Yeah, I know this is exactly like the movie. Originally, I was just gonna
tell it to my sister and then she was like "why don't I type it while you
tell it to me so we can put it on our web-site." So that's what we did and
originally we had alternate endings, some of which may actually be in
there, but then my sister went away to college and is to busy to put them
in and I'm just too damn lazy. (plus I'm not as talented at writing as her)
They proceeded in this manner through the square for a few hours without event. As they moved along, they began to hear a wailing. They seemed to be getting closer to the moan, and eventually they could begin to make out syllables and the words.
"Keeerrriillllleeeennnnnn!"
Finally they moved into a new room to the source from which the howling came. A well built, blue-haired woman stood sobbing and banging her head against a nearby wall.
"Hey!" Ginias called to her. "Who are you? Hello? How did you get here? Do you know why we're here?"
She turned her large, watery, blue eyes on him. "Krillen? Do you have a red ribbon? You're pretty." She returned to banging her head against the wall.
"Hey! I asked you numerous questions!" Ginias became annoyed.
Susuka rolled her eyes and sighed. "Can't you see she can't understand you? I'm guessing she has a mild case of retardation." Ginias made a less than attractive face at Susuka, and the rest of the group could feel the tension rising between them.
Susuka ignored him and walked over to the girl. She put her arm kindly around her and asked quietly for her name.
"I'm Marron," said the girl.
"Hi Marron," Susuka answered. "Why don't you sit down right here and I'll come talk to you in just a minute."
Susuka returned to the rest of the group. "We've obviously got to take her with us."
"What?!" Ginias demanded. "She'll only slow us down. I say we take her boots and leave."
"We can't just leave her here," Hotaru reprimanded. "She'll die."
Vegeta broke his several hour long silence. "Then she'll die. The strong survive and the weak perish. She's weak."
"I agree," Ginias nodded. "She'll probably get us all killed."
"No. We're taking her with us." Susuka's tone brooked no argument. Ginias and Vegeta grumbled, but didn't argue further. They group moved on with Marron in tow.
* * *
About half an hour later, they came to a room with only one hatch. In the middle of the floor. They looked at each other expectantly.
"I guess this is the one," Ginias said.
He opened the hatch, and they all peered down into the room beyond. The room was filled with bars jutting out from all angles. On the opposite side they could see a hatch in the wall. Susuka threw a boot into the room. Nothing happened as they watched it drop…Thud…As the boot hit the floor and suddenly long, narrow blades shot out from the walls in all directions. Then, a moment later, the blades were gone again. Everyone looked around at each other.
"I think it's sound activated," Susuka guessed. She yelled into the hole and the blades shot out as they had before.
"Well, it's the only hatch." Relena looked a bit uncomfortable with this fact. "We have to go through it."
"I'll go first," Susuka offered. She took Marron by the arm and brought her too. Suspenseful music played in the background while the others held their breaths in anticipation. But Susuka and Marron made it to the next hatch without incident. They hung from the bars criss-crossing the room and swung themselves onto the ledge in front of the hatch to wait for everyone else. One at a time the others followed silently. Ginias was the last to drop into the hatch and cross the sound triggered room. The soundtrack reached its peak and began to die down to normal chords again as Ginias neared the other side of the room. They were almost through the worst, when suddenly Marron turned back and shouted "Ice cream!" Ginias, eyes wide with terror, threw himself at the ledge and just barely managed to pull himself out of the way as blades thrust through the air behind him. They all quickly scrambled through the hatch into the next room.
Ginias quickly turned on Susuka and Marron. "She could have killed me! I told you we shouldn't have brought her! She's going to get us all killed!" He approached Marron threateningly. Susuka darted between them.
"It's not her fault Ginias! You can't hurt her. She has as much right to live as any of us. And you're not dead, are you? Everyone's OK." Ginias stalked away in disgust when Susuka refused to let him near Marron. She eyed him warily, quite obviously not trusting his complacency.
Ginias meanwhile found the next hatch. He wrenched open the door and walked through after his boot failed to trigger any booby traps. Once he was in the room long thin wires came out from the walls and spiraled toward him winding tightly together into a cord in the center of the room. Without taking time to think, Ginias sprang out of the way and tumbled back into the previous room. Blood oozed from his lower leg as he toppled to the floor. A stream of curses worthy of the lowest ranking member of the Zion military filled the small space as he thrashed about angrily. (In a traditional story, this would be the point where Hotaru rips off most of her clothing and then proceeds to remove most of Marron's clothing as well to stop the bleeding. However, since this isn't traditional, Susuka ripped a large piece of Vegeta's shirt off, and used it to stop the bleeding.)
While Susuka bandaged Ginias, Hotaru studied the hatch. "There are numbers here," she muttered as she noticed a gold plaque on the hatch door. "We've got to figure out a way to figure out which ones have traps without using boots; we've only got one left. There has to be some way to know which one's have traps from these numbers. What do the numbers have in common?"
The others crowded around her. "Well," Relena whined, "maybe we could have figured that out if we had noticed it earlier and paid attention to what all the other numbers were."
Vegeta immediately began to spew out a list of numbers. Relena stared at him. "Wow. Do you have a photographic memory?"
"No. I'm just really, really smart."
"They're all multiples of three," Hotaru exclaimed. "Yeah, they are!" Everyone else agreed. They checked the rest of the hatches in the room for one with a multiple of three in the door. They found only one. When they threw the boot in and nothing happened so they climbed through. In the next room they followed the same method. Susuka found the multiple of three door first and pulled it open. Suddenly the room began to shake. Susuka fell through the open hatch into…nothing. She clung to the edge of the hatchway and stared out at the darkness beyond. There was no room, no ceiling, no floor. Only dark emptiness.
Gineous ran to the hatchway and grabbed her arm. The rest of the group followed to see what was going on. As they reached the hatchway, Susuka fell. They all backed away suddenly. She was dead.
Gineous whirled from the hole to the abyss. "What the hell was that?! Someone here knows what's going on! You!" He pointed to Vegeta. "You know more than you're telling us."
Vegeta smirked. "Yeah. I know something. A couple months ago, my mate was asked to design a giant cube thing. I don't know much about it, it was just supposed to be the outer shell. That's what we just saw. The outer shell."
They proceeded in this manner through the square for a few hours without event. As they moved along, they began to hear a wailing. They seemed to be getting closer to the moan, and eventually they could begin to make out syllables and the words.
"Keeerrriillllleeeennnnnn!"
Finally they moved into a new room to the source from which the howling came. A well built, blue-haired woman stood sobbing and banging her head against a nearby wall.
"Hey!" Ginias called to her. "Who are you? Hello? How did you get here? Do you know why we're here?"
She turned her large, watery, blue eyes on him. "Krillen? Do you have a red ribbon? You're pretty." She returned to banging her head against the wall.
"Hey! I asked you numerous questions!" Ginias became annoyed.
Susuka rolled her eyes and sighed. "Can't you see she can't understand you? I'm guessing she has a mild case of retardation." Ginias made a less than attractive face at Susuka, and the rest of the group could feel the tension rising between them.
Susuka ignored him and walked over to the girl. She put her arm kindly around her and asked quietly for her name.
"I'm Marron," said the girl.
"Hi Marron," Susuka answered. "Why don't you sit down right here and I'll come talk to you in just a minute."
Susuka returned to the rest of the group. "We've obviously got to take her with us."
"What?!" Ginias demanded. "She'll only slow us down. I say we take her boots and leave."
"We can't just leave her here," Hotaru reprimanded. "She'll die."
Vegeta broke his several hour long silence. "Then she'll die. The strong survive and the weak perish. She's weak."
"I agree," Ginias nodded. "She'll probably get us all killed."
"No. We're taking her with us." Susuka's tone brooked no argument. Ginias and Vegeta grumbled, but didn't argue further. They group moved on with Marron in tow.
* * *
About half an hour later, they came to a room with only one hatch. In the middle of the floor. They looked at each other expectantly.
"I guess this is the one," Ginias said.
He opened the hatch, and they all peered down into the room beyond. The room was filled with bars jutting out from all angles. On the opposite side they could see a hatch in the wall. Susuka threw a boot into the room. Nothing happened as they watched it drop…Thud…As the boot hit the floor and suddenly long, narrow blades shot out from the walls in all directions. Then, a moment later, the blades were gone again. Everyone looked around at each other.
"I think it's sound activated," Susuka guessed. She yelled into the hole and the blades shot out as they had before.
"Well, it's the only hatch." Relena looked a bit uncomfortable with this fact. "We have to go through it."
"I'll go first," Susuka offered. She took Marron by the arm and brought her too. Suspenseful music played in the background while the others held their breaths in anticipation. But Susuka and Marron made it to the next hatch without incident. They hung from the bars criss-crossing the room and swung themselves onto the ledge in front of the hatch to wait for everyone else. One at a time the others followed silently. Ginias was the last to drop into the hatch and cross the sound triggered room. The soundtrack reached its peak and began to die down to normal chords again as Ginias neared the other side of the room. They were almost through the worst, when suddenly Marron turned back and shouted "Ice cream!" Ginias, eyes wide with terror, threw himself at the ledge and just barely managed to pull himself out of the way as blades thrust through the air behind him. They all quickly scrambled through the hatch into the next room.
Ginias quickly turned on Susuka and Marron. "She could have killed me! I told you we shouldn't have brought her! She's going to get us all killed!" He approached Marron threateningly. Susuka darted between them.
"It's not her fault Ginias! You can't hurt her. She has as much right to live as any of us. And you're not dead, are you? Everyone's OK." Ginias stalked away in disgust when Susuka refused to let him near Marron. She eyed him warily, quite obviously not trusting his complacency.
Ginias meanwhile found the next hatch. He wrenched open the door and walked through after his boot failed to trigger any booby traps. Once he was in the room long thin wires came out from the walls and spiraled toward him winding tightly together into a cord in the center of the room. Without taking time to think, Ginias sprang out of the way and tumbled back into the previous room. Blood oozed from his lower leg as he toppled to the floor. A stream of curses worthy of the lowest ranking member of the Zion military filled the small space as he thrashed about angrily. (In a traditional story, this would be the point where Hotaru rips off most of her clothing and then proceeds to remove most of Marron's clothing as well to stop the bleeding. However, since this isn't traditional, Susuka ripped a large piece of Vegeta's shirt off, and used it to stop the bleeding.)
While Susuka bandaged Ginias, Hotaru studied the hatch. "There are numbers here," she muttered as she noticed a gold plaque on the hatch door. "We've got to figure out a way to figure out which ones have traps without using boots; we've only got one left. There has to be some way to know which one's have traps from these numbers. What do the numbers have in common?"
The others crowded around her. "Well," Relena whined, "maybe we could have figured that out if we had noticed it earlier and paid attention to what all the other numbers were."
Vegeta immediately began to spew out a list of numbers. Relena stared at him. "Wow. Do you have a photographic memory?"
"No. I'm just really, really smart."
"They're all multiples of three," Hotaru exclaimed. "Yeah, they are!" Everyone else agreed. They checked the rest of the hatches in the room for one with a multiple of three in the door. They found only one. When they threw the boot in and nothing happened so they climbed through. In the next room they followed the same method. Susuka found the multiple of three door first and pulled it open. Suddenly the room began to shake. Susuka fell through the open hatch into…nothing. She clung to the edge of the hatchway and stared out at the darkness beyond. There was no room, no ceiling, no floor. Only dark emptiness.
Gineous ran to the hatchway and grabbed her arm. The rest of the group followed to see what was going on. As they reached the hatchway, Susuka fell. They all backed away suddenly. She was dead.
Gineous whirled from the hole to the abyss. "What the hell was that?! Someone here knows what's going on! You!" He pointed to Vegeta. "You know more than you're telling us."
Vegeta smirked. "Yeah. I know something. A couple months ago, my mate was asked to design a giant cube thing. I don't know much about it, it was just supposed to be the outer shell. That's what we just saw. The outer shell."