Chapter 7: Breakdown
"How?" He asked as his voice broke down. "What?" Tears escaped the beta tester's bloodshot eyes. "How can you all accept me when I killed a member of your family?!! How the hell can you all go by day in day out knowing that the man who murdered your cousin is living and eating with you?!!!" He yelled before clawing his face. His breathing was irregular and his movements almost became involuntary as he twitched and clawed. Rebecca was shocked to say the least.
"It's an agonising hell that I have to live with. Why do you all take pity on me?! Why care about me at all?!!" He started to twitch even more before he started screaming. His brain itching as his head shook like an earthquake. He was having another breakdown. He was clawing away at his body, making himself bleed on his arms and face. It was horrifying to see Axle in this state.
"Why? Why? Why?!!" He asked repeatedly as he continued to scratch. Rebecca managed to make it to Wyatt's house but Axle's breakdown still continued without showing any signs that it would end. It was scary. All that guilt and self hatred, the way he was mutilating his body and worst of all was the aching pain in his heart that wouldn't go away. It wasn't the only time but as far as records go this was by far the worst one yet. Rebecca was puzzled.
How was she going to help him? How the hell was she going to help? She felt useless in this situation regarding the beta tester as she watched his sanity slowly deteriorate with each passing moment as he descended deeper and deeper into the darkest corner of his mind.
"Axle!!" A worried voice cried out. Rebecca looked to see Carly rushing out of the house and to his side of the car. She saw the state Axle was in and it broke her heart. She knew what Axle was like during his breakdowns. "What happened?" The CyberHuman asked the scientist with teary eyes. She herself knew this wasn't good judging on the way Axle was hurting himself. "He was yelling things about how why we accepted him and then his started to have a breakdown." Rebecca told Carly as she was still freaked out by what she had witnessed. Tears escaped Carly's face because this was the third time she was forced to see Axle in a state like this. The first being during their first week of knowing each other when he tried to commit suicide and the second time being a month after the Eight Thirty Two incident.
"Help me get him out." Carly told the scientist before she opened the door and Rebecca unbuckled his seat belt. She watched as Carly took the volatile man out of the seat and out the car before picking him us bridal style. "It's okay, Axle. It's okay." Carly whispered as she tried to calm him down.
Carly carried Axle's shaking form from the car and walked over to the door of the house. "Quick, open up and get Wyatt and Juliette." Rebecca nodded before she ran in to inform her brother and sister-in-law about the situation regarding Axle Ryder's mental breakdown.
He showed a lot of resistance to being carried and tried to break free the whole time bit no matter how much he had tried he was no match for the strength of Carly Kyber. His mind was far more gone than she had originally thought. Axle might have been in pain at the moment but Carly was the one who was really suffering.
"Stop squirming Axle, just calm down and come back to me." Carly said as she found his movement irritating and painful. She just wanted her best friend back.
"What's going on he-" Wyatt spoke but was cut off when he saw Axle in the middle of his break down. Juliette came in quickly followed by Erin and Eddie.
"Axle?!" The two teenagers yelled as they were worried. It was horrific to see Axle in a state like this. His mental condition, his emotional stability, all broken. The claw marks made on his face by himself. That look in his eyes... He was close to being lost forever.
"Axle, listen to me... it's gonna be okay." Carly said but he somehow managed to break free and land on the ground below them.
"Erin, go to the medical cabinet and get daddy his chloroform." Wyatt ordered before Erin ran off. "Sorry kid." Wyatt said before using his Cyberarm to punch Axle in the gut. That was sure to cause internal damage but at least it would hold him down in place.
"Erin, bring that chloroform and a few bags of morphine!!" Wyatt yelled before Erin could come back to the living room with the supplies in hand.
Axle winced in pain. He couldn't handle it. All he did was smile as his body continued to shake. His masochistic side showed itself to them as he devoured the pain he was enduring.
Erin came back and Wyatt took the supplies from his daughter. He quickly used the chloroform and a cloth soaked in it to knock out Axle quickly.
"Get him to my workspace." Juliette told her husband before leaving the room. She looked at her son and daughter before saying, "And you kids, go to bed before you're both grounded."
They did as she said and went to their rooms, worried for their foster brother.
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