Mind Games
Note: {}s denote thinking :)
Guard: <sees blood trickling from Raina's nose> Is there a doctor on duty? We've got a problem here.
Dr Huggins: Remove the helmet
Guard: It's not a helmet; it's a thought inhibitor. And that's not a wise idea; she's a dangerous woman.
Dr Huggins: How dangerous can she be?
Guard: She's capable of reading minds.
Dr Huggins: So she'll know you're afraid of her, so what? Take off the inhibitor
Guard: She is capable of controlling minds.
Dr Huggins: There are 6 men here. If she tries to control one, the other five can put that thing back on.
Guard: With all due respect, you are new here, sir. Now I think we should contact the research leaders to find out if it's safe to-
Dr Huggins: I have been left in charge of NYcare, and I will not bother the leaders until I have some kind of diagnosis. Now remove the helmet. <they remove it> {Damn, she's fine} Hello. You have a nosebleed. I'm just going to cauterize it with this laser
Raina<in the Dr's head>: Put your laser down on the armrest do you have your hands free to give proper care
Dr Huggins: There, as good as new
Raina<in the Dr's head>: You don't want to put that back on her. It's inhuman what they are doing to this beautiful young woman
Dr Huggins: This is, uh, inhuman. Lets let her, uh, breathe a while
Guard: No, we put the helmet back on immediately
Raina<in the Dr's head>: Don't listen to that militaristical tomidan. He's usurping your authority. You're in charge
Dr Huggins: No, I'm in charge here.
Guard: Doctor, you are acting irrationally. I believe she is influencing your thoughts now I'm going to put it back on now
Raina: <shoots all the guards with the 1st guard's gun> Five dead. Six shots. Sloppy, but I am right handed. Oh, and doctor Huggins, your scientific mind might find this quite amusing. With all my remarkable powers it still took me six months to make my nose bleed. Life's such a mystery. Oh, and thank you so very much for your kind thoughts <shoots Dr. Huggins>
Cleo: Partay! Whoo!
Sarge: Okay, spoil my fun, tell me why were really here
Hel: I'm serious, Sarge. Voice told me to come here and then she stopped communicating with me.
Sarge: So is this a mission or what?
Hel: I dunno
Cleo: Maybe this is our mission. Voice knows how hard we've been working and she just wants us to party like it's 2999, baby
Sarge: You know I hate to admit it, but sometimes the kid's got a few ideas. I'm going to mingle. If Voice contacts you, let me know
Cleo: Oh, Hel check him out.
Guy: Ladies...
Cleo: Hi
Guy: Care to exchange life support fluids?
Hel: You've got this one.
Cleo: I'll see you next millennium
Guy: Too bad. You know what they say. One you go cyborg you never go back
Cleo: Cool
Girl: {Yeah, yeah, working it, yeah yeah, whoo}
Guy: {She dances like moonsilver}
Other guy: {I can't feel my legs}
Other guy: {I wonder if she's real}
Other girl: {Is that his hand on my leg? What creep.}
Hel: {Voice sent us here to do something, but what? And why wouldn't she explain it all to me, that's not like her.}
Bartender: Here you go
Hel: Thanks
Raina: Hel, isn't it?
Hel: And you are?
Raina: A friend. I've come to talk about Voice. She's disappeared and you're worried
Hel: <laughs> I don't know what you're talking about
Raina: Perhaps Voice has lost faith in you. I've seen it before. She'll abandon a team leader in the middle of a mission for no apparent reason. You have to talk to her!
Cleo: Whoo girl. Okay, I admit he was no Brad Pitt, but
who cares! What's wrong?
Hel: Where did that woman go?
Cleo: What woman?
Hel: She was helping me, we were taking about Voice
Cleo: You were talking about Voice to a total stranger?
Hel: It wasn't like that. It was like she was in my head
Cleo: Oh boy, be careful. I used to date a shrink who could do that. Very scary
Cleo: Sarge!
Sarge: <dancing with some guy> Go away
Cleo: Hel's acting really weird
Sarge: She's out of her element. She'll be okay
Cleo: Have you ever heard the expression 'they won't buy the cow if they get the milk for free?'
Sarge: What's a cow?
Sarge: {Alright, beautiful, don't ruin it by saying something stupid}
Raina: This is too easy
Guy Sarge was dancing with: What do you say we go someplace, get butt naked and do the belly/belly game?
Sarge: {What and idiot. Oh, well, I didn't want him for his brains anyway}
Raina: Must have been a while, huh? Fun's over. Time for paranoia
Guy: You're not a betrayer, are you?
Sarge: Of course not, why would you even ask that?
Guy: It's just I've heard rumors that they come here and take people and do who knows what to them. I'm sure it's just a rumor. I have no idea why I just said that...
Sarge: {Why would Voice send us somewhere where the have been betrayer rumors and not warn us? Maybe she did warn us and Hel didn't want me to know. She and Voice have been getting pretty tight lately. Maybe I'm just out of the loop suddenly. Maybe there's no loop to be out of}
Cleo: Hey Hel, how're you doing?
Hel: Something's wrong, I gotta talk to voice
Cleo: Wait a minute, you're not going anywhere.
Hel: Oh, right, right, you know best, Cleo
Cleo: Okay, now you're really scaring me, come on, come on
Guy: Say, you wanna go free fall in the shaft?
Sarge: Later {So first she says she's lost contact with voice and now she takes us here. A bar teaming with betrayers. I don't like it}
Cleo: Just have a lean, okay?
News guy in the TV: New this week on the evil top ten and making a rapid climb to the top, Raina.
Sarge: You said Hel was acting strangely. What did you mean?
Cleo: She was talking to some woman about voice
News guy: An escapee from level t64's loony bin. Have you seen this vixen?
Cleo: <pointing at the tv which has a picture of Raina on it> Her!
News guy: If the answer is yes, you may already be dead.
Hel: Sarge, we're in danger!
Sarge: No, you are... betrayer.
Hel: Put the weapon down Sarge
Sarge: BACK OFF! It all makes sense now. The disappearance of Voice. The secret meeting with a stranger. You were going to eliminate us both but you didn't count on me figuring it our, did you, betrayer?
Cleo: Sarge, are you nuts? This is Hel! Not that I have a problem with that
Sarge: Oh, so now you're on her side?
Cleo: Uh-huh, I mean no no, I'm with you both. We're a team, right? Can't we all just get along?
Sarge: With a betrayer? Never!
Hel: Raina's gotten to Sarge.
They fight
Cleo: Sarge, if you hurt Hel, you're going to regret it
Sarge: Shields are gone, betrayer
Cleo: Wait, wait! I know Sarge has totally lost it, but it's still Sarge!
Hel: Its either this or we let her pick us off one by one
Cleo: Fire at will!
Raina: Sarge, it's either you or Hel. Who's it gonna be? That's it girls, sooner or later Voice is going to be along to sort this out. And once she's speaking to Hel, I'll be able to read her thoughts too. It won't be long before I find out where she is.
Cleo: Now what?
Hel: Put these on. You're going back to the lab
Cleo: Why me?
Hel: You need to get Mauser to build something to help control Raina's powers.
Cleo: But climbing the shafts make me dizzy
Hel: All you need to do is go up a couple of levels, cross the corridor and go straight to the lab shaft. It's simple. I believe in you, now do it!
Cleo: But without these you'll be defenseless!
Hel: Then you'd better hurry!
Raina: Off to see Mauser. Think I'll tag along
Cleo: <to herself> You had to miss those Tae-bo classes, didn't you?
Hel: WAIT!
Sarge: Is this some kind of betrayer trick?
Hel: No, no tricks, just the truth. Look at me Sarge. Not with your mind, with your heart. There was a woman in here earlier, she can control minds. She tried to turn me against Voice and you against me. Oh come on Sarge, if I were a betrayer you'd be dead right now
Sarge: Hel
Hel: Yeah. I was hoping once Raina left you'd come around. How you feeling?
Sarge: Confused
Hel: This woman, Raina, she knows Voice
Sarge: Is she a betrayer?
Hel: No, she's human, or some advanced form of human. If Voice speaks to me, she can hear it by reading my thoughts and I think Voice thinks it will compromise her security
Sarge: Where's Cleo?
Hel: In trouble. Let's go. When I sent Cleopatra to Mauzer, Raina must have followed her and that's what snapped you out of it
Sarge: What's the plan?
Hel: Don't have one. Look if I had one, Raina would have read my thoughts and she would be one step a head of us. We gotta be spontaneous.
Cleo: Kay, now I'm lost. Must be the other way... On the other hand... I've seen Hel do this before...
Mauser: Is there a problem Cleopatra?
Cleo: Mauser, there's a problem, we need-
Mauser: I know, Voice contacted me. I've improved the design by combining an alpha wave blocker with a neuron-
Cleo: Whatever great, give it to me
Raina: I'll take that. You've been very helpful, Cleopatra, but I won't be needing you anymore.
Sarge: Back off you major head case or I'll blow you to pieces
Hel: Sarge, no!
Sarge: What are you doing?
Hel: We have to wait for Voice's orders. She doesn't want her killed.
Sarge: Then we'll have to do it the old fashioned way.
Hel and Sarge fight Raina. Cleo sticks the inhibitor on Raina
Cleo: I did good, right?
Hel: Yeah, you did good, Cleo
Raina is back in her chair in the padded room she was in originally
Cleo: I don't like her
Sarge: She's a creepy one
Guard-type-guy: Now girls, this inhibitor is not a toy
Hel: Alright, Voice, I choose to believe that you stayed out of touch because you knew Raina would read my mind
Voice: Exactly
Hel: I take it you have a history with her.
Voice: Raina was once very much like you
Hel: And what's that supposed to mean? Voice? Voice? Voice? Oh, now you stay away. Voice! VOICE!