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Chapter 48
Rom glared at the scientists who had her suspended in mid air with her arms and legs in large shackles connected to a series of metal circles around her. "Let me go!"
"No." The lead scientist said to her without looking up from the datapad in his hands. "Interesting..."
"Can I at least have some clothes?!" Rom yelled as she thrashed. "I'm cold!"
The scientist looked up at Rom and sighed. "Now why would I do that? I get more accurate information when you're naked."
Rom blushed softly. "You just want to see my boobies!" She knew that she was big for her apparent age, but that didn't mean she wanted people to stare at her.
"I do admit, I'm rather impressed, you seem to be physically about twelve or thirteen, yet you have developed nicely in that regard." The scientist said and looked back at the datapad as the rings started to turn and spin, causing Rom to spin around in various circular motions.
It wasn't so bad, until it started to get faster and Rom couldn't tell up from down. "STOP THIS THING! AAAAAAH!"
"Interesting, so very interesting." The scientist ignored Rom's crying as she pushed a button and the rings all started to glow blue before a powerful surge of electrical energy coursed through them. The scientist ignored the howls and screams of pain coming from Rom as her body was flooded with raw electrical energy. "I see, most interesting!" The scientist tapped the data pad and the glow was turned off and the rings were slowed down before coming to a stop with Rom back in the same position as before, just panting and glaring at the scientist.
"That was mean!" Rom protested.
"All in the name of science, my dear. Nothing else matters to me." The scientist smiled at her. "By the way, I found something interesting out."
"...What?" Rom shivered at the look she was given from the scientist.
"You reached the threshold." The scientist sighed at Rom's confused look. "What I mean is, you reached a point of Fearicite saturation. You should have turned into a Void already, but for some reason you didn't."
Rom trembled while looking at the scientist. "S-s-s-s-s-so what?" She stuttered.
"I'm sure that Anonydeath will be able to do lots with that."
Rom watched in horror as several attendants wheeled in a tube that could fit a fully-grown person, much less a little girl like her. It was placed on the ground near her and the attendants unclasped her manacles from the rings as they silently moved her up and over the tube. "Let me go! Let me go! Stop this! Let me go!"
When they did so, Rom fell into the tube and a lid was placed over it before liquid started to fill the tube.
"Don't worry," the scientist said over a communication line. "You won't suffocate. It's just a liquid that will put you into stasis."
"I won't let you hold me anymore!" Rom gathered up her magic, now that she was free of her manacles and prepared to blast a hole out of the tube.
When she didn't even get a spark of magic, she stared at her hands in horror while the liquid quickly covered her hips.
"You're wearing a collar, as is all the CPUs and CPU Candidates that we captured." Rom looked at the group of scientists in horror as her chest was covered in the cool liquid. "You're unable to use any magic or any powers right now. Anyway, goodbye, little girl. The next time we meet, you'll likely be a Void."
"NOOOGULB!" Rom screamed out until the tube was filled with liquid. There was a flash of light and she stopped moving and struggling.
"She'll be fine, right?" One of the assistants asked and the scientist nodded at that.
"Yes. This is used by doctors when they come across people who are still alive but won't make it back to the hospital for surgery. The flash of light is just the body being put into something like a stasis lock. She could survive in that state for three years before complications would arise."
"Oh, okay."
(-)
In another room, Filyn was strapped to a table and, much like Rom, was stripped naked. Though in her case, even her eye-patch was removed, as was the protective covering that was used to keep junk and debris from getting into her head through the socket in her eye.
"My, my..." Anonydeath muttered and shook his head as he floated into the room. "Who did this to such a cute girl?"
"You can't be in, AAAAH!" The scientist that tried to stop Anonydeath found himself on the ground with a broken arm as Anonydeath grabbed the arm, twisted hard enough to break the bones under it and threw him to the ground.
"I can't be where now?" Anonydeath asked and floated over to Filyn. "Hmm, this is horrible." He pointed at an attendant. "You." The attendant pointed at herself and Anonydeath nodded. "Yes, you. I want you to get me the cybernetic eye transplant equipment."
"Uh..."
"Fifteenth floor, room five, back room, right shelf, third from the top." Anonydeath answered as he grabbed some scanning equipment and started running over Filyn's eye socket. "Hurry up or I'll release a bunch of embarrassing images of you and that radish to your colleagues."
The attendant was out of the room in three seconds flat.
"What are you doing?" One of the scientists protested. "We're supposed to scan her for CPU potential. If it's high enough, we're to send her to you for fixing before she's turned into a Void." The scientist went silent as Anonydeath looked at him.
"In case you forgot, I'm on equal footing with Kei, so if you want to live, I really suggest you keep quiet and let me do my thing."
"Where's Chromey?" Filyn asked and Anonydeath looked back at her. "Where's my big sister?"
"I don't know. I'm not in charge of everyone." Anonydeath said to her. "Anyway..." He leaned in to Filyn. "You should be thankful that I'm in charge of you. Noire's cute little sister gets Gernia G. and..." The pink power armor shivered. "I don't look forward to what she's going to do to that girl."
Filyn wondered what he meant by that.
(-)
Meanwhile...
Laying naked on an operating table with heavy straps holding her down, Uni thrashed and screamed as needles were inserted into various places on her body and she was injected with some sort liquid.
"I haven't even begun to cause you pain yet." Gernia G. stated as she grinned at Uni. "Now... Let's see... Oh, I know!"
"What are, nnngh!" Uni gasped out as the needles in her nipples were removed and were replaced by some sort of suction cups, which were similar in design to an EKG device, over the tops of her breasts while a similar object was placed on her lower abdomen. "What are you doing?!"
"Quiet, you." Gernia G. stated as she attached some sort of helmet to the top of her head with other spots that were similar to EKGs were stuck to her head in a circular pattern. "I'm going to enjoy this. You won't, but I will."
Uni's eyes widened before she screamed again while this time her brain was bombarded with information of various types of pain.
"See, it's a neural transmitter that's bypassing your body's normal defenses and sending all different types of pain straight to your head." Gernia G. smiled and patted Uni on the shoulder, though that made the girl scream even more and thrash. "Oh yes, it makes it so that everything feels like pain to you. Even the air should start being painful really soon to you." She chuckled as Uni's screaming increased to the point that her voice was cracking. "Such good screams," she sighed happily. "I'm so glad that I can get away with this." Giggling, Gernia G. looked over the data and smiled. "Don't worry, soon it'll feel even worse. Here, you can feel what labor pains are like."
She watched as Uni's back arched while the CPU Candidate twisted and jerked in sheer pain. "Oh, the fun I'll have. You know what the best part is?" Gernia G. grinned as she tapped her data pad. "I can turn off the pain and make you see what I want you to see."
Uni suddenly flopped down as the pain ended and started panting heavily. "That..."
"So pathetic." Uni's eyes widened and she turned to see Noire walking up to her with a look of disappointment on her face. "To think that you could EVER be considered to be my replacement." She scoffed and pulled out her sword. "Foolish little sister."
"NO!" Uni screamed before jerking in surprise and she looked down to see Noire's sword lodged deep into her gut.
"Just lay down and die." Noire snarled at her.
When Uni spasmed, Gernia G. grinned and tapped her datapad again. "Oh, the fun of dying over and over again, all the fun of dying horribly without the nasty loss of life."
The best part of all of this? She was able to see just how Uni was dying over and over again in her mind, thanks to the neural transmitter sending the images to the datapad.
"It's too bad the Fearicite is shattered, but I can still experiment on you all I want." Gernia G. giggled in glee while her grin got sadistic and disturbing. "Let's see... How about I make you feel like you're drowning, even though you're not?" Seeing Uni instantly stop thrashing and screaming and start gasping for air was so... Amusing to her.
"Fun fun for everyone." Gernia G. smiled as she continued her work.
(-)
In another room...
"LET PEA GO!" Peashy screamed as she pounded on the glass tube she was in.
"She was hard to deal with, wasn't she?" One of the scientists said as they watched Peashy get covered up by the stasis water before a flash of light happened and she was put into stasis sleep. "What's going to happen to her?"
"Apparently they want these CPU Candidates to be given to Anonydeath so their brains can be re-written or something." One of the aides said, shrugging as he looked at the naked blonde in the tube. "I don't know what they're planning and I don't care. I get paid the same regardless."
"True."
(-)
Elsewhere...
Ram whimpered as she hung naked from the ceiling, her arms above her head. "I'm scared..." She whimpered as she was dropped into a tube. She didn't even bother trying to fight to escape as the top was sealed and liquid was filling it up. 'Big sis, I'm sorry, I'm too scared.' She thought to herself as the liquid filled the tube and a flash froze her in a stasis state like Rom and Peashy had been.
(-)
In another part of Lastation...
Watching as they flew away from the Basilicom, Jerbins turned to look at the officer driving the vehicle. "Um, sir, shouldn't we go to the Basilicom? Obviously these are dangerous criminals."
"You know they need to get processed." The officer said in a long suffering tone of voice. "It should only take a few hours."
Jerbins nodded and looked at the Basilicom again. "I see. My apologies. I would think we'd want to hurry them to the Basilicom is all."
"You know how much of a stickler for protocol Lady Kei is." The officer said as they flew to the station.
"A few hours, huh?" Jerbins muttered and looked at the Basilicom again. 'Stay safe, Neptune, we'll be there soon.'
(-)
"What do you mean it can't be done?" Jerbins asked while pointing at Gust and Warechu, who were both in small animal cages. "They're very dangerous criminals."
"Sorry, Jerbins." The secretary shook her head. "You know that all government databases were going through mandatory upgrades over the past month. It's our turn. We can't process them for three days."
Jerbins twitched and nodded, letting out a sigh. "Very well."
"Anyway, there's a dolly..." The secretary pointed to the two-wheel cart that was used to lift heavy boxes by factory workers. "Just cart them to the cells and we'll deal with them for three days."
"Sure." Jerbins nodded and lifted the cages up and put them on the dolly before tilting it back and wheeling it off. As they got close to the cells, Jerbins whispered to Gust, who was on top of Warechu. "Sorry, I didn't think it would be like this."
"It's okay." Gust answered Jerbins. "Gust hopes they will be okay for three days."
"...You and me both." Jerbins answered. "You and me both."
For some reason, Gust, Warechu and Jerbins all had a bad feeling, as though they knew that Neptune and the others weren't okay.
To be continued...
Well, that was horrible.
Imma gunna go hide now.
Also, starting next week, I'm cutting the posting down a bit (otherwise I'll get caught up with what I'm writing). Work is hell on my ability to write.