The facility was decomposing around him and all he could do was watch as the floor slowly crumbled beneath him. The underbelly of the facility swallowing him like a starving beast, as he plunged into the pit that seemed to go on for miles. He screamed into the abyss only for it to scream back with echoes of his own fear filled voice. The voices in his head getting louder and louder the further he fell.

Doug with his heart pounding and brow covered in sweat shot upright and studied his surroundings with one shaky leg in front of the other he walked over to his hollow companion on the ground. He thought how convenient it was to have a friend that's also a backpack but his thoughts were rudely interrupted by a pain in his gut; oh yes how he'd almost forgotten.

"Are you going to eat that?" the cube questioned you could almost hear the worry in his voice as Doug poked and prodded the handful of bright blue gel in his hand.

"At this point, I'll eat anything" he sighed, though Doug is 50% this slimy sludge will almost certainly kill him if he ingests it the other half of him points out that repulsion gel was sold as a weight loss yogurt in the '50s.

Doug's hunger eventually won over, quickly dipping his hand into the puddle of gel and out again to retrieve a handful of gel. Then just like a child would take cough medicine he pinched his nose and threw his head back and shivered as the gel crawled down his throat. The taste left on his tongue was cool and reminded him of licorice. Then however he felt a chill start in his stomach and end in his head as every fluid poured out of every orifice imaginable. Bile sprayed the white paneled walls as Doug violently gagged and sobbed for 2 hours. The room which used to be a clean white futuristic looking room was now a disgusting mural of blue and gray of bile and several other bodily fluids. After the whole event was over Doug spoke barely above a whisper to his four-sided companion,

"I don't know what's going to kill me faster the food or starvation." He chuckled at his joke while gasping and coughing through laughs. He had certainly learned that the gels were off limits in the eating department. But as he was traveling back to his den for the night his mind started to drift into darker ideas.

The memory made Doug gag, he had to push the darker cannibalistic ideas for now. He had a plan of action he was going to head to the relaxation center if anywhere had food the relaxation center was it. Packing the last of his things which were mostly the last of his water and some aperture tech, then he was off.