"Woa!" Eddy shouted as he stumbled to the floor along with Jimmy. The orange room began to rumble violently, and Edd felt as if he was in an elevator going sideways. With a sudden jerk and a strange, faint crunching sound, the room stopped. As Eddy and Jimmy got up to resume their fight, another jerk knocked them down again and the room started to move upward, rapidly gaining speed. Out of curiosity, Eddy managed to stumble to one of the doors and open it through the constant shaking and rumbling of the room. When it was open, light flashed on and off rapidly inside the room as it passed the brightly-lit crawlspaces of the rooms next to it. Another sudden jerk sent the two boys and a dead May flying upward a couple of feet as the room stopped its rapid ascent. After they plopped back down on the floor, the room then proceeded to move sideways again, over the top of the Cube.


"I think I'm g-gonna be sick," Kevin moaned as the blue room finally stopped moving. He stumbled to a few doors and opened them. Two doors lead to another room, but one door faced the edge of the Cube and another went out to the right, where there was a horizontal tunnel of rooms carved in the edge. "Crap, where's that exit cube or whatever?" Kevin asked himself as he closed the door. He looked over at Ed, who sat in the corner and started to strum his fingers on his leg.

"I l-like blue," he said as he stared at the ceiling of the room. "W-where everyone go?"

"Th-they'll catch up," Kevin said nervously as he sat down next to Ed. Kevin looked at the boy with mystery.
At first he was just Ed, Kevin thought, but when Rolf died he became a dead weight. Now, he's the most important member of the group because he can tell if a room is trapped.
"Do you still like jawbreakers?" Kevin asked.

"Jawbreakers!" Ed shouted, a large smile appearing on his face.

"I'll get you a whole box of 'em when we get home. You earned them." Kevin was happy to see Ed so excited, but it faded as Kevin realized they still seemed nowhere near an exit. "I hope you're right, Double-D." he said quietly to himself. A familiar rumbling shook the room, but when Kevin opened the door he found it was another room coming down the tunnel. It came up quickly but stopped just before it crashed into the room Kevin and Ed were in.


Eddy and Jimmy paused their brawl even after the room had finally stopped moving in order to allow Eddy to take his blade out from May's neck and for Jimmy to barf into the edge of the Cube. After Eddy wiped the blade with his pants and Jimmy cleaned up the vomit around his mouth, the two finally clashed their weapons again in the orange room.


"What was that?" Kevin asked as he heard faint sounds coming from the room next to him. He opened the door to see Jimmy and Eddy clumsily whacking a door handle and a razor blade together.

"You!" Eddy shouted as he turned and saw Kevin. His anger was short lived as Jimmy managed to puncture a hole in Eddy's stomach.

"You're still dealing with me!" Jimmy shouted as he drew his arm back for another blow. Eddy rolled on the floor and dodged it, seeing that Jimmy was standing on the floor door. Eddy grabbed the handle for the bottom door and jerked his arm back, spinning it and causing the door to open from underneath Jimmy. The sliding forward motion made Jimmy lose his balance and he fell backwards into the white room below. He managed to orient himself just before he hit the ground and landed on all fours, enabling him to stand back up. "You won't get rid of me that easily!" he shouted as Eddy closed the door above.

"I have better people to deal with," Eddy said to himself as he started climbing a ladder.


Jimmy rushed towards a ladder, though he tripped since he was still hurt from the fall. A mechanical whirring sound startled Jimmy and he turned to see four nozzles protruding from the walls. He quickly stumbled over to a wall but he saw the nozzles still aiming at him. Jimmy screamed as a cold, clear liquid sprayed onto him, drenching him head to toe. He ran to a ladder in attempt to get out of the spray but the nozzles followed him. After a good twenty seconds of continuous fire, the spraying stopped and the tubes retracted back into the walls of the white room. Jimmy opened his eyes and looked at himself to see his body was perfectly normal. He put up his hand and sniffed the liquid to find it had no scent. He slowly licked the back of his hand and found it very refreshing.

"W-water!" he shouted, sucking on his fingers. He took off his sopping wet pants and ringed them out over his open mouth, allowing a torrent of the cool liquid to rush down his throat. "Now Eddy, you're mine!" he shouted as he climbed up the ladder.


"Crap!" Kevin shouted as he struggled to hold down the door handle. "I could take on Eddy if he didn't have a freaking knife!"

"You can't hold on forever Kevin!" shouted a faint voice from the other side of the door. Suddenly, another rumbling sounded and nearly caused Kevin to lose his grip. As it reached its climax in the blue room, it suddenly stopped. Kevin's eyes widened.

"Ed!" he shouted. "Open that door!" Kevin motioned to a door with his head and Ed climbed up an opened it. Instead of the edge of the Cube where it once lead, a red room now lay beyond. "Get in!" Kevin shouted, and Ed climbed into the room. Kevin took the door handle and jerked it in the opposite direction, hearing a slight thud come from the other room. Kevin took this opportunity to quickly run into the red room with Ed and he closed the door behind him right after.


"Stupid Kevin!" Eddy complained as he got up off of the floor. He was about to climb back up the ladder when the door below opened up. A soaked Jimmy came up out of it, holding his door handle and pointing it at Eddy.

"I'm back!" he shouted as he lunged toward Eddy. Eddy prepared to dodge, but Jimmy stopped himself in midswing. He looked at his wrist and started scratching it. Eddy raised his knife and was about to attack but he saw Jimmy's scratching become more fervent, as if he was trying to take his skin off. Eddy then noticed Jimmy's skin was not only soaked, but it looked loose, as if it was a layer of rubber one could just peel off. And sure enough, much to Eddy's horror, as Jimmy continued to scratch at his wrist the skin started to come off, revealing a bloody mess of bone and muscle. As time passed Jimmy's condition became worse; the skin around his arm started peeling away by its own weight and soon Jimmy's whole arm fell to the floor in a bloody pile. Eddy screamed as Jimmy started to scratch at his face with his other hand, eventually peeling it off whole. Eddy opened the door into the blue room and didn't stick around to see Jimmy's clothes dissolve along with the rest of his body, turning the boy into a bloody pile of rapidly decomposing flesh and gore.


"Hey Ed," Kevin said nervously as he stared at what was in front of him. "Did you see him here before?"

"N-no," Ed stammered and shook his head.

"This is beyond creepy," Kevin said. Right in front of the boys, leaning against the wall, was Plank. He sat there, smiling his usual smile at them and Kevin almost expected to hear Johnny say, "Plank says you should open this door and get the heck out of here!". Ed went up and picked up the piece of wood, studying it a little before Kevin instructed him to open the door. Ed complied and opened up the hatch, flooding the room with a brilliant white light.

"Jawbreakers?" Ed asked as he stood there on the ladder.

"Yep, a whole box of 'em." Kevin replied as he walked towards the door. He was so awestruck by the light that he didn't notice the door opening up behind him. The sound of Eddy screaming alerted Kevin and allowed him to move just as the boy swung his knife at him. The blade gashed through Kevin's side and he fell over, writhing in pain.

"Look who's a dork now!" Eddy shouted as kicked Kevin.

"Th-that doesn't even m-make sense!" Kevin spurted as he clutched his side. "Will you s-top with the crazy a-act already! We-we're at the exit!"
Eddy looked towards the open door that was letting in the light. The room began to rumble, signaling that it will move very soon. Eddy ushered Ed out and started climbing through himself. As Kevin got up and started to make his way up the ladder, Eddy kicked him and started going through the crawlspace. Kevin, in an act of desperation, struggled to get back up and grabbed Eddy's leg just as he was about to go through the crawlspace. The room slowly began to move as Eddy was held in place by Kevin, who was trying to use his leg as a support to get up. As Kevin realized what was going on, he let go. He was too late, however, and Eddy was pinned inside the crawlspace. A loud scream burst through the boy's mouth as the rooms started to split him in half, similar to the way Nazz died. The screaming stopped as the boy was bisected, his front half falling backward into the abyss at the base of the Cube while his bottom half remained in the bridge room with Kevin, which started descending down and back into the depths of the maze.

Ed, clutching plank, turned around to see himself in one last room. This cube, however, was made of gray concrete and only had one door. The side opposite of the door, however, was gone. Brilliant light poured onto Ed's face as he slowly walked into it, outside of the Cube.

The End.



"God, I'm hungry."

"We all are, Avon. Shut up."

"Leave it to the damn government to throw people in a giant rat-maze without any food or water."

"Will you stop with the government conspiracy theories already?"

"They're not theories, Calhoun, they're facts!"

"Will all of you just shut up already? I need to concentrate!"

"Okay okay, chill out."

"Thank you. Now let's see.....724, 999, 616. There are no primes, so it should be safe."

"It's a good thing we've got a math whiz with us."

"Oh my god!"

"What is it?"

"There's a boy in here, along with.....eww!"

"A boy?"

"He's still breathing, thank god. But he has a big gash on his side."

"Did someone get cut in half or something?

"What the hell happened here?"