WARNING: Dark PG-13 scene written by the wonderfully evil WaywardSon10... I can't believe that was allowed to happen to poor Vladdy... sorry...

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Meanwhile, at the NHL Headquarters in New York City,

Gary Bettman, Jimmy Vesey, Auston Matthews, and Marc Bergevin laugh as they turn from where the black suburban is peeling away with the unconscious bodies of TJ, Galchenyuk, Brayden, Yanni, Jonne and Brett. They walk back inside, with Bettman holding the magical hockey stick in his black leather gloved hands.

They make it down, via an elevator, to where a dark room is. Bettman flips a light on and a dim light is cast upon a net, where Vladdy, Otto and Jo are all struggling to get free from the interior of the net.

The net is cut down from where it is hanging them from the edge of the hole, they'd fallen from. They crash to the ground and Jo and Otto are instantly swarmed by Bergevin and Vesey. They are grabbed and dragged away from Vladdy, who is startled and spooked by the sudden action.

Vladdy scrambles to his feet and holds his arms out to the sides as he frightenedly, yet bravely eyes the villains. His gaze finds it's way back to where the NHL Commissioner is standing with Yzerchuk though. His mind is filled with questions, but he blurts out, "How did you get Yzerchuk, Bettman? And how can you use him?"

Bettman laughs, mockingly. "Remember that trade that sent Auston Matthews to your team...well, it was all part of my plan to rule the NHL! When you fell into my trap, he's the one who took it from you!"

Auston smirks at him.

Vladdy yells out, "Yeah, I know about Matthews being a traitor! Sid...Bubby...the Penguin and his Gorilla told us! As well as Kuchereon, Kuch's trusty Vaporeon! Why did you betray your new team by doing this? Why did you send Cally away just to be apart of our team and hurt us?"

Auston smirks more evilly. "You see, I was never quite a Bolt. To be honest, I miss being in Toronto a little...no a lot, and I never felt like I would ever fit in with the Bolts. I knew that evil would win, and I wanted to help out with that."

Vladdy shakes his head. "I was willing...I was going to give you a chance, Auston."

Otto and Jo spot two more people rush in and they kick and struggle as Vesey and Auston hold Otto, while Bergevin has Jo; Bergevin's gloved hand is over Jo's mouth to silence him, while Vesey has his gloved hand over Otto's mouth. Vladdy's ears pick up the struggling of his friends and he starts to turn around and see what's going on, when the two newcomers grab Vladdy's outstretched arms, taking him by surprise.

"NO!" Vladdy shouts out.

"Once a hostage, always a hostage, Namestnikov," Bettman growls, pointing Yzerchuk at the struggling blond. "Take them to the others!"

Sure enough, the six bad guys manage to drag Otto, Vladdy and Jo from the room and escort them into the building. The first Bolt to be dragged out is Otto, who doesn't say a word to Auston or Vesey, because he is scared of what is to come.

As he is forced out roughly by the Ranger and the ex-Maple Leaf, Vladdy and Jo can see a single tear roll down his face. They feel sympathy for the poor Finnish Baby Bolt and wonder just where he is being taken.

Or where they all are going to be taken really?

Bettman sees this and starts to laugh at his new hostages. "Oh, he won't be hurt badly. Someone else will be though."

Jo snaps, "Will it be your mom?"

"No, but for that comment, you're going to pay for that. Get him out of here!" Bettman sneers, flicking his hand at Bergevin.

Bergevin nods his head and drags Jo away as he asks, "Which torture will he go through?"

"For his little stunt...physical. Tell Auston, he can take care of Drouin, I sorta promised him, since he had to endure the heat and misery of being in Florida, let alone on a team full of CHILDREN. But, I'll be taking care of everyone's favorite little Lightning Hero, Vladdy Namestnikov."

Jo looks at Vladdy and mouths out two words: I'm sorry. Vladdy sadly smiles at his teammate, but his attention is soon dragged away from Jo as the two men holding him roughly force him toward Bettman.

Vladdy then feels his arms being twisted behind his back as the NHL Commissioner handcuffs him. Vladdy looks into the cold eyes of Gary Bettman and all he can see is anger and hatred in them. "You don't have to do this!"

Bettman starts to laugh and tease Vladdy with Yzerchuk. "Oh Vladislav, you have nothing to worry about, you'll be getting the special treatment after all."

Vladdy is then forced inside the building at the hands of Bettman and his two mystery henchmen. He knows better than to fight because he doesn't want anymore trouble for his poor friends.

A few second later, Vladdy finds himself being forced down a dark hallway and into a weird futuristic glass enclosed room, where he instantly sees everyone that has been kidnapped by the Commissioner and his minions.

Ondrej Palat and Nikita Kucherov are attached to the pole at one side; Ondrej in the chains, while Nikita is attached by ropes like a dog, tape covers both of their mouths and they look petrified. Dylan is all tied up in shiny silver chains at the other side of the room to another pole with Jo; Dylan's mouth is taped shut as well. Finally Vladdy spots little Otto, who is tied down with ropes to a chair.

Bettman then looks at all of the hostages and an evil smirk comes across his face. He shoves Vladdy to the ground, harshly. "Vladislav, is your dream to let your team down again? I'd say that you are well on your way to doing that."

Vladdy looks away in sadness. If he defies Gary Bettman, he'll harm his friends. It is already too late to save everyone and without Yzerchuk... He glances up as best as he can to where Bettman is standing proudly with the magical hockey stick.

I can't win, Vladdy thinks to himself.

"Well, you're awfully quiet Russian Savior, but hey whatever suits you works for me. Now, where on Earth should I begin?? I could torture your friends or I can...drain your precious Yzerchuk and you at the same time, but that wouldn't be fun at all would it?" He mocks sympathy.

"Your mom isn't fun!" Jo shrieks out, before he is immediately slapped hard by Auston Matthews and then Jimmy Vesey.

"Matthews, Vesey, Bergevin! Arrange our wonderful guests so they can learn a lesson through their precious Vladislav Namesntikov!"

The three minions start to yank everyone around the room into a form a semicircle of some sorts; shifting Otto in the chair and everyone attached to the poles. Vladdy is then dragged to the middle, where he is forced into a wooden chair. Some wires are quickly attached to him and Yzerchuk, which is set on top of a wheely lab table. Everyone looks on in horror as a cart is wheeled in with a cover over the contents.

"Let this be a lesson to all of you who dare defy me! This is the beginning of the era in the NHL where everything is 'best for business' and no one can stop me!" Bettman rings out to no one in particular.

Auston claps his hands and cheers his approval.

The cover is yanked off the cart, and unfortunately for the Hero of this tale, there are various means of torture that Gary Bettman can use to slowly drain his physical energy in preparation for the final draining of his powers. On the cart, some of the tools included scissors, a car battery, a Red Ryder BB Gun, a hammer and many other ominous tools.

"Where to begin, where to begin huh Vladdy?? I think we should make sure that you can't escape EVER!!"

Vladdy mumbles to himself, "It's not like I can escape."

Bettman then snatches the scissors and cuts Vladdy's shirt off, and attaches two more wires to the young Russian forward near his heart. He then pours water on the ground and on Vladdy, and then a cage lowers around him.

Jo gasps and Ondrej manages to reach over barely, just enough to shield Nikita's eyes as the evil commissioner of the NHL raises up the two spark plugs to the metal cage, sending a shock of electricity racing towards Vladdy. The shock almost knocks the chair over, but there is no escaping for the poor forward.

As the electric shock penetrates Vladdy, Yzerchuk sparks as well, not realizing that it is only adding fuel (or electricity in this instant) to the fire.

Bettman then lets off on the electricity, as a burnt hair smell drifts through the air. Dylan lets out a gasp of shock, for his friend's teammate is suffering at the man who's only will is to slaughter all of those who dare to try and be evil like him.

Bettman teases by bringing his hand near the Red Ryder BB Gun and mocks, "You'll shoot your eye out, you'll shoot your eye out!" Before breaking out in a distorted cackling and then snatching it up and waving it around in the air, before firing a few shots that bounce off Vladdy's chest and leave minor cuts.

"Speak now or forever deal with crooked hands. It's up to you, Vladislav."

Vladdy swallows the pain filling him and grips the end of the arms of the chair tightly as Bettman the smirks as he sees the pain dance across his hostage's face. He then snatches up a bandana and jams it into Vladdy's mouth.

Sure Gallagher's torture had been bad, but this...this is insanity at it's finest!

The commissioner grabs up the next tool, the hammer and then walks back towards the trapped Lighting Bolt and raises it up high in the air.

Vladdy gasps behind the gag and looks away as he tries to hide his tears and brace for the impending pain to come.

CRACK!

Vladdy muffles a scream as Bettman breaks every bone in his hand all while he laughs, mockingly at the forward's misery, "Should of spoken up when you had the chance. Wonder if that precious fangirl of yours would love you as much with a broken spirit and hands!"

Vladdy keeps his head turned away and tries to drown out the pain and focus instead on healing himself, while Bettman enjoys himself and walks over and snatches a mallet from the torture cart now.

Vladdy looks up the best he can through his blurry sight as he chokes back the tears and mutters, "Why me?? I did nothing to offend you or your minions!"

"That's where you are dead wrong Namestnikov! I tried to eliminate your team by using the Habs and Gallagher to destroy you! Instead, he had to get locked up in an asylum twice because of your precious Yzerchuk! I had to eliminate the poor fool because he didn't get me what I wanted: Tampa's downfall. Because my NHL has no place for Tampa!! Now, I finally have my way, and maybe I'll just erase you from existence!" He unleashes several rounds of the mallet on Vladdy's broken hands now.

Bettman then angrily tosses the mallet away and quickly reaches for some firewood, gasoline, and a match. He builds a campfire around the cage and yells out, "Clear the room! It is time to make this Russian fool obsolete!"

As Bettman sets his little fireplace up, everyone is dragged out of the room in their varying forms of bondage (including those who'd been attached to the poles), but they are lined up along the windows so they can purposefully view the untimely death of Vladislav Namestnikov and Yzerchuk.

The flame is lit as Bettman stands outside the fire as he flips a switch to start to drain Vladdy and Yzerchuk's combined powers permanently. Vladdy feels the heat increase and his powers, Tampa's one hope, drain from his fading body. He attempts to look over at Yzerchuk, but all he sees is a blue glow that is fading from his trusty Nexus One as the fire continues to blaze.

Before Vladdy closes his eyes one final time, he thinks, Yzerchuk, I'm.....sorry. Then he manages to look back at his stunned and horrified friends and thinks, And I'm sorry Jo, Somps, Pally and Kuch and Dylan...I tried. Good bye.

Bettman squeals with glee and starts to put out the fire as soon as Vladdy passes out from the heat. He then sees the melted chains and cage that contained Vladdy and immediately grabs three molds to contain the quickly hardening metal. He then takes the ashes of Yzerchuk and the last tool on the cart, a vacuum like container with a royal blue glow to it now, and mixes it into the liquid metal.

Vladdy remains lifeless and broken in the chair still. Even though the chair appears to be wooden, it is as deceiving as the NHL Commissioner.

Meanwhile, Ondrej looks at Nikita as they both stare at how evil Gary Bettman really is. Did he just kill their teammate?

Otto, poor Otto, keeps mumbling to himself, "This is just a dream, Vladdy is alive and eating cheese. Everything is fine."

Jo is stunned as he thinks, Did I cause Vladdy's end with my 'Your mom' jokes?

All of the sudden, the four Bolts players hear, "It's time to make the league right again." They then see Bettman pour the metal mixture into three molds: One in the shape of a torch, the next one in the shape of a penguin, and the final mold in the shape of a hawk.

All of the hostages look at Vladdy's beaten body and then at the molds and then back at each other, fear and curiosity in their eyes. They can't believe that something like this is actually happening.

As the metal mixture is poured into these three molds, Bettman starts to cackle wickedly, "Finally, my time has come!"