"You're not the first to say it!" Anne punches him in the butt.
"Ohhhh you probably don't want to do that. I have a very sensitive...ummm, just yeah, don't do that."
"Oh God. Why am I behind you; let me get past you." Anne squeezes along side him and gets in front of him.
"Thank you Jesus." Ross mumbles.
"Really glad I'm in front of you now huh?" Anne chuckles
"Yes. Yes I am." He smiles.
"You realize he's starring at your ass." Liz shouts out from two spaces up.
"Are you starring at my butt?!" she looks over her shoulder and shouts at Ross.
"It’s right in my face, where the heck is I supposed to look?!" he shouts back.
"How far into the tube do we have to crawl, I feel like a hamster. This sucks."
"I'm assuming until everyone is in the tube, how long does it take for almost 50 people to get in here, can you see back to the entrance." Daniel calls out from the front.
"I'm the last one back here, and I can still see people standing in the room, we have to keep going." Scott answers and the group continues to crawl.
"We can't spend the whole day crawling. Can we?" Anne asks
"I'm not minding so much." Ross smiles.
"Enough with the butt comments okay!" Anne shoots back at him as the others laugh. "Oh sure, ha ha, laugh it up."
"Fuzzball." Ross adds.
"Did you just call me a fuzz ball? Is that like some pet name?!" Anne stops in the tube and Ross nearly crawls right into her.
"No. No, no no. I was finishing the line. You said laugh it up, which always follows up with...”
"Fuzz ball" Dalton
"Its from Empire Strikes Back, Han says it to Chewie when he laughs at him on Hoth." Ross tries to shrug his shoulders but is cramped for space in the dark tube.
"Oh, right. I forgot." she goes back to crawling.
"You like Star Wars?" he asks.
"Its okay." she responds and Daniel, Dalton
"It's OKAY?! Its not Okay, it’s STAR WARS." Ross shoots back to her
"Yeah, it’s the most long lasting influential movie trilogy of all time." Daniel looks back and puts in his two cents.
"Well it’s not a trilogy anymore, there's six parts." Dalton
"I’m over 30, it’s just a trilogy, and I don't recognize anything with Jar Jar Binks in it." Daniel smirks.
"I'm with Daniel on this one. The prequels don't cut it. Anakin ruined the whole thing." Ross nods in agreement.
"What am I in a Kevin Smith movie?! Come on keep going, I want out of this tunnel!" Liz shoves Daniel.
"I got a bad feeling about this." Daniel starts crawling again and all the guys laugh.
"Oh brother." Liz shakes her head.
"Liz, you like Kevin Smith movies?" Ross calls out ahead to her.
"Yep." she responds wiping sweat from her brow.
"She just got sexier." Jim murmurs and he, Dalton
"You're such a...scruffy nerfherder." she laughs back.
"OHHHH score one for VERONICA!" the guys all laugh and Ross nearly spits all over the floor trying to stifle his laugh.
"Veronica?! As in Betty and Veronica?! So that's what we are in this group?!" she tries to be angry but is also trying to hold back her laughter. She punches Daniel in the thigh as they all continue to laugh.
"OW, dammit, wait stop." Daniel stops crawling and brings the chain to a halt.
"Oh come on, I barely hit you, don't be a baby, get going." she shoves him slightly.
"Ow, no wait. We have to stop there's stuff all over the bottom of the tube, feels like peanut brittle, freaking' hurts." he starts picking pieces of broken glass and plastic out of his forearms.
"Well I guess we're done crawling." Jim tries to maneuver to get in a better position. "Just as well, was it me or is the tube getting smaller."
"It is most certainly getting smaller; this is not fun at all." Ross lies down, his face down on the tube.
The sound of their breathing echoing in the tube is interrupted by the incredibly loud sound of a gun shot and two holes appear on either side of the tube just in front of Daniel. Light pours into the tube and it’s now clear that the floor of the tube is going forward covered with broken glass, plastic, and small stones like gravel. "YOU HAVE THIRTY SECONDS TO CONTINUE CRAWLING THROUGH THE TUBE, STOPPING IS NOT AN OPTION, THIS IS THE DAYS TEST, YOU WILL BE IN THE TUBE CRAWLING ALL DAY AND NIGHT, YOU WILL COME TO SPOTS THAT HAVE FOOD AND WATER FOR NOURISHMENT, I WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOU CAN STOP TO REST FOR THE NIGHT, I WILL TELL YOU WHEN TO WAKE UP AND I WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOU HAVE TO CRAWL OUT. IF YOU DO NOT CONTINUE CRAWLING IN THE NEXT FIVE SECONDS THE P90S WILL BEGIN TO FIRE ROUNDS AT THE TUBE, THE ROUNDS WILL PENETRATE THE TUBE, THEY WILL NOT PENETRATE YOU BUT THEY WILL HURT....A LOT. YOU NOW HAVE 20 SECONDS TO RESUME CRAWLING." Cipher's voice stops echoing in the tube. Their panting and hyperventilating resumes and Daniel looks back to the group unsure of what to do.
"Just go!" Scott shouts out and shoves at Dalton
Daniel wiggles out of his shirt and wraps it around his forearms. He begins the crawl and the sound of crunching, as if he were in a cereal bowl seems louder than it should be. Everyone follows suit, taking off their tops and wrapping their arms the best they can. The day goes on crawling through sporadic spots just like that one, tearing apart their arms and destroying their knees. Daniel tries a couple of times to slide through it, picking up as much as he can in his shirt and chest to lighten the load for the rest. The tube becomes much smaller in some sections and the group has to convince Ross that he'll fit through, but the claustrophobia is really settling in and sounds of panic and scream spring up from time to time on their crawling journey, wreaking havoc on their ears and just piercing their skulls as it echoes through the tube. They stop and eat at points but have very little time to do so, it feels as though they have crawled for miles, their knees becoming a bloody mess several people collapse inside and others try to drag them through, or some just get left behind.
They are finally told to stop, Daniel wonders how Cipher could possibly know in this dark tube how they have all just reached the point of utter exhaustion. The collapse, to tired and hurt to even cry or whimper, they simply pass out to escape this days torture and dream of the moment they hear his voice again to lead them out of this tube.
End day 14
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