Janet slowly made her way down the streets of New York she had not yet gotten out of the wheelchair she had simply got a better on. She choose to keep it manual not wanting to have to go with electric because it was better for her muscles. Her new wheel chair was black with yellow curving spokes for the wheels and yellow push rim. The wheels were at an angle to help get better speed and manoeuvrable she had it made out of the lightest and strongest materials she could. The wheels were a made a bit wider and looked more like a bike tires so she could handle off road more. She even had the suspension custom made for her for a more comfortable ride she even improved her breaks. She had spent a lot of money and time on this wheelchair and it was a prototype for her future line.

She had now been in a wheel chair for three months and to those around her she had heard whispers of surrender of her giving up and being broken. She simply smiled when she heard the whispers she had not given up, not surrendered she was still strong and she was proving it. That is what she told herself each morning yet by night she cried herself to sleep with a mix of pain from her body and the condition she found her mind in.

She was off to her usual workout routine of an hour in the pool at Aoife's gym it was one of the few times she did not feel confined and trapped. It gave her joy to move around like she did before the torture he speed increased as she moved around people in the street. She had gotten a lot better at controlling her chair. She went up the ramp to the entrance of the red five story brick building. She hit the door open button and waited until she could go inside she could not hear the usual sounds of metal clanging bags being punched and machines running but she shrugged it off as one of the rare down times in the gym.

"Aoife I am here for our next session!" She turned the corner of the narrow wood floored hall and her jaw dropped. Aoife, Sayuki and Lyrica were in the center the boxing ring Lyrica had a helmet on her head her arms wrapped in thick chains. Sayuki's mouth and nosed was covered it a ceramic band her arms in ceramic tubes her feet in ceramic boxes. Aoife's arms and shins wrapped in leather her wrist cuffed to her ankles behind her with a gag in her mouth. "No no no!"

"Yes Janet."

Janet began to cry the voice hitting her body and causing pain instantly but before she could turn her chair around she heard metal bar get pushed between the spokes then locked in place. "You can't be here."

"But I can." Anax stepped out from behind a heavy bag with an evil smirk on his face, "Why are you in a wheel chair?" He walked closer to her he was still only wearing a pair of pants, "from what I can see you are perfectly healthy, don't tell me I broke you that much."

Janet grabbed the push rims on her chair and tried to roll away the bar stopped her from moving even an inch, "Get away from me!"

"Oh then should I go to your little friends then, maybe one of them can make you call me back." He walked towards the boxing ring then leapt up over the ropes as if it was nothing he walked up to Aoife, "I see something I can do with you." He clapped his hands twice two men ran up behind wasp they were dressed in black two button suits and had on white masks with a thick brow the right half painted a bright blue. The men grabbed her arms and cuffed her to the wheels of her chair they then cuffed her legs to the chair as well. At the same time a third man in the same mask brought a bag over Anax, "Now then Janet this time I am not going to ask questions I am simply here to have a bit of fun." He opened his bag and removed a coil of flat plastic. He undid a plastic tie on it and then grabbed Aoife's cheeks and squeezed them hard forcing her to open her jaw up just slightly he then forced an end of the metal band into her mouth. He quickly began to push it down the gagging throat Aoife not even stopping when she vomited. He never even stepped out of the way of the vomit, "Such a typical reaction." He reached back into his bag and pulled out a plastic tube with a funnel like tip. He took the flat plastic in her mouth and pushed a finger into the end of it to make a small opening. He put the end of the tube's funnel end into the opening and then lifted her head back. As he did the flat plastic became a cylinder, "Now then I am feeding into your body a set of about 1000 metal balls and one larger one that is a powerful magnet." He watched as Aoife's belly began to expand growing in size making the girl heave trying to get rid of the matter entering her body. Once she did he pressed a button on the end of the tube and unseen to all the magnetic ball inside her turned on attracting all the metal balls to it and forming a lump inside her stomach. "It may not look like much but right now her body is desperate to empty the stomach but the mass is to large to get out so it will keep forcing it tearing at her insides forcing the ball to press on her lungs and warp them only to have the mass fall down and do it over and over again." He pulled the tube from her throat and bile followed it along with foam.

Aoife was trying to scream trying to grab her stomach do anything she could to relieve the pain. Tears covering her face looking at Janet for a second then forcing them closed as she cried hard her body doing anything to relieve the pain even voiding her bowels yet it gave no relief.

Janet was fighting her chains hard, "Let them go Anax it is me you want to hurt not them."

Anax smiled and walked up behind Sayuki, "Now this is one I have been looking forward too." He pulled on Sayuki's hair and lifted her up, "She was the one to escape and probably the strongest of you in her determination." He then dropped her back down and looked to Janet, "This is the best way I found to hurt you, unlike the rest of you her blood is dangerous and my other Anax thought he had figured it out he even bragged about his way to torture you but we all know how that turned out. So I have been looking forward to this for quite some time. I want to get my hands on the girl who cannot be cut." He took out blue cloth bundle from his bag and rolled it out on the floor revealing a bunch of different ceramic syringes with ceramic needles. "Now this is something I came up with just for this moment." He picked up a needle and thrust it into Sayuki's left arm and pushed down on the plunger.

Sayuki yelped when the need went into her arm and as he pushed the plunger down she began to scream loudly watching as the veins in her arms became a visible black color. She felt like they were burning as it spread through her it only lasted a few seconds before it stopped, "What did you do to me."

Anax chuckled, "I studied your blood Sayuki something others would not do and I found out a lot of fun things."

Janet was fighting harder, "Stop it now!"

Anax laughed loudly, "Not yet," He picked up a larger needle and pushed it into her left arm and pushing down on the plunger to powerful screams, tears and heavy sweat. "You see in these needles is a saline solution mixed with a base that is stronger than the acid in your body Sayuki. The acid takes away enough of the base to make it painful for a few seconds but with each needle the amount of the base verses saline drops so it spreads out more burning your veins and insides. Do not wish to kill you so there will never be enough to reach your hearts and burn them out." He pushed a needle into her neck her veins and arteries creating a black web across her face and neck before stopping.

Sayuki was screaming in pain even the blood vessels in her eyes began to turn back as she curling up, "Stop please I beg you stop this!"

"I cannot do that," Annax kicked Sayuki so she rolled onto her back as he took two needles and thrust them hard into Sayuki's inner thighs to scream of pure pain he pushed the plungers slowly as her eyes rolled back into her head before Sayuki passed out. "Tsssk I was hoping she could take more, guess I will need to wake her up later for more fun."

Janet yelled and kicked hard on her chains trying to break free, "I am going to kill you!" Janet's entire body was screaming in pain to her each time she moved it hurt worse when her body lifted up a bit she screamed and fell down.

"You have told me that before and yet here I am," He walked over to Lyrica and grinned, "Now this one is not really a special one for her but I know it is the best for her." He pulled out four long metal knitting needles, "Remember these Janet?"

Janet sunk back into the wheel chair and looked at them her chest screaming in pain at the thought of them entering her body, "No!" Janet's voice was cracking as she cried harder, "Do not do that to her!"

He smirked, "I almost forgot." He took out a black collar with a square box on it and he put it around Lyrica's neck.

Lyrica's voice broke into the air, "take it off! Please take it off I will do anything! Just take it off! Please I can't be in here."

Janet forgot about her pain for a second and struggled harder, "Anax this is enough."

"Not yet you have not suffered enough!" He took one of the needles and jammed it into Lyrica's chest causing the girl to scream loudly only to have it stop for a second then come out shallower with heavier breathing behind it as Anax ready his next needle the whole time out of Lyrica's sight.

Lyrica was crying hard her body drenched in sweat, "Please no more I beg you."

"You are begging the wrong man." He jammed another needle into Lyrica's chest the balloon opening almost instantly inside her more violently then they had in Janet's. "Now because of your larger lungs I am going to need to put more into your body then I did Janet." He picked up two more kneeling down on Lyrica's legs digging his knees into the back of hers he thrust both of them in between Lyrica's ribs from the back.

Lyrica's words soon became garbled masked by the sounds of bubbles being pushed through her body trying to relieve pressure in her chest. She was only being held up by Anax and spoke one word, "no" that word repeated over and over until a two more needles burst through the space of her ribs. No sound coming out of her mouth just the sound of air bubbles pushing through the liquid in her throat.

Anax smirked and slowly removed the helmet from Lyrica's head and let her drop to the ground, "She is no longer a threat." He reached into his bag and pulled out a pistol with a silencer firing six shots he took out the other Royals in the room.

Janet was so focused on her girls she almost missed the other Royals being killed if it was not for Sayuki yelping when they fell. Janet looked around, "What have you done?"

Anax smiled, "I have grown tired of working for the Royals so I have decided to come to you with an offer. Take me in hand me over to shield and I will give you all the intell I have on them."

Janet struggled, "Screw you! Why would I agree to that after what you just did! I am going to kill you!"

Anax sighed and pulled out what looked like a blue nail gun, "I had hoped we could come to an agreement but if I must." He lifted Lyrica up by her hair put the end of the gun to the back of her skull and pulled the trigger before dropping a lifeless Lyrica to the ground.

Janet screamed, "Fuck you!" For the first time in so long Janet had forgotten all pain all the fear and all the good that was left inside her. She shrunk down flying forward as she could she hit Anax straight in the stomach with her small form. They both flew towards the ropes of the ring the force streatching them until they snapped and Anax was sent flying across the room smashing a walled mirror on the other side. Janet spun around mid air firing her stingers at the locks on Sayuki's and Aoife's bindings. "Sayuki press the button on the bottom of the container that held the balls in Aoife's gut."

Sayuki nodded and crawled forward grabbing the container she pressed the button a second later thousands of small orbs began to pour out of Aoife's mouth. They covered the rings mats in a thick slime. Sayuki yelled out "Get him!"

Janet flew forward a look of hate on her face she would not give this man a second more to live. She fired her stingers at him hitting him over and over again with hundreds of shots making his scared flesh burn and melt. When she was within a foot of him she returned to her normal size and using the moment she flew knee first into his chest. She raised her fists and began to punch him over and over in the face. Each hit caused her hands to sting and bleed but she did not stop she yelled as she felt a bone in her hand break. She screamed as she grabbed a metal dumbbell raising it above her head.

Anax began to laugh loudly, "I would not do that if I were you Janet not if you want Lyrica to live."

Janet looked down at him, "She is dead you killed her!"

"Did I janet." Anax could tell instantly what was wrong with himself he had a broken nose fractured left eye socket a deep cut above his right eye which is why Janet looked half red. He had three broken ribs cuts across his back from hitting the glass along with deep rope burn.

Janet yelled out, "Sayuki check Lyrica!"

Sayuki quickly made her way over to Lyrica checking her pulse then for the first time that day with tears of joy she spoke, "she is alive!"

Janet looked down at him, "I am sure shield can save her I do not need you."

Anax chuckled as he propped himself up, "Then why do I hear doubt in your voice Janet. Take my offer and I will save her the second we get on the helicarrier."

Janet looked to Lyrica and then the other girls, "I still can't trust you."

"Then let me tell you what I did. I sent a metal bar into her skull it is thin strong and sharp it cut through her skull once inside it bounced around a bit before it wrapped itself around her brain stem and stopped when a metal plat his her skull. If they cut the plate the tension in the wire will make the bar want to return to it original coil cutting her brainstem and slicing up her brain. If they try to pull it out it will sever her brain stem before they can get it out even an inch." He spat out blood, "I am the only one who can remove it and you know that so what will it be Janet. Kill me and her or let us live."

Janet looked back down at this man who seconds ago controlled them had their lives in his hands and now he was down beaten yet he still had her. She dropped the weight right on Anax knee before stepping back and kicking him in the chin knocking him out. Janet walked over to the door of the gym grabbing a phone she called shield.

Anax sat in a black room with a metal table he was stripped down to a pair of scrub pants and nothing else. He gently hummed to himself as he waited for the door to open and once it did he smiled, "Hello Commander Hill."

Maria entered the room and looked at Anax, "So where is the intell we are promised."

"Right down to business then I take it little Lyrica is alright?"

"Yes she is recovering and the doctors in the room said you were an incredible surgeon you even repaired her vocal cords after you had to cut through them so perfectly she might never notice a change." Maria walked in front of him, "Now back to business."

"First give me what I want I already held up half the deal we made two weeks ago."

"Yeah but I do not like how you did it." She reached into a pouch and tossed Anax a set of keys.

"You told me to if I wanted to come in I would have to fix Janet and I did."

"You tortured her people."

"I made her walk shrink and fly like she use to, she will not be going back to that chair again." He undid the cuffs and rubbed his wrists a bit before reaching up to his nose and snapping it back in place.

"Now the intell."

Anax smiled, "In queens there is a house inside is a family of five good people I gave them that house as long as they let me store a few things in a safe no questions asked. It is in the safe in the basement that you will find 23 hard drives with all the data I have on the Royals."

"One last question why have you left the Royals."

"Simple I got bored at first it was great I could do as I pleased with an endless supply of people to practice my craft on. Then they stopped sending them to me as much sure I got a few but not enough then when I finally heard I would have three new people to play with they gave three of them to people who in my opinion do not deserve to be part of the trade. Their ideas were taken from my plans my set ups." He shook his head, "So when I got wasp I saw my chance to break free and get a new start where my talents and skill would be welcomed."

Maria sighed and reached into her pouch pulling out a brown leather wallet, "Welcome to shield"