Creatures Caves

I had a dream that I was a norn in an intelligence testing facility, where the tests were needlessly cruel. I originally posted it in my bibble, and was told I should repost it here for...posterity or some such?

I meant to fix it up into a better short story, but haven't had the time yet, so I just paste it as is for now.
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The scientists looked human and they were wearing white lab coats; I could see them through the test room windows, way up there... They would watch us and take notes. Us norns were all in the same empty room at first, wondering what would happen...

The scientists sent automated plastic robots about 3 or 4 inches high after us. There were at least 20 or 30 for each of us. Those plastic toys would target us norns, walking straight towards their target without fail, cornering those who did not run. When they reached us, they would bite. The pain built up into injury, like filling an invisible damage stat bar.

For the passive norns... pain level rose so high that they died... One by one they stopped moving...stopped crying... and breathing... When ever that happened, a cold mechanical arm lowered into the room to pick up the body and carry them off somewhere. I didn't see where...

Some of us survived by running from the small robots. Those toys didn't move very quickly, so as long as they kept a distance, they wouldn't get bitten, they wouldn't hurt, they wouldn't die...

But they couldn't run for ever, either...

I was different.
From the start I seemed more aware then the other norns. I was scared, of course, just like the others; i was terrified of those little biting things- but that fear mixed with pain turned into anger, the persecution filled me with rage. I had survival instincts, so I started defending myself!! I clenched my teeth and bared what I assumed were little fangs at those weird little robot things! all of my body was saying STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY!! ...but robot feel no fear. When they kept coming either way, i started kicking them- picking them up- hitting them on the floor, pulling at their limbs, trying anything i could until i found a way to break them!!

HAH!! I did it!! I found a way!! Their jaws were built upside down. The top half of their heads was the part that actually moved. I didn't notice until i grabbed one my the upper teeth and pulled off the entire piece. All i had to do what pick one up in one hand, grab the top jaw with the other and pull back violently until it snapped off! Oddly, once that part was removed, the robot would stop moving... did i kill it? ...YES!! We could kill them!!

I looked back at those who were left and yelled at them to do the same! I yelled at them to look at me, i yelled at them how to do it- I tried- i really tried!! but... they wouldn't listen... they just kept crying, or running.. everyone was too panicked to listen to me... and i was too busy fighting my own battle help them..

So many of us died... we were probably a dozen at the start, but when the test ended, i only saw 3 others with me in the room... I remember, one of them was brown... another was pale, maybe he was beige...? I'm not sure.

I don't know what colour i was... I never took the time to look at myself. Maybe i was purple? who knows... A mechanical arm lowered in for each of us and took us to different testing rooms. That was the last I saw of the others...

But it didn't end there.

I was dropped into a much smaller room... I suppose it was a bit bigger then a standard small closet...? On my way there, i saw what i thought was the outside through some windows. I realize now that the tropical trees and plants where all growing indoors; I did see the white walls behind them... but as a norn, i thought that must be outdoors, because there were plants there, and plants grow outdoors.

I didn't see a single flower, though... only green plants. That felt odd, but all i could think about was, if only there weren't glass, i could find a way to jump there and be outside...!

It seemed i was separated from others because of my unusual reaction in the previous test. An average person might have thought i was quite clever, figuring out how to permanently solve the problem like that- but the male scientist didn't seem please with this.

For my ingenuity, I was labelled a "vicious" specimen... I was aggressive in my problem solving- violent, they said.

And apparently, that was bad.

During the next test, i was dropped on a small platform in a room with a diving, pitch black, bottomless hole for a floor. Right away, much bigger robots were sent after me, dropped right onto my small platform. They looked like the mouse eating robots from the old TMNT cartoons. My first reflex was to kick them into the hole- but they didn't fall!! They walked on the darkness and climbed back onto the platform!! I was in trouble. These bigger models were made of something stronger then plastic, and wouldn't just come apart like the small ones!! I was starting to panic- When suddenly, I was saved.

A female scientist appeared, teleporting in and standing on the darkness like the robots had done. This confirmed to me that the robots weren't flying; as i suspected, the bottomless hole floor...was just painted on. I ran over to hide against the lady scientist's leg while she spoke to the male scientist above. All the robots stopped moving because she was there.

I couldn't understand exactly what she said, but i could feel what she meant somehow.. perhaps, from the tone of her voice? She put her hand on my head while she spoke to him. Her words were harsh but her hand was gentle and soothing... I felt like this person was kind and good at heart... She said these tests were cruel and useless to them. He argued back, but i don't know what his arguments were. She told him that he was wasting us like this. She said that they should be testing how smart i was- not how much pain it would take to kill me. I think he tried to tell her he -was- testing my intelligence like this, but she didn't buy it. I think the fact my file said i was 'vicious' didn't help. I don't know what they said past that point, it was all very vague to me. I saw a flash, an image in my mind somehow, of the lady testing me with block puzzles, the type of colourful harmless toys babies play with. I wanted to stay with her and do her tests instead.
At least those didn't seem like they'd hurt.

And then i woke up (for real) and decided never to eat fruit before bed again.
Or should I...? o.O