//------------------------------// // Chapter 11 // Story: Doing Science // by dashie76 //------------------------------// June 22nd, 2010 Hey, everypony! I'm back again. Okay, so it's been a little while since my last update. But I have a good reason for that! I'll tell you about it later, I promise! First off, my team just finished that production line earlier today, so Cave gave us all the day off. And we all got raises too, so score! He still doesn't really give us a lot, but at least it's more than before. If I play my cards right and save my pennies, I might even make it to Ponyville for a vacation! I'd have to work hard all summer, though. Also, I'd probably have to start wearing the skintight lab coat around Cave...But I don't mind. It gives me more time to work on that project. I've been spending all of my extra time researching Cave's past actions. Specifically, anything he's done with the Doctor. What I found was...very interesting. First off, this isn't the first time that particular Computer Room - specifically, Room 78 - has overheated. There have been a total of five meltdowns in that particular room over the last two years, and the highest recorded number in any of the other mainframes is two, which definitely makes me think that there's more than meets the eye when it comes to that particular one. One of the creepiest things about the meltdowns is that whenever one happened, save the most recent one, somepony went missing. They didn't die - they went missing. No bodies, no traces, no nothing. I'm going to have to investigate the room proper soon. Not only that, but every meltdown has some sort of connection to Cave, the Doctor, or Cave's select group that went out to clean up the latest disaster. Cave has gone on record stating that one of his programs corrupted the mainframe and caused the first one, a few ponies from Cave's group were working in the room the second time, and so on and so forth up to the most recent meltdown, for which the Doctor himself seems to be solely responsible. The Cave group has only gotten shadier from there on out. The different members have been sued multiple times over seemingly unrelated things. A few of them got in trouble with the Princesses themselves for hacking the Canterlot mainframe to get classified information, actually. But all of them have been sued at least once for "Abuse of Scientific/Genetic Experiments." Those files were buried so deep that I could only get the name of the offense along with the ponies involved - unsurprisingly, all of the Cave group. It'll have to do for now. It's clear at this point that something is going on, something potentially bigger than me, the Doctor, or even all of Aperture Science. I have decided that I must discover the reason for the Doctor's involvement in all of this, if nothing else. I'm afraid that our relationship is a façade that I will have to keep up for a little while longer, at least until I can confront him about all of this. Oh, and one more thing - in early 2010, Cave began a classified project of his own. These files are buried on a whole other level than even the court files, and I could only get the name of the experiment. But since it's the only classified project that Cave himself has founded in his entire history at Aperture, I can bet that his little inner circle is involved. The name itself doesn't even make any sense - it's got to be an acronym for something. The name of the experiment is Project GLa- SSZZRACK HTT... >Whump< ... ...You shouldn't have done that, babe. You really shouldn't have done that...