<strong>Name:</strong>Ash<br/><strong>Gantz equipment:</strong>None<br/><hr/><br/>She paid little attention to what Vinny was saying to her. He was a crazy man, after all, who had probably kidnapped her, ranting about being dead and purgatory? In the back of her mind, a buzzer went off. Being dead? She cast back to her last memories before waking up here. Could it be...?<br/><br/>It was witnessing Ben’s arrival that stopped Ash’s fury in its tracks. She watched with horror as a human being was built – from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head – by what looked like coloured lasers<em>drawing</em>him millimetre by millimetre. She stared at the whole process in fascinated horror, frozen. She didn’t move a muscle until he snapped to life and spoke – at which point she jumped and screamed.<br/><br/><em>Now</em>she stopped racing about looking for a weapon and paid attention to what Vinny was saying.<em>She</em>had arrived the same way? Drawn out by laser beams? Just like her, the man on the floor seemed to remember only being somewhere else, with someone else.<br/><br/>She wasn’t quite ready to accept it even then... but then she saw another figure being formed.<br/><br/>This time it was a woman – but to Ash’s horror, she was naked... and bound... and gagged. Ash paled... she looked like she’d been raped. And... if what Vinny had said about being dead was true – again, Ash tried to remember those last moments in her apartment – then....<br/><br/>Ash was frozen with shock and confusion, so she made no move or sound, and almost immediately a fifth figure started to form. But<em>this</em>person... now Ash began to seriously entertain the idea that she might really be going crazy. What the hell was<em>this</em>guy supposed to be?<br/><br/>And so it took her a moment to take in just what Ricky was doing... another moment to register that Vinny wasn’t lifting a finger to stop it... another moment to register that Ben was still trying to get his bearings... and finally another moment to react. But then her fury was back.<br/><br/>She launched herself across the room and shoved Ricky hard. “Leave her alone, you asshole!” she yelled, getting between him and the woman on the floor. She looked plaintively toward Vinny and Ben. “Guys!” she pleaded, “help her!”