The Final Exam

Chapter 8

It can't be. It just can't...
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"Hello, little brother..." the woman said with an evil grin.

"Y-Yeni...? But you were--" I stuttered. "Oh, yes. That. It was merely a setup." Yeni said. "Andrew, you know this woman?" Michael said. "You see, our father wasn't exactly an accountant. He hid nearly everything from us, because he worked for the Y. G. Lennard Facility. In 1988, he was almost arrested for the incident, but promised everyone at the lab he would restore the facility.

And that is why our father abandoned the family when you were 6 years old. And 2 years after he left, I faked my death." she added. "But where is dad now?" I asked, pressing my hands against the glass.

"Don't get your hopes up or anything like that. He started to doubt the cause for the lab as he grew older, so I murdered him in cold blood to avoid the jeopardizing of our work." Yeni said blankly. "You obsessive freak..." June said, breaking her silence. ''Hahahaha... Alright, tell you what, if you survive this, I'll let you out of this hell hole." Yeni said with a sinister chuckle. "Survive...?" Michael whispered under his breath. "Your chances are grim, however, since the ones before you didn't make it." Yeni said with a smirk.

Yeni walked to the left side of the room and stood next to a lever. "There's the easy way or the hard way. Andrew, if you join me, you can save your friends and go your separate ways. Or, I pull this lever, and you have a 1 in 5 chance of survival down there." Yeni said with a stern look. 'You can't just take a gamble like this, Andrew. Face it... But you can't live in an underground laboratory wearing a blood stained lab coat all your life!' all this went through my mind as I processed this decision.

"... You lost your humanity a long time ago, Yeni. You let your own passion consume you, and now you have the blood of the innocent on your hands. So, no. I won't join your endless effort to restore something that won't return. You are not the kind sister I knew, because she was lost when you were driven over the edge of sanity. And if that means our deaths, then so be it." I said sternly."Yeah! You tell her, Andrew!" June cheered. "Very well." Yeni said as she pulled the lever.

Immediately, the floor gave away below us and we fell into a dark pool of water. We surfaced, gasping for air. "Where are we!?" June yelled. "Yeni works pretty fast when it comes to engineering and things of that nature. She's the genius of the family." I said. We got out of the water, dripping wet. Except it wasn't water, it had a red sort of gleam. "NO WAY DONT TELL ME THAT WAS..." June yelled, followed by a gag. "Why and how did she escalate to this? Couldn't it have been different?" I whispered to myself.

"Whichever reason it was, we shouldn't go looking for it. What we should worry about, is how we are going to get out alive." Michael said.