Post by hk47fan on May 16, 2007 19:57:58 GMT -4
Vader had entered the prison again, and he walked through the halls, his boots hitting the metal and clanks as he went along through the what seemed like endless halls.
No bodyguards this time, just Vader himself and whoever else would be peresent in today's session. But this time it would not be useless torture.....from what Vader had been informed, Sora and the others had taken the bait.
Now it was time for the center of the plan to unfold. The goal this whole time.
Vader stopped in front of a huge, locked metal door. He punched in a code then he heard a robotic voice. "Voice recognition, please."
"Lord Vader." Vader said in a cold tone
"Affirmative. Access granted." the robotic voice said, and the door split into two halves and opened
Vader stepped in, and looked down at the table Scout layed upon.
Scout looked up with him with bloodshot eyes. Strained, weak, and on her guard's last nerve, she looked at Vader with an expression that could've meant oh, not again. She had no strength to talk, for her throat was cracked from screaming.
The hatred Scout felt was overwhelming. All of it was directed at Vader. He was the one who caused who this much suffering… he was the one who took away her life… he was the one who…
The list went on and on in Scout's head, and Vader was in the center of it all.
"Hello, young Tian." Vader said, looking straight at her "Perhaps you think you are here for another torture session....well the good news is that you aren't. But of course there is always bad news, and that bad news is that you are here for a brainwashing session."
She snorted. "You've lost your touch, Vader," she rasped.
"Lost my touch? Do you think I am kidding? Oh, no. This prison is not just for torture, it is for breaking. Some of the best brainwashing technology and doctors are here, but so is my ultimate weapon against you: the Force. With power on my side, you cannot win. Everything will be better after you are under my control, believe me. And then I can have you kill Nait, Jaskia, the Killer crew, and Naos for me....." Vader said to Scout smugly.
Scout's eyes widened slightly, and her nostrils flared. She got it under control again quickly. "Answer me a question: Does the Emperor know I'm here?" she asked softly, lowering her eyes in a sign of defeat. "Does anyone know…?" Her throat got mysteriously tight, and some kind of pressure built behind her eyes. Before she knew it, a small, transparent tear was sliding down her right cheek. She knew Vader wasn't kidding, this time.
"No one knows you are here, Scout. I've hinted at it to the Emperor, but I and the people here are the only ones that know. But that does not matter at this point. What matters is getting you under my control." Vader said, and snapped his fingers for the black machine in the corner to be activated.
She laughed weakly. "Always thought I'd go down in battle," she said. "Didn't think that this would be it." Her muscles trembled with the exertion of straightening her back and lifting her chin defiantly. "I'm ready," she said. "But you'll find I'm a tough mind to break." Another tear slid down her face, and dropped onto Vader's boot.
"There's good in you," she whispered. "Deep, deep down. Maybe you can feel it. That's why you never killed me: because you were too good. Someday I'll repay the favor, Anakin Skywalker. I know Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan, or your mother ever intended you to be like this."
"If you ever need any help…" she said, almost to herself, "and you do, whether you know it or not, you can always find me, or Padmé."
And she fell silent, intending to take the brainwashing like a Jedi. Her face smoothed out, and she stared, impassive, straight ahead, into Vader's black armored chest with her blue eyes filled with loss.
Vader had stopped completely when he heard Scout's word about his mother, and Padme. All anyone could hear was his breathing which had queited down. He just stood, and looked straight at Scout as she looked back at him.
After a moment of silence, Vader snapped out of it and looked up "Alright then. If everything's ready, begin the sequence." he said, then a guard nodded and slowly pulled a lever on the machine.
"You won't break me," Scout muttered. But, already, she could feel what little remained of her Force Walls around her memories, around everything, break into a million pieces. She let out a choking sob. Her guard smiled and muttered something like 'bye bye Jedi.'
"Should we erase the memories, now, Lord Vader?" Her guard asked, standing at attention. "Or shall we start up the brainwashing first?"
"No," Scout whimpered, as the machine started up. She tried her best to look away, and her eyes strayed to a dark corner. "Nait… why didn't you come?" she whispered. He was too busy trying to smooch Jaskia, a small, evil voice inside her said. He never really cared for you. He teased you and mocked you and hit you. He wouldn't notice if you left or not.
Scout began to see how true that really was.
"Be patient with me. I want the brainwashing to start first, but listen closely to my orders. There are certain memories I want erased, certain I want to stay. And then there are certain ones I want to change." Vader said to the guard, he had many things to take care of inside of Scout's mind, he would make her see things his way, and he would make sure she never looked back at the day he raided the Jedi Temple, or the days he hunted her and her comrades the same way again.
"We've spent fifteen years developing the new device," said the guard. "We can view her memories as you would, but you'll have to change them with the Force, sir. But we can erase ands reorder them at will, sir."
"Of course I will have to use the Force. The Force will always be involved, somehow. Besides, I would trust no one but myself to change her memories to what I want." Vader told the guard
He looked to Scout, who seemed to already be effected by the device, then looked back to the guard "My first order is to erase all memories of the boy Jedi, Naos. Her mind should be filled with them. I want every single one of them gone. Completely. This boy has proved a problem with turning Scout, and she has some kind of emotion for him. But I will have none of that. Make it to where in her mind he does not exist..." the Sith Lord commanded.
"Yessir," he said.
Scout felt a certain tugging in her mind. In the next heartbeat, she let out a moan as the memories were extracted. She tried to fight it, tried it with all of her willpower. "No!" she moaned. "I'm not going to lose him! No!"
She made two fists, but even that didn't help. Her muscles untensed, and she focused on one memory, just one memory: when she and Naos first kissed. She kept it to her. You won't take that one.
Then it was over. Scout didn't know why she felt so smug, but she liked it. Had she just hidden something from Vader? How'd she do that? Something about a boy tugged at her mind, but it was too far away. He seemed to carry a great importance to her deep subconscious, though. She let out a frightened gasp as she realized she didn't know.
"Complete," said the guard. "Gone in the wind, sir."
Vader let out a laugh "Goodbye, Naos. I hope you enjoyed the last time you saw Scout. Because the next time you see her, she will be killing you..." he muttered underneath his breath
No bodyguards this time, just Vader himself and whoever else would be peresent in today's session. But this time it would not be useless torture.....from what Vader had been informed, Sora and the others had taken the bait.
Now it was time for the center of the plan to unfold. The goal this whole time.
Vader stopped in front of a huge, locked metal door. He punched in a code then he heard a robotic voice. "Voice recognition, please."
"Lord Vader." Vader said in a cold tone
"Affirmative. Access granted." the robotic voice said, and the door split into two halves and opened
Vader stepped in, and looked down at the table Scout layed upon.
Scout looked up with him with bloodshot eyes. Strained, weak, and on her guard's last nerve, she looked at Vader with an expression that could've meant oh, not again. She had no strength to talk, for her throat was cracked from screaming.
The hatred Scout felt was overwhelming. All of it was directed at Vader. He was the one who caused who this much suffering… he was the one who took away her life… he was the one who…
The list went on and on in Scout's head, and Vader was in the center of it all.
"Hello, young Tian." Vader said, looking straight at her "Perhaps you think you are here for another torture session....well the good news is that you aren't. But of course there is always bad news, and that bad news is that you are here for a brainwashing session."
She snorted. "You've lost your touch, Vader," she rasped.
"Lost my touch? Do you think I am kidding? Oh, no. This prison is not just for torture, it is for breaking. Some of the best brainwashing technology and doctors are here, but so is my ultimate weapon against you: the Force. With power on my side, you cannot win. Everything will be better after you are under my control, believe me. And then I can have you kill Nait, Jaskia, the Killer crew, and Naos for me....." Vader said to Scout smugly.
Scout's eyes widened slightly, and her nostrils flared. She got it under control again quickly. "Answer me a question: Does the Emperor know I'm here?" she asked softly, lowering her eyes in a sign of defeat. "Does anyone know…?" Her throat got mysteriously tight, and some kind of pressure built behind her eyes. Before she knew it, a small, transparent tear was sliding down her right cheek. She knew Vader wasn't kidding, this time.
"No one knows you are here, Scout. I've hinted at it to the Emperor, but I and the people here are the only ones that know. But that does not matter at this point. What matters is getting you under my control." Vader said, and snapped his fingers for the black machine in the corner to be activated.
She laughed weakly. "Always thought I'd go down in battle," she said. "Didn't think that this would be it." Her muscles trembled with the exertion of straightening her back and lifting her chin defiantly. "I'm ready," she said. "But you'll find I'm a tough mind to break." Another tear slid down her face, and dropped onto Vader's boot.
"There's good in you," she whispered. "Deep, deep down. Maybe you can feel it. That's why you never killed me: because you were too good. Someday I'll repay the favor, Anakin Skywalker. I know Qui-Gon Jinn, Obi-Wan, or your mother ever intended you to be like this."
"If you ever need any help…" she said, almost to herself, "and you do, whether you know it or not, you can always find me, or Padmé."
And she fell silent, intending to take the brainwashing like a Jedi. Her face smoothed out, and she stared, impassive, straight ahead, into Vader's black armored chest with her blue eyes filled with loss.
Vader had stopped completely when he heard Scout's word about his mother, and Padme. All anyone could hear was his breathing which had queited down. He just stood, and looked straight at Scout as she looked back at him.
After a moment of silence, Vader snapped out of it and looked up "Alright then. If everything's ready, begin the sequence." he said, then a guard nodded and slowly pulled a lever on the machine.
"You won't break me," Scout muttered. But, already, she could feel what little remained of her Force Walls around her memories, around everything, break into a million pieces. She let out a choking sob. Her guard smiled and muttered something like 'bye bye Jedi.'
"Should we erase the memories, now, Lord Vader?" Her guard asked, standing at attention. "Or shall we start up the brainwashing first?"
"No," Scout whimpered, as the machine started up. She tried her best to look away, and her eyes strayed to a dark corner. "Nait… why didn't you come?" she whispered. He was too busy trying to smooch Jaskia, a small, evil voice inside her said. He never really cared for you. He teased you and mocked you and hit you. He wouldn't notice if you left or not.
Scout began to see how true that really was.
"Be patient with me. I want the brainwashing to start first, but listen closely to my orders. There are certain memories I want erased, certain I want to stay. And then there are certain ones I want to change." Vader said to the guard, he had many things to take care of inside of Scout's mind, he would make her see things his way, and he would make sure she never looked back at the day he raided the Jedi Temple, or the days he hunted her and her comrades the same way again.
"We've spent fifteen years developing the new device," said the guard. "We can view her memories as you would, but you'll have to change them with the Force, sir. But we can erase ands reorder them at will, sir."
"Of course I will have to use the Force. The Force will always be involved, somehow. Besides, I would trust no one but myself to change her memories to what I want." Vader told the guard
He looked to Scout, who seemed to already be effected by the device, then looked back to the guard "My first order is to erase all memories of the boy Jedi, Naos. Her mind should be filled with them. I want every single one of them gone. Completely. This boy has proved a problem with turning Scout, and she has some kind of emotion for him. But I will have none of that. Make it to where in her mind he does not exist..." the Sith Lord commanded.
"Yessir," he said.
Scout felt a certain tugging in her mind. In the next heartbeat, she let out a moan as the memories were extracted. She tried to fight it, tried it with all of her willpower. "No!" she moaned. "I'm not going to lose him! No!"
She made two fists, but even that didn't help. Her muscles untensed, and she focused on one memory, just one memory: when she and Naos first kissed. She kept it to her. You won't take that one.
Then it was over. Scout didn't know why she felt so smug, but she liked it. Had she just hidden something from Vader? How'd she do that? Something about a boy tugged at her mind, but it was too far away. He seemed to carry a great importance to her deep subconscious, though. She let out a frightened gasp as she realized she didn't know.
"Complete," said the guard. "Gone in the wind, sir."
Vader let out a laugh "Goodbye, Naos. I hope you enjoyed the last time you saw Scout. Because the next time you see her, she will be killing you..." he muttered underneath his breath