Jerome woke up in a small room along with lia, Maria, John, Darren, and Michelle. Who all are acting strange, more strange than you can act when you wake up in a unknown place after being kidnapped.
We are following Jerome in this nightmare, a new game for each room, designed by a mysterious man, who has an unknown motive for taking them.

Sixteen teenagers with special talent's kidnapped and taken to a building with two ways out. To finish the riddles or ... Kill someone. I know what your thinking, 'no one's going to kill someone just to get out of a place where all you need to do is answer a few riddles'. But you are sadly mistaken, no matter how young you always have regrets and fears. 

You are a photographer with over 1M followers on Instagram, you get a lot of clients who want you for lot's of events.

Welcome to the Lobby!

A place of infinite wonder and adventures.

A place with infinite possibilities.

A place in which you the reader gets a say in how it works.

A place made for writers and artists alike to build upon and expand.

A place with no set main character.

This is the lobby and so much more!

So come take a look at the dimension of infinite rooms.

.......

30 Doors


50 people inside a cage;
Many were invited
Few were not.
30 doors to get through;
29 doors to unlock
10 puzzles
8 full of riddles
Seven rooms of death
Four to survive
One that saves life.

50 strangers inside a room
49 to kill
One mastermind
29 unsafe
10 missed the puzzle
Eight failed riddles
Seven fatalities
Four to survive
One that ends life

30 rooms
30 floors
30 doors of survival.

Cecile was staring intently at the television, watching the live show, she was overwhelmed when Shawn came on the stage.
 
"He has my eyes…" she murmured, "and he is so handsome, just like Ryu."
 
"Yes he look more like you hon." Karl commented and hugged her. 

They both were overjoyed to see their eldest son who looked so much like his younger brother.
 
Inside the house everyone introduced themselves to each other.
 
"We've met again big…" Dean paused as he was almost caught up then continued, "oh you have a big luggage." He said instead, he looked at Shawn then at his luggage.
 
Shawn arched an eyebrow and said, "Don't we all have the same luggage?"
 
Dean scratched his head. It's his sis-in-law's fault for always reminding him to practice calling Shawn Big Bro.
 
"We haven't formally been introduced... Call me Ryu." Said Ryu and offered his hand to Shawn for a hand shake.
 
Shawn was hesitant but he accepted Ryu's hand…
 
"This is really weird… I mean, looking at you two together... Though I know you're not related but why do I feel that you two look so much alike," commented Bernard.
 
Other housemates mumbled in agreement.
 
"They are rival companies though. We all know SL Group is competing very hard with RK Holdings." Randall said nonchalantly.
 
The commotion was interrupted by the voice of Zeus.
 
"Good evening CEOs. Welcome to my house. I am Zeus and the Ruler of this house. I would request all the housemates to follow the rules and regulations as set by me in the house and participate wholeheartedly in each and every activity that is given. Evictions will begin from next week and so I suggest all of you to give your best in each activity. Tonight, your challenge will begin..."
 
Then the wide screen television opened where they could read instructions.
 
"What? We need to share rooms? Four of us in one room?" Gaby, the CEO of FlashEx, exclaimed.
 
[There are three rooms available. Each rooms has different designs and size. Big, medium and small. You can take a look at each room first to see for yourself. You need to do the challenge so you can choose rooms of your choice. The challenge is very simple and whoever finishes the challenge first will get to choose their rooms. So CEOs good luck!]
 
"Are you kidding me? What are we? Toddlers?" Dean blurted out as he looked at the twelve boards with scrambled puzzles.
 
The fastest to complete the jigsaw puzzles and hang it on the respective wall will get to choose rooms of their choice.
 
"Well this looks fun." James, the CEO of D&K, commented with a smile.
 
Zeus: "Alright CEOs position yourself in front of each puzzle and on my mark start solving it. You may think it's easy but let me tell you… that's the worst puzzle you'll be able to play your whole life..."
 
Ryu quickly positioned himself at Shawn's right side.
 
"Hey Doc Rui can we swap places please? I want to stay close to my big bro.... I mean big bro Ryu." Dean said as he pushed Rui to position himself on Shawn's left and the latter did not mind.
 
"Big Bro let's finish first and get the biggest room!" Dean commented loudly.
 
Shawn stared at him with a blank face.
 
Dean scratched his head and said, "Geez its too long to say Big Bro Ryu. But if you like I'll call you also Big Bro Shawn since you're older than me."
 
"Dean stop joking around and concentrate on the puzzle…" Ryu scolded.
 
Zeus: "Alright CEOs on your mark, ready, set, BEGIN!"
 
Then the timer appeared in the large screen.
 
Dean quickly put the pieces together...
 
He was confident they will get the biggest room because his Big Bro Ryu was good in puzzle solving and so was he.
 
Ryu could easily complete the puzzle but he did not.
 
Instead, he looked at Shawn from time to time…
 
'He's like dad...' He thought inwardly with a grin. 

Ryu and his mom were good at solving puzzles like this but his dad Karl was really bad at it, and his big bro Shawn seemed to be having a hard time, just like their dad, in putting all the pieces of the puzzle in right place.
 
"Big bro what are you doing? I want the big room. Come on and hurry up with that puzzle as I'm almost done." Dean said as he continued.
 
"I'm done!" Gaby shouted as he posted the complete puzzle.
 
Zeus: "Alright Gabby go to your chosen room."
 
Gaby quickly chose to enter the biggest room.
 
"Done!" Rui said and like Gabby he went in the biggest room.
 
Dean paused… He could sense that his big bro Ryu was intentionally slowing down.
 
He scrunched his face and raised his eyebrows as he looked at Shawn.
 
'Geez can we at least get that medium room!' He wanted to voice out.
 
"Dean, find all the edge pieces first…" Ryu said intentionally for Shawn to hear.
 
"Yeah… I'm done and now sorting the colors." Dean answered enough for Shawn to hear.
 
The big room was completely occupied by now as Randall and Denver already finished and chose the biggest room too.
 
Shawn was really slow in solving the puzzle. When he started getting the way to solve it by then even the medium room was starting to fill up. 

Luke, the CEO of Moon Inc. first entered the medium sized room after finishing his puzzle, who was then followed by Xian, the CEO of Golden Life.
 
Dean sighed, there's no more hope. They will have to share the small room only now.
 
"Dean find those special pieces with features and pay close attention to the shape. We'll finish soon." Ryu said simply.
 
Dean wanted to burst out in laughter already as he looked at the confused look of Shawn. 

Anyone could tell how much he was disliking solving this puzzle.
 
"Geez, big bro why are you so like your father… I mean uncle Karl, very slow in solving puzzles. You see I'm almost done. I'm just stalling time because I want to experience to live in a small room!" Dean said irritably.
 
"You Kens, you both are so noisy… God I can't concentrate enough." Marty, CEO of Tsuo Cars, complained as he finished and entered the medium room.
 
Marcus, CEO of D&K Oil and Gas was the last to enter.
 
"Okay I'm done. Dean no matter what happens, don't give up and complete that puzzle! I will go first in your dream small room." Ryu said laughing. He knew Dean was irritated.
 
Shawn and Bernard was competing to who will be the slowest.
 
Dean looked at Ryu with begging eyes but Ryu stared at him with his big eyes saying, 'Stay and wait for Big Bro to finish. You wanted to get evicted early right?'
 
'Geez I want to rest early too. When are you going to finish?' Dean mused as he stared at Shawn who was about to finish.
 
"Done!" Bernard exclaimed and before he entered the room he looked at Dean and said, "I don't mind you two Kens talking at all. I hate solving puzzles and this is the first time I have completed one in my whole life and that's simply because I listened to both of you."
 
Dean smiled wryly… "No problem flower boy. I'll talk a lot and be totally annoying so that you vote for me to get evicted soon." Dean added.
 
And when Shawn finished, he wanted to jump of joy.
 
He quickly completed his puzzle and looked at the camera, "Baby, wait for me… It's only one week and I'll go home soon! Those watching, don't vote for me okay?!"
 
Zeus: "CEO Dean it is against the rules of the house to convince people for your eviction. Please stop saying that or else you will receive punishment. This is your first warning! Go now to your room and rest!"
 
"Hmmp sly Zeus. I don't even know the violation I did and I already got the first warning?" Dean murmured.
 
Zeus: "I heard you CEO Dean. You are not allowed to plug for you not to get votes."
 
"Alright Zeus, guys you heard that so whenever I say vote for me think of it as the opposite request… So guys vote for me!"
 
Butler Omni was laughing so hard as he watched the television in the library with Elder Ken.
 
"I can bet… Dean will win that show for sure." He commented.
 
Elder Master Ken did not respond. 

He was watching his grandsons playing game together. He was especially touched by the way Ryu handled the situation. Dean was like he always behaved and Shawn, looking at Shawn reminded him of Karl's confused and irritated looks whenever he was given any puzzle to solve. 

His looks were very much like Cecile but he was more like Karl in his attitude. He wondered, of all the things he would inherit, why would he take his father's poor ingenuity.

“He knew he should not go easy on her, but his heart was challenging his mind…”
(Warning: Novel is r-18 with strong mature content but NO rape and violence!)

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Arya Tan, a beautiful, young, wannabe actress, was in a difficult situation that her only option was to agree on a deal offered to her to save her loved ones' lives. The deal was to make the aloof man named Ryu Ken fall in love with her, only to leave him heartbroken and devastated afterward. Would she succeed, and if she did, would she be able to escape Ryu’s wrath? 

Ryu Ken, a ruthless CEO who never gave a second glance to any woman how-much-ever beautiful she was, gave his heart to one woman. And despite his warnings, the woman broke his heart and left him. So he vowed to find her and punish her as brutally as he could. But could he really punish her when deep in his heart it was still her he longed to be? Could love overcome the hate buried in his heart?

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"Leaving already? You seem to be in such a rush to talk to me. Why don't you spill it out now?"

Stunned, Arya wondered if she was hallucinating. The voice was very familiar. The man's arm encircled her waist, abruptly pulled her towards him. He then leaned forward and scornfully whispered into her ear, "Aren't you here to negotiate? I was hoping you had a better offer."

She tilted her head to look up at the rude man and was left open-mouthed looking at a familiar face. She was shocked but mumbled, "Ryu?"

Ryu smirked and stared at Arya's slightly opened lips and said, "Did you miss me? How about this?"

Before Arya could utter another word, Ryu captured her lips abruptly and kissed her roughly.

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Author's Note:

Hope you enjoy reading this ORIGINAL novel of mine (It's absolutely a happy ending! Author hates the sad endings!). 

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The Doctor Who LOVES Me (completed)
The Law of Attraction (completed)
Kiss Me Not (in writing)

The Untamed: Game of Hearts (in writing)
The Crown's Entrapment (in writing)

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Katsuo brought the paper with him as he immediately leaved the room right after learning that one of the puzzle piece was hidden behind the school building. He rushed to the stairs. Skipping one every time he take a step. In less than a minute, Katsuo reached the back of the school. He was catching his breath as he search for the puzzle piece. He was under the shade of the building's shadow. The back of the school building was clean. But there, he found another piece of paper taped on the wall. He plucked it and read the paper's content. 

"This is not a treasure hunt but you will find me deep within the dirt." 

The ground he was standing was perfectly flattened. He looked around to see if there was newly dug soil. Something that would look suspicious for him. Hopefully looking everywhere, he found what he was looking for. He began towards it and as he expected, the soil was recently dug. His face brightened and muttered 'bingo' under his breath. He did not care if his hands got dirty. He started digging the soil. Placed inside a small bag of plastic was a puzzle piece. 

"Found it!" He brought out the jigsaw piece. Behind it was written a number. "Must be the number sequence." He placed it deep inside his pocket and happily searched for another clues. 

The cafeteria was cleared by Maki. She searched every thing she could possibly know. She went to the other cafeteria only to find nothing. She then decided to search the storage rooms. But, that was where one of the participants went earlier. So, she just went to the field. It feels weird when it was all you running around the school. It was like she was the only people in this world, searching for another one. The field was wide and she would be doing a heck lot of searching. 

"Here comes nothing..." she didn't give herself a motivation. She began lazily. Running around the school was tiring her. She wasn't cut out for this kind of test. She'd rather sit on a chair and study all night. "I'll do the field first..." 

*** 

Nearly half an hour had passed since the test began. Class B has 4 puzzle piece. Class D has 3 and Class F has 3 too. All six participants haven't met with their partners yet. They tried not to searched the area where their teammates are. Aira was inside Ms. Principal's office. All of the important files were taken. Niko was inside the teachers' building. Ishika and Nin was both inside the storage rooms. Which was recently cleared by Niko. Maki was still in the field whilst Katsuo was searching the second years' building. 

"What a hassle, I've been searching for about 25 minutes. And damn, I haven't found a single piece of puzzle here in the field. I better move to some other location." 

There were just too many chairs for her to inspect each and every one of them. She's gone tired. Searching for answer wasn't her forte. 

"Oh the the paper said that it would be around here." 

It was Class B's participant, Aira. She was done searching inside the Ms. Principal's office. 

Maki immediately hide herself. She listened in on what Aira was saying. This might be her hope on finding one puzzle piece. 

~

Seth Kaneko, became an orphan when his Mom and Dad had an accident that leads to their death.

He was left with a huge sum of debt. He knew that he can't pay all of his inherited debt, so he resorted to suicide by hanging himself, in order to escape debts. But unfortunately, he was saved by his apartment's landlord and rushed him to a hospital.

(Note that, this is a work of fiction. Any names and events written are all fictitious. Happy reading!)

We discussed with Elena the most likely situations that would stem from that. We reassured her that if anything, we'd protect as many as we could from the tricked countries. The countries that had already sided with us had already said they'd accept refugees if they needed to as well. Her mind was still not completely at ease, but we reminded her this was still just speculation and not to stress too much on the 'what if's'. 
Before we left the medical building, we got one of the beds moved closer to Elena's and helped a barely conscience Cass into it. Elena thanked us as we bid her good night, before we headed back to the training compound. 

We were back in the offices and walking into the rooms where the surveillance was taking place, we saw our aides all talking together around a particular screen.

"What's going on that requires you to be ignoring the rest of the room?" John asked startling a few who quickly went back to their stations.

"Sorry, but I think someone is cheating somehow in this room. I had asked if they could review what they did and give me their opinion on it." One of Johns aides stood up and pointed to his monitor.

"Show us." John and I went forward and took a seat next to his monitor.

"I was watching these in room 4. They've done as expected so far, but one of the guys asked to see one of the puzzle boxes that had the key to the next problem. Now watch what happens." He rewound the video back a few minutes for us and pressed play.

It was the guy who had stopped everyone before the jump and got them in order to safely jump across. He takes the puzzle box, looks at it from different angles then he moves his hands and suddenly it's open.

"What the hell?" Me and John exclaim.

We played the clip a few times trying to see something, but at normal speed we couldn't, leaving us bewildered.

"Okay let's zoom in closer and see if we can't get a clearer picture of what he's doing. Play it at half speed too." I narrate what I'm doing as I go.

When I press play now it's hard to tell but something is up. There was no way someone could open the puzzle box just like that, they had to many sliding mechanisms to work through first.

I pull up the live feed of the cameras and they are still working on figuring out the room, but by the open doors on the walls, I can tell they're almost done. I look at the clock and it's almost one in the morning. They've done well and not really ahead of the length of time it would take someone to figure out the room.

"Is this the only thing you have seen tonight?" I ask the aide.

"Yes Ma'am." He answers.

Giving John a look that says we will talk later about this I give my attention back to the aide.

"Don't worry about it for now, when they figure out the room, tell them to go rest. We'll bring it up with him later so we can see it in person."

He nods in confirmation and goes back to watching the screens.

John and I stand and head to my office where we have some cots set up to catch a few hours of sleep on. Four thirty would be here for us pretty quick.

And it was... no sooner had we closed our eyes it felt like it was time to wake up. Thankfully, when we got to the surveillance room they had a pot of strong coffee that we were able to drink up quickly.

"So how did the rest of last night go?" I ask one of the aides.

"Out of the ten rooms, only two haven't finished the puzzles. They are at the last stage of clues but I'm not sure they'll figure it out in ten minutes."

"Well, ten minutes is ten minutes we'll just have to wait and see. Do you have the list of names that will be moving forward and the ones that will be dropped from the rooms already finished then?"

The aide hands me those lists and another list too.

"What's this?" I ask.

"The list of people in the rooms still that showed a lot of promise and skills and the ones that can be dismissed for lack of effort in helping. If you so choose to keep any of them too."
"Thank you for thinking ahead." I give a tired smile and try to remember the face, she belongs to Johns team of aides.
I look at the clock and whistle at John so we can start going to the hall to open the rooms. The rooms that everyone figured out the problems and puzzles were told after we kicked the ones who didn't help out, to go rest and we'd see them Monday morning. The two rooms where everyone was working still we took care of as well. Then we went to the field and did it all again.

This time though, we took turns taking a nap, waiting for them to show up at the obstacle course. By the afternoon when all were done with the course who would be we sent them to rest before their turns in the 'escape rooms' test. We don't know how we did this for the next few days as we went through all the teams. 


The last test was simple enough. Grouped into platoons of fifty, they were placed in VR suits. We had a randomized situation and terrain they had to work through. The goal was at the end of two hours, they were to save the refugees and make it to an extraction point. 

We let the platoons decide on the five squad leaders of the groups. Out of those squad leaders we'd decide on who'd we make second lieutenant of the platoon. This test was to see how they handled themselves theoretically in the field. The suits were rigged with small electrodes that would zap them if they were hurt. The intensity depended on the wound. Nothing that would actually harm anyone, but enough to admit that they were hurt.  

This was explained to them after they were suited up and in the gymnasium that was filled with foam and padded obstacles and mats. The entire gym was rigged with environmental sensors so these obstacles would be visible to them in VR, just as different things.  We even had a platform up to the ceiling that had a caged staircase to mimic a stairwell and roof top. Under the rooftop was a safety net, so if you fell off the rooftop you were automatically considered dead for the simulation. 

The suits could regulate temperature too, so if it was hot where the simulation was chosen, the suits would make you feel hot. So it didn't matter if it was raining, windy, hot, or cold it did it all. The graphics were very realistic too. When the program started it would scan their faces so everyone would see the other persons reactions as if they were not in VR at all.

Everyone did well at this point, even though we were not cutting anyone unless a clear cut reason was presented.

I was proud of Lily making it through, like I knew she would. Futere and Suites made it through just fine as well.  We were so exhausted after three days we had almost forgot to ask the man who got through the puzzle, how he did it so fast.

His name was Hughes, Bradley Hughes. He was part Fae. This we could 'sense' when we sat him down with us alone. John and I were starting to be able to 'sense' these things now that we were more in tune with our magic. He didn't know this fact about his heritage. He just thought he had the natural talent of slide of hand, like a magician. He showed us right in front of us how he opened the puzzle box, we had several more and he opened everyone with ease. We were curious how he was able to do it without the aid of those blue bottles to replenish the power he used though. He did mention he couldn't do much more otherwise he'd end up with a migraine. We figured the migraine was his body telling him he was using too much energy. He didn't know about any of this so we told him we'd be setting up some special tutelage for him to learn. 


We realized we may have more Faeling descendants mixed through out the people here that we and they were unaware of. We tried to think of one of our Fae friends that we could ask to come and check the people that made it to our hand selected squads. Lar, his brothers, Temple, Turk, and most of the others were busy already. Grier had finally moved to our compound and we had decided to ask her to help us after careful thought. He seemed more excited that after some training he'd be able to snap, like we did.

The last test day, we looked and sounded like Zombies, getting by with just a few hours of sleep each day. We did it though and by the end of it all out of roughly three thousand, we had between us just over half of that that we felt passed or fit into what we were looking for. Our own soldiers that could work as a team no matter who they were with and ones that could be depended on.

Ones who would help us save people when the Erl-king did attack.

Just call me Sin, everyone else does. 

Before I tell you about my story, I'm going to give you some honest advice.

Don't get drunk and fall down a hole. 

IF you do fall down that hole and someone else is in that hole, don't take anything they offer you.

 ANYTHING.

It'll save your self a lot heartache.

I was born Mary Douglas, but over the years and different professions I'm known as Sin.

Why? Because I am a Sin. 

I help take care of the bad guys so good people can sleep a little easier.

Doesn't make me a hero, just a bad person who's good enough to do bad things for the right reasons.

I will do anything to protect the ones I care about, no matter who tries to take me down.

October 21 2134


"Training time." Mac sighs as he opens my door.

"Didn't even knock? Rude." I flash a smile at him. He ignores it.

"Come on, Rachel's waiting." He grumbles, turning to start back down the hall.

"Aw, c'mon, talk to me! I never get to leave my room, what's been going on?"

"Nothing that concerns you." He says through gritted teeth. 

"Hey, I just want to stay up to date on news. Is that too much to ask?"

"Don't you have the entire internet in your brain?" He spits, "Can't you just look up some news outlet?"

"I would if I had connection here." I reply, which is half true. Most of the facility is an internet deadzone, but I also want to talk to someone. I want these people to get that I'm a person, however I can. If that means nagging them into believing me, so be it. 

"I know where all of the dead zones are, 72. This isn't one of them. You can look at the news yourself."

"Really?" I question, unconvinced. "How long have you even been working here?"

"Long enough to know where the internet dead zones are."

"How do I know you're telling the truth?"

"Pull up the internet." He glares at me. "Because you're not gonna trick me into taking out my phone."

"I am shocked that you assume I'd try to trick you!" I say, dramatically bringing my hand to rest over my heart. He rolls his eyes and returns his focus forward. 

After a few moments of silence I decide to listen to some music. Since HomoTech decided to start making clones before the technology caught up, particularly in the reconstruction of the brain, there are major flaws. To counteract this, they decided to supplement the parts of the brain they couldn't replicate with a computer called a Cortex, which, among keeping me alive and letting me think, also gives me access to the internet. But there are still flaws, like the fact that I have to manually save my memory every couple hours, though I could probably figure out how to autosave it. The worst downside, though, is that my hearing's a lot more sensitive, so I can't listen to any loud or synthesized music, which sucks since I'm a fan of heavy bass and drums. But at least I have old music. Music from the early-to-mid 20th century has a lot of big sound, but it's all muted and fuzzy because of the recording equipment, so it's safe for me to listen to. 

I put my music on shuffle and "Blue Moon" by Frank Sinatra comes on. I bounce as I walk to the rhythmic brass bopping along with Sinatra's smooth voice.

"Blue moon, you saw me standing alone," I sing along to myself, "without a love in my heart, without a dream of my own."

We eventually make it to the pretty much the other side of the facility, where the training rooms are. I'm not sure what happened to architecture and building layout in the past 80 years, but nothing about the design of this facility makes sense to me. Everything important is super far apart, and none of the department placements seem to have any rhyme or reason to them. Unless that's intentional, which would still be weird.

The training rooms are a fair size, maybe 30 feet wide and deep, and 15 feet tall. The walls and ceiling are all an off white-ish gray and the floor is slightly darker. Every surface is slightly springy, but I couldn't tell you why. I imagine there used to be some sort of physical training in here, but now it's mostly mental training. I had a very brief training session in self defence, enough to hold a fight with an unarmed person, but not enough to overpower anyone in case I "went batshit and decided to rebel," as Mac put it.

Today we have a table and two chairs set up. Most of my training courses are focused on plain negotiation, but I had a couple on sabotage a week or two ago. Because they decided to replicate the memories of the person they cloned me from, a famous negotiator named Matthew Anston - who the guys at HomoTech tend to refer to as The Original - who tried to single-handedly de-escalate global tensions leading up to the third World War in 2050, I've been catching on pretty quickly. Most of the training is a formality,  to make sure they didn't accidentally get rid of any information when they cloned His brain. But some things He was never trained in, or was morally opposed to doing. 

Today there's a puzzle out. It's one of those with the 4 rings and the 3 posts where you have to move all of the rings to another post without putting any ring on top of one smaller than it. Rachel is seated in one of the chairs, and after a moment of me standing by the door she gestures for me to sit down.

I stride over to the table and take the open seat. "So, you want me to do a puzzle?"

"That is correct." She replies calmly. "Are you familiar with this puzzle?"

"Yeah, it's not too hard." I answer nonchalantly. "Matt used to have to do these all the time to test his problem solving and comprehension."

"Care to do it for us now?" She inquires, gesturing to the puzzle. I give her a small nod and get to work. Smallest to peg 2, 2nd to peg 3, smallest on top of that, 3rd to peg 2, smallest back to peg 1, 2nd to peg 2, smallest to peg 2, biggest to peg 3, smallest to peg 1 again, 2nd to peg 3, smallest to peg 2, 2nd to peg 1, smallest back to peg 1, 3rd to peg 3, smallest to peg 2, 2nd to peg 3, smallest to peg 3.

"Done." I smile. Rachel nods.

"Good." She says. "Now, onto the next one."

We sit there for an hour, Rachel giving me puzzle after puzzle to complete. It's not much more than busy work for me, even without help from the Cortex. Most of the puzzles are the sort you have to deconstruct by pushing in tiles or pulling out certain sections, and I get through about ten of them before Rachel gives a firm nod, and says "That's all for today."

Great. A trek to the other side of the facility for an hour of playing with puzzles.

"That's it?" I ask her, annoyance creeping into my voice. "Does this even have anything to do with my so-called 'training' you have me doing?"

"It's testing your cognitive function." She replies simply. "We need to make sure that there aren't any issues with your capacity to understand, analyze, and retain information."

"If you're so uncertain about the technology, you could've just… I don't know, waited to start this project?"

"Starting this project despite our… limited…. Knowledge of some components of the human brain, was in the best interests of the company. Though the more time I spend with you the more I regret agreeing to that decision, given the drastic changes in personality our shortcomings have caused."

"Gee, thanks." I grumble. "Nice to know my creation was a regrettable decision."

"Mac, could you just take him back already?" She sighs tiredly. "I don't have enough energy for this."

"Come on." Mac says to me, turning to leave. I growl a little under my breath as I follow him back out into the hall. 

"What's her problem?" I ask myself, almost too quiet to hear. 

"She wasn't trained to do this," Mac responds. How did he hear me? "When she signed up we didn't think we'd have actual sentient people for years to come. But here you are, a pain in our collective asses."

I nod a little, and the pair of us silently agree not to talk for the rest of the way back. 

The year is 2134. starting in 2050, the planet was ravaged by intense natural disasters as a result of global climate change, and countries were ripped apart by a third World War. Nearly a century later, humanity is still feeling the aftershocks. Wars rage all across Eurasia, island nations have been swallowed by the sea, the Americas are in shambles, and much of Russia and China are entirely uninhabitable. During the chaos, a European cybernetics company undertakes a project to clone the man who helped bring an end to World War III in hopes of bringing an end to the seemingly unending conflicts around them. One of these clones, 72, is as far from the man he was cloned from as he could be. Witty, sarcastic, and uninterested in a life of diplomacy and an existence of only being seen as a lab rat, he wants to carve his own path in life. But that's difficult when everyone only sees a number instead of a human.

Before we would leave the Canary and head back to Sanctuary I needed to do one more thing.
Not that far to the west of the Canary was a building on the shore called the Vitale Pumphouse. It has only two rooms inside and the second room is locked with a very easy number Puzzle.
On a nearby wall was the code needed to solve the puzzle.
Once I solved the Puzzle I walked into the room and found a bloody skeleton next to a .44 Magnum,  this Magnum is called The Gainer. The Gainer is a unique .44 magnum modified to fire incendiary bullets. It does so by using the legendary weapon effect incendiary, which adds burning damage over time. This magnum also comes equipped with the standard receiver, bull barrel, comfort grip, and a reflex sight.
It's honestly a good revolver and .44 rounds only cost 3 caps per bullet, which is not that bad.
There was also an F.C. inside the room as well.
I grabbed the F.C. and headed back to the Canary to group back up with Preston and Trader Rylee.
We traveled back to Sanctuary and we helped Trader Rylee set up a General Store.
...
For over a week we developed Sanctuary further and even got more people.
The Shrine of Atom has slowly been gaining followers and the Red Rocket dinner has been getting good business.
I also made some deals with all of the hunters in Sanctuary that I was willing to buy any hunts they get.
Any of the animals they managed to hunt I transfer over to the canary.
Also some new news, the Abernathy farm bought another Brahmin and started breeding the 2 brahmins they now have.
We also made a few more water purifiers and started mass buying materials because we ran out of materials that we built the walls with.
We want to expand the walls to concord in the future but we need enough materials first.
We have been trading with trashcan Carla for shipments of metal and wood.
We also started buying any Laser weaponry that the merchants have.
Currently, we have gathered 16 Laser Rifles and 11 Laser Pistols. We will arm any future Minutemen that join us with these weapons.

(Before you being reading please read the following warning: Although I have been writing for a little over a year, I have a track record of writing plot holes or do not even notice plot holes until I am informed or I go back and see them myself)

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