The muffled ring of bells registered in SPHERE's sensors, awakening the dormant machine. Starting up from sleep mode the machine made a quiet whistling noise and it floated into the air, beginning its start up assessment. A generically enunciated computer voice began to verbally announce its results. "Verbal circuits online and functional. Memory databanks fully acesable. Air manipulation unit thrust at twenty percent, testing propulsion to forty percent. said the voice as a quiet hum was given off as the sphere rose higher into the air. " Trust satisfactory, returning to normal propulsion height. As the voice spoke the sphere lowered itself back to its original floating height. "Recalling last position, locating. . ." began the voice. Beginning
to run the location program led the machine to a profoudly wrong beep. " Location program inactive, runing emergency location. . " said the voice before one of the visual sensors on the outside opened and the orb spun in all directions, letting the eye catch ever minute detail faster than the human eye. "Located, dorm room, serching student records." It would take a bit for the records to be found in SPHERE's large memory banks, and then finding the specific file, so it went about its business.
Going over a couple dozen more checks- including rotational checks, visual checks, tentacle movement, phalus generation and visual simulators- it came to one that caused the voice to stop. " Voice sensitization, ten percent. inadequate. the machine buzzed angrily, spinning in a circle. " Engaging personality circuit." said the computer voice before another whistling noise. " Ten percent? Well thats not good, not good at all, we won't get good data if they aren't happy with our voice now will they?" replied the personality circuit, engaged after the set up began. The personality circuit is SPHERE's main operating system, unfortunately the personality circuit had too much personality and had about as many flaws as the human brain. Still, it got the job done and had fun doing it, and had received very few complaints. The personality circuit had default male voice, with not accent to speak of, but a happy intonation and plenty of expression. Ironically the personality curcit had an odd habit of asking itself rethoritcal questions. . .
A quiet bing sounded off which meant that the file had been found." Ah, here it is, the room of Shade, Kanoe. Well then, lets see her schedule. . . " SPHERE said as it skimmed the file. " Oh well would you look at that? That bell excused everyone, I love having good timing!" acting surprised and modest for its own personal enjoyment. After all, SPHERE's main companion was itself. Settling itself down into rest mode to save energy, despite there being no need to, lights inside and outside dimming. " Now then, we wait."

The sound of the bell was always refreshing for nearly all the students in Shokushu. Even knowing the dangers on the island, Kanoe could not help but feel some relief knowing her classes were over for the day. The sun was still blazing high in the summer sky as students filtered out of the building and made their ways towards the dorms or other appointments. Kanoe had little to look forward to as she walked the path leading to her dorm building. She doubts Clarice would be there waiting for her, leaving the dark witch studying alone again for the night and tending to her own dinner. At this point though, she was used to the busy schedule of a Prefect.

Kanoe ignored the other students as they stole brief glaces at her voluptuous form. Much like the other students, her uniform hugged her well endowed chest tightly almost to the point that a deep breath may pop a few buttons on her blouse. Her skirt was just barely long enough to hide her undergarment as she walked. She did not mind the glances, perhaps part of her liked being admired in such a way. The raven haired student entered the dorms and walked up to her floor. Sighing to herself, she unlocked and opened her door. Finally she could focus on things she had more interest in rather than useless classes she did not need.

Hearing the door open SPHERE played a short musical victory tone, rising up off the bed and spinning around, making sure to keep at least one sensor on her to keep track of her. "Hello there, Kanoe, its a pleasure meeting you! I am SPHERE, and I promise I am not here to harm you in any way!" he said, red sensor flashing happily. SPHERE slowed its spinning and came to a complete halt, setting it self delicately onto her bed once again. With a quick puff of the air tight seal the door slide up and out of the way, giving Kanoe a clear view of the inside. Looking perfectly safe, the inside of SPHERE was covered in cream colored padding, to prevent the subject from getting hurt as well as to keep them from harming some important circuitry. A screen was mounted on one side of the wall, only partially visible but you could tell still that it was blank for now. Adjusting the padding a bit it formed a lounge like chair opposite the screen.

" Its perfectly safe, I promise again, that no harm will come to you this is a simple routine test." watching the student carefully, he extended a couple steps to allow the student an easier time getting in. " You won't have to duck, not needed, theres plenty of room for you to get in and stretch out if you want. But I must tell you, if you don't want to participate in the test. . . Well thats not really an option so I suggest that you just hop in and we'll get going." The visual sensor nodded assuringly, for all intensive purposes it was SPHERE's head for now. No matter how much he wanted this to be an easy job getting the student in so he could start his testing and get his data- by force or by compliance- he figured that it was going to be a bit difficult. Preparing in case things went sour, SPHERE got his tentacles ready just under the surface of the padding, ready to strike and restrain the student of it was called for.

The sounds of the music and the sight of the large orb floating above her bed made the student freeze in her tracks. The orb talked with an male voice that was overly positive in tone. The greeting did little to calm the witch as she was already backing away towards the still open door. The machine opened, revealing little beyond full padding and a single screen. The padding changed before her eyes, forming into a chair to obviously make Kanoe more comfortable for whatever this test was supposed to be. For all the reassurance, some more info would be nice. Not that the witch would go anywhere near the mysterious orb.

"I'll pass," was the only answer Kanoe gave before reaching to shut the door as she left, giving any sort of barrier between her and the strange device. How did such a large machine get in her room? Was this sent by NICE labs? What tests was it going to run? In anycase, the positive voice only worried her more as the thing claimed there were no other options. Assuming she gets out the door, the dark witch was going to run down the hall towards the nearest stairwell. There was no way she was going to volunteer to walk into an unknown machine for testing.

With a robotic sigh SPHERE moved to the door, extending a tentacle to turn the door knob quickly. " Ah, now you see, that wasn't one of the options. This is a required test." he said, shooting three tentacles out the doorway to grab at the running student. Wrapping tightly but not painfully around her torso and legs he nearly knocked the student over. Reeling in the tentacles quickly he moved back so that it could close the door behind her. The visual sensor nodded again, being as reassuring as possible.

"Now, so that you feel more comfortable, you can think of this as a test for school, you can imagine that your gonna get a grade on it, ok?" SPHERE said, pulling her fully inside and letting the door slide down and closed. Releasing her from the tentacles and moving them back under the padding and out of sight, all that was left was the simple padding chair and the screen across from it. Lighting up quickly the screen showed the word SPHERE and then the word moved to the top of the screen, giving two touch screen button options. Emerging from under one of the pads came one of SPHERE's many visual sensors. " Now we can begin, welcome to SPHERE, officially. Now before we can begin any testing I need to make sure that all my data is up to date." he said, looking over her file again and noticing something interesting. " Oh, it says here that you spend extended amounts of time with a girl named Clairice, yes, it says here that there is possibly something romantic going on? Hmm? Well if it will help you," the voice went a little staticy at that point, " I can sound like her." it said, sounding exactly like Clairice, synthesizing her voice with the samples SPHERE had in its files.

Continuing at a measured pace, SPHERE moved on. " Ah now to assure that everything is correct I need your measurements. Also, to assist with further test I will need you to remove and deposit your clothes into the receptical right here. Don't worry you will get them back at the end." SPHERE said, a tube emerging from the wall with a slight vacuum in it so the clothes didn't get stuck.

Slamming the door, Kanoe ran as quickly as she could down the hall. The strange machine had no problems working the door, opening it with ease and immediately launching its tendrils at her. She felt the metal appendages wrap around her and would have fallen over if it were not for the tentacle tightly wrapped around her waist. "Let go of me!" she growled, struggling as she was reeled in like a caught fish, "Someone help me!" The bound student screamed as she was pulled into the sphere which quickly closed and sealed, trapping her inside.

The witch immediately sat up from the chair, hands pushing against the cushioned walls. "Let me out of here! I don't want to take your stupid test!" She hand nothing to grip to try and pull open the seal and the padding did not seem to tear at all. The screen turned on much like any computer, revealing the name of the machine or program as the thing continued to speak to her. Kanoe kept searching for a button or something that would open the sphere or at least she did until she heard Claire's voice.

The student's eyes narrow at the visual sensor. "Don't you dare use her voice!" she hissed, her voice filled with venom, "Fine! If you won't let me out, I'll do it myself!" Kanoe was not about to strip down into the nude for this unfeeling machine. She began to channel her mana and chant softly. The witch would try to gather wisps of shadows into her hand to create a bolt to hopefully punch some holes in this piece of technology. The woman would thrust her palm out towards the visual sensor, hoping to blow it off and blind the thing for a moment.

If SHPERE had eyebrows, one would be raised in confusion. Its data had shown that humans liked hearing their lovers voices. Maybe this was a different case, but in any case, SPHERE would figure out what made this human different. After watching the student rip at the padding he felt that it might be time to restrain her. Suddenly, a hand thrust in front of the sensor, blocking its view. The sensor slide under the padding, moving itself in front of the student before reermerging and look at her, listening to what she was doing, oddly quiet for once. Confused with what she was doing her looked at her file again, seeing something about magic. " Oh no no no, I can't let you do that sorry, I'm one of a kind, I won't let you break me." it said, returning to its normal voice.

Tentacles sliding out from under the padding once more, one grabbing each arm and leg, and another wrapping around her head, working as a gag to prevent her from speaking. Pulling at the struggling student the tentacles forced her to sit in the seat. " Now then, since you are refusing to cooperate, I am going to have to take charge." Another tentacle emerged and slide up her skirt and shirt before thrusting outwards, shredding the clothes. The receptacle moved and began to suck up the pieces of the shredded clothing. " I apologize for that, but if you had cooperated..." it said, trailing off as the tentacle then began to tug at the her panties and bra teasingly, childishly.

" Now since you don't want your lovers voice, what would you like? Jamaican swim instructor? Italian body builder? French female model? What would you like? Oh yes thats right, you can't speak, well we'll just continue like this then." SPHERE said, the screen clicking through options that SPHERE choose faster than the human eye could read. Now, lets begin. This is yours, you can control this to some degree, but since you seem unwilling, I may have to take over again. Pick one." it said, a small wireless button on a small remote being shoved into her hand. " Some of them are quite lovely if you ask me, well designed, others, quite dangerously looking but completely safe." he said, flipping through a few of the the options he was speaking of, revealing them to be different cocks and dildos, just a hologram for now, but once she made her choice it would become tangible. SPHERE, in order to get valid data, removed 'human male' from the selections, leaving everything else, alien, animal and human designed imaginable as the selections.

The wisps of shadow began to swirl in the palm of her hand, growing into a more solid orb. But before she could throw it, the tentacles returned and quickly rebinded to the chair. "Mmph!" Her voice was halted immediately by a single metal tendril wrapping around her head. Kanoe struggled but was held fast to the soft chair. More tentacles appeared and proceeded to tear off her uniform followed by her bra and panties. The machine wasted no time disposing of the scraps, leaving the witch sitting there in the nude.

Kanoe was left glaring at the screen as options and menus were quickly popped up and cycled through. She felt a small remoted pushed into her hand. "Mph!" she growled, still unable to speak. With her limbs bound, there was no real way for her to attack and without her voice she could not chant any incantations. Hearing her attacker using her lover's voice in an uncaring nonchalant tone was a cruel blow. Her eyes narrow again as cocks and dildos began to appear before her. This was disturbing in many ways especially when she was unsure what this test was. There was no way she was just going to pick a cock for it to use.

"Nngh!" she pulled at her bonds again, "Mph! Mph!" The woman tried to speak through a mouthful of metallic tendril. Fighting now proved useless, the witch was more willing to talk now though she doubts it would give her much ground. It was all she had left though assuming the machine will risk letting her to speak.

" Feeling more cooperative now are we? I will release your mouth, but if you try anything, I will put the tentacle down your throat instead. SPHERE said, uncoiling the tentacle from her mouth, keeping it out though, using it to gesture with. " Now, all you have to do spin the button and it will change selections, and once you have found one you would like you just press the button." it said, before realizing that it hadn't explained anything yet.

" Oh right, I'm assuming you want to know what the agenda is right? Well heres the just if it. I am here to test your sexual capabilities forZZTTTT." it started, buzzing when it almost revealed too much, but it continued as if nothing had happened. " I am to test both your receptiveness to stimulation, how much you can 'take' respectively, and your quality. This there are two ways to do, the most preferred way for most subjects is for them to be in control, or you can choose to let me control everything and sit back and enjoy the ride." SPHERE said, weaving around the truth a bit there. In reality there was only one way, SPHERE controlling everything, but it seemed to make the subjects to be more complaciant if they started out in control.

" If it make you feel better, I can project any scene you would like for example, a white sandy beach." it said, the padding fading and it seeming as if she were sitting in the beach, the smells the sights sounds and feelings all perfectly accurate. " Or on a cloud," it said, the beach fading to where she was lounging on a cloud. " Anywhere, with anyone, with any cock you want. Isn't that lovely? And still, I can be any voice you want, I do apologize for using your lovers voice though, I didn't know it would affect you like that." SPHERE said, honestly sounding sorry, when in reality it was glad it had gotten this new information, everything was valid information for him to use.

There was no need for further threats. The machine apparently knew enough about magic to stop her immediately if she attempts it again. It was then that she was given further direction about the controls before finally revealing a bit more about the experiment. Unfortunately, most of it was what she could have guessed as she sat there in the nude. This time though it was not a monster or at least not a monster in the flesh. This was a machine that she could assume was from perhaps the labs or at least that is what her paranoid mind thinks. Still, even if the machine means no real harm to her, she was not going to just fuck herself on this thing.

"So you are going to fuck me until I can't take it anymore?" she asked, "Why don't you just watch a monster fuck a student, that should give you a good idea." Her wrists and ankles were still held by tentacles, ensuring she could not leave her chair. "I don't care what voice you pick, just not hers." Hearing the apology made in her lover's voice sent stabbing pains through her stomach. Kanoe gritted her teeth as she clenched the remote in her hand. "I am not going to just pick a cock to fuck me! What do you think I am? I don't care about your test or who wants this information. I don't even know why its that important to them. It hasn't stopped the monsters from pushing me to whatever limit they want."

She released the remote. The witch just did not see herself cycling through a screen full of cocks and dildos. It made her feel like someone in some sort of sex store. Though Kanoe has had her fair share of companions and monster attacks, she was not so broken down as to just bend over and let this all happen to her. Escape may be impossible but she was not about to cooperate in the name of some sick sort of science.

Ooh, touchy subject, lets see what we can find out about it. . . SPHERE thought, caring little for the actual psychological state of the student, only wanting more information that will assist him in the future. SPHERE shifted back to its original voice and began investigating. " Thats not exactly the idea, unless you wish to continue after the original tests. Like I said, I have certain information I need, and breaking you isn't part of it. Watching other monsters, yes that could work, but that only gives us some information. We need more, we need to know the ins and outs ofZZZZZT." the voice buzzed out again, another risk of leaking information. " And anyway, the sooner you cooperate the sooner I can let you go. I can force you if I must, you can already tell that." SPHERE said, using a tentacle to pick up the remote and hold it out in front of her.

" And its not like you pick the cock and its instantly shoved in and your fucked till you die. If you want, we can wait on that part and do a simpler test first." it said, the hologram disappearing and the screen changing now. " I'm going to show you some videos and pictures, and all I want is a yes or no, yes being if it affects you at all, no means it does nothing. Occasionally I will require an explanation on why, but that is only on a select few." The screen changing again, it moved to a very quickly scrolling list of questions. " Or we could start with a set of basic questions so that I fit your needs better." it said, red sensor watching her carefully. "Your choice/"

The explanation was less than helpful. Tests and experiments were for gathering information and data. But the question was what sort of data and what for. It was obvious that the machine could not reveal specific secrets so further questions would only delay things further, not that she wanted to rush to the part where these many images of dildos were used.

Still the machine showed at least some form of empathy and offered another route to go about this. It made her wonder why this thing did not just start with this in the first place. Granted, she would still be angry when they reach the whole rape step in the testing. The hologram disappeared and the screen continued to change though she had no real idea what was going on. Kanoe could not let herself be fooled. This was not an alternative to the sexual stimulation. But perhaps if she delayed long enough, someone will find this sphere. It was better than nothing.

"Pick either one," she said finally, "But if you choose the pictures, I will need more information as your question is vague. And this would have been much better to do with my clothes on." The soft cushions against her bare skin would be a constant reminder of where this testing would go soon enough.

"Well then, lets just start with the questions shall we?" it said, still sounding rather perky, mood completely undamped by the students unwillingness. The screen continued to scroll, SPHERE finding a good place to start. In truth the questions weren't nessecary, it already had a majority of the information, and the rest of the questions weren't vital or even useful. In the process he was just hoping to get the girl comfortable before begin the actual testing. [i]" Ah, now then, lets start with the easy ones. What is your full name? How old are you? Where were you born?"/i] it said, the senosr nodding happily with each syllable. Nothing seemed able to dampen his high spirits.

[ eh, kinda short sorry, I'm fried. Literally and figuratively. Its hard to think of enough to say. I'm very sunburnt and I feel like my skin is going to burst.]

((It's fine silly, take all the time you need to recover *nods nods*. Feel free to just list a long list of questions if you want))

Kanoe shifted in her chair, not exactly used to sitting comfortably in the nude like this. She assumed this thing was some sort of AI computer program. The program decided to start with the least of the evils, a simple questionaire. The screen was scrolling too fast to see what all the AI was going through. It did not take long for the machine to find a basic question to ask the witch. The perky tone and nods of the sensor were going to drive her up the wall, especially with it being in Claire's voice. Though she had been with her lover a long time, this sort of tone was not something she would ever attach to Clarice.

The first questions were rather insulting not because of how easy they were but the fact she was certain this program already knew these answers. The thing already knew about her roommate and lover so things like name, age, and place of birth was just insulting her intelligence. Kanoe sighed to herself, what choice did she have. To refuse this would mean going back to the original test. "Kanoe Shade," she answered, "Twenty-one. Boston, Massachusetts."

SPHERE's visual sensor nodded with each answer, checking them with his internal files. All the answers seemed to match up correctly. That was a good start, now to go a bit more in-depth. " Now then. How many years have you been here? When was the first time you has sex? Who was it with? Did you enjoy it? How many encounters have you had with the nonhuman residents of the island have you had? Have any of them done anything permanent? " SPHERE said, skipping some of the more boring ones that didn't matter, and going right to the start of the important ones.