I thought it was pretty lame to meet in an abandoned warehouse, but said nothing about it when Tom told me that was where we were going to lure VAKAD out. It felt so cliche, but this was the place my comrades had chosen, and in the long run, I didn't care where we met as long as we got to fight. I understood that at that time we didn't want to raise any attention on us by humans, but it was still a pretty stupid place to lure them out to.

"Don't forget that you're the main event," Tom reminded me as Carmine and Striker went to hide behind abandoned machines and equipment. "So just stand here out in the open and wait for the show to begin."

I didn't get how I could feel so annoyed by everything someone said, but that was the case for Tom, and even Carmine and Striker. I wondered how long I had dealt with them before waking up without getting completely fed up by the things they said.

"One word of advice," Tom began, stepping in front of me and placing my face in his hands. Wanting to move, I decided against it and let him speak. "Don't listen to anything they say. Their job is to try and manipulate you, and now that you're still recovering from your head injury, they're going to be trying extra hard to trick you."

I scowled up at him. "I'm not a baby," I snapped, finally pulling out of his grasp and pushing him away from me. "I can fend for myself."

He smirked. "That's my girl."

Before I could bark at him for saying something like that, he was off, hidden in his hiding spot. I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. I knew I was going to get much angrier once VAKAD actually arrived, so I needed to level myself before that.

I knew enough about them that I knew what to expect. I knew each of their powers, so there shouldn't have been any surprises. I was ready to take them down.

It didn't take them very long to get there; I'd been standing in the middle of the warehouse in the dark for about ten minutes before they finally arrived. They didn't even have a strategic way of entering the building. They just came right in, not even worrying about being ambushed or attacked immediately. I knew right away that I was dealing with a bunch of idiots. This was going to be easy.

It was too dark to see at first, but I could hear their every move. They weren't subtle at all; they were talking, but I didn't care enough to actually listen to whatever they had to say. I just wanted this to be over with as soon as possible, because I was already bored.

I could hear Tom shift from behind me, and I knew he'd move to turn the lights on once the room was suddenly flooded with light. And there I stood, right in the middle of the warehouse, Team VAKAD only ten feet in front of me. Just the sight of them in person was enough to get me angry.

They looked shocked to see me, just staring for a moment. I recognized them all from their profiles, beside a blonde girl that I had never seen before. She hadn't had a profile, so I couldn't help but wonder what she was doing with them.

They looked pitifully stupid. I stood there, my arms crossed over my chest as I stared at them expectantly. Was I just supposed to attack them right away, or was I supposed to wait for Tom? Was I expected to do this all on my own? Not that that would have been necessarily difficult, but it would have been annoying if I was expected to do all the work.

Dex was giving me the strangest look out of them all, and for some reason I immediately felt goosebumps rise all throughout my skin. He looked so relieved, and I almost laughed in his face at how stupid he looked. Why did he look so happy to see me when I was going to take them all down?

"Violet!" he gasped, forgetting everything else around him as he ran right at me. I moved into a more defensive position, but wasn't able to do much when his arms were suddenly circling around me, crushing me in a tight embrace. "Thank God you're okay. Thank God you're okay."

My arms pinned to my side, my face pressed into his shoulder, I could feel my blood boiling. What was he playing at, touching me like this? What made him think he had the right? Did he think I was some sort of idiot to be tricked into whatever the hell he was trying to pull?

He wasn't letting go of me. I raised my hand slowly, yet somehow he didn't notice my movement. I said absolutely nothing as I threw my hand down, sending him flying across the room and right into the group of his teammates. Kristie, Aiden, and the blonde went crumbling to the ground, Anthony speeding away just in time.

"What the hell?" Aiden grunted as he pushed himself up off the ground, moving to help Kristie up, but she ignored him and got up herself. "What is she doing?"

"Violet," the blonde called out to me. "What's going on? What are you doing?"

My fists were clenched at my sides. Just the looks on their dumb faces were enough to get my blood boiling. Why did they piss me off so much? I didn't even care. I just wanted to hurt them.

"She's joined Redrum!" Aiden shouted, pointing an accusatory finger at me as if that was supposed to make me feel ashamed. "It was just a matter of time before she did! She's evil! I knew it!"

"Shut up, Aiden," the blonde snarled at him, seemingly ready to attack him instead of me. He didn't seem frightened, instead mocking her as if he was a child.

"This is the VAKAD I heard so much about?" I laughed, unable to help myself. "A bunch of children who can't do anything but argue with each other?"

I knew from their profiles that I was the same age as them, but I already felt so much older just looking at them. How could they argue so easily in front of an enemy? They needed a united front if they had any chance of winning.

Kristie looked like she was about to cry. "What's wrong with her?"

"She's been brainwashed," Anthony explained, as if he had just figured everything out. "She's been completely rewired to think that we're her enemies."

I hadn't even noticed that Dex had gotten up off the floor until he was in front of me once again. "Violet," he frowned, his eyes sad. "You're just messing around, right? Right?"

Raising my hand to send him flying once again, they knew exactly what my intentions were. Dex jumped back, the blonde projecting a wall of ice in between me and their group. As if that was enough to stop me.

I took this moment to study her. She had no profile page when I was shown VAKAD, yet here she was, fighting along side them as if she was one of them. She must have been, since VAKAD was meant to have five members, considering the team name had five letters. But that wasn't important at that moment.

She was beautiful, and the close proximity she was suddenly in with Dex to make sure he was okay began to irk me. And though I couldn't feel anything more than friendship between the two of them, I still felt my skin crawl.

Without even moving a muscle, I was easily able to shatter the ice wall with my mind. Each and every one of them seemed shocked, as if they had never seen anything like this. They'd seen nothing yet.

"We're not going to fight you, Violet!" Kristie cried, and I had to bite down on my tongue to stop myself from laughing at her. "Please! Stop this!"

Unable to control it now, I started to laugh, loud and uncontrollably. They stared at me as if I was completely out of my mind, horrified by what they were viewing. It was an appropriate reaction. They should have been scared.

"You might not want to fight," I laughed, raising my hand as a piece of machinery floated up fro behind me. "But I can't say the same thing!"

Throwing it right at them, they easily dodged it, though this was what I had expected. I used this opportunity to leaped forward, my fist immediately connecting with the off-guard Aiden's face as he tried to avoid my initial attack. He flew back, stumbling over his own feet and crashing to the ground.

"Aiden!" Kristie gasped, immediately running toward him. I was surprised, since I could feel an awkwardness between the two of them, though I didn't know why. I couldn't have cared less though as I took the opportunity and swiped Kristie's legs out from under her as she ran toward me, causing her to crash down right next to her team leader.

"Five against one isn't fair," I began condescendingly, cracking my knuckles. I then couldn't help but laugh again. "For you."

"We don't want to hurt you, Violet," the blonde girl frowned at me.

"Again," I began, my laugh creeping back up again. "I can't say the same thing!"

I flew up, soaring right over their heads before landing behind them and swiping my hand back to knock the blonde right off her feet. She seemed surprised for only a split second before she swiped her own hand and shot icicles right at me. I rolled out of the way, easily dodging them.

"Lena!" Dex snapped, grabbing onto her arm and yanking her up off the ground. "Don't engage!"

The blonde named Lena yanked her arm from his grasp. "Well, clearly something's wrong with her!" she shouted. "We can't just do nothing about this! She wants a fight!"

Aiden and Kristie had pushed themselves up off the ground at this point, and all five of them seemed completely at a loss for what to do. It was almost comical. What was so grand about this team that we needed to fight them? They just seemed like a bunch of amateur, immature children who had no idea what they were supposed to be doing.

Tom, Carmine, and Striker now decided that it would be a good time to show themselves. Without any warning, Carmine sped right toward Lena, a sick attraction toward her that I felt deep within my bones. Anthony immediately saw my comrades movements and sped toward her himself. I ignored the three of them, their fight of no interest to me.

When Dex saw Tom as he made his way to stand right beside me, his eyes turned dark, a murderous intent behind them. I felt nothing more than complete and utter hatred emanating from his body, yet Tom was completely uncaring. He even seemed to enjoy it.

Aiden rolled his eyes at Tom's and my close proximity. "What, are we back at high school or something?" he questioned. Kristie immediately smacked him in the arm, shutting him up.

Dex's gaze moved from Tom, to me, and then at how close the two of us were now standing next to each other, albeit not my choice since Tom had been the one to come up to me. Dex's hands clenched into fists at his side. He was ready to attack at any second.

"I guess I'll take the boring couple," Striker sighed, referring to Aiden and Kristie as he began to slowly meander toward them. While Kristie didn't seem to understand what he meant, Aiden seemed very offended with the fact that he had called him boring. This fight, just like the one between Carmine, Anthony, and Lena, was of no importance to me, so I didn't even pay attention to it.

"I guess that means it's just the three of us," Tom smirked at Dex, snaking an arm around my waist. I wanted to hit him, since now was not the time, but thought against it when I saw how angry Dex suddenly was. "Doesn't this feel like déjà vu?"

I had no idea what he meant by that, and Dex just glared at him. He clearly didn't want to take the bait Tom was laying out for him, but I could see that it was difficult for him to keep his cool.

Tom then looked around, as if he was searching for someone. "Except... I think this time someone's missing."

This seemed like the last straw for Dex. Letting out a shout, he suddenly charged right for us, swinging his fist right at Tom. We managed to split up and jump in opposite directions out of the way before Dex could make contact.

I expected Dex to go after me, and I was surprised when he instead turned toward Tom and went after him instead. I took a moment to watch the fight, intrigued by the utter hatred I could feel that Dex felt for Tom. I couldn't help but wonder why he had such an intense hatred for him, but then I remembered that it didn't matter, and I didn't care once again.

Though I wanted to fight, and I probably should have to back up Tom, I just couldn't stop watching them. Tom was right about the déjà vu feeling, though I had no idea why. It was like I had watched them fight before. But since I still didn't have a very good memory of the time before I had woken up, there was a good chance I had.

At first, Tom had the upper hand. He was easily able to dodge and block any hits Dex threw at him, even when he turned invisible it seemed as though Tom was always one step ahead.

It was fascinating. I didn't think I would have been so entranced, but there I was, in the middle of three different battles, just watching these two boys fight. Every now and then Tom would say some sort of taunting remark about something that I didn't understand, and this would only fuel Dex's anger even more. But this soon was a bad move on Tom's part.

As soon as Dex landed one hit on him, it all seemed to go downhill for Tom. Dex immediately gained the upper hand, punching him again and again, Tom taking every hit like a complete loser. Watching this scene, I couldn't help it; I laughed.

After a few good hits, Tom was out like a light. It was actually a little funny. He talked so much smack, only to be brought down by a couple of punches. I knew that Dex had super strength, but surely Tom should have been stronger than that.

Dex kicked my unconscious tutor in the side. "I'm a lot stronger now than than I was back then, bitch."

I gave no warning as I chucked a rock right at him, the rubble smacking him right in the back and knocking him over. Just because he had gotten Tom out of the way didn't mean that I was going to be as easy to take down.

He steadied himself rather quickly, turning back toward me with that same helpless look in his eye. Why did he keep looking at me like that? He needed to stop.

He was strong; even I had to admit that. Tom was completely out, and he was able to take hits like a champ. But that didn't mean I wasn't going to take him down.

But to my surprise, Dex didn't move to attack me. I knew I could have been the first to make a move, but decided against it, just standing there along with him. We stood only four feet away from each other, just staring at one another for what felt like forever.

"So you're saying you can't remember me at all?" he suddenly asked, so soft it was almost a whisper.

"Not at all," I growled for my answer, two pieces of rubble now floating up behind me as I suddenly grew even angrier. "And I don't want to."

I threw them at him, but he easily dodged it as he jumped out of the way. The fight continued in this manner, with me throwing different pieces of equipment or debris while he did nothing but jump out of the way. It was really starting to get old.

He didn't want to fight me, but I didn't care. This was the reason I had come here, so that was exactly what we were going to do. He wasn't going to chicken out by running out of the way of my attacks.

I knew he could turn invisible, but he hadn't even tried once. He just continuously dodged my attacks, trying his hardest to talk to me even though I wouldn't even give him the opportunity. We were here to fight, not to talk.

"Violet, please," he panted, clearly tired from all the dodging he was doing. "Stop doing this! Snap out of it!"

But I refused to listen, knowing anything he had to say was useless to me. I threw a rock at him once again, this one even bigger than all the rest. He was too tired; surely this one would hit him this time.

Dex was too tired to keep avoiding them. Instead of dodging the rock like he had all the other objects I had thrown at them, he threw his fist toward it, punching it directly in the center, the shrapnel flying so quickly I couldn't react fast enough before one crashed into my forehead, knocking me onto my back. Slapping my hand up against where I had been hit, I removed it after only a second to see blood.

"Violet!" Dex gasped, immediately running over to me. "Are you alright?"

I didn't understand why he was asking me this, but I didn't even care. As soon as he made it over to me, I sent him flying back and into the wall, not even thinking twice about it. I didn't even care that this cut probably would have healed by the next morning; I was still furious. I sat up, stumbling when suddenly I saw two of everything, my vision going blurry and my head feeling dizzy. I'd been hit hard, and the blood now pouring down my face proved it.

Though I could already tell it wasn't a serious injury that wouldn't cause any lasting damage, it was enough to throw me off enough to I continued to stumble. Dex moved forward to help me, but that was the last thing I wanted. I moved to throw something else at him, but my disoriented vision caused me to throw it against the wall instead.

Before I could even make another move, arms were suddenly being wrapped around my waist and I was being picked up off the ground. I turned to see Tom, bloody and bruised but other than that, seemingly fine. He said nothing as he began dashing out of the room, me still in his arms.

"What are you doing? Let go of me!" I shouted, trying to wriggle free, but Tom did not do as I ordered.

"A top rule of Redrum," he began, still running away without letting me go, "is flee when losing a fight. If you don't, they'll take you into custody."

That did sound awful, though my pride was hurt by the fact we were being beat so badly that we had to leave. And all because of one stupid rock to my head. I hadn't paid any attention to Striker or Carmine, so I had no idea what shape they were in, but I knew Tom was most likely in no position to fight after all the times Dex had hit him. The memory of it would have made me laugh again if I wasn't so angry at the fact that I had gotten hurt.

I reached up to feel that I was still bleeding, and just the look of the blood across my fingers made me feel lightheaded. Though it'd be gone by the next morning, I was furious at the fact that Dex had managed to injure me so severely, and without even trying to do so. He was going to pay.

Tom practically threw me into the back of our van and took off, Striker and Carmine having their own vehicle that they would flee to once they were finished stalling VAKAD so Tom and I could escape. I looked behind us through the back window, and though we were too far away for me to even see the warehouse anymore, I still felt like I could hear someone cursing over and over and over again.

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I know, I'm shocked too. It's been a week, not two months.

I have no idea what's being said in the song I've attached but it's from my favorite anime ever Marmalade Boy and it came on shuffle on my iTunes as I was writing this chapter and I thought it kind of fit with how VAKAD + Lena would have felt when they saw that Violet was now evil and had forgotten them.

By far the worst chapter of the "arc" of Violet being apart of Redrum. It'll get much, much better, I promise.

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