The boy woke to chattering; his nose felt cold and he opened his eyes to realize he was lying face down on a tile floor. Lifting his head slowly he peered through long, thick green hair. He didn't move for a time, listening to the other talk and watching as a blue-black haired girl pressed the large red button on the while, the others milling about; he stood when he heard the voice of the woman named 'Echo' giving a new 'challenge' to the group and stepped up behind them to follow through the doorway. Catching up to the rest of the group he pushed his hair back out of his face, silently deciding it best to watch and wait.

"Well. Someone do something," Vistra encouraged the others. [color=0072bc]"I'm afraid that if we stand around for too long, something bad might happen."

"Indeed it will. Go, or I'll have to do something incredibly terrible. Like set the room on fire. I dunno. I'll decide. Don't make me decide though!" Echo responded through the speaker system, warning them all.

Vanessa looked at the others as they filed through the door and waiting until the voice had stopped talking before she really stepped anywhere; already she was getting annoyed with the girl and didn't respond to her at all. Instead she walked passed her, looking around the room to see what all it as that she could find. "The one that glows in the dark, eh?" She turned around and looked at the rest of them, smiling as if she was excited by the events unfolding around them. This was something she could do; this was something she'd love to do. "Then let's make it dark."

"So where are these buttons?" Cinia asked as she continued to look around the hall for more buttons. Someone else had beaten her to the button last time and she really wanted to try to atleast press it again, right or wrong.

Sam looked over from glancing around the room as a girl stepped forward, away from them; it was the same girl who had pushed the button in the first place and seen earlier glancing toward the smaller one annoyed. Clearly she didn't want to be in charge of the group but she was smart, a good ally and friend when you can't remember when you were born and didn't know any of the people you were stuck with. "How do you propose we do that?" He spoke up, his voice gruff and a half octave lower than most of the others there considering he was clearly the oldest of the punch. Speaking of, isn't the eldest usually in charge? He shook his head and returned his gaze to her, noticing that her hair shifted shades of blue and black, just as her eyes transitioned from light blue to a sea green.

A gruff sigh could be heard from the speakers. "Fine. I'll dim the lights for you. I'm just doing it this one time though! I won't be helping you with your tests again!" Echo spoke. The lights dimmed down, and the last button on the left shone. "Gods, can't believe I'm helping you."

When someone would hit the button, the door would raise up and they would walk into the next room. Another door would open to the right of the first door. Echo would speak; "I feel bad for you Cinia, so please walk into this second door while the rest of you walk into the first. Don't try to follow her and Cinia don't try to follow them. Thank you!"

If any of them would try to follow her or vice versa, they/she would get bounced back by a invisible wall.

Cinia smiled in delight as a button showed up glowing, after it was pressed she started heading towards the other room "Why? I like being with these people!" Cinia complained as she walked into second room separating from the others in the group. Cinia preffered to be around others. She only hoped that she wouldn't be given robotic arms, as she preferred to be different from others. Her arms gave her a sense of identity. Though she wouldn't argue with ethereal arms.

"—don't try to follow them. Thank you!"

A bright light, and an unfamiliar voice from a speaker, that's what Sasha woke up to. Right away, she knew, that this isn't her home.

"Where am I?" she thought.
"God only knows." her mind replied to herself.
"It's so bright in here though."
"That's because the room is entirely white...except for that red button."

She sat up and saw that she was wearing casual clothes.

"The fact that I'm not wearing my pyjamas imply that I wasn't here by free will of my own."
"If you did come here out of your own volition, who are you again?"
"...Point. Who am I?"
"Exactly, your, or rather, our, since I'm just an imaginary voice in your head, name is Sasha Farliasas, and that's all you, or rather we, know."
"Oh, so that's what you are. Also, Raya."
"Wait, what?"
"I remember...Raya. Who's Raya?"
"Beats you...me."
"I feel like I have to know though."
"Well neither of us do...or I don't..."

Sasha turned around and found a large opening into a hallway.

"A hallway..."
"Obviously. Shall we...or I...?"
"You can treat yourself as a separate entity if you want, it's easier that way. Anyways, we shall."

Sasha rose from the floor, and walked towards to the hallway.

"Judging by what I see here, a completely clean room that leads into a hallway, I am in some sort of facility. If I am in a facility, that means the likelihood of myself being alone are, very unfortunately, slim."
"I? Myself?"
"...I see your issue now, well, I guess what we could do is refer to ourselves however we feel like at the moment."
"Alright."

She walked through the hallway until she walked into a room with two parallel walls are lined with buttons. She noticed two open passageways and a group of five people, with one armless girl walking towards the door on the right. Sasha's eyes widen at the notion of having to talk to people, something she despised.

Her mind only had this to say: "And...you are right, you are not alone. How unfortunate."

The door behind Cinia closed and now only Cinia would be able to hear Echo's voice. Another door opening for Cinia to step into.

"Don't worry, you'll be with them again soon. For now, just walk into the next room and sit down on the examination table."

As Cinia would sit down, the door behind her would lock and Echo would walk in. She was wearing a flowing white dress. "You're the first this'll happen to. I need you not to tell the others what happened in here, okay? I'm trusting you. If you tell them, there will be some very severe consequences. Understood?"

If Cinia would respond with a positive answer, Echo would take a needle and inject it into her leg. Cinia would quickly fall asleep. Echo would then inject some more needles into her knee, giving her the powers of psychokinesis and sonic powers. When Cinia would wake up, she'd wake up in this room, only with a TV inside.

If Cinia would respond with a negative answer, after Echo would inject her with the sleeping serum, she would then inject a promise serum so that everytime she tried to tell them what happened, she would immediately stop. Echo would then proceed with the rest.
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Vistra walked into the next room. "A school room? With a TV? What is this?" she wondered aloud. She was also wondering what was happening to Cinia. When the others would walk in the room, a film would start playing with an automated message from Echo. The images flashing on the screen were of all of them playing together as children, and pictures of them as young teens together.
"These people around you are your friends. You don't realize it yet, but they really are. This may not spark a memory in your brain, but it should. You all cared for each other deeply. Perhaps even some of you loved each other. It seems impossible, doesn't it? Well it's not. It's the truth, and it's what is honest. You need to get to know each other deeply. So I'm giving you all a break for today. After one of your friends whom I've taken away comes back, I will announce who had the most points for today and who had the least, and whose where. Just remember though. At a time, you were all friends, and that needs to happen again. Friendship will bring you together, and that sounds cheesy but only because it's true. That's all for now."

The film would end and another door would open for them.


"Oooh! I want the one on top of the stairs! Call it!" Vistra said aloud. Her name was suddenly on the side of the bed that she had called.

After all of the stabbing to the knee Cinia nodded to Echo. SHe later woke up in the padded room. After watching the video instructing her on how to use her powers she started to pratice with it. She found that she could float a little bit thanks to her powers. Though she had more fun flapping her sweater sleeves while she did it. She tried the Sonic thing and found that she was pretty much a living megaphone as she started to sing, "Always look at the bright side of Life." One of the songs she lived by. After awhile she started to get bored wondering when she would see the other people again.

Alex awoke, confused. He had no idea of where he was. All he saw was white. He was in a white room, in a white bed, with white clothes.

Alex heard voices in the distance. He decided to investigate.

To his abrupt surprise, the issues was resolved quickly and the woman allowed them a reprieve where one of the others had pushed the button to allow them through; he hadn't seen who it was though he could only assume they were doing better than him in this little game. He stepped through into what looked like a bedroom for them, listening as the disembodied voice spoke through speakers he couldn't see; "I know most of us are probably a little wired for rest, but it's a good idea to talk and get to know one another again. It's looking like we're going to be stuck together for a while." Sam shoved his hands in his jean pockets and looked at them, trying to to appear threatening even though he loomed over at least half of the others - mostly the girls. He wasn't the type to just sit around and not do anything for any length of time, usually preferring to find himself something to do or a problem to solve; in this case it was the situation at hand.

"Two doorways. Which one?"
"The one where the crowd is going, of course."
"'Of course'? Elaborate."
"If I went with the lone and armless girl, I'd be forced to talk to her, since she wouldn't notice anyone else with her. However, if I went with the others, who I might guess have already been acquainted with each other a little bit, they'd ignore me in favour of the others, as I'm a complete stranger to them. I could go on and on about why I'm going to the left door instead of the right, but you know me, so I'm not going to."
"Ah, I see what you mean. Well, let's quit dilly-dallying for a bit and let's move forward."

Sasha walked into the next room after the others did.

"What is this place?"
"You said it yourself earlier, 'this is some kind of facility.'"
"Not that, like, we went from a blank, empty room, to a room with buttons, to here, which looks like a university classroom."
"And how do you know that this looks like it's from a university, you're only sixteen."
"I'm 16?...Well, to answer your second question, I don't remember...I just knew..."

A video played. The video was composed of several images of children playing together. The strangest thing was that one of was unmistakably a younger version of Sasha. As in, Sasha looked happy playing with these people, implying that she did go out and made friends at one point.

"That cannot be me, those photos must be edited, that cannot be me, that doesn't even look like me!"
"That's probably the biggest lie I've ever heard from you today. That is you, that is me. You're in denial, you're denying the reality of these photos."
"Of course I'm denying these photos as real! Can you see me frolicking out there with this many people?! Of course not!"
"Of course not. Not today, no you wouldn't be, but I know, you know, deep down, we both know, the events of these photos are real, they did happen."

All the while, a voice on the intercom made a mini-speech about how everyone here were the best of friends before they got here, and how such a relationship needs to be forged again in this facility. Sasha's face grew into a slight scowl.

"How dare that woman—"
"Echo. 'That woman' is named Echo."
"And how do you know that?"
"I heard a voice while we were asleep. I believe it's the same voice as what you just heard. I can't remember the entire thing, but one of the things I can pick out was "—you can call me Echo."
"Point is, how could this woman— Echo — say that I've been friends with all these people? That I cared for these people as much as they cared for me? I don't remember having friends. I don't remember trying to make friends. I don't even remember that I wanted another person around me. Echo's right, it does seem impossible. No, it is impossible, I recognize none of these people, and she expects me to befriend all of them?!"
"Why are you so angry?"
"l...don't know...I guess...I'm not angry, actually, I believe I just get tense when I have to deal with other people. Obviously, as with everything else, I don't know why it is."
"Think of it this way: what if...all of them were Raya?"

Sasha smiled a little bit in amusement.

"I doubt that six people here can all be named "Raya." If that were the case, then my name have to be also Raya, since it's odd to have six people sharing the same name and then one person having a different name."

Her face dropped back into a neutral state.

"But now we have a lot of questions to think about: Who am I? Where am I? Why am I here? Who are these people around me? If we all mean so much to each other, why don't I feel it? Why do we have to befriend each other again? But more importantly, who is Raya?"

A door opened to a room, a bedroom, as it seems. The amount of beds make it appear
that it seems to fit all of the people in here. Sasha saw a magenta-haired girl call out the bed she wants, at the top of the stairs. Afterwards, her name popped out on the side, effectively labelling the bed. She also noticed a boy getting out of one of the beds.

"Vistra. So, that's her name."
"There's another one. Judging by the nameplate on his bed, his name is Alex."
"Well, that's two names known..."

She recounted the people around her.

"...four more names to go, plus the armless one, that's five. This also disproves the 'everyone is Raya' theory you had earlier."
"Whatever. Choose your bed."
"Huh?"
"It's first come, first serve, call your bed, it's now or never. I'd suggest you pick the bed right underneath the one Vistra picked, or maybe a top bunk, for maximum security."
"Alright, if you say so."

"I call the bed underneath...if that's okay with everyone else..." Sasha said.

The young woman had stepped through the door before most of the others, having pressed the button to get through again after spotting it herself while the others looked for the glowing dot in the room; it had been the one closest to her anyway. What they found was a bedroom and a sitting room for them, the six beds situated in places ease to access with enough space for the most of them and she moved without saying a thing while the one girl called the bed she would have liked to have. Vanessa reached up and tapped the top bunk on her right, silently claiming it as her own while the green haired man stepped forward and spoke to them, clearly trying not to look threatening. "I'm plenty good to lay back and rest." The young woman didn't seem the least bit fazed to not remember her life before, though a skeptic at heart she didn't believe any of what the woman had said to them at all, instead staying back and out of the way. She turned and gripped the ladder, pulling herself up onto the bed and sitting with her foot hanging off the edge while she looked between the others, undaunted and silent.

After the correct button was pressed Noel stood up straight before the woman spoke through the speakers calling Cinia to the second door rather than the first one where everyone else is going. ...Which one was Cinia again? Again, Noel was half-listening before but whoever she is she must've-- Ohh...she's the armless chick...what'd she even do? Noel was somewhat confused as she blinked but then shrugged before stuffing her hands back in her jean pockets as she would follow everyone else through the first door. It lead to a school room and from that Noel's own smartassery kicked in a little bit, "Oh greaaat we're getting education out of this..." she half-mumbled unamusedly. Noel then decided to shut up as a video came up on a TV screen, showing her and everyone else in the room as kids and the automated message claiming they were all friends. It felt weird to look at this. Noel looked around the room giving quick glances at people's faces to see if she recognized them. Doesn't ring a bell. Yet...there's images in full-proof...on the TV. ...Welp, that's amnesia for ya. Noel flicks her gaze to the room that reveals itself. A bedroom. Finally. After a girl calls dibs on one of the beds, Noel looks towards that bed and her glimpse caught the name that appeared there. Alright. Vistra. So that's that chick's name. Noel took this in for her name learning process. That was two down. "Heh. Ain't that right," Noel finally started socializing directly in response to the long green-haired man, slowly pacing around the room and looking around while scratching her head.

"Before you all get settled in, I'll be giving the scores out. In first is Vanessa with ten points. Next is Vistra with seven points, then Jack with 6 points. Then lower and lower. But the lowest is Cinia with zero. She already got her...reward for being last. But Cinia, next time it'll be more severe than that. As for Vanessa, please step into this room," Echo said as the door which they had come through opened again.

@ViolentViolet In each seating in this room there were wires with suction cups at the end.

Now only Vanessa would be able to hear her. "Please put one suction cup on your forehead, and one on each wrist, and one on your neck." if she did so, a robot would come in with a tray of chocolate.

This chocolate, looking ordinary, was really good. So good, that one could become addicted to it extremely fast. Enough to motivate them to do anything to get more.

If she didn't do it, Echo would sigh, and say "Are you sure? You're missing out on some deliciousness." If Vanessa insisted no, Echo would say "Alright, your choice," and allowed Vanessa back into the room.

Alex glanced around at the people in the room. They looked familiar, but he couldn't quite place them. He decided to break the silence.

"Hi, I'm Alex. Who are you guys? And for that matter, what is this place?"

Cinia soon joined the others. She smiled to them, she didn't really want to show case her powers just yet unless she needed to. "I'm Cinia! It's nice to meet you all!" Cinia said with much glee. "And as far as I can tell, this is the cleanest place on earth!" Cinia said commenting the white walls. She really was happy go lucky. She didn't care that she got the lowest points. Honestly she thought she would have a few more than zero as she had gotten a few extra points during the first test. But she just shrugged it off. Cinia was very out of place among all of the individuals but she didn't care. And the picture of them all as children proved to her that they could all be friends.

Alex stared at Cinia. "What the heck happened to your arms?"

He instantly regretted asking. `How insensitive!` he thought. An awkward silence fell.

Vistra sighed. "We actually should probably get to know one another. Vistra, seventeen, and yeah. That's like, all I really know actually. I think that's all any of us know; age and name."