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Annie heard a scream of Tansy's- so she hadn't been completely immersed in the nightmare yet- and closed her eyes. "This isn't real... I have control of my powers now. I will-would- only attack those in defense or to help others. If all of you are in the shape you are than you deserved it!"

Spinning around, she saw the clawing and withering masses reaching for her dissolve into a pile of acidic goo. She took a deep breath looking around her, she screamed, "Tansy!"

It seemed as the two's nightmare's were merging together once again and she saw the demon that she had hit earlier pounce like a cat capturing a mouse onto Tansy.

"I thought you wanted her alive, you b*****d," Annie shouted running towards Tansy, through the slime that surrounded her, she felt it burn, and could see human remains, but she remained focused- she had to save Tansy.

"Oh now, we can't have you helping her Ms. Soulsmith." Charles whispers to himself.

The floor around Annie is no longer solid, it's substance now resembling acidic quicksand. From it's frothing masses comes two more shapes. They begin to take form of two children. They share features of the guard from the stairwell, "You killed our daddy! You took him away from us! Where's our daddy!?" Almost as if to answer that question the mass pulls back to release Annie like the tide would just before a large wave comes. The mass runs off of the side of the roof, and rises as a writhing hulk of poison. The colossus of death grows two arms, towering over Tansy and Annie. The guards face appears again. It opens it's gaping maw and bellows at them, it's face contorting into a horrible grimace.

Gidget starts to wiggle against the restraints, her voice a mixture of elation and hysterics,"Oh-oh thank god you're here! Why can't I see you? What did they do to me?"

Garret stood in shock as he frantically looked around, now inside a mirror. "What the hell?!" He tried breaking through the glass with his claws but it didn't give, not a single crack. He then glares at the figures before him laughing. "Shut up!" He cries out, and points a claw at them one by one. "I am none of you!!" Charles was making this illusion, it was obvious, and he wasn't going to give Charles the satisfaction of watching him crack. He lashes out at the mirror again.

Charles' eyes widen at the development in Tansy's abilities. This makes her a class two easily. This is bad, he thinks. Without any fear pumping into the particles they would level off and stay where they are. Knowing there was no more sense in wasting any more time in trying to break her, he switches tactics again.

The demon licks the blood off of it's claws and bellows at Tansy, spit flying out of it's black toothed jaws. Six fleshly tendrils explode from the ground around it, snaking and writhing. The ends of them open to reveal rows of jagged misshapen teeth. The teeth seem to look more like metal than bone. They all charge Tansy at once, snapping and snarling.

When Garret strikes out at the mirror a second time he is no longer trapped within the mirror, but looking into the one containing the faceless beast Garret. There is something different though. This time the faceless one is not thrashing and screaming. This time it is doing exactly what Garret is. Every movement Garret makes, the faceless one copies it in tandem. The other mirrors around him show the same image, but at different angles dependent on where he is standing and looking. The mirrors begin to freeze over, letters being created by cracks in the mirror over his face.

ENO ON MA I

The letters reflect on the other mirrors

I AM NO ONE

The straps are velco and come off easily. She moves her head a little, and gasps sharply. She slowly brings her now freed hand to her face. Her fingers touch the wires gently, she traces them to her now vacant sockets. She cries out shrilly."My eyes! They took my eyes!"

The demon worm that was cut by tansy falls over dead, fire spraying from it's wound. The other five continue their assault, and the Demon Tansy joins them. It thrashes at Tansy relentlessly, screeching at her. The scene looks like something out of an old tale. The angel and the fallen, doing battle against one another.

Ako grits his teeth at her scream, and at the realization that this must be real. The straps felt solid under his fingers. The cannon she made suddenly felt very heavy, and he let it slip from his fingers. He barely registered the sound of it hitting the concrete as he raised his hands to place them on her shoulders, trying to comfort her. It was the closest he could come to hugging her while she was on the table.

"I'm going to get you out of this." He said, looking around at the monitors, hoping to see something that might help him figure out how to free her.

Though he was still focused on getting her out of there, part of his mind was still thinking about what this would mean. Gidget had been the most normal of all of them, the most likely to fit in. Now, though, with her eyes not just blinded but missing, the rest of her life would probably be miserable. And it was all his fault. He could have gotten here faster, he could have broken out of the cell, he didn't have to eat the food, he should have talked them out of going with Charles. If he had just been a little stronger, faster, smarter, she wouldn't be here. She would probably be sitting happily in their apartment, tweaking the TV to pick up free channels. But now, she was here. Because of him.

Ako's mind repeated the loop, unable to keep himself from pounding it into his head that this was all his own fault, his worst fear realized.

Ako embraced her at first, knowing it was his fault, but as the cables became like electric eels he knew something was wrong. "No. Gidget stop this!" He tried to wriggle out of her grasp, but found himself locked in place. His struggle made his glasses slide down his nose, blurring half his vision. The girl now looked like a monster, only the pink blur of her hair recognizable.

Gidget looks up at Ako, her once innocent features now twisted into something malicious and vile. "Your weakness did this to me. There was so much you could have done, but you didn't. You didn't do anything, and now look at me!"

She releases him while one set of cables wraps around him. She takes a few steps back and waves her hand. The other set of cables stike Ako's glasses off of his face. "I'll start with the right one."The group of wires hover over him, almost as if taunting him.