"I really hate this place," I grumbled as I sat down on the floor. I glared at the wall. The wall that kept me in. The wall that....was suddenly not there.

I furrowed my brows as I stood up slowly, glancing at the space around me. The wall was just....gone. The other time it had disappeared, it had cracked first. This time it was different. It had just vanished.

I stepped forward a couple of paces and lifted my arm, putting it through where the wall had been. I stepped forward again, when a bloodcurdling shriek spilt the air.

I clapped my hands over my ears, but it didn't do much to muffle the screaming. It vibrated in my head, making me dizzy. I stumbled and fell to my knees, gasping for breath and pushing my hands against my ears harder.

The screaming finally stopped, and I gasped again, tears escaping my eyes and beginning to drip onto the floor. The scream had sound hauntingly familiar, but I couldn't place it. But, for it to be that loud, the screamer would have to be close, and I did not want to meet whatever made them scream like that.

I swallowed and stood up, my hands still braced against my ears. I ran for the door I knew would bring me to the control room. I lifted a hand off of one of my ears and reached out to touch the door frame. My finger grazed it when the screaming started again. I jerked my hand back and slammed it back onto my ear.

This one didn't last as long as the other one had, but it was long enough for me to realize why it had sounded familiar.

It was mine.

Haggar must have been doing something horrible to Imp, and Imp wasn't giving it to her.

Breathing heavily, I went through the door and into the control room. It had been dark when I had gone through earlier, but this time, it seemed like the whole place was sparking with electricity.

The actual controls were jerking back and forth, and I didn't spare them much of a glance. I had already tried taking over my body by grabbing those. It hasn't turned out well.

I turned to the side with all of the flash drives plugged into the motherboard and gasped. They were the source of the sparking.

Last time I was here, I had seen hundreds plugged into the huge board.

Now, it looked like there were only a couple dozen left, and they were colored in a pale green. The others were black, and sparking dangerously.

Yanking my gaze away from the board, I glanced around the rest of the room, trying to find something to put the flash drives in.

Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a small cardboard box, about the size of a tissue box from back home.

I supposed that the sparking one's were one's that Haggar had already gone through, and not bothered to take care of. She just ripped right through them and destroyed them, making sure I would never know that memory again. I was just happy that I had found them

I grabbed it and reached for the closest drive. I hesitated right before I touched it, uncertain of what would happen when I did.

I licked my lips and swallowed before grabbing it. A picture popped into my head of Bae Bae back home. The image faded quickly, and I glanced down at the rest of the board, swallowing hard.

If all of these carried the memory of someone I knew, how many people had been erased from my memory forever?

I shook my head, and grabbed the next one, seeing my mom. The picture was from the Kerberos launch, and she looked happy.

A tear dripped onto my cheek, sliding until finally falling. I gritted my teeth, grabbing the next and the next, putting each into the box and crying even harder with each one.

I gasped for breath before grabbing another one, and stopping and just holding it in my hands for a couple of seconds. Coran's kind face popped up, and I sobbed, clutching it for a second before shoving his into the box.

The next was Allura. Then Keith. Then Shiro. With each person, it was becoming harder and harder to put them into the box. I missed them all so much.

I sniffed and grabbed another. Hunk's face showed up. I breathed harder and harder, shoving his into the box and grabbing another.

Lance. Bawling now, I gently set it into the box and grabbed one of the last ones.

Dad and his goofy grin. His love of science, and his love for us as a family. Regret washed over me, that I hadn't found them yet. Almost in a haze, I grabbed the last one, instantly regretting it as a face so many said I looked just like popped up.

Matt. The control room faded away, and all I could think about was how much I missed him and how painful it was for him to be gone. His goofy smile, his idiotic jokes. How he could make me laugh when no one else could. More tears fell, and I fell to my knees, hugging myself, and bending so my arms touched my legs.
My hands still gripped my father and Matt's drives.

The tears finally stopped, and then the screaming began again. In the control room, it seemed to have amplified, surrounding me from every side. I gasped in pain, and, once it stopped, dropped the drives into the almost full box.

I brushed my hair behind my ear with one hand, and stopped when I felt something wet touch my fingers. I brought my hand near my face and confirmed my suspicion in the light of the sparks from the circuit board. The screaming had made my ears bleed.

I slowly stood up and steeled myself, ready to go and get the drives to safety. I glanced at the sparkslighting up the air, grabbed the box, and then concentrated on them. All of them; my family.

It wasn't hard to find them, but getting there was going to be a little more difficult. Reaching tiredly for my connection with Green, I pulled hard, and then found myself dropped onto the floor of somewhere. My knees thudded to the floor, and I looked up. It seemed to be some sort of lounge.

Remembering the reason I was there, I frantically searched for the box. When I found it, I sighed in relief and reached for the nearest paladin, which happened to be Lance. He obligingly came closer and I shoved the box into his hands.

He looked at me with scared eyes, and opened his mouth. "What are--"

"Those are my memories," I said, interrupting him. "Take good care of those, Lance." My eyes welled with more tears, and a couple slipped out onto my cheek.

"Wait, hang on, you mean--"

"Yeah." I looked at him and gave him the biggest smile I could muster, which wasn't much. I could feel my body starting to fade as I was pulled back to my own mind.

I gulped. "Hold my memories for me, Lance." His teary eyes caught mine once more, and his hand reached for mine before I disappeared completely, leaving them all staring at the spot I had been.

I appeared right back in my mind, and back in a cage with walls, and I raised a fist in the air in triumph. Imp couldn't steal those from me, and I didn't care what consequences came from pulling that little stunt.

My fist lowered, and I looked up to see Imp stomping towards me, a murderous look on her face. She looked downright disheveled, her hair sticking up everywhere, burn marks on her arms, and tear tracks down her furious face.

"What have you done with them?!" she shrieked.

I winced at the high note her shriek had reached. "I've taken them away. Far away."

"You'll soon come to regret that very much," she growled, coming closer to the glass of the cage.

I leveled my glare on her and stood up, walking towards the glass and her as I said, "I dare you to try."
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Dun, dun, dunnnnn! This chapter was kind of fun to write. But also sad. I've actually had this chapter written for quite some time, but it took awhile to get here.

So, how'd you like it? Let me know what parts you liked, and what broke your heart, because some parts broke mine to write. :)

~Ash