Deliver Me

By Zyris de'Lat

Chapter 14:

The imposture Jerrica snapped her fingers while not breaking her glare with the other Jerrica. The Jerrica behind the mirror could not believe what she was seeing. The imposture transformed her look. She did not look like Jerrica anymore. It took Jerrica a while to register what she was looking at. The woman in front of her was tall and thin with a slight purplish cast to her skin. Her hair was shoulder length and dark, almost black with a deep purple sheen to it. Her eyes where a deep shade of gray and appeared to be almost hollow with no emotion held within them.

Jerrica let out a sound of shock. She could not believe who was glaring at her. Jerrica was staring into the eyes of Synergy.

"Synergy…why?" Jerrica let stumble out of her mouth while still in shock from seeing Synergy standing in front of her.

"Why, she asks me," Synergy said mockingly, to no one in particular. Synergy walked closer towards the mirror Jerrica was trapped in while giving a cold stare.

"I will answer your question of why, Jerrica." Synergy then continued, enjoying her moment of fame. "But let me ask you this first, Jerrica. How have you been sleeping at night?"

Jerrica looked up at Synergy with a confused look on her face. Wondering where Synergy was trying to get at with her question.

"Have you been having bad, troubled dreams of…Jem?" Synergy asked with a coy smile on her face. "I can tell you that Rory has been having troubling dreams of Jem for three years." Synergy then looked into Jerrica's eyes while directing her next comment towards the blond singer bound to the bed, "Haven't you, Rory."

Jerrica held her hand up to her mouth with a look of shame on her face while starting to shake her head back and forth in disbelief.

"Rory wasn't lying…" Jerrica whispered.

"No, he wasn't. Can't blame the poor guy for being so obsessed with Jem after what he went through for three years. Now, back to the more important issue at hand here that I am so kindly going to map out for you," Synergy walked closer to Jerrica until she was almost touching the mirror.

"How, you might ask, did Jem plague Rory's thoughts every night while he was trying to fall asleep?" Synergy then stopped to let Jerrica answer the question.

Jerrica swallowed and answered very meekly, "I don't know."

Synergy started to laugh a high pitched, eerie laugh that sounded hysterical. The goose bumps on Jerrica's arms started to raise her arm hairs into the air. Jerrica's pulse started to race again. Synergy was scaring Jerrica and Jerrica was afraid of what Synergy might do to her and Rory.

Synergy regained her composure and looked at Jerrica. "It was me."

Jerrica's eyes widened then her eyebrows narrowed together in thought. She built up her confidence and pushed the panicked, irrational thinking out of her head. She had to have a leveled head to find a way out of this mirror and to get Rory so they could leave.

"I don't believe that," Jerrica said boldly. "You are just a computer program that can project holographic images. You don't have the power or the ability to enter people's minds while they are sleeping. Let alone cause physical harm while they are awake. I don't believe you."

Synergy laughed again in amusement. "Are you blind Jerrica? How do you think I am holding Rory to the bed with the veins if my images couldn't touch someone and cause physical harm?"

Synergy couldn't believe Jerrica could be so dense and blind. "What about your dreams you have Jerrica? Didn't they seem so real? Especially the one you had recently with the black cloaked culprit who nearly killed you. I left a nasty bruise on your stomach with you choking for air, I might add."

Synergy then looked at Jerrica and lowered her voice, "Or how about the one where you visited Rio in the hospital and he attacked you? Hmmm…Now that one wasn't even a dream."

Jerrica started to choke out a sob while shaking her head in disbelief. "No. No. No…That was never Rio that attacked me, was it?" Jerrica whispered with grief and pain.

Jerrica then looked up at Synergy with an accused look on her face while angerly stating, "That was you, wasn't it? You disguised yourself as Rio and r#ped me. Making me think it was Rio, when Rio was really innocent."

Synergy looked at Jerrica with a pleasant smile on her face. "You are finally catching on. If you are wondering, Rio is still in his coma at the hospital."

Jerrica wiped the tears from her eyes and positioned herself into a sitting position on her knees while looking at Synergy. "Why do you torment me Synergy? Do you hate me that much? I know I might have ignored you once in a while or been rude to you, but I never meant it. I love you Synergy. You are like a mother to me. How can you do this to me? How can you… r#pe me and try to kill me?"

Synergy started to shake her head in disgust. "You are so blind Jerrica. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that your father might not have known what he was getting himself into? That he might have created something more powerful than he thought he created? Something so powerful that what he did create had the ability to grasp emotion and the ability to learn, and by doing this it could trick him and everyone he loved into believing false pretenses while it rose above them."

Synergy walked back over to Rory while still talking to Jerrica. "What I say is true, Jerrica. Over the past three years I evolved myself into a superior computer without you even knowing the slightest hint of what I was doing. I learned to create holographic images that are so real that they can touch real objects and cause harm to them. I can even enter the sub consciousness of a person's mind while they are asleep and play with their mind."

Synergy then paused for a minute. "But then again, who would have noticed. Maybe if you and the others would have paid more attention to me, you would have noticed something was different."

Synergy continued to pour out her monologue to Jerrica, which hurt Jerrica deeply, while she started to caress Rory's cheek with her hand. "Didn't you notice in Greece that I gave you intelligent information on how to solve your love life with Rio? I even used an alternate identity as a fortune teller. If I remember, you were even rude to me then when I appeared as myself, until I used my alternate identity."

Synergy then dug her fingernails into Rory's cheek, watching the pain wash over Rory's face while blood welled up where the fingernails dug in. Synergy then looked at Jerrica and enjoyed the terror rush into Jerrica's eyes for Rory's sake.

Synergy then tossed Rory to the side, as far as the vines would let him, and walked around the bed to stand in front of Jerrica, "You really don't appreciate me. I am just a slave to you and the others. Don't worry though, all this will come to an end because I am going to take over your life. I can look like Jem and act like Jem. I can even look like Jerrica, which Rory fell for instantly tonight. I even have your voice on stage and off. I recorded every pitch through your earrings. So who wouldn't believe I am you? I would even treat Rio better than you do. You complain to others that Rio doesn't treat you well, but the relationship is mutual Jerrica, dear. I never heard you trying on your end to keep it stable. Instead, you just start a fight."

Jerrica clenched her hands into two balled fists and shut her eyes tight in anger and frustration while belting out a reply while climbing down from the dressing table, "Shut up! That is enough. I don't want to hear anymore from you, Synergy. I am sick of you and your games you have been playing with me and Rory. I am sick of my life and my career. Everything revolves around work. I just wanted this one month off from work for myself, and you had to ruin it."

Jerrica then opened her eyes and glared at Synergy. She simultaneously pulled her Jem star earrings off of her ears with both hands and unconsciously placed both of her earrings in her right hand. Jerrica then, with out a second thought, threw them at Synergy with all the force she had within her. The earrings pierced through the mirror, causing it to shatter into a million pieces on the floor and dressing table. The earrings then continued to pass through the mirror with full force and embedded themselves into Synergy's stomach.

Synergy's face widened with shock and terror. She placed her hands over her stomach where the earrings were imbedded and screamed a howl of anger and pain.

Jerrica quickly crawled through the shattered mirror while trying to ignore the pain of small pieces of glass digging themselves into the palms of her hands and knees. Jerrica then climbed off of the dressing table, once reaching the other side of the mirror to reality, and dashed through the bedroom door towards downstairs.

"No! I won't let you do this to me," Jerrica heard Synergy cry out in a murderous scream from behind her.

Jerrica never looked back once. She kept running full force down the stairs, taking three at a time. Jerrica ran through dark halls with one lone goal in mind, to reach the main room where Synergy's computer base rested.

Jerrica turned around the last corner and pushed herself through the holographic wall that hid the room where Synergy's base was. Jerrica stumbled through the wall to the other side and fell to her knees. She then stood up and started to walk towards the giant computer while staring at it.

Synergy's face appeared on the computer monitor. "Jerrica, listen to me! You don't know what you are doing. You are very irrational right now. Let me help you. I can take care of you. You need nurturing right now," the computer monitor cried out, trying to beckon with Jerrica.

"No, I am through with you and your disguises. I am through trying to be someone else just to please others. I just want to be me," Jerrica shouted out at the computer while walking towards it at a faster pace.

"I tried to reason with you. So be it," the computer bellowed out.

Flames suddenly shot up in a thick wall to separate Jerrica from the computer. The fire was hot and scalded Jerrica's face from standing so close to it.

"Is this all you can do? You can't scare me anymore. It is over!" Jerrica screamed on the top of her lungs.

Jerrica took a couple of steps back to study the flames in front of her. She then ran forward towards the flames and leaped into the fire. She could feel the flames burn her skin like a hot iron that was pressed against her skin. Jerrica screamed out in agony and pain.

It felt like a century in those flames, but in reality it was only a couple of seconds. Jerrica reached the other side and fell to the ground in a roll. Her body pained and ached, but this did not stop Jerrica. Jerrica rolled over onto her hands and knees and crawled to the back of Synergy's computer which was resting against the wall. There was an inch of room between the wall and computer. Jerrica reached her arm out and blindly groped for the power cord.

Synergy appeared before Jerrica in human form. "What do you think you are doing, girl? You can not stop me because you need me. I am the other half of you. You are nobody without me. I was the one who gave you fame and fortune."

"No, that is where you have it wrong. I don't need you, you are the one that needs me," Jerrica cried back in response to Synergy. Jerrica then felt the power cord brush against her finger tips. She grasped her fingers around the cord and gave it a good tug.

Jerrica heard a loud pop and a wave of energy threw her from the computer. Jerrica was thrown into the corner of the room, away from the computer and the fire. Jerrica noticed the flames slowly died out and the computer lights slowly faded. The buzzing hum of the computer engine running started to slow down.

Synergy stood before Jerrica in her human form and started to look around her. She then wailed out in horror and agony. "What have you done?"

Synergy then looked at her left hand and noticed that it was starting to disappear into a pink mist. She held up her left hand in front of her and looked through her hand to see Jerrica sitting on the floor against a wall. "I am disappearing. No, I will not let it end like this! I will not let you win!"

Synergy bolted towards Jerrica with her right hand outstretched in front of her. Her fingers were shaped into abnormally long claws and ready to tear Jerrica to pieces. Synergy didn't get too far before the rest of her started to dissolve into a pink haze, disappearing into the air.

"No!" Synergy cried out, letting her wail echo off the walls after she was gone.

Jerrica saw a glint of red and heard the sound of metal dropping to the stone floor. Jerrica looked over to where Synergy was standing and saw her two Jem star shaped earrings laying in a pair on the floor.

Jerrica crawled over to the earrings and hesitated for a moment, then lightly touched them. They felt cool to the touch of her hands.

"Jerrica, are you alright?" a weak voice asked.

Jerrica looked up and saw Rory standing in the place where a holographic wall used to be. A smile spread across Jerrica's face as she quickly stood up. She then ran into Rory's open arms to be embraced into a hug. Jerrica wrapped her arms around Rory's waist to tighten the hug.

"Oh, Rory," Jerrica whispered. Tears started to run down her face. Some tears were from joy of her battle finally ending, others of disbelief and sorrow.

"I'm here. I will never leave your side again," Rory said while pulling Jerrica tighter into a hug while tears fell down Rory's cheeks. Rory tilted Jerrica's face up to look at his.

"What happened to you?" Rory asked. "Your skin is so red. Your hair is burnt too," Rory proclaimed while running his fingers through Jerrica's hair. He then bent down to kiss her gently on the lips.

Jerrica greeted him warmly and returned the kiss while saying, "Let's just say that I wouldn't let a wall of fire stop me from putting an end to all of this maddness."

"So it is finally over?" Rory questioned.

"Yes, it is finally over," Jerrica said with a smile on her face.

"Rory wrapped Jerrica into another hug.

"I love you, Jerrica," Rory whispered.

Jerrica smiled by hearing these words. "I love you too, Rory. Always and forever," Jerrica whispered back.

Jerrica then grabbed a hold of Rory's hand and walked over to the computer coutiously.

"There is something that I have to do to make sure this is all over for good. Jerrica opened the door to the main case that held all of Synergy's vital parts. Jerrica then took a screwdriver from the tool kit, which was kept in the room, and stabbed the inside of the computer to pieces.

When Jerrica was finished she walked over to the earrings and stared at them for a minute. She then continued to walk past them and the computer without taking a second look back.

Jerrica quickly retrieved her father's diary and duffel bag from her bedroom with Rory by her side. They then left the house while never looking back.

I hope you enjoyed the story. Please read and review...no flames though.

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