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Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

The Real World, Quiet HiveMind Facility

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Annalise closed her eyes as the group members gathered themselves and began to form a plan. She stayed silent as there were gaps in her thoughts and memories that struggled to connect. However, she supposed most of the last year was fabricated since thousands of people were encased in chambers like the one she emerged from. The most concerning part for Annalise was that she did not know memories beyond two years ago. Her parents? Their faces were blurry and their names a buzzing sound in her head. All the experiments and 'training' Von Galloes put her through? Prevalent and on the forefront.

When she heard Nick's and Nova's voices, Anna blinked her eyes open. The buzzing that was her attempting to recall further memories faded into the background. She smiled tiredly as the amount of energy it took to disrupt the server their room was on had taken a lot out of her.

"I'll be okay..." Annalise replied to Nick by adding 'hopefully' in her thoughts. She did remember a woman warning her how...consuming dark matter energy could feel, how addicting using said abilities could be. Thankfully, Annalise had yet to kill anyone with her abilities as the woman mentioned how intense those feelings could be.

"I'm just going to sit down a bit while we have the time," she murmured to Nova as she sat on the floor and leaned back against one of the empty chambers. Anna heard Nova mention food and supplies to Maw and the group. Both were needed as who knows how vast this facility was and how long it would take to break out. Von Galloes was famous for favoring twisting corridors and maze-like facilities. Annalise squinted her eyes at the white ceiling. How did she know that? The map Cosette recovered was familiar but...why? Why did she have flashes of various facilities when she clearly remembers being in only one facility?

"We need to figure out something. The longer we sit here, the higher the chance a creature of Von Galloes's amusement will find us," Annalise stated as she stood back on her feet to prepare herself to move. Her hazel green hues flicked to the others in the group while her gaze settled on Axen. She studied Axen as she was rather fascinated that this robotic creature was so sentient.

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

Yes! Thanksgiving here in the US gave me a bit of a curveball to time management. So, I’ve been delayed.

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

I’ll have a post up by tomorrow night!

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

@Lexisheeps Go ahead, Lexi! I thought I was going to have time to post but this week has been crazy.

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@Days The part of Brenda succeeding and me laughing so hard! 🤣🤣 That was great!

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Sounds good! And I kinda figured that such an action would have a consequence. ;)

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Sorry it took so long! Let me know if I need to change any thing. I kind of just went with it. Lol XD

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Annalise gripped her hands into tighter fists seeing the group hooked up to wire, encased in glass, and practically motionless aside from the movement of their eyes moving behind closed lids. Her expression dropped when she saw Stella, Theo, and Dragon in the same states, but obviously in different locations. She paled and gulped softly feeling a coolness wash over her. Then for a brief moment, Anna saw it. Stella's right pointer finger twitched, followed by a flick of her closed ocean hues. She was alive!

The young woman's attention was quickly brought back to Von Galloes as he asked if anyone had questions. "Just one from me. How much dark matter energy can your system handle?" Anna smiled wickedly, knowing that whatever underground bunker Von Galloes was in, stood no chance if enough energy focused through.

She quickly dashed over to Toren and quickly grabbed his hand. "Help me, please, and we'll get you that well-deserved meal," Anna said to the man who needed to consume. She knew that Toren had been experimented on enough that the energy inside him was a being of its own accord. Now, that the illusion had been broken, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She focused on what she knew she could control, and that was guiding both her and Toren's dark matter energy to overwhelm Galloes' system.

Annalise could feel the crackling of her abilities in her fingertips, radiating up her forearms to her elbows. In her mind's eyes a figure in white guided her consciousness quickly to the server. Using the dark matter within her and Toren's systems to throw the system into an overflow that Galloes' system could not contain. Within minutes Anna's quick thinking had beaten whatever plan Galloes had to wake the group up, whether by injection or otherwise.

She gasped in sudden breath as she sat forward suddenly. The movement was sluggish as Anna realized that she was in a giant glass tube of liquid. She touched her face, finding an oxygen mask secured to her face, and wires with adhesive patches attached to her skin. Anna ran her hands along the glass, looking for an opening hatch. When she couldn't find one, she placed her hands on the glass and used her dark matter ability to vibrate the glass to shatter it. Annalise moved as quickly as she possibly could. She popped off her wires, took off her oxygen mask, and ran over to the computer monitoring the group, her fingers working quickly to ensure everyone would wake up.

Dark Beyond: Voices of the Past

@Estylwen just been busy, sorry for not informing sooner. Should have a post up either tonight or tomorrow. :)