Not wishing to hear the horrific screech from that horn, whistle, whatever it was; all she cared about was not suffering through it again, Luna entered the third white room. Unlike the previous room she entered, there was no cube on the table. Instead, there was a parchment thin object lying on the table with blue colored glass and a four by four grid displayed on it.

Luna blinked and leaned over the displayed grid, her eyes widening a bit when she sees a red X appear in the center box. Curious by the sudden appearance of the X she reached up and tapped it before yelping loudly when a sharp honk startled her. Afraid she fell back and kicked herself away from the table, she shook her head. “Enough with that horrendous sound!” She cupped her hooves over her ears but was quickly reduced to whimpering when the high pitched squeal tore past her hooves and drilled itself into her ear drums.

Luna shook her head and stumbled back onto her hooves, she gazed about the room. Like the other, there was nothing standing out aside from the table with the grid. Luna bit her lip and went back over to the table and gazed at the grid, the red was now flashing. She whimpered quietly and raised a shaking hoof, afraid of being subjected to the noise again, she tapped the square next to the X.

A white circle appeared.

Luna blinked as she a second X appear above the first, she blinked and scowled when she realized the noise wanted her to play “Xs and Os.” Luna glared up at the black oval in the ceiling.

“You expect me to play foalish games with you?” The Princess growled, her chest filling with anger. “You subjugate me to pain and force me to play with you after dragging me from my duties?! I shall have you know that I’ll partake in none of this!” Luna’s horn flared to life with a sudden surge of anger induced magic, to which she forced out on the desk, causing the metallic piece of furniture along with the parchment thin grid to fly to the other side of the room and smash against the mirror, thus cracking it.

A sharp, piercing whine filled the room and the light above suddenly cast a red light upon the room. Luna grimaced and cowered as she now began to feel scared. The once white room now glowed red and the ceiling panels above opened, a white, mist like gas billowed out of the open panels and Luna shook her head fearfully.

“I-I’m sorry! I change my mind, I’ll play, j-just please stop with the noise!” Luna covered her ears and clenched her eyes shut as the white mist filled the room. Taking deep breaths, Luna began to feel fatigued, her eyes refusing to open as she fell into unconsciousness.

:[-]:

“How’d it go, Doctor?” General Myer’s asked, his voice gruff and uninteresting.

Dr. Barry Heinrich took a deep breath and sat back in his chair, his eyes gazing at the computer screen displaying his tic tac toe game he tried to have with the asset. “Not good.” He shook his head and looked up at the General. “I told you guys if we keep inducing the creature to high frequency punishment, it’ll just get pissed off.” Henry glanced at the decorated general with a raised eyebrow.

The man shook his head and chuckled. “Well aren’t we supposed to be studying its behavioral patterns?”

Barry bit his lower lip and nodded. “Well yeah, but if we keep stressing it out our angering it, we aren’t really going to get anywhere. If I had to make a suggestion General, I’d say we should really do nothing and observe.”

Myer cocked an eyebrow and crossed his arms. “Now what do you mean by that? We just sit here and look at the glass wall until that thing does something?”

“Well sorta, we’ll have to do some things to slightly nudge it forward, but hopefully we could study it’s brain’s behavioral patterns to certain situations in the most natural way possible. Well, as natural as a concrete cellar is of course,” Barry said as he nervously scratched the back of his head and gazed up at the general who was chuckling and shaking his head.

“Doctor, I understand what you’re saying but that would just certainly take too long. The United Global Nations are expecting us to hand over as much research as possible before the end of this month,” Myer’s uncrossed his arms and grabbed his coat from off a chair and pulled it on.

Barry stood up. “General, I know it isn’t my place but...why are you so interested in my research anyways?” He asked.

Myer stopped sliding his coat on and looked at Barry, his eyes steely and cold. His pupils tore deep into the scientist and he took a step forward, to which Barry took one back. “You’re right doctor,” Myer said in a deep hiss. “It isn’t your right to ask.” He turned away and began walking down the hall. “I have a few errands I need to run, you have twenty four hours to study that thing how you want! If I come back and you hadn’t learned anything new, we’ll revert back to my way!” With that Myer fell silent after he went up the steps and out the main laboratory’s door.

Barry turned and cursed loudly his mind instantly jumping to the troupe of spinning around and knocking over his stack of papers. Yet stopped himself when he knew that’d just be idiotic. “I really hate that man,” he muttered quietly and sat down to observe the tic tac toe game. He took a breath and looked back up at the observation window the room, the asset still laid there on the floor sprawled out. Taking a breath he muttered, “Twenty four hours, twenty four hours.” He got up and switched on the intercom.

“Nathan, prep the CT Scan, Lacey gather a team and round up the asset, I need this done as soon as possible,” He ordered and received a series of: ‘Alrights,’ and ‘Gotchas.’ from various different people.

Leaning forward Barry coiled his fingers together and took a breath, his eyes gazing over the sleeping asset. “Alright,” he muttered quietly to himself, he needed to stop talking to himself. “Let's see what’s going on in that head of yours.”

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry about such short chapters, this is more or less a side project for me. I'll try and put more effort into the next one (such as increasing word count) for those who really want me to do so.