Scene: As the door to the room closes, you see a dark shadow figure leaving. The figure mumbles a few words of good luck and then the room is left in complete darkness. The room has an eerie quiet and for now a calmness to it. Suddenly the lights across the ceiling start coming on one at a time slowly filling the medium size room with light. Looking down you see 9 people scattered across the floor each with a device attached to their torsos. Then a tall, spikey haired man sits up and frantically looks around. Noticing the device that he is wearing, he tries to get it off, but it wont move. Spotting one of the other victims he runs over to there to wake her up.
"Ma'am, Hello! You awake!" He says as he begins to shake her. Slowly coming around she begins to kick and scream at him.
"Where am I? Who the hell are you?" she screams at him.
"Just calm down. I woke up here just like you ok. What's your name?" He asks her.
"Elena Copass and yours?"
"Alexander Randall Knight please to meet you Elena." He says as he quickly shakes her hand. "We need to wake everyone else up, so we can figure a way out of here." Then the two of them began to move around waking everyone up, till all 9 of them were awake.
"So does anyone know as to where the hell we are?" A man said with silver spikey hair and white baggy pants.
"I think I might know, but I am hoping that I am wrong though." Alexander said he was walking around the medium-sized room that had only one metal door and two boarded up windows.
"Well what is it?" Elena asked. Suddenly a T.V. in the corner of the room came on. Then a voice came from it.
"Welcome Zane, Roxanne, Skyler, Zero, Elena, Haruhi, Reed, Emily, and Alexander. I want to play a game. The 9 of you in this room all share a common bond which is that you take life for granted and none of you cherish it. Well today I want to see which of you do. All 9 of you are wearing a device I like to call The Hornet's Vest. You have 5 minutes to find your key, unlock your vest, and exit the room. If you fail to pass this test within this time, then your vest will detonate a small explosion only big enough to kill the person wearing it. Incase you are wondering as to where your key is then
think hard the answer is in the back of your minds
. Once you figured that out, then you will know where it is. Will the 9 of you be able to find your key to survival or will these be your last few moments? Let the games begin." The recording then stopped and a timer appeared on the T.V. ticking down from 5 minutes.
"He can't do this to us. Can he?" asked a woman who had reddish brown hair with multiple multi colored streaks as she tried to get out of her vest.
"That won't work. He has made these vest, so where they fit snug on us." the man with the silver spikey hair said.
"He said that the answer to finding our key is in the back of our minds." Alexander said.
"What the hell does that mean?" Another woman asked who had burgundy purple/red hair.
"Well whatever it means we need to figure it out and quickly." said a boy who had long wavy dark brown hair as he pointed to the T.V. Everyone then turned and noticed that they had already lost a minute.
"Ok everyone fan out and search this room from top to bottom for clues." Alexander said. Everyone then began to spread out searching the room. After a few minutes Elena backed up from a chest that was up against one of the walls.
"Guys I found a knife. You don't think we are suppose to cut it out of something do you?" she asked.
As Alexander took the knife from her, he heard the words replay in his mind from the T.V. Think hard the answer is in the back of your mind. "Quick Elena turn around." He said.
"Why?" She asked.
"Just do it. I think I know where the keys are." he said as she turned around. Lifting up her hair he noticed a small incision was made at the base of her skull and there he saw a key shaped object. "Shit!" He said.
"What! What is it!" she started asking as she began to panic.
"The key is literally in the back of our heads. The bastard wants us to cut them out if we want to survive." Alexander said. Looking at the T.V. he noticed that they only had 2 minutes left before the vests would detonate.
"Does anyone know anything about this?" asked Elena.
"Here give me the damn knife I'm not about to die for you people." Haruhi said as she came up and snatched the knife out Alexander's hand and cutting him in the process. She then pulled her hair up over shoulder and felt for the spot where they key was. Placing the tip of the knife over it, she began to cut into her skin. Shouting from the pain she had to cut a little deeper into her neck. After she was done she removed the knife from her neck and replaced it with her fingers. As blood poured out of the wound she felt around for the key and yanked it out of her neck and began to unlock her vest. Where she threw it into the far corner of the room. She then threw the knife down to the ground and walked out through the metal door. Everyone else began to cut the keys out of their necks by doing the same thing and throwing their vests into the same corner and leaving the room as well. The only two that were left with their vests on were Alexander and Emily. Alexander grabbed the knife and began to cut into neck as well. Feeling the tip of the knife dig into his skin caused him to shout from the pain. Finally cutting a big enough hole into his neck he was able to reach in and grab the key and unlock his vest too. He handed the knife to Emily, who had less than a minute to get out of her vest. She then placed the tip to the back of her neck.
"I can't do this" she said as she pulled it away with her hands trembling.
"Yes you can ok. Now you only have 30 seconds left." Alex said as he grabbed her hand and placed it back to her neck. She then began to cut into her neck and to get the key out. As she did this he began to step back away from her. With only 10 seconds left she pulled the key out and fumbled with it to get in the lock.
"It wont fit. The key doesn't fit for this lock." she said as she began to cry. Just as the timer hit zero they heard a soft beep and a light blink. Just then Emily was blown to bits as the other 8 vests detonated along with her. Standing there Alexander was hit with chunks of what was Emily and her blood. Walking out of the room, he saw the 7 people standing in the hallway looking at him covered in Emily's blood and flesh.
Elena who saw this started crying and sobbing. "Suck it up, you big baby its her own damn fault for not getting the vest off in time." Haruhi said.
"No that's not true she had her key, but it didn't work for the lock on her vest. It was the wrong key. It was like someone wanted her to die." Alexander said as he tried to wipe her blood and flesh off of his face with his sleeve, but all it did was just smear on him.
"Just great so were we not only kidnapped by a psychopath, but we were kidnapped by one with a sick sense of humor." Skyler said as she began to walk down the hall a little ways.
"Well what do we do now?" Roxanne said as she began to slide down the wall to sit.
"Well I do know we can't just stand here forever. I mean the obvious thing to do is to look for a way out and to see if he or she may have anyone else here in this death trap. Also if we don't do something about these cuts quickly we could be dead in a hour or two from blood loss." Alexander said as he began to walk down the hallway. As he walked down the hall he began to check each of the doors, but all of them were either locked or boarded up. Just as he reached the final door he heard a noise coming from behind it. Pushing it open he sees a room filled with different contraptions displayed through out, and eight different doors on the other side. "Guys get down here quick. I think I found something!" Alexander shouted to the others. Just before he stepped into the room he looked down and saw a trip wire running along the bottom of the door. As the others caught up to him, he put his arm out to keep the others from going in. "Be careful this placed is rigged with booby-traps." He said pointing to the bottom of the door. As everyone walked in and stepped over the wire, Zane accidentally tripped and caught the trip wire, which caused a metal door to close down by him locking them all in the room.
Just as before a voice came out of the walls.
"Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen. I want to play a game."