A/N: Hello again hello again! Nexus here with another chapter for you! I hope this does meet everyone's standards and I'd like to thank you for joining this little story with us! Oh! and I'm gonna be able to chat with you guys either here through PM or in Discord, come and chat with me! I'll see you there!

discord. gg / G4ykVnM

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

Alicia grinned as she leaned down and stared at the chemicals brewing on her tables. Her googles gleamed against the light brown liquid. Crystal looked up from her own area and shook her head slightly as she joined her friend and watched.

She picked up another beaker of dish soap and poured it in. The mixture suddenly turned foamy and quickly overflowed from the beaker, filling the table. It soon started to overflow and splattered on the ground between Alicia's sneakers.

The two girls looked at each other for a moment before grinning and giving each other a high five. A dark haired tech about their age looked up from his clipboard and sighed in exasperation. "Are you making more foam?"

"Yeah so?" Alicia asked.

"The same foam you made that got you in trouble?" He pressed quizzically, unsure why he still had to explain that.

Crystal stepped beside him and grunted. "What's your point Austin?"

The tech looked back and forth between the pair before sighing once again. "Nothing, just asking. Did you finish all those files you were given?"

In response, the two girls each handed him a carefully sorted folder. Austin's job was to watch over the two interns and make sure they performed the duties given to them, though his constant presence in the lab still wasn't enough to deter them from doing things like that.

The girls resumed "playing" with the chemicals neatly laid out on the table while Austin seemed to regret volunteering to watch over the two girls. He scanned the sorted folder before tucking them under his arm then cleared his throat to catch the girl's attention.

"I need to give this to Madam, you two behave while I'm gone." They nodded, acting as innocent as they can.

Austin gave them a pointed look before leaving. Alicia quickly grabbed some beakers while grinning as Crystal looked at her amused. Alicia quietly muttered things under her breath as she began to mix things. Crystal didn't catch most of what she said only "...stupid Feathers….bad choices….Robyn better not….". This only increased her amusement as she watched the honey blonde move around the lab effortlessly.

"What are you doing?" Crystal gave in to her curiosity.

"Add Feathers and Rob together with a stupid bet that we had a year ago." The blonde groaned as she slowly stirred the mixture.

Crystal cocked a brow as she stared at the frustrated blonde. Alicia stopped when she felt Crystal stare at her and slowly looked up and saw the amusement on her face causing her to redden. Alicia, now embarrassed, looked back down at the beaker and began to add different chemicals while she hoped something came along to remove the attention from her.

"Hey, hey girls!" Robyn shrieked happily as she poked her head into the room. Crystal yelped in surprise as bumped into the table so hard that the foamy beaker tipped over and spilled onto the side of her jeans. She scowled as the spot darkened.

Robyn at least looked embarrassed and took some paper towels and started to wipe at it. Chro enter a second later with his hands stuck up his pockets. "What are you doing here?" Crystal said, wiping her pants as best she can.

"We're here to bust you out of course." Robyn squealed happily. "Now help me get the dynamite."

"What my sister is trying to say is that we just wanted to pay a visit to you guys." Chro said.

Alicia smiled and hugged the two of them. "Thanks guys."

Beside her, Chro's twin nodded solemnly. "I'll never leave my sister behind. Right Chro?" She nudged her elbow into his ribs.

"Ya," He said looking over one of the beakers and shook it around cautiously. "So what exactly are you guys doing here?"

Crystal frowned and looked at her feet. "We're honestly not sure. The techs here usually just give us some papers to fill out or a list of chemicals to mix."

"For what exactly?"

She shrugged. "Beats the hell out of me."

"So," Chro was shifting his weight from foot to foot. "What are you girls doing now?"

"Well we're supposed to be filling out more forms regarding the results of our latest experiment." Alicia and Crystal shared a grin. "But since we're done with that now we're just playing with some of these mixtures."

Robyn clapped her hands excitedly until she noticed the foamy liquids. "Lemme guess, you more foams?"

The two interns nodded.

"And that's the stuff I knocked over?"

Again another nod. "Damn we could used that stuff."

The sound of footsteps caused both girls to freeze while Chro and Robyn hid under one of the tables. Instead of Austin it was one of the dark uniformed guards. He was carrying an important looking box in his hands as he walked. The yellow sticker at the boxes side flew off as a gust of wind from the air conditioner peeled it off.

"Anyway." Chro got up to his feet. "Wanna get some food? I think I saw a mexican place across the street." He quickly covered his mouth upon realizing his mistake.

"TACOS!" Alicia and Robyn squealed in excitement, bolting from the room. Feathers shook his head slightly and followed after. "You coming Crystal?"

She nodded. "Ya, I'll just clean up here. You guys go ahead."

Chro nodded and jogged after his sister, presumably before she ordered half the menu. Crystal got a mop and continued to clean up the foamy mess left over. Once she was satisfied with the job, Crystal wiped her face with a spare towel. Whistling to herself, she walked out of the laboratory.

On her way out, Crystal's foot slipped on something and nearly caused the girl to fall over had she not grabbed a hold of the wall and pulled herself back up. She lifted her foot up glared at the bottom of her shoe.

There was a sticker stuck to the bottom of her sneaker. Crystal peeled it off and took a look. She frowned in confusion as she saw the Biohazard sign on it. That would have been pretty normal except there was another symbol underneath. This was a squid like creature with about a dozen tentacles underneath it and a few long tendrils coming out of its front.

Crystal began to examine it. What kind of strange organism was this? Maybe Austin would know. Before she could do anything else, she heard voices coming from the hallway. She quickly stuff the sticker in her pocket and dashed off. Crystal bumped into Chro who was checking his phone causing both of them to fall with her on his back.

"Owwww…" Chro groaned.

"S-Sorry Chro" Crystal quickly got off him and redden up in embarrassment.

"Where's the fire? You had to be running pretty fast to knock us both to the cold cold floor." He sat up and rubbed his back.

"I...Nothing I just thought I heard you guys leave." Crystal lied looking towards the ground.

"..." She began to shift her weight from foot to foot at the sudden silence from the light blonde "The girls went ahead, told them I'd wait for you since the mexican place we usually go to isn't as known."

Crystal felt a "Don't give me this bullshit but I'm not gonna press on it." undertone from Chro, who stood up and patted his pants. She sighed and shook her head hoping he'd get that she didn't want to talk about what she saw now. Chro nodded then grabbed her wrist to lead her to the mexican place both Alicia and Robyn loved to go to.

She followed him through different streets as he hummed softly a song that she's never heard of. "What are you humming?" That one simple question made the male freeze and stop completely.

"CHRO! CRYSTAL! There you two are, come on!" Robyn suddenly appeared and grabbed them both then lead them to the restaurant where Alicia was waiting in a booth.

"Sorry for making you guys wait" Crystal apologized.

"It's fine Chro stayed, well we told him to stay. Anyway! What kept you anyway?" Alicia asked.

"She just had to use the restroom Princess, come on let's eat" Chro answered for her.

"Stop calling me Princess, Feathers" Alicia pouted causing the boy to chuckle.

Crystal sat in front of Alicia and next to the quieter than usual Chro. The two stared at the mountain of food Alicia and Robyn ordered then looked down at their "regular" sized servings. They began to talk to each other and moved onto friendlier topics.

The day blew on much faster than she had hoped. Before she knew anything she was back at the lab. Alicia was humming to herself as she continued to record the various chemicals on the shelf.

Despite all her efforts to focus on her work and school, Crystal couldn't help but think about the boxes they were bringing in. She should have just brushed it off as nothing but it continued to tug at her mind and just thinking about it caused the hairs on her neck to stand up.

Austin was there too, apparently having given up trying to keep us under control and was now just scrolling through his phone. "Hey Austin." She asked finally, summoning her courage. "Mind telling me what this is?"

she dug up the sticker from my pocket and handed it to him. As Austin took a look it, the color slowly drained from his face. "How did you get this?" He asked, grabbing her shoulder and shaking it.

"I found it on the ground?" Crystal replied uncertainty, confused. Why does he care so much about some little sticker? "What's it about?"

The teen calmed down with surprising speed. When he spoke he was composed. "I'm sorry, but that's classified."

The brown haired girl frowned unhappily, something tugged at the back of her head. She tried to shrug it off and nodded. Austin picked up the papers and left to bring them down to the other laboratories.

Crystal tried to turn back to the rest of her work, trying to concentrate on the files in front of her. Finally it became too much and she looked at Alicia. "So what do you think could be in that box? I mean why do they need dangerous Biohazard substances."

"There are a lot of reasons they can have that." Alicia replied calmly.

Crystal conceded that point. "But it just doesn't seem right. Something it off." After a moment of pacing and walking around, she decided she had enough. "I'll be right back."

Without another word, she turned and walked though instead of heading towards the exit, she moved to the elevator. She crouched down behind a garbage can and waited to see if anyone would exit. When the doors slid open to reveal that they were empty.

She quickly moved in and was surprised to see how many floors there were. A cursory glance told her there were five floors more than the two story building she believed it to be. That means the rest were underground.

Crystal pressed a random button that slowly moved down to the third underground floor. The doors opened and she quickly darted through floor. The whole floor looked like a hallway out of a horror movie, they were long and narrow with poor lighting.

Every minute she spent running through the halls her worries grew that someone might find her, thankfully there were several adjoining supply closets which she could hide in.

The door at the end suddenly creaked. It moved open with a metallic sound. Without thinking she threw herself at the door. Pain shot through her side, but she ignored in and began to shut the door.

Footsteps grew louder as a guard marched past them. Crystal froze, halting her movement. The guard turned around, keeping a tight a grip of his battle rifle. He stepped closer and caused Crystal to back away further, hiding behind the door.

Just when it seemed like he would enter, the man simply shrugged and shut the door behind him. Crystal breathed a sigh of relief and felt her heart thumping against her chest.

When she looked around the room she realized this wasn't just another supply closet. The room was nearly dark with only a few overhead lights hanging from the ceiling. Crystal took a look around and saw several semi-transparent terrariums set up on the lab tables. Various bits of lab equipment were arranged there carefully as well, not just the normal gear either. It was some high tech toys like lasers and a portable medical set.

She let out a long whistle. Even in her predicament she couldn't help but appreciate good lab gear. Crystal slowly got to her feet and spotted the boxes she was looking for. The same heavy black boxes that the guards were bringing in yesterday. Finding some protective gloves and goggles by the rest of the safety gear, Crystal pulled the lid open.

The intern blinked in surprise as she saw the empty box. Not daring to put her hand in it, she moved it towards the light. There were tiny puddles of a sickly green liquid in the corners of the box, but aside from that it was completely empty.

Crystal sighed and set the box aside. She cursed herself for thinking of such a stupid idea and stared at the door. How was she going to get out now? Her heart started to beat rapidly in her chest, almost like it was about to explode from her chest. How long had she been down here? Ten minutes? An hour? Was the lab still open.

She took a deep breath and forced her fears down. Slowly the teen started to calm down and think of a plan. A small thumping sound got in the way of her thoughts, it nudged there and wouldn't go away.

Finally it was too much for her and Crystal started to look around for the source of the noise. She looked around and spotted the terrariums. Frowning, Crystal peered into the glass.

From the thick glass something leaped out and stuck onto the side of the terrarium. Crystal nearly jumped out of her skin and tripped backwards. A scream threatened to burst out from her lips but she quickly clamped her mouth shut. The creature saw its action was in vain and scampered around.

She watched in horrified awe as it scuttled, its tentacles kicking and thrashing madly. It was like something straight out of someone's nightmare or better yet a horror movie. It charged right at her without warning only to thud against the glass which stunned it momentarily.

In that time Crystal managed to get a closer look at the creature. Her face paled as it looked exactly like the creature from the sticker from before. She was too stunned to move and the metallic creak of the door opening. The guard brandished a baton and twirled it around as he approached her. Behind him was another figure who watched by the doorway.

Crystal turned around just in time to see the blunt weapon smash into her face. Stars exploded all around her face just as she collapsed on the ground. She barely managed to turn towards her attackers, squinting at them while she struggled to remain conscious as she heard the two men speak. "What do I do with her sir?"

Austin shook his head. "Take her to the cells."

That was the last thing she heard before darkness consumed her vision and the last thing she felt was fear.

Chro: Alright is Rob coming up already? *peeks outside*

Alicia: I think she had to wrestle the dog to follow her. *snickers*

Robyn: *knocks* I'm here! and I brought the birthday dog!

Chro: *sees her holding up a small Beagle, which squirms relentlessly* Wow...you got her

Robyn: Yes I did...she bit me earlier.

Alicia: Rabies?

Chro and Alicia: *looks at each other and nods* Rabies

Robyn: Naah! *Twitches*

Alicia: *holds the two* I'll get an ambulance.

Chro: Right.

Robyn: Ali! Let gooooo!

Chro and Alicia: We'll see you next time!