~Mal's side (hope it's not getting confusing…)~

Manitoba woke up as he heard footsteps nearing the field where they were being held. He jumped up, alerting the others. He saw someone walk up….but it wasn't D…. It was mike. Manitoba laughed for joy then he saw another person next to him….it was bue and both of their heads were down. He stopped laughing and his face changed knowing something was wrong, "where's….mal?" Svetlana and vito had awoken, when they heard manitoba ask where mal was, for some reason it sounded so clear like they couldn't hear anything else and so they hopped up and saw the two mysteriously walking closer to them. instead of joy, their faces were expressing concern. "It's just bue und mike….I'm vorried." Svetlana told them. "Aye...maybe they..uh...escaped!" Vito suggested, trying to calm her down. Manitoba looked scared but sighed in hopes that his thoughts were wrong. "But if THEY escaped then WHAT ABOUT MAL?!" He snapped. Vito jumped back in question of manitoba's odd behaviour. Just then, he turned around and now he had a good look of both bue's and mike's faces even with their heads down. Manitoba was shaking in fear with what he saw, their eyes glowed crimson...just...like...D's. Just then, mike jumped into and through the force field and clutched manitoba's neck as he pounced on him. Bue did the same to svetlana, vito tried to yank bue off of her but she just pushed him away with one hand and he plummeted to the hard ground. It's obvious that even with his muscles a GIRL was stronger than him. This struck a huge blow to his pride. "WHY?! WHY ARE YOU TWO DOI-" Mike tightened his grip, cutting him off. Then the two exchanged glances and both said in sync; "HE told us to do it and WE obey. Mal didn't so that's why he's getting punished." They giggled at the idea of torture and manitoba just had a horrified look on his face, he mustered up his strength and pushed mike off him, he then grabbed him by the back of his shirt and threw him off a couple feet. He then went to bue who didn't pay any mind to manitoba as svetlana was turning blue, he grabbed bue by her hair...hard...he almost yanked it off her scalp. The two landed with a splash (anything past and or in the trench was soaking wet mushy mud). Manitoba ran up to them and yanked them both off the ground by their shirts and close to his face. "Now you listen, and you listen well… where...is...D?!" They looked at each other with bored and sarcastic expressions. BUE, MIKE! DON'T YOU DARE TELL HIM WHERE I AM OR YOU'LL GET THE SAME PUNISHMENT AS MAL! Bue and mike looked at manitoba then at each other, "WE SWEAR D! WE WON'T!" They yelled with their eyes closed tightly as manitoba's face went from angry to concerned. Their faces became normal again and they began to cry, manitoba dropped them and they fell on their knees gripping their ears and shaking their heads as if to say "no". Bue was the first to look up but was struggling to move at all, her eyes were brown again. "Manitoba...h-help us...please-" bue coughed up blood and manitoba stepped back, "-the farther we're away from D the more his spell wears off…*cough*...if you were to summon a mirror than we could be transported to mike's side…*cough*...and then we coul-" Bue tried to finish her sentence but then fell over. Mike was shaking and tried to wake bue up as he pleaded to manitoba. He stepped back more in fear but then snapped out of it when he saw mike's sad begging eyes as he began to focus in hopes of summoning a mirror. A light started to shine through the ground as a mirror began to appear but then something happened to bue. She shook her head violently, until mike realized something… She was starting to go under D's control and he had to stop it. "EVERYONE! GET IN THE MIRROR...I'LL STAY HERE!" Manitoba was surprised at mike's plea as he quickly shoved bue through the mirror, sending her to his side. Svetlana, vito, and manitoba stood their ground. "NO WAY! we're not just gonna leave you here what about D?!" Manitoba argued. Mike's eyes turned black out of frustration, "GET IN THE MIRROR DAMMIT! I HAVE TO HELP MAL ALONE!" Mike ran up to vito and svetlana and dragged them by their ears as he pushed them through the mirror as well. "MANITOBA, YOU TOO!" "MATE NO I CAN'T I'VE GOTTA HELP HIM TOO 'YA DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Mike held his head, shaking it as the mirror started to fade, mike turned his focus on to the mirror so it wouldn't fully disappear and pulled manitoba impatiently toward and into it. Mike felt a sigh of relief now that most of his friends were safe...but he didn't celebrate for long as the force field vanished and he heard mal scream as laughter followed. Mike got up and ran toward the sound.

Though on mike's side, manitoba was banging on the mirror that he had been thrown into but he wasn't able to go back, then he saw mike running away and was yelling through the mirror hoping he could hear him then...the mirror disappeared. He fell to his knees feeling so helpless. Meanwhile, svetlana was carrying bue as vito was wiping the blood from her mouth while she was sleeping. Svetlana carried bue off to mike's room so she could sleep in a real bed then vito went off to free chester and manitoba just thought about how he would be able to make it up to mal.

On mal's side, mal was getting "The Dunking Treatment", How it works:

A big tank of water(like a small pool almost.)

and a chair suspended by some ropes

a person is strapped tightly to the chair (so that there's no squirming or escape.)

then they're asked a series of questions (like an interrogation).

If the person holding the ropes or asking the questions doesn't like the answer (or if they refuse to answer).

They will be dunked under the water for as long as their breath can hold.

Mal was in the chair and D was asking the questions. "HOW DO YOU KEEP BREAKING MY SPELLS?!" D demanded, at this point mal's eyes were only black but the crimson was gone, he had snapped himself out of D's spell once again. "You lied...and I noticed...you said YOU WEREN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING TO MIKE IF I OBEYED!" D dunked him in the water for 30 seconds. "BUT YOU DIDN'T!" Mal smirked then the look turned to sarcastic boredom. "I don't do the whole 'being ordered around' thing. Believe me...your spells work..it's just that they're worthless." D was enraged as he dunked mal again, this time, a whole minute. "It's just gonna get longer and longer 'ya know until your lungs can't take anymore." D taunted, he then focused and put his hand onto the big tank and it sent an electrical current shocking mal. He screamed in pain and his black aura came back, making D stronger once more. Mal was beginning to feel weaker, his pride was shrinking and he was growing stubborn. "You….little…...prick…!" He got dunked again and got shocked again as well, instead of screaming he just took deep breaths. "What are 'ya blaming ME for, I'M not the reason your spells are crap." D was so pissed, he dunked him, put his hand on the tank and didn't bring him up. 1:35 seconds went by and mal's face was starting to turn red. Then D heard footsteps, he knew it was mike and didn't care but he reinforced his spell anyway. Mike stepped into the red room with no walls and his eyes were crimson once more D turned around and saw an unconscious mal but then the footsteps coming toward him got faster until they were running, D looked behind him just to get pounced on by mike. He punched D making him dizzy as he ran over to the ropes to bring mal up. There were little stairs that led up to the side of the chair, mike climbed up them and started poking mal's face. put his fingers to the side of his neck to check his pulse...it was very faint. Mike also noticed he wasn't breathing, he immediately gave him mouth-to-mouth and his color started to return to normal. Mal's eyes slowly opened. The first thing mal saw was mike standing beside him smiling with tears in his eyes. Mike hugged him for joy but D quickly got up and then ran to the ropes, mal wasn't looking at D nor was mike as he yanked the ropes then let go. Mike was now underwater with mal. Mike was about to unbuckle the straps holding mal when all of a sudden….D put both his hands to the tank and focused, he electrocuted them with all his might as millions of air bubbles escaped their mouths all at once. Mike tried his best to keep moving, he started to unbuckle. Then he saw mal, begging for air just as him. Mike used all his strength to lift the chair above the water so mal could get some air. Mike still had yet to take another breath by jumping to the surface, as the air ran out of him, he started to move faster but the water's density didn't help. D was surprised at how long mike could hold his breath, but he saw him running out as he shocked the tank once again. About five buckles were undone but mal was turning red again, mike lifted the heavy chair and mal caught his breath. He felt guilty that mike had to do all this alone since he was restrained and couldn't move. D shocked the tank again, this time for a longer period and mike became paralyzed. Instead of floating to the top like a fish, he just sank to the bottom….there was no air left in him, his lungs were completely deflated. D laughed and the one eye hidden from his hair started to shine through so both eyes were now visible and glowing. His laughter grew louder and louder and his own black aura started to appear and it grew bigger and bigger until it almost enveloped the whole room.

~On the outside (the real one this time...been a while huh.)~

Mike's body was on his bed and his mother was sitting beside just waiting for her child to wake up. She caressed his cheek then closed her eyes tightly and looked down in depression. "Oh please...please wake up honey….that's all I ask….even if you were someone else...I'd still love you…" Just then mike opened one of his eyes and smiled kindly at his mother. She turned to face her son and rubbed her eyes making sure this was real. She hugged her baby tightly and sobbed tears of joy. "It's all right…". His mother was frozen to hear a female voice, she let go and asked wether this was svetlana or not. "Nope I'm bue! It's a pleasure to meet mal- I-I mean m-mike's mom!" Mike's mom was slowly reaching for her hand but then bue grabbed it quickly and shook it fast….hoping to make her forget what she said. "Wait wait wait wait wait….were you about to say MAL'S MOM?!...WHAT'S GOING ON IN THERE PLEASE TELL ME...I NEED UPDATES!" Bue decided to not worry the anxious woman and lied her way out of it. "Well mike's fine, he's in his room with the others, mal set them free with just a snap of his fingers. When mike first entered his mind after the hospital there was a fight between the two...mike won. So mike was all sleepy because it took so long. I was there watching from the shadows. They both walked away with a couple bruises but they're fine, me and the others started lecturing mal on what he did and all that...'ya know…. In fact he even started doing some good deeds so he's a good guy now. And guess what! We were playing SOLDIER, it was my first time and it was soooo fun! Though I think we must of lost track of time…". Bue looked up at the night sky through the bedroom window, assuming that at least more than just one day went by. Her mother sighed in relief, believing bue, what reason would I have NOT to believe her...she seems like a sweet girl to me. She thought with a warm smile. Just then, when her mother wasn't looking and bue was staring at the moon...her hair flap came over her eye...and the one that was visible started to glow….crimson.