insert Cheesy pun on star wars trash compacter here

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Diving into the shaft first Phil was closely followed by Canazza then Nipples."SHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT"(a sound made by three people crawling along a shaft then falling into a garbage pit, then a soft squishy sound as they hit said garbage pit)"naaaghhgghgh" Said Dave as he realised what was going on.Then,the walls started to close in..."Shit!"</snip>
There was music being played somewhere, orchestral music, rather rousing.
Canazza recognised it from somewhere.
"Isn't that the emperors theme from 'star wars'?" he asked
"Indeed it is" Nipples answered, "But where's it coming from"
"That's the least of our worries" Phil said, trying to push back the walls closing in on them
"Up there" Canazza pointed to a window, it appeared to be a control room, he could see someone in it. "They probably don't know we're down here, if only we could get a signal up to them"
"Right, how, we can't shout, the music would drown us out" Phil noted
"A fire" Nipples suggested, pulling out a lighter, it was shiny silver and had the JMC logo embedded in it
"What are you doing with a lighter?" Canazza asked
"I picked it up at the last space station we docked with, it's rather snazzy" he picked up some dry paper from the floor and wound it round a wooden pole, he lit it. "Yuk, i'm going to have a thorough wash when we get out of this"
Nipples started waving it about.
The man appeared to have nipped out of the control room.
The walls continued to close and the water level began to rise.
"smegging hell, we're going to die" Canazza squealed, attempting to scale the smooth sides of the crusher,
"wait," Phil looked over to a corner, there were some wooden boxes in the corner, "There, we can use them"
"What? there's no way we can use them to climb out of here" Canazza pointed out
"But the water level's rising, we can use that to ride to the surface" Phil waded over to the floating box, "There's more of them, we can make a makeshift raft"
Canazza and Nipples waded over and hopped on,
the walls got scarily close and they were far from the top.
"This isn't going to work" Nipples stated
"There!" Canazza pointed to the other side of the crusher, there was a set of ladders that led to the control room that started a few feet above their position. "we can paddle our way over"
The trio paddled over, but the ladders were just out of reach, a few more feet and they'd be able to get them, but by that time they figured that they'd be crushed.
Phil's hand stretched for the lowest rung, three inches, two inches, nearly there, but the crusher was already squeezing the boxes and several of the big ones had already been splintered.
Phil grabbed onto the rung just as the crusher started squeezing him.
The motors stopped just wide of the ladders.
"You know," Canazza said, "One thing strikes me about there being ladders in a crusher"
"Oh," Phil looked at him, knowing fine well what he was going to say
"Wouldn't they be crushed, unless the crusher never actually flattens things fully"
Phil climbed the rest of the way out of the crusher, followed by Canazza and Nipples.
The crusher walls began moving out as they reached the top and exited into the control room.
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Name: Dave Canazza
Status: crushed