[ WP ] `` Attention all employees , please hide . ''

I heard the alarm blasting it right before everything went dark. Someone shut off all the lights in the store, we were in complete darkness. No flashlights because that would be stupid to keep on us. I started hearing noises, people running around, things getting knocked off the shelves, but no words. No screaming, or talking, or yelling. Why was no one reacting to this? 
 
 The running footsteps kept getting closer, slowly, almost as if to tease me. The only thing I had to defend myself was a simple nightstick, and that would be bloody useless. Whoever can run this fast does not fuck around once they make their move. I felt something brush up against me, but it was slow, not like the running these people seemed to be doing. They have to be fucking with me, trying to make me lash out at them. I ca n't fall to their tricks, I have to stay here. 
 
 One of them just knocked me to the ground with a hard shove. This guy had some strength in him, I must have moved a foot over. I think they're getting farther away. The footsteps seem to be getting quieter and quieter. Yes, they are definitely leaving. This has been a nightmare, you have no clue how scary it is to be in total darkness and hear nothing but footsteps and things falling on the floor. It's almost over I hope, I'll need to go look for my fellow employes soon, I hope they're alright. 
 
 The lights are back on! Finally, it's been over a half hour I think. The place looks like a tornado came through, they really messed it up. Nothing seems to be stolen though, which is weird. Hmm, I ca n't seem to find anyone. I'd be able to see someone just by jumping up, and there's no one in sight. Maybe they all went and hid in the storage, I'll head over and look there. Hmm, there's no one in here either! Hopefully they just left the store. 
 
 I walked outside to look for them, but I do n't see anyone out here either! There are cars just sitting in the streets, still on, with no one there. What in the hell is going on? Something must have really scared these people to make them run off like that. I hope nothing that horrible has happened, but I feel that it has. I'll have to keep searching, there must be something out there that can tell me what has happened.
