Operation: Escape | Mission: Get Back

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Escape. It was a new morning, Louise with Kenji were still in the lab, meaning that it took longer for him to get back up and running. He was still tired, and slightly nauseous, stumbling around the lab, exploring it for the first time, but he managed.

Louise was back at that metal table, looking at those stacks of paper again, opening up the textbooks and turning through the pages, scanning them for details. She even took a moment to look into the microscopes in case someone might've left a petri dish underneath it. Unfortunately, no dice.

Once she removed her left eye from viewing the microscope with nothing under it, she noticed some writing that was built into the base of the scope.

"Huh?" She asked herself.

'Property of Scar Dimitri.'

And she began to see something she didn't notice before—A stamp, some ink, at the bottom of all these pages!

'Scar Dimitri. Wu's right hand woman and main researcher in project UND-CR.A#21'

She let out a slight gasp. She knew that Wu was the one behind this, and obviously Dimitri too now.

She had two pages in her hand and looked at one, then the other, then at one again, then the other, rapidly and urgently, almost panicking. She was drowning in a sea of papers, there was just so many.

It was a stamp of approval, which meant that everything on these papers were accurate and true.

All these creatures, these tests, this research!

She was getting lost in all these papers, the words they contained, the evidence, all this evidence!

BANG. Louise yelped quietly, jumping out of her skin. "Louise?" Kenji yelled from down the hall.

"Everything's okay, Kenji!" She yelled back.

It was that sound again, that BANGING, she heard previously on the first night but was convinced it was nothing, just the Mosasaurus still trying to break in.

Scratch. Her feet shuffled slowly, forcing herself to face whatever was making that noise behind her.

It was only the water with the fish and sea jellies.

'Nothing?' Louise thought, beginning to shrug it off. It was just the Mosasaurus, it was just the Mosa-...

BANG! Louise screamed loudly, falling back into the metal table. "Louise!?" Kenji ran down the hall, running over to her side. Louise groaned, she had hit her recently 'healed' shoulder against the cold metal.

"Are you okay?..." He asked, regretting his run the moment he did. He put both his hands out for her.

"I-..." Louise went to say, grabbing one of his hands. "Something's here." She said as he pulled her up. "What do you mean?" Kenji asked and she could smell the minty toothpaste on his breath.

"Something's in those tanks, Kenji." Louise replied. "Tanks?" He questioned, "What if just a sha—"

BANG! Something came straight into the glass.

Kenji and Louise particularly jumped into each other's arms as they screamed when the dinosaur BUMPED into the glass, bouncing off of it.

"What the hell is that?!" Kenji exclaimed, "Giant Orthocone!" Louise loudly replied.

"English please!" Kenji shouted.

It had a long spiraled shell at its back, it was like a giant squid but instead of red it was purple and it had beady little green dots for eyes. Having eight smooth tentacles, that were probably taller than Kenji or the both of them combined!

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