Infighting Week Three

[animusmods]

Characters: any character participating in the Infighting event
Setting: pods, week three of the event
Format: any
Summary: All week three Infighting event threads should go in here, to keep things organized.
Warnings: horror, trauma, experiment results, impossible geometry, cabin fever

[Week Three Information]
[Week Two]
[Week One]
Dax's Pod
Riki's Pod
Jason's Pod
End of Week Three

Comments

[animusnpcs]

Jason returns to the pod early on Sunday morning--almost too early to be called morning. He hasn't been seen since the last voting session, but the thick black stitches and blood offer a hint of what's happened to him. He doesn't look at all happy--a monster that happens to be wandering through the pod lunges for him and with a flick of his wrist he summons the nearest retrieval drone to merciless, violent action; the unit punches the creature to pulp while Jason wipes off his operating table.

"You got a week off," he says, addressing the cells with fury restrained by the thinnest, most quickly fraying rope. "But I'll make up for neglecting your discipline right now."

Five retrieval units for each cell pour into the room, and one by one everyone is restrained, paralyzed, and brought out of their cells. They're piled on top of each other like slabs of meat. Only Sayaka is placed on the operating table. Jason grins at her and it's all teeth and the waiting jaws of a crocodile.

"You won't misbehave today."

He pulls out thick, mucous-like tendrils and presses them to Sayaka's flesh. They trail down like a bridal veil from her head as they burn into her skin and attach themselves.

And then, one by one, he attaches everyone else to her, as if they're all planets orbiting Sayaka's sun. It takes him seven hours before he's attached everyone to the point they can't move without everyone working together. Of course, if they don't move, Jason has no problem getting them out to the meeting area--he'll have the retrieval units kick and shove them every step of the way if necessary.

[myblueskies]

Romeo was startled awake from a mostly restless sleep by Jason returning. He was so weak from hunger that he could barely lift his head from the ground. He whimpered at the anger and the monster being beaten up.

It really didn't take five retrieval units to paralyse Romeo, he lay unable to move, barely able to breathe due to the piling of bodies on top of him, his whimpering didn't stop as Jason worked though he didn't cry. He refused to cry.

But he was so scared, he squeezed his eyes shut and tried to think of Alfredo and Milano and Sonogno, the blue skies and the laughter of his friends.

[ofdewandglass]

[And then Feferi finally screamed. She screamed for Sayaka, she screamed for Ken and Romeo and William and Gamzee, she screamed for all of those who she didn't know.

...and she screamed for the Empress. It seemed so strange, giving that scream, but she did, and louder for her than for anyone else, save herself.

She was hoping the screaming would kill them. Kill them, kill Jason...but no. It was all for naught. She couldn't do anything.]

[beknightedheroine]

In that week off, Sayaka had done a whole ton of nothing.

She'd curled in a corner of her emptied cell and been uncharacteristically quiet - no Jason to spitefully rail against. No lasting success when she railed. What could she say to anyone now? 'Gee, I sure tried.'

It turns out she'd just been smoldering coals under a deceptively soft covering of ash, when Jason drags his ragged self back. So you're angry, is it? So you've gotten just as riled as she was? Good. She leers like a rekindled fire, even as an army of retrieval units pour in.

Every stitch he's got is a stitch putting her resolve back into one piece. Every drop of blood? That's a drop to match one of the drops he's drawn from them. He's still way in debt. But he's starting to pay it off already, right?

She knows she's going to regret this, in the short term. But Sayaka beams to match Jason's crocodile grin, right before he starts working. "Maybe I don't need to. I already got one up on you, huh?"

[fractus_animus]

[ He fights it, if only because at this point he's so far from his right, normal state of mind to be aware of the things he's doing.

The lobotomy had made him mostly cooperative despite his attempt to kill the others like Feferi, but when the others are piled on top of him and all this happens, he struggles, struggles violently, viewing the drones as something bad. It's all he knows at the moment and he's unable to control himself much better than a small child, really--

But what is left... what is left in his head of his Persona, although he cannot speak for it...if Jason can hear it at all?

We do hope that it hurt.

Neither him nor his Persona are... aware enough beyond that to say much. Minato eventually stops struggling after the first hour, what is left of his emotions settles down despite people being on top of him (it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt they shouldn't be near him he's draining them of their soul), and he manages a sickly smile when it all happens, attaching him to Sayaka. ]

Asshole.

[ It's... all he can say. You may have taken everything from him but he will be damned if he won't insult you, you fucking monster. Maybe it's just sheer stubborn will but it's... all that's left.

And then when Feferi comes and screams he holds his ears and he's bleeding now but he won't die-- ]