Elsewhere in the facility, Mr. Boudreau was standing in front of a glass cell. Inside that cell, a teenager was seething and spitting at the glass wall.
"Let me out of here! This is kidnapping! You can't hold me here!"
"You are right. I can't legally hold you here. But I don't follow the law here. Here, I am the law."
The teenager started punching at the glass pane again, as he had many times since he was locked up. He had tried tapping into his game avatar's strength many times, but could never muster it.
He had already surmised that his cell had something to do with it. But he couldn't figure out which part, and how to cancel it.
When he first woke up, he could partially transform, and thought he could break loose. But after a few seconds of being transformed, sleep gas flooded the cell, knocking him out.
The next time he woke up, he couldn't transform at all, like his power had been all sapped away.
