because you're mine

[solittleeffort]

Characters: Maia, Harley, Jinx, Phoenix and later Ironhide and (maybe?) Anna.
Location: Library.
Date: Backdated to the 16th. Right after the end of this thread.
Warnings: Maia. Lots of Dark Eco, pain, and general unpleasantness. This isn't going to be a superhappyfuntimes log (unless you're Maia).

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[solittleeffort]

It seems that Phoenix is still unconscious, not that it matters to Maia. He isn't awake, yet? Fine. She'll just have to wake him up, herself.

"Move." Maia wants to get to work, and if she is to do that, then she needs both Harley and Jinx to get out of her way and for them to stay there. She waits for the two of them to move away before sauntering over to Phoenix, all too happy to take a seat on his lap and just grin. While Maia would have liked to take a bit more time with this - perhaps to instill a bit more paranoia in him, or to target the other women he seemed to be so fond of - this is still as good a time as any

[solittleeffort]

"Mm. Thank you, Harley." Maia takes the jar from the other woman and presses a small kiss to her cheek before looking back down at Phoenix. "Efficient little thing, isn't she?"

She takes a moment to unscrew the lid, gently coaxing the toxic substance out of the container and willing it to float around her. None of the Dark Eco will drop onto Phoenix unless she wants it to. "Now, I've been awfully curious about something, Phoenix. The last time we spoke you seemed to enjoy dropping hints about having something of mine, even though I never explicitly said what I lost over the communicators. Now, I have every right to suspect you, but if you really did take what was lost, then you'll have no problem answering this question. So - what did I lose?"

[ecopiracy]

Phoenix's stomach heaves at the sight of the eco floating around her, but whether it's from nausea or from the eco itself roiling in anticipation inside him, he isn't sure. The blood drains from his face and his heartbeat pounds. Again, he struggles to free himself, almost frantically for a moment, but it's useless. The ropes are too strong!

That leaves him with anger as his only defense, and desperately he latches onto it, fanning it even stronger. "I fail to see," he snarls, "why I should answer to you!"

Only he did see. The threat is plain in her hands. She would torture him if he didn't tell her what she wanted.

His eyes narrow grimly. She'll torture me anyway.

I'll be sitting quietly at the sidelines now! I'll jump in when needed. :3 xoxoxo

[hesmypuddin]

Harley lets put a delighted giggle at the kiss and beams at the praise, moving where she can watch without getting in the way. This whole Eco thing was new to her, although Maia spoke of it often enough. Seeing it in motion, though, was altogether a different bowl of wax!

When Phoenix refuses to tell her that he has her notes from the library, she can only sit back and watch eagerly for the shit to hit the fan.

roger! o7

[solittleeffort]

Phoenix is definitely right in his thoughts. Maia plans on torturing him no matter what he says or does. Quite frankly, she's just teasing him right now.

"Well. It's just a minor inconvenience, anyway." No, it isn't. It's a very big inconvenience that Maia still needs to sort out. Still, she smiles once again and looks down at Phoenix. "No point in letting such a thing ruin an evening of fun!"

Maia allows one of the clusters of Dark Eco fall, only to have it freeze in the air just centimeters above Phoenix's chest. She slowly summons it up to her arm, hissing slightly as the murky poison sank right into her skin.

"It's interesting, isn't it? Enough exposure, and the body can take in a high concentration of Dark Eco with hardly any effort. Of course, even with everything I just put you through, this would still be quite a bit to take in. Still, I think it could be very educational to see what would happen, regardless. Don't you agree?"

[ecopiracy]

Phoenix jerks back involuntarily, his heart hammering in his chest. His eyes, wider than he would ever admit, stay focused on the glimmering threat until it disappears, then jerk to Maia's face before he catches himself.

He was giving her what she wanted.

Fanning the flames of his anger, he tries to snuff out his fear. The Dark Eco roils inside of him...

"I suppose I shouldn't be surprised," he snaps, "if your intelligence has been crippled to the point that you need to repeat a lesson you should by rights have already learned."

[solittleeffort]

Phoenix really isn't doing anything to help the situation - then again, even if he was, Maia would still be the one with the upper-hand. She'd still be standing above him, Dark Eco and all, and he would still be completely at her mercy. After all, no matter what he says, the plan is still the same.

"Well. While it would help me learn about your own body's reaction to Dark Eco, I must admit that the pursuit of knowledge really isn't why I'm doing this. Like I said before..."

Maia allows for several large drops of Dark Eco to fall onto Phoenix's chest.

"This is all for the sake of my enjoyment."

[ecopiracy]

The effect is like acid eating into his skin, liquid, living fire burning itself through him to join the Dark Eco he'd already absorbed. Another short, agonized cry escapes from his mouth before he can clamp his mouth shut. Only a few drops...

But it's far more concentrated. It hurts - oh dear Makers, it hurts! - more than anything he's ever experienced, and even after it fades, the Dark Eco is still there, clinging thickly just beneath his skin. It buzzes angrily, like a swarm of wumbpees, and hungrily reaches for more...

No!

Panicking, he throws himself to the side.

But only manages to make the chair topple.

"Nngh!"

[solittleeffort]

Maia just laughs as Phoenix topples over, this whole ordeal is really far too much fun! She saunters over to him, a hand on her hip and a smile on her face. "Feel free to lick my boots while you're down there."

The Dark Eco is still floating above her, and she crouches down to look at Phoenix. Quite honestly, Maia is perfectly content to simply watch him like this. Angry, afraid, helpless...oh, she just loves it. Still, she has so much more she wants to do with him, and it won't get done if she just stares!

"It's really pointless to try and resist, you know." The Dark Eco draws closer to him as she speaks.

"If anything, you should be grateful! I'm...improving you. Making you more like me. Really, I suppose one could say that I'm recreating you." Maia grabs Phoenix by the hair and yanks his head forward for another kiss. Her body is crackling with bolts of dark electricity, but that's all from her own excitement.

"I own you, Phoenix. You belong to me, now, and you always will." That mad smile is still there as Maia breaks away from

[dormant_beast]

Exhaustion threatens to sweep over her as she moves - but there's no way that her mind will let her stop, let her fall behind the large robot's pace. Methodically she puts one foot in front of the other, willing herself to keep moving, to keep searching, looking. Down the hall, up the stairs, moving, moving, moving.

Her keen ears prickled at the sound of a far off noise, a scream that shakes her to the core.

Phoenix was in serious, serious danger and it was her fault. Her breath was coming in ragged gasps, and when she speaks, it shakes.

"I hear something, Ironhide." Swallowing, she jogs to catch up.

"I think...perhaps I might know where they are." She gestures, then looks up.

"The library, I think. That is where this all started."

[heavyweaponsbot]

"Yeah, I heard it," he grunts. He doesn't increase his pace. He doesn't have to. In fact, if he tried, he'd go careening off a wall at an inopportune moment. He should have been driving, but the female was in tow, and he would have easily outdistanced her that way.

Plus, this way, he can carry his cannons, already out and primed. Kicking the door in sounds like a perfect idea, as far as he's concerned. Whoever the enemy was, they were going to learn what would happen when they crossed the Autobot weapons master.

He hadn't survived as many years as he had by being lenient, after all.

"I will go first."

[dormant_beast]

If anyone else was around, they'd probably heard it to. The closer they got, the more Anna was absolutely certain it was Phoenix.

The surer she was, the angrier she got.

"Oui - yes. I will be behind you." She looks down at herself, at her blood soaked clothing and smeared skin. Some of it's Phoenix's, most of it's hers. That bomb Harley had set off by her head had left a nasty gash down the side of her head and her ears were still ringing a little, but it doesn't deter her. She shifts, hunkering low to the ground as they get closer, and she waits for Ironhide's cue.

[heavyweaponsbot]

He didn't look back for further confirmation. That would distract from his concentration. You had to trust your backup to do their job. Otherwise, what was the reason for having them around?

Instead, he strode forward, lowering a shoulder as he went. His momentum would carry him straight through the doors, if he didn't slow down. And he didn't. If anything, he went a little faster. Five tons of angry Autobot went crashing into the library, cannons glowing bright in preparation.

Weapons trained on the unfamiliar faces, he accompanied his crashing entrance with a roar of challenge, and rage.

[solittleeffort]

The Autobot crashing into the library definitely was not something Maia had planned on. So, she goes with her usual response to an unwanted visitor - she flies high out of the way and charges her body with Dark Eco.

Good things never last forever, but Maia really did hope that this would last at least a few minutes longer.

She recognizes Anna in her tiger form, although she's never met Ironhide. Still, big as he is and even with those cannons at the ready, Maia is ready and willing to fight both of them.

Maia hates being interrupted in the middle of working.

[ecopiracy]

The Dark Eco has momentarily stopped flooding his body, but for Phoenix it hardly matters. His body convulses with the Dark Eco it's already absorbed and his breathing is harsh and ragged, choked with a low, agonized sound that catches in his too-raw throat. Pain etches every line in his face, emphasized by the streaks of sweat and blood on his skin. He's lying on his side, still tied to the toppled chair.

At the sound of that familiar, outraged roar, though, he manages to crack an eye open. "No," he croaks. His vision is swimming. It's so difficult to focus.

But he can see Maia, and somehow he can feel the charging eco, pulling, calling, like a magnet to the stuff inside him. Alarm mixes with nausea and he starts to retch. "Ir'n...hide!"

[hesmypuddin]

Harley purses her lips and watches the exchange in a half interested manner, legs swinging beneath the table beneath her. "Ya know, Jinxy," she comments sidelong to her unconscious partner. "Ya'd think she's enjoyin' herself or somethin'.."

She then sighs a bit, hands moving to the top of the table as she leans back and just watches. Bored .. bored, bored, bored.This silent litany goes on and on until she grimaces, watching as Phoenix topples himself over in his chair. "I don't think that worked out quite the way ya wanted it to," she calls from the sidelines. "HAH