Saw: The Next Generation 2
Chapter 12
The door out of level 5 opened up. The three remaining players slowly got off their stools and left the room. Maddie checked Frank's pulse.
"What are you doing?" Alison asked.
"Seeing if he's dead." Maddie said.
"Of course he is. Look at him. Actually don't. Let's go." Alison said. She swung her arm for Maddie to come.
Maddie left the room with Alison and Daniel.
The next room had mats, and food again. There was a bare ground with a table of food. There were cabinets attacked to the walls on the side.
Alison smiled, "We're safe."
"We made it to the next checkpoint," Daniel said. "We could actually win." A smile grew on his face.
"You could go on that date with Jade," Alison said. She turned to Maddie. "And you could join our group. You and Maya-"
"Not interested in being with a group of conceited, annoying twats." Maddie said.
Alison made a face.
There was food on the table for them to eat. Cheap crackers and more sandwiches. Everyone had their share.
Alison got up and pulled the cabinet doors open.
"What do you think you're doing?" Daniel asked.
"Alison," Maddie said.
The cabinet had a box of cookies inside. Alison made an odd laugh.
Daniel and Maddie gave her a weird look.
"I found cookies," Alison said. She waved the box up in the air like a trophy.
"Great, now get down!" Maddie warned.
"Not yet," Alison said. She checked the other cabinet and found beignets (a pasty with powdered sugar on top). "Ooh!" She said.
Alison sat on her mat with the food. She took a cookie and a beignets. She handed the boxes over to the other players.
"No thanks," Daniel said.
"I'll pass," Maddie said.
"Oh come on," Alison said. "Live a little. Especially if we're gonna die tomorrow."
"I don't want to risk breaking any rules. They kept the food in the cabinet for a reason." Daniel said.
"They didn't lock it," Alison said. She took a bite out of her pastry.
The three survivors of the last game arrived at their second destination the morning of the third day. The address led them off any main roads and to a building surrounded by acres of dirt.
"Where are we?" Kellina asked as Maya pulled in.
Jade unbuckled her seatbelt. "I have an idea."
Maya parked the car. "It's only the second address. They're not here. Your friends aren't here Jade."
Jade unbuckled her seatbelt. "I think Amy's here." She quickly got out of the car. Maya and Kellina chases after her.
Jade pushed the doors open to the building. They found themselves in a tall room with a balcony.
"Amy!" Jade called. "Get your ass out here!"
Kellina checked the doors in the room, only to find them locked.
A figure emerged on the balcony. Like an angel of death. Amelia. She placed her hands on the railing softly. "My victors. Welcome to my home. And congratulations on making it to the second destination." She smiled at them. "It's good to see you."
"That makes one of us," Kellina said. She folded her arms. "Where are they!? Where have you taken them?"
"Oh I'll tell you, but first," she smirked, "I have a feeling you have some questions for me."
"That is a question," Kellina said.
"Why?" Jade asked quickly. "Why did you do this to us?"
Amelia spread her hands across the railing. "I'm sure Holly gave you the origin story. You were a group of bullies."
"What's your connection to Jigsaw? Why are your traps like his?" Maya asked.
Amelia sighed and leaned over the railing. "We were friends for a year and you still don't know anything about me."
"We know you're a psychopath," Kellina said.
Amelia raised her eyebrows and stared ahead. "I was in the foster system until I was 7, and adopted by Samuel."
"So that's his name." Jade said.
"He took me in and soon saw that we needed each other. But after things got bad with Sephora, Ashely, Holly, and the others, he saw just how perfect we were together...
"They're no better than druggies or thieves," Samuel said. They were in a small house. Three people were in the room.
"Dad," Amelia said. "It's not all of them. It's Ashely."
"They all went along with it. They're all to blame." Samuel said.
A few weeks later, Amelia was in the hospital. She lip was cut. She had a black eye and a bandages on her arms and legs.
Samuel held her hand. "Who did this to you?"
Amy nodded at him and the other man in the room. "Ashely. Sephora. Holly..." A single tear fell down her face. "I want them to pay for what they did to me."
Samuel faced her. "What do you mean Amy?" It was the words he was hoping to hear.
"I want them to feel my pain. And I want to make sure they never do this to anyone again." Amy said. Her voice filled with rage. "I know you can help us do that," she looked over at the other man in the room. "Uncle Mark."
Mark Hoffman stood in her hospital room, nodding with a menacing smile growing on his face.
"Hoffman was your Uncle!?" Jade asked.
Amelia nodded again. "After Kramer died... my uncle didn't want to stop, even when Kramer wanted him to. And my uncle taught me and my dad everything he knew about building traps, obtaining players, and how to remain untraceable by the law."
"The news knows about you," Maya said. "They know who you are."
"But they don't. Not really," Amelia said. "No one knows my real last name is Hoffman. No one knows we're related."
"Not by blood," Kellina said.
"We might as well be." Amelia said. "The family business."
"You would have been better off in the system," Kellina said.
"I disagree," Amelia said. "These past few years have been the best years of my life."
"I have a question you," Kellina said. "Why did you come after us again? Why did you go after our family and friends?"
Amelia titled her head. "Well I think Maya can answer that question."