Universal Power System

Screams of antagonizing pain echoed throughout the training room; however, thanks to its design for containing all the noise inside so that other people won't get disturbed while a person is training inside and the fact that the security cameras were disabled by Natasha herself for the sake of her trap going unnoticed by the officials, there was virtually no one who had any idea about what happening inside one of the special class training rooms.

Within the room, the scene was pretty much the same but that couldn't be said about Natasha whose entire body was covered in sweat while her body was almost pale white with all of her veins clearly visible underneath her skin.

"I'm going to ask you again, what information do you have," Mako shouted as his eyes continued to glow green with his thumb still deep inside Natasha's arm.

Mako was never a fan of the poison ability even though it sounded cool on paper. Comic books and cartoons would always portray villains that had some kind of Poison ability to be able to spray and melt anything and critically poison the hero; however, in real life that was not the case as that was a separate ability called the Acid Manipulation ability and was quite rare.

The poison ability wasn't something that could be manifested outside the body at least not at the lower levels. It was purely a supportive ability that could help increase the damage on weapons that were laced with the poison and could also inflict different status effects based on the nature of the poison while also offering resistance to the user from other poisons.

It was a very cool and complex ability that was definitely underrated and right now Mako had pulled a page out of Victor Voss's playbook and had been injecting Natasha with a modified version of the poison that he had previously neutralized from Angela's body after Victor had stabbed her.

The original poison was meant to kill a person up to ALPHA rank which meant that it was definitely a very strong poison.

One perk of the poison ability was that similar to how there were variants of other abilities like the Red Fire and Blue Lightning, a Poison ability user could learn to create various different kinds of poisons and their antidotes within their body after they had enough exposure to that specific poison.

This technique was, of course, an advanced one and Mako being only a level 2 had only the slightest idea on how to actually do this; however, since he had unlocked the first level of his mutant gene, Mako's poison ability level was temporarily augmented to a level close to level 5 along with the all the information that a level 5 Poison ability user would have.

When Mako was neutralizing the poison inside Angela's body, the wild poison aura that was freely roaming in his entire body was analyzing and understanding the poison and adding it to its type of memory.

Normally since Mako was only a level 2, he didn't know how to create the poison by himself, but now that his mutant gene had been reactivated, he had access to that information and also the knowledge on how to modify it.

Mako changed the nature of the poison from intending to kill to intending to cause the most amount of pain inside the body as it mainly attacked the red blood cells and the nervous system of the body.

He then began pumping this modified poison into Natasha's bloodstream directly, pausing only momentarily to pump some antidote as well so that Natasha wouldn't die as the poison was still quite strong.

Natasha continued to scream out in pain and agony, the smug look on her face completely wiped away and now replaced with a look of fear and horror as she watched Mako continuously hold onto her weakening arm with as cold a look as possible.

It was ironic watching the person who used fear to torture and corrupt so many shake in absolute fear and Mako enjoyed every moment of it.

Mako had been slowly letting go of his naive nature over time as he had been reminded time and time again how others would weaponize his empathy and mercy to their advantage; however, he did so without throwing away his morals as he was still better than them and so as soon as Natasha cracked and yelled out in desperation that she would tell Mako everything, a wave of coolness washed down her body as Mako instantly began to neutralize the poison.

Since this time, the poison was created by Mako, it followed Mako's will and immediately neutralized itself on his command without any extra effort.

Natasha breathed a sigh of relief as the burning sensation inside her body finally dissipated, but she was still extremely weak and she knew that she wouldn't be able to do anything to Mako in her current state.

Mako removed his thumb from Natasha's hand and allowed her to fall completely to the ground, and then with a menacing look he stared at the trembling body of Natasha wriggling around on the floor.

"Speak," Mako said coldly.

"It was all just a trap. I wanted revenge for what you did to Mikhail during the recruitment test. You defeated my boyfriend and sent him back HIM! I wanted to make you pay!" Natasha yelled out in anger while crying her eyes out from the amount of torture she had endured for the past 10 minutes.

However, Mako felt no sympathy toward her knowing that she had tortured who knows how many people for hours on end and had reveled in every moment of doing so, this was only a small payback in Mako's book.

"After the test was over, I was looking for any opportunity to try and get my revenge and that was why I didn't join your boy band! I wanted to take you out but I was too weak then and so I did nothing but train to get stronger,"

"He he he... and then I heard that you losers had failed your very first mission and were being punished which made me so... so happy but later on I found out that you were all on room arrest, and nobody could come close to you which made my blood boil."

"Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to sit in base, knowing that you were just a few buildings away and not be able to take you down in any way!"

Natasha slowly became more and more emotional as now she wasn't speaking because of the pain but rather from the anger that consumed her heart. She didn't care much and just spoke her mind in front of Mako, but Mako still remained emotionless from the outside giving no reaction to Natasha who continued to blab on and on.

"So as soon as we arrived in military school, I looked for the first opportunity to isolate you and finally get my revenge, but you somehow managed to beat my ability again!" Natasha screamed with frustration as she finished her story, taking deep breaths as if she had spoken her mind all in one breath.

There was a moment of silence between the two of them as Natasha remained on the ground, slowly regaining strength while Mako stood coldly in front of her.

Mako stared into Natasha's desperate eyes as he analyzed her story with a look of uncertainty.

"How did Haruto find my dorm room so quickly and what was the information that he promised you would share if I had come?" Mako asked Natasha.

Natasha hesitated for a second as she thought of a response," I used my ability on many weak advanced class cadets for information as I can review their most recent memories and one of them was your neighbor who saw you leave for your classes in the morning and that's how I learned about your dorm room number,"

"Secondly, I didn't tell Haruto to say anything like that, I just ordered him to lure you back here by any means necessary, and he did just that!" Natasha replied.

'Bullsh*t!' Mako thought in his mind as this was the most absurd lie he had ever heard.

He immediately realized that even after going through so much pain and agony, Natasha still had the strength to lie, and to lie with such confidence was quite impressive. It was clear to Mako that he wouldn't be able to get any real information out of Natasha and time was running out for him as he couldn't maintain his mutant gene for too long.

He would be considerably weekend after the time limit of his mutant gene expired and he didn't want to take any chances with Natasha, thinking that her weak and pitiful persona could also be fake and she might have something else up her sleeve.

However, he was sure one thing and that was that he didn't buy this story for a single second.