Arachnoextinction Chapter 29: Chapter Twenty-Nine - Spray and Pray

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"Oh my God, please turn off the lights," I whispered. My voice cracked when I spoke. "Why would you say that?" Karen said as she walked up next to me, now wearing only a black tank top that she was using the bottom of to wipe the sweat from her face. She looked up and froze like Dr. Kale and me. "Oh." "I picked the wrong day to not wear any underwear..." Dr. Kale whimpered. "I picked the wrong day to only wear one pair," I said, followed by an audible gulp. "Can I go back into my web home? It was kind of cozy," Dr. Kale said, suppressing tears. "Do I- do I shoot?" I raised the gun as if using it to ask a question. Karen brought hers up and braced it against her shoulder, I mimicked her form. "Shoot and run!" she said. Dr. Kale let out a high-pitched squealing scream and ducked behind us as we started firing and rushing forward. My bullets were a sporadic spray while I held onto the gun for dear life. This is just like college. Spray and pray, baby . The gun was hard to control, and many of my bullets ended up hitting the ground around the spiders. I was able to gain a little more control of the rifle and directed the spastic fire into a more specific area. Bullets ripped the freshly hatched spiders to shreds in seconds. Bits of black spider chunks, green goo, and red blood flew in every direction and soaked the floor and walls. With a better understanding of how to control the weapon, I was able to kill multiple spiders as we ran from the room. The spiders seemed as stunned by us as we were by their sudden appearance. But it wasn’t long before they began to chase after us. The spiders tried to follow us, but our heavy rain of bullets forced them to keep their distance. When I needed to insert a new clip into the rifle, I took a second and slapped my handgun into the hands of a cowering Dr. Kale. He fired a few shots wildly, one almost hitting me while I was standing behind him. Karen ripped the gun from his hands. "You with a gun are more of a danger to us than sitting naked in a room with a hundred hungry spiders," she said and slipped the gun between her waist and pants. "We need a place to go!" I yelled between volleys of bullets. "The kitchen is on this floor. We can bunker down there and get a new plan!" Dr. Kale said. I motioned for him to take us there, and then returned to filling the young spiders with lead. Every time I killed a spider, it seemed four or five more would push into the hallway. The eggs must have been hatching at the same time; I couldn't even see the walls of the hallway beyond the ridiculous amount of black spiders pouring out of the electrical room. No aiming was required at this point. Anywhere we shot, a spider was there. It was like a dark wave flowing down the hallway, bullets only caused ripples in the black ocean but did no real damage. My estimate of a few hundred eggs seemed far off now; there were easily a thousand pouring into the hallway. I lost track of the location of Karen and Dr. Kale; I kept moving back, doing my best to take out as many of these ugly bastards as I could before I died. I did my best impression of a battle cry as I spent my last clip, killing more spiders than I could count, but even more came flowing out toward me. "In here!" I heard Karen shout. There was a tug on the back of my collar, and I was pulled into a room and fell backward onto the floor. Dr. Kale slammed the door shut and locked it once Karen had me safe inside. I started to stand up, then dropped to the ground and lay there, not bothering to do anything besides breathe. The kitchen was gigantic. It looked more like a restaurant for a few hundred people. There were several ovens, microwaves, toasters, really any cooking tool you can think of, spread across one of the side walls. Large metal doors that I assumed were the fridge and freezer, counters in the middle of the room, and the door to the pantry stood by itself on the back wall. “Why is the kitchen door strong enough to withstand the horde of spider