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ooc= Ack! Stupid parents, stupid sickness, stupid stupidness. I can't stay on very long but if someone could PLEASE sum up what has happened in the last 3ish pages in a few paragraphs for when I can actually write a proper post it would be appreciated.

"What do you have in mind?" Nano asks, interested.

"These bars are metal, probably titanium. Which means they conduct electricity. As do the metal hairpins. Are you following me?" Morgan explains.

"I think so. But keep going, just to be sure," Jack replies.

"Okay. I would attach the hairpins to the collar, and touch them to the metal bars. When we try to remove the collar, the charge would be redirected by the hairpins and flow into the bars. We can use those extra few seconds to remove the collar," Morgan says.

"That's crazy enough to work."

"I know."

Anna listened to Moren's theory, resting her elbow on one of the cell's horizontal metal bars. It was a sound theory, but she couldn't help noticing the flaws. She hushed her voice and spoke to them accross the thin corridor.

"That's great, but one little drawback... We don't have any hairpins, and all our weapons and gadgets have been taken." She raised an eyebrow at them, and leant away from the bars, looking at Penance. She nodded, "I'm willing to try it again if you are. If I'm not going to be shocked as bad, it might be okay."

Penance exlained the plan to Jamie, Wanda and Anna, for they were all in the same cell, and each of them would be necessary. She explained, "We're all going to grab onto Anna's collar, and when I say, pull as hard ad you can on it. You'll get shocked, but with the electricity being spread between the four of us, it shouldn't be so bad."

Anna sighed a little, arching backwards to catch a glimpse of the guards at the end of the corridor, they were unmoved, apparently they had no idea a plan was formulating. Anna walked so the four were out of view of them, and then braced herself. "Okay, I'm ready... God, I hope this works. That shock really hurt last time."

Anna didn't hugely trust Wanda in particular, but she seemed willing to provide help when it was beneficial, and that was all the trust she needed right now. The three of them each readied their hands around her collar, ready to grab it and pull. Anna reached up and grabbed the front, preparing herself for the shock.

Penny counted down. "On three... One... two... three!"

The four of them all gripped the collar and yanked at it. It beeped almost immediately, and then a bolt of electricity coursed through Anna, making her legs weak. Maybe it was that she was straining, or maybe it was Penny's theory proving correct, but the shock didn't seem so bad this time. It hurt like hell, and her blood felt like sand in her veins, but not nearly as bad as last time. Penny grimaced and pulled as hard as she could, likewise did Jamie and Wanda, Anna had a hard time pulling the collar away from her throat, and with Jamie pulling hard from behind her, it was choking her.

After a few seconds of exhausting teamwork, the collar finally gave, it's metal body snapping and sending Jamie falling backwards, and it scraped Anna's neck as it came off, drawing a little blood. With the energy still surging through her body, Anna barely even felt the collar come off. But as soon as she realised what they'd accomplished, she caught her breath and grit her teeth while the shocking feeling subsided. Then she got to work.

Stepping up to the concrete wall beside them, she swiped a finger against it, and thankfully, he finger passed right through it, as though it were nothing. She had her powers back. She silently crossed to Penance, grabbed her head and tilted it to the side, saying "Don't move." Then she slashed a fingertip past Penance's neck, cutting clean through the device and removing it from her. She continued in the same fashion with the other two, then turned to the cell bars. The guards took one look at her without her collar and cried for backup, whipping out odd-looking stun-guns.

"Heads up!" Anna called as she swung her arm against the bars, cleaving straight through them, then once again in one smooth motion to send the bars tumbling down with metallic chiming on to the stone floors.

"That's not entirely true, Penny. I can shadow-hop, remember? And anyways, I want to show these ******** why they should be afraid of the dark," Morgan says, cracking his knuckles. Anna quickly slices through the bars of the cell holding him, Astral and Nano.

"Do Nano's first. He said he could get us out of here if he had his powers back. Besides, I don't need my powers to fight," Morgan says, stepping past Anna and facing the guards.

She places a finger against the collar, and cuts through it as though it were butter.

"Much better," Jack says, cracking his neck to one side. "Now, let me show why I'm called Nano," he adds, placing his finger near the seam on Astral's collar. A small silvery jet of something pours from his fingertip, and onto the collar. In a couple of seconds, the collar falls off, deactivated.

"Nanotechnology. Nice," Morgan says, quickly looking behind him, then facing the guards again.

"Maybe we need to even out the odds a bit," Astral said, smiling slightly. She raised her hands, and several Morgans materialized around the guards.

"What the hell?"



((Sorry about the NPCing. But it's kind of nescasarry.))

Jamie grinned and the lights flickered, then suddenly everyone was immersed in complete darkness. He then slipped around the guards, and from behind he grabbed one of the guards arms, and pulled in down, dislocating the shoulder. He then slipped to another guard who was working to see in the dark. He pulled out his flashlight and put it close to the guards face. He then turned it on, and amplified the light, blinding the guard.

Jacen was concious when they unloaded him. He could feel the stickiness of the air and could smell rain on the horizon. Only slightly did he open his eyes to see the dense foliage all around them. Then he was met with a riflebutt to the back of his head.

A few hours went by and Jacen awoke to find himself laying on the floor of a rather spacious cell. He looked around warily, rubbing the sleep from his eyes to see no one around. "They put me in my own cell?," Jacen muttered to himself, wondering why they would do such a thing. Then he felt a stiffness in the back of his neck. Instinctively, he reached back to rub his neck but he was met with a cold metal collar. Obviously something to keep his powers in check.

Jacen was about to mutter something else when he felt a sore spot on his arm. It looked as if there were a few needles stuck into him. "I wonder why they did that...," Jacen said to himself as he turned to see a dish of food slid into his cell. Twas a small bowl of prison grade gruel. Jacen scoffed at that. He had been held prisoner before elsewhere and they at least used pulp-free gruel. After one taste, Jacen threw the bowl to the other side of the room. "Like vomit...with a worse aftertaste," Jacen said.

"Indeed it is," he heard someone say behind him. Jacen turned around slowly and saw a taller man than he, and also about twenty years his senior. The man had an narrow jawline, not unlike the infamous knight with wolfen countenance. Also, he had a pair of thin wire framed glasses that sat high on the bridge of his nose. "I've had the misfortune of sharing my meals with a few of the inmates here, but that is what to expect from a private firm."

"A private firm?," Jacen asked, but got no answer.

"What brings me down here, Mr. Daniels is the fact that we took the liberty of getting a tissue sample from you," the scientist said matter-of-factly, "And what we discovered is quite intriguing."

"Get on with it doc," Jacen said rather agitated. He didn't like people knowing his name without him first giving it. He was annoyed that they did what they did to him while he was out cold. He didn't like feeling completely vunerable like that.

Out of annoyance himself, the doctor cleared his throat and continued, "We analyzed every one of our recent catches tissue samples and well, we did run across something interesting. Apparently, your strain of DNA has 4 markers that are identical to another one of your friends that we caught today. Remarkable."

"That's utter bullshit!!!," Jacen yelled as he looked straight at the doctor. "I grew up alone! With my mom and dad!!! There was no other brother or sister, just me!!!" Uncharacteristically, Jacen had lost his cool. The subject of his parents even after these years was still rather touchy for him.

"Apparently, there's alot for you to learn about yourself yet, Mr. Daniels," the doctor said snidely as he turned to leave. Without warning, Jacen ran up to the doctor, grabbed him hard by the shoulder, spun him around, and picked him up off the ground a good 5 inches easily. All this without being able to access his mutant abilities.

"You better tell me what the ******** you..." Jacen was cut off by a piercing scream of agony. A huge blast of electric shock hit his body, more likely than not from his collar.

"And this is why you're in your own special cell, Mr......yes?" There was a chirp and crackle before the scientist's earpiece chimed with a voice.

"Sir, we have a situation it seems. We've lost contact with the guards on the north wing, and we are going to lock down all wings in three minutes."

"Very well then," the doctor said as he opened the cell door and walked out. "Take care, Mr. Daniels. I'm sure I will see you on my examination table soon enough." Then the door closed behind him.

There Jacen lay on the cold prison floor. He laid there out of defeat; he unknowingly let someone know who he is and where he came from. He laid there out of confusion; he had a brother or sister? He didn't know. He laid there out of pain; that shock did well enough to nearly kill him.

I'm going to get out of here, and I'm going to find out what he ******** meant, Jacen thought as he rolled onto his back slowly, I think I need a nap though.... Then, he was asleep, completely unaware of the jailbreak going down on the other side of the prison.

OOC: Did this mainly cause I could and I needed to take my mind off of things. I know that sounds stupid, but sometimes, you know?

With the lights flashing bright and pitch, working to several mutants' favour, Anna did her best, running around, slicing through cell bars and collars wherever she could see them. While the guards were being thrashed by the more physical people, Anna began to take in her surroundings for the first time.

When the last guard gave a fearful yelp and dropped to the floor, most of the young people stood there wondering what to do next. Anna walked up to the door the guards were previously standing in front of, looking around for anyone who might know the best route out.

"I don't suppose anyone knows where the heck we are?" she asked. She got shrugs and shakes of the head as her reply. "Wonderful..." she said beneath her breath.

"So what's the plan? Are we going to escape together, or seperate? I mean, I don't mind working with you Brotherhood guys if it means we all get out alive." Even if that meant working alongside the guy had that tense little stand-off with the other day... Who, for some reason, was not here. She looked around, but couldn't see him anywhere.

Everyone had begun to discuss plans, talking amongst themselves as to the best option. Anna noted, "You Brotherhood guys are missing someone. Where's the guy Penance was fighting?"