A/N: So sorry it took so long to update... :D

When Yumi awoke in the morning she had no idea what to expect. Her cell was still plugged in and charged; even connected to Ulrich still. She listened silently as he breathed into the phone- living at the school must be really convenient. The ability to sleep in until the latest time before school began. How lucky! After shaking her storming thoughts out of her head she arose from the bed and began getting ready for school.

"Yumi, dear!" her mother called from just down the stairs. "Have you seen your father?"

Yumi's look grew wide with suspicion once she heard her mother calling her father's absence, but simmered once remembering the awful sight from last night. "N-no, I haven't Mom!"

"Okay dear, I'll call his cell now."

Yumi shrugged and stepped into her bedroom's shower, having let the water run for a few moments to get the temperature just right. After releasing a captivated sigh of angst, she imagined the water washing her worries right down the drain.

" Y mi, ou ve a vis or!" a voice faintly called above the water's thunderous fury, forcing Yumi to turn off the water to hear exactly what was needed to be heard.

"Excuse me!" she called back, again her mother calling.

"Yumi, you have a visitor!"

"Oh! I'll be down in a moment!" she reached a hand out to pick up a towel, finding another hand place itself upon her's.

An intense shiver crawled its way up her spine while she squinted her eyes closed. Yumi had a strange feeling who it was, and it was a person she did not want to see.

"Why me?" she whispered softly, covering her body within the shower curtain. "Of all people, when things were actually starting to look up for me?"

Ray grinned, clenching onto her hand tightly while the other handled her cell phone.

"Yumi!" Ulrich's faded voice could be heard almost as softly as Yumi's whisper, but this tone was no whisper. There was much urgency contained within.

"Ulrich!" She cried back, trying to pull her arm away.

Yumi looked into Ray's sunglasses, wanting to tear them off in the worst way and smack them repeatedly over his head. "Let me go!"

Ray merely laughed, two heavy violet eyes peering out from beneath the visor covering them. "Being contained within a computer program for so long is quite a bore. Now I can cause havoc outside of my cell… Who best to start on? The once depressed female who's turning out to be the happiest of the whole group."

Yumi winced as he gripped onto her wrist tighter, crying out a bit as a snap broke the silence. "We will… defeat… you!"

Again, Ray chuckled. "You are too funny. Come on now."

Yumi's voice grew with fear, especially when he began to pull her out of the shower. "W-what are you doing! Give me a towel!"

There came no answer, just the faint call of Ulrich's voice from the phone. "Yumi! We're coming! Just hold on!"

Ray only continued to pull her close, more panic arising. "MOM!"

"Too late. You're mother has already become one of my drones… She had killed your father, and recreated him within my factory."

No! Yumi thought to herself, her eyes wide and naïve. Her mother would never fall to such an evil, her love with father was too great.

"I don't believe you…" She spat, remaining to stand her ground.

"Oh, you will…" He smiled, a visual now clouding his glasses.

There her mother stood within the basement, the gun had already been fired. Two fingers now smeared crimson blood across the wall, fully in control with her actions. Seeing this caused Yumi to let down her guard, her eyes softening as the tears now began to pour.

"But. You loved him so much…."

Ray now pulled Yumi into his arms, loving the way she instantly fell to her knees and lowered her head. "That's it Yumi… Now you understand what power I hold…"

Yumi sneered, covering herself the best she could. "You do not hold power. You hold death!"

Quick to her feet, Yumi tried to uppercut him the hardest she could bring herself to hit anyone, but only found a few knuckles broken. She stared at him wide eyed, giving up all hope once her held the other hand within his corresponding. Fake flesh peeled off of Ray's jaw line, a metallic body shown from underneath.

"You… Aren't real!" the words gasped coming from her mouth, watching as millions of wires emerged from Ray's mouth.

"I am not…" He spoke the words, but his mouth did not move.

Yumi cried loudly as cuts appeared over her body, the wires beginning to cut her into ribbons.

"Will you do as I say?"

She merely shook her head no as he continued beating upon her, her body now tangled within wires.

"Will you do as I say!"

Again, she shook her head no. "I'd rather die…. Then do as you direct me!"

Yumi screamed as she was thrown back into the showering facility, a towel being thrown over her sloppily.

"You will learn with time…"

She clenched onto the towel as the pain stung all over her body, blood collecting itself and filtering itself down the shower's drain.

"YUMI!" Ulrich and Odd cried, not exactly in unison, but they were here.

Ulrich trailed up the stairs, finding her cell phone upon one of the steps. He hastily picked it up within his hand, charging up the stairs to her room. After a brief moment within her room, he heard a light cough within her bathroom. He looked in to see blood spattered all over the walls, a hand holding onto the side of her bathing facility as she tried to pick herself up.

"Where is my mother?" she choked, letting her body fall limp into Ulrich's arms as he lifted her from the tub.

"Jeremie is calling the ambulance… You're mom… We're not sure if she'll make it." Ulrich held onto her tightly, leaning forward to shelter her the best he could.

"You have got to leave… If Ray is still here, he'll come after you…"

Odd laughed. "That nut? Oh, I saw Sissy lugging him away a bit ago, he looked like he was having a malfunction."

Yumi's eyebrow raised, "He is a machine…"

"What!"

A/N: Well, that concludes this chapter! Hope you enjoyed!