Through the Dark

I was sitting on the plush, leather-covered, black chair once again. I was back in what I assumed was Kari's meeting room. I deactivated my powers, so I was back to my human form and I had my clothes back on. I sat in the room, staring down at the smooth tabletop that was giving off a reflection of my face. I could sense that Henrik was still behind me, keeping a close eye just in case I tried to escape.
I kept myself on the best behaviour so that I wouldn't attract guards and when the time was right, I could free Mitty and Pekka and find Tuukka.
I then heard the door open from behind me and footsteps coming closer to me.
"Oh, look who's here," I heard Kari say from behind me as he walked into my view.
I gazed to my right, watching as he sat himself down on the chair that was behind the corner of the table, since I was sitting at the end of the table. The blond man then looked up at Henrik and told him, "You can leave, but make sure to bring what I had instructed you to bring."
A few seconds later, the door closed, leaving us two alone.
Kari started talking: "The fire that happened in your parents' house was a test for you."
I narrowed my eyes at him with disgust. "A test for what?"
"A test to get into your mind... I thought with emotions would experience after such a tragic event would make you obliviously let go of some of your consciousness...sanity...to make your mind vulnerable enough for me to get a hold of it." He paused for a moment with an authoritative expression. "But I guess it wasn't enough."
I felt ire rising in me. You burned down their house just for that? I could've strangled him and slashed him to pieces, but I reminded myself to behave. All I did was pursed my lips and nod my head.
"I've tried thinking where I went wrong with you... Why I couldn't get into your mind. But then I realized: You have instincts of an animal, a wolf to be precise. A mind of an animal is different than mind of a human being." He interlaced his hands on the tabletop. "An animal's mind is more stubborn, harder to get to with regular telepathy, while a human's mind is more vulnerable, more persuasive, easier to take control of with regular telepathy. With the powers I have given to you, they had changed your mind to work like one of an animal's. I can't control animals, therefore, I can't control you. That's why you have been immune to my physic attacks.
"I attempted to use extra power, which is required to take hold of an animal's mind on you to gain access to it. I managed to take your conciseness to a space between the real universe and the alternative universe since I didn't have enough to directly place in the alternative universe.
"But with the results of this attempt, I realized what you have learned what is real and what is not, therefore you were able to escape from my trap. So the most logical action to do is not to put you back into that space again--it takes too much energy and you have the knowledge to know not to fall for the alternative universe. But that doesn't mean I don't have any other solutions to take hold of you. I have one more." He then turned his head to look beyond me just as I heard the door opening.
Henrik walked next to me and handed Kari a small, square-shape silver patch. He then sauntered out of the room nonchalantly.
I stared at the small patch that was in the palm of Kari's hand with bewilderment. 'What is that?'
"You must be wondering what this is, right?" He held the item towards me between his thumb and pointer finger. "This is a form of my extra energy, a necessity in order to achieve this plan of mine to take hold of you." He lowered his hand down. "Instead of casting you out of your body, into an alternative universe, I will let you experience what no other person has experienced before--" He placed his free hand on his chest. ":what I have to go through.
"With this source, I will obtain the ability to connect your mind with mine and what I feel physically, emotionally, mentally...you will experience as well."
'What?' my mind shouted mentally. Are you kidding me? No... I letted out a deep breath and closed my eyes for a moment, trying to calm myself down. I then reopened them and nodded my head, ready to take on this connection. This is like a bonus: I will actually be able to be in Kari's mind and just might manipulate it so that he can stop his plans. Yes. "Okay," was all I told him.
An insidious smirk grew on Kari's face. "Good." He then leaned his head down as his hand with the patch slipped onto the back of his neck.
I snapped my eyes away from him with my mind scrambling of what to do or think of in order to brace for the coming change of my mind.
Suddenly I heard a winding high-pitched sound cut through my mind as I felt my mind itself numb with tense pain beginning to intensify. Flashes of blurred images zipped through my mind as I was able to pick some unfamiliar voices echoing here and there.
I gripped my hands onto the armrest as I felt myself beginning to sweat with my heartbeat rising as the noise grew louder and pressure in my head was beginning to grow. I'm gonna die...my head's gonna explode and I'm gonna die, was all my mind could cough out as it was getting flooded by all the new mental data that was getting transferred.
I squeezed my eyes shut and scrunched up my face as I threw my head down, trying not to let out a shout, trying to endure the agony of this connection. It felt like as if someone took a hammer to my head and slammed it into pieces, it was like as if a dozen knifes slid their blades into my brain, it was like as if a million needles were under my skull, sticking out from my brain.
I curled my toes, I dug my fingernails into the cushioning of the armrest, I pressed my top teeth against my bottom teeth.
Suddenly, like just how fast it occurred, I felt the pain dying down a bit, several pieces being put back together to form somewhat of my head again, some knifes being removed from my mind, some needles disappearing from underneath my skull.
I felt a surge of sharp energy wash through my body, making my tensity fade away. I relaxed myself, breathing in and out deeply, feeling myself wind down as the sharp pitched sound echoed into disappearance and the images and voices faded away.
I then sensed some blurred thoughts trying to rise in my mind, but it was like as if my mind no longer had the ability to produce thoughts. But I am able to make thoughts, I thought to myself while focusing on the unclear thought.
"Those are my thoughts," Kari told me.
I snapped my head up towards his direction to look at him.
"Our minds are now connected...but not with enough energy to read each other's minds and thoughts. So you won't know what I'm thinking, you'll feel it, just not know, while I can't read what you're thinking. But now you have gained my mental information, but you don't have enough energy to actual access it, so you won't be able to see them; same exact thing with me. But now, you'll be able to experience what I experience, mainly physically, but also emotionally and mentally."
I was already getting the some of the emotional experience of Kari by feeling a pang of revenge, the needing to tear down things in my mind. But I pushed those aside, grateful that I still had my own mind. I then snapped my eyes down, seeing that Kari had his hand on his left thigh. Physically...he has my wounds...
"Corey," I heard Kari call me, trying to gain my attention.
I looked up, seeing as he was leaned over to the right side, away from me, grabbing something that was in the seat next to him. He then pulled his hands out from the seat, revealing my gun; he handed it over to me. "This is for you, thanking you for your cooperating."
'Bonus,' I thought to myself as I gingerly took my gun from him.
"Jonas gave it to me; he picked it up when he took you to me."
"Thanks," I told him.
Kari then stood up and loomed over me. "Shall we visit your friends...?"
I darted my eyes up at him. That's right, I gotta save them! "Sure," was all I said.

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