The Facility (Chapter 18) (Patreon)

Chapter 18 = A Secret Space: You walk out into a now familiar scene. A long slender silver hallway with a staircase at the end of it. As soon as you step through the panel, it slides shut behind you, leaving your back against a wall with nowhere to go but the staircase. At least you didn’t have a ridiculous outfit on this time. Except for the stupid pull-up that was hiding underneath your black pants, your outfit was pretty normal for the time being. You walked underneath another glowing neon sign that said, “Stairs to the 3rd Floor! Hope you enjoyed your simulation!”

You glared at the sign as you passed beneath it, “Fuck you.” You mumbled to it and climbed the stairs. Though unfortunately the sign brought back all your memories of the simulation. How free and happy you had felt for a little bit while you were inside of the simulation. All the wonderful things that Nurture had whispered in your ear about what it would be like to just let go and let someone else take care of your needs. How it had felt to mess your diaper...

Your eyes went wide as you fell out of your momentary fantasy! “Holy shit...” You said softly. Even if you did manage to escape you weren’t sure if you’d ever be able to fully forget those feelings. Maybe some therapy was in your future...

You get to the top step and pause. In the side of the wall... is something strange.

For the most part the hallway in front of you looked the same as the other ones, long hallway with a single table that rested three items on it. You took a quick glance at the items on the table and felt a chill run down your spine. You didn’t like the look of any of them! Just as before, on the table rested 3 items that corresponded with 3 different possible guardians that you could end up facing. Each choice would lead you to a new part of this hell; and all of these really described hell...

Before you took a closer look though, you noticed something odd... in one of the walls, one of the square panels seemed to be... moving slightly? It appeared to be like the others, able to move on its own and slide in and out of place; but this one appeared to be damaged, or at least malfunctioning.

You moved closer to the panel and crouched down to get a better look, to your surprise, instead of simple wall there appeared to be another room behind the panel.

“Hey...Challenger!” The voice of ‘The Creator’ boomed out. “Get away from that panel, you are not allowed to go back there. That area is off lim...” You didn’t hear what else ‘The Creator’ said, as you knelt down and crawled into the hidden space; you couldn’t help yourself. Maybe you’d even find a way out of this fucking place. What you did find was not exactly what you expected.

You crawled out of the side of a vent that led into a large room that gave you more science fiction vibes. In front of you, hanging off the back wall, there stood 10 large pods. Your immediate thought was that they were big enough to fit a fully grown human inside. The pods themselves were silver with long sheer windows on the front of them that you couldn’t get a good look inside of with them all suspended in the air. In front of the wall of pods stood a holographic looking monitor, like a giant IPad. You walked towards it and as if sensing your presence, the IPad sprang to life. The screen had a smaller version of the 10 pods displayed on its screen. 7 out of the ten pods on the screen were red and said the word ‘EMPTY’ on them; but the other 3 were green and had names displayed on their screens.

Lauren Collins, Henry Christensen, and Allie Jenkins.

Wait... Allie Jenkins! Allie?!? Your friend Allie! The one whose party you had been headed off to when you had been kidnapped in that Uber car! Why was her name on this database? Were you right, were these pods containing people?!?! Was she up in that pod right now?!

Speaking of that Uber car, the only piece of information you’d gotten from that cab driver who had taken you was that his name was Henry. Henry Christensen? There’s no way it could be him... could it? Was the man who kidnapped you also a victim here too now?

And who was this Lauren girl? Lauren Collins? She was a wild card. Who knows who she even is?

All you knew is that you needed to try someone, but who? Who should you pick...? And when you did... what would happen?

Choice #7

You have discovered strange pods that you believe are containing other humans. You recognize one of the names, but the other two might be the man who kidnapped you as well as a stranger. Who should you pick?? Your gut urges you to at least choose one of them. But you might not get a chance to choose another...

a) Choose Allie Jenkins. – Allie is one of your closest friends and if she really is trapped in this place you have to try to save her! Then again... what if putting down a name of someone you know is a trick or a trap?

 b) Choose Henry Christensen. – You don’t know if it’s him for sure, but this might be the man who’s responsible for you being here! Part of you wants desperately to confront him, if it really is him, but part of you wants to just leave him behind.

c) Choose Lauren Collins. – Or maybe you should choose this Lauren girl. Why is she here? She could be another total innocent. Maybe the best option would be to try to save another innocent soul. The only problem is that you know nothing about her.