"Let's go check out these conveyor belts." Alice suggested excitedly. "Whatever is feeding them has got to be huge. These things are ginormous!"
Gina shrugged without a comment and played along. Even given the strangeness of the facility, she didn't have any better ideas. Nothing seemed immediately suspicious.
They walked the length of the chamber and then took a catwalk up to reach the platforms that looked like they fed the conveyor belts. When they got there, they realized that they were just plain platforms. No special machines, no production line, no nothing feeding the belts.
"That's weird." Alice suggested, a little disappointed. "I mean, these go somewhere. What on earth do they put on them?" She said, walking out onto one of the platforms. She craned her neck up and around in case she had missed some machinery, but found nothing.
As she stood on the platform, though, the wall behind her sprang to life and a small scanner emerged, running a light up and down her body. "Um, Alice... I'd get down from there." Gina said, eyeing the scanner.
Alice looked back at the little sensor and blinked. "I think it's just broken or something. I mean, this whole place is shut down right now anyway." She said. The little beams of light eventually finished what they were doing and the sensor retracted from the wall. "See?" She said, shrugging as she went back to inspecting the ceiling.
Before Gina could restate her opinion, the wall behind Alice glowed and opened and what looked like a sheet of cloth shot out towards the woman. Except it was far too thick to be a sheet of cloth. No, it was a thick slab of dough. The dough hit the unaware woman straight on, with enough force that the loose sides wrapped around her and joined on her other side, leaving the woman trapped in a doughy cylinder from her neck down. "H-Hey!" She shouted. "What is this?!"
"Alice!" Gina was at the trapped woman's side in an instant. She searched for an opening in the dough, something to grab on to to try and free her, but there was nothing. It had formed a perfect cylinder around her, thick and unmarked. As Alice wobbled on end, Gina gave up on trying to find the loose end and instead tried ripping the dough, to no avail.
"Um... Gina.... Gina... Gina HELP MPMPH" Having been ignoring the girl's cries, she looked up to see that an apparatus had dropped down from the ceiling, and it had fed a large tube into the helpless woman's mouth. Alice looked at the free woman helplessly, her mouth stretched over the now-inflated end of the tube. "MMHHHH!"
As Gina tried to contain her panic and find a way to help the poor captured mercenary, she didn't notice the second apparatus drop down behind them. Not until it was too late. She turned to see two more nozzles aimed at the woman's backside. A small scanner was scanning the bulge in the breaded tube that was the woman's hindquarters. It wasn't too hard to figure out where those two where headed. "NO!" Gina shouted, jumping towards the machine, aiming to grab the nozzles before it was too late. Just as she did, they shot forward and buried themselves into the dough. After some wiggling and searching, a few startled 'MMMMPH'S' from the bound mercenary told Gina that they had hit their mark.
"I'm going to get you out of this, Alice..." Gina said, just as she heard the pumps turn on. A gooey liquid started pulsing through the tubes. It looked strangely like....