A/N: Okay, everyone has played Slender except me, and so I decided I would give it a try. And guess what? I nearly peed myself. O_o I got up to 4 pages on my first and only attempt. And then shortly after, I got a brilliant and twisted idea. So, here it is. Enjoy.

Kronos landed outside his apparatus vent and trudged into the Hub. He sat down next to a pile of weighted storage cubes and leaned back against them, dropping his portal gun to the floor.

GLaDOS had been working him ragged ever since yesterday when he solved his first test, and his battery was very low. He silently thanked GLaDOS for having the ability to recharge while in sleep mode.

Kronos shifted around until he was comfortable, and then drifted off to sleep mode. But then he began to hear strange noises. They sounded like...footsteps.

Kronos opened his optic.

It was dark, hundreds of tall brown things towered over him. What were they called again? Trees?

Not only that, but Kronos found himself able to move and look around. He turned and saw a chain link fence behind him.

Several questions were racing through the young bot's mind. What was this place? How did he get here? WHY was he here?

He waited a few seconds for something to happen. When nothing did, Kronos turned on his night vision.

Suddenly, a voice whispered in the air, soft but clear:

"Collect all 8 pages..."

Kronos's system instantly went into high alert, his optic darted around the forest for the source of the voice, realizing he had nothing to defend himself with. Not even his trusty ASHPD. He wasn't exactly sure what he'd do with it anyway; whack things with it, maybe?

He stood still for a few more seconds. Not knowing what he was waiting for. When it seemed nothing was going to happen, Kronos started walking.

It was very quiet. He heard some crickets chirping, and in the distance, an owl was hooting. But somehow, the sounds seemed muffled, muted by a strange quiet that tried to drown out everything but the crunching of the dirt and grass under his metal feet. There were clearings and clusters of trees all around him. In some places, they gave the appearance of a path.

"I don't know what I'm doing." Kronos beeped softly to himself.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of something other than a tree. Something big, and rust-red. A few steps closer, and he realizes it's a big tower; kind of like those "silos" he saw from pictures of the surface.

Something on the side of the silo thing flashes white in the infra-red light of his night vision. He walks over to investigate, and he sees a piece of paper with a faceless stick figure and the words "DON'T LOOK…OR IT TAKES YOU" scratched on it in black ink.

"Don't look, or it takes me? What does that mean?" Kronos said to himself.

He remembered his instructions to collect eight pages, and he guessed that must be one of them.

With an uncertain shrug, Kronos took the piece of paper off the wall of the silo. It didn't appear to be stuck on by anything in particular, and it came down easily. Suddenly, he heard a thud in the distance. Even though it sounded far away, he still jump.

A second later, he heard it again.

He held very still. The thuds continued, almost sounding like a heartbeat. And it didn't seem to be getting any closer…

"Well, now I know what I'm supposed to do; I guess the rest of the pages must be around here somewhere." Kronos thought as he started start walking again.