[A week after being captured]

"Nngh." Brittany was the first to wake up, feeling stiff all over her body, barely even able to keep her eyes open.

"W-Where are we?" She asked softly, looking around to see if she could spot anything familiar. Unfortunately, there was nothing she recognized that would allow her to know where she was.

When she tried to move, she noticed that her arms were chained to the ceiling and her legs were chained to the ground. But that wasn't all. She was stripped of her gadgets, and she couldn't use her abilities, noting that a power dampener was present.

"Fuck. What happened?" Angela woke up, shaking her head. "Huh? Why am I chained up! Hngng!" She tried using her power, but nothing worked.

"Are you two okay?" Addison asked, waking up as well.

"Could be better. I don't suppose that you have a plan to get out of here?" Brittany asked as a joke, though there was something inside her that slightly hoped that Addison or even Angela had a plan to escape.

"Jin will save us." Angela smiled.

"And how would he even know where we are?" Addison asked

"Uhh...I don't know?" She didn't think of that.

"Oh, great. It looks like you three are up. You were all out for a whole week. I didn't know the gas would knock you all out for that long." Walking into the cell that they were in, a person wearing a mask entered their view.

"The Speaker," Angela growled.

"Hello, Angela Silverstone. I hope you like your new accommodations."

"Fuck you!"

"Ohoho, a fiesty one, eh? Well, I know now to tame dogs worse than you."

"Don't think that you've beaten us because we're captured." Addison chimmed in. "Jin will find us and take you all down."

"Oh, I bet. In fact, I'm hoping that he finds this place, because once he does, it will not only break him, but make him an enemy of the Aegis Corps."

The three women had no idea what the Speaker was talking about.

"An enemy of the Aegis Corps? What is your game?" Brittany asked

"I'm not playing any game. I'm simply paving the way for the future."

"Yeah, sure. Do you seriously believe that people would join your cause after all of the death and destruction you've caused? Please. People will hate you for taking away their homes and loved ones." Angela spat, her anger rising.

"You must believe that the Sons of Adam is an extremist group that is trying to bring change through chaos, but you couldn't be further from the truth. Do you want to know who the TRUE Sons of Adam are?"

None of them answered. It's not that they didn't want to know, but they were slightly scared to know.

"I can see it, the fear in your eyes. Heh. The real people behind this cause are the ones you see every day. Your typical politician, police officer, bus driver, school teacher, Vanguard, Guardian, and even military personnel. They don't operate in the shadows; the shadows operate in them."

There was a brief pause before he continued speaking.

"What you know as the Sons of Adam is simply the force that's acting to MAKE people see that change is needed. Why do you think that I've been so patient when it came to dealing with you lot?"

"I thought you wanted Jin." Angela explicitly remembered them wanting Jin's intelligence.

"Oh, yes, that is true. But he's proven to be a wild card that can't be controlled, so I decided to get rid of him instead."

Addison smirked. "Heh, do you seriously think you can kill Jin? He took out a whole space station full of your people. Wait...shouldn't you be locked up?"

"Oh, you mean my stand-in? Yeah, he's dead. The guy was utterly useless. Anyway, we're done talking. But, there is something I wish to show you." The lights, which only shone on the Speaker, brightened the entire room.

All around, there were women just like them, chained up and beaten to a pulp. Most, who weren't unconscious or dead, were terrified of what was going to happen to them.

"What's going on?" Angela asked

"Oh, don't tell me that you don't remember? Didn't you watch in person what we plan on doing to the women we capture?"

Angela's eyes widened, and fear crept up her body. "N-No! D-Don't do this!"

"Look at you, begging me to spare you because you can't fathom losing your little abilities. Now imagine how we men feel, being born with nothing! Bring in the device."

A member of the Sons of Adam appeared out of thin air and handed him the device that stole powers from people.

"Fuck! Fuck!"

"You better not pull that trigger!"

"My mother will kill you for this!"

"Hahahahahahahahahahaha!" The speaker couldn't hold in his laughter. "You three are nothing more than pawns in this game I'm playing. But don't worry, just know that your power is being used for a greater cause." He activated the device

"No! No! Please—ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Angela felt as if her body was unraveling as the device started taking away her powers.

Brittany and Addison were screaming in pain as well, feeling their abilities being stripped away from them.

The pain was unbearable, and they could do nothing to stop it. Their DNA unraveled, and a part of them was stolen. Once the device finished absorbing their powers, the three of them passed out, nearly dying from the process.

"Wow, this device is more thorough than the last build. It almost killed them, hahaha! Almost."

Walking up to the Speaker was another person, one who looked as if they worked for a corporation.

"Sir, you have some visitors."

"Hmm? Are they looking for me?" The speaker asked

"No. But they are looking for someone."

"Hmm. One of their missing family members or friends, I presume?"

The man handed the speaker a tablet with the picture of the person his visitors were looking for.

"Ahh! I see. Then, go forward with our next plan. We'll be making the big moves now. It's time to get this city under our control."

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