"LET ME GO!"Erik cried. He was surprised to see a tear roll down his once emotionless face.

There was a laugh from a very tall man who appeared to be in his 30s sitting across an interrogating table from Erik who was handcuffed to the table.

"Aw little Lionsgate don't cry. Everything is going to be alright" He reassured him. Almost mocking him.

He leaned in an whispered "Only for a little while, right Erik? We're just gonna give the revenge your father deserves until his bank account runs dry and then we'll let you go. Although. You're potential is limitless. And you seem like you'd be such a nice innocent boy to have around, hm? I think I might just keep you." He whispered and then followed it by a laugh and a pat on the head.

"I swear to god when my father finds you-"

"IF your father finds me young man. But I highly doubt it. I've had you transported to a top secret underground base"

Erik tries to wriggle out of his handcuffs and still can't seem to. Crying and he pulls tighter and tighter.

"Please. Please don't hurt me. Please just LET ME GO. PLEASE" Erik now begging in fear.

"Shhh. Erik. It's okay just calm down. Deep breaths. It's gonna be okay...you're safe. Remember?"

"I'm...I'm safe?"

"Yes...yes you are...don't you remember? You're always safe around me" He whispers to the boy. Stroking his head. Now using his powers to slowly trick the little boy's mind.

"I'm safe." Erik says. More confident this time. His face flat on the table. His eyes starting to shut. His breathing slowing and his shaking coming to a halt.

"Atta boy. That's very good" the man whispers into the almost asleep boy's ear.

"Wait...stoppp.....donttttt...hurt....meeeeee" Erik slowly starred to regain a little consiousness before suddenly the man tore it away from him. Grabbing his head stroking it and whispering

"SSSSSH. Wash those thoughts away okay? Good boy. No thoughts. Just empty. Mindless. It's getting so hard to think. Just close your eyes. Let your mind be empty. That's it...Good boy"

Erik could feel his thoughts slipping away. The memories of his father, his mother's death, his powers, his fortune. All slipping.

Being the son of a billionaire with a military and technology company was bound to come back to haunt him eventually.

All because he ran away from home. All because he wanted to get away from his dad. He wanted to use powers he was born with to make the world feel how his father made him feel, abusing him and trapping him in his own home. He wanted to be a villain. But now he's trapped with something much worse than his father.

A true villain. A man who has sworn to take down his dad. The man who works with the American secret service.

Mr Clarke.

Erik recognised him from when he was a little boy coming to their house and threating his dad for money and an alliance with the government which his dad turned down. His dad didn't care about others. He was cold hearted. Broken. Erik always knew that his father wanted to break him just the same. He also knew that though his dad ruined his life he still cared about him and if it ever came to a randsom. He would pay millions.

Which is exactly why the government, Mr Clarke specificly, kidnapped him as soon as they saw him on the news as a new villain.

"Poor boy. Only 13 and you get roped into this...Well I guess you have your father to blame, huh?" Mr Clarke whispered to Erik as he had his eyes shut completely. In a deep sleep with his face flat on the table.

Mr Clarke sniggered and then cleared his throat.

" Okay Erik. Now I want to listen very carefully to my instructions, Okay?"

"Okay..." Erik says a little muffled as his face is on the table.

-4 years later-

"In there" Mr Clarke shouts pointing at an unconscious 17-year-old Erik on the floor of a small cell with heavy metal bars.

He's talking to Memory-lynn or Mia for short. The nutorious hero who has no clue what's going on and was only told to help transport something for the government.

Mr Clarke glares at her as she looks back utterly confused.

"You want me to transport an unconscious teenage boy...?" She looks at him and then back at the boy.

"Yes. We do. What are you waiting for? Christmas?" Mr Clarke snaps. He then clears his throat to say the instructions. "Now all we need you to do I walk in slowly or you might startle him. Sooth his mind so he doesn't remember any thing of this transportation, got it?"

"...alright then...I guess..."

Mia slowly opens the cage door and Erik wakes up instantly and looks up at her petrified.

"Who are you?! W-where am I? No! Stop get away from me!!!" He screams.

Mr Clarke notices the commotion and leans against Erik's side of the bars and croutches down to his level as Erik sits up.

"Hey...Hey buddy...shhh. It's okay. You remember me don't you it's me. I'm your friend."

"M-mister...Clarke?"Erik looks at him confused. He seems to vaguely recognise him.

"Yes...It's me. Mr Clarke. We are really good friends rember? You feel safe around me. Don't you?"

"Yes! I-I do...I do feel safe" Erik's realisation seemed to calm him and he took deep breathes and smiled at Mr Clarke.

"Now Erik I want you to trust this girl. Don't worry. Let her do what she needs to do. She's here to help us."

"I-okay...Sir...I will" Erik says a little confused. He looks up at Mia and smiles awkwardly.

"H-hello"

"Hey there..." She replies back awkardly. She has a sinking feeling she's met him before though. But doesn't quite piece things together until.

"-Wait a minute! You're the charmer!" She exclaims recognising him as a past self proclaimed villain from 4 years ago. And how she saw him get arrested on the same day she met him.

"Who?"Erik replies back in a confused haze looking around to she if was talking to someone else. He then notices she is not.

"You!" She shouts excited.

"I don't think so..." he looks down and replies back then looks up at Mr Clarke. "Am I?"

Mr Clarke clears his throat and shakes his head at Erik. He then turns to Mia and blatantly says in front of Erik.

"Yes he was. But when we detained him we realised he was clinically insane to a point we've never seen before so we contacted his family and they signed a legal contract to allow us to experiment ways to cure him and help him. And since then we have been trying things to get him feeling better and are making progress. We are currently going to transport him to a safer expiremental zone further up north for better equipment and a more comfortable place for him to stay." Mr Clarke says. blatantly talking out of his ass and lying on the spot. It was a good enough cover to fool Mia even though she believed it was unethical.

She sighed and nodded. "That's awful. Please don't hurt him"

"Belive me we have no intention of doing so. We are very careful with him" He replies back. Which was another complete lie.

Mia nods and touches Erik's head causing him to loose all memories of anything that had happened in the last couple of minutes. She then soothes his mind and causes him to fall back into another calming sleep so he didn't panic.

"He won't wake up for another 16 hours" she replies.

Mr Clarke smiles and nods. "Perfect. I wouldn't want to cause him to panic. Thank you. You can leave now" He states strenuously. Then snaps his fingers causing two big muscular men to emerge and escort Mia out.

"Let me know how the cure goes!" Mia shouts as she is being dragged out. Being genuinely concerned to which Mr Clarke rolls his eyes ignoring her.