Chapter 7: So the Mantis says

CH07_001_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I sat on the cot, not sleeping. My head pounded and throbbed. Today was more difficult than any before it. Was I losing my touch? What would Vamp do to me if I did? Would he take my mask again? Let in all the thoughts. All of those thoughts that weren't me. Would he let me be consumed by them? I'd lose my fear. I'd lose myself. I'd lose everything. [End Narration]

CH07_002_PSYCHO
Your fear is unproductive, Screaming.

CH07_003_SCREAMING
Mantis! My mantis, you've been so quiet lately.

CH07_004_PSYCHO
I have been thinking. Of you and me.

CH07_005_SCREAMING
I hate it in here...

CH07_006_PSYCHO
As you should... it reminds you of that place where you were trapped.

CH07_007_SCREAMING
[Narrating] My mind swam in the images. It was dark, so much so that I could not see. My stomach rumbled and my mouth watered from need. Then, my mantis. He showed me water. He showed me the delight in the flesh that surrounded me. Opened my eyes to all the food I had passed up. I stood from the cot and stared into the mirror where I saw my Mantis before me. [End Narration]

CH07_008_PSYCHO
You let them tame you, rule you, how long has it been since you've indulged your hunger? I know I'm hungry, but that it will be sated on the battlefield. Yours will fester in your heart for eternity if you do not overcome your fear of that... bastard.

CH07_009_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I picked up the doll that sat next to me in a chair and smiled in thought. I have all I need to indulge that hunger of mine. [End Narration]

CH07_010_PSYCHO
We have not become one yet, my dear. You've kept us from merging our tastes together. You've kept yourself from growing strong. Let me in, and you'll have nothing to fear from them.

CH07_011_SCREAMING
[Narrating] There was a hum from the doll before a ball of light shot from it seeking out a man out in the soldiers quarters, and I turned waiting for the man to enter. My mantis was calling in prey. I knew it. I could feel it. [End Narration]

[hums the Mantis Theme]

CH07_012_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
Wh-what? Where is this place.

CH07_013_PSYCHO
I'll teach you to enjoy your screams, their screams. I'll teach you to enjoy other's fear, not just your own.

CH07_014_SCREAMING
How?

[Narrating] The man stared at me, fear consuming and tearing at him. Wondering what I would do to him, wondering why he couldn't move or run from me. [End Narration]

CH07_015_PSYCHO
Take one of our knives. And feast... Take in his screams. Hear them. Hear his cries, his roars, his howls! Take them in! Let his fear fuel you!

CH07_016_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I picked up the knife staring at it. [End Narration]

CH07_017_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
[blubber in fear]

CH07_018_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I cut at his cheek... [End Narration]

CH07_019_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
[scream in pain]

CH07_020_SCREAMING
[Narrating] ... and flinched. They'd hear him. They'd come in. They'd hurt me... They'd take my mask. [End Narration]

CH07_021_PSYCHO
No, no, it's all right. Enjoy it. Drink it in.

CH07_022_SCREAMING
But they'll hear...

CH07_023_PSYCHO
If they do, I will stop them. You never have a need to fear them, while I am here.

CH07_024_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I continued to cut at his cheek, sawing off a piece of his flesh. I lifted my mask slightly, just enough to expose my mouth so I could take in my treat. [End Narration]

CH07_025_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
[moan in horror]

CH07_026_SCREAMING
[giggles]

CH07_027_PSYCHO
Good... Very good, my dear! More. More! Feed us. Indulge our hunger!

CH07_028_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
Oh God! Please! No! No! Stop! [screams]

CH07_029_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I continued to carve at his flesh, giggling all the while, before I tossed away the knife beginning to chew on one of his arms on my knees. [End Narration]

CH07_030_CRYING
Screaming... what... are you...?

CH07_031_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I stared at my sister a triumphant smile and could feel so much power all around me. [End Narration]

[giggling madly] Crying. Can you hear it? The cries of battle we will partake in?

[Narrating] I stood stumbling to my sister reaching out to touch her, my hands covered in the glorious blood. A shot came from my doll hitting Crying, forcing her body to stand still so she couldn't run from the beauty of it. [End Narration]

CH07_032_CRYING
What...why can't I move...Screaming...stop it...let me go...

CH07_033_SCREAMING
Let you go? But I want you to see. See his tears. His wonderful tears.

CH07_034_PSYCHO
It is good.

CH07_035_SCREAMING
For the mantis, he says it is good.

CH07_036_CRYING
I-I hear...them...I...I see...I see his sorrow...Cry...as much as you like...I'll...stay here to listen...

CH07_037_SCREAMING
[laughs and then roars as RANDOMDUDETHE2ND is stabbed]

CH07_038_RANDOMDUDETHE2ND (C)
[gurgles and collapses]

[alarms sound]

CH07_039_PSYCHO
Goodnight, Wolf.

CH07_040_SCREAMING
[Narrating] The alarms were so high pitched but I continued to eat on the man's flesh before me. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see a strange man, that reminded me of that other doll I had, pass through my sister causing her to collapse onto the floor. It felt so good to eat again. To eat flesh just like I had so long ago. I heard the doors open as people came into the room to observe me, but I didn't care. They were fear too. I would eat them too. My mantis approved as more shots came from the doll immobilizing them.[End Narration]

CH07_041_PSYCHO
Wonderful, my Screaming. I'm so proud. Now, we can truly become one.

CH07_042_SCREAMING
I hear the screams. [giggles and caws]

CH07_043_LIQUID
Why is she out of control! Vamp, what happened?

CH07_044_VAMP
I don't know... Is that a... ghost?

CH07_045_PSYCHO
Out of control... [chuckles] It seems you do not know a killer when you see one.

Ch07_046_NAOMI
Psycho Mantis!? How can that be?

CH07_047_PSYCHO
Ah, the murderess herself. Are you going to give this one FOXDIE as well?

CH07_048_LIQUID
It's been along time, Mantis...

CH07_049_PSYCHO
Ah, "Boss", finally put this whore on the right side?

Ch07_050_NAOMI
Whore?! How dare you!

CH07_051_PSYCHO
How dare I? You're one to talk, bitch. Although, I do have you to thank for my resurrection into this kindred spirit. Such a shame, she's not fond of women.

CH07_052_SCREAMING
[Narrating] I curled around the arm, eating on it, and my mantis released them petting over my skull pleased with me. [End Narration]

CH07_053_LIQUID
Enough! I'm shutting down her Nanomachines!

CH07_054_SCREAMING
[Narrating] Blackout. [End Narration]