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(NOTE: This fic is based off this film called 'Circle' which i obviously own no rights to. Cover image is from the movie.)

Where am I?

Gwen opened her eyes to find herself in the dark. She started to slightly panic and took a step back before there was a loud beep. Instinctively, she moved her foot back to where it was and noticed the circle. Gwen was standing on a small red circular panel on the floor, which was just big enough so that her shoes were completely on it.

It was then her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she saw 50 or so unconscious people were standing around in the formation of concentric circles, all of them on a red circle like her. Some of the people were standing on the outside of the circle forming an outer ring whilst the rest were positioned inside forming an inner ring. They were all a metre apart from the next person.

With a racing heart Gwen reached over to tug on the sleeves of the unconscious person on her left.

"Don't move." she heard a voice advise her. "Don't get off your circle or touch anyone else or the alarm will buzz off. I do not intend to know what will happen afterwards."

The goth whipped her head around to see Alejandro who was a couple of people away on her right.

"Alejandro? What are you doing here? The show ended six months ago and I haven't seen you since!"

"I don't know Gwen but look around you, everyone is from the show."

Gwen scanned her eyes around the group. He was right, absolutely everyone was from the show. She even spotted some faces from the 3rd generation cast.

"What's happening and where are we?" Gwen asked frantically.

"I'm not sure, I only came back to consciousness a few minutes before you did."

Across the room in front of Alejandro's line of sight, Tyler stirred to consciousness and rubbed his skull.

"Ow my head… wh… where am I?"

Before anyone could respond, he naturally took a step back and a loud beep sounded off. The jock panicked and took another step. Multiple alarms screamed at him before something lit up and struck Tyler in a blink of an eye. He felt an immense burning sensation before collapsing to the floor.

Gwen and Alejandro stared in horror.

Tyler was dead.

Then suddenly, his body was dragged along the ground by some unseen force into the hellish darkness outside of the group. Gwen and Alejandro couldn't see where his body went.

"What the? Where did that lazer show come from?!" Gwen screamed.

Alejandro paled as he replied, "Over there, in the centre of the group."

At the centre was a round large orb with half of it in the ground, forming a hemisphere. There was a beam of purple electricity swimming inside the orb which seemed to be containing it. In addition red panels in the shape of triangles were also surrounding the orb, with the points facing the group.

Gwen's fear grew into anger. "So what? We just stand here all day or else we'll get zapped?"

As if someone - or something - heard her, some eerie lights flickered illuminating the room so that everyone's faces were visible, though you still couldn't see beyond the circle of the people as it was cast with darkness. At the same time, everyone woke up. Alejandro saw this and immediately piped up.

"Everyone stay still! Do not move or get off your circle!" He ordered.

The initial reaction was silence and confusion as everyone looked down to see what he was talking about. Then the chorus of panic flooded in.

"Where are we?"

"Courtney? Owen?"

"It's everyone from the show!"

"Who put me here? I demand you to let me out!"

That was when the countdown began. At first the eerie beeps chimed slowly, around 5 seconds apart, before the rhythm quickened.

BeepBeepBeepBeep

It abruptly stopped.

"Well that was stupid." Jo commented before the orb in the middle started to glow and shot out a beam of pure electricity at the group.

"Woah!" She yelled. "What was-"

Before the jockette could finish her sentence, Beth screamed. Because right next to her, Beardo the human soundbox lay on the floor dead, with smoke rising from his body and a neat hole in his heart.

"He's… he's dead." Beth whimpered before sobbing from witnessing his death.

The whole room was dead silent.

Samey, the good twin, then started to cry, "W-w- we never even got to know him well. None of us did!" This evoked a bunch of the "nice" Pahkitew contestants to tear up in both fear and shock. Samey continued to hiccup before whispering. "I don't want to die."

"Hold on, who are you?" Heather scoffed.

"I'm… we're… we were in Pahkitew Island…" Samey hesitantly replied.

"There was a sixth season? Pathetic."

"Does it matter? This is just bogus. Who put us in here?!" Duncan yelled angrily. "Chris is this you? You've gone way too far McLean. When I find you I'm going to strangle you!"

"It's isn't me." A male voice said. Everyone looked to the source and realised it was the host who said this with genuine worry planted on his face.

"Chris? You're here?!" Topher exclaimed before turning to his left to find a certain someone right next to him. "Chef! You're here as well!" The cook's usually solid demeanour was replaced by an anxious and sweat-ridden face.

"I know I'm super sadistic and I've put you kiddies into life and death scenarios many times but… This isn't me!" Chris cried. "I don't want to die. I don't wanna be here!"

"You think any of us do?!" Leshawna boomed with some of her confidence gone.

"That's stupid, I don't believe a word coming out of that sorry excuse of a host." Duncan crossed his arms while Chris exclaimed an offended "Hey!"

"Normally I would too, but why would Chris risk himself and Chef dying by being here?" Courtney argued her ex.

"It's definitely rigged." Duncan said firmly referring to the orb thing.

"How would you know?" Courtney exclaimed. "Besides-"

"I hate to interrupt eh, but the beeping - it's happening again!" Ezekiel stated.

He was right. Those chimes of death that signalled the end of someone's life soon started to occur again.

"Oh, please no, I don't want to die." Bridgette sobbed.

"Babe, it's okay, I'm right here." Geoff called. Unfortunately they were not placed to each other; he was four people away from his girlfriend. Nonetheless the party boy proceeded to take a step forward.

"Amigo, no! You step off your circle and you'll be the next to die." Alejandro said.

Fueled by fear Geoff yelled, "How would you know, huh? Maybe you had something to do with this Al."

Beep. Beep.

Geoff's yelling on top of the beeps were making everyone feel uneasy.

"Because!" the spaniard cried.

Beepbeepbeep.

"I saw Tyler die!" the spaniard cried.

The beeping stopped. Silence. Then a pure beam of electricity hit someone in the group.

"Cody, NOOOOOOOOOO!" Sierra screamed. She was standing behind him and witnessed his death in detail.

Gwen stifled a gasp of horror while Sierra started to sob hysterically.

"I'm so sorry Sierra," Trent whispered since he was standing next to the super fan.

"T- Tyler?" Lindsay said in a small voice.

"Did… Did Alejandro just say Tyler died?"

No one could make eye contact with her.

"I, I thought Tyson, I mean Tyler was just lucky enough not to be here." The innocent girl's eyes started welling up with tears.

"I'm so sorry Lindsay." Alejandro said. "A couple of us including myself stirred to consciousness before everybody woke up. Tyler was one them. I assume out of shock, he naturally took a step off his circle and got electrocuted…"

Lindsay tried to stop her sobs. "It's… It's okay. You didn't do it."

"Man, I can't even hug you or Sierra without being electrocuted." DJ complained. "This is so stupid-"

A sudden gasp interrupted him. "Guys, look!" Bubble boy Cameron exclaimed. "I think I understand something!"

Everyone looked to him in anticipation.

"See those triangles circling the orb?"

Cameron pointed to the red triangles that were on the ground surrounding the orb.

"Only one of them lights up and you choose which one by controlling it with your hand."

He was right. Each camper could only see one lit triangle - it was the one they controlled - so no one could see each other's lit up triangle. "Tilting your hand to the right moves the lit up triangle to the right and same with choosing triangles on the left side. And when you close your fist it turns off. Only…"

"..."

"Spill it out already. Gosh!" Harold said.

"There are enough triangles for all of us in the room and we all have 1 triangle that points to us."

"So?"

"I… I think through these triangles, or rather pointers, we choose who dies by closing our fists and 'selecting' one of us…because I've noticed that after closing your fist on a triangle, one of the triangles light up again after someone… dies..."

"Yeah right," Heather said. "Nobody knew about how we control these triangle things and choose who dies and," she faltered for a bit before continuing. "others have already died after that annoying beep."

That comment brought Sierra to sob even more.

"I theorize that when we don't uh… 'Vote', one of us gets killed randomly." Cameron said.

Beep.

Everyone suddenly looked alarmed knowing that there'd be one less person in the room in just a minute.

"I dun mean to sound inhumans," Anne Maria said worriedly.

"It's inhumane," someone corrected (probably Harold).

"Whateva. But I dun exactly wanna wait and just see if I get killed randomly. Maybe we should vote."

"But that would mean we kill someone!" Bridgette cried mortified.

Beep. Beep.

"No hold up," Jo said. "Tan in a Can is right. We can't just wait for the countdown every time, praying were not next. Maybe we should vote."

BeepBeepBeep.

"Guys there's no more time. The countdown is about to stop. Hurry!" Jo said.

"But…" Bridgette started.

"No, that feline is right. It's better this way." Scarlett the evil genius hissed. "Hurry everyone, vote!"

Bridgette just stood there in shock wondering what to do. She didn't want someone to randomly die and risk herself being that unlucky person, but she didn't know who to vote.

Who was she to choose?

Reasons for death

Beardo - Although I could've chosen to develop his character I wasn't sure about the direction to take since he never really talked in PI. Also I never liked him. But please note, the deaths will not be based on who my least favourite characters are.

Cody - you shall see

Tyler - I honestly needed everyone else to be involved with future discussions and felt as if he wouldn't contribute very much.

A/N: That was the first chapter! Hope you liked it, more to come soon.

I'd just like to say that this will not be a certain character-centric fic and it should have both everyone and no one's POV (if that makes sense)...

So... who do you think is behind this?

What do you think happened?

What do you think is the best thing to do in this situation?

Please leave a review and let me know what you think so I can improve this story.

Thanks for reading ;)