Marbleize Rocketgirl's brain

"You know, the Mind Sifter has one function I haven't used yet," Ms Kyoto continued cryptically. "And you are the perfect little test subject," she added, bopping Rocketgirl's nose. She strode back to her desk and began typing more commands.

Rocketgirl, recovering from the pain inflicted by the Mind Sifter, had nearly calmed her breathing and took the opportunity to voice her objection. "I haven't agreed to any testing, Ms Kyoto. I suggest you let me go before you make a terrible mistake."

"Blah blah blah," Ms Kyoto mimicked. "I wonder if you'll be this mouthy if my plan works." She continued typing furiously.

Rocketgirl gulped. "What's your plan?" she asked reluctantly. She tried concentrating all her physical strength into breaking a single one of her bonds, but to no avail.

"And, voila!" Ms Kyoto declared proudly as she stopped typing. "I'll explain when the process is complete," she said, pressing a final key while wiggling her eyebrows at Rocketgirl.

The Mind Sifter began buzzing, causing Rocketgirl's head to vibrate. Her vision went blurry and she felt an intense compression within her skull. "Nnnnnnyyyyyyyaaaaaaooooooowwwww!" she shouted, wincing at the intense, unrelenting pain.

There was a brief moment of intensity, when Rocketgirl felt everything, sensed the room around her, heard Ms Kyoto's heart beating, felt the vibrations of the earth itself. She felt her own powers more strongly than ever before, and tried to seize the moment to burst out of her bonds. But just as suddenly as this overwhelming intensity came over her, it vanished. She felt, saw, and heard nothing. There was dizziness and weightlessness followed by unconsciousness.

Rocketgirl awoke slowly. Her head hung over her chest, her hair draped in a veil around her. She no longer felt the Mind Sifter on her head, though she believed she was still strapped to the chair in Ms Kyoto's office. She didn't know what a hangover felt like -- Melissa had never been drunk -- but she imagined it would feel like the heaviness in her forehead. She lifted her heavy head slowly.

The movement caused a wave of nausea as she heard the echo of rattling inside her own skull. The heaviness in her forehead subsided as the number of distinctive click-clack sounds increased, echoing inside her head as the weight seemed to redistribute evenly inside her skull.

"Unnnnnhh," she moaned lethargically. "My head feels so heavy." She rolled her head slowly around to try to shake her fatigue. Once again she heard the echoing click-clacks resounding within her skull and felt weight shift inside her head as she rolled it around. Things didn't feel quite normal until she leveled her head again. "What's wrong with me?" she asked no one in particular.

"That would be my doing," Ms Kyoto answered. "I've used the Mind Sifter to turn your brain into a set of marbles. Each marble relates to a particular thought process, system, or function. And since you no longer have the synapses or organic matter typically comprising the human brain, you'll probably find that each of those functions takes longer to perform. I wonder if that's affected your superspeed."