Daria drove into soho looking for the cafe. She wasn't sure exactly where it was being as she had never been in new york very long and didn't know that much about it. To her Soho was a shopping district. that was all she knew.

The cafe never showed up as she drove deeper and deeper. She came to a one way street and had to park her car. When she climbed out she did see the cafe in the distance but it was in the process of being built. Daria immediately didn't like the feeling she was getting from the place. She sniffed the air and could smell something familiar yet very unfamiliar as well.

Her ears twitched as she heard something whizzing through the air and she moved slightly as something hit the floor. She spun around but didn't see a source so she turned back to examine the weapon. It was a thin capsule filled wtith a clear liquid. It had a long thin needle.

"It's a tranq-" she whispered, or began to before something hit her hard in her neck. She hardly had time to think or call for help as she became dizzy and passed out.

Almost immediately as if they hid in the shadows themselves men came out to patrol the area. They held large guns and wore military uniforms with strange symbols. The men who put her on a stretcher were dressed in white like paramedics and genlty lifted her into a van.

In the van sat a driver also in military clothing and a short chubby man with a monocle. His mustache and hair was a rusty borwn color and most of his head was bald. He had yellowed and chipped teeth and wore tattered brown shoes. His labcoat most disturbingly was covered in stains of chemicals and blood. The stench that hung from him was must and rank like old cheese in a damp cupboard. daria would recognize it when she woke up, along with the man's voice.

"What have we got here?" he asked in a high scratchy tone.

"It's a cat mutant, Dr. Augulstein." a young scientist accompanying him said.

" I can see that you dimwit. But from where?"

Daria's purse and ID were tucked safely in her car which was parked away farther than they cared to look. She only had her cell phone which held little information about her.

"We're not sure yet, sir. Her records come up as classified."

"Classified? Looks like we've got a prize kitten here." Dr. Augulstein grinned. "We'll have to interrogate her. See what she knows." he cackled evily, a cackle that resonated in Daria's ears.

They rolled her over and pushed her hands into bowls of vinegar.
The doctor stroked her hair. "We've got a long ride, Kittycat. a very long ride."

Yes, Dr. Jerimiah Hanz Augulstein was a very evil man.

When Daria came to, she came to very slowly. Her eyes were blurry and but everything was extremely louder than normal in her ears, rendering someone of normal hearing deaf. Her nose filled with a pungent smell, like old cheese and vinegar.

"Our Kitty is awakening." a deeply accented voice said in the background.

Hearing the word and knowing it was in reference to her Daria hissed angrily. and thrashed her body in what she thought was a fast movement. It was sluggish though. Her eyes could make out faint colors, mostly the hospital white that she knew so well. She was well aware that she in a moving vehicle and tied down to a hard matress.

She was also well aware that she was drugged. She hadn't had such a strong drug in her in a long time but she knew that in her mind she was moving much faster than in reality. "Watch it." she said and found that she could speak. Her speech was slurred. She felt like she was drunk but had a hangover at the same time.

"Oh, did we offend you, kitty cat?" Dr. Augelstein asked. Daria felt sick to her stomach from the stench he gave off. Two other assistants lifted her soaked hands from the bowl. She winced at the smell of the vinegar as well. "Well, we didn't mean to hurt your feelings. You must be mixed with a house cat and not a...lion or a panther."

Daria hissed. "What do you want?" she asked through gritted teeth.

"I want you, Kitty. I want you to work for us."

"Work for..."

"Fusion Corp." the doctor grinned twisting the ends of his mustache.

"Hell no." Daria said simply. She was waiting. She was planning.

"that's not an option." he answered and took one of her hands. She found that if she wanted to she could snatch them back but she decided not to let them know that. He took her index finger and grabbed her nail pulling at it and slowly bending it backwards. It peeled painstakingly slowly and painfully. Daria hissed and snatched her hand up to hit him int the face. She threw her body backwards to the doors of the van as the two assistants moved forward to grab her. They ran into eachother.

She couldn't teleport; she hadn't given herself false hopes that she could. Pinned with her back against the doors andh er body feeling weaker by the moment Daria hissed and cracked her tail like a whip. She was still moving incredibly slow but she was still faster than them. She used her martial arts to keep the asistants at bay but they had tasers and shocked her into stillness as she hissed in the corner.

She was a pathetic sight on the floor of the van waving her arms in a weak defense. Before long the easily threw her on the stretcher again. She groaned in pain as she felt herself blacking out again. "No little kitty stay awake." the doctor said and she was tased again. He began pulling back her nails again. Her normal human nails were damaged but her claws couldn't be destroyed. She couldn't use them on the other hand. She was much too weak to unsheathe them.

Her screams filled the air but they were almost drowned out by the maniacal laughter of the doctor and his cronies.

Eventually of course even Daria had to give up and she pased out from the pain.

When she became close to something even remotely close to conciousness she was being pulled from the truck very carelessly on her stretcher. Dr. Augelstein was telling them to be careful with the kitty and saying other things Daria couldn't hear at the time.

Suddenly though she heard a voice she did recognize.

"A kitty cat.." Augelstien said to Fusionist as he peered at Daria. She recognized his scent since her eyes were too blurry to see him. Her head was pounding and his coice was so loud but so...

"Hello. We meet again, my dear Daria."

She hissed but it ended in a cough.

"I told you we would meet once more, did not? That's what you get for stealing other people's jewels." he laughed.

Daria could feel the faintness return and soon it went black again.


((soo daria is kidnapped. now where would she be taken? I don't know where to post next really.))

((the MEPA facility, in the New York forum))