The Escape

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Natalia was free. She had yet to get used to the feeling. The amount of cold water in the air was giving her strength once again. She could finally work her muscles, even under the immense heat of her cell. Smiling as the door froze, she kicked it open with ease. The guards were already distracted with the others, but it wouldn't take long for them to realize yet another mutant had broken free. She sprinted, ignoring her tired muscles and leaping through the hole Stone had made. The others were already moving and they didn't look in too good of shape.

She ran harder, catching up with them and staying as far away as possible from the fire. "I'm coming with you guys!" she yelled over the large amount of voices on the other side of the wall of flame.
 
"Roger!"
Adam charged forwards, but only as fast as was safe – Dark was unstable, he couldn't let the boy be put under too much strain. It was no problem for him, his strength and durability were phenomenal – given that enemies were dropping like flies as well, it was becoming increasingly easy for him to get to the hole previously created, and he put Dark down in the social room. Designating himself the party's tank, he pulled out yet another section of the wall, doubling up the thickness of the shield he was already using. "Get going," he called out, holding as firmly as he could against the attacks, "I'll join you once you're all in!"


Though irked by Rina, Adam had not the time for a philosophical debate, nor did he have time to take orders from someone who he thought likely had more than just a screw loose.
"Look, girly, I'm not sure what goes on in your head, but I've seen enough death and despair as it is. I want out, and if you're just going to tell me to kill, then I'll start by tearing your head off of your shoulders. Now do your job and keep them off us, or I'm in for an electrifying experience…"
Using the lack of Tasers as an opportunity, Adam charged forward, pushing the front line further into enemy territory. The first shield layer was wearing thin, but the enemy was being disoriented. This was good – no matter how small the degree.
 
It took all Rina had not to turn her own arm into a taser and fill him with 10000 volts. She knew how he was caged, it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that it probably was one of his weaknesses. She got a case of the giggles, forcing her arm to stay aimed on the guards and not to turn on those who were trying to escape. How dare he, she thought. She wasn't giving a command or anything, just a suggestion.

"This is how teamwork works?" She questioned Adam, running next to him now still gunning down guards that she sees. "We threaten each other for making a small suggestion? For being logical? I don't have a job, I help because I want too. None of you are my responsibility. I don't know what planet you are living on, but I'd like to see you try tearing my head off, I'd kill you before you got close to me. Speed beats brute force." She hissed. She wouldn't of had a problem if he told her to mind her own business but the comment, he would start with her for just a suggestion? "Your not cuddly or cute as I thought, your more of a monster. Who says something like that over a suggestion, maybe your more cruel than I. Think about that." With that her pace slowed down so she was in the back. turning around to shoot some more guards, her lip twitching more. She couldn't keep this up, not with that sudden spike of anger that rarely showed itself. She turned down another hallway and like that... Her and Arny had just abandoned the group, not that Arny had a choice.
 
Tossing the now-useless shield into the guards ahead, Adam swept the remaining wall section in front of him, still holding onto it. The result was a number of guards being crushed against a wall, their bones snapping with a sickening crunch – satisfying, some may have called it, but not to Adam. He was not as dumb as he looked, and though he was irritable at the best of times, he could still use his years to his advantage.
"Your warped little mind obviously can't handle the concept of sanity. I refuse to kill because it's not ever justified. Nobody gets to decide who lives and who dies, that makes us no better than them. Obviously, you don't have to worry about that, though. Just get out of here before one of us kills the other – I'm not a quick runner, but they trained me to fight."

Resisting the urge to slam the wall with his fist and cause part of the ceiling to cave in on Rina, Adam pushed further on, ignoring any voices – or, indeed, sounds at all – as he continued pushing forth, never relenting in his brutish charge. Rina obviously thought of him as nothing but a strongman with no brains to balance it out. And, while he may not have been book-smart, he had been taught how to adapt to a great many situation. He could turn any number of things into weapons, just by using his raw strength, and his close-quarters-combat training. He was, after all, immensely durable and strong. What else would he be taught? There were only so many ways to experiment on him.
 
Natalia watched as the girl leaved. 'Well, that escalated quickly,' she thought to herself, rolling her eyes. She looked at the rest of them, then at Stone, and back to the rest of them. "We need to get out of here," she finally said, taking Adam's suggestion/command/whatever anyone wanted to call it to heart. She concentrated, drawing water out of the air and freezing it, using it to lift Dark off the ground. "Sorry if it's cold. Best any of us can probably do," she said with a shrug, starting to run with her hand outstretched, carrying the block of ice holding Dark along with her.

She glanced back. "Are you coming or not?" she asked the fire girl.
 
Ante was sleeping in his isolation chamber, a dead sleep, when a boom outside shook him awake. He sat up and tilted his head at the door. "Huh." He breathed, confused at the rumbling that had brought him into consciousness he stood and casually walked over to the little window. Whatever that was had to be something big to shake his cell, the people here had taken extra special care to ensure that he was secured. They specially didn't want him getting away, his power of adaptation was entirely to valuable to normal people to take any risks. He knew that there were others from what he had seen through his window, he had seen them being beaten on many occasions. The guards weren't allowed to open his door unless it was time for a test, and they were mean, but they never attacked him. They probably saw it as a waste of time, seeing as though it wouldn't affect him because of his power. He stood up on his toes to look through the window and saw two fully equipped squads of guards posted up outside, like they were guarding his cell from something. He cocked an eyebrow at them, usually they would smack the window or something shitty like that whenever he looked out, but they didn't even seem to notice him peering through the reinforced, bullet/blast proof glass. Their expressions were strained, like they were waiting for something really bad to happen. He watched them shift uncomfortably in their positions, they looked pretty cool all in uniform combat gear. Some had riot shields, they all had taser rods and assault rifles.
 
Rina ran avoiding guards by either shooting them dead or taking a hallway to the right or left. She had yet to have a plan but she knew she would have to come up with one eventually. She took a wrong turn and nearly yelped as she saw the two group of guards that stood there. She quickly went back around the corner, setting Aryn down before taking a deep breath. There were so many of them but there was no way she was going back. She took a deep breath before her eyes glowed a bright red color. She trembled slightly trying to contain a giggle as she cut herself, the blood pooled up into a solid round object, a smoke grenade. She remove the pin, hand to her mouth to muffle her laughter. She kicked it over and it explode with smoke before the guard could react.

"Man get ready!" A guard called. "We must protect the objective by any means nessar-AH!" The loud sound of a chainsaw rang through the smoke filled hallway. Blood splatters were heard and felt by some of the closer guards.

"Fire!" Another guard yells but they were firing with no sight, some shooting another while others riot shields help protect them until they screamed. All was heard were the sound of a chainsaw ripping through flesh and bone. Blood splattered on Ante's little window, making it hard to see outside. It didn't take long for the smoke to clear, most of the guards dead or were in shock from a missing arm or leg, dying from blood lost. Rina stood covered in blood as she busted out laughing. The guards shot and she used the chainsaw by holding in-front of her to cover her vitals. She grinned twisted and widely as her other arm turned into a grenade launcher, the whole floor around the guards becoming a blast pad. The men scream from pain as they blew up, just creating a more blood and gorey scene.

Finally it was quiet, all the guards dead as she was covered in flesh and blood. She had plenty of bullet wounds but she didn't go in shock because she couldn't feel it in this form. "PATHETIC!?" She laughed. "SANITY IS SO UNFUN! IT MAKES YOU DIE!" She laughed hard and hard before stopping, putting a bloody hand to the window and looking in it, looking at Ante. "Helllllloooooooo~" She sang, staring at him with her big demon eyes. "Objective... is that your name~?" She tilted her head to the side. "You're coming with me handsome~" She went into a giggling fit as she looked through the dead guards for the key card to open the door.
 
He tilted his head as he watched the girl take out all the guards outside. Was that what they were waiting for? She looked in at him, her lips moved but he couldn't hear anything she said. Ante recognized her from seeing the guards drag her through the hallway on occasion, beating on her and prodding her with taser rods. Looks like she had a little something to say about that after all. He gave her a little wave as she spoke, then sighed as she turned away to rifle through the bodies. He looked around outside, not seeing too much but what was right in front of the window being that it was so small. The hall was painted red with the blood of the guards, their bodies scattered about. None of it effected him really, everything was simply different, interesting in that it was different but rather impotent as his apathy coated his being in a thick security blanket.
 
Julianne tried to block out their arguing but it was getting too much. They needed to focus on getting out of here and then they could sort out their petty differences. She sighed and blocked them out, only listening for any knew sounds like the new girl who had joined their little party. Her head snapped over to face the girl but she was still focussing on the flames she was controlling to keep the guards away. "Huh? Oh, um, yeah. Of course." She said and glanced back at the fire then took a deep breath and ran behind them toward the large holes Stone had made. Wow, she was behind… To catch up with the rest of her group she had to let go of the flames for a while, instead using her strength to run as fast as she can. But this gave the guards the chance they needed to see through the smoke and managed to get a bullet to hit her in the arm. She let out a yelp but tried to block out the pain and ignore it at least until they had a chance to rest for her to heal it with her new found capability of her fire.

Once she made it to her friends she turned back around and instead walked backwards, re-creating the wall of fire so the guards couldn't see anymore and hit anyone else in a more vital area. She glanced around to them then stopped in confusion. "Wait, what happened to that other girl? The one who can make herself a human weapon?" She called to the others, her voice shaking slightly as the idea of her having died so early in their escape plagued her mind.
 
She finally found the card key, giggling as her eyes slowly faded to a pink. There were no long any threats, the man behind the door couldn't hurt her and the weak angel boy was still.. laying there. She walked to the door, using the card. She wiped it and opened the door just as her eyes went to normal. She collapsed in the doorway, hissing in pain.

"Fuck, that hurts." She felt everything and it wasn't to nice feeling. She concentrated and had her blood push the bullets out of her body, plenty of them falling on the ground before her blood hardened into metal so she would stop bleeding out. She sat up with a whimper of pain but shook her head. She looked at him, blinking. "Hello." She say smoothly before rolling her neck, eyes returning to that monotone stare. "Want to come with me to get out of here?" She heard of him but never seen him before. She didn't expect him to say yes, as it was rumored he was fine with being here though she did hope the man would come with her. Since Aryn was out, she was pretty much on her own here.

She forced herself up with a grunt, turning to see the bloody hallway. I did that, she thought. Her eyes grew tender for all but a moment, shaking it off. She wasn't as crazy as people thought but she wasn't surprised that no one saw what was on the inside. It was only her power that brought it out and it nearly made her sad that Adam had treated her with a similar view as the guards. She saw it as she saw it, only reason why people would confuse her cruelty with insanity was because the truth was crazy and hurtful. She again, didn't mean to come off so mean to Adam or even act like she didn't know that he had a brain but then again how could she? He verbally attacked her because she showed signs of insanity? That made everything she said wrong? She rubbed her arm as she thought, even people like her didn't understand. She say she was sorry to Adam but it'd be a lie, she meant every word she had said.

"I won't make you come if you prefer to be here." She stated quietly, masking the sudden depression and hurt she felt. She took a step, whining quietly in pain as she went into the hallway.
 
He wasn't sure what to do, he'd never been out of his cell without an armed escort, it felt wrong to leave now. He stepped to the edge of the cell and looked up and down the hallway, there were no guards. Well, no living guards at least. He hesitated, reaching out to the girl, but pulling his hand back to put a finger to his chin. What was he supposed to do now? "Wh... where are you going? Is this another test?" He asked, unsure of why she would ask him to leave his cell. "I'm not that good at fighting, I don't think I am supposed to participate in this one..." He bit his finger, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. He had no concept of the outside world or what leaving meant. his memory of such things had gone a long time ago, most likely a defensive measure taken by his power to keep him from being too malcontent in his current surroundings.
 
"Outside." She winced as she picked Aryn up again and putting him over her shoulder. She limped back around to look at Ante. "Leaving this place. Haven't you ever wondered what was outside these walls? Your going to be moving anyways.. right? Aren't you eighteen?" She questioned him. "I need more people then just myself, even if you can only shoot one guard, it would still help us escape and help me fight. There is another group here as well, you can always go after them. Or you can stay here too." She sighed, her depression was starting to seep out. "Either way, I don't mind being by myself. I mean Angel Boy will have to wake up eventually right? And I mean.. even if I die, I still escape in some form. I don't know about you.. but I don't want to be here anymore." She sighed even loudly. "Freedom or die trying." She gave him a slight smile before it faded into a frown.
 
Julianne looked at Stone and Natalia who haven't answered her yet. She felt like she needed to find her, they were all in this together right? She couldn't just leaver her behind… She sighed heavily, "I'll be back, I need to be sure they're ok." She told them then took off in the last direction she saw Rina go. "Hello?" She called out. when she heard the immense chaos ahead, she heard screams, weapons going off and… a chainsaw? She picked up her speed but stopped when she saw the carnage in the hallway ahead of her. "Oh my god…" She gasped and slowly moved forward, looking at all the blood and dead bodies until she noticed the door at the end of the hall, Rena right in front of it. "There you are. Are you ok? We need to hurry and get out of here…" She said, glancing behind herself to see if any more guards were coming.
 
Ante stepped outside of his cell into the hallway and stretched his arms, looking around. "Well... I'm outside now.... what are we supposed to do out here?" He asked, tilting his head at her. He didn't understand what she meant, he had no concept of outside. Her talk about shooting guards and dying and not being here anymore. None of it really made sense, he couldn't connect the dots in the slightest. "This doesn't seem so special."
 
"Outside as in outside this building." She tells him before looking in Juilanne's direction. "I'm not going back Fire Girl." She told her. "I'm taking a different route, i'm not travel with that overgrown man. I don't trust him to have my back and honestly I don't trust myself to have his back. Definitely not after having him threaten me or talk of killing me, a 'supposed' ally." She explained with a sigh. "Granted I responded with a threat to kill him before he could kill me but I'm sure you can understand a defense recoil. I'm not going to be treated like that for making a suggestion, aren't we a team? Or did I miss something?" She asked Juilanne before looking over at Ante. She opens her mouth before closing it, she didn't really know what to say to him. He seemed to be rather confused but she didn't know how to explain anything really.
 
Aryn had passed out again from the pain of being moved. He awoke slung over someone's shoulder, and he sighed, wishing that they would stop moving him so much. Then again, he didn't want to go back to his cage again, drugged and beaten. His body barely responded to his commands, his arm twitching only slightly when he tried to hit whoever had him. He wasn't attacking her, he just wanted to be set down, so he could rest.

He could hear, finally, and he realized a girl was holding him, a boy was to the front of him, and another girl, farther off. He found he could move his face, and he attempted to speak, but all that came out was a groan. He closed his eyes and projected his thoughts to the girl who still held held him.Thanks. Let's try to be a little more gentle next time, alright? I believe I can move on my own in a few minutes, but I'll be slow until I can gather enough strength to heal myself. He opened his eyes and looked at the carnage strewn down the hallway. Jeez, you're quite the merciless one, aren't you? Aryn guessed she was the one who could change the makeup of her body at will. And from the looks of it, she'd used a gun.
 
She nearly flipped out for a moment, her thoughts just wondering, now i'm hearing voices? I'm not really that crazy, am I? She realized then that it must of been the boy she was holding. She glanced at him, thinking, well.. not known for being gentle and not like I had a choice anyways but yeah, mercy isn't really my thing. Hope it doesn't bother you to much cause I'm not changing anytime soon. She nods her head in agreement with what she said.
 
Ante thought for a moment, but he couldn't wrap his mind around what was going on. He sighed, shaking his head, then shrugged. "I don't know what's going on, but I guess I'll go with you. You seem like you know more than I do so it's only logical." He said, looking around the hallway again. He looked down the hall at the woman who was speaking and smiled at her, waving. He had never gotten to meet other mutants like this before, so he was a bit excited to see meet two at once. He bit his lip and looked up at the ceiling, he was never allowed to look up while being escorted through the hall. They had always place a sack over his head and strapped it under his armpits to force his head downward. It was strange, much different than the ceiling in his cell. He imagined what the ceiling of the test rooms must look like, as he had only seen the floor. Ha figured they were probably like this, or like his cell... then again that's all he really had to go off of. He spaced out a bit, thinking about this.
 
Natalia watched the fire girl go. She looked at Stone, then Dark. "We're only going to be let off for a while. Where do we go?" she asked, speaking more to Dark than Adam. Where were they supposed to go? She had no idea how to escape, and now three of their group were off somewhere. Three people that, according to Dark, would turn out to be useful. What were they supposed to do?
 
Aryn found he could snort without too much pain, and so he did.Wonderful, he replied. Although I'm sure anyone else would have found a way to not bruise my ribs while I'm paralyzed. He closed his eyes again, concentrating. He smiled when his hands started to glow. You don't really care about you injuries too much, do you? He inquired rhetorically. He healed her, just to test that he could, then clasped his hands together and concentrated harder. It was never as easy to heal himself, he reflected, and always took a minute or two, unlike the few seconds it took to heal the girl's multiple wounds that were at different levels of healing. Maybe it was because he was always so grievously injured in the first place.

When he finished, he flipped gracefully off the girl's shoulder-and none too gently, as he had used her back to push himself off with his hands- and examined his wings. The scars had disappeared, and he flapped them slightly. There was no pain. He turned to look at her, cocking his head slightly to the left as he did so. "So, where to?" he asked with a mischievous grin, not bothering to push away the hair that fell into his eyes. He already knew the way out; he just wanted to see if she had a plan. He was never the leader type of person. He did too much controlling already.
 
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