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The Mind is a Dangerous Place


Chapter 9: Triangle Tranceiver

Deep within the mind of April Oliver, the essence of her true self lays unconscious.

Imbedded deep within the brain, near the area from which we control our actions and where our subconscious is, a tiny device is seen that seems alien from the rest of the brain.

Looking more like a tiny bullet, the device constantly sends out charged electrodes throughout the brain.

There are three of these bullets like devices, deep within April's brain.

The brain itself looks like it's all wired. Blue and green tiny wires, as delicate as a vein, yet within them flash the power of disability to anything and anyone.

Suddenly the device sends an electric blue shock clear across the brain, until the entire brain is enveloped in an intense electric blue light that sparks all around. The device had been activated.

Someone had sent an electronic pulse, intentionally, directed towards the device in Aprils brain. In doing this, caused the device to activate.

Since April is no longer in control of herself, the device took over. As it spreads itself over April's brain, it completely takes control over her body.

It opens April's eyes and blinks. The device, even though controlling April, does not see things the way she does.

Not in colors it sees, but in energy. Pure electromagnetic energy that radiates off of everything and everyone.

It smirked as it watched the charged air all around, hovering over the sand of the beach, as well as from the people themselves.

It began to laugh. Not a chuckle, but a loud laughter that radiated all across the beach.

It suddenly got up and turned around to face someone. The device instantly, in the way it sees, notices three people who radiate at a high frequency…just like April.

It started to walk towards one of the three. It was an older man, a hunter that was for sure.

When it was standing right in front of the man, it spoke out.

"You will soon see what Key sees."

Yes, Key; the code name for April. The other's code name is Gate. Once together…they will become the ultimate…

Suddenly April's essence woke up. She groans as she slowly began to regain a part of her body.

Even if you are mentally electrocuted, it still feels like your entire body had been hit by a blast.

Now, there is one thing that can not be done. The device and April can not be awake together. If so, the body will immediately shut down.

As April regained her consciousness, she felt her body begin to shut down. The device had long retracted itself from controlling April's brain.

So April waited until she felt herself shut down, then she began to do the long process in slowly gaining control over her body.

Aprils' POV

It's terribly difficult to strengthen yourself mentally, when you can't even control your own brain.

I can now fully feel and hear everything around me. And judging by the way my butt is sinking, I figure I'm sitting on sand.

And then there's my back. It seriously hurts. And since I can feel myself leaning on something hard, I think I'm leaning on a tree. Oh joy.

But I cannot move myself. I mean I can, but that requires a lot of energy; something that I don't have right now.

Why does it require a lot of energy? Because that damn device that's drilled into my brain, even though it is no longer in control of my body, still is controlling most of my actions.

There are two ways I can regain complete control over my body, provided no one activates me again. First, would be to slowly gain control over my body.

And that could take…um….about sixty-two hours, twenty-three minutes, and forty-four seconds. Yep, it will take a while.

But then there is the other way, which is actually impossible. This way has two sub ways in giving me complete control over my body. Both of them will be incredibly painful.

The first sub way would be if someone would read out the binary code, so that I may regain control over my body. But then again, I'll still be under the control of Dr. Grey.

Yet the good side of that would be me having enough time to kick Dr. Grey's pride before he locks me up again.

(Smirks)

But the other way, which has no loose ends, will grant me complete control over my body. But that would be impossible.

The reason is because someone would have to send a triangle transceiver towards a pointed region.

Let me explain, as much as I would hate to admit it, I am a transceiver myself. A human transceiver; I have had this since I was a little girl. I use to get headaches and after that, I could actually hear and sometimes even read messages that are flying through the ion-waves.

But after Dr. Grey found me, he had (shall we say) extracted the headaches and tampered with my brain. I'm not going to get into all the details now, even if I wanted to (which I don't).

So anyway, someone will have to use another transceiver, pick up any signal from a close rage, and then that signal will literally bounce onto me. I will probably repeat whatever is being said, and then I will go through some serious pain. But after that, I might be free. Might, provided if someone did it the right way.

Like I said though, impossible; because who the heck will have a transceiver in the middle of an island.

Yes, I know I'm on an island. Like before, once I regain control over myself, my mind will rewind to what had happened while I was shut down.

Suddenly my thoughts are interrupted by the sound of yelling.

Who the hell will be yelling now? We just crashed on an island.

I figure that I should go and check it out. Regaining some of my energy, I slowly get up and walk towards the sound.

The closer I get the clearer I can see and hear what is going on. It was a fight by the look of things, between two men.

I could not see them clearly, because of the group of people surrounding the area where the two men are fighting.

I walk up behind a quite large man with dark brown curly hair. He seemed not to notice me as I stopped to stand a little behind him.

I turn towards the fighting and notice that the fight was between the man, who had called me a crazy chick the other day, and the one who had saved me from the crashing part of the plane.

As I watched, I kept my eyes locked on the two. They punched each other, tacked each other, and tried to strangle each other.

They will kill each other if no one will do anything!

But taking a quick survey around, told me that no one was planning on entering 'the ring' and stopping the fighting.

All right, I'll do it myself.

I turned my gaze back towards the two and kept my eyes fixed on them. I felt my eyes darken…soon feeling my eyes being consumed by static. My static…

I concentrated on the two. My target was…their minds. If I can just enter their minds for a second, I might be able to disable them long enough for someone to separate the two.

As I penetrated into their minds, I knew that they were seriously mentally strong. They immediately rejected me and started brawling again.

Now I was pissed. Remember when I said that whenever I'm angry, this helps me to gain control of my body.

Well, that's exactly what happened. But it was not the body that I was controlling now. It was a part of the device.

Before I realized it, I had completely penetrated the two men's minds and they were now clutching their heads in deep pain.

For a fleeting moment, just a moment, it felt like I was back in training.

They would place me in an empty room. Dr. Grey would come up beside me and lay his hands on my shoulders.

He would then lean towards my ear and whisper to me the order. Of course at this time I was partially in control. I could feel, touch, smell, and hear. But I was not in control of the rational part of my mind. All that mattered at that moment was to complete the order.

One day, they brought in a wild boar. It was the first time I saw one of those huge creatures with their enormous tusks.

Dr. Grey ordered me to penetrate it…and kill it.

Now I feel sorry for what I had done to that boar. The minute he entered the room, he went charging straight towards me. I did not move away at all. All I did was penetrate my mind into his own.

The boar immediately stopped and started squealing in pain. Ten seconds later, that boar was lying dead on the cold floor. Blood was oozing out of its' ears, mouth, and eyes.

I remember what Dr. Grey had said afterwards. "Well done Key. With a little more practice you can wipe out an entire city."

I suddenly pushed those evil memories away, and quickly left the minds of the two men.

You could have killed them April!

I yelled at myself disgustedly. I heard someone yelling out in the distance for the fighting to stop. I turned my head towards the voice and watched as the man who had cleaned up my cut came running towards the two men fighting; followed by a younger man and a woman.

I think it's time I make a discreet exist.

With that I turned around and started walking towards the place where I was before. When I reached there, I sat down on the sand and leaned onto the trunk of the palm tree.

After that, I just sort of shut myself down. Not permanently, but I just shut some of my senses down. Like my sight as well as my hearing.

I needed some peace and quiet to calm down my thoughts as they razed forward with old and painful memories.

Time flies by when you're inside your mind. You know when you dream a big dream, like you are living a whole new life, that when you wake up you find out that it has only been a couple of hours.

Well that is what happened to me, only I was not dreaming. I was in the middle of an important problem solving. Either to slowly gain complete control over myself, or destroying that damn device.

But then I would immediately die.

Anyway, I was thinking about this when suddenly I felt it; the sizzling pain running up my spine.

It can't me?"

I felt myself arch forward on its own accord.

Some is actually sending a triangle transceiver!

I braced myself for the pain as it exploded in my mind. I can never get use to that.

I fell to my side and this time…I could feel myself going into seizures.

Suddenly I felt someone grab my hands and try to keep me still.

You are only making it worse!

I mentally screamed out.

Then I felt hands on my face. They felt soft, yet strong hands. For an instant I was afraid.

Could it me Dr. Grey? His hands were strong…probably too strong.

But I pushed that thought away as I suddenly felt the same person's hands delicately trace across the numbers that were parked on my flesh.

Dr. Grey never was so gentle. This person is most definitely not Dr. Grey. Who…?

I could not finish my thoughts because my mind exploded in white hot pain that traveled all across my body.

I felt myself go limp. Weekend beyond measure, I waited for the frequency to enter my mind.

It came. It was in the French language. So I let myself speak it out loud.

With every word I spoke out…I slowly began to gain complete control over myself; I was almost free.

I was so consumed with the thrill of being free, that I did not notice the device sending an electric blue charge straight into my subconscious.

Two things happened at once. I had complete control over myself, but I also felt the incredible pain from the charge.

I snapped my eyes open, and saw two concerned faces looking down at me. But I could not speak to them.

Because I screamed out in pain as my brain felt like it was being fried.

You could say it was a going away present from the device. Damn how I hate it.


Ok, Chapter 9 is done! Sorry about my cliffhangers. Didn't know I was on a roll. Hehe.

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