M.A.D.N.E.S.S ~ A Date A Live Story

Chapter 4: I Hate You

'Huh? Where am I?' Matt thought to himself as he opened his eyes. His vision was blurry, but as it started to return to him, he got a good baring of his new surroundings.

'Oh yeah. I went with Ellen.' Matt remembered. 'I guess my attachment to Shido and those Spirits of his did grow. We did make a deal after all. I promised I wouldn't hurt them so long as they didn't cause destruction.' Matt reminded himself.

"Hey! Wake up!" Ellen shouted as she used her Territory to apply gravity to Matt's body. He grunted out of pain and clenched his fists as he tried to endure the pain, causing his hands to bleed.

'What does she want?' Matt wondered.

"Don't make such a face. I'm only here to thank you for your cooperation." Ellen told Matt with a smile on her face.

"Cooperation?" Matt asked her.

"Now that we've retrieved what we need from you, we can finally move on to the next steps of our plan." Ellen explained to him.

"First, we'll run some testing on your blood. We've officially stabilized all of the samples so they can no longer explode neither implode on our scientists." Ellen explained to Matt. "Thank you very much for that by the way." Ellen sarcastically remarked as she applied gravity to Matt once more, causing him pain.

"And then we'll move on to the testing phase of our plan." Ellen added.

"Testing?" Matt asked her.

"Yeah. Well, we can't be having our suits fail out in the battlefield, right? That wouldn't be good for business." Ellen told Matt.

"We'll use your blood to make new and better suits and attire for our Bandersnatchers." Ellen told Matt. "It's best I don't say anymore, as if I tell you anymore, I'd have to kill you." Ellen told him.

"Go ahead and try, you old hag." Matt insulted Ellen, to which Ellen scoffed and used her territory on Matt for almost a minute.

"That's strange. You're supposed to be dead. It's been proven that no one can last more than 30 seconds in my Territory. I guess Mr. Westcott's intuition was right once again." She suddenly got a voice message from Westcott himself

"I see. It's that time, huh? We'll meet again on a later date, M.A.D.N.E.S.S. And don't even try escaping." Ellen told him before turning around and leaving the room to Matt, his damaged body and his thoughts.

'That time? What could that mean?' Matt thought to himself. 'I'd have to escape to find out, but I've tried multiple times on multiple occasions to escape. This isn't the same metal it was last time I was here, otherwise it would be an easy task. Now, every time I press my wrists super hard on the metal, it shocks me, but I don't bleed from it' Matt thought to himself.

'The shock it causes gives off 450 volts and it takes 500 to kill me. Do the math.' Matt sighed as he closed his eyes once more.

He woke up once more on a later date. As he opened his opened his eyes, he bared witness Ellen torturing someone in the same fashion he was.

"No! Don't do anything to Shido!" Tohka shouted.

'Shido? I've heard that name before...' Matt thought to himself as he looked at Ellen as she applied the same amount of pressure to her, causing Tohka to nearly pass out.

'I see, Westcott's here, too?' Matt observed.

"Come on, Ellen. We have things to take care of." Westcott mentioned as he and Ellen got to walking.

"What's the big idea?" Matt asked them with what little he could get his voice to muster up.

"You said you weren't going to go after them." Matt said to them as they walked by.