Arachnoextinction Chapter 35: Chapter Thirty-Five - I Said Left!

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"So, what's everyone doing after this? Anyone want to grab a beer and make way-too-soon jokes?" I said, hoping to get some dialogue going. I wished the elevator had some turbo boosters on it. It wasn't possible for this elevator to be running any slower while still moving up. "I could use a drink," Dr. Kale offered, there was an uncertainty in his voice. "I'm going to break every bottle you ever touch on your skull for the rest of your life," Justin said. "So I take that as a yes for you as well?" I said to Justin. He shrugged. "I'll be drinking. You can sit quietly in the same room if you want." "I knew we would be great friends," I said. "You have such nice eyes; and according to your sister, a beautiful soul." "I'm going to shove my tooth into your pupils," Justin said. "Karen, are you going to come along?" I asked. Her glare stayed locked onto Darren, who was now aware of her hateful stare and was doing his best to not make eye contact with her. The elevator dinged, and we arrived at the floor of our escape. "Oh, thank God," I said as we all ran out of the elevator. I wouldn't have known we were on the first floor if I hadn't had an elevator to tell me. I wouldn't even think we were still in a building. Before, everything was made of tinted glass, creating a really beautiful experience. Now, it was a cave of webs. I couldn't see an inch of the floor, the walls, or the ceiling. There was a faint beam of light through the web, casting a small glow that allowed us to see. I could hear hissing echoing, impossible to pinpoint its origin. The worst part of all this was the skeletons. I hadn’t realized it in the chaos of running around trying to survive, but there were supposed to be one hundred or so people in this facility. I had only seen a few bodies. Now I could see dozens of human remains, mostly just bones, sticking out of the webs. Some still had decaying flesh dangling from their skulls or arms protruding from their web tombs. The spiders had picked most of the bodies completely clean. This facility now looked more like an overdone haunted house than a place of science. I could taste the rotting scent of death on my tongue. "This is the creepiest thing I've ever seen, and that includes the Internet," Dr. Kale said. "You are the creepy things on the Internet, but I agree with you," Karen said, speaking for the first time in a while. She briefly removed her glare from Darren to look around. "I think I prefer the flaming stairs," I said under my breath. “You prefer anything flaming, I’m sure,” Justin said. "You’re really not supposed to say stuff like that anymore. Side note, if we can get rid of the spiders, how awesome would this be on Halloween?" Dr. Kale said. "Best. Haunted house. Ever." Another hiss, much closer this time. "Enough idiot talk, let's move," Darren said. We pushed forward as a group, our shoes peeling off the webbed floor with each step, and our eyes and guns covering every direction. "I think they know the way out. They knew we would come for it. That's why they didn't bother coming after us since we left the kitchen," Dr. Kale said. "Just the thousands of babies Karen set on fire," I said and peeked into a room as we passed by. All the doors were open, and the entrances were clear of webs, but each room was covered from top to bottom, like everything else. "They didn't know any better. Poor little babies," Dr. Kale said. "Oh, yes, poor babies. My heart goes out to them. It is astonishing the amount of sympathy I have for them. Seriously. It would blow your mind," I said and resisted the temptation to choke Dr. Kale. We turned a corner to the main hallway that would lead us out of the building, to our freedom. The first half of the hallway was drenched in webs, as for the second half of the hallway… the good news was that we couldn't see any webs. The bad news was that we couldn't see the webs because the rest of the hallway was blocked by the spiders. There were several of various sizes, but none of us