Author: I plan on naming all the chapters of this story after a song. The first chapter was titled "Beautiful Girls" which is a song by Sean Kingston. This one is "Master of Puppets" by Metallica. Sorry this chapter's kind of short...

Artemis opened his eyes, his head still swimming from the tranquillizer that had been injected into him. His vision began to clear soon and he could see his surroundings. The walls of the room were made of metal and held several panels that looked like the opened and a metal door was set into the wall across the room from where he was, but there was no knob on it. He tried to get up, to move, but found that he was unable to. As his eyes adjusted to the low light in the room he could see that he was strapped to a metal chair that was bolted to the floor. Artemis struggled to get out, but his efforts were in vain.

He looked up as the door slid open and one of the Opals walked in. She smiled coldly and said, "I hope you're enjoying your accommodations. We'll only provide the very best for such a special guest."

He glowered at her and said, with venom in his voice, "What do you plan to do to me Opal?"

She giggled a little and answered while placing a pair of headphones over his ears, "Do you see this chair you're sitting in Artemis? Its one of the ones I developed to use for mind wipes but never put in production."

"You're going to mind wipe me then?" He asked her.

Opal propped her elbow up on her arm and rested her cheek on her hand, "Not quite. You see, we've modified it for… other uses. You'll still have all of your memories, but they'll be irrelevant. Its not a mind wipe at all really, consider it more like… reprogramming."

The pixie didn't wait for him to respond. Instead she flipped a few switches on a console he hadn't noticed and a bolt of electricity shot through him.

Holly had gotten a call from Foaly while she was out on patrol. She expected it to be a usual conversation about some new invention he'd made, but when she answered it she could tell something was wrong. On the other end of the line Foaly sounded worried and panicked.

She shouted into the mic, "D'arvit, Foaly, calm down and tell me what happened!"

He still seemed frantic, but when he answered he was calm enough for her to make out what he said, "Artemis has been kidnapped."

Her eyes widened and she yelled, "What?! By who?!"

The words that came next made her blood boil in anger. The centaur said a simple name, "Opal Koboi."

The older of the two Opals sat in her hover chair gazing at the monitors that plastered the wall of the room. Each displayed something different; parts of Haven City, different areas of the human world, a room in the facility where a prisoner had just been with her younger self, and the one she was watching now. Her attention was focused on the image of an auburn-haired elf in an LEP uniform. This officer spoke into her communicator with fury and urgency and Opal found her distress amusing.

The door behind her slid open with a whoosh sound and two people walked in. One of them was a pixie that looked identical to her, but the other was a teenage human boy with raven hair and skin that looked as though it had never seen the sun. He wore a black peaked cap and a long black coat with red details. Two large red X's stood out on either side near the bottom on the front of the coat. The high black boots he wore almost blended in with his black pants. Opal knew this boy, but he was almost unrecognizable with the way he was dressed.

Her other self purred, "I was just informing our friend, Artemis, here about his role in our latest plan. He's more than eager to help."

She grinned, looking like a psychopath, "I thought he would be after a little… persuasion. I love to uniform you've design."

"I thought it looked fitting for the leader of the army of the future rulers of the world." Young Opal said, proud of her work.

"Definitely." Her counterpart agreed.

Opal got up off of her hover chair and stood in front of Artemis, scrutinizing him. The entire time he stood there and watched her. His mismatched eyes were hollow and empty and he wore a serious look on his face.

"Perfect." The dark-haired pixie said to the younger one.

Artemis spoke, his voice expressionless, "What task do you have for me, Miss Koboi?"