A young boy was chained to the wall, battered, bruised, and bloody. A trickle of scarlet liquid ran from his lips and red marks covered his chest, given that his shirt was missing. All he could see was a blur, and he felt groggy. It took him a while to remember that his glasses had been thrown on the ground and smashed under the foot of his captor. A slurred voice soon faded into malicious laughter, and the 13 year old tried to remember at least why he was here.

"Wh-who are 'ou." The boy slurred. His captor roughly stuck a cracked pair of glasses onto the victims face. As the tired kid studied the captors face, a sharp pang of realization hit him. His pupils dialated and an expression of horror spread across the tortured soul. The child immediately began to struggle, hopelessly attempting to free himself of his bonds.

The captor gave an evil smile and waggled his finger in front of the captive's eyes, "Now don't you remember the punishment for trying to escape?" The shadowy figure asked.

The figure's fingers lit up with electricity in front of the captives face, trying to scare the child into submission.

Though he knew what tortures lay ahead, the boy didn't stop his struggle and in fact spat in his captors face. "I will never give into you, X.A.N.A. You hear? I will esc-''

The kid's sentence was cut short as an extreme level of voltage surged from his head to toe. The figure had wrapped his hands around the child's neck and was sending an electric current through the poor child. The kid thrashed around trying to at least strike a blow on his captor, but his restraints held him back and he could only scream in agony. This was mere entertainment for the figure. He chuckled as he increased the voltage in his attack, watching the child curse him and scream. Yet the boy didn't beg for mercy. Instead he bit back the tears that had welled up in his eyes and managed a menacing glare, even bearing severe and throbbing burns, cuts, scrapes, and bruises, the boy wouldn't give in.

A look of surprise spread across the captor's face. He had been sure that the mere mortal would break sooner than this. This one was the only of the group that he managed to capture. The rest escaped. In fact, the captive had served as a decoy for his friends, giving himself up to the figure and in turn, giving his friends time to escape.

The figure grimaced at the memory and his anger began to rise rapidly. "Tell me where your friends are, Jeremie!" The captor's demonic voice boomed.

Jeremie thrust his face as far forward as his restraints would allow, "Never." He hissed, "I would never tell you where Aelita is, let alone Ulrich, Odd, or Yumi. Why you would get an idea like that is beyond me, X.A.N.A."

XANA was fuming. "Why not? Why let yourself be tortured when you could tell me where they are and have peace?"

Jeremie snarled with fury, "I will never have peace with you alive. Plus, I expected this to happen, and I let it happen in order to save my friends. They may not like it, but I saved their lives for the time being."

At that point XANA's anger got the best of him. He tightened the restraints so much that they stretched Jeremie until one of his shoulders dislocated itself.

He whipped his head towards XANA, "If you think that will make me give in, think again." The boy's voice was obviously strained and scratchy from lack of water. The artificial intelligence hissed and unlocked Jeremie's chains.

Jeremie dropped to the floor with an, "Oof."

XANA then proceeded to grab the child by his neck and begin to squeeze.

"Tell me where they are!"

"Nope!"

The AI threw Jeremie against the wall, breaking the boy's glasses into pieces in the process.

"I ask you again-"

Jeremie cut him off.

"No way, XANA."

"ARRRRGGGGHH!" XANA began electrocuting Jeremie, making the child's blonde hair stand up in a spiky fashion. In all of this, Jeremie passed out. XANA locked the blonde up and probe his unconscious mind with hypnotic nightmares.

"Soon he will break." XANA commented, watching the 13 year old struggle for his life within his horrible nightmare. The AI watched with pleasure at his long-time enemy's torture.

Nice first chapter huh? It came to me when I was bored. I don't have a specific time for my next chapter's release so just keep checking up on it! R&R please. Thank you!