Arachnoextinction Chapter 28: Chapter Twenty-Eight - Electricity, Eggs, and Dr. Kale’s (Web)balls

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There was another boom, less powerful than the first, followed by bursts of gunfire echoing through the halls. "They're moving further away," I said. "The diversion must be working." Karen looked sick to her stomach. "You okay?" I asked her, praying she wasn't going to throw up while we were tied together. "Ten seconds," she said and clenched her mouth shut. I counted in my head, as I hit ten, I took a deep breath and thought about my son. "HAAZAH!" I said and leaped into the hole in the floor, praying the web around our waists would hold strong enough to slow us down before we plunged into the hard, metal floor of the electrical room. Karen stifled a scream with her hand as the first floor went zooming past our heads. I felt my stomach do a flip, and my heart fluttered in my throat. The ground was approaching us far too quickly for my liking. I clenched my eyes and curled my body, bracing for the impact. Before we hit the floor hard enough to send my spinal cord through my brain, the web reached its stretching point and slowed. Allowing our feet to reach the floor at a more manageable speed than I expected. The impact was still enough to rattle my teeth, but besides an uncomfortable headache, we landed on the ground safe and unbroken. Ha, safe was a bit of a reach, but the fall didn’t kill us. We sat there grasping each other tight enough to make it difficult to breathe. Rather, I was squeezing Karen hard enough to hamper her breathing; she was trying to push and squirm her way out of my grip. "Please. Let me. Go. Can't. Breathe," she wheezed and pushed against my face with both hands. "Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was doing that!" I let her go. She started coughing and taking as many short breaths as she could. Almost as if she was afraid I was going to start choking the air out of her again. I started working to cut us free from our web rope while she tried to catch her breath. "I think it's safe to say I'm a little scared of jumping into dark holes with a web tied to me," I said with a small, scared smile that I hoped came across as apologetic. "Two things," she coughed out with her hands on her knees. "First, this was supposed to be a stealth mission, yelling 'haazah' as we began said mission, is exactly the opposite of what you should do! Second...." She straightened out and turned her cold, paralyzing gaze onto me. "Second, you have the balls of a three-year-old girl. For the love of God, man up!" "I honestly don't have a response to the whole ‘girl and balls’ thing," I said. She made a ridiculous face to mock me. I started cleaning the web off me as she walked around the room, attempting to find a good position to examine the electrical setup for the facility. "Seems that Darren and Justin's distraction is going well. No one in here but us," I said and handed her the flashlight Darren gave me. "And him," Karen gestured to Dr. Kale, who was still trapped in the web ball. "I'll start working on him while you do the magic stuff with your hands," I said. Careful to avoid areas with lots of webs or eggs, I crept over to where Dr. Kale was held. "Why yes, my hands can be pretty magical, but how would you know that?” Karen said. "I am obviously referring to freeing him from the spider web, and to your magic hands being able to repair the damage to the electricity," I said and dared to roll my eyes since we were on opposite sides of the room and facing away from each other. "Did you just roll your eyes?! I'll gouge them out for that!" she said, and I cringed. Dr. Kale was wrapped tight in a spider web and stuck to a corner of the wall. He was below the ceiling but slightly out of my reach. It took some searching, but I was able to find the broken drone on the floor. I was able to remove the flashlight from its body. It was small but better than nothing. I moved to get right below Dr. Kale and get a good look at his web home. I stretched as far as I was able to see how much web I could cut from my position. I could cut a l