A raindrop lands on your head, and you decided to go under the cover of the station. But more and more people arrive. No bus arrives, not yours, not anybody. Things are getting a bit busy.

Eventually a bus arrives, but it’s not yours. People get off the bus in droves, and most of them huddle under the cover of the bus station. The rain intensifies, banging loudly on the shoddy metal roof of the station. People are extremely crowded now, everybody is waiting for their bus, and nobody wants to be late.

You look at your watch again. You have to be picking up your uncle from the train station on the other side of town. At this rate, you’ll never make it. You listen to the angry murmurs of the people around you as they smoosh you in between them. Most of them are just complaining, some of them are theorizing about the reason for the delay. A few people are talking about actual solutions. You choose to join in on their conversation.

One guy has a sister who can give him a ride, he calls her. A few of the other people ask him if they can catch a ride with him, but he says he’d rather not. Somebody complains about him to you, you reluctantly agree, though you also understand where the guy is coming from. Three more people, a married couple and their teenage daughter, interfere with your conversation, they know a place in town when you can get quickly to the subway station.

You two agree to go with them and you start running, seeking cover from the rain. The street is very busy and traffic is basically motionless, so there’s no problem going crossing the road, though people do honk at you. On the way to your destination, you hear somebody calling out behind you. It’s the guy who you badmouthed earlier. His sister can’t make it through traffic, so he decides to go with you.

The teenage girl leads the six of you to the place. It’s the entrance to what appears to be a subway station under construction. Yellow tape covers the entrance. She tells you this place was supposed to be a station, but funds ran out and it was abandoned for years. You nod and duck under the tape, going inside.

It’s nice to be finally out of the rain, and the air inside the station is chill and smells fresh. You smile and keep walking. Once you reach the end of the station, you get off the platform onto the rail. The guy with the sister is apprehensive at first, but he goes down with you.

You chat with the family as you walk down the unused tracks. The girl tells you she’s snuck through this track many times before. She’s quite he explorer, and knows hidden corners and interesting places all over the city. She admits to you that she only recently told her parents about it, and this is the first “adventure” she took them on. You look at her parents. They seem a bit worried, but they’re glad their daughter is sharing this side of her life with them.

You look at your phone. It’s got no bars. And there’s no wi-fi in the empty tunnel. You have no way of contacting your uncle. You’re worried he might have left to look for you. What if he got lost? What if he got hurt in the rain. You’re startled a bit when somebody puts a hand on your shoulder. It’s the guy you first talked to on the bus station.

He noticed you were worried, and wanted to know what’s wrong. You tell him about your uncle, and how he’s new to the city, and your family is a bit worried about him because he’s got a tendency to get in dangerous situations sometime. The guy comforts you, and tell you about his own uncle, and the things he did. He tells you everything is gonna be alright, and you believe him.

You look up, and comment about how pretty the empty tunnel looks. The guy agrees with you, and then makes a cheesy line about how it’s prettier that you’re here. You smile and blush, but you’re not sure how you want to respond to his advances. You don’t have time to think about it, since you see somebody on the far end of the tunnel. It’s your uncle!

You go to greet your uncle, ask him what he’s doing here. But the teenage girl beats you to it. She smiles and hugs him, and he pats her head.

Confused, you ask what’s going on. Your uncle explains that this girl is the niece of one of his old friends. The three of them used to explore caves and such back in his hometown until the girl moved away to be adopted by her current parents. When he finally found out she lived where his own family lived, he decided to come visit. While he was waiting for you to arrive, he decided to take a little detour in the tunnel, explore it a bit on his own.

He was surprised to see you here, but you’re absolutely shocked. You never knew of this side of your uncle’s life. It finally explains everything. You go to hug him, but the time for reunions is over.

A weird noise gets louder and louder. The chucking along of steel, the sound of an oncoming train. The next few seconds are a bit chaotic. The lights in the tunnel turn off. Your new friend, the teenage girl and her family, and the guy with the sister all try to get away from the train only to smack into each other in the dark. Your uncle reaches out to you, but he stumbles along another track. You have to redirect the coming trolley. You find a lever, you’re saved.

But when the lights turn back on, you see what you’ve stumbled into.

Every ape in the Planet of the Apes series was played by a real ape.

Every landmass except Madagascar is inside a massive saltwater lake on Madagascar.

The shortest route between any two points on Earth is also the slowest