Janet hovered a few feet off the ground in front of a group of trees in front of her stood a man she had met before, "Where are they Daniel!"

His face was human from the nose down but his eyes were none existent instead he had several slits over them his hair was gone and in its place was thousands of tiny horns. He was wearing a pale yellow shirt with a beige kahki pants tucked into black boots in his hands he held two black knives with leather wrapped handles. "I have brought them back into the bloodline Wasp."

"You are a Royal?" Janet moved back a bit watching him closely.

"Very clever Wasp picking that up from one phrase," He spun his knives in his hands.

"Then why aren't you dressed like all the rest?"

"I am a special Royal one of a few I am an Anax a Royal with special talents and abilities." He charged towards Wasp and through the knife in his right hand at her only to have her dodge it. He then pulled his hand back the knife flying right back to his hand just missing wasp on the way back his forked tongue flicked the air.

Janet fired her stingers at Daniel who leaned out of the way throwing both knives at her flicking his fingers the blades would change their paths losing little speed. Janet flew away from the blades each turn she took the knives would match until they suddenly flew back into Daniel's hand. Janet stopped flying away and looked at Daniel trying to figure out his power he was not a telepath they did not need to move their fingers for subtle adjustments. Magnetism wouldn't work for this she would feel a pull on other metal in the area and he would have had longer range. She then smirked noticing something awkward about his wrists. She flew straight towards him firing her stingers rapidly.

"You should know doing the same thing will not get you a different result," he began to weave in and out of the shots, "I can sense your stingers on the air just like I know every move you can make by your scent." The horns on his head shuddered and in mid dodge he threw both knives out at Janet who quickly dodge them and fired her stingers at the path they had just taken.

Janet smirked as she heard a snapping sound the knives would imbed themselves into trees up to the guards a thin wire hanging down from the butts flashed in the light, "It can if you learn something new." Janet began to fly in quickly she was going to end this and get what she needed out of him and she was going to enjoy it.

"But you still do not know enough," He opened his mouth and a black smoke shot out of it straight at Janet who fell to the earth coughing and returning to her normal size, "I have 12 different lungs wasp and I only need two of them to breath." He watched as Janet passed out he smiled and reached into a pocket on his pants pulling out a black leather bound book that was worn down and taped up. He opened the book and read, "If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet."

Janet woke up to a splash of water across her face and gasping for air she found herself cuffed to a chair by her hands and feet. She coughed a bit and looked around she was sitting under a bright light with several other red lights pointed at her. She could see she was in a room with no windows and a thick steel door. She looked down to find her costume had been replaced by what looked like a hospital gown. "Where am I?"

A voice spoke up it was soft warm and deep one you would trust, "You are in the care of the Anax." A man stepped into the light his body covered in scars so only bits of his pale flesh could be seen only his eyes were scar free. He had no hair on his head instead a thick mass of scars were there. He wore a pair of black pants and nothing else not even shoes, "My name is Anax you will call me that as long as you are here."

"I would rather call you a pig!"

Anax punched Janet across the face hard enough to make the chair almost fall over before it was pulled back by a set of springs. "Really do not start this off like that." He smiled a bit, "I am not a pig I did not remove your clothes I had a female on the team do it. We not be regular Royals but we are of the same blood as them."

Janet spat at the ground and then tried to shrink only to have her body electrocuted making her stop, "Where are my girls?"

"In rooms like this with my fellow Anax," He walked over to a corner whistling slightly as he came back with a tray full of metal blades rods and other devices Janet could only guess what they were for. "I saw you tried to shrink well you best not do it each time you try the shocks power will increase."

"What are you going to do to us?"

"We are going to make you Royals."

"I will never join you."

"We knew you wouldn't that is why they brought me in here." He picked up a scalpel, "You see I was chosen by the Royals to become an Anax for a few reasons." He took the scalpel and cut down his arm, "You see I feel no pain so I have no sympathy for anybody who does because I have never felt it." He put the knife down again and picked up a needle and thread stitching his cut back up before taking a metal rod he pressed a button on its leather handle and then pressed it to his cut a second later the sound and smell of burning flesh filled the room as he sealed his wound. "I grew up in a lab as a test subject they wanted to see how much pain I could endure and when that got boring they began to do surgeries on me to test how a human reacted when awake for them. I know more about the human body then any person alive. I can fix my own body in seconds; whether I lose a limb or break a bone it is part of my gift." He put the metal rod down, "My eyes will highlight were a person is weakest it will show me their injuries, their illnesses and how to brake them. On the reverse I can see how to fix it as well you do not know how much that comes in handy when you are in my line of work."

Janet almost vomited at the smell it was one of the things that always got to her she could see blood guts but smells always got to her. "What kind of work is that?"

Anax smiled, "I break people so they can be rebuilt as our soldiers I even get asked to torture those they need info from. It helps when a torture can bring them back from the edge of death and then do it all over again. You would not believe how many people I have worked on."

"I will not brake," She spat at him, "There is nothing you can do to make me."

He shook his head and picked up what looked like a long metal knitting needle, "You forget I see what can hurt you most." He took the needled and then jammed it between two of Janet's ribs making her wince.

She stopped a second later, "I have broken my ribs before I know this pain."

"Do you really think that is all it is, I told you I know the human body." He touched the end of the needle sticking out of Janet's body as he did Janet would feel an intense pain growing in her sides until she was almost screaming. "You see this fun little device inflates a of air inside your body pushing on all your internal organs." He took his finger off and it stopped inflating.

Janet felt tears run down her cheeks masked only by a thick sweat that had suddenly formed on her body. The pressure inside her was causing her heart to pump faster and harder to force blood through the constricted space her breathing was become hard he lungs losing space to try and compensate for the loss of space. Janet looked up at him then yelled as she was shocked again by her chair, "I will not break!"

Anax chuckled, "Yes you will." He pushed a button on the tray the red lights turned on the temperature in the room began to rise, "Like my heat lamps I find they help keep a person awake and slowly loose all energy." He picked up another of the needles this time jamming it into the other side higher up on her body. He would touch the tip and wait to hear Janet scream before stopping the balloon inside Janet from filling any further, "Also trying to grow to lessen the pain only triggers the chair."

Janet felt another shock blast through her body and she growled a bit closing her eyes, "Where is Sayuk, Lyrica and Aoife?"

"They are in other rooms I already told you that." Anax Grabbed Janet's right hand and forced it flat onto one of the chairs arms, "A lot of people like to work the hands ripping and pulling nails but I found something a bit more fun." He reached over to the tray and picked up what looked like a thin metal drill bit. He held Janet's middle finger down and began press down on the nail with the tip of the bit slowly turning the bit in his scarred fingers. The bit slowly drilled down through Janet's nail and into the flesh until he saw it bleed and her screaming eyes shut tight. "I am going to have to do something about that." He left the bit in her finger as he stood up striking her face again this time with an open hand instead of a fist.

"Do something about what?" Janet was looking away from her hand.

"Your eyes, you keep looking away from the fun." He picked up a leather strap with two metal hoops on it that he tied around her head so she was looking through the holes. "Now stay still or I could damage your eye." He smirked as he pulled a small down a small wire device from the top of one and put it under her eyelid he put another one under her lower eyelid and both were used to hold open one eye he did the same thing to her other eyes, "Now you will see what I do."

Janet had kept her head still not wanting to damage her eyes she was not rolling over she just didn't want to add to the pain she would be feeling, "Fine I will watch."

Anax smiled and made her look at her hand as he attached two wire clips to the drill bit they were attached to a battery, "Soon it will begin to heat up your flesh beneath your nails will feel a sensation it was protected from all of its days." He then grabbed her left hand and began to drill into the nail on her middle finger again this time going deeper until he felt it touch bone. He clipped the wires to it once more and then attached them to the battery.

It would take a few minutes before Janet began to yell the drill bits had heated up to the point it was cooking her flesh the skin under her nails began to blister and burst instantly turning them yellow and red. She tried to look away only to have Anax grab her head and make her watch, "What do you want from me!"

Anax smiled a bit at this, "For you to break and we are far from that." He undid one of the clips to give her fingers a break. Only to grab her ring finger and drill into it slowly down to the bone on each finger and once again hook the battery up to the drill bit. He would turn his back to her as he looked over his tools, "What shall I use next." He listened to Janet scream once the heat had gone up to the point of searing flesh. He turned around holding long blunt tipped metal bar that had several groves in it and a scalpal. He undid the batteries he had given her enough vision of his tray to show her he had 8 more tiny drill bits enough to do each finger when he felt like it. He knew torture wasn't about what is done to a person but also what can be done. He knelt down and putting a hand on her thigh with the metal bar and slowly cut the space between Janet's knee cap and her bones listening to Janet scream. "Keep watching Janet do not make me have to force you."

Janet looked down seeing her blood rolling down her leg and the cut showing a bit of bone, "What are you going to do?"

"What needs to be done," He took the metal bar and slid it into the cut pushing it until it slid under Janet's knee cap freezing her leg in that position and making her scream in pain as she watched. The channels on the bar let the blood and fluids escape easily and create a pool on the ground. "I am slowly draining the fluid from you bursa sac when it stops dripping you will feel the sensation of bone rubbing against bone. I can make it stop and repair the damage just answer one question."

Janet was screaming in pain she was frozen in place now any movement caused pain to shoot through her body, "What is it?"

"How did you find the location of our instillation in south America?"

Janet looked up at him it was a simple question but it was a big one this would set the tone for the rest of her time in this room, "Satellite images caught a convoy going to it we caught what looked like people in masks. So I asked shield to send a drone to get a better look?"

Anax shook his head, "But how did you find the convoy to begin with." He tapped on bar making it tap against raw bone and tissue to cause more pain.

"I followed a plane from Italy after it picked up people getting Caito suits." She hated having to reveal how they found them but the pain kept growing her joints already weak from her size changes and the way she flew.

Anax nodded and pulled the bar out before picking up syringe with a long needle, "Thank you Janet." He pushed the needle into the cut and pushed the plunger down on it making Janet scream in pain. He picked up a metal tube with a needle and pushed it in the same cut then quickly pulled out the previous needle then he squeezed the metal tube and slowly pulled it out. Foam would fill the cut in Janets knee then fizzle away sealing everything away, "With any luck you won't have a scar."

Janet looked up at him with tears in her eyes her body covered in sweat, "That is all you will get from me."

Anax smiled, "that is all I need for now." He walked to the door, "Tell the emperor to send up all the planes we have used to go to Italy and have them blown up over the ocean make sure the crew and mechanics who worked on them are on the planes none of them need to come back."

Janet looked at him, "No you can't do that you are killing hundreds of your own people!"

"It is acceptable there is always more to take their place," He walked away from the door, "Now let's continue and see how many people I can get you to kill." He looked over his tools and picked up a small metal tube attached to a black ball. "This will be fun." He looked at her, "Tell me where shield is keeping the king you captured."

Janet gritted her teeth and turned away, "I do not know."

"I believe you," He pointed the tube at Janet's left eye and squeezed the ball a small burst of air hit Janet's eye.

Janet yelled out she tried to grip the arms of the chair but her fingers could not grip it without causing intense pain. She could only see a blur now on her left just the lights and a bit of shape her left cheek soaking wet from tears. "What was that?"

"A mixture of onion juice, chilli peppers, mint and lemon juice," He smiled, "It took me a while to get it right. Now with the inability to blink it will just stay there until I decide you can let your eye work normally." He picked up a scalpel again then put it down before picking up one of his long metal needles and jabbing it between two of her ribs just under her left breast. He touched the end of it and the balloon in the tip began to expand behind Janet's ribs and add more pressure.

Janet began to cough and sputter gasping now for air as her lungs shrunk even more her hear getting squished by the other organs and mass around it, "Please stop!"

Anax smiled at her and began to remove the drill bits in her fingers slowly tapping them to make her scream then gasp harder for air. He picked up everything off the floor then released her eyes so Janet could blink only to cry out as the powder in her left eye became spread around with each blink. He then turned away picking up his tray moving to the door he smiled and turned a dial on the wall the heat lamps grew in intensity, "I will send in a person to clean you up in an hour and I will see you tomorrow morning." The door opened a burst of damp air that smelt like rotting meat rushed into the room. Anax left for now and let Janet wonder what would happen next.