Spider-Man: Camp Cretaceous

Monsters within us

The campers were stuck in the cage, no way out. They couldn't believe that Kenji had chosen his father over them after everything they had been through together.

Jeff gargled as he sat in Brooklynn's lap. Yaz was currently doing sit-ups to pass the time. Ben was messing with some bone fragments from whatever they were feeding. Sammy has a worried look on her face, probably thinking of their missing friends. Darius was staring at a clock outside the cage.

"I can't believe he just left us." Brooklynn broke the silence. Yaz went over to her and comforted her. "I don't get it. Why would Kenji do this?"

"Well, with his dad and Peter yelling, I'd say that had a small part," Yaz said. "Not that I am blaming Peter; if anything, I am blaming that stupid Symbiote."

"You think you know a guy," Ben said with a sigh. "At least with Peter, we could blame that stupid suit. But Kenji?"

"Yeah, what you all said," Sammy said, not wanting to take sides. "What do you think Dar-"

"Four, three, two, one." Darkus watched the clock, and then the BRAD entered the room.

The BRAD scanned the room and bleeped, "All accounted for." Then, the robot left the room.

"All right, guys," Darius said. "That BRAD patrols every half hour. Which means we have 30 minutes to find a way outta here."

They began to try and find ways to escape and tried to pry the doors open. Trying to find a way out through the top of the cage using the vents.

"Come on!"

"Open!"

"Oh, uh, a little to the left," Ben said as Yaz carried him to the walls. "Yeah, okay, maybe if I can get my foot on this I-Whoa!"

Ben ended up falling, followed by Yaz. They fell and hit the floor.

Everyone walked over to check and see if they were okay.

"You guys alright?" Brooklynn asks.

"I'm fine," Yaz promises. "Maybe next time you don't step on my face?"

"Sorry, when I said left, I thought you'd go left," Ben said. "My bad."

Darius sighed as he grabbed a handful of berries and began tossing them to the food bowls.

"There's gotta be a way out. Think."

That was when he watched some of the berries that missed rolling down, and Darius saw there was a grate. He reached over and began to use the bones to pry it open.

"Hey, Darius, I know this whole Kenji thing must be hard..." Brooklynn said when she saw what he was doing. "What are you doing?"

Darius opened the grate and saw that it went into the sewer. "Finding a way outta here."

Sammy gagged at the smell. "Why does it smell so bad?

"Uh, pretty sure this is a sewer," Yaz said.

Then they heard the BRAD coming back. They quickly rushed to act like they weren't up to anything suspicious.

"All accounted for." And then left.

Yaz then went first. Sighing at the smell, and jumped down. She dropped down and coughed at the smell. Everyone fell one by one, with Darius coming last. But on the way down, he knocked the metal tray over in the process. That got the attention of the BRAD as it marched over and scanned the room.

"Alert. Room empty. Initiate search protocol."