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“Ugh, my head..” Mumbled a voice as they woke up slowly on a couch “Where-.. Am I…” The person had mumbled again and slowly realized where they were. “No no no no no no no no no no…Not again…Not here again…” The person began to panic as they recognized the room in which they were sitting, they reached up to touch their face which confirmed all of their fears.

Thereupon, their face lay a metal mask that glowed red through little creases and had a bunch of wires wrapped around the back of their head. They sat there on the couch, pulling their knees up to their chest and rocking back and forth to try and comfort themselves but to no avail.

They looked around, shaken by the room they were in. Everything was exactly like it was ’just like last time..’  they thought to  at the wooden wall behind them, the two singular green walls facing each other with a door on both sides ‘if this is the same, those are locked..’ they thought again, looking at the small tv on the small stand and the bookshelf next to the main door of the… The.. what was it again? Oh, that's right, a cabin it was a cabin. It was locked, too.

As the person comforted themselves on the couch, they tried to remember simple things like what their name was “Mark.. my name is Mark.. but my friends call me Ran..” They repeated to themselves over and over, and then it struck them. “My friends... Oh my god, my friends!!..” They started to tear up, remembering exactly what happened to each of them. Niki was shot. Ethan’s head was crushed. Austin was crushed along with their friend Sneeg by a moving wall. And Charlie.. Oh, Charlie... Charlie was killed by a monster while trying to help them escape.

‘What's the point in going anywhere if it could all probably happen again..’ Ran thought to themselves, still tearing up from the thought of their friends, ‘Speaking of which shouldn’t that slime dude be here by now?-’ Then just as expected the door on the right was kicked open. But instead of the expected slime spirit, it was... “Charlie!?..” Ran shot up quickly in shock to see their friend who was supposed to be dead. “You left me there, Ranboo.. I died to save you.” Charlie started to walk towards Ran, who was now standing up looking at him in fear “And you went along and died!.” Charlie - no. this wasn’t Charlie, this entity imitating Charlie lunged towards a confused Ran, causing their instincts to kick in and jump over the couch.

“Died!? No! I didn't die, Charlie. I'm right here!!” Ran practically screamed, running around as the entity disguised as their friend chased them. “Oh quit lying to yourself. we were all there! We watched as the box closed in on your head!!” The creature hissed once more. It wasn’t until that moment that Ran struck the thing hard in the face only for their hand to go straight through his head as if it wasn't there.

“You need to wake up, Ranboo. Don't believe anything they tell you!” was the last thing Ran heard before everything turned into code and began to disappear. Ran was left in a void of emptiness staring into pitch black, they shut their eyes for two seconds, and when they opened them once more they were in a new strange place. It was colorful and looked alive. There was a bunch of code and random blocks everywhere. Suddenly, a mirror came rushing out of nowhere and appeared in front of them.

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