Passing through the iron door, Mina and her friends finally emerged from the tunnel and into the basement of the Ebony's.

Mina readied her E-Phone as she would need it to take plenty of evidence to hold against Devillia when it came to kidnapping her mentor and one of her best friends.

The entire room was entrenched in shadows. Mina found herself feeling along the wall in hopes for a switch.

"My lawdy!" she gasped. "This is darker than a Gollywood horror movie at midnight viewed by a blind person! Where are the lights!"

Winona's excitable voice shouted across the room. "I see a switch!"

Trudy blubbered and whined from her corner of the room. "How on Earth can you see anything in here? It's thicker than clam chowder!"

"Well!" Winona said smiling. "We goths can see in the dark!"

"I dunno how that's physically possible!" Mina said. "But great! Please turn on the lights!"

But as soon as the switch was flicked, Mina wished Winona hadn't. Lying in wait for them was the true extent of Devillia's evilness.

Rather than a regular basement where a happily married couple in a rich California suburb would keep worthless knickknacks they purchased from a furniture store for moms, there were spiked coffins, barracks, guillotines and other medieval torture devices. The racks on the walls were full of whips, chains, maces, truss bars and other leather implements of questionable practices. Most questionably, there were giant TV screens that stretched across the walls in all directions. The screens were as black as some of the spiked weaponry and leather, but no doubt the channel, they were attuned to were channels of pure evil.

"Yowie!" Mina said, trying to hold a spiked mace in her hands. "Either they like Dark Ages era reinactments or this Devillia lady really likes shopping at Homebads!"

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Winona smiled widely as she felt the inside of the coffin. "This is my kind of bed! I do love being pierced where it feels good!"

Trudy started to cry. "I don't know what's scarier. This room or Winona's taste in pleasurable items! Let's get out of here before I have nightmares while I'm awake!"

Mina pulled out her camera phone and started snapping photos. "Before we go, luckily this is just the scoop I need to bring Devillia to justice. If this is what she does to Raven in her spare time, than I think a messy divorce followed by prison time is in order. Annnnd... I know just the lawyer for the job! Moi!"

"Good!" Trudy said, still shivering. "Then let's get outta here!"

She continued stumbling around the room, trying to avoid looking at such sinister devices until she tripped over a stray club with even more spikey points in it. As Trudy got to her feet, she noticed a remote laying on top of an exercise/torture rack. "Hey!" she said. "I think I found the remote for the TVs!"

Pressing the power button, Trudy revealed yet another layer of Devillia's evil onion. The screens flashed on with a blood red and black spiral on the screens. A woman's voice that was desensitized and hypnotic delivered a sermon for any victim unfortunate to here.

"It's time to go on a pleasant adventure through the inner sanctum of your mind. While you are there, I want you to suppress anything that doesn't involve being a perfect house husband and mayor of Business Park. You won't need them to succeed in your new life. If you happen to think of anything that is unrelated, I will give you a happy, pleasant and fun shock to your psyche. It will feel just like the edge of a spike. But let's not call it that, let's call it a happy point in your life! When I snap my fingers and say this chant, you will be a whole new man...ready...1, 2, 3...

Welcome to your new life

Welcome to your new wife

You are Ivor Ebony

And your mind is now in perfect harmony!"

Trudy covered her eyes, as did Winona. They did not wish to get brainwashed and become mayors too. Mina switched her camera to record and shielded her eyes too. After recording all of it, she ordered to Trudy to turn the screens off.

Once they were off, the trio reconvened at the center of the room. There was worried look on both of her friends' faces but Mina was all smiles.

"W-what are you so happy about?" Trudy moaned. "That was the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life!"

Mina nodded. "Indeedy do. But the judge would have to be brainwashed to too ignore this dirt. In the words of Maria Santiago, amigas, we now have a way to free Raven from the grasp of this hypnic jerk!"