Stranded

Code! Code? We need a code!-Act 4

The main hall is the place with food. Its not yummy food that's for sure. There's only three of us, and Ruby continues to not respond to me. I wonder if that light girl was telling me the truth.

Today I follow my standard schedule. Get up, walk around. Sometimes I'll eat the gross slop that's stored in packs. They're listed as protein rich. Some are poisonous too. As if she wasn't poisonous enough.

Sometimes I'll wander the bygone experiment rooms. There's a large room with a noose hanging from the ceiling, another is filled with large jars with three subject numbers. One is filled with tar, while the other two are filled with water.

I relax in my cell for now, and I take a deep breath. Its time for dinner. I step out, and notice two figures standing behind the tantalizingly locked door.

"H-hello?" A high pitched voice says, I'm shell shocked. What are these people doing here?! They don't remind me of her in the slightest. So... Why are they?

"Oh... Oh my god." A shorter one says, her voice more medium in pitch. They approach the door and peer inside.

They... There are other people?

I slowly approach the door.

"Book?!" The higher pitched girl says.

My brain tried to puzzle these pieces together. Two people, on the other side of the door. My mind raced, but I quickly adjusted. These people knew who I was... They... They could save me!

"Book? Is that who I am?" I ask, looking at them in question. Obviously the name on my cell wouldn't be true. Arms is a terrible name. The gray girl nods, and the Taco steps back in surprise.

"You two clearly know who I am. Can you help me out of here?" I grab the bars of the door and shake them vigorously. Needle looks down and motions to the combination lock. Well, yeah, I know about that. It requires that you set it to the right combination of letters. Needless to say, I don't know the code.

"Right. There's a code... It's bound to be in this room somewhere..." I look around. The only letters in the whole lab are our Subject Names. There's 7 of us, but 8 letters. Maybe I could ask that Switch girl.

"Hey, do you know what all of the Subjects are called?" I ask, and she shrugs.

"Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you." She leans back and rubs her eyes. She's called "Listless." I'm called Arms. Ruby is called Silence, and... I begin to walk around the room. Subject 4, Eating. Subject 6, Used. Subject 7, Innocent. Subject 8, Friend.

Reading these out makes me sick, there's piles of snow inside the 6th cell. The 4th is contaminated with moss and gravel. The 7th and 8th are completely empty without a trace of life.

But I'm still missing one... Wait... I'm subject 1... And Ruby's subject 3... Where's subject 2?

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"Light, can you please tell me who Subject 2 is?!" I beg, and she chuckles before walking up to the bars of her cell.

"They're Radio. It's funny you don't remember her. You've heard her in the night multiple times." She chuckles. I look at Needle and Taco; the two are concerned. Surely this wasn't what they were expecting. Have I heard her? If her name is radio, then... Maybe the buzzing in the walls? I nod.

Radio huh... Radio...

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"A, L, S, E, I, U, F, R..." I mutter. Taco shrugs, but Needle has an "Aha!" Moment.

"Failures! The solution to the code is Failures!"

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