Her head pounded furiously as she forced her eyes open. She was in a bright, white room, barren of anything at all.

Great, another padded room, she thought with a groan, looking up at the chains that bound her wrists and hung her a couple inches off the ground. Although this one is probably worse than the others.

Someone else groaned beside her, and she looked over to see Cinder opening and closing her eyes, in exactly the same state.

"Cinder?" she asked, her voice fuzzy from her slumber. "You okay?"

"I...think so," Cinder answered, shaking her head. "What happened?"

Entropy looked around the room again.

"I think we've been kidnapped," she said bluntly.

"Right you are, my little dear."

The girls looked up to see a very tall man in a starch white lab coat with goggles that covered his beady eyes, medical gloves, and thin crocodile lips enter the room. Entropy shook uncontrollably, and Cinder looked between them in confusion.

"Eldritch..." she gasped.

"Hello, Entropy darling," Eldritch said with one of his wide grins. "It's so good to see you again."

"But...you were my guard..."

"Yeees, I was. That was my assignment, you see. One of the higher ups wanted to keep an eye on you and get rid of some dead weight."

Entropy stared at him and Cinder stared at her. This was the first she was hearing of this! The only inkling she had was when Entropy said something about being "instituted".

"Why did you bring us here?" Entropy asked as Cinder wrenched on the chains. "Where's...where's-"

"Your other friends?" Eldritch asked, starting to come towards them. "Oh, they are in a different room. The boss had a particular interest the one who creates the artifacts you have been interested in."

Both girl's jaw's dropped. Eldritch's grin widened as he leaned down to Entropy's level and brushed back some of her bangs.

"You've been a bad girl, Entropy darling," he said, holding her face still when she tried to turn from him. "Running away when we needed you to do something so important for us."

"Forgive me for forgetting to bomb the place before I left," Entropy growled, throwing her head around to get his hand off her.

"Well, I suggest you don't do it now," he laughed, straightening and turning to Cinder. "Unless of course you would like harm to come to your new friends."

Entropy's eyes flashed as he stepped to Cinder and leaned in front of her now. Cinder dipped her chin and squeezed her eyes shut. This was not what she had signed up for at all. This man looked like he wanted to hurt her. She almost wished she was back at home with her stepsisters where everything was safe and routine and she didn't have to worry about a crazy man wanting to kill her.

"Get away from her!"

Cinder's eyes snapped open when Entropy wrenched violently against her chains and bared her teeth at her former guard. Eldritch backed away from Cinder, his smile faltering just a little.

"I swear, you squid-brained lunatic," Entropy growled. "You or any of your sick friends hurt her and I'll tear off your head and use it as a bowling ball."

Suddenly Cinder realized why she had gotten so protective. Their Mind Reader Conches were linked together so they could hear each other's thoughts; Entropy must have picked up on her fear and lashed out because of it.

"'Lunatic'?" Eldritch repeated, his grin all but gone. "I don't know if you are, as you say, in the right kind of mind to call a distinguished surgeon like myself such a thing."

"I don't care what you are," Entropy said. "Let's just say I know a psycho when I see one."

Eldritch gave a small and dissatisfied hmph in response. Cinder felt a wave of mixed emotions race through her as her Mind Reader Conch activated. Fear, anger, aggression, confusion, no wonder Entropy jumped into action so often. She couldn't possibly be able to discern all these feelings in order to think straight.

The door to their room popped open again and in stepped a redheaded woman, also in a lab coat and carrying a tray. A trapdoor opened and a small table began to rise up.

"The boss wants you upstairs, Dr. Eldritch," she said, setting the tray on the pedestal. "He says that the boys may need some...persuading to agree to our cause."

"But my girls..." Eldritch started.

"I'll get them prepared, El. Go and have some fun."

Eldritch pursed his lips and reluctantly left the room. Cinder and Entropy glanced at each other as the woman started shuffling things around on the tray.

We need to think of some kind of plan, Cinder thought.

Plan? Entropy scoffed. We don't have time for a plan! Who knows what Eldritch is going to do the to the guys up there!

But it won't do them any good if we mess up and end up worse than we were. We need to think a little bit before we jump into this.

Entropy's upper lip raised with impatience as the nurse picked up a needle and squirted some liquid into the air.

Do you have a plan now? she asked.

Yes, but you have to trust me.

Entropy listened to her thought afterward, then turned and furrowed her brow at her.

"Alright, little ones," the nurse said, her voice too bouncy for what she was about to do. "I'm going to give you this paralyzer and we'll get started-"

"I have to go to the bathroom," Entropy interrupted.

The woman froze, her arm still raised with the needle.

"...Well...you'll just have to wait, sweetie-" she started.

"I can't. If you paralyze me now, when I have to go, you'll have a big mess to clean up afterwards."

She smirked at the look of disgust the woman had.

"And my guess is that you don't want to do any housekeeping."

The woman's lip curled further at the thought.

"Well...I suppose, as long as it's quick," she decided, reaching up to unlatch Entropy's chains.

Cinder took the opportunity to kick the needle out of her hand; it flung into the air and swirled so the business end was pointed at the nurse. Using her flexibility, Cinder was able to lift her leg up a little passed it and slap it down so it stuck into the woman's neck. She gave a small squeak, then Entropy side-kicked the trigger thingy (yes thingy I couldn't think of the name) so the liquid drained into her system. The woman's body was frozen for a long second, her mouth still open in shock and her hand still on the latch for Entropy's chains. Entropy gave her a small nudge with her boot and she fell backwards, popping the cuff off and landing stiffly onto the floor.

"Alright Cindy!" Entropy cheered, pulling the other cuff off and dropping to the floor. "Looks like your plan thing really did work!"

"Looks like," Cinder said as she came over and unlatched her bonds. She landed gracefully and rubbed her wrists. "But we've gotta hurry now. No telling if anyone saw that or not."

"Maybe Miss Stiff here has a key we can use to get out."

The nurse gave a small squeak as the girls came over and dug into her coat pockets.

"Got it," Cinder said. "Now let's go."

"Wait!" Entropy cried, going over to the table. "I have an idea."

"Oh...wow, okay!"

Cinder watched as Entropy grabbed a marker off the nurse's clip board, uncapped it, then turned and stooped to the woman.

"What're you doing?" Cinder asked, leaning over to see.

Her shoulder's slumped and she groaned when she saw the curly cue mustache Entropy was drawing across the nurse's upper lip.

"Enny..."

"Oh, live a little, Cindy!" Entropy scolded, capping the marker and tossing it across the room. "How many other times will you be able to mustache a helpless woman?"

"Hopefully there will be more that don't involve surviving a bunch of crazy people."

Entropy snickered as they dashed out of the cell and down the halls, leaving the mustached nurse to grunt and whine for help.

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I has decided that if this were a real thing, Rainbowdash from My Little Pony would soooo be the voice for Entropy.