B4UTRUST wrote:The lights dimmed to a more tolerable level. Tarot's voice echoed from the dark.
"Who hired you for this job? Who are they, what do they want? What are their powers... and more importantly... where are they?"
The dimmed lights helped, and she was able to raise her head and look in the direction of his voice. No lies, just the truth to best of her knowledge.
"Abaddon approached Ember for the job. Who is over him, I'm not sure. I never spoke to anyone but Abaddon and Hazard." Argent answered truthfully. "If Ember spoke to anyone else, she never told me. I know of Abaddon; Hazard, whose one lucky bastard; Demise, who uses eye contact to kill. There was someone else, I overheard someone in the hallways mention something about an astronomer, but that's it."
The next question was harder. "I don't know what they want. Ember and I were told to get a few metas together and crash the rally. When the heros responded, Ember and I were to attempt to capture them." Argent winced a little, her head starting to ache a little from emotional feedback as the electrodes tried to regulate her sudden guilt. "The crocodile man ... I focused on him first .. for what he did to Ember. I teleported him to a medical room... where people were waiting to take him." it was getting harder to talk, the pain in her head getting stronger. "I can't tell you where it is. They took me in blindfolded, and it took a couple hours to get there, but I can't say if that's because it's that far away, or they just took a scenic route. It's big. No windows inside that I saw. Maybe underground, partially..." she shook her head, wishing she could say more. "I'm sorry, I know that's useless to you. I can teleport back there, anywhere in the building now that I've been inside it, but I could be standing on top of it and not know it."
"I don't know what happened with me and Gar... Saibot." she swallowed, her hands attempting to go to her head to rub at the headache. "... I sent him into a frenzy of lust during the battle to catch him... but -something- changed." She paused, looking straight towards where she guessed Tarot might be standing. "He turned it back on me, maybe. I don't know... but whatever's connecting us now is beyond anything I've ever felt. I couldn't duplicate this mess of emotions if I tried." And I don't want to, she added silently.
Another pause, as she winced and again attempted to rub her head. "... is this thing... supposed to hurt like this?" she asked plantively.
The electrodes were doing their job, disrupting her power and sending it back along the neural pathways a normal brain used for dealing with stress and frustration. Unfortunately, Lei didn't use those pathways normally. From a young age, she'd been using her power to deal with her own emotions, locking them away until she could expel them, often resulting in flocks of dead pigeons as the helpless birds were subjected to human emotions. The feedback was getting constricted as it tried to force its way through those unused neurons. The result would be the mother of all migraines.
"The croc... wasn't in the medbay when I brought Saibot and Ember in...." she continued, although she was once again wincing from the light, already seeing spots and starbursts. "Ember... I took her to Hawaii... she loved the volcanos there ... please leave her there? ... but Saibot had freed himself... of me.. of them.. when I got back...." She swayed in the chair, lowering her head as the first wave of nausea from the migraine hit. "...... I think....... I'm going to be sick........."
