Smile for Me

Chapter 51: Falling

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Emi POV

Emi opened her eyes to find familiar darkness. She saw a reflection she knew all to well waiting for her.

"Oh. It's you again." Emi said.

"I'm not thrilled to see you either, 'pal'." Madame Maniacal responded. "But as your personal demon, it's my job to make you feel like crap."

"Well, you'll be glad to know it's working." Emi scowled. "But, unfortunately for you, Aizawa is telling me everything so I can get back to how I was before."

"Before? Oh, you mean rejected, laughed at, belittled? Yeah, that sounds like a great time." She responded, inspecting her nails. "You know, once your memory returns, it's all going to come back. Is going back really something you want?"

"..."

"That's what I thought. You know, one of the missing pieces of your 'puzzle' is how you got like this." She gestures towards herself. "How about I help you with some of that." She grinned devilishly.

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Dark. Cold. Alone.

A helmet.

Wires. Electricity filling my body.

The beginning of her torture began to flash through her mind.

Straps.

Screams.

Painful memories...

~~~memory~~~~
"Well, crap. How am I gonna get out of this one?" Emi asked aloud.

"You don't."

Emi looked up to see a blue haired man.

"Was knocking me out really necessary? I'm starting to think you enjoy doing that." She asked.

"Sorry about my people, Ms.Joke. They're not as open to new ideas as I am." The man apologizes.

"You said I would change my tune right? So, lets see it. What are you gonna do? Pull my teeth out as some sort of sick joke about my smile? Rip out my hair? Come on, lets see it already. I'm impatient for the part where I kick your ass." she grins in spite of herself.

"I'm starting to like your active imagination, Ms.Joke.You'll do just fine here."

He walks over to her and gets inches from her face and smiles.

"Go ahead, Twice."

Another man walked over to her with what looked like a helmet with wires attached to a big machine. The helmet went from where the back of the head should be all the way to where it would cover the eyes of the wearer. "Twice" strolls over to her excitedly and straps the helmet onto her head.

"Now..." she hears through the darkness of the helmet, "Let's get started, shall we?"

She hears the large machine whir to life as a buzzing starts happening in the helmet.

Suddenly, a massive amount of electricity invaded her body, and she let out a blood curdling scream of pain.

"That's what I thought, Joke. I like this tune much better than your jokes..."

Memories flashed through her mind at light-speed.

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Emi gasped and opened her eyes to see Madame Maniacal sitting on a chair, much like the torture device, in the void with her. Panting, Emi had enough.