•| Nefarious |•

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"Finally!"

Logan yelled across the room, he was on his knees holding a key card up in the air.

"How did Alex get such a High-access card?"

Tyler leaned back on the table, sitting on top of our discarded monopoly board. Ben was working on repatching mine and his bandages since we keep bleed through.

"He said his friend had been the one to find the owner of the card in a coma. Alex's note said he had asked them to sneak it for him."

Ashlyn was looking down at Alex's hand wiring, Aiden and Taylor's hands in her hair playing around with it.

"Maybe I'll make him a bracelet too, as a thank you."

Taylor shrugged, Ben moved on to my bandages. I took my top off, a bit embarrassed, but I had a sports bra on. He started to unwrap the wound, the deep spots spewing out a bit more blood, but he was quick to clean and re-wrap them.

"So where all does it have access too?"

I looked over, distracting myself from the pain in my chest.

"Well, he seems to be pretty high up so there aren't many places it doesn't have access actually..."

Aiden was scrolling on the computer, Ben finished my bandages and moved onto Aiden's head as I put my top back on.

"Most importantly we can get to the generators and where are parents are. Now that we can actually move more freely, we can start memorizing the layouts and all routes of escape."

"We should have races! You know, to help memorize routes and find which ones are faster."

Taylor cheered making Aiden agree with her. Even though it seems like we know what we're doing deep down we're all still just kids, trying to find a way to live our lives.

"Lights first."

Ashlyn crossed her arms, but Logan shook his head.

"Actually, the armory is closer than the generator, so maybe we could stop by there first."

"They have an armory?"

I tilted my head at the screen.

"Alright...armory, lights and then memorizing the layouts."

Ashlyn counted the steps onto her fingers,

"Let's get started."

We started to walk down the hallway, being caution with every step. Taylor pushed Aiden and Ben pushed Taylor in wheelchairs, I decided to just walk. The pain in my chest wasn't bothering my walking so I was fine.

"I can walk you know. Y/n doesn't have to be in a wheelchair so why should I?"

Aiden groaned, making Ashlyn sigh.

"You stood up too fast a night ago and pasted out, Y/n hasn't had any issues with that. We aren't taking any chances."

Her response just caused Aiden to groan again and throw his head back.

"Did anyone feel refreshed after we woke up?"

Aiden finally stopped complaining.

" I did!"

Taylor responded, shocked that they felt alike.

"Me too."

"Yeah I guess."

We all started to agree with him.

"It was weird, my eyes bags seemed less dark."

Taylor smiled.

"Maybe we should try to eat and sleep in this place and see if there's any correlation."

Ashlyn quickly gasped and threw her foot into a phantom that ran down the hallway, a second one quickly went after her but Ben threw a pair of shears into it, causing Ashlyn to jump back with shock.

"Jeez Ben, warn me or something."

Ashlyn looked towards him, he had a worried look and sighed sorry.

"We need to find him a whistle, maybe?"

Taylor swung her crowbar into a phantom's head.

"It's getting crowded, we should be a bit faster."

Tyler held up a gun shooting at phantoms that ran towards us.

"...you're the one in a wheelchair."

Logan shot another phantom, unfazed at his come back. Tyler gave him a horrid look while me and Aiden started dying of laughter.

"Stop laughing! You're in one too, stupid. Sit back down."

Tyler yelled at Aiden. We made it to the armory room, switching out outfits for military grade vest and uniforms.

"This is much better than what Aiden got us off of Amazen."

I smiled pulling my belt up to fit better, everyone was changed with new weapons and new uniforms. Breaking the peaceful silence a scream erupted making everyone panic and look up.

"Was that a person?"

I tilted my head. We began running down the hall, Ashlyn in front because of her hearing. Something quickly grabbed her and threw her on the ground making me panic. But before our eyes was not what we expected.

"Dad?"