這隻螳螂來自南美，她從小生長在一個處於無止境內戰中的國家。
就在她小的時候村莊在敵人的攻擊中被燒毀。
由於被敵人的殲滅部隊追擊，她被迫離開了她的家人。
最後在幾乎沒有命的情況之下，她躲進了一座建築物的地下室。
那是間死屍堆放處。
幾乎所有屍體都是被折磨致死的。
她因為過度驚嚇而目瞪口呆。
但是當她聽到軍靴沈重的聲音伴隨著尖叫哭喊從她身上經過時，她更是嚇得汗毛直豎。
她跌跌撞撞的橫越這間臨時的拷問所時有人鎖上了門，她被困在裡面了。
被困在這黑暗潮濕又充滿惡臭的地方。
拷問的尖叫哭喊聲圍繞著她，她完全無法入睡。
她能作的只有縮緊身體在房間的角落顫抖著。
一個星期...然後又是十天過去了。
她雖然靠著偶而從上方流淌下來的臭水補充水分，但是依然沒有食物。
被困在這樣的地方，飢餓再加上半瘋狂狀態讓她的心靈開始扭曲。
你知道母螳螂會吃掉她的伴侶嗎？
慘叫聲白天晚上都不斷的持續著，她只能徒勞的摀著耳朵。
然後，她得救了...
她不是很清楚是誰救了她。
在她的腦裡只有一隻母螳螂吞掉了她的愛人。
就像是一個巨大又扭曲的白日夢。
當然不可能有什麼螳螂，那只是一個幻覺。
只不過是有人在她腦裡創造出來的故事。
她不穩定的心理狀態讓她變成一個容易受傷的人。
之後那些人又用藥物跟催眠摧毀了她最後的人格，然後值入Psycho Mantis(一代頭目)的人格記憶。
控制BB部隊並不是她本身的意識，而是她腦中的Psycho Mantis利用半同化的方式進入她的靈魂，拉起玩偶身上的線。
尖叫螳螂只不過是另一個牽線木偶而已。
總之，當時的她在那個地獄掙扎生存了幾個星期之後終於回到了地面。
但是腦中的尖叫卻從此留在那裡。
這些聲音會永遠的在她腦中...只不過實際上那些尖叫並不是真的。
就算是耳塞也不會有用，黑色的螳螂已經消失了。
沒有地方躲藏，也沒有地方逃避。
這也是為什麼她總是尖叫--為了蓋過她腦內的聲音。
※ 引述《jyuny1 (凱文藍)》之銘言：
: Mantis came form South America, she was born and rised in a country wracked
: by never-ending civil wars.
: Her village was attacked by enemy forces and burned to the ground.
: This was when she was still a little girl.
: Hunted by enemy death squads, she was separated from her family.
: She barely managed to escape with her life...Ended up in the basement of this
: one building.
: It was full of corpses that had been dumped there.
: Almost all of them had been tortured to death.
: She was petrified with fear.
: And then she heard the sound of heavy boots on the floor above her, followed
: by shrieking screams, the kind that would make every hair on your body stand
: straight up.
: She had stumbled across a makeshift torture chamber.
: Somebody had locked the door, and she was trapped.
: It was dark, it was dank. And it was full of a wretched stench.
: She couldn't sleep with the scream of torture victims all around her.
: All she could do was sit curled up in one corner of the room, trembling.
: A week passed, then ten days.
: She managed to keep hydrated by drinking filthy water pooled upon the floor,
: but there was no food.
: Being trapped in that kind of place, half-crazy from hunger, did a serious
: number on her mind.
: Did you know female mantis eat their mates?
: The screams went on day and night, she covered her ears but it didn't help.
: And then, she was saved...
: By a little black mantis, that thaught her how to block out the screams, how
: to plug up her inner ears.
: Snake: What the hell are you talking about?
: I'm saying, Snake, that when she couldn't stand the hunger any longer, she
: started feeding on the corpses...
: But only the male ones.
: She didn't realize who was doing it.
: In her mind, it was a female mantis, devouring her mates.
: It was like one big, twisted walking dream.
: There was no mantis, of course.
: It was all a hallucination.
: Nothing more than some story spun by another person she'd created inside.
: Her unstable mind was what made her so vulnerable.
: Later they ripped out what was left of her psyche with drugs and hypnosis,
: and implanted the persona of Psycho Mantis.
: It wasn't her will that controlled the BBs, it was Psycho Mantis,
: half-assimilated into her soul, pulling the strings.
: Screaming Mantis was just another puppet.
: Anyway, she survied several weeks down in that hellhole and finally got back
: to the surface.
: But the screams in her head didn't subside.
: They would always be with her...Only this time, they weren't real.
: The inner earplugs didn't work anymore. The black mantis had disappeared.
: There was no place left to escape.
: Which is why she was always screaming---to drown out the ones in her own head.
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