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 Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:29 pm
((okay, then... I think I'll wait until X leaves. That'll give some sense of time passing.))
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:50 pm
Xion phased into being inside one of the bolted rooms of the experiment halls, the woman still unconscious in his arm. He glanced over at the empty table, then down at the woman. He let go of her, and let her float over towards the table to lay on it. Once down the metal restraints snapped shut around her arms and legs. An elastic band curled over her abdomen and melted into the metal...to make sure she couldn't go far if she thrashed around. Which given her attitude earlier, he wouldn't be surprised.
He glanced over at the corner of the room, and a small blue sheet floated from a small desk and unfolded itself. It fanned over an empty glass case inside the wall, and when it shifted away, a black leather costume and web shooters sat inside. As well as a few other gadgets she had hidden rather well.
Xion watched as the blanket draped over the woman's figure, then glanced at the machinery. Nothing was working yet...so there was no point hooking anything up to her.
With a little sigh, he turned and placed his hand on the door. It hummed to life, and slid open for him. A woman with short blond hair and green eyes stood on the other side.
"Watch her for a while. You'll be locked in here until I can get some form of electricity going to power the building."
The woman nodded and walked inside as the man disappeared again. The door shut behind her with a rather intimidating crack, and she moved over to the corner to go through the desk while she waited.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:24 pm
Cat woke up gradually; whatever he had done to her, it took a while to wear off. What was... what? She couldn't remember what was happening, aside from the vague impression that she was in trouble; even that fuzzy recollection was enough to make her frown a little in her sleep. "...nn..." Her eyelids fluttered a bit, but she couldn't actually get them open. That was actually sort of strange. She was usually one of those people who came awake quickly and completely, especially when she thought there might be some kind of trouble.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:30 pm
The woman glanced over at the table in the middle of the room, sitting a syringe down on the desk next to three others. She didn't say anything, but she did cautiously make her way towards the large table to check if the woman were waking up or not.
Her eyes weren't open, but it seemed as though she were stirring now. The room was still nice and dark, so it was easy to assume she was having a time waking up. Compared to the harsh florescent lights that would have been shining down on her had the power still been on.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:39 pm
Restraints. She felt restraints. Instantly, her eyes snapped open, and she tried to jerk up; the metal over her wrists and the band over her abdomen brought her up short, just like Xion had intended. A little sound of mixed surprise and discomfort escaped her, and she tried again, frantic to get off of the table. It was all starting to come back, and she knew that being strapped down like this was the exact opposite of a positive sign.
In near total darkness of the room, her cat eyes worked perfectly, allowing her to see that her costume was gone, replaced by a... blanket? Was that it? ...She didn't have her mask on, and it felt as though her white wig was gone, too. Well, that was just peachy.
On the desk, one of the syringes shattered with a high pitched, snapping sound. At the same time, the roof over their heads let out a funny, rumbling creak.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:52 pm
The woman flinched when the syringe shattered on the desk behind her. She'd seen enough patients jump and thrash about that the woman suddenly jumping up didn't startle her. Glass breaking and the roof rumbling on the other hand....
"Do calm down..." the woman said gently, as though she didn't want to talk to loud with the ceiling making noise. She also took a few steps back. "If we are burried in here, there won't be anyone coming to dig us out."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:59 pm
Cat gritted her teeth. Who the hell was that? ...Oh. That woman she'd knocked out. "It's not... exactly that simple," she replied tightly after a moment. How was she supposed to explain that this 'bad luck' thing wasn't an ability that she could control? Little things went wrong even when she wasn't upset. When she WAS...
The ceiling creaked again.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:06 pm
The woman stared up at the ceiling again, nervousness now showing on her face. Carefully, she pulled a small device out of her pocket and pressed one of the buttons in the top left corner.
A small moment passed, and Xion phased into being within the room once again. His one visible eye beginning to show annoyance.
"You rang?" he said, his voice rather unamused.
"The roof please." the woman replied.
He sighed. His eye flashed. And the walls and ceiling became coated in steel that flowed across the concrete walls like liquid.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:10 pm
Seeing him, Cat jerked uselessly at her restraints again, then finally allowed her head to fall back against the table with a little 'thunk'. One of the remaining syringes broke as well, and the little device in the woman's hand let out a few sparks and a funny wining sound, but the metal seemed to have taken care of the ceiling problem.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:19 pm
The woman dropped the device and let it clatter against the floor. She glanced back up at Xion and sighed. "Thank you. Do you think you can do anything about...whatever it is she's doing?"
He gave her a look. "One thing at a time. I'm still in the middle of getting the building powered back up."
"But cloaking her powers shouldn't be very hard for you at all. You did it to Michael rather quickly."
Xion looked at her a moment, then glanced back over at Cat. "....you're not in risk of being buried any longer. If I move some of the bigger machinery out of the room...her powers should become too dangerous." he replied.
Honestly...he didn't want to mess with it. Not with her. Not with where she had been...and with what might still be lurking in her sub-conscious.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:23 pm
Felicia ignored them as best she could (...Michael?), putting all of her energy into trying to break one of the arm restraints. After all, she'd gotten Reaper out of a situation like this; there was no reason why she shouldn't be able to break her own with a bit of serious effort.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:31 pm
Xion glanced over at the woman on the table, and let out a rather audible sigh. Once again, his eye flashed. This time, the table she was resting on turned liquidy around her arms and legs. It traveled up the restraint and her skin, finally hardening into a long, tight tube around her limbs. From her ankles to her knees, and her wrists to her elbows. He didn't feel the need to do more to the rest of her. He didn't want to put her into so much of a panic that the room exploded or something. He already had enough clean up to deal with.
"I suggest you at least make the effort to calm down." he told her. "The ones in charge should be in to talk to you once they know you're awake. If you give them any more hardship than you've already given them...I'm pretty sure the blond would be more than happy to let Rapture experiment on you while your friend is gone."
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:38 pm
Cat's eyes went very wide at that little threat, and a long, thin fissure opened up in the concrete floor with an audible crack. Tellingly, she did stop struggling, although it could have been that she'd simply realized that there wasn't much point with the modified restraints.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:49 pm
Xion blinked and stared down at the long crack in the floor. "That's.....better?" he replied. They may have to keep the girl completely sedated if she keeps this up. He turned his attention back to Cat, and tried to speak calmly. Try to keep her from getting any more excited. "I will bring one of the other women in charge. One you haven't met yet, but one that I'm sure will be much more level-headed to speak with than the blond." he said, then glanced back at the other woman. "Keep watch for a while longer."
With that, he vanished again.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:53 pm
Felicia stayed very still, trying to think calm thoughts. Calm as a mountain stream... Oh, who was she kidding? She'd grown up in Manhattan. Maybe she just needed to distract herself. "So... Is 'Micheal' Reaper's name?" She had to wonder... If it was, why did this woman know it?
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