Labyrinth

Gardener Skye standing on the gate leading to the labyrinth

## Chapter 1

### Act 8: The Labyrinth

Whether or not Handy is honest to or lies to Ben, the game continues on with the glove returning to the garden one last time. The Cursor goes to the labyrinth and meets Boxers and the other Handy Pals. Boxers turns around and yells when he sees Handy. He then apologizes because he’s been on edge for a while. Boxers notices that Handy is holding something and asks for the glove to show it to him. Handy opens its fingers and reveals the silver ring that Ben gave to the glove back at Gardener Skye’s dungeon. Boxers realizes that the ring is owned by Number 8 and then comments on how he thought he was going to make it with them. A voice from above yells out that its simply just too bad. The voice is Gardener Skye’s, who is standing on top of the labyrinth’s gate. She says that if Number 8 had followed her rules, then they wouldn’t be in the situation they are currently in. She yells out that anyone who steps inside the labyrinth shall be disciplined by her. Boxers comments that by “disciplined”, she means killed and it sounds more like that she is hiding something from them. Gardener Skye jumps down from the gate and blows out her whistle again, but this time for a longer period of time to kill the rest of the Handy Pals. The only ones who remain would be Handy, Gardener Skye, Boxers, and Fingertaker. Gardener Skye says that she thinks she gets it now as Boxers simply just misses her. Boxers acts confused and questions why she said that before receiving a nasty reply from Gardener Skye, who tells him to not play dumb with her. She tells him that she knows how much he misses the real version of her.

Gardener Skye hyperventilates while more of the mysterious black goo drips from her mouth. A shadow-like, black furry arm appears out of her mouth and Gardener Skye’s disfigured body falls off this new shadowy rabbit. The shadow rabbit’s eyes then open and she asks Boxers if she missed her. Boxers yells at her to stop this. The shadow rabbit is offended at how Boxers treats her since she is his mother after all. The Mother calls Boxers a “weak, pathetic, little-“ before being interrupted as Fingertaker punches her. Fingertaker protects Boxers and Handy from the Mother and tries to fend her off as much as possible. The labyrinth’s gates then open. Handy meets Boxers at the entrance of the labyrinth. He gives the glove a lantern for light and tells it that he doesn’t want it back. Boxers says that he failed all of the Handy Pals and wants to split up from Handy. Now all alone, the Cursor must find the exit to the labyrinth while evading peculiar eyes that watch the white glove. If caught by the eyes, the Mother will appear and try to attack the glove. Throughout the labyrinth, the bodies of many Handy Pals can be found, including the corpse of Fingertaker. Once the Cursor finds the exit to the labyrinth, the glove is met with a sign to beware the wind as that is where the beast is found. The Cursor goes through the correct doorways which don’t have the sound of the wind and finds a note from “C” talking about “Codename Flower” being too happy for their taste and expected something more interesting. C then decides that they may just being judging too quickly. After reaching the exit of this section, the Cursor finally finds itself at an ominous portal known as the Void, leading to another world.