Saw – Victorious style
A/N: You probably don't have to have seen the Saw movies to understand the fic. I've seen, like, one of them. Idk which, but it was something to do with life insurance and stuff. Anyway, the story is based in that setting if you do know what Saw is. POV story, switching between clueless Tori and demonic Jade. Enjoy!
Chapter 1: Acid Rain
Jade's POV
The last thing I remember was finishing the final lines to our school play, and now I'm lying on the floor of some sort of cage. My head felt dizzy, and I could barely see. When my eyes focus, I can see Tori lying in front of me.
"V-vega…" I mutter, but seconds later pass out when the darkness starts to consume my vision.
Tori's POV
"Hello!" I scream, at the end of my breath. "HELP!"
I'm freaking out. No matter how much I yelled, hollered, and banged on the walls, there was no answer. I was trapped here, and worst of all, I was with Jade. Something tells me she has something to do with this, but I can't find it in me to wake her. I… I'm afraid of what she might do to me.
"Tori?"
I jump. The voice came from the other side of the wall.
I step forward. "Who are you?"
"Tori, it's Beck."
Beck's here too?
"Beck, what's going on? Where are we?" I plead, nearly crying.
"I have an idea…" He begins, quieter this time. "And I really, really hope I'm wrong."
I swallow. That doesn't sound very good.
"Is someone with you?" Beck asks now.
I look to the floor behind me. "Well, yes." I respond. "Jade's here. How did you-"
"Andre's with me." He replies.
So if I have this right… he and Andre are on the other side of this… wall, and they're trapped too, from what I can tell. Jade is trapped in here with me, and Beck's expecting the worst.
"Tori." That was Andre now. "Don't wake Jade. We'll be okay for a while as long as no one knows we're conscious.
What? What was he talking about?
Jade's POV
So Andre too, huh? The guys must be thinking the same thing as me… we're in the middle of some psycho-maniac's attempt at relentless torture.
"So we're just supposed to sit here quietly and wait?" Tori cries.
"Could be worse." A voice sounds form the other side, and I assume it's Andre's.
"How could it be-"
Before she can finish her sentence, the room goes dark.
"Ah!"
"Shit!" Beck shouts.
"Welcome." Another voice intervenes. It sounded a little… familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it…
The lights flash on, and I make the mistake of moving to cover my eyes.
"I see you've awoken."
I could see Andre and Beck now, separated from us by the metal bars. Parallel to our cages was a TV that depicted a talking puppet, who appeared to be-
"Rex?!" I stammer.
"I see you've awoken as well, Jade." The puppet mocks.
It certainly looked like Rex, but he was talking in a strange accent. It didn't matter, because we all knew who's voice that was behind him.
"Robbie, stop playing around and let us go." Beck sighs. "This isn't funny."
"You know what else isn't funny? Never getting a role in the school play."
"Okay, really?" I smite, now getting to my feet. "So you kidnapped us and trapped us in this cage, just because you didn't get to be in the play?"
It's true he would have made a better character choice; either as Carter's twin or the astronaut- a male role. But in all honesty…
"Sikowitz didn't pick you for a reason, Robbie!" I point out.
Tori's POV
I can't believe Robbie would do this to us, nor can I believe Jade thinks it's him. But… that is Rex on that tv up there. If it were Robbie, Jade would still be wrong; there's no way he caged us just because of one incident. I could think of several reasons he'd want to get back at us. It wouldn't just be the one.
Which makes me wonder if Trina and Cat are somehow involved in this too. I don't see them, so I hope they're both okay.
"You talk a lot for a girl who's been caged like an animal. We'll see if you keep your mouth shut now." Rex mocks before the screen goes black.
What was he-
The squeal of what sounded to be drain pipes opening cut off my thought, and the four of us look to the sprinklers above. Sprays of liquid begin to fall, and I instantly cover my face from the burning chemicals that splashed down.
"What the fuck is this!?" Andre panics. Jade was moaning from behind me, but I didn't dare take my hands from my face.
"Ah-I think it's acid!" I stutter.
"Yeah, thank you, captain obvious!" Jade shouts.
Her words were almost as bitter as the drops that penetrated my skin, each tiny spray eating into my flesh as it melted into my body. Andre has a point… what the hell was going on here?
"It hurts…" I moan. It must have been about a straight minute of putting up with this, and no one could find a way out yet.
"Robbie you jerk! Let us out of here!" Beck screams.
"We're sorry!" Andre cries, following Beck's statement.
I put my hands on my forehead to shield my eyes, and I could see Jade sitting motionless in the corner. Is it possible that she's…?
"Jade…" I cross over to her. "Can you hear me?"
"Unfortunately." She sounds.
I can't believe this. We're going through hell here and she still has time to act like a total gank.
"If she were dead, than you would be too."
"Who's there?!" I snap when the voice sounds from above.
The tv flashes on, and I look to see Rex. Beck and Andre focused their attention there too, but Jade remains still.
"Did I forget to mention?" The puppet mocks. "As soon as your caged partner dissolves, you too will receive a rather unpleasant surprise."
"And the survivors?" Beck breaths.
"Continues."
Continues what? To be sprayed with this acid rain until we die? Beck knew something I didn't, though. From what I could tell, so did Jade. Rex laughs demoniacally before the image fades from the tv.
Another five minutes into the rain, and I'm starting to see the bone of my knuckle. I get that Robbie's mad at us, but is he really that upset?
"Vega."
Jade was still on the other side of the cage, the majority of her body shield with her legs. She didn't have her back to the wall like I did, but I assume she also didn't endure the drips of acid that slid down the bars. She looked like she was doing fine, which is more than I could say for myself. And Andre. And Beck.
I didn't respond to her; she was probably going to yell at me or something for being so weak. We all knew I was going to be the first one to die, but no one was going to say it, and I didn't want to admit it. She somehow stood up, despite the fact her jeans were soaked red from her bleeding legs. As she limped over to me, I didn't know what to expect.
I got up and was readying to avoid any violent blow she may have taken at me. She stopped in front of me, and before I could react took both my wrists and held them together.
"Jade, what are you doing?!"
The boys took attention too.
Jade folded my arms against my body, then held them there as she pressed against me, wrapping her arms around my torso and holding her face over mine.
She was… protecting me.
I no longer felt the sting of the acid, except for a few spurts every now and then. My back was facing the cage, and Jade was taking all the damage.
But… why?
"Don't move." She instructs, her lips moving against the side of my face.
She was shivering; not from the cold, but from the weakness in her arms and legs. I wish there was something I could do for her.
"Girls." Beck says.
I couldn't see him, but I could recognize his voice.
"Have either of you seen the movie Saw?"
I think I've heard of it before, but I didn't know it was a movie until Beck mentioned it.
I felt Jade nod against me. "Y-yeah."
"You have to promise me you'll fight until the end." Beck breaths, his voice becoming shaky.
"W-why?" Jade questions.
"Just promise me!" He yells, more in a fearful tone than being angry.
I didn't know what to do, mainly because I was afraid he'd do something rash.
"I… I promise." I say.
"Me too, but what are you…" Her head shoots up, which causes a spray of acid to penetrate my face.
"Ack!" My eyes were blurred for a moment, and I couldn't tell what was going on. It didn't sound good, whatever it was.
Beck was screaming in pain, one of the sprinklers sounded like it was backfiring, Andre was swearing excessively; at first toward Beck, but later his cries emanated from agony. After that, there was the sound of the pipes squealing closed, and the last drops of acid slapping the floor.
I gasp at what I saw.
I couldn't find the words to describe the sorrow, fear… agony I felt for my two friends who were now dead on the floor. Beck had his left arm outstretched, the bone of his hand lying on the ground- what was left of it, at least. The flesh seemed to have torn down a steam, to where the sprinkler's cap sat in front of his dissolved face.
Andre's eyes were wide open with his severed upper-half against the cage while the rest of him lied somewhere in the middle.
"What happened…?" I mutter, looking to Jade. She appeared to be fine, for the most part.
"B-beck… h-he…"
Strike that; she was panicked.
"He just took a hold of the sprinkler, a-and… and then the acid… …and he… ...and Andre! But then these blades just c-came out of no where, and…"
I could barely understand what she was saying, and I was pretty glad I couldn't. It sounded just awful. I think I have a pretty good idea of what happened, though. Beck sacrificed himself.
"That took an interesting turn."
The tv wasn't on, but we could both hear Rex's voice emanating though out the cell.
"It's precious how you help each other, and it's also quite sickening." The puppet continues from its unknown origin. "So I will tell you now; only one shall live. IF, any of you three are to survive, that is."
"Th-three?!" I freak.
The doors to our cage unlatch, to which Jade and I watch tediously.
Nothing came in, though. Only the two of us exited before the doors closed once again, leaving Andre and Beck behind us. There was no further instruction from Robbie either, just bright red arrows on the ground directing us to what I hoped was a way out.
Jade's POV:
Tori stuck close by me as we followed the bloodied path to our next misfortune. She looked hopeful, like we were about to escape. I couldn't bring myself to break it to her that this was only the beginning of our trials.