Sheila Chapter 11

Linda continued working on the questionnaire. It seemed to take forever. 'Why would anyone want to know this much about a person?' she thought to herself. Most of the questions seemed rather bizarre and had no relation that she could find to each other. After what seemed like the thousandth question was answered the same melodramatic voice said "Congratulations Test subject 86619Alpha3 for completing the entry level Test subject Questionnaire. Please Wait. A Paranormal genetics associate will escort you the the testing facility" With that the Panel slid back into place, as if he screen was never there. A short time later another panel opened to reveal a steel door beside her. The door opened and a pair of men all in white walked in. Without a word they gripped her by the shoulders and escorted her out of the room.

His name was Jeremy. he had first started working at PG (Paranormal Genetics) 10 years ago as a engineer right out of collage. The pay was great and he had a whole bunch of benefits. When his mother died while in labor, his father had hated his new born brother and put the child up for adoption as soon as it was legal. Of course Jeremy could stand to see his little brother be adopted by a total stranger. So he adopted the boy, he was over 18 after all. Over the next few years he had taken care of his brother as if the boy was his son. But then the CEO John Smith had held a mandatory 'Bring your Kid to work day' All employees were to bring in there children regardless of age or school, Those who didn't have children had to bring in there younger siblings or cousins. Otherwise they risk getting fired. On that day all the employees gathered with there children in the main recreation hall. They didn't know it then, but once the work day had begun Mr. Smith had ordered a facility wide lock-down. They had been trapped and parents had been separated from there children. From then on Mr. Smith had ordered a new set of experiments to start. Beginning with an artifact that had been found buried in Egypt. Mr. Smith believed that it could open portals to other worlds and had set the entire engineering team on it. If they didn't work, there children would end up as the next test subjects. That was seven years ago. Jeremy had gone from being a lead engineer to being the test director, the right hand man to Mr. Smith, or rather Mr. Smith's bitch. Whenever something went wrong with a test Mr. Smith would make a big show of firing him, only in the end to have him do something else.

Now Jeremy was sitting in an office, waiting to interview a test subject at Mr. Smith's request or demand. The test subject arrived escorted by two Zomb-Jobs. Zomb-Jobs is the term they used for John Smith's brainless servants, they were smart, intelligent, but had no self will. Somehow Mr. Smith had created them in one of the brain programming experiments that had started five years ago, shortly after the artifact had been activated. The test subject was a little girl about twelve years old. Jeremy recognized her from another experiment that had been running for years. The one with the enhanced whale. at the end of that experiment Mr. smith had ordered the 'termination' of the experiment and test subject. This was not unusual. Mr. Smith often ordered the termination of test subjects if he felt that they had exhausted there usefulness.

As the girl walked in, Jeremy greeted her "Hello Test subject 86619Alpha3. Welcome to your interview. My name is Jeremy. Now please tell me, What can you tell me about your part in the experiment"

"Experiment?" she asked "What experiment?"

"The experiment with the whale... Oh they haven't fixed your neural block yet." Before he could pick up the phone, the door open again and two of the Zomb-Jobs once again gripped Linda by the shoulders and escorted her out. "Hey I haven't Finished the interview yet!" Jeremy yelled. But they ignored him. Linda once again was walking down a hall with her two escorts.

They had proved unresponsive to questions or talk of any kind. They just walked as if someone else guided them. After a few minuets the hallway widened to the enough to allow a ship to fit. At the end of the hallway was a giant ring that seemed to spin forever. Inside the ring was a strange purple glow, several men were standing around it monitoring equipment. Suddenly the Zomb-Jobs turned in a military fashion and began walking toward one of the several doors widely spaced along the walls. Once the door opened The Zomb-Jobs shoved her through into the dimly lit room. The door closed as soon as she entered.

Linda fell to her knees after the door shut. she looked around wondering what she was in for now. "Hello..." said an ominous seductive voice " I guess your my little snack.."