Author's Note: To ibliniy, I accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the chapter and replaced it when I noticed, so just pretend that Apoc's a girl and that Max went into the green doors, okay ? Thanks, :)

Also, most of it will be similar to the game, but some will be different.

Maze

'God, this is confusing. What is that…like the fifteen hundredth door, I've run through ? I haven't even gotten out of the first fucking area yet. The stupid Frenchie is probably laughing his ass off…if Smith hasn't knocked him out yet. I wish I could see that. Some of it looks like it's up right, then there's the stuff that's sideways like those hallways I passed before and the stuff that looks like it's upside down. Stone, wood, marble and tile there's absolutely everything and it's confusing. It's like something out of an M. C. Escher painting.'

Again, Max stopped as he walked halfway down the floating marble staircase to observe the place. On his right was a dining table like area with light-wooded chairs and tables, and a white door. Down below him was an Oriental rug over a black and white chequered floor, there was a dark-red wing backed chair along with a stone block that was covered in rusty red and a white circle on top of its little space. He'd dismissed that place because it seemed too easy that the door behind the old black, elevator-type folding gate hid the next way.

'Still, I might as well try.'

He jumped down to land beside the block and willed it away from the space. The gate folded back, he started towards it, but before he'd even reached it, the gate had closed, again. Two more times he tried and failed, then just telekinetically slammed the stone into the chair, which flew away into the little gap between where he was and where he'd started out. The one thing he didn't like about this was that there was no ground besides the floor, it was heavily green tinted, black space with absolutely tiny, white stars.

It startled him when a chair-shaped spot in the air glowed green, then the chair fell back onto the rug. Decided that he'd do it yet, again, but this time with focus and still just barely made it…only to end up in the kitchen area. "This place is stupid !"

Smith's voice echoed from above, "This place doesn't have a brain. What did you expect, Neo ?"

"Something that wasn't a fucking maze, that's what. Where the Hell do I go now ?"

Slowly, he shook his head as he walked past the chair and around the white-walled corner. This little bit of hallway was covered in old paintings, mostly French, of course as he wandered down to the white-painted, black-handled door. This time there was a flash of white light, instead of code, and this time he landed flat on his ass. 'Did I just…fall out…of a door ? It looked like a regular door. Damned distorted dimensions, hmm, maybe it's the no-sleep, but that sounds hilarious.'

Seconds later, Zephyr ran past him as she dropped a sword, "Deal with these for me ? Thanks, just dip it in fire, they hate fire." The witch ran across the dark-brown floor, past one of the marble columns as he picked up the short sword and got up.

When he did that he noticed there was a candelabra on the ceiling hung from a gold chain. 'They ? I don't like the sound of that they. What the fuck is that thing ?'

There was some sort of ball shaped code in the air, when it landed it was a dark-brown ball and then it popped up into a giant fucking ant ! It was slightly taller, about a few inches, than him, with huge black eyes, two legs on the floor and two up right, it snapped it's pincers at him menacingly.

'Ah, shit.'

He feinted left, before he threw himself into a roll on it's right side. A second later, he jumped and slashed the sword at the candelabra's chain; the sword connected but didn't cut. Then he was grabbed out of the air and thrown into a burgundy wall, it smashed from the force. 'Oh, great there's more of them. Well, at least, she said thank you.'

Quickly, he crawled toward his dropped sword, rolling to the left as one of the, now, four giant ants tried to crush him. Swiped at and grabbed the sword, before he lunged up to stab it in the thing that looked like it's ass, whatever it was. An angry chatter-snap as he kicked it up to collide with the chain. Finally, the chain snapped and the ant fell with it onto the flames. The ant screeched before it curled up into a ball and disappeared in a bunch of brown cinders.

Slowly, he turned, wincing at the heat on his back, to face the three others. The ant on the right lunged at him and he ducked, it flew into the fire too. It looked like the other two were smarter because they'd hung back by the wall. Looked around for the sword and pulled it out of the fire. 'Holy shit, it's on fire, this is so awesome !'

Giddy and laughing like mad, he rushed the remaining ants, a few strikes had backed them into a corner and went crazy until both were cinders.

Cole's voice, "Father, I think Dad just went a bit crazy."

"Oh, you don't know the half of it, Cole."

"It's just lack of sleep, plus look at it…it's a fucking flaming sword."

Smith dryly, "Well, I don't know about fucking."

Irritated for some reason, he brandished the sword at the ceiling, "You shut up, you're just jealous cause I'm holding it instead of you."

Cole's laughter burst from the ceiling and then, "I didn't need to know that Dad."

"Well, too bad you do now and you'll deal with it. Or-or's the ants with you."

'God, I sound like I'm drunk or something. Got to love lack of sleep, I'm so going to die.'

He wandered toward the edge of the platform and jumped onto the middle, floating rusty red/white circled stone. The stones bridged the gap between the black and white-tiled floor that led up to a broken marble wall and staircase, the staircase besides being anchored to the floor just floated in mid-air, and joined the platform above. When he approached it, the pieces flew back together so that he could use it.

So, he went up the right side, passed another armchair, walked across the red-mahogany bridge and up to the three doors. The middle one had a black-gate over it, the other two were just regular white doors. Instinct made him open the closest one, code and then he was falling onto the upper part of the wall he'd just defeated the ants in.

Wondering, he turned to look at the other side, up above him was a room. Intrigued, he jumped over to it and pulled himself up to see a bunch of floating black marble squares. Since there was nothing else there, he made his way back to the upper floor, he turned and stared at what he saw.

There was a whole gray stone fountain on it's side flowing like it was up right, stairs with platforms to nowhere stood in front of it and there were a whole bunch of floating candelabra's scattered around the fountain. Above the fountain was some rose-tinted windows with some darker red and pink patterns on it.

'What the Hell is this place ? Mff, there's got to be some way out of here. Try the gate one this time. I need a sheath for this sword or it's going to be annoying carrying it around.'

As he turned back, he manipulated the code to make a belted, black leather sheath, then sheathed the sword and belted it on. It was a lot easier to move the second block, even though he nearly fell off the platform doing it. This gate was slower and he made it through on the first try then… ended up staring at a white wall. Jumped up onto the wall, it was…sideways or he was sideways, something like that. White sunlight shone through the sideways windows and he scratched his head in confusion.

There was a bit of panic at always getting lost and now feeling very disoriented wasn't helping. He sat down on the floor, before putting his head in his hands, trying to calm down.

'It's not that bad, it's not that bad. Oh, no, it just looks like you're going to fall off the face of everything ! Hey, that giant window's got diamond patterns in it and there's some blue too, not just red and pink. What exactly was Frenchie going for when he made this ? It looks like some giant cat just threw everything up and he left it there. Why am I thinking about cat barf ? I should've have picked the left door.'

When he looked around, he couldn't see anyway back to where he'd come from. Though, he didn't really want to do it, he'd just have to trust Frenchie to have programmed more than just chairs to go back in their place. Rolled off the edge for a second everything hung motionless, then he was falling and then he was crashing to roll to a stop back on the door platforms. His gaze wandered to the side and he noticed that the place he'd just been on was sideways now. 'Huh, so I didn't imagine it.'

Finally, he entered the left door with a white flash, it took him to an area with a light-wooded floor, red carpet and couches. Then more ants appeared and he unsheathed the sword, which surprisingly flared back into life. These ones were apparently able to turn into embers to float/teleport and knock him around. The amazing thing, he could still attack them like that so besides getting thrown into one of the wall lamps and destroying a few of the couches it was fairly easy. Jumped up onto the wall, this floor was of darker wood and there was another set of stairs and a platform. Yet, he walked toward the huge block of floating stone as he sheathed the sword and looked over the edge, there was a white, red and green rug down the steps leading to a white-door.

This one was another white-light one and he felt like he was twisting around, before he landed crouched on a brown and beige platform with the rose-colored windows in front of him. They were actually a dome type of place with a gate in front of it, well, that explained the stone block he'd missed. More ants appeared as he ran down the staircase towards the dome.

Huffed in annoyance then flying-kicked the nearest giant ant into the fountain. Two of the ants' dog piled him, he bucked and threw them off.

Zephyr's voice called from inside the dome, "Hey, Max, I think I know the way out. Can you move that block while I deal with the ones in here ?"

Grunted as he was kicked in the side and then he answered, "Yeah, sure, but I'm kind of getting swamped here."

Rolled onto his back, unsheathed the sword and slashed at the ant. It dodged, he growled and climbed to his feet, parrying it's arm slashes and punches as he moved closer to the block. Zephyr let out another one of her wails and the ants chatter-snapped as they fell over, but it wasn't nearly as painful for him being farther away now. Relieved, he moved the block a bit over and heard the gate move.

Zephyr responded, "I'll see if I can open it from my side now."

His relief was short lived as the sword suddenly shattered on the next impact with an ant. With nothing else to use to he threw the hilt at the ant and rushed past it to jump over the fountain. Zephyr had opened the gate from her side as it finally stayed open and she gestured briefly, "See ya, later, Max.", before disappearing down the left.

Ducked under an uppercut and slid into the room, he got up and scrambled for the door. It was another white-light door and he fell into a giant white and black-tiled room, there were two handrails-less, white staircases on either side of an equally giant bonfire.

Even more giant ants, he cart wheeled to avoid the one that jumped at him. Slammed into a different one and took it's legs out before throwing it into the bonfire. There were about twelve more, again, he found himself running, this time for the stairs and up to the platform. Three black marble floating stones, three doors and he jumped for the closest stone, only to be tackled by an ant and slammed hard into the floor. Just started shoving, kicking and punching them into the bonfire when he got up.

Finally, panting heavily he stood alone beside the fire, he shook his head and walked back up the stairs. This time he made it to the door easily and ended up in another room, eventually he managed to kill those ants too, before he jumped across some much bigger floating stone cubes, three of them to be exact, before he opened the door another code. A simple jump took him to another white-door and this one was mercifully white-light. This time he ended up in a long row of empty doorways, all the way at the end was another white-door.

'This seems way too easy, damn I hope this is the end of it.'

He booked it for the last door, the hallway never seemed to end, until he finally reached the last door and when he opened it, he fell into the circular room.

'Okay, trial one - the maze won. Trial two - who the Hell knows, but, it can't be much harder.'

As he walked toward the red double doors they dissolved into white-light.

Note:Next chapter - Hel.