Amanda Waller walked calmly over to the transfer hatch.
She pressed the control panel, and the food hatch opened again. A mechanical arm extended, holding a tray with a pair of handcuffs on it.
"Please put these on. It's just a precaution. No ill intent."
Ririko picked up the handcuffs and clicked them around her wrists.
The four walls of the transparent room began rising slowly.
Ririko could finally step out of the damned room that had trapped her for so long.
She followed Amanda Waller out of the large room and deeper down the corridor.
As they rounded a corner, Ririko suddenly slowed down and moved half a step closer to Amanda Waller.
In a tone she had used countless times, she said, "You will let me go."
Amanda Waller's steps faltered.
She slowly turned back to look at Ririko, a smug smile lifting her lips. "Miss Ririko, we do know a little about your ability to control people through words..."
Only then did Ririko notice the tiny flesh-colored earpiece tucked into her ear.
Amanda Waller wasn't hearing Ririko's voice directly. Instead, she received it through that device, rendering Ririko's control ineffective.
Amanda Waller smiled and walked toward a closed steel door.
The white steel door slid silently open to either side, and Amanda Waller gestured for Ririko to enter.
Ririko peered inside from the doorway. There was a white chair with metal armrests and restraining straps.
Various instruments, monitors, and scanning probes surrounded it, with syringes and sampling tools neatly arranged on trays.
Ririko had already learned her lesson at Arkham. She wasn't about to lie down on that thing and become a lab rat again.
She abruptly twisted sideways, knocked Amanda Waller aside with her shoulder, and turned to run.
The handcuffs swung between her wrists as