The Number Rule

Meet the team (1)

A woman with straight red hair that flows below her shoulders and a fringe that covers her eyes walks into the room, and black fabric bags that had been placed over the head of all of the most notorious mastermind criminals in town were pulled off all at once, revealing to them the room they currently resided in.

"Hello everyone" the woman began, a slightly posh accent being evident. "I'm sure you're all wondering why you're here and let me tell you, you don't have to wonder much longer. But first I want to state a few things and or rules and their consequences if you break them. First things first, try to escape and I will hang you head upon the walls in my corridor for decoration. Or in short, you will be killed immediately. Secondly, if any of you refuse to do a task, I specifically ask you to do, you will have the same result. No banding together against me, and the one rule overall. Don't reveal about yourself to anyone in this room. Especially your name." The woman stated darkly before perking up with an overly fake, welcoming smile plastered across her face.

Continuing, she says "if you're wondering how you'll do this, then let me explain in the simplest way I can. You will each choose a number to be your name. Everyone will address you by that name and should never know your real one, is that clear?" Everyone nods their heads, slightly unnerved by the strange woman that stood before them.

"Good. Now your name and or numbers cannot be over two digits long, but other than that it can be any number as long as someone else doesn't choose it first, and before any of you try to be smart by picking number one, I should tell you now that I am number one for obvious reasons. Though I would prefer you to call me mis."

"What, like a high school teacher?" One guy chuckles out mockingly before smirking.

The tall woman turns to him and smiles a toothy grin before speaking. "I see you think your verry funny so I'll give you the honour of testing out our most recent chemical creation. It will be great as we need someone to test kit out on since no one in the lab was brave enough to volunteer. Possible because it can be fatal if not made properly, but I'm sure you'll be just fine."

The man widens his eyes before relaxing back and stating "There's no way you would do that. Surely you need all of us for whatever your planning, so id doubt you'd risk losing one of us on the first day."

"Don't say I dint warn you" she said before gesturing to the masks person stood behind the chair he was roped to. The masked figure pushed themselves from the wall and took a step forward, injecting him with the needle and then pushing the strange chemical substance into his blood flow causing him to pass out.

The girl sat beside him pipes us. "Woman are you crazy! If you're just going to kill us every time we tell a joke or step the smallest bit out of line, then you may as well kill all of us now."

Someone else cuts in saying "hey, I don't care what you and joker over their have going on. But I'd like to live to be a lot older than I am now, so please shut the hell up."

"Alright everyone, quiet. You think I'm going to kill him for telling a joke? Honestly, have a little faith people. It was truth serum with a little something to just have him pass out for a few minutes."

"Okay so... why would you give him truth serum?" The same girl questioned.

"Well, I was only lying about it being fatal, but we did actually need someone to test it on... Right, well I think you should all head t your rooms and think about what number you want to be and ill sort this one out." She motions to the man then orders each or the people behind each person's chair to lead them to their rooms.

Each room consisted of dark wooden furniture such as: a bed, a wardrobe, and some draws. There was another door in the room leading to an ensuite bathroom that was quite small, and only had a shower, toilet, and sink. Each person's room was on the same corridor, and they were all identical. As one of the girls was led into her room, she looked around wearily, not sure what to think of the bland room at this point time. Suddenly the door closed, and a locking sound could be heard at the other side. She ran towards the door banding and screaming on it for someone to let her out as she heard others shouts of dismay as she guessed they had also been locked into their rooms.

After a few moments a loud voice boomed through the halls, "Shut up, will you all? We won't be trapped in here forever, if you'd just calm down, we'll probably get a God damned explanation since that weird ginger has explained everything else." She seemed like the more rational of the group as when she turned around a hologram of the supposedly 'weird ginger' in question could be seen in the middle of the room.

"Hello Rose Luther, you're probably wondering why you're in here so allow me to explain. This is your designated room and once you have chosen a number to go by, that number will be displayed on either side of your door. We will lock the rooms at night but other times you may wander free."

"Then why am I locked in here in the middle of the day." Rose huffed quietly before the hologram continued after the pause. "I'm sure you have the question of why you have been locked in this room despite it being daytime, well. That's because this is your first day, and since you haven't got a useable name yet, nor are you aware of all the rules we must not let you roam free currently. Please select a number now and we can go over the rules."

After the red head finished speaking a holographic panel appeared Infront of her, she scrolled through all the numbers till she reached number thirteen. Clicking it she heard a sound from her door and as stated the number thirteen appeared there and the holographic woman reappeared as the panel vanished.

"Now you have selected a number I must now state the rules you must abide to in your stay here. You are not allowed to leave the primases under any circumstances unless you are specifically told to by me. You are not allowed to attempt to unlock this door at night. Do not state to anyone your real name or any personal information about yourself. Remember you are all work partners, not friends. Failure to meet any of my demands or to follow these rules will end badly in your favour. I hope I make myself clear and that you will be useful to me."

After this, an electric like noise sounds through the halls, which Rose knew meant the doors were unlocked again. Though instead of leaving as she heard the others do, she stayed inside and looked around the room. Opening draws to find neatly folded clothes in each draw before venturing over to the wardrobe where inside she found a black skin-tight jump suit. It had a bullet proof vest and knee and elbow pads built into the suit, which she thought looked rather weird.

A high pitch screeched through the speakers before number one's voice boomed through them telling people to head through to the dining room and telling people that a blueprint of the building could be found just down the hall of people's rooms. Once this information had been spoken thirteen headed through her door slamming it behind her to make her way towards the dining room.