Secure Mutant Holding

[Teri Napliotis]

"We don't know, you tell us." she smirks.

[Ayami Morita]

"We DID mind. Somewhere inside, I DID mind it. I had to. I minded it the second the collar came off; I must have minded it then..."

[Teri Napliotis]

"Hmm... so the moment you were no longer yourself you started to mind it... kind of makes sense we suppose." she grins, making a mental note about the odd choice of pronoun Ayami used.

[Ayami Morita]

"No! This IS the real me. This. Right here, right now. This is me, not whatever you...turned me into."

[Teri Napliotis]

"Whatever helps you sleep at night." she laughs and walks over to the bed to sit down. "We bet the crickets can get pretty loud when everything else is quiet..."

[Ayami Morita]

"THAT'S how you're doing it. You're one of the damn crickets! Hah! You've given yourself away!"

Ayami looks pleased with herself.

[Teri Napliotis]

"Yeah, you better go and stomp every single one of them out. Better get all the moths and mosquitoes and flies and earwicks and fruitflies and bees and fireflies and grashoppers too to be sure and then we'll meet back here right at half past impossible. We'll wait." she laughs.

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami narrowed her eyes again. "You can't hide forever. I'll get every telepath on campus to hunt you down if I have to...we'll get you. And you'll wish you'd never been born, I promise you that. We'll go over this place with a fine-toothed comb."

[Teri Napliotis]

"You won't find a thing. But the thought of you wasting everyone's time will be sure to amuse us for a while."

[Ayami Morita]

"You're not THAT good, no matter what you think of yourself."

[Teri Napliotis]

"We don't think you won't find anything, we know it. But by all means, go ahead. Maybe try for a London-wide ban on insects too. Afterall, precious little Rainbow is more important than anything else, right?"

[Ayami Morita]

"I'm more important than a reject from one of the plagues, that's for sure. I'm more important than PESTS."

[Teri Napliotis]

"For pests we seem to rile you up pretty badly. Do you go after silverfish with the same hate and zealousness too? Because maybe you should..."

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami shudders again.

"You don't even qualify as a pest. You're pestilence incarnate. We should pump some DDT in there and just end you once and for all. No one would even miss you."

[Teri Napliotis]

"Why thanks for the compliment, Rainbow. Are you trying to make us blush by calling us the incarnation of one of the Horsemen?" she giggles. "And don't pretend you'd have the guts to come in here and kill us, little girl."

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami narrowed her eyes.

"I certainly hope you enjoyed yourself with me, because no one will ever let you that close again. You're going to rot in here for the rest of your life, alone. I'm gonna get them to take away your visitor privilages, I'm gonna get them to turn off the lights. Maybe I'll even make them take the toilet and the bed out of your cell. Just you, in a room, in the dark, for the rest of your life."

[Teri Napliotis]

"Do what you want, you'll never truly get rid of us and you know it." She gets up from the bed and slowly stalks the few steps over to the glass wall while she keeps talking. "Five maybe ten years down the line you'll think you're fine and one day you'll find a grashopper sitting on your bed, looking at you, and you'll scream."

[Ayami Morita]

"You just try it. By the time they ever let you out of here, I'll be ready. I'll pick your mind apart, bit by bit. I'll put you through the most exquisite suffering you can imagine, and then I'll REALLY get going. By the time I'm done, you'll be a gibbering, incoherent mess. If I even let you live."

By the time she was finished, Ayami was standing with her nose practically pressed against the glass.

[Teri Napliotis]

"We'll be looking forward to that." she pratically whispers, her face inches away from Ayami's.

[Ayami Morita]

"Leave us alone from here on out, Teri, or I'll make you regret it. That's a promise," she whispered back.

With that, Ayami spat on the glass and turned to walk away.

[Teri Napliotis]

Like sheep to the slaughter. Teri grins as Ayami walks away, her arms folded behind her back as she steps away from the plexiglass. She's breaking down even more than we hoped.

[Ayami Morita]

Having put the guard away with a concentrated dose of fear, which was in plentiful supply, Ayami stormed in to the secure holding center.

[Teri Napliotis]

Having heard the distant scream of the guard Teri sits up in bed, wide-awake in a matter of seconds. This is it...
Grabbing her saved up food she wolves it down, still chewing as she steps up to the plexi-glass.

[Ayami Morita]

"YOU can get out of my head RIGHT THIS SECOND, or I swear by all the gods, I shall destroy your psyche," Ayami growled, her hair standing on end.

[Teri Napliotis]

"Poor, deluded Rainbow. Failing to realize the simplest things, as usual."

[Ayami Morita]

"<I'll give you to the count of ten. One. Two...>" Ayami said, switching to Japanese.

[Teri Napliotis]

"Talking in that crazy moon-language won't help you much, you know."

[Ayami Morita]

"<Three....four....five...>" she says, walking closer, her hair standing on end, her eyes beginning to flash red...

[Teri Napliotis]

Yes! Do it, do it now!

She steps up to the glass, grins at Ayami and laughs. "You think we're afraid of that weak and pathetic girl showing her fangs?"

[Ayami Morita]

"<Six....seven....eight...>" Ayami was at the enclosure now pressing her face against the glass...

[Teri Napliotis]

Teri presses her cheek against the glass herself, whispering sharply. "Do it!"

[Ayami Morita]

<"Nine....TEN!">

Crackles of red energy flittered around her, as she send blasts at Teri's head, shutting off and overloading the psi-shielding.

Torment, torment, all the pain you have caused, all the terror you have instigated back on you ten thousand fold. Agony, agony, flayed to the very bone. Despair, a bottomless pit from which you shall never recover....DIE.

[Teri Napliotis]

Whatever Ayami expected, it propably wasn't Teri not even trying to escape the waves of pain stabbing into her mind. It only takes a few short moments before she collapses to the ground, twitching and jerking under the pain searing through her every fiber.
But deep down in the maze of her screaming thoughts is a center of calm. Cold and calculating it welcomes the psychic stream, even drawing it in further. More and more of the twitching locust in Teri's mindscape latch on to the searing beam of pain, pulling Ayami closer and closer.

And despite the pain the girl is inflicting on her and the hatred Teri has shown towards her the more of the swarm latches on to Ayami's projection the more she feels a sense of belonging and being welcomed. A tight-knit community receiving someone into their ranks, almost unsettingly warm and friendly. Home. Family. Belonging. Purpose. Equality. Loyalty. Dedication. Unconditional commitment.
The bonds between the tiny sparks that make up Teri's mind beyond anything even Ayami has ever experienced and they call out to her.

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami laughs at first, as her tormenter crumbles, down. But then, her face goes all...funny.

Sensing something's wrong, she tries to cut free...but she can't, and she sinks to her knees, her eyes widening and her jaw sinking open some.

"<Mommy....Daddy>" she whispers, as long-forgotten feelings of welcomeness, of BELONGING, wash over her. Memories of happy times, shared, back when she was normal. Acceptance by friends and family...the teamwork in her class sections...working together, for the betterment of all...

"No...no, I'm my own person, I'm free...I'm alone..." she mumbles, trying to bring up the will to fight...

[Teri Napliotis]

"You still don't understand? We are saving you. We are going to save EVERYONE, but we need you to do it! They are all flawed, they can't understand each other but WE will show them the way!"
Despite the echoing voices trying to convince Ayami Teri doesn't actually leave her a choice as more and more tiny mental connections tug at her mind.

[Ayami Morita]

No, no....at peace, peace at last...NO, NO, NO......help me....stop.........we're.......calm....

Bear-chan...

Ayami's head bowed, as the last of her resistance melted away under Teri's assault.

[Teri Napliotis]

"You'll be back together with 'Bear-chan' soon enough." Teri laughs as Ayami steps over to the control panel of Teri's cell and at the push of a few buttons the plexi-glass pane slides up into the ceiling with a hiss.

Now to make a convincing exit...

Having picked herself up from the floor she lets Ayami jump at her and the two put up a fight for the cameras for a while. Using the time basically fighting with herself Teri sends a long stream of instructions Ayami's way to make sure the new part of 'her' knows what to do once she's out of reach. Once she's content with that she lets a final punch land on Ayami, trying not to flinch herself as she lets the girl fall down, unconscious.

Before Ayami has even hit the floor Teri dissipates into locust and makes a break for the doors and her freedom.

[Ayami Morita]

Ayami crumbled to the floor, the instructions from Teri burrowing deeper and deeper into her subconcious...