Arachnoextinction Chapter 37: Chapter Thirty-Seven - Kale’s Secret Weapon

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"Justin, a little help!" Karen called out. Justin appeared, standing over the spider and me; he set his shotgun against the head of the spider. "Close your eyes and mouth," he said. I barely had time to comply when the shotgun roared in his hand, and bits of spider splattered over me and the floor. With his help, I was able to roll the now-headless spider off me and get to my feet. A piercing ringing was all I could hear for several seconds. I shook my head to try and snap out of my shocked state. A little hearing returned to me, but the ringing persisted. "Like I said before, when in doubt, shotie out!" he said, holding his shotgun in the air like a victorious flag. "Now let's move!" “WHAT DID HE SAY?” I quietly asked the group. Darren emerged from behind Justin and helped me wipe the remnants of the spider off me. Justin fired a few more shots around the corner to give Karen and Dr. Kale time to start running back. I stumbled backward and tripped over the corpse of the spider Justin just killed. Darren yanked me to my feet. I was surprised he didn’t pull my arm out of its socket. “We’re not done yet!” he yelled and pushed me forward, forcing me to start running. Justin’s gun clicked empty, so he turned and followed us as we sprinted down the hallway. Every turn we took, I half-expected to be tackled by another spider, but it didn't happen. After running for a few minutes, the scenery started to look familiar. "Thank God you guys came looking for us," Karen said to Justin. "Well, you and Dr. Kale just left us standing there, after a while, we would have been discovered. Plus, I didn't want you to die while trying to find Dr. Gale. Because then I would have to kill Dr. Gale. I was kind of starting to feel somewhat content with Dr. Gale, and I didn't want to have to kill him," Justin said. "And me?" asked Dr. Kale. "You could have died. I don't care," Justin said. "Oh," Dr. Kale said with a deflated expression. "I'm starting to think I know where we are..." I said as the webbed scenery flew by. We turned one more corner and were right back to where we started, with the bus-sized spider waiting for us. "There are nightmares, and then there's this shit," Justin said. "I would pay anything to be in a normal nightmare at this point, anything that's not right here," I said. “I’m starting to think maybe snakes aren’t so bad.” “Ha! Right?!” Dr. Kale exclaimed. The spider unleashed a ground-shaking growl, shaking me to my core. At least it wasn’t a hiss? We scrambled away, a desperate attempt to get out of sight. Dr. Kale pulled away from the group, and we were unable to keep up with his speed. "To the mammoth room!" Dr. Kale called from the front of the group. I wasn't sure if I should be surprised or not that he was the fastest of us, running away seemed to be what he was best at. The spider version of Godzilla roared from behind us, not a hiss or a growl… it freaking roared. It sounded as if every lion in Africa banded together to create the most fearsome roar imaginable. I would scream if I wasn’t literally scared speechless. I was stunned my legs were working, I stopped being able to feel them. They were churning away faster than I've ever managed in my life to this point. My hair was blown back from the speed of my movement. We rushed into the mammoth room, Justin slammed the giant door behind us and locked it. "Thank goodness they don't have a key," I said and collapsed onto the ground, my legs had given up after their stellar performance of getting me into the room. "No time to insult you and call you an idiot, so take care of it yourself, will ya?" Justin said and walked away. "Roger," I said and attempted a salute, but my arm collapsed onto my face. Dr. Kale never slowed down. He ran to the wall under his command room. He held his hand against the wall, and then a ladder dropped down from the building. He jumped on the ladder and climbed it with surprising speed. I pictured him with big fuzzy ears and a furry tail; he was lik