Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Summary (section)

== Part 3 ==
Consists of threads 10-13. 

Ruby wakes up in a dark room wearing footie pajamas. After adjusting her eyes to the dark, she realizes she is in her room, and Tom is there--but he seems a little off. She opens a drawer to find a key, then tries to turn Tom around. She finds that he has been stitched up, that he is very dummy-like. She snaps back to reality, finding herself holding a dummy in a new room. She explores her surroundings, eventually recovering several items that had been mysteriously removed from her inventory, including the arsenic antidote. She finds the unreachable lever from the ceiling in the Brig has descended again.

She finds a fox with a cane sitting on the couch in the Z-room. He introduces himself as "Red" and answers a few questions. He also insists that he isn't trapped. Ruby notices the cane and asks Red to help pull the lever. He smiles, disturbingly, and agrees to help. After pulling the lever she asks a few more questions. Red says he is very tired of her questions and that if she doesn't stop he might have to bite her throat out. After an awkward pause, he says that he was "just kidding." Ruby, slightly scared, thanks Red and parts company with him. She finds a monitor displaying hidden camera feeds, one of which reveals the sick Tom locked in a room containing a section of pneumatic tubing.

After patching the pneumatic tube from her earlier fight, Ruby sends Tom the antidote, and heads to the Monitor Room to see if he gets it. He does, and drinks it. But Ruby doesn't have enough time to celebrate, as Red enters the room. He smiles wider this time, and reminds Ruby that he doesn't want to hear anymore questions. Ruby understands and asks to excuse herself, but Red stops smiling and says he doesn't think so. And then lets her know that he was once again just kidding.

Ruby heads downstairs, and Red follows. She believes the wooden disc will interact with a mechanism she found in the Dummy Room, so she heads there. Red stops her before she can enter and asks for some coins Ruby was carrying. She gives them to him, and he heads in with her. Using the cane, Red takes down the tarp, smiling even wider than before. Underneath is a horribly disfigured body (which would later be called "Stitches"). Red laughs at Ruby's astonishment. And then he keeps laughing. Behind Ruby's back, his mouth splits apart to reveal an impossibly large, tooth-filled maw and tongue. He is, in fact, an abomination. Red stops laughing before Ruby turns around to witness this.

As Ruby notices a cross peg in Stitches' hand, and Red says he is bored and departs. Ruby is about to take the cross peg, but the body suddenly seizes her arm. He says "Ruby" and everything turns to white. Ruby has a very strange dream, involving both Tom and Red. In the dream, Red makes a smile clearly not possible, and Tom complains that his eye hurts. Red uses the wooden disc to cut the background, and the dream ends.

Ruby wakes up. The disc is missing. She leaves the room to find Tom sitting on a barrel in the brig.