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Chapter 25: Last Resort
"Start running." She said as she pushed the button and waited a few seconds as the buzzer echoed throughout the building.
Helen started to run toward the others when she noticed a raptor. She ran faster and dove through the door, but the raptor caught her foot.
"Help me!" She begged as Stephen and Cutter tried to pull her in.
While trying to get a hold of something to help him pull Helen further through the door, Cutter accidentally knocked out the boxed that controlled the door they were at, stopping it form closing.
Kyra pulled out her handgun and shot the raptor in the head, as Stephen and Cutter pulled Helen the rest of the way into the room.
"Hypocrite." Connor accused Kyra.
"Jealous?" She asked.
"It didn't make me feel any better, having killed it." Kyra finished when everyone, except Helen, shot her a dirty look.
"It's time to go." Helen announced to Kyra and Connor.
"Connor's not going anywhere with you." Stephen objected.
"Neither is K.C." Cutter added.
"What about the door?" Kyra asked. "The creatures aren't gonna stay in there if they notice this door's open."
"It can only be closed from the inside now." Helen replied.
"Which means one of us has to go in and close it." Nick finished.
"This is your fault!" Abby shouted at Helen.
"How? I'm not the one, who shot the power boxes, and I'm certainly not the one, who disabled this door." Helen shrugged.
They all glanced at each other.
"I'll do it." Stephen volunteered.
"No!" Abby shouted, grabbing his arm. "That nightmare I kept having, this was it. You die here and I'm not about to let that happen!"
Stephen looked at Abby "why didn't you say something sooner?"
"I didn't want to believe this would actually happen!"
Helen looked at Connor, who nodded, and grabbed something out of her head before exiting the corridor.
"Where's he gone?" Abby asked worriedly.
"I believe we have more pressing matters at hand, like closing this door." Helen answered, diverting the attention back to the door.
"I'll do it." Cutter volunteered aloud with a sigh.
Kyra, the only one with any weapons on her, felt her heart sink and then jump into her throat.
"You're to valuable to this project, Cutter." She reasoned.
"I guess you'll all just have to carry on without me." He replied coldly, as his voice cracked.
Helen didn't say anything.
Kyra pulled out the sunglasses she'd worn earlier when Connor had saved her from the future predators and looked at Cutter.
"You're not going." She answered.
"Don't be ridiculous. I'm not letting you go into that room!" Cutter screamed at her.
"I don't remember my parents, Helen's all I've had till you and your gang arrested me. You'll be all right without me, Cutter. You were a pretty okay dad." Kyra explained as she kissed Cutter on the cheek before knocking him out to the floor.
"What are you doing, K.C.?" Stephen and Abby asked.
"Stopping the deaths, like I promised." Kyra answered with a smirk.
Stephen steeped forward. "You're not going into that room."
Kyra pulled out a tranquillizer from her jacket. "Remember when you called a truce and I said just give me a gun and we'll call it even?"
Kyra aimed the tranq at Stephen and pulled the trigger and kicked him backwards toward Abby.
"We're even." Kyra shrugged, backing toward the door.
"Helen, I had questions for you, but I guess they're gonna go unanswered."
Helen merely watched as Kyra entered the room, closing the door behind her.
"I'll see ya in Hell, yeah?"
Cutter snapped awake as he heard the door closed and jumped up to see who opened the door.
"Kyra, open this door! Open it!" He shouted.
"You know that's not gonna happen. It's too dangerous. Tell Lester he's welcome for the locations. Be nice to the others, they're gonna need you." Kyra said as she backed away from the door, sunglasses still covering her eyes.
"It was supposed to be me! Open—open this damn door!" Cutter screamed.
"Don't be so narcissistic! It doesn't suit you." She called with a smile.
Kyra looked around as the final door closed and sealed. All the creatures began to circle her.
"I can—I can get you out of there!" Cutter called horrified, as he glanced out the small window on the door.
"Make sure you tell everyone what happened here today. Don't mention me though. But if ya do, make sure you tell them I wasn't on any wrong side of the court." Kyra called.
The creatures were starting to close in and Kyra felt a lump in her throat. Her heart rate started to increase as she watched the creatures.
'A lifetime of traveling through anomalies and this is how it's going to end. Brilliant. If I shot at any of them, they'll just attack me faster.' She thought terrified.
"Actually Cutter, just tell them about what Leek did here, leave out all the rest." She announced.
"Damn, I wish I had a cigarette since I'm gonna die anyway." She muttered.
She looked up and saw the future predators crawling down from the ceiling. She also noticed Cutter drop away from the window out of the corner of her eye.
"Here's your cigarette." Connor said as he handed her the cigarette.
Kyra turned to see Connor standing next to an anomaly.
"Coming?" He asked as he pulled her through and closed the anomaly as the creatures dove at where she had been standing mere seconds earlier.
The creatures began tearing each other apart, creating horrible noises that would haunt anyone for the rest of their lives.
Helen had seen what Cutter had not and stepped around Abby and an unconscious Stephen and made her get away through the anomaly that was waiting for her, where she planned to meet up with Connor and Kyra.
Cutter stayed crouched in front of the door, while Abby cradled Stephen, crying for the ARC's loss.
Jenny and the military men had arrived minutes later with medics.
"Where are the creatures?" Jenny asked, until she heard the horrible noises.
Some medics helped Abby with Stephen, who was still unconscious because of the tranquilizer dart, and exited the bunker to one of the ambulances.
Jenny saw Cutter huddled by the door and walked over.
"Is he alright?" One of the medics asked as they approached Cutter with Jenny.
Jenny gestured for them to stay back for a bit as she drew closer to him.
She bent down and hugged Cutter, "Nick, where is K.C.?"
"She locked herself in there with the creatures." He sobbed.
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