Yeah, sorry it's really short but, *gasp!, cliffhanger!
When I awoke, I was greatly infuriated. I was tied up to a chair which limited my movements. I couldn't even tense to try and break through the ropes, which sucked. After a moment, I realised I was not alone. I could hear him breathing, the mechanical sound sending shivers down my neck as I slowly turned my head. "You continue to surprise me." Cobra Commander said to me in a slightly mocking tone. "For a simple test subject, you have exceeded all of my expectations."
"Like being able to live through those trials." I spat angrily at him. "You killed a lot of people. Good people. Just so that you could rule the world."
"My dear, someone has to. Everything is fallen into chaos, I will be the one to bring order and unification." I rolled my eyes. "Don't expect any of your Joe friends to come and rescue you, I doubt they care enough anymore."
"I don't want to be rescued by them." I growled back, trying to jerk my way free as I spoke. "They turned on me after you set me up. I can't trust them."
"No. You can't. Clever girl." My lips peeled back into a snarl, warning him to stay back as he stepped closer. "Initially, I was just going to kill you and wipe the slate clean but, you appear to be useful to me. You've proven that I can't simply have mindless animals as my army. I needed trained soldiers, like you." I dreaded where this was going, I felt my heart drop to the floor. "Hmm, so much fear. The dark, pain, isolation…I can take it all away."
"You keep away from me." I hissed but he ran a gloved hand through my hair and pushed it back to expose my neck.
"It won't hurt for very long. You'll be impervious to pain, without fear, you'll be indestructible."
"I like knowing my limits." Trying to tug back I jerked my head away but he merely laughed then stepped back.
"Inserting my nanomites into you wouldn't work. You've already proven too strong minded for that. Like my sister." Glancing up at him my eyes narrowed.
"I can't believe what you did to your sister. You were going to turn her into a cobra mutant!" Pushing aside all moral standards, I summoned all the saliva in my mouth and spat on him. "You make me sick." Without even a care, Commander simply flicked the spit from his leather coat. The smell made me shift uncomfortably.
"Not to worry, I can still control you. You were exposed to my ingenious signal back at the President's home, now all I need to do is keep you that way." What did he mean?
"You can't. The exposure almost killed me." I babbled. "It caused a brain tumour to mutate within the space of minutes." It was sort of lying, it was actually the degeneration which had caused the imbalance of pressures, resulting in the tumour, but hey, he wasn't going to know that, was he?
"That can be taken care of." Suddenly he pulled out a flat tablet with my details on screen and some control options. "You, my beauty, are under my power." He began to tap on various bars then turned to me. Beauty? Who was he callin-