Welcome to the Jungle

Chapter 14: Dinosaurs Don't Fit in a Rabbit Hole

Kara was disoriented. So much so, that she couldn't even tell up from down with her ears still buzzing. The hit to the ground that had knocked the wind out of her. Her head was swimming literally and metaphorically with a throbbing headache and worrying thoughts. Were the hybrids on their way to eat her? Where was Alex? Was she okay? How about Mike? Where was he now? And then there were the inexplicable, recovered truths about her parents and their secret friendship with the Danvers' and how they were all connected to this whole mess. When had her life become so twisted?

A part of her was so beyond tired that wished for her to just give up. To just stay lying down there and wait for it to end, but in her delirium, Kara remembered once more the faces of her lost loved ones in their final moments, how they begged their daughter through blood and pain to exit the overturned car. To move despite the fear that had frozen her. They pleaded, ordered, ignored her whimpers and shouted at her to move, and one more time, Kara relented to their voices. Voices that had been long disappeared from the face of the Earth. They reached for her. An invisible scar, a pain she carried since that night and she wasn't about to forget them ever.

Kara fisted her scratched palms and pushed at the ground determinedly. With each movement, one by one, the bruises and wounds on Kara's body introduced themselves to her. The cut on her shoulder burned as though the stitches had been ripped open and her right elbow ached from a possible sprain. One of her knees twinged from the hard blow it had taken and let's not forget about the horrible throbbing in her head that was making her nauseous. Everything around her started spinning the moment Kara opened her eyes, but she fought against it and kept her head level until her vision came into a semi-focus. There was still dust in the air and she couldn't see any dinosaurs, but that couldn't mean they were gone. Maybe they were waiting and lurking around. Kara cautiously looked around and felt how the ground under her fingertips felt soft, dry and cold. A glance down confirmed that she was laying on her stomach on the soil. But that wasn't right. The floor of the secret lab was tiled and ceramic. And this was no wreckage from the wall.

As her slow mind started racing and pushed through the grogginess that was pulling her back into unconsciousness, Kara spotted another odd thing. In front of her, about two meters above, there was a big hole where the faint light from the lab was emitting from. Kara turned her head back and saw behind her, total darkness stretched endlessly. She was baffled. Had there been a cave behind where the wall was destroyed and she had been thrown into it?

"A- Alex?" Kara uttered the letters as soon as she found back her speech ability, coughing against the dry burn in her throat from all the grit and dirt in there.

A quiet grumbling sound reached Kara's ears and she turned towards it, surprised how close it actually had been.

It took Kara long seconds until she realized half her body wasn't on the ground, but on something else. On Alex.

"Alex!" Kara wobbled on her hands and tried to roll off of her half-awake sister.

She reached for Alex with a clearer mind and noticed her lying on her side and not moving. Kara shook her shoulders, calling her out over and over and growing more scared by each passing moment. To make matters worse, Kara heard movements and sounds from outside of the hole, indicating the three worldkillers were about to find them very soon.

"Wh... wha..t." Alex spoke unintelligibly and Kara silently cheered.

"Alex wake up! We gotta go!" Kara reminded her, but saying so she had absolutely no idea where they were supposed to go. Out of that hole was not an option and for all she knew the cave was a dead-end.

Alex finally opened her eyes and blinked unfocused at Kara. She saw an ugly bump on Alex's forehead and worried over her other possible injuries. "Are you hurt? Can you move your hands and legs?"