When Will the Cube Move Again

Lore

The Cubes (or Kevin, nicknamed by the community) are a Storyline Object and sentient entities in Fortnite: Battle Royale and Fortnite: Save the World. The First Cube first appeared in Season five.

1 Lore
- 1.1 Description and Lore
- 1.ii Powers and Abilities
- one.3 History
  - one.three.1 Season 5
  - i.3.2 Season 6
  - one.iii.3 Season 7
  - 1.three.4 Season X
  - 1.iii.five Chapter ii: Flavor 1
  - i.3.6 Chapter 2: Season vi
  - 1.3.seven Chapter two: Season 7
  - 1.iii.8 Chapter 2: Flavor 8
    - 1.3.viii.i The Terminate (Chapter 2)
  - 1.3.9 Universal Monsters - We Volition Be Monsters
- i.4 Trivia

Description and Lore

The Cubes is a sentient entity that appeared offset on August 24, 2018, during Flavour 5. It appeared virtually Paradise Palms, being created from several lightning strikes from the Sideways Rift, endmost it in the process. The Cube is an object of immense ability, every bit it was capable of destroying objects in its path as it rolled towards Boodle Lake, printing powerful runes which reduced gravity, and generated Cube Monsters from its fragments.

The Cubes are the power sources of The Terminal Reality, an evil and malicious faction affiliated with the The Sideways with an intention to corrupt and destroy realities. The Cubes are all controlled by The Cube Queen with the exception of the Rebooted Cube. Thousands of dormant cubes are stored in a defended room in the Motherships, used to power the gigantic conflicting ships.

The Cube's origin and birth place seems to be the Cube'southward Cradle, a massive planet like structure that appeared in Chapter 2 The Stop event.

Information technology has taken several forms, but has spent most time as a big purple cube, which deflects bullets, and hurts players who try to go most it, or heals them in the vicinity. During Operation: Sky Burn, The Golden Cube and The Rebooted Cube are introduced for the first time. After killing the Storm Rex, a cube emerges in a lake and it begins to dissolve similar to how it did during Flavour 5, indicating the Cube was the Storm Male monarch.

Powers and Abilities

Paradigm	Clarification
	Lightning Assault A self-defense mechanism that whatever cube can use.
	Corruption Corruption Cubes can spread corruption from the Sideways nigh them.
	Infection Corruption Cube can spread pocket-size cubes around it. Some volition plough into Monster Spawner for Cube Monsters.
	Reproduction When charged up by the Golden Cube, They can use their lightning to print baby version of it.
	Turn Solid or Liquid Cubes tin can melt in water and turn into liquid. It can also return back to total solid cube at will.
	Generate Wind Cubes can make potent wind effectually them. Abductors used their current of air to float.
	Depression Gravity The offset cube tin produce a low gravity field effectually it.
	Sideways Portal Portal to the Sideways.
	Heaven Portal Portal to The Last Reality.
	Empowerment Corruption Cube'due south dark free energy can exist harness for many uses. The Ice King and Raz uses information technology to brand them stronger and more powerful. The Cube Queen uses it to power her Golden Cube and create portal to The Last Reality.

History

Season 5

As the Sideways Rift connected to apace close up, information technology suddenly turned imperial. Within the next few days, purple storm lightning bolts began shooting out of the fissure, all targeting a colina well-nigh Paradise Palms, containing a large stone rock surrounded by a band of cacti. Each lightning strike picked off ane cacti i-past-ane, until a larger lightning bolt destroyed the large stone. The Crack Closure event occurred on 24th August 2018, with a gigantic storm lightning bolt striking out of the rift, lasting for around x seconds. When it was over, the Crack in the Sky airtight. so The Cube was formed. Though information technology first appeared to be a stationary object, it began to movement at a rate of one revolution every 1 hour and 43 minutes. It was unclear where it would end up. During its journeying around the map, The Cube printed 7 runes with anti-gravity domes surrounding. Throughout the final three weeks of Flavor five, the cube continued to impress these runes.

Subsequently finishing this procedure, The Cube destroyed ane of the buildings in Tilted Towers. The sporting goods shop was hit past a meteorite and was merely in the concluding stages of reopening. The Cube then proceeded to the border of Boodle Lake on September xix, 2018. The Cube appeared to dissolve, turning Loot Lake in a royal-pinkish gelatinous state with properties akin to The Cube itself, such as becoming bouncy.

Flavour vi

Dying Cube dropping its Nectar into the Zero Point

With the beginning of Flavor 6, information technology was revealed that The Cube was withal intact, as it rose from the waters, taking the motel and island in the center of the lake with it, forming the Floating Island. This created a large hole in the lake exposing the span to The Zero Indicate, a vortex in the middle. After simply ii days of the isle rising, The Cube began to move the isle to each of the runes it had printed in Season 5. Afterward getting energy from all runes, they dropped to the ground and the island returned to Loot Lake. A portal to The Last Reality was formed above, which began to expand until it covered the entire island. On October 24, 2018, the first solar day of Fortnitemares 2018, The Cube exploded the floating island into multiple pieces, the Cube withal intact. Following the explosion, The Cube fragments that had been growing on the island had been sent all over the map, which released The Cube monsters. From this day until November 4. The Cube began to crack. On November 3, information technology began to drip its nectar into The Goose egg Point, until the final drip. On November 4, 2018, The Cube started to spin chop-chop, which led to a white wink, and The Cube splitting apart. After the flash, players were teleported to The In-Between. Shortly after, a rift formed, and took shape of a butterfly, which then multiplied, and came to every player still alive. A cut-scene showed up, where the player put out their finger, and the butterfly would land on the finger, and it got teleported dorsum to the map through a rift. Leaky Lake appears to be completely new, and the Cube Monsters were gone.

Flavour 7

During Ice Storm event, The Ice Rex uses a small-scale shard of the Cube to summon Ice Legion and freeze the island in gild to finish Polar Summit from melting.

Season X

The Floating Island from an alternate reality came through a Rift Beacon. information technology didn't exercise anything afterward that except circle the island aimlessly. Later in the season, Cube memorials appeared at Boodle Lake and on the mount Kevin was created.

Affiliate 2: Season one

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Following The End of Athena and the creation of Apollo, The Floating Island was destroyed, simply The Cube was conserved. Post-obit the reconstruction of the island by The Zero Point, information technology was placed into a dormant state and underneath Edifice 2 of Steamy Stacks, a power station which uses The Cube to generate electricity. The facility is run by Kevolution Energy.

Chapter two: Flavour 6

The Spire Antiquity is a small slice of the Spire's cadre, information technology emits Cube'due south runes. The Spire's core was originally made of chromium, how information technology got corrupted is unknown. Seeing visions of the future in his dreams, Raz ended up on the island after years and years of research, and got also close to The Spire Antiquity only to brand him corrupted with new powers. The Last Reality observe his power and arrives at the island.

Affiliate two: Season 7

The Mothership used the Cubes' power to destroy The Spire. The Concluding Reality host the Rift Tours so they could scan the memories of the loopers, to learn about The Zilch Betoken while taking them through multiple realities effectually The Omniverse. the Floating Island and the Cube and be seen in the tunnel. During the Operation: Heaven Fire alive event, The Concluding Reality was revealed to have possessed a corruption cube in one of its rooms. After Doctor Slone deactivates it using Conflicting Haversack and arms the bombs, she betrays the loopers by sealing them in with the cube. The Loopers reboot it, turning it blueish, which causes the room to rising up into a chamber containing thousands of dormant corruption cubes stored within with a golden cube at the centre. Afterward the bombs detonate, the mothership is destroyed, and debris and cubes pelting down onto the map, causing devastation.
A mini version of the Cube can be establish in The Bridge'southward Scientific discipline Lab, moving in a random route. IO Agents can feed information technology and play with information technology like a pet.

Chapter ii: Flavour viii

Primary commodity: Corruption Cubes

Following the Mothership'southward destruction, five purple cubes, one golden cube, and a blue cube land around the island. All of the purple cubes are located at the Abductor Crash sites, and the surrounding areas accept been corrupted by their presence. The Golden Cube is found nigh Holly Hedges, while The Blueish Cube lands near Military camp Cod, creating Friendly Forest effectually itself. The rest of the cubes seen during Operation: Heaven Burn down are likely still within the master Mothership wreckage located beyond the border of the isle. Less than a week after the launch of Season 8, The Golden Cube begins moving. Past the time of Week two, each of the Royal Cubes have moved at least one time, The Golden Cube has moved over 50 times, while the Bluish Cube has non moved at all. The Gilded Cube visits the Believer Embankment cube and commences the get-go Awakening issue, levitating into the air and charging the cube with an energy beam. This forces the Regal Cube to create 6 smaller purple cubes around itself. The procedure also seems to have stimulated the Cube to roll much more oft, and towards The Aftermath. The smaller cubes also line upwards behind the main cube and follow it. All of the purple cubes as well spread corruption as they whorl. At Steamy Stacks, the original Kevin from the Chapter 1 isle awoke, breaking out of containment upon sensing the presence of the golden cube. The Golden Cube charges information technology, but dissimilar the others, that particular cube does not produce whatsoever smaller cubes. The Golden Cube rolls around the unabridged island, charging up all the half-dozen imperial cubes (including the Steamy Stacks Cube). Equally they ringlet, the regal cubes leave a big trail of corruption stretching to their original starting points. At this stage, all of them (excluding The Blue Cube) are now active and heading towards The Aftermath. On October 12-thirteen, The Golden Cube arrives at The Backwash, and levitates directly to a higher place the surface area in a similar style to The Enkindling events. On October 19, all six purple cubes simultaneously reach The Aftermath, and suspension apart into smaller pieces to course The Convergence, a mysterious purple structure surrounding The Golden Cube, with an unknown purpose. The baby cubes created by each imperial cube was likely a method of adding actress cube cloth to The Convergence structure when it was created, as the regal cubes did not lose their mass during their creation. Following the convergence, Cube Queen, the mysterious leader of The Final Reality, was brought to the island, and is floating higher up The Golden Cube in a bubble.

The Finish (Affiliate ii)

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The Rebooted Cube teleported to Guava Fort and produced a shield around it to protect the Loopers. The Cube Queen used The Pyramid to shot a beam of corrupted energy into the sky, opening a massive rift to The Last Reality, revealing hundreds of Motherships powered by Golden Cubes, along with the Cube's Cradle. They quickly overrun the unabridged island. a golden colored Abductor flew over the Rebooted Cube and fired a axle that destroyed the Rebooted Cube while the Loopers, who had their weapons taken away prior, were forced to watch its destruction. meanwhile in The Bridge. The Foundation reverses the gyroscopic orientation of the Isle causing it to rotate. The Cube Queen goes underwater (possibly teleporting) and The Pyramid is completely submerged once the Island reaches a 90-degree tilt, closing the rift to the Last Reality.

Universal Monsters - We Volition Be Monsters

The reality of universal monsters is existence consumed by the colorless void, Frankenstein'southward Bride and the other monsters teamed upward and employ the cube's power to restore the colors.

Trivia

The original Purple Cube is likewise known as "Kevin" by fans.
- This was due to the proper name "Cube" being banned on a megathread on the Fortnite Subreddit.
- The nickname "Kevin" originated from the championship of a mail by Reddit user u/6acee.
- The first time "Kevin" was officially used in the game was in the final Fortnitemares 2018 reward, the Lil' Kev back bling.
The other major cubes have adopted some of their ain that are similar to "Kevin"
- The Rebooted Cube has been nicknamed by Epic Games as "Bluevin".
- The Gold "Queen" Cube has been nicknamed past the community as "Glevin"
Nighttime Series outfits are based off of the Cube and are styled similar it (Dark Bomber, Raptor, Night Wild Card, Dark Jonesy, Dark Red Knight, Fallen Love Ranger, Darkheart, Dark Power Chord, Nighttime Tricera Ops, and Nighttime Rex).
Visualize Sound setting can detect the Cube movement sound.
Cube motion videos provided by the Twitter account Cubetracker, who has additional videos.
The Cubes teleports themselves if they wants to cross the water. The start instance of that happening is on September 21st, 2021.
The Cube runes are the aforementioned runes plant in the mobile game series Infinity Blade, also developed past Epic Games.

List

1 List
- 1.1 Types of Cubes
- 1.ii List of Corruption Cube
- ane.three List of Golden Cube
- 1.4 Listing of Rebooted Cube
- 1.5 Cube Fragments

Types of Cubes

Image and Type		Description
	Corruption Cube	The Purple Cube was introduced in Season 5. It can corrupt locations, summon Cube Monsters and clones itself.
	Gold Cube	The about powerful Cube. It doesn't create lightning bolts just tin charge upward and awakes the Corruption Cubes.
	Rebooted Cube	The "Skilful" Cube that is friendly towards the Loopers.
	The Cube Queen	The Queen and the Mother of all Cubes.

List of Abuse Cube

Proper noun and Image	Status	Description
Kevin the Cube	Destroyed	The first and the virtually powerful corruption cube arrived through Sideways Rift in Season 5. It can summon Cube Monsters and print Runes to corrupt different places. It was destroyed in The Butterfly Event.
Storm King	Active	The Rex of The Storm in Fortnite: Save the World. It has the power to listen control man and robots.
Kevin the Cube (Season X)	Merged with The Convergence	Corruption Cube created from a Rift Beacon in Season 10 and the power source of Steamy Stacks. During Affiliate 2: Season viii, it broke out and got charged past Golden Cube but didn't create any baby cubes like the others.
The Mothership's Cubes	Unactive	Abuse Cubes from The Mothership that summon vi smaller infant Cubes when charged upward by the Golden Cube. They were used past the Cube Queen to open a massive rift to the Terminal Reality.
The Pyramid's Veins	Melted	Veins from The Pyramid that creates Caretakers
The Mothership's Veins	Destroyed	Veins of the Corruption Cubes powering The Mothership.
Mini-Kevin	Dormant	A currently dormant mini Abuse Cube that was experimented in The Bridge so taken to The Joneses afterward The Bridge'southward Destruction.
Universal Monsters	Active	A cube in Universal Monsters Reality that powers their monsters.

Listing of Golden Cube

Name and Paradigm		Status	Description
The Cube Queen's Cube		Unactive	The Cube Queen'southward personal cube. It doesn't create lightning bolts but can charge up Corruption Cubes. It became the prism of The Pyramid.
The Cube's Cradle		Active	Countless gilt cubes that powers Motherships on The Last Reality'southward main base.

List of Rebooted Cube

Name and Image		Status	Description
Blevin the Cube		Destroyed	A formerly corrupted cube rebooted past the Loopers in Chapter 2: Flavor seven. In The Stop event, information technology helped the Loopers but was overwhelmed by The Last Reality and the Rebooted Cube itself was destroyed by a gilded Abductor.

Cube Fragments

Image	Description
	Remains of Kevin the Cube later on The Butterfly Event.
	A fragment of Kevin the Cube used by The Ice King.
	The cadre of The Spire used by Glyph Master Raz.
	A clamper of Blevin the Cube.