It’s now night time in the raider camp. Mina has just woken up and in a confused daze. She realizes that she is chained up in a cage. She looks around and sees Emmet and the others locked up in cages too. She then remembers what happened to Jack, Alex, and her squad. Her eyes suddenly darken. She begins to replay that situation countless times in her mind. So much so, that her mind feels numb, and she feels a darkness filling up her heart. Emmet, picking up on this said to her, “Don’t feed the darkness in your heart. “If you let it grow, it will consume everything, including your Sophia.”

She replied in a monotone voice, “It’s getting hard for me to think, and to feel. I feel like it already has the means to completely overtake me. Emmet…. I’m scared.”

Emmet replies, “This my fault. I was the one who attacked the raider camp. I just couldn’t stand their half-baked philosophy. I wanted them to suffer, because they make other people suffer.”

A raider guard walks up and interjects, “Well, I guess that didn’t work out for ya, huh, you self-righteous asshole.” He begins to laugh. “And you missy, it’s you and your friends fault for not entertaining the boss. If only y’all had decent Sophias, things could have ended differently.”

“You’re right”, Mina responds dejectedly, “If only I had a powerful Sophia, I could have defended Alex and Jack, and they would still be alive.”

“Don’t worry missy, I know what would make you feel better.” He then unlocks the cage, enters, and proceeds to take off his clothes.

“What… what are you doing?” Mina responds in fear.

“I told ya, I’m going to make ya feel better”, the man responded with a perverted smile.

“Stop! Stay away! Leave me Alone!” Mina screams.

The man grabs her, but Mina does what she can to resist. She kicks him, but that only throws him into a fit of anger. The Raider grabs her shirt and rips it open, exposing her chest bare. In that moment she thought to herself, “This man… This man is going to actually rape me. Why me…. Why me! WHY ME!!!” Realizing, how powerless she really was, her mind broke.

Suddenly, the ground started shaking. The guard fell to the ground and cowered in fear. He spoke out loud, “What’s going on?”

Emmet yelled, “You idiot! You pushed her too far, and now her Sophia is breaking apart.”

The raider responded in fear, “I have seen plenty of Sophias break, but nothing like this. Just how powerful was she.”

“She has S class potential, maybe even more. She just couldn’t find the right focus for her Sophia.”

Upon hearing this, the raider got up and ran ass naked out of the cage. Soon afterwards, the power swelled, and Mina’s cage started falling apart, followed by cages around her. Once Emmet and his crew were freed, they gathered around Emmet.

“We need to run Emmet”

“Wait Conroy, we have stop her, she’ll go off and kill innocent people”

“You don’t mean…”

“Yes, we have to sync our Sophias together”

“If you say so…”

All three of them closed their eyes and spoke in unison, “SYNCHRONIZE SOPHIA”

They then spoke in order. Sora first, Conroy second, and Emmet third

“TRUTH OF EXPRESSION”

“TRUTH OF KNOWLEGE”

“TRUTH OF REALITY”

Once again, they spoke in unison, “SOPHIA: TRUTH REVEALED.”

Emmet spoke, “It’s working… hold on, we are about to make contact her mind.”

As the power in the air swelled, soon everything turned white.

****

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

-Jean Paul Sarte