Description: While held prisoner by the despicable Vega, young Alice is left while the tyrant takes care of some more important business. Vega, however, is very careful with the disturbed young girl and leaves his greatest triumph and Doll to watch over the girl and her inner demon. It stirs awake and taunts the Doll haughtilly until forced into unconsciousness.
Surprisingly at times Japan can be an amazingly large place, especially if all you're trying to do is hide one individual that you've captured. Which is why an cave set into the side of one of the many mountains that dot Japan's interior serves as home to a very small but specialized facility in the service of Shadaloo. Walk deep enough into the cave that you are out of eyeshot of the entrance and one would find a large metallic door with a alphanumeric keypad to the right hand side, beyond this security measure is a small set of brightly lit hallways, a few offices, two or three rooms to sleep in, a small kitchen, a medical/research bay, and a number of cells in the very back. The air throughout is cleaned, scrubbed, and slightly tinged with an antiseptic smell. Otherwise it is comfortably pleasant temprature wise and very clean.
The cells, unlike one might think, are actually in very good condition and just as clean as the rest of the facility, perhaps even more so as the antiseptic smell is even stronger inside them. It's in one of these cells that a purple haired girl is trussed up, her arms locked into the walls of the small cell, the rest of her body fastened securely to a metal rod coming down in the middle of the room. She appears to be injured but her only life threatening wounds have been taken care of the rest habe been left to bleed and heal on their own....
Bleary eyes slowly open as Alice's mind comes back to her and she slowly and confusedly looks around her new surroundings, her mind trying to process what had happened to her, "H...Hello?" She calls quietly suddenly coughing due to the mild pain speaking put on her broken and reset ribs. Suddenly she realizes something is direly wrong as the medical seeming nature of the place causes her eyes go to wide and her encounter with Vega, "Father Elias!! W-where are you?!" She yells as she starts to desperately struggle against her restraints but that stops after a moment due to the pain from her injuries punishing her for her thrashing and she lets out a small pained groan.
Cammy thinks this is actually a little bit demeaning. Surely guarding prisoners, especially ones who are chained up and behind bars, combination locks, motion sensors and all the rest is the job of grunts, not Shadaloo's first Doll. Is this really all the Killer Bee is good for?
She must be being punished for some sort of unknown transgression. Either that or Alice is exceptionally important, though she doesn't look that important to Cammy. No, it's probably the former. Cammy knows that there are plenty of possibilities there too, it's not like she's been leading a totally spotless Doll life lately after all.
So she's a little bit grouchy, settled on a metal chair just opposite the bars in her blue uniform, garrison cap neatly resting atop her head, a phone resting on one knee. Maybe one of her friends will call her, like the popular Crimson Viper. Probably not. :(
"I do not know any Father Elias, so he is not around here, whoever he is." she tells Alice. Glancing up at the captive, she narrows her eyes briefly, assessing damage. "It would be more agreeable if you did not move. For us both, as groans of pain do not make the time go any faster.".
Alice's head snaps up to look at whomever just spoke to her, "Where is he? Is he alright?" Alice asks in slight pain as her injuries are still acting up rather fiercely due to her prior agitation of them. She takes some deep steadying breathes as she looks over the strange girl very carefully. She's already panicked but for once the voice was leaving her along at the moment...maybe the fight had killed it? The hopeful thought giving her some comfort for the moment.
"..." Alice opens her mouth to say something then shyly looks away her eyes half lidded as she thinks carefully then again she looks at the slightly older girl, "Who are you? Where am I?" She sounds terrified but with how quietly she's speaking it's hard to pick up on that, "...why am I..." She swallows hard, "Caged up?"
She tries to flex her hands but the bindings that contain them allow little movement at all on her part and as she moves her her arm slightly to see if she can move her hand that way, she grimaces as her back screams out against the abuse, tears come to her eyes but she doesn't cry out she merely pants this time as the pained tears are shed.
Cammy stretches out her legs, crossing her legs at the ankles, heavy boots holding them in place, and reaches up to fold her arms behind her head. Comfy. As comfy as she will be on a metal chair anyway. "I told you already, he is not here, and I have never heard of him. He is not in this location.". She stares back at Alice, expressionless, bright blue eyes blank.
"As for why you are in there... it is Lord Vega's will." she replies, with some finality. Lord Vega's will is the last word, literally. "I am Cammy. You are Alice.". She at least was given a name. "And you should not move, it will only cause pain. Escape is most unlikely, so it would be easier for you to relax, and wait. I assume Lord Vega will be back eventually to finish his business with you.". She closes her eyes, apparently intent on following her own advice.
As the news that Elias is not here and that Cammy doesn't know of his condition truly sinks in for Alice, her head slumps forward and the fear overwhelms her as she starts crying for entirely different reasons than pain. Quiet sobbing is her only real reaction for a long while to what Cammy says it's very apparent the young girl would rather be somewhere else right now.
"Why?" The question is very quiet as Alice stops sobbing finally her tearful eyes slowly brought up to stare at Cammy, "Why does he want me? I...I've done nothing to him, can't he leave me alone?" She sniffs loudly as the crying has caused her nose to run slightly, "Please he has no reason to do this...I'll not bother him, can't he let me go?" Her slightly puffy red streaked purple eyes hopefully looking at Cammy.
Cammy would rather be somewhere else too, but well, thats life, isn't it. Lord Vega's will be done. Her eyes open again, and she gives Alice a somewhat irritated look when the crying begins. "There is no need to be so loud." she says, with a faintly exasperated sigh. "We may be in here for some time.".
"I do not know why he wants you in here. But he does, and that is that." Cammy explains to Alice with a shrug. Really, it's not so hard to understand, is it? Lord Vega orders, people obey. Simple. "So here you are. I assume you will not be here very long, and that Lord Vega will return soon. When he does, perhaps his wish will be for you to be released.". She shrugs her shoulders. "I do not usually have to guard cells. In fact. I have never done it before. I am not entirely sure how it usually works out.".
Alice is quiet in response to Cammy's answers at first, she's still scared out of her mind but she wasn't alone at least and that was of some comfort and this guard, Cammy, said Vega might let her go when he gets back right? She flashes briefly back to the fight and horrific monster that Father Elias and IT had fought against, "He...he won't let me go." Tears start working up in her eyes again.
'That's right he's going to kill you~' The voice rings through her mind and Alice's eyes snap wide in sheer terror before she schools her features back to normal and control her emotions, "Please...tell me a story, pat me on the head, or hug me....please..." The purple haired girl seems rather desperate for comfort all of the sudden. 'You don't think she'll do that do you? She's a toy she won't care about you.' The voice whispers in her ear harshly.
Well, this is quite annoying. Cammy is sure even scaredy Quon wouldn't blub quite so badly if he was in this situation. She lets out a pained sigh. "Maybe, maybe not.". She shrugs. "When he returns, you can ask him yourself. There is no point talking to me about it, it is Lord Vega's will that means you are here, not mine.".
As for the next bit, Cammy shrugs, nonplussed, either by the terror or by the requests. "I do not know any stories. And I do not even know you, so I am not doing the other things either.". Quon got a pat on the head once. /Nobody/ has ever got a hug, and probably nobody ever will, unless Cammy has a rather drastic change of heart (not beyond all possibility). She reaches out to reclaim her phone from where it's balanced upon her leg, and then gets up off the chair, to pace around the white tiled corridor, boots clicking on the floor as she slowly paces up and down. "I wonder what Shadaloo troopers do when they are bored." she wonders aloud, trying to think. It's weird, she doesn't really pay much attention to them normally, so it's hard for her to think of what they get up to.
'See I told you~' The Voice hisses in her mind mockingly, Alice stares at Cammy in utter shock it was the natural inclination of people to help one another right? All she'd done was ask for help and she was not only rejected but basically heartlessly ignored. Her features go slack as she stares that floor sadly giving off a sniffle here and there as her tears for the moment are gone, fear giving way to depression, "Am I being punished....?" Her tone of voice gentle and quiet, Cammy may or may not catch it.
'Of course you are! You didn't do anything to save your parents after all...and now Elias he might be dea...' Alice's head snaps up, "No!! Don't say it." Fear again courses through her as she worries about Father Elias, he had to be alright...right? She needed to get free to see him and make sure, 'Give me control Alice my girl, I'll get us out of her.' If a voice could ever sound like it had a smirk it'd be now and Alice closes her eyes and nods her head once. When Alice looks back up her purple irises are gone replaced with depthless white orbs with the hint of psycho energy burried underneath, "Why not go commit murder upon a few of them, I'm quite sure that shall make you far less bored." Alice's voice rings out though slightly distroted as though there were something else speaking with her, It twists Alice's facial features into a mockery of a sweet smile as the souless eyes regard her, "Or we could speak of things like chains and keys? Toys and blood? Or even perhaps about you Cammy my dear." With that Alice's tongue slides out of her mouth and hungrily licks her lips.
The Doll has a heart of plastic, it is true - at least, she does when she's under orders.
"No, you are not being punished." Cammy informs Alice. "You are just being held, until Lord Vega returns. You would not have to guess if you are being punished if Lord Vega wished to punish you..." she points out.
...and then strange things seem to be happening in there. Cammy stops her pacing, and advances half a step to the bars of the cage, to stare blankly at Alice, blue eyes boring into her, seemingly missing nothing. "I see why Lord Vega is interested in you now." she observes, returning to her chair. "You seem to have mistaken me for Balrog, however." she replies, getting comfy upon the metal once again. The Killer Bee is not the sort to murder people to alleviate boredom. She is just a professional, doing a job.
It throws Alice's head back and titters loudly at the Doll seemingly very very amused.
It uses Alice's now souless eyes to stare back into Cammy's neither flinching or caring that It was being stared at, "Do you really?" The voice sounding mocking, "Are you sure you should assume you know your master's will, toy?" Laughing maniacally at the second part of her response, "Hmm, I know not this Balrog but I imagine if your master wanted..." It causes a large hideous grin to appear on Alice's face, "...you'd be exactly the same whether you wanted it or not."
The manacles on her hands are begining to smoke and glow slightly purple as they try to contain the psycho energy surrounding her hands, "You have no real choice about anything~!" It sing songs while taunting the Killer Bee, "You've not looked too deeply into the looking glass..." It pauses to slowly make Alice's head shake at Cammy, "Have you?"
Cammy leans forward on the chair, her elbows resting on her knees, chin resting on one hand. A frown developing on her cherubic, but blank, face. "Finding people like yourself for the masters notice has always been my primary mission. You must be particularly interesting to him, if he collected you personally.". She shrugs at the comment about Balrog, and replies, "If Lord Vega wishes it, I suppose." she replies, with a shrug. Maybe she was like Balrog, before the latest mindwipe. She has overheard a few comments in the base, enough to know that she is somewhat different from how she used to be. The same, yet not the same.
"I am Lord Vega's Doll. The first Doll. I am proud of being a Doll." she tells the creature beyond, happily brainwashed, and unfazed by anybody pointing out her status. In fact, if anything she finds it annoying, as she gets up off of the chair, to reach out and take two of the bars by her hands, moving closer so she can peer through a gap between the bars. "I would stop doing that if I were you..." she tells Alice, voice a little lower. "Or I will have to knock you out again. Escape is pointless in any case, even if you succeed against the odds, the master will only find you again, and the master will be unhappy. You have been plucked away from your Father Elias once. It can and will be done again, should Lord Vega wish it.".
It keeps a twisted grin on Alice's face as Cammy frowns at them, "Hmm, find us and lead us back to him like happy little clams? How long since you brought the last batch to him?" Her distorted voice asks in a mocking tone. It nods her head slowly in response to Cammy's comment and shrug, "I wonder if you even know who you really are? Is there really a Cammy at all or just a shadow that belongs to Vega~!" Again her distorted voice sing songs before Alice is forced to giggle maddly at the Doll.
The response from the Doll causes absolutely insane laughter from the thing in the cage that has the shape of a young girl, "What a good, precious, and lovely dolly you are!" It titters behind the bars of its cell obviously even more amused that it has managed to annoy Cammy. The threat causes it to level a cruel smile on Alice's face as she points the grin at First Doll, "Ooo scary dolly threatens me, I wonder what your owner would say if I have fresh wounds on your watch~!" It causes a smirk to playfully form on her lips, "That fool of a /priest/ doesn't matter to me you worthless brain dead dolly." Alice's lips then shape themselves into a utterly blissful smile, "Unlike most I'm not afraid of your owner...I'm weaker now, but someday...someday I'll make him scream for me as he will make me do very soon, and then I'll rip him to shreddy shreds! Would you like to watch dolly?"
Cammy hmphs, irritated. "I /am/ a good doll." she tells Alice. Or the thing inside Alice. "And Lord Vega will not mind if I hurt you. He will probably be happy, in fact. He likes it when I hurt people. Given how you are currently confined, it does not seem like 'no pain' was a part of His consideration.". She gets up off the chair, to approach the bars. "So unless you enjoy being hurt, I would be more careful.". Though she has stopped psycho powering the restraints, it seems.
"And not many people seem afraid of Lord Vega to me. Because they are stupid, I suppose. I guess you are, too. Given your current situation, your choice of words does not seem very wise to me, after all." the doll says, stepping up to the bars so she can lean, side on, into them.
"I hate pain dear dolly, I hate it so much I never feel it..." It causes Alices lips to form into a pout, "My reflection though, she feels all of it for me? Isn't she the best?" Alice's distorted voice mocking as it speaks to Cammy, "So hurt away...but who knows the other me is pretty frail and you're so irritated, you might just /kill/ her and that precious dolly would make him so very mad, I imagine~." Again It sing songs at her unafraid of her threat to harm It and Alice.
"Then /they/ were fools!" Alice's distorted voice roars through the bars of her cell, "Do not be so quick to judge me dolly...least you upset me, then I'll find something you love and torture it~." Alice's souless eyes are forced to narrow slightly at Cammy, "Not that a stupid dolly would have anything worth hurting." The disdain in the voice when it says dolly is quite clear that It considers her trash, "But you never did answer my question...how many souls have you served to your master's appetites? 1? 3? 10? 100? More?!!! How many people have you left without a friend, brother, sister, mother, or father hmm dolly?" Alice's face is twisted into a malicious grin pointed straight at Cammy as It speaks.
"I will be very careful not to leave you permanently damaged." Cammy assures Alice. "I am very good at that sort of thing.". The doll has detailed files, and a lot of practice.
"You do not look like you are in a fit state to torture anything, and if you were released and found to be a threat to Shadaloo you would end up back in here soon enough... at best. As for my job...". She shrugs. "That was all Lord Vega's wish. If he wants someone killed, it does not matter how they die, does it. I do his will, is all. You may as well argue with the sun, or the tides.".
The Doll is not greatly hindered by questions of morality, really. It all seems very straightforward to her. A shame so few other people seem to share her point of view on what she does.
Alice's lip suddenly goes up in a quirk, "Then hit me all you want, I don't mind." Those souless eyes almost laughing at Cammy for assuming hitting Alice would frighten It in the least, "Strike this poor girl with all your might for what good it shall do you /dolly/~." The grin gets slightly wider, "Who knows it might even relieve that frustration you're feeling." The psychic cants the girl's head in a taunting motion.
"HAHAHAHA!!!!" The distorted voice echos oddly in the small cell, "You assume I won't get free!" It continues to titter at Cammy, "I'm not a brainless dolly~ who can't even decide if killing is worthwhile on her own or not, she's gotta be /told/ when to kill, what a failure of a killing machine!" It laughs so hard it actually starts to hiccup for a moment before its head snaps back, "Your master tis truly the king of morons if you are his best work." It causes Alice's head to shake again at Cammy.
It leans forward almost asking for Alice to be hit in the face, "You know the tide always goes out and eventually even the stars die...your master's time shall come, and I'll be there to see it one way or another~. Though with your pathetic nature right now...I doubt you shall be there to see it, at least as you are now!" Then more insane and hideous laughter breaks from Alice's throat.
Cammy is far too controlled to get violent due to simply being annoyed. Though Alice has succeeded in annoying her, at least. Cammy frowns at the inmate, and shakes her head. "Maybe the master will be around when you meet him later. Then I will get to see what happens when you call him the king of morons to his face. I would like that." she tells Alice silkily. "And I am sure you are more frustrated than me. You are the one stuck in that cell, unable to move, after all.".
She then shrugs, and returns to her chair, stretching out, crossing her legs and getting conspicuously comfortable, just to prove the point. Alice doesn't look like she's in that comfy a position in comparison. "You have a big mouth is all." the doll concludes, dismissive.
Alice's face snorts derisively at Cammy, "You never know, t'would be interesting to see his pompous face twisted in annoyance at being spoken back to." The smirk widens as Cammy taunts it, "Oh of course, I am frustrated but I have more reason to be than you do...tis only words I speak to you, if your dolly mind can't handle that and gets frustrated so easily, your master really did do a poor job when he made you~."
The demons laughs long and loud at the final comment from Cammy as she sits in the chair, Alice's tongue is forced from her mouth and slowly licks her lips before finally the souless eyes focus on Cammy again, "That tis all I have, a wide and yapping maw?" It laughs, "No freedom to move, no teeth to bite and gnash, no claws to rend, or minds to ravage?" Alice's head is canted again. As if challenged by Cammy's words the Psycho energy builds up again as a field of the energy begins to form to connect the energy swirling around each hand, the shackles sizzle and begin to glow purple as once the energy connects it starts reshaping itself into a demonic looking arm that grabs the cell door and rattles it on its hinges disturbingly, "...or perhaps I do!!!" The Psycho contruct fading as it speaks with Alice's voice again, "Hahahahahahaha!!!!"
Cammy sees now why Alice has attracted Vega's attention, anyway, but it doesn't really help her, in her job as guard. "Parlour tricks." she tells Alice, but she gets up again, and checks the door to the cell block. Which is locked, but she just wanted to make sure... Waving at one of the cameras up on the ceiling so the peons know to be attentive, she then returns to Alice's cage, unlocks the door, slips inside, and then swiftly locks it again.
"However, you make for a very annoying cellmate, and I see that it will be tiresome keeping an eye on you to make sure you do not try to break your restraints, and so...". The doll studies Alice clinically for a few moments, trying to make up her mind about which would be the best bit to hit which would mean 'lights out', thus giving Cammy some peace, and hopefully stopping any psycho powered escape attempts. While indeed leaving Alice not permanently damaged.
The demon is highly amused at this point the fact that the psycho manifestation was enough to unnerve the Doll enough to make her get out of her chair and actually enter the cell, proved her point that she is not to be taken lightly by Cammy, if the Doll wants to do her job correctly. "Oh...if I were not in here I would show you 'parlor tricks' silly dolly." It sing songs in Alice's distorted voice. Then it raise one of the girl's eyebrows as Cammy starts looking it over.
"You're the one that scared the girl! Had you comforted her I'd have never come out to play, so you only have yourself to blame dolly!" The face is scrunched up into a look of mock contrition and sorrow, "Let's see if you actually can back up your claims, hit my delicate toy just right or I might just slit the her throat and make sure you're cleaning up her life's blood splattered everywhere in lovely ruby streams...your master would be ohh so pleased with you for that wouldn't he?" The face twists into a wicked grin.
Cammy hmms, considering, one boot lifting off the floor, ready to lash out - only to eventually slip back down to rest back on the floor of the cell again. "Do not blame me for your torments. I have done nothing, beyond keep you safely restrained. Maybe a hold would be best." she concludes, not wanting to accidentally cave in a skull with an army bootl. Accidents happen with brute force.
Accidents happen with locks and choke holds and the like, too, but the doll still feels more comfortable there. And she is a maestro when it comes to holds and throws. So she refrains from giving Alice a literal shoeing, and instead reaches out, to apply pressure to her neck with her fingers at a precise point, cutting off the supply of blood to the brain.
This also has the benefit of being painless, and the assassin does not like the idea of causing any extra pain than is needed. Especially if the demon-voice isn't actually lying to her.
The boot to the face would've actually earned a bit of the Demon's respect but as Cammy chickens out It has to taunt her, "I'll blame whom I please, cowardly doll." It hisses with that distorted voice of Alice's, "Can't even knock me out with a blow, talentless toy." It titters slightly as Cammy looks at Alice intensely...
The fact of how Cammy intended to render it unconscious is rather annoying in Its opinion so as Cammy's hand gets close Alice's jaws open wide and attempt to snap at the Doll's hand, though it's too far away to actually do anything aside from possibly startling the Doll slightly, chained up like It was and having wasted a lot of energy in its display a moment ago due to the shackles dampening abilities, Alice's demon had little fight to offer at the moment. With a hissed and final, "Weakling." Spat out, Alice's eyes close for a moment and then return to their normal violet color...
As the bloodflow is cut off to her brain she blinks a few times as the world starts going black, "I...I'm sorry..." She says shakily her eyes slowly closing as though she were falling asleep, "It was cruel to you..." She offers a wain smile as she finally gives into the dark while muttering a few last words, "..and...you...were...gentle with..." And the girl is unconscious though there is still the hint of a soft smile on her lips.
Cammy blinks at the slumped Alice, letting go of her when she finally passes out. Indeed, she looks more peaceful asleep than she ever did while talking earlier. "I...". She wrinkles her nose, shaking her head, for some reason faintly embarassed, despite the audience being unconscious. The master would be a lot happier if she used the boot, she's sure. But meh. This is more... efficient, she is sure. Yes, efficient. "You will be secure now until Lord Vega arrives.".
She unlocks the cell door, slips out and relocks it behind her once more, to settle back down on her chair, hands in her lap, watching Alice sleep. Motionless, impassive, and rigidly doll-like, while she thinks.
Log created on 17:28:01 02/02/2011 by Alice, and last modified on 03:24:45 02/22/2011.