The A.I. Protoforms

Chapter Eleven: The room

    "So..." Jensi started, thinking about how to word his next thought. "I don't know when or how I got here, but I know it hasn't been too terribly long. I can feel it. Do you by any chance know how you got here?"

    "Well..." Amaya said quietly. "I got here very shortly after you dropped me off at my house and-"

    "Wait! You didn't pass out or anything?"

    "No, I did get drugged as well as you I'm guessing, but they didn't do it until I was already in..." She trailed off in deep thought.

    "Until they, what?" Jensi tried to pry her of her knowledge, but gave up realizing that it seemed to bother her quite a bit.

    "I do have some information to share, however." Amaya continued.

    Jensi perked up, ready to hear anything that could help him put the pieces of this whole situation together.

    Amaya continued. "As soon as I got here, I was sent to a small, compact room with concrete walls and two cameras in the top corners. They were focused on me. There was a speaker in the ceiling where they talked to me. They told me I was going to be tested to see what would and wouldn't kill me. My human capabilities."

    "Who are they exactly?" Jensi asked.

    "I don't have an answer to that, but I have a suspicion that-"

    Suddenly Amaya got cut off by someone talking through a speaker. It reminded Jensi of the speakers at school for the announcements, however he did see what Amaya meant by the voice being coated. He wouldn't be able to tell the gender of the voice no matter how hard he tried.

    The voice spoke very loud and continued.

    "Thank you Amaya. Shall we continue?"

    The speaker didn't say a word after that. A few moments passed and the lights started flickering on and off.

    When they were on, Jensi was able to catch a glimpse of the room itself. The concrete walls were huge. If he didn't know any better, he would have thought he was in a school gym.

    Though, one thing passed through his mind as the lights shut back off completely into the darkness he had first awoken to. Amaya was nowhere to be found.

    He had tried looking in the direction of where her voice had been coming from, but she was just gone. He was puzzled.

    If Amaya was right about what they had told her this place was for, was this one of the tests?

    Suddenly the lights turned back on, except this time they were blinding. He couldn't see a thing and it hurt his eyes to open them. He forced them open seeing nothing but a fierce light, almost as if he was looking at the sun.

    In fact, the more he thought about it, the more the light reminded him of the sun.

    This is the sun! He thought suddenly.

    He was being completely shrouded in sunlight. He stayed pinned to the ground, too afraid of what might happen if he tried to stand.

    He started to feel very hot and was sweating really bad and wished that he wasn't wearing so much clothes. He had been wearing jeans and a long sleeve shirt for days now after everything that had been happening.

    He tried to scoot away, but nothing was working.

    He now felt as if he was going to shrivel up like grass in the summertime. Was he on fire?

    Even the concrete felt blazing hot. He lifted his hand off it and into his lap.

    Concrete! He thought. Am I still in the same room?

     His thoughts got intruded when the lights turned back off and he was left back in darkness. He felt very relieved that the hot sun has finally left wherever he was.

    Jensi's eyelids began to be very heavy and he could feel himself falling into a very nice sleep.

     He felt a hand pull his arm as he drifted out of consciousness.