security guards closing in she ran towards the clearing...! The Mass-Burn Incinerator Furness had caught fire, release of poisonous gases and infectious medical waste..!

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“You think, she can fit into this?” Aidy pulled Rini back.  “She would fit into anything... Damn this Incinerator basket..!” Rini dashed ahead and opened the lid.  

   

“Its always locked.... Only the Doctor has the key...!” Aidy’s voice trailed looking at the open lid of the medical waste outlet...! .  

“Dhatri... Dhaa..!” Rini shouted putting her head into it...!

“Its not a basket, Rini... Its a chute...!” Rini looked at Vinit...! He ran out followed by Rini and Aidy

Ravi’s phone buzzed...! “Haan..!” he huffed running towards the main exit..

“Ravi... Incineration chute.....! “ Vinit yelled his lungs out dashing inside the elevator..! Ravi and Jim changed their route. 

“Where is the incineration plant?” he asked a aghast looking receptionist.  She gestures at some direction unable to talk.  The warning hooters had blocked her mind.  Ravi and Jim ran out, around the front of the hospital, crossing the Parking space, Running for life... In the open land and froze looking at the flames rising into the skies...! 

“Shit..! Dhatri...!” Ravi ran with top speed followed closely by Jim.  

“Dhatri... Dhatri...” They both shouted their hearts out...! And he saw her figure... covered, soaked with filth, medical waste, clutching something to her chest with a gun in the other hand...!

“Dhatri...!” They both froze just in front of her, trying hard to recognize her... The smell was deadly, the only thin cloth she had on her body was torn, her body beyond recognition with filth, waste blood, plasma, with cotton waste stuck on her knees...! She ran forward and stopped.  Ravi looked at her and the next moment she was in his embrace.  Jim looked on...! 

“Ravi...” Dhatri wailed and Ravi couldn’t stop his tears...!

“Dhut Teri...! Oh, Dhaa...! Mari mai... Thank you...!” he blurted pressing her head on his chest.  She broke down completely...

“Hey Dhatri...!” Jim hugged both of them overwhelmed with emotions...! 

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