The Mind's Truth 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing
Title: The Mind's Truth
Author: neekabe
Warnings: PG-13 for strangeness... slight language.
A/N: This wasn't supposed to be this long but, it's looking to be around 7 parts including this. It's my first multi-parter so please feel free to tell me what you think. Send me any questions, comments, criticism, whatever and I will get back to you.
Enjoy!
The Mind's Truth
Prologue
The room is dark and empty. Flickering monitors are the only light source available; they fill the room with green tinged shadows. However in that little light, look closely. You can just barely see the teenager lying on that gleaming metal table in the middle of the room. And if you look closer you can see him straining against the leather straps holding him to the table. Now that you're aware of that look closer, listen harder. See the wires and electrodes hooked up to every part of his body, and follow those wires. Connect them to the ominously glowing machines around the room. See his face contort as he vainly fights against something. You can hear the quiet grunts of pain that escape his tight control, and you can hear something else. Something that might be called a whimper if you did not know that this was one of the legendary Gundam Pilots.
We have caught them all with only minimal losses. We are very pleased.
This equipment, the computers the monitors, the programs and the systems have all been designed for this day alone. It was the only way that we could think of to break them. Tests showed that them amount of drugs needed to keep control for any length of time on their overly tolerant bodies would probably kill them. And, as you can probable conclude as we did, they would rather die that give away anything. From what we've seen they welcome death. If we tried physical torture we'd just lose valuable assets.
As far as we can find they care about no one but the other pilots, and even that cannot be used against them. They are far too dangerous to put any two in the same room. And again, any one would rather die then be used against a friend.
So we came up with this.
Virtual reality.
Walk with me. I'll show you the others.
Using these systems we can control everything they see, hear, touch, feel, smell, and to some extent what they think. Through prolonged use mixed with random situations in reality, we can blur the lines in their mind between reality and illusion. They all know that we're using VR against them, but they have no way to stop it, no way to even tell when we're using it unless it's an extreme stimulation. Soon, they will have no idea what is real and what is just something we have created for them. Soon they will doubt reality. And them we will have them.
See this one? He's trying to fight it. Watch that monitor, you see what he sees. Yes we are close to breaking that one.
Once reality is doubted then other things come to be questioned. What is right? Have the ideals that you know as right been manipulated to? How can you know what is 'right' and 'true' if you don't know what to base it on? Is it wrong to kill a person that doesn't exist? How can you know for a fact that a person does exist? How can you know when you're free?
The hope is that we will be able to break them this way. Make them uncertain enough that they may come to accept our cause. And then they will fight for us…
And we will be victorious.
*** To be continued***
Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing
Title: The Mind's Truth
Author: neekabe
Warnings: PG-13 for strangeness... slight language.
A/N: This wasn't supposed to be this long but, it's looking to be around 7 parts including this. It's my first multi-parter so please feel free to tell me what you think. Send me any questions, comments, criticism, whatever and I will get back to you.
Enjoy!
The Mind's Truth
Prologue
The room is dark and empty. Flickering monitors are the only light source available; they fill the room with green tinged shadows. However in that little light, look closely. You can just barely see the teenager lying on that gleaming metal table in the middle of the room. And if you look closer you can see him straining against the leather straps holding him to the table. Now that you're aware of that look closer, listen harder. See the wires and electrodes hooked up to every part of his body, and follow those wires. Connect them to the ominously glowing machines around the room. See his face contort as he vainly fights against something. You can hear the quiet grunts of pain that escape his tight control, and you can hear something else. Something that might be called a whimper if you did not know that this was one of the legendary Gundam Pilots.
We have caught them all with only minimal losses. We are very pleased.
This equipment, the computers the monitors, the programs and the systems have all been designed for this day alone. It was the only way that we could think of to break them. Tests showed that them amount of drugs needed to keep control for any length of time on their overly tolerant bodies would probably kill them. And, as you can probable conclude as we did, they would rather die that give away anything. From what we've seen they welcome death. If we tried physical torture we'd just lose valuable assets.
As far as we can find they care about no one but the other pilots, and even that cannot be used against them. They are far too dangerous to put any two in the same room. And again, any one would rather die then be used against a friend.
So we came up with this.
Virtual reality.
Walk with me. I'll show you the others.
Using these systems we can control everything they see, hear, touch, feel, smell, and to some extent what they think. Through prolonged use mixed with random situations in reality, we can blur the lines in their mind between reality and illusion. They all know that we're using VR against them, but they have no way to stop it, no way to even tell when we're using it unless it's an extreme stimulation. Soon, they will have no idea what is real and what is just something we have created for them. Soon they will doubt reality. And them we will have them.
See this one? He's trying to fight it. Watch that monitor, you see what he sees. Yes we are close to breaking that one.
Once reality is doubted then other things come to be questioned. What is right? Have the ideals that you know as right been manipulated to? How can you know what is 'right' and 'true' if you don't know what to base it on? Is it wrong to kill a person that doesn't exist? How can you know for a fact that a person does exist? How can you know when you're free?
The hope is that we will be able to break them this way. Make them uncertain enough that they may come to accept our cause. And then they will fight for us…
And we will be victorious.
*** To be continued***