SAW: Retribution

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The sound of static filled the air and snapped me awake. My head spun and I felt dizzy. I attempted to move my hands, yet they didn't move. Instead, I felt a sharp pain and the warmth of blood from my wrists. In front of my face rested 8 knives, each horizontal with my face. My hands and feet were both shackled to a metal chair. My wrist were bleeding, the blades kept breaking into my skin each time I moved my hands. Beyond the knives sat a old television, with static playing on the screen. On top of the tv sat a clock with the numbers in red, 04:00:00.

"Help! Anyone! Please Help me!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.

Suddenly, the static sound stopped. The screen on the tv went from static to the face of a doll.

The doll had black shaggy hair, pale white skin, red pupiled black eyes, lips were covered in red lipstick, and on both cheeks rested a red spiral. The doll was dressed formally. Black suit and red bowtie. The doll was being controlled by someone...

A raspy voice leaves the puppet's mouth as it's head turns to face the me on the screen.

"Hello, David. I want to play a game. You have lied and cheated your way through life. To make yourself some money, you decided to hurt innocent lives. Well today, we are going to show the world your true face: the monster you keep locked inside. As you can see, you are strapped to a chair. The longer you stay, the more you bleed. The only way out is to remove the veil of lies that you call your face...by cutting it open. All you have to do, is press your face into the 8 individual blades in front of you, to release the arm and leg restraints, but you must act fast. You only have 4 hours to complete all tests. The longer you wait, the sooner the ugliness explodes out of you."

At this moment I see a plastic dummy in a room surrounded by glass jars, with a 3 second timer. Once the timer hit zero the jars exploded. Ripping apart the dummy.

I now noticed the four jars in each corner of the room, each connected to the timer, each one holding nails inside of them.

"You have 4 hours. Three test. Let the games...begin," the doll finally said. With this the screen shut off on the tv and the timer began to count down.

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I began to scream for help even more. Trying to move my arms, only cut the blades deeper into my wrists. Pain forced me to scream and stop, the blood now dripping down onto the floor.

I quickly took a deep breath and pushed my face slowly into the knives, feeling them cut into my face. The blood poured down my cheeks, yet the knives began to move, getting out of my way, slowly losing the restraints on my hands, yet the pain was too much and forced me to stop. I let my head fall back as the blades went back to resting. Blood was dripping down my face into my lap. The knives on my wrists going back into the cuts, making them bleed more.

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Tears began to roll down my face. The pain was unreal. It all hurt. My face stung like no other, but I couldn't give up. I didn't want bleed out. I didn't want die. Not like this. Not now.

I took another deep breath, gritting my teeth and howled in pain as I pushed. I pushed my face even harder into the knives, cutting deeper across my face, relieving the pain on my wrist, allowing me enough room to slide my left hand out, yet not enough to miss my hand. By pulling out too early, I began to tear the skin off of the back of my left had, but I didn't stop. I let it keep going and pulled my hand free. With my free hand, I began to pull at the blade on my right wrist as I pushed my face into the blades, screaming in pain as blood poured over my eyes. My right hand got free, untouched, while my left hand was bleeding due to missing skin and cuts on my fingers.