"Stop trying to spook us and keep walking, the elevator is this way." They made their way through the library to the elevator, with Rick checking over his shoulder every second.

"Welcome. What exhibit would you like to see?"

Rick froze. David had no clue and kept walking to the elevator.

"Rick it's just a hologram." Henric told him, but Rick was already staring at it. The elevator dinged and opened up, snapping him out of his trance. He shot the projector on the ceiling, destroying the hologram.

"Hey, if I were you I would save those bullets for the real monsters!"

Henric and Rick both turned around to see David, smiling with blood on his teeth, frantically pushing what was presumably the Close Door button. Rick shot again- a great shot, because David howled in pain and dropped to the elevator floor.

"That door better stay open!" Rick shouted.

Even though he was in pain David made the effort to stick a foot out the door, stopping it from closing.

"What's wrong with you?" Henric asked him. "Why are you wasting time?"

Rick shrugged him off. "I don't know, maybe it's the brain damage. Let's go."

They get into the elevator and help David up, who was clenching his head. Henric moved his hand revealing a bullet hole in his left ear.

"Wow," said Henric. A couple inches over and you'd be a pirate.

"A dead one." Rick chimed, keeping the gun trained on him.

"I might not be in the position to make negotiations here, but say we have a truce." David cupped his ear and one hand and held out the other to shake.

"Why should we?" asked Henric.

"Because this is a long ass elevator ride and I'd appreciate it if there wasn't a gun in my face the entire time. I'm sure your arm is tired too, right?"

Rick lowered the gun. "Fine. Try anything and you'll regret it." They sat mostly in silence besides David whimpering over his ear. Rick was just about to tell him to shut up when the whole elevator stopped.

"We're here already?" Henric asked.

"No." said Rick and David simultaneously. They both looked extremely nervous. Rick now pointed the gun towards the door. "Bickerstaff must be here." David whispered.

"You think they caught us already?" Henric asked aloud.

"No. but if enough people come back here, the escapees will be on the defensive"

Suddenly, they heard a loud groaning sound from the other side of the door. Bit by bit, someone was forcing it open.

"Get ready." David whispered.

"Duh." Rick murmured, eyes trained on the door.

"One....Two...THREE!" Rick waited till he had a clear shot and as soon as the man got the door fully open, Rick shot him twice in the chest and the man collapsed.

"There could be more. Stay down!" Henric and David dropped to their feet as Rick stepped out of the elevator, surveying the room. Henric stared at the body as a pool of blood started to form under it. The man was soaking wet and bald, the only form of clothing he wore was dark red shorts that appeared to be underwear. Henric noticed his eyes were still open, and he had a clone bracelet on his wrist. Counting down from seven minutes, the screen on his bracelet glitched out repeatedly, skipping numbers, saying calibrating several times before hitting zero and shutting down.

"He wasn't alone. Someone must've taken out the elevator for him. There's people running, but they're unarmed. This is section C." Rick called back to them, still on alert.

"Dad's office is in section D, so we're close." said Henric while he helped David up to his feet.

David left the elevator, but held Henric back.

"Those are clones. There's a lot of things they could be running from, but the first that comes to mind is Bickerstaff."

They heard screaming and gunfire in the distance. Henric pushed past David and saw that there was blood everywhere. Scratches, claw marks and holes were all over the walls and glass windows had been shattered.

"This wasn't like this at all earlier, I was here a few hours ago. What happened?" Henric looked to David for answers. Rick did the same.

"What? How am I supposed to know? I was sent in alone to find you two."

"And why is that?" said Rick, looking back every time he heard a scream or gunshot.

"Because this place is overrun with creatures, I told you already. Damn near everything they experimented on. Walk alone, and they most likely avoid you. The bigger the group of people is, the more likely they are to attack. That's another thing too. I'm not sure if the Bickerstaff agents are actually hunting these creatures on purpose or if they were ambushed."

"Which one would be better for our sake?" asked Henric.

"Them getting ambushed, obviously. That means they should be too preoccupied to worry about us. But if they were already hunting, we'd be in trouble. That clone's bracelet would lead them right to us."

"Well how do I take it off?" Henric replied, tugging at it.

"You can't take it off." said Rick and David in unison.

"Fuck this thing!" Henric shouted, slamming the bracelet against the elevator door.

"Kid, stop!" Rick replied in a hushed whisper.

"No! Fuck both of you! Fuck this bracelet, fuck this place, fuck this whole damn-"

Rick practically slapped Henric when covering his mouth. Henric was furious but the look in Rick's eyes was absolute fear. Rick moved out of the way to show a flickering figure walking alongside the wall, giving off a white luminescent hue. The figure appeared to be a tall man, and he was staring at them. Rick pointed his gun towards it and Henric backed up, staring at the ground long enough to see the dead clone's blood was moving towards the figure.