The Cube, Ontario

In the area, it's midday when they arrived at the infamous Cube. The entrance of it was easy to find, but entering it was another story. The entrance in question was a small door, that lead into a cube-formed room, where the walls were green. Ginger was eager to jump into the room, but both Max and Jason tried to stop her.

"Wait!" Max exclaimed.

"For what?!" Ginger was annoyed.

That's when the room moved away, only to be replaced by another room, that had orange walls.

"That..." Max replied, "For one. It could be booby-trapped."

"What kind of traps are we talking about?" Al asked her.

"Gas, spikes, acid,..." Max started.

"Forget I asked." Al interrupted, as he changed into Spawn again, "Lemme check this room."

Spawn went inside the room, using his chains to keep everyone else from stopping him. Once inside, he heard a sound. He wasn't sure of what it was, but he could swear that he heard and/or felt something coming towards him, which he couldn't see. Out of reflex, he raised his arms to shield his head, which in turn caused him to create a sort of green energy-shield. This shield broke whatever was coming towards him. That's when everyone could see what it was. They looked like fishing-wires, made into a sort of net, set up in such a way so that when it comes towards it's target, it would slice people. But now there's not much left of it, so it won't cause much if any harm any more.

"That was close." Ginger remarked.

"You alright, Al?" Snake asked him.

"I've survived worse." Spawn replied.

"I should've seen this before." Max explained, while she looked at the room's number, "This one is with the fishing net, triggered by a motion-detector."

Ginger, who didn't know what Max was, or can do, or didn't know that Max looked at the schematics, looked at her surprised: "How can you know all that? Are you sure you're just a ten-year-old girl?"

Snake, on the other hand, had something else on his mind: "Al, get outta there. I wanna try something."

Spawn didn't know what Snake was up to, but did as he was told. Once he was out of the room, Snake entered. The net was broken, so there was no danger of it slicing him. Still, even it weren't broken, it still wouldn't have mattered, as it didn't react to him at all.

"You gotta be fucking me..." Snake was surprised.

"What? Why isn't it working?" Max asked.

"Maybe because it was already used, it..." Ginger reasoned.

"No." Max disagreed, "It doesn't work that way."

"So these pills work after all." Snake hissed.

"What pills?" Spawn asked him.

"On the plane, I found these." Snake took the box out, "These seemed to make us undetectable."

"Couldn't you tell us that sooner?" Spawn sounded angry.

"Didn't think they'd actually wo..." Snake started, but got interrupted when the room started shaking.

"Snake, get out!" Max yelled at him, but he was too far away from the door to make it in time. Realizing that she was his only chance to get out of the Cube, Max decided to dive into the room, right before it moved away. Needless to say, her presence alarmed the motion-detector, so the net moved. Not that it mattered, as it wouldn't harm anyone. Still, Max couldn't help but duck down.

"That takes care of them." Ginger sounded cynical, right after another room had taken the place of the last one.

"Don't worry." Spawn assured her, "Max knows this Cube better than any of us. They'll make it out of there."

"Who said I'm worried?" Ginger questioned.

"Anyway..." Spawn started, "We'll have to go in the easy way now."

"Which is?" Ginger asked.

As a reply, Spawn used his chains to wreck the walls of the next room, so to be sure that if there was a trap inside it, it won't do anything. The three of them entered the Cube thusly.

Meanwhile, Max got up again, surprised of her own stupidity. Snake, however, was a little taken aback at her action.

"What'd you do that for?" he asked.

"Coz without me, you got no chance of getting out." Max replied.

Snake wasn't satisfied with that answer: "And you care about my health, why?"

"Let's say I still owe you one." Max answered.

Snake shrugged: "Whatever."

He then gave her one of his guns, which got Max to take a few steps back. She remembered the last time someone she knew used a gun. It was when she escaped the facility where she was made. One of her sisters used one to the guards, and one of them shot her.

"In case we meet our guy. You might wanna defend yourself." Snake told her.

"I don't do guns." Max told him.

Snake didn't seem to understand, but then shrugged again and put his gun back: "So, where do we go?"

"First, you give me one of those pills you mentioned." Max told him, "Just in case."

As these two are trying to find their way out, the other three were trying to find their way in. With one room after the other being destroyed, the chances of the Cube being able to do much shifting became less likely. This way, the man they were following had less chance of getting away from them. As they were going, Jason spotted something in one of the rooms. It looked like a pencil. Immediately, he notified Ginger of this, and subsequently, Spawn noticed.

"What are you two doing?" he asked them.

"Why would there be a pencil here?" Ginger wondered.

"Somebody must have left it there. So what?" Spawn replied.

"But other than our man, nobody's been here, right?" Ginger reasoned, "So this must be his."

"How does that help us?" Spawn still didn't understand.

Ginger smelled the pencil, then answered: "Strange smell."

"It's a pencil." Spawn reminded her.

"But it doesn't smell like one." Ginger told him, "What I smell must be from it's owner."

This gave her an idea. Every wall, including the floor and the ceiling, had a door. Ginger went from one to another, as she tried to find the owner's scent.

"This way." she said, as she picked up a smell.

Spawn didn't need to hear her say more, as he worked his way into that room, and into the next that Ginger pointed out.

Meanwhile, Max and Snake were well on their way out themselves. But somewhere along the way, Max sensed something.

"What is this?" she wondered.

"What's what?" Snake inquired.

"There's something near us, but..." Max didn't know how to explain it, "... there's something strange about this."

"Will you stop talking in riddles!?" Snake was losing patience.

"Believe me, I wish I knew what I'm talking about myself." Max assured him.

Snake sighed: "At least, can you take us to him, so we can settle this?"

Max didn't say anything, but instead continued. Likely she was heading towards that something she was sensing.

The guy the were looking for heard something. He was used to hearing the noises of the Cube shifting, but this was different. It was as though there was something headed towards him. Realizing this, he took all of the blueprints he had made, plus the ones he stole before, folded them up and hid it inside his suit. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough, as whatever was coming closer to him got in, just in time to see where in his suit he was hiding his prints.

Spawn, Ginger and Jason found the man they were chasing. The man in question appeared to be dressed like a motor-cyclist, but had this peculiar-looking belt and his helmet appeared to have a sort of mouse-motive. Because of his cyclist look, a rider if you like, Rider would be the best way to refer to this man.

"Alright!" Spawn started, "We've found you at last!"

Spawn changed his cape into an axe, and changed his crutch into a sword, which he used to attack the Rider. But the Rider was fast enough to dodge every one of his attacks. He somehow managed to jump out of Spawn's sight, and between Ginger and Jason. The latter swayed his machete, but missed. Ginger grabbed hold of the Rider's shoulder, but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her away and threw her at Jason. That's when Spawn was fast enough to turn to the Rider and decided to use his chains against him. But when the chains got hold of the Rider, the latter had a hold on the chains, and used it to pull Spawn towards him and punched him in the face. This way, Spawn was knocked out cold, and changed back into Al. Suddenly, something got the Rider in the back. Jason had managed to throw his machete in the Rider's back, but he didn't seem to realize it, until Ginger spoke.

"That usually never happens, does it?" she said.

Once the Rider realized he had a machete in his back, he pulled it out and was about to throw it back to it's owner, but Ginger jumped up and attacked him. The Rider managed to dodge the attacks, only so he could find an opening to stick the machete into her body. But when he tried, something stopped him. Jason had grabbed hold of the Rider's arm, just in time. The Rider knocked on Jason's face, but that only angered Ginger enough to kick the machete out of the Rider's hand.

"Get down!" Snake's voice suddenly shouted.

Ginger didn't know where that came from, but she did as she was told anyway. Not too long after that, a machine-gun was fired. But although many of the bullets hit the Rider, it didn't appear as though he felt much of it. Max, seeing the effect before Snake even stopped shooting, decided to run to the Rider and fight him on her own. Her speed and agility was about enough to make the Rider confused, as he couldn't do much to counteract against her. At last, he even stopped moving, as Jason had taken his machete back and swung it towards the Rider's neck. This movement was so swift, it took a while before the body stopped moving, or even before the head fell off.