TOO TOONEY

CHAPTER 12 IT'S JUST A GAME

Empire's Torture Room, Empire City. Thursday, August 26th, 3127. 11:24PM.

In The Empire's Torture Room, which was located just next to The Emperor's Palace, a Russian man with white skin , black hair and who was in his late 30's, woke up to find himself alone and in a huge room in the dark, lying on cold, stone floor. 'What the heck!?' the man thought in confusion as he wondered where he was now.

All he could remember was that after The Anonymous Society took over the world, he and many others had been imprisoned and it had been days before he had learned that the world's nations had all fallen and that Russia and every other country no longer existed! Then one of The Anonymous Society's guards informed him that he and countless other people would be stored away and 'preserved' until Mr. Anonymous decided what he would do with all of them. So like Mr. Anonymous/The Emperor/Mac Bevvelwitz's brother, he and many others had all been well-preserved (turned into stone).

While it was still dark in the room that the Russian man was currently in, he didn't need any light or to look in a mirror for him to notice that he hadn't aged since he had been preserved. He knew this because he had already heard rumors of The Anonymous Society being able to not only turn people to stone, but also prevent them from dying or aging while they we're stone statues, too. Plus, the Russian man still felt as young and healthy as he did before he was preserved.

The only thing that was really bothering the Russian man as he slowly got back on his feet as he tried to stand up was why was he no longer stone anymore and where exactly was he? The Russian man had already deduced that The Anonymous Society had finally decided to 'unpreserve' him and turn him back to normal. But why they did this, was what he really wanted to know. Something told him, though, that whatever the reason they did this to him, he wasn't going to like it and he was about to find out real soon!

Suddenly, as the man finally stood all the way back up on his feet, a few bright lights turned on and illuminated the (no-longer, dark) room! After half a minute of giving his eyes time to adjust to the bright light, the man could now see most of the room and almost everything around him clearly for the first time! All except for a small, dark corner of the room that none of the lights that were on in the room could reach.

While the room was mostly empty, there were 4 things that really stuck out that caught his attention the most. Firstly, he wasn't alone as he noticed another Russian man, who had white skin, grey hair and was in his late 60's, on the other side of the room, also standing up on his legs and looking back at him with a similar look of confusion and fear that he had. Secondly, he noticed that he and the older Russian man were both wearing old-fashioned black and white-stripped prisoner outfits, which only increased his anxiety even more than it already was. However, for some reason, they were both missing shoes and socks, which left them both barefoot. Third, at one part of the room and next to the dark corner of the room there was a bunch of broken pieces of glass and sharp needles all over the floor! And only 15-feet away from where he and the older Russian man were standing at, part of the floor was covered in a hot bed of fiery embers and stones that didn't end until you were now 20-feet away from the door, only for that part of the floor to be covered in the sharp glass and needles! And last, but not least, right next to them was a big screen, similar to ones you would watch movies on at movie theaters!

Before either of the Russian men could speak or ask each other any questions, a video began to play on the screen and both Russians became really nervous when they saw what looked like a creepy puppet with white skin, black hair, red and black eyes, red, swirly lines on its cheeks and wearing a red tie, fancy black suit and brown shoes on the screen. If its appearance wasn't freaky enough, what it was about to say would be even scarier!