Othergrounds: The IC Edition (Act 8: The Strangest Days have gone By)

Lemontea, Johnny, Jake, and Sylvia

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"Screw you!" Lemontea shouted as her gun turned into sponge, and was effectively useless. She assumed that this was the work of Johnny since she didn't notice Carole. It means that he's a pretty powerful mutant if he's capable of using his powers even if he's under the effects of her field. The gun was useless, while she wasn't intending on killing him, she wanted a meat-shield more than anything. No matter, the rest of the gun could be used as a club easily. She grabbed the barrel of the gun above where Carole turned it into a sponge and raised the gun above her head ready to knock Johnny out. She could have easily done so, she's lived on the mean and brutal streets for years. She knows how to take even the hardest of men out permanently. When she was about to swing she noticed an incredibly bright flash at the corner of her eyes. She had to look, it may have been stupid to do so, but she half turned her head. Keeping her half attention on Johnny. That's all Jake needed.

Outside of her power field, he was creating plenty of orbs of expanding lights. Having assumed that Lemontea's field was an energy field. These orbs were his specially prepared (at the urging of Johnny) technique for fighting Meta-humans with Energy and/or Cerebral class powers. These blinding flashes of light would blind meta-humans, they can't hit the illusion if they're blinded by light. He covered his eyes with his right arm and every last one of the orbs exploded at once. Blinding Lemontea (and Carole, Johnny and himself) even though she wasn't looking directly at it. When the flash was gone, Johnny was missing. So was Jake. Johnny took this opportunity to move. Jake turned invisible. But, this wasn't over yet. Johnny wanted this girl taken down. Lemontea loudly growled and threw her gun to the ground, before reaching out and grabbing her crowbar. She had lost, her prisoner had back up and she wasn't going to take them on all alone--- At least, directly. Lemontea held her crowbar tightly, before breaking into an all out sprint towards the bushes. She did a large leap over a fallen tree only to see another orb of light outside of her field, a few seconds away from exploding. She figured that her field will nerf it enough that it'll be dull. Leamontea upped her pace and covered her eyes. She got the orb inside of the field, only for it not to make too much of a difference.

The plan was to block out Lemontea's vision enough for them to get the drop on her. She kept moving, but Johnny was in hot pursuit. Even without his emotional energy form, he was still fast enough to keep up with her. The field only weakens powers, not the person who wields it. Lemontea uncovered her eyes and saw Jake step in front of her. Standing strong with his arms crossed. Naturally the first thing that came to mind was Lemontea trying to run around him. The Jake that stepped in front of her was merely an illusion. The real Jake was hanging from a tree, invisible, ready to pounce. Lemontea's field only disrupted the invisibility at the moment, merely making Jake transparent. When she was close Jake dropped in front of her, making her stop and try to find another way around him. It was far too late, Johnny tackled her and brought her to the ground. "Now, you're not going anywhere." Stayed on top of her, holding down her upper body with his arms, and keeping the rest of her pinned down by kneeling down on her back. Making her drop her crowbar, which was promptly kicked away by Jake. She twitched and struggled. Johnny laughed and said under his breathe, "I love it when you struggle...." Before shouting out loud, "Jake! Go through her bags."

Jake complied and gently grabbed the bag and took it off her shoulder. He then started going through it.

"Don't go in that!" Lemontea snarled, only for Johnny to press down more in response.

"Doesn't feel too good now that the shoe's on the other foot!? Now does it?!" Johnny started laughing uncontrollably.

There was plenty of things in Lemontea's bag. Knives, apples, several assorted tools, ammo for some sort of gun and most useful... Handcuffs. Jake grabbed the handcuffs, before running over to her. "Give me her hands." Johnny grabbed both of Lemontea's wrists and put them together so that Jake can put on the hand cuffs. Lemontea squirmed as much as she could to get free. With no success since Jake put on both handcuffs despite her heavy resistances. Johnny grabbed her by the chains of her handcuffs and pulled her straight up to her feet.

"Hello there. Honey. I think we have one big misunderstanding on our hands!" Johnny says in a polite and grand fashion. Right now he didn't want to make an enemy out of the girl. In fact, he wanted an ally. Because right now he needs more allies than anything. "Now, tell me your name honey.... Mine's Johnathon, his is Jake... and the girl that messed with your gun over there is Carole." He knew the person who did that was none other than Carole. He then walked over to a tree and pinned her back against it by pushing on her chest with his right hand as hard as he could.

She muttered, "Lemontea..." Before twitching.

Johnny grinned, and said, "That's a cute little name for a girl that looks like she's been through soooo much..." He says, "These scars of yours... it looks like they bear a heavy story. My scars have quite the story attached to them too, so much that I let the world sees them."

Lemontea shouts, "What the hell are you getting at!?"

Johnny smirks, "Shouting is unlady-like," before chuckling, "Alright, alright... I want to know why you went off and started all of this?" He kept her pinned to the tree with his hand.

"Kids are cruel, Johnathon... Take away the authority and you have nothing but a pack of little monsters on your hand." Lemontea snarled.

"You're the one swinging a gun 'round like Gi-Joe. And you're close enough to be considered a child yourself--- But, I'll move on from that. I want to move past this. You know, you did absolutely thing wrong here... You're just a scare little girl who was scarred before and acted on impulse because she feared that she'd get scarred again. I understand that." Johnny gave her one big speech.

"You aren't the one hiding in a dark wet corner in the sewers while rats crawl all under you, fearing that you'll get caught and slaughtered by these men..." Lemontea said with a bit of hostility in her voice.

'I don't understand that. But, I'm not going that far, my good dear. There's a point where we have to move on, make a better future" Johnny states, "I'll stop wasting your time and get to the point: I want you, on my side."

"Why the hell should I do that?!" Lemontea balled her fists tightly.

"Because, I want people like you on my side." Johnny replied, "You appear to be rather..." Johnny looked at the bag that Jake went through and left on the ground, "... Savvy. In the art of survival."

Lemontea thought about it, it could be a plot to kill her, or some other plot. But, if it was really an attempt at her life, then she would be dead already. He has her pinned against a tree. He and his friend could easily rape her right now. "Maybe... What do I get out of this?" She hesitantly replied.

"You get some people on your side. I will help you on your endeavors if you help me with mine... I'll also split the resources between you and the other people on my side. If you don't want to join then you're free to go if you agree for us not to cross paths." Johnny answers. He could easily say that he won't let her out of the handcuffs if she doesn't join him. That'd seem too much like blackmail than anything. "Jake, find the keys to these cuffs... In the mean time, sweet thing. How about you drop this field?"

Lemontea considered her options, and decided to join them, but she had one question to ask; "I'll join your gang if you tell me one thing; do you have a safe house?" Before she quickly tacked on, "Get these cuffs off me and I'll get this field down."

Johnny looked over his shoulder at the Detention Center, "Yes and no. We had one, until that fell over pretty fast. But, I have something a bit more large scale. The hospital... Unfortunately, it's in lockdown." Jake got what seems to be the keys of the hand cuffs, Johnny spun Lemontea around. For Jake to unlock the hand cuffs, and took them off her wrists, then she turned around. Jake then handed Lemontea her bag, after he puts the hand cuffs back into her bag. Apart of the deal, she dropped the power dampening field. It slowly turned white, before it disappeared.

"Alright then... Boss... Why do you want the hospital as your safe house?" Lemontea asked as she threw her bang over her shoulder.

"Because. Someone very important to me may be in there. It's also very armored. No one will get in there... The only problem is that the armor is the very thing that's keeping us out...." Johnny says.

Lemontea shrugged. She had the way to get inside of the building, just that it's not exactly the scenic route being in the sub basement. It will not be subtle either. "I know how to get inside. There's a weak point in the sub-basement, you're going to need something very strong to get it open. But, I trust that you can supply that."

"Sub-basement...? Fck... Anything to find Gabe." Johnny loudly says.

Sylvia was limping through the bushes, following the shouting. She tried flying to the source, but she was too wounded to accomplish this. After finding her way there she found her brother, "You're okay..." Sylvia says. Trying to appear strong and hard.

Jake says, "Sylvia! You should by lying down, you're injured."

"Fuck that shit... I can stand up. I just need a moment to get my second wind." Sylvia snaps back at him. She was clenching her electrical burns very tightly.

Johnny shakes his head, "All the more reason to get inside of that building. You can get patched up by those doctor Eyes."

Lemontea inserts, "It's not going to be as simple as opening up a door... Johnny." She narrows her eyes, "It'll take a small a explosion. Unless any of you have the power to explode or something like that, we'll have a better time trying to make some home made explosives or hoping that those soldiers left behind a bomb or two..."

Johnny knew of someone who has the power to explode, Sylvia. But, he can tell that she won't be too much use at the moment. Jake's exhausted, Sylvia's wounded and the only person who'd be of considerable use would be Lemontea. They're better off, putting off the hospital raid until they gather themselves. "Alright boys and gals... We're heading back to the dorms to kick back for a few hours." He started walking towards the dorms. Leading them all along.

"You gonna come, Carole?!" He shouted back. While the girl was apart of what happened back there, he still regarded her as useful.

Drake

Quote :: "Sure, Zeus, feral dogs are so scary when you can kill a man with a blow from your wing. Just because a place makes me nervous doesn't mean I'm going to chicken out."

Drake chuckled. "Yeah, you kinda missed the point of my story. Things aren't very creepy when you learn to conquer it." He states to her blankly. Before blowing another puff of smoke out of his mouth. He sure as hell enjoyed the rush of nicotine.

ViperaUnion wrote:: Ugh, it's hard enough tracking people with the smell of decay already, can you please put out that cigarette? The smoke's drowning out everything else, and this person I'm tracking already has a smell that could easily blend into the Graveyard's."

"Uh, okay." He forgot about Nicole's extreme sense of smell. He was being a bit inconsiderate to even smoke that. He dropped the cigarette from in between his lips to the ground. Then he stepped on it, crushing it and extinguishing it. He's going to smoke it somewhere else.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Has anyone considered why this person is in the graveyard, to begin with?"

Drake shrugged. "Who knows. Maybe he or she just wants to chill out here." He didn't put too much thought process to figuring out why.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Hey! Who are you? What are you doing here?!"

When the person that they were looking for appeared. Drake just stood in the sidelines again and let them talk. For once, this person looked somewhat normal, which was rather surprising. The pale skin was just a little bit creepy. Otherwise the person wasn't mutated too much. Probably the only thing that was mutated was her manners. He was just about to comment, when he wished that he was smoking a nice cigarette.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "No, I want to know, why were you following me? Hasn't the world been crazy enough already without strangers stalking me?" She snapped harshly. "I ain't seen your faces around here before, so start explaining!"

Drake smiled, before he muttered under his breathe, "That's quite the way to ask a question...." Before he slanted his head. He was going to prepare another speech, when he realized that he'll get a rather hostile response, "Well... rude girl... We are the survivors of what happened just like you and we want to add you to our group. You know, strength in numbers. If you don't want to them that's fine. We'll just get to stepping."

Carole

When Carole's vision finally cleared, she was laying on the ground, her powers severely drained. She rolled onto her feet, and stumbled towards the sound of Johnny's voice incoherently as if she were drunk. She was finally able to see, and began to run towards the group of three. Carole eyed Lemontea suspiciously; she didn't trust her one bit. But, if Johnny trusted her, Carole would too. She trusted Johnny like no one else on Earth, and would pretty much do whatever he said. She crossed her arms, and looked at Lemontea cynically.

"Yeah, I'll come". she said, staring at the crowbar laying in the grass. "But first..." Carole stared it down and it turned into water vapor right before their eyes. Inside her mind, Carole was jumping up and down like a little schoolgirl. In her mind, she had defeated Lemontea and saved Johnny's life, and she was proud of that. She walked over to the rifle, and picked it up. In her hands, the gun re-formed into its former self, no longer a wet noodle. She was going to throw the gun's strap around her shoulder, but she then remembered that she didn't have any weapons training, so she instead handed it to Johnny.

"Here you go!" She said happily "By the way, you don't need an explosion. Anything you want to break through I can turn into smoke. I also know a perfect way to relax a bit. Follow me". Carole began to walk off towards the dorms at a brisk pace. As she walked, a pair of sneakers materialized on her feet. They were very simple; not veyr fancy or anything of the sort, but Carole couldn't make them fancy or too complex without concentrating, and she couldn't walk and concentrate on mutating something at the same time. Meanwhile, a nearby bird bath in a garden by the hospital cracked clean in two, causing it to hit the wall with a loud "clang!"

TJ

TJ was standing at the top of Sparrowdale tower, looking down at the rest of the campus. Directly in his sights was the hospital; all locked-up and unreasonable. He cracked his neck loudly with his hands, and then his knuckles. He was about to teach whoever locked the hospital why they shouldn't try and keep out TJ Eckleburg. On the side of Sparrowdale tower, slightly angled on an awning of some sort, was a black portal, gleaming in the sunlight. TJ looked down at the ground; a fall from this height would certainly kill him instantly. He would have to be lucky on this one. TJ looked up at the sun, and took in a view of the campus. In case he did die, he wanted to remember that. Finally, after a moment's deliberation, TJ threw a white portal at the ground. He took a deep breath, and leapt off the side of the tower, falling straight down towards the portal.

"GERONIMO!!!!" he yelled as he fell, in the words of the Eleventh Doctor. He pulled his body into a tight cannonball just as he approached the bottom, and closed his eyes shut. This could be it. Luckily, TJ Eckleburg was a mad beast when it came to portaling. He landed a perfect bullseye in the middle of the white portal and was rocketed through the sky by the black one, towards the hospital.

"Haha! Screw you gravity!" he bellowed, his face breaking out into a smile. Just as he got above the hospital, he clenched both his fists and threw two portals at its roof. TJ fell through the white portal, and was shot straight up in the air by the second going at terminal velocity; the highest speed a human in freefall could fo. He rolled himself into a ball once more, and hit the black portal again. This rocked back and forth until TJ finally lost most of his momentum. He came out of the white portal and landed on the roof spread eagle with a 'thump!" TJ rose to his feet and looked around.

"OH YEAH!" he yelled as loud as he could "FOOTBALL!" TJ laughed out of pure adrenaline a moment, and then closed both of the portals. Now time to find a way in. He walked across the hospital's roof until he found a grated air vent which fueled the hospital's air conditioning.

"Beautiful." he muttered, grabbing the grate. It was locked, so he threw a portal adjacent to it, and tossed another at the ground near where Claire was laying. He climbed through to the other side, scooped up Claire in his arms, and went back through, where they landed on the roof next to the grate. A few portals later, and TJ and Claire were sitting at the bottom of an air shaft, covered in dust but still alive. Claire was still unconscious, pretty much making her dead weight for TJ to lug around. He began to crawl through the air vents, looking for a way out, and finally found one, which he shoved open, causing it to fall to the floor of the room and make a massive crash. He tossed a portal at the floor, one at the wall next to him, and climbed through, draggin Claire behind him. he excitedly jumped up in the air as the Eyes surrounded him.

"We come in peace!" he yelled at them, making karate chop motions with his hands. "This is Claire. She's a student here and needs immediate medical attention!" TJ put Claire into an empty bed, and the Eyes began to swarm around her, getting her shirt open, EKG sensors all over her chest, and IVs in her arm in several seconds. TJ shrugged, and sat down on a chair, thinking.

"Now that," he said, kicking his feet up on a nurse's cart "was cool!"

The girl just snorted, her eyes narrowing, "Y'all really don't know anything about persuasion, now do you?" She said. "You should let someone else talk, because I ain't convinced in the least. How am I the rude one, when you're the people that just barged in and interrupted me? I wasn't waiting for someone to drop by and tell me it was safe. I was here because I didn't want to be found by anyone. I'm a person that likes being alone, without disruptions, so I'm gonna say this only once: unless you people can convince me you're trustworthy, I ain't joining." She finished, folding her arms.

Toby walked past Drake, and gave her a quick look, his face serious, "Well, I can't really explain this guy's behavior, I just met him, but I do think I know you from somewhere. You're Bones, right? I think someone told me you designed the textiles for our costumes at the Drama Club." Sandy raised one eyebrow at this, "Toby, you know her?" She asked. Toby glanced back at her, "Well, not officially, I might not even have the right person, but considering the ballpoint drawings on her hand, I'd say it's either her, or someone with a striking resemblance." The girl seemed to tug her sleeve a bit further down, as everyone's attention focused on her left hand, which was covered in intricate black designs. She was unable to hide, however, the ugly white scar, which seemed to be raised in the center of her palm. "It's really pretty," Nicole said, her voice a bit apologetic, "But what happened to your hand?" She asked. "I can't tell you that." Bones replied quickly. "Well, that doesn't really matter," Toby cut in. "The point is, we didn't intend to disturb you, we were looking for other survivors. We would really appreciate it if you joined our group, but as said earlier, you don't have to if you'd rather not. If you're not sure, you can follow us around for awhile and decide later, it doesn't have to be a permanent decision."

At this, Bones smiled, just slightly, "Okay, then, I'll give it a shot, but I'm leaving if I don't like it." She said. Toby then allowed himself to smile back and wag his tail, "Great!" He said. He then turned to Nicole, "So, did you smell anyone else on the way here?" Nicole winced at this, "Well, I think I did, but at the same time, I'm not sure..." Toby frowned at this, "How?" He asked. "Well, it smelled like it was alive, but at the same time, it was almost as though the person I was smelling was rotting, there was infection and bacteria, fresh blood and old blood that had began to curdle. Also, reptiles, like snakeskin or something, although I thought I smelled smoke like from a campfire, too. Dragons, maybe?" She shuddered, "I don't know if we should look for them, I might have just smelled a dead body." Bones frowned at this, "For once, I ain't jealous of someone else' powers right now." Sandy looked at her, "What is your power?" She asked. "Can we please focus on the current matter at hand here?" Bones asked, dodging the question. Within a few moments, it seemed that Sandy, Nicole, and Toby had integrated Bones into the group.

Johnny's group

Lemontea was slightly annoyed by Carole's actions. She turned the crowbar into mist... but restored the gun and was handing it to Johnny. Someone who had no use for it. It was rather annoying seeing that one of her tools were just destroyed for little reason. She'll have to go out and find another one just in case she needs it during their hospital operation. For now, Lemontea kept her mouth shut.

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Here you go!" She said happily "By the way, you don't need an explosion. Anything you want to break through I can turn into smoke. I also know a perfect way to relax a bit. Follow me".

Now we know what that head of yours is full of... Lemontea thought, before smirking slightly. She turned back to her serious deposition, "That's an excellent alternative to bombs. Just that I still think we should go in through the sub-basement. If you want to make this place a hide-out it's best that you use the road that no one likes." Lemontea suggested.

When Carole presented the gun to Johnny, he grabbed it and tossed it hard as he could into the bushes, "We don't need the gun. Get rid of it" Before he started walking away. Now that he has Carole on his side, he was going to forgo the unnecessary explosion. All he needed to do was get Sylvia help before her arm falls off, find Gabe and chase anyone out of there that was conscious. With everyone's resources working together, they can pull this off. The group followed Carole through the dorms into the room of a individual he's never heard of before. Taylor. She had an interesting room, Johnny could say. ((Putting my charries in places, if you don't mind)) Sylvia sat down on the nearest chair, while Jake stood by the door ready to craft an illusion if someone cooks up trouble. Lemontea sat down in the corner quiet. Johnny stood next to Carole, who was speaking with Taylor.

Drake

Drake showed no emotion during the exchange between the four people. He was annoyed by Bone's attitude, so he choose to let other people handle it. When they recruited her, he says, "Great... is this case closed? I kinda want to head back now...." He scratched the back of his neck again as his wounds had finally stopped hurting. He still wanted to go get that cigarette.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "So, did you smell anyone else on the way here?" Nicole winced at this, "Well, I think I did, but at the same time, I'm not sure..." Toby frowned at this, "How?" He asked. "Well, it smelled like it was alive, but at the same time, it was almost as though the person I was smelling was rotting, there was infection and bacteria, fresh blood and old blood that had began to curdle. Also, reptiles, like snakeskin or something, although I thought I smelled smoke like from a campfire, too. Dragons, maybe?" She shuddered, "I don't know if we should look for them, I might have just smelled a dead body." Bones frowned at this, "For once, I ain't jealous of someone else' powers right now." Sandy looked at her, "What is your power?" She asked.

Drake's question was immediately answered. Maybe, this fellow was that zombie that Nicole was talking about. In that case, he better be ready for one hell of a fight. No, scratch that. He wasn't in the mood for fighting anything until his wounds were mended, "I think we should call it a day..." He mutters, quietly enough so that no one hears him. No, he was going to see this entire thing through. Drake spoke again, in a hesitant and tired tone, "Yay... let's go out and try to find this fellow." He says, "Then I can have that cigarette."

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Taylor and Claire

After a long walk through the carnage, Carole knocked on Taylor's door.

"Une petit moment, s'il vous plait!" a sing-song voice said from behind the door. The sound of Taylor's high heels clicking the ground as she ran into her closet could be heard from outside, and then someone hitting the ground, as Taylor had tripped over a wire and landed face-first, though was able to recover and keep the bottle from shattering. A few moments later, she opened the door and a herd of people she'd never met before all came barging into her room.

"Zut! Ai-je dit que vous pouviez venir ici?!" Taylor yelled at them in french. Carole rolled her eyes, and greeted her friend with two french kissed on either cheek.

"My apologies for my friends' rude behavior." Carole said rather loudly "I was going to ask for a bottle of w-" Taylor slammed the door in an angry manner, though her demeanor looked a bit more nervous.

"Don't say that with the door open or every alcoholic cochon on campus will be breaking my door down!" Carole's face flushed red, and Taylor frowned.

"I'm sorry, mon bonne ami." Taylor apologized "I'm just a bit stressed out. I g-" then he caught her eye.

In the corner of her eye, Taylor caught glimpse of the most beautiful man she had ever laid eyes on. He had the most perfectly-colored caramel skin and dreamy blue eyes the likes of which the young coquette had never seen before in her life. She smiled as she took his beauty in. He wasn't perfect; no, far from it. That scar under his eye was a bit weird, but the elegance and poise with which he held himself was incredible, perhaps a sign of a rather haughty nature, but nonetheless strangely attractive to Taylor. She blushed when she realized what she was feeling. Was this that dégueulasse, cliche movie mush they called love at first sight?

"OooooohhhhH!" Carole sand out in a whispered voice. "Somebody's in lo-ove!" Taylor stared daggers are Carole, but then looked back, trying to be as inconspicuous as possible as she stared at the beautiful boy they called Jonathan K. Valos. She blushed, and decided to break the ice with her favorite ice-breaker; alcohol.

"Une moment, amis!" Taylor sang out, walking past Johnny and to the closet with as much refined grace and poise as possible. When she got into the closet, she closed the door behind herself held her hands tight against her chest. She giggled as quietly as she could, and her face turned fifty shades of red. She walked back to the fire extinguisher console/wine rack and grabbed one bottle of Pinot Noir, as well as a bottle of white wine and six glasses. She put the glasses on a little-used serving tray and walked back out, gracefully putting the tray on top of the table. As she poured the Pinot Noir into the glasses, she nonchalantly tried to break the ice.

"So, amis" she said in that same voice with the same french accent "since you are so quick to indulge in my hospitality, may I at least know the names of my guests?" She walked over to each person and handed them a glass of wine, saving her most precious, gold-trimmed glass for Johnny. When he wasn't looking, she put just the slightest bit of Absolut Vodka in his glass to attempt and warm him up to her a bit, though she hoped that this tactic was not needed. Taylor was tired of having to get boys to like her by getting them drunk or in bed. For once, she hoped that she could get this boy just by being herself. She handed him the cup, and then reclined on her water bed in the most fashionable position she could, using her powers to make the glass levitate a few inches from her.

Johnny, Sylvia, Jake and Lemontea

Maxx Toron wrote:: "So, amis" she said in that same voice with the same french accent "since you are so quick to indulge in my hospitality, may I at least know the names of my guests?"

"Johnny."

"Sylvia."

"Jake."

"Lemontea."

Everyone told Taylor their own names. Quickly and in order.

Johnny took one good look at Taylor and started reading her emotions. She was feeling great love, for him he knew that she was feeling these emotions for him. The way she looked at him. The way she walked around him. He felt like returning the feelings, but he was a bit more concerned with the where-about of Gabe. He'd rather wait until the hospital search. Which would be going on now as planned if Claire hadn't showed up stirred trouble. Though, it was rather surprising that she was already in love with him. He grabbed the golden cup he was presented with and took a few sips of it, only taking in a few ounces at a time. Jake and Lemontea on the other hand, didn't drink. Both of them rested their glasses on the nearest surface and said, "No thanks." At the same time.

Johnny smirks and says, "What? Can't handle your liquor? This is rather exquisite... You have good taste in wine, better than the half assed beer you can find at any underaged party." He laughed slightly, "But, I'd rather that we cut the small talk. I can read you like a card; you got the hots for ol' Johnny..." He sat down in the nearest chair and leaned forward. Sylvia was drinking the wine that Jake and Lemontea had rejected, after she drank her own. She should have the right to drink now of all times. She drunk Jake's wine in one long sip. She walked over to Johnny and grabbed his wine out of his hand, before chugging that down. Johnny didn't really care about the alcohol. He needed to at least be the one that's sober.

"I see that my younger sister enjoys your drinks... Hmph." He nonchalantly says to Taylor.

Taylor and Carole

"I see." Somehow, though she wasn't sure, taylor was able to keep her cool despite Johnny reading her emotions. She was more intrigued by him because of that; though him probing her private thoughts was a little disturbing. She shifted nervously a bit, and sipped at her wine glass. When Sylvia grabbed Johnny's wine, Taylor snapped her fingers, and her bottles of wine rose to the ceiling, far out of Sylvia's hands.

"Can't have you drinking all of my wine, ma cherie." Taylor jested "It's tres couteux to get into this school". she took another sip of her own wine, and made the bottles land next to her on the bed. She smirked, and continued drinking. Carole leaned up against one of the fish tanks, and looked over to Lemontea.

"So Lemon." She began, not wanting things to fall into an awkward silence "Why exactly do people call you that? Childhood nickname or something?" Taylor, meanwhile, was trying not to look at Johnny, hoping she'd be able to cut off his powers somehow.

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Johnny's Group

Maxx Toron wrote:: "So Lemon." She began, not wanting things to fall into an awkward silence "Why exactly do people call you that? Childhood nickname or something?"

Lemontea cringed at being called Lemon. It makes her sound rather cartoonish, she was more than fine with just being called tea. But, not Lemon. She had this nick-name since she was a child, and still uses it to this very day. Either way she ignored it. Then answered the question, "Yeah. Had this nick name since I was a little girl. Used to drink so much tea that they just started calling me that... Tea..." She looked back to a time when her life wasn't so grim. When she didn't have these scars on her face. When she wasn't relying on her sheer survival instincts and had a simple life. Fck that, I'm getting tired of looking back. She thought to herself as she tensed up visibility on the ground where she sat. Lemontea wasn't lying to herself when she said that she wasn't one of them. Nor did she want to be. This was merely a professional relationship, she wasn't going to sit around and get drunk off her ass when they should be planning on how to get into the hospital. She stood straight up with an annoyed look on her heavily scarred face, "Listen. I didn't come here to listen to your awkward teeny drama bullshit. I came here to help with your little mission, nothing else. If we aren't going to do that then it's best that I mosey along, and try to score another crowbar."

Johnny noticed that Taylor's emotional state went to a rather disturbed. Likely because he told her that he can read her emotions. To Johnathon, reading emotions was no more different than looking at the clothes a person wears. It surrounds them, and gives him insight to their personality and mood. So, that he knows what to do next. In more serious situations, he's also learned how to tell if someone's going to attack. He didn't address this however, putting his attention on Lemontea, "C'mon, Lemontea. Don't go. Um, yes let's discuss our glorious mission into the hospital." He leaned forward into his chair before snapping his fingers, "Jake. Will you go the honors...?" Jake nodded his head and snapped his fingers.

"Sure thing." An illusion appeared which is an exact replica of the school's hospital. It was in front of Johnny and intangible. Nobody could touch it. Johnny smirked as he collected his plan into his head that he got during the long walk here. Everyone dropped what they were doing and payed attention to it.

"In a few hours we will sneak in the hospital through a hidden panel, which hopefully exists. Okay, the plan has two objectives: First and foremost; find Gabe. Next, we need to check the building top to bottom, down to every nook and cranny to make sure that the hospital is secure. Though, both objectives can be done at the same time. The hospital is at least five floors high, so we'll be split up into two teams to search the place. We'll all search the first floor before the split, and also put Sylvia in one of the rooms because she needs a check up more than anyone...." Johnny states his plan blankly.

Before getting a pouty face from Sylvia, "Go screw yourself...." She mutters while looking up at the wine bottle, before looking at Taylor, "You know I can fly really fast, right?"

"Come on, Syl. That's not a very nice burn..." He mutters before continuing on with his plan, "... Anywhooo, after we're done with the first floor, Lemontea and myself will search the second and third floors. While Jake and Carole will search the forth, the fifth and the roof if necessary." Jake immediately looked at Carole. He was going to be working with her... even after the incident at the detention center, he had little faith in her. Johnny intentionally put Carole with Jake in his plan, because he trusted Carole to freak out at the slightest provocation and he didn't want to be near it. Jake knows what to do with his illusions. Besides, Johnny wanted to personally keep an eye on Lemontea. No matter what illusions he crafts, Jake won't know when she's going to strike. Johnny can, because as long as he keeps her in his sights he can detect the violence rise in her heart and react accordingly. There's also the fact that he can detect emotional presences from a distance in case he loses sight of her. He didn't want to find Jake's unconscious body in the hallway.

Johnny continued on with explaining his plans, "You all have an hour to fulfill your duties. If you find Gabe tell her to go to the first floor and continue scouting the place. If you by any chance run into trouble, then come to me--- That reminds me, Sylvia if you find even the slightest trace of trouble then you should do your thing... Make noise, and we'll come a running and shove our fists up it's ass!" Johnny started laughing, he more or less explained his plan. Of course he knew that the plan would not go as expected. Which is why he has his own back up plan, he stood straight up and said, "Did everyone get that?!"

"Yes." Lemontea said before sitting back down in the corner, "If we're done here. Then I'm going to go out and score another crowbar."

"Yeah," Jake said before the illusion of the hospital faded away, "I think I'm going to see if my room's still in one piece and relax..."

"I don't feel like being yer' guard dog... But, it's for your 'other' sister." Sylvia shrugs.

"Good. We'll meet in front of the hospital around 7." With his team in on his plan then the chances have increased, just needs Carole, and maybe Taylor. Then Johnny thought about adding Taylor to the group. The only role he had in mind for her is babysit their entrance/exit. "You in Taylor? We need plenty of people in our group as we can. I'd really appreciate it because... I have to know if she's there...." He said this in a sad tone, just to attempt to manipulate Taylor.

Jia-li and Lily

"Are you sure?" Lily said. Peeking around the corner into Taylor's room. Lily had initially followed Taylor from the lunch room, until she was intercepted by Jia-li.

"Positive. I can... sense him." Jia-li was standing a few feet away from Lily appearing nonchalant.

"What's so special about them?" Lily asks

"One of them.... has... great darkness in them. More than I've ever seen before." Jia-li answers. She detected a great amount of darkness in one of them--- So much that she could easily pick out this one's darkness in the crowd. She wanted to find out this person so that she can warn the group. This meant that the person she was detecting has committed atrocities on the level of complete monsters; African warlords, remorseless serial killers, cold hitmen. That means that this person must be found and possibly dealt with immediately..

"That means...?" Lily asks again.

"Means that they're overwhelmingly evil." Jia-li blankly answers.

"Ooooh...." Lily was curious to see this person.

Taylor and Carole

Carole stepped back a little bit with the sourness of Lemon, and handed her glass of wine to Sylvia so she'd stop whining. Carole instead grabbed a glass from out of the closet and poured herself a white wine, which taylor dropped down from the ceiling. Carole looked down at her shoes, and audibly gasped. They were absolutely hideous.

"Tay, can I borrow a pair of shoes?" she asked "I cannot live with these things on my feet!" Taylor looked at her with a narrow, piercing stare, and rolled her eyes.

"Go ahead, cherie." she said "But flats. I don't want you taking my heels like you did last time I let you borrow a pair! I had to throw out a Dior originale because of that!" Carole cutely nodded a thank-you, and went into the closet.

"Cri de joie." Taylor muttered "There are days when I'd like to lock her in there". she looked up at Johnny, and the puppydog eyes killed her. She wasn't a sap like Carole, though; she wouldn't sit there and go "awwwww....." like he was a puppy, but those beautiful brown eyes ripped into her heart and quelled any chance of refusal, not that she wanted to. It got boring sitting in her room all day, flipping through magazines and playing with her fish.

"Oui, I'm in." Taylor smoothly said, following it with a slow drink from her glass. She looked over at Sylvia the alcohol hound, and slowly lowered one of the bottles from the ceiling.

"My room is a no-fly zone." she said, rather reluctantly "You may have some more, but if you chug that thing it will literally kill you, and I don't want a corpse in the middle of my room". Taylor sat down her glass on the nightstand, and caused it to turn eerily hot; not quite boiling, but hot enough to burn Sylvia if she tried to drink it. Taylor removed the tray from the table, sitting it down on the bed, and took a seat, stretching out her long legs in Johnny's direction in an attempt to arouse him. She was no feeling-checker, but he didn't seem nearly as interested as she'd like. The idea of doing something bad and breaking into the hospital made Taylor feel all silly inside, as if she were a child who did something bad. There usually wasn't much of a chance for her to do something fun like this, as being the millionaire golden child drew bad publicity quickly. The internet was a cruel place filled with pictures and videos of a very good woman doing very bad things. Faked or not, however, Taylor usually had a reputation to hold up in a sea of mass media piranha, and finally being able to do something bad for a change without it getting thrown on the front page of the National Inquirer was sweet relief.

"So, what now?" Taylor nonchalantly asked to no one in particular "We all just sit here and drink all my wine for seven hours?"

Carole, meanwhile, was feeling rather badly about taking Lemontea's crowbar all of a sudden. Her face flushed red as she slipped into a pair of cute brown and red sandals. SHe strapped them up, and looked in the full-length mirror at the end of the closet, next to the wine rack. She took a compact out of her purse and adjusted her makeup slightly, and couldn't help but savor the moment a bit.

"bem oi lá sexy!" she flirted with the mirror in Portuguese "você está procurando fabuloso hoje". she giggled, sure that nobody would have been able to hear her from the other side of the door, and walked out, spinning in place. Taylor rolled her eyes and put her head back on a pillow. Some days Carole just killed her.

"Oh, and Tea," Carole said "Here's your crowbar back!" She concentrated really hardly on the air in front of her, as well as the nearby water, and with a good bit of difficulty created what more or less looked like a crowbar out of thin air. "Just don't kill me with it, okay?"

Johnny's Group

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Oh, and Tea," Carole said "Here's your crowbar back!" She concentrated really hardly on the air in front of her, as well as the nearby water, and with a good bit of difficulty created what more or less looked like a crowbar out of thin air. "Just don't kill me with it, okay?"

Lemontea grabbed the crowbar that Carole had created for her and examined it. It did feel like the real thing, which was close enough for her. She unzipped her bag slightly enough for her to slide her crowbar into it. "Thank you, Carole. This really helps." That saves her some time searching the sub-basement for the replacement. With that done she better take some time to prepare. She just spent a few minutes too long in here. These people were quite different from her. Which was something she was willing to accept with open arms. For now she was going to depart, "Alright I'm about done here. I'm going to be at the meeting spot." Before she quickly walked out of the room before anyone could even respond. She virtually disappeared after.

Johnny felt like he should go too. Let them do their thing. While Taylor's room was nice, he felt like his room was much better. A few seconds after Lemontea left Johnny says to Taylor, "Alright.... We should go too. We need to suit up for this. Thank you for letting us go along" Before Johnny walked out of the room, followed by Jake and Sylvia. They met down the hallway (not before Lily and Jia-li could find another vantage point) in a few minutes. Johnny looked back to Taylor's room. "... Alright-y then. Ya'll know the plan?"

"Yeah." Jake says

"Right." Sylvia says.

Johnny smirks, "Alright, I'll be quick. Only the three of us will know these details, and this is purely situational... If by any chance anything goes wrong with our plan that prevents you from doing your thing; then leave behind your partners and get the hell out of there, no matter what the hell is going on it is crucial for ya'll to leave the place. Got it? Cuz' I ain't gon' repeat it, correct?" He blankly states, "Sylvia, after half an hour and you don't see Gabe, I want you to set it off.... Purely to attract her and everyone else's attention." This was all so that if anything goes wrong he doesn't lose his other two siblings regardless of what's going on.

It felt like Johnny was being a bit too harsh in Jake's eyes, "No matter what happens I will not leave Carole behind..." He narrows his eyes at Johnny, who returned the looks.

"This is for you and your safety... But, whatever. Do what you want. I can't stop you." He tried not to show that he cared too much. It was expected that Jake would react this way.

While Sylvia says "Sure!" Gleefully as she possibly can.

Prompting laughter from Johnny, "Now that's the spirit." Before he scrolls off. He wanted to find his room now. Jake continued looking at him silently. He could not believe his eyes or ears that somebody could be so selfish. Then he peered at Sylvia with a disgusted look. Now that Johnny was gone he decided to disappear. He'd rather leave it at this, and leave. In a moment, Jake was invisible, then he was gone. Sylvia promptly left by walking away.

Jia-li and Lily were watching from another Hallway, "Him."

Lily asks, "What?"

"The boy in the brown... there's great darkness in his heart...."

((And.... Timeskip!))

Hospital Group

7:18 Pm; The Hospital

Lemontea was pacing back and forth in front of the hospital. She had arrived here minutes ago after scavenging the equipment she needed. If they are late then she's going to leave here and never come back to them and their stupid problems. She was wearing the same thing as before, with her back pack slung over her shoulder and the crowbar sticking out. She smiled, and turned away. Right now she can leave and stay out of this stupid raid, who knows what terrors could be packed into there.... But, if Johnny's going to make this place (the most heavily defended place in the Othergrounds that they can access) their HQ then she better stick along. They better show up... "Why are you looking so... Chalant?" An outside, but familiar voice states.

Behind Lemontea, Jake appeared. Wearing the same clothing as before, except without the coat. For mobility purposes. Lemontea poked him in the chest, "Don't do that, Jake." She ordered, "I don't like surprises... Especially invisible ones."

Jake laughs and put on an bemused facial expression, "C'mon, Tea. It was just a..."

"Don't screw with me, rich boy. I'll hand your ass to you." Lemontea aggressively responds, poking him in the chest harder.

"Sup, fags." Sylvia says, while slowly lowering her altitude to the ground. She changed her clothes to a more fitting stealth assault at night. Except her outfit was rather impractical when she realizes that black stands out in a white hallway. Sylvia had changed into a black leather hoodie jacket, with fur surrounding the hood. Short black track shorts with a tan-stripe at each side. Finally, she wore black leather knee-high boots. Of course with her trade-mark large sunglasses and white headphones around her neck. "I would have been here on time but I had to get some more alone time--- if you know what I mean."

Jake shrugged, "You know that outfit will make you stick out like a sore thumb, right? Haha." He says before laughing. Getting a light punch to the shoulder from Sylvia.

Lemontea shakes her head and says, "Know where your brother is? He's supposed to be leading this operation." Before looking around.

"Hold your applause. The pimp of the year has arrived." Johnny struts in like he's a king, "I had to talk down these two chicks that came out of no where." He was wearing the same outfit as before.

"Who?" Jake asks

"Dunno, some Spanish and Asian chick.... heh, one of them was hot, the other was not." Johnny started laughing, "Apparently, the new arrivals that we heard were coming survived, and they got quite a sizable group with them..." He looks back at the Dorms building, "... Perhaps after we're done we can pick apart the strong from the weak and add them to our faction."

Jake shrugs, "Where's Taylor and Carole?"

"Who the f*ck knows? They're probably out doing their hair or eating each other out." Johnny says

"They better hurry up," Lemontea starts off appearing heavily anxious, "We are not going to wait for them any longer..." She was very impatient, but they need to regard her as the most important member of this group. She knows how to get inside of the hospital and knows quite a bit about the school and all it's buildings.

Johnny looks around, "M'kay, let's give them five minutes before moving on."

Taylor and Carole

As if on que, Taylor walked out from behind the corner, with Carole following close behind. Taylor was wearing the same white blouse with rose trim as before, but with a pair of white leggings instead, and white tennis shoes instead of heels. Her silver beret was sitting on top of her head, and she was wearing a white knapsack filled with water bottles. Carole, who didn't have anything she'd even remotely call stealthy, wore a pink dress with the same pair of sandals that Taylor had given her earlier. She wasn't too worried about being caught or anything; she assumed that anything in the building was going to be either injured or unconscious.

Taylor looked at Sylvia's clothing and laughed.

"You do realize that the inside of the hospital is white, right ma cherie?" she chuckled as she took out some black eye liner and a compact. She drew two black lines under her eyes, like football players do, in order to improve her vision. However, halfway through her second eye, she stopped. The reflection of her compact mirror caught a sight she didn't want to see; a stone angel atop Sparrowdale Tower. The sun was setting, and if they didn't get away from that angel, bad things would happen. She finished putting on the eye liner, and put the compact away. Carole rolled her eyes and leaned against the side of the hospital.

"Dude, Tay," she said "Everyone in there's going to be sick or injured. Why get all dressed up".

"And what if those soldiers had the same idea as us, huh? Vous ne pouvez jamais être trop préparé!" Carole rolled her eyed, and studied her cherry red nails out of boredom. Taylor then turned to Johnny, and smiled sweetly.

"So, are we all ready to go?" She asked him. High up above the school, the stone angel shifted. He looked down at the group in front of the hospital, and scowled angrily. Who did she think she was, strutting around like she owned the place? Oh yes, as soon as the sun went down, he would go down there and show her who the boss was. The angel got out of it's squatting position on the top of the tower, and looked over at the setting sun. it would be dark soon, and then he'd make his move.

Jacob looked at his watch. It was about 7 o'clock. He had been in his room for a few hours, until he eventually decided to do something. When the sun got low, he could use his shadow form to get onto the rooftop of the dorms. He had been sitting there for about an hour, watching everyone from below. Not one person had seen him yet. It was quite relaxing on the roof really, because nobody else was up there, and Jay really prefered it to be quiet. Now it was time to get down. If he waited too long, the sun would go down, and he wouldn't have a shadow, making it impossible to get down. He picked himself up off of the edge and stood up, closed his eyes, and started to fade away. After a few seconds, his body was completely gone. The only thing left was his shadow, already moving down the wall. Once it moved infront of the window, he didn't even need to do anything. The sun shone his shadow strait through the window into his room. Then, Jacob slowly began to appear again.

Not even knowing where he was going, Jacob went down the steps of the dorms and walked over to the door. He had spent the whole day by himself, but now he was getting bored. It was time to go and find some people. He knew that he couldn't stay alone forever. When Jacob got outside, nobody was around. If he took a walk around the entire place he would be bound to find someone.

Jacob had spent a few minutes walking when he came across a loud sound. At first he thought it was a person, but then he realized that it was music. What was happening? A party maybe? Or a concert? Maybe just someone that liked music? Curious, Jacob wandered over to where the music was coming from. Eventually he arrived at a lake. He recognized some of the new arrivals having a party or something. "Hey guys! What are you all up to?"

Act 3: The Sinners of Sparrowdale

((Almost forgot to do this))

Drake, Jia-li, Victoria and Lily

Spoiler:

After Drake had departed from Nicole's recruitment group for a moment to smoke; they had moved on without him. Which wasn't too big of a surprise. Drake went on his own way. He went back to the dorms, got patched up by Victoria, then he turned around and lead a small group to the lake for a party. First it was Drake and Victoria in the lake alone, until Lily and Jia-li showed up. For hours now they've been having fun in the Lake's beach. Drake went back to the dorms and took a large radio from one of the rooms to blast music. The group was mostly enjoying themselves, up until the night falls and the party was dying down with the four people that were partying for hours. Drake was still full of energy, and groove. Ready to continue until day break.

Drake was wearing a pair of black swimming trunks, with his leather jacket thrown over it, unbuttoned and showing his well defined abs and chest. With his tinted goggles on his forehead. He was just dancing in front of the radio, jacket flowing wildly. Right next to him was Lily, who was wearing a checkered purple and black two-piece bikini. The band in her hair making it a pony tail was gone, letting her neck-length hair flow wildly as she danced. She smiled at Drake, "Yo Blackmore, you got some moves."

"Hahahaha... I got this dancing skill at your age from girls like you!" He starts laughing, "Yeah, you don't got the rhythm, girl." He jokingly says to him.

Victoria was sitting in a large beach chair, reading a book that she found in one of the student rooms. She was wearing a bland purple, one piece bikini. She turned to the pair of them, "Will you two stop flirting? Your too old for her, Drake." She blankly says, prompting both of them to stop dancing and look at her. Before a mischievous smile crept on her face.

"Screw you, Toria." Drake laughingly says.

"Yeah, screw you." Lily follows. Before both of them start laughing and dancing.

Out of the way of the trio at the beach, Jia-li was playing in the lake water, swimming around in her black two piece bikini. She was a rather good swimmer for her age, better than most. An outside voice shouted to the group in the beach,

UltraCRAZY1 wrote:: "Hey guys! What are you all up to?"

Drake recognized the person as Jacob, he called back to him in a happy enthusiastic tone, "We're having our own little fun day at the beach! C'mon and join us! Get some swim trunks though, we don't want to see ya' swim around in your underwear, hahahahahaha."

Johnny's Group

Maxx Toron wrote:: "You do realize that the inside of the hospital is white, right ma cherie?"

Sylvia laughed in a fake, but convincing way. She was initially wearing this outfit for stealth purposes, but she was never in the hospital before so she couldn't have known, "Haha. Stealth is for pussies. I'm not even trying to hide." She was speaking to the group at large.

Maxx Toron wrote:: "And what if those soldiers had the same idea as us, huh? Vous ne pouvez jamais être trop préparé!"

Johnny smiled, "Then this goes from a stealth mission to an ass kicking mission." He says in a sarcastic stuck up tone, "In all seriousness, if the place is being held by the soldiers then we're calling off the mission and heading to my room for a... change of plans." He looked at everyone.

"Now, can we get a move on? I hate to break it to ya' but time is money." Lemontea says. Johnny looked at everyone in his little raid group, they were ready. He was born ready.

"Alright, Lemontea, lead the way." Johnny pointed at the hospital, "Let's get this show on the road!" Johnny was trying to keep Lemontea in his line of sight at all times just so he can at least tell if this is one big trap.

"Right." Lemontea started walking away, with the group following her. She walked to a spot behind the hospital, on the ground there was a circle that looked suspiciously like a poorly hidden man-hole. She slide her crowbar into it, quickly prying it open. Before she climbed down, expecting the group to follow.

"Oh hell no! I'm not climbing into some sh*t hole." Sylvia crosses her arms and looks away in disgust.

"Well, look at it like this honey," Lemontea said while climbing deeper, "Would you rather stay out here alone...?"

Johnny and Jake looked at Sylvia and started smiling a mile wide, "Oh well." Johnny says in an elated tone before climbing down into the man-hole.

"See ya' later, Sylvia. We'll tell you all about our adventure." Jake says sarcastically before climbing down into the man hole.

Sylvia growled and looked around the area, every single direction was checked by Sylvia. It was dark and scary, she eventually caved in, "Guys, don't leave me here!" She said in a frightened tone, before jumping down into the hole. Riding the soundwaves allowing her to safely float to the bottom. ((Minor powerplaying here)) Carole and Taylor followed behind. Jake created an orb of light in front of Lemontea, and behind those in the back of the group to provide vision. Johnny followed Lemontea through the metallic and scary tunnels of the Sub-basement. There was a good reason to why people don't come down here. First, the Headmaster said that students aren't allowed down here, and the place was spooky. Only the brave or the stupid dared coming down here. They were a mix of both right now. The risks that Johnny was willing to take for a ghost of a chance that his younger sister could be here. Everyone could get lost and die while down here, or they can get into the hospital and find out that it's full of soldiers. Johnny's train of sight was stopped when Lemontea stopped and pointed up.

"We're here." She was looking up at a panel. This panel was large and obvious from underground, but invisible from above ground. On top of the panel was several tiles, and lead into the Hospital's lobby. All they had to do was get it down, "We have two roads here; blow it open, or have smoke girl turn it into smoke. I think we'll go with the latter for the sake of subtly."

That reminded Johnny, "Carole, please don't destroy this. This will be the door to my HQ. Is everyone else ready? Do I have to go through our plan?"

"Nope." Sylvia quickly says.

"I got all of it."

"Yeah, I know. Let's just get this over with."

Gabriela and...

Coming soon....

Carole and Taylor

Taylor and Carole followed the group down the manhole, both rather repulsed. Carole stepped across the ground hesitantly, trying to avoid stepping on anything, especially a rat. Carole hated rats more than anything, except for skorts.

"Okay, if a rat gets anywhere near me, I'm done!" Taylor shot her an unpleasant look, and Carole stepped back a bit. "Well, someone's a little angry".

"Just melt the damn door already. We don't have all day". Carole rolled her eyes, muttered "Fine!" and stepped towards the door. She went into her purse and took out a yellow and black object with a digital screen on the front; a Geiger counter.

"If this thing starts getting really loud, run." She said, handing it to Lemontea. She turned back to the panel; big, metallic, and foreboding. She took a long, deep breath, blowing it out carefully and controlled in an attempt to gather her mind. She concentrated on the panel, and extended her hands. A loud rumbling began to fill the air, and the floor began to shake as she concentrated harder and harder on the massive panel. She began to shake as well, and Taylor took several steps back. The Geiger counter began to slowly, quietly begin to tick as Carole closed her eyes and the room began to shake more and more. The wall on one side of the room cracked clean in two, and the ceiling began to moan ominously. Finally, the loud hissing of steam echoed through the underground, and the door started to grow thinner and thinner as it was turned into pure water vapor. Finally, in one big puff of smoke, the tiles and panel vanished into steam, revealing the hospital lobby. Taylor looked up at the vapor, and it transformed into a ball of water about the size of a volleyball. It began to float around her in an orbit. Carole fell backwards, and Taylor used the water to cushion her fall.

"Ugh," Carole moaned as she slowly started to get back up. "I've never done anything as hard as that before." She stumbled forward drunkenly, and face planted in front of the tile. Luckily, a rat chose to run past her face at that exact moment, and Carole leapt into the air so high that she though she would hit the ceiling. She screamed, and the rat squealed as it disintegrated.

"Well," Carole said, regaining her cool "That's, um, new. Let's go". She marched into the hospital lobby, and waited for the others. Taylor looked down at the rat cautiously.

"c'est très certainement mauvais." she muttered before walking into the lobby herself.

Johnny's Group

"Wait a second." Immediately once the panel went down then Jake casted an intangible illusion that made the panel appear where it should be and that all is well. He then turned himself (and Carole) invisible and stepped through the illusion. "Don't just walk out there." A voice says from in front of Carole. In a few minutes, he appeared again. He just did a brief scouting to tell if there's soldiers or anything else in the hospital, he then turned visible, along with making Carole visible. "Alright, this floor is clear of soldiers, I'm not too sure about the upper floors." Before he started looking around. Johnny, followed by Lemontea and Sylvia started stepping through the illusion. The hospital's lobby was a very large room, that lead into several different hallways. In the center of the room was a large brown ebony-wood desk. On the back wall was three elevators that everyone would need to use.

"Dammit, Carole. I told you not to destroy it...." He facepalmed and blew a puff of air out from in between his lips, "Jake, can you keep that illusion going...?"

"Yeah." Jake says.

"Alright. Sylvia, Taylor, you know your tasks: Check around this floor for Gabe and anything else nasty before you start guarding this door. Jake, Carole, you two go to the upper floors to check. Me and Lemontea will scout around the middle floors. Anything goes wrong, come back here and leave through our little convenient exit. Okay? Go."

Johnny started walking towards the elevator following by Lemontea, he pressed the up button on the elevator and the door opened. "Don't die, please." Johnny said as he stepped through the door, with Lemontea at his side. The door closed and he went up.

Jake shrugged and started walking towards the next elevator, "You comin'?" He said back to Carole.

Sylvia looked at Taylor and said, "Ready when you are, booze-girl."

TJ and Claire

TJ was awoken by a shaking sensation, as if he were in the middle of an earthquake. He jumped up quickly, not realizing that his feet were still propped up on a nurse's cart. The cart fell over, and he face planted on the white tile floor. Claire was more or less awake, and she was laying there in what looked like a drunken stupor, due to the amount of anesthesia the eyes had put her on. She was now wearing a white hospital gown in place of what she was wearing before and her head was bandaged, as well as her ears. She began to laugh weakly at TJ falling on his face, and looked around a bit, frowning.

"They changed my clothes while I was out." she loudly shouted "Perverts". She rather lazily tried to get out of the bed with a silly grin on her face, but TJ put her back.

"This isn't funny Claire!" he snapped at her as she got back into bed "Someone's in the hospital. I'm gonna go have a look around. Stay here. Pretend to be asleep or something!" Claire giggled.

"Oh alright Doc. Have fun in the TARDIS..." She was suddenly stricken with a great amount of drowsiness, and fell asleep almost instantly.

"Damn Anesthesia..." TJ muttered as he walked to the elevator. He hit the down button, and threw a portal into the back of the elevator as soon as it opened. He hit the ground floor button, and put another portal on the doors as soon as they closed. He walked over to a fire extinguisher that was hanging on the wall, and picked it up, brandishing it as if it were a club, in case he needed to defend himself.

Carole and Taylor

"I'll put the panel back up when I get the strength," Carole retorted to Johnny "but you can't exactly expect me to turn several hundred pounds of metal and concrete into steam and then turn it back!" Carole frowned angrily, and followed Jake.

"He thinks I can just make magic fingers at whatever the Hell he want me to and it magically becomes perfect! I'm not a damn wizard, you know! If I did what he wanted we'd all get cancer and die!" She angrily walked over to the second elevator, and hit the up button. The elevator came down, and hit the ground floor. The doors opened to reveal TJ, who jumped back, surprised, and began to spray the portal with the fire extinguisher! Carole screamed and fell backwards, landing on her back on the tile floor.

"Get the H-Carole?" TJ stopped blowing with his fire extinguisher, and jumped through the portal. "Carole, you scared the Hell outta me!" Carole, meanwhile, just glared at him as if she were a cat he had just drenched with water.

"Do that again." Carole said, wiping the chemical foam off her face "And I will personally kick your ass." She grabbed the fire extinguisher and turned it into a block of solid lead. TJ dropped with with its heaviness, and it busted one of the tiles on the floor into pieces.

"Well, this is awkward." he laughed.

Taylor, meanwhile, had already began walking down a nearby hallway, (minor Powerplay) with Sylvia trailing close behind her. She heard some commotion and shrieking, courtesy of Carole, and rolled her eyes obnoxiously.

"Imbécile." she muttered. She turned to Sylvia, and said; "So do you want to get an eye to check out whatever's wrong with you before we continue? I can handle myself alone for a bit if you think you need to". The orb of water continued to orbit Taylor's waist, at the ready to strike if anyone unfriendly showed up.

Gabriela and...

Gabriela M. Valos was among the few students that managed to get into the hospital. Only because she was among the group of students that decided to fight against their aggressors. Only to quickly fail once they realized what they were up against. Extremely trained individuals versus a group of mere amateurs wasn't a very fair fight to begin with. However, Gabe knew when to cut her loses and run her ass off when things weren't going too well. When her allies started to fall more than his enemies she was the first to go. Fortunately, she was close to the hospital when it happened. Unfortunately, she was shot with a stray taser dart in the shoulder, and dropped to her knees unconscious at the door. This moment she knew she was going to die, existence be damned, there were no second chances. Gabriela cursed herself for being so weak that she went down in one taser shot. Once she hit the ground unconscious she said one big, "Goodbye.." To her family, friends and this existence. Thankfully a kind student who survived managed to drag her inside with the help of the Eyes. She slowly awakened on the fifth floor of the hospital. First thing she sees once she opens her two eyes is the bright glare of the lights above her. After she regained her senses, she realized that she was alive. She slowly felt her shoulder where she was shot with the taser and looked around as she stood up on the bed.

The next thing she realized was that she was naked. The clothes that she was wearing before was neatly rested on the table next to her bed. Being overlooked by an Eye. She noticed that there was smoke coming out of the Eye as it's glass appeared to melt. The Eye dropped to the ground, shattered. Despite the minor tragedy of destroying her Doctor Eye, this was a great thing. That means her Fire Heart has not been extinguished yet. This means that she still has all her fire powers. That means that she can defend herself from attack. "Bloody hell..." Gabe says to herself in a heavy British accent as she clenches the area where she was shot with a dart. She got up from out of the bed and walked over to her desk, stark naked, before putting on her outfit. While her clothes were very dirty; there was no way in hell that she's going to wander around the halls naked. Putting on a show for a pervy soldier or teenager that survived. Gabe was wearing a long Gothic-style long coat that went down to her heels, unbuttoned with a small black t-shirt under it. That showed a bit of her midriff. A black striped skirt, with shorts visible under (to preserve her modesty if she has to kick anyone). She wore black sneakers. Finally, she had large hoop ear-rings around her ears, and several necklaces around her neck. While it was not the best outfit for fighting, more of showing off her style. It will have to do until she gets back to her room--- "F*ck... Jake, Johnny... She had no idea where they are, or if they're even alive.

There was no choice to try and find out. Hoping that there isn't any soldiers running around, or anyone else trying to attack her. Hopefully she'll be able to take down any hostiles with her fire heart. She walked out the room cautiously. With a bit of a hop in her step. She wandered around the fifth floor of the hospital. Most of the rooms were empty barring students that were injured, in shock or still unconscious. It was sad to see them in this state, but she had to move on. As she walked, out of no where a voice softly says from exactly behind her, "Excuse me, miss---" Gabe only had one thing in mind, an attacker. Her right arm immediately started to glow with a bright orange heat. Black smoke came from this burning limb as she quickly swung around for one punch. She increased the air friction around her arm so that fire came from her hand as it moved. Moments before the punch could connect, her hand was parried by two blood colored swords (That looks like this, except blood colored) in an X. Her hand had hit the dull sides of the sword, so that she was not cut.

The person stopping her punch was none other than the Blood Artist of the Academy Jack Cooper, or better known as Hunter. He looked paranoid and hopeless as ever. Wandering the halls for hours looking for an exit, or at least someone conscious. "I am unaware of what happened here that put so many in here..." He blankly states as he pushes her back a few feet with one good shove from his blades, "But, I am an ally to the school. A soul in a shell, with no intention of harming another."

"Why the hell should I trust you, a stranger coming out of no where!" Gabe shouts, "Especially when you tried to stab me in the back with those bloody swords!" Before charging Hunter by super heating her leg with the same orange glow, with smoke coming out of her leg as well.

"These are my protection from... shocked individuals like yourself." Hunter looks at both of his swords before taking steps back as Gabe blindly swings her arm and leg at him. All these attacks managed to miss because Hunter has refined reflexes, and he was predicting her next attacks because of her glowing limbs. "You must calm down--- I only wanted to ask you a question..."

"What the hell is it!?" Gabe shouts before jumping up into the air and attempting to kick Hunter, leaving herself wide open for attacks. If Hunter really wanted to; he could impale her with his swords and be on his way. He wasn't a killer... at least not anymore--- He's an artist. Only for Hunter to side-step the attack and take the opportunity to strike Gabriela. He hit her hard as he could in the stomach with the hilt of his sword, knocking the wind out of her and causing her to fall backwards. Before she could get back up, Hunter was standing over her and had a sword pointed at her throat. He wasn't going to take any risks, especially with her ability to super-heat her body. "Do not make a move."

"Don't kill me..." Gabriela mutters

"I wasn't. I was hoping for a peaceful resolution to this conflict. I only wanted to know how do you think you and I survived this?"

"I don't know." Gabe hesitantly responds.

"The answer is that it was up to fate itself to weave the destinies of the students. Fortunately, your time isn't here yet." Hunter steps over her and rests his blade at his side, "I just want you to know that I never intended to harm you... Those glowing limbs let me tell which body parts you were going to use to attack me. Maybe the next person you fight, won't be merciful.."

"Okay there, weirdo." Gabe hisses as she stands up. She kept her body super heated in case he tries to attack her, "I need to find a way out of here... there's people I need to find out there." She looks at the iron-shielded window.

"... I think it's better if we stay inside. If the hospital in under lockdown that means they're keeping something out... or in. We both should hope that it's out." Hunter says as he turns around and walks down another hallway.

"But, didn't you see the soldiers out there?! They will find a way in eventually!"

"They will get in if we give them an entrance." Hunter says while walking over. Only infuriating Gabe more. This whole situation was rather odd, this person was even more odd. For some reason Gabe felt like she was warming up to him. While she had initially thought that he was going to kill her, now that he spared her she felt like he was on her side, or something along the lines of that. In any case she should stick with him, he seems to be a competent fighter (better than her) and he was the only other person conscious in here.

"Hey, wait up!"

Jake

Maxx Toron wrote:: "He thinks I can just make magic fingers at whatever the Hell he want me to and it magically becomes perfect! I'm not a damn wizard, you know! If I did what he wanted we'd all get cancer and die!"

When Carole was fussing about what Johnny said to her, Jake merely put his hands in his pockets and said, "Mhm" While keeping his attention on her. He could honestly care less about her complaints about Johnny. If she has a problem with what Johnny said then she should take it up with him. He listened quietly until the elevator door opened and revealed a TJ. Naturally, Jake didn't know that it was TJ at first--- All he thought of was a soldier ready to kill. The first thing that he did was jump out of the way and turned invisible using his illusions. Completely forgetting about Carole in the process. When he realized that it was TJ, he stayed invisible as he regained his composure. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his expensive golden pocket watch and examined the time, before he appeared before TJ. The one thing that he remembered about Johnny's plan was that they were supposed to run out anyone conscious in the hospital. Jake wasn't going to follow through with this plan, "Hi, TJ. What are you doing in the hospital...?" Then he felt like an ass for even asking that question, "I mean... we're in the middle of something important."

Sylvia

Sylvia was floating a few inches off the ground behind Taylor. Content with having to investigate the first floor of the hospital. While she was floating, she looked into every single room looking for Gabriela. Before she heard the commotion at the lobby, and shrugged, "What the living f*ck are those sh*t heads doing...?" She pondered. They had already investigated most of this floor. They were supposed to guard the entrance. Whatever happened must be wrong if there is screaming. Sylvia wanted to check it out.

Maxx Toron wrote:: "Imbécile." she muttered. She turned to Sylvia, and said; "So do you want to get an eye to check out whatever's wrong with you before we continue? I can handle myself alone for a bit if you think you need to". The orb of water continued to orbit Taylor's waist, at the ready to strike if anyone unfriendly showed up.

Sylvia shrugged again, "We are supposed to be keeping the motherf*ckers away from the exit..." She clenched her burnt arm in pain, this hasn't been checked out yet, "I can get myself checked out. Not that I f*cking need it. Don't die!" She says to Taylor before flying away into the nearest patient room to get her burns treated.

TJ and Carole

"Hi?" Carole snapped at Jake, getting off the floor furiously and brushing herself off "A guy jumps out of an elevator with a fire extinguisher, you turn invisible, and then you say hi?" However, she thought for a moment, and for some reason, whether it be the insanity of the situation or the fact that she was slowly losing it, Carole burst out laughing like a maniac. Out of awkwardness, TJ too began to chuckle a bit, until he finally decided to be serious.

"I broke in earlier today." TJ said to Jake in that usual, almost carefree tone "Claire's in the room I just came out of. Sylvia and Johnny beat the tar out of her. I suppose it serves her right, but I couldn't exactly leave her there, even if she was being a royal pain". He looked back over at the elevator, and put his hand in the light of the sensor just before it closed. "You guys need a lift to the third floor, by any chance? My portal's open on that floor".

Taylor

Quote :: Sylvia shrugged again, "We are supposed to be keeping the motherf*ckers away from the exit..." She clenched her burnt arm in pain, this hasn't been checked out yet, "I can get myself checked out. Not that I f*cking need it. Don't die!" She says to Taylor before flying away into the nearest patient room to get her burns treated.

Taylor nodded slowly as Sylvia flew away.

"D'accord," She said "I'll do my best to stay alive, ma cherie!" Taylor waited until she could no longer see Sylvia, and then began to walk down the hallways, her ball of water her only companion. It was awfully lonely in those halls, and Taylor bagen to think about things. Yesterday, she was a millionheiress on a campus full of friends who all were like her and accepted her for who she was. She sank to the ground in a dark corner, and began to weep when she realized what she had forgotten.

"I never looked for my sister." she whispered to herself after a moment "She could be laying in a gutter dead as a stone and I was too busy being un putain to ever realize that. Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec moi?" She covered her eyes, and cried. When she was done with this, Johnny was going to return the favor by helping her find her own sister, and maybe a date. She smacked herself on the cheek for thinking of that last part, and covered her eyes, weeping lightly, her black mascara rolling down her face like wet paint. How could she had been such a bitch that she had forgotten her own little sister?

At the lake, commotion attracted Nicole's attention, and she led the search party over to see what was occurring. Upon closer inspection, there appeared to be a party of sorts going on. She flew over and alighted on the beach, while Toby appeared beside her using his super speed, the others following close behind. Nicole looked around at the various people, some she knew, others she was not quite familiar with. "Sorry if we're interrupting. May we join your party?" Nicole asked, extremely polite. She typically hated parties, but she knew everyone else in her group would probably enjoy it.

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Dragonfly

"The world iss on a diagonal, I am the balancing point."

The sewers were dark, as usual, but far from quiet. Sounds echoed from place to place within, creating a constant ambiance until the source passed. Usually it was just a small splash of a sewer fish diving from the surface or a rock falling into the water, but no. This time, it was constant. The vibrations of music were bouncing all around the sewers like a small child on a sugar rush. This, while it let him know of the fact that something big was going on, also made it extremely difficult to track where exactly it came from.

"Someone once told me the worst part of hell was the fact that you could see heaven."

Dragonfly snarled, and snapped his head in the sounds general direction, and saw the shadow of a man standing on one of the banks next to the water. He screeched, and shot off of the ceiling he was on trying to attack the man. His claws we high and readied, ready to rip the man to ribbons. As he came upon him, he angled his head to grab the man's neck.

But no blood seeped into his maw. The man had side stepped the attack with daunting speed, getting out of the way of the green bullet that was the twelve foot long lizard man.

Dragonfly kicked his legs out in time to perform a landing, and tried his absolute best to turn around in one motion and face the man. This succeeded in him skidding backwards to the wall. But he accomplished his main goal- To face this newcomer. He stared at the man for a moment, his reptilian featured contorting into an even more angry glare. "You again!" He snarled, standing to his full height. He had retrieved his pants once again, and was now wearing them. He looked quite like a thinner version of Killer Croc from the DC comics. The man before him stood at a good 5'10, and looked not a day older than eighteen. He had long, dark black hair that reached the edges of his glasses. He had pale green eyes, and had rather handsome facial features. His face was contorted into a smirk, which revealed a dimple on the right side of his face. He was dressed in a pair of only slightly ripped jeans and had a green shirt with the face of a Creeper from minecraft on it, with a plain purple hoodie over it.

"Why do you keep coming to me!" Dragonfly snarled, trying to look intimidating. He lunged again, swiping his hand to try and cut the man in half.

The man's smirk simply grew larger, and he stepped backwards, toward the water, and just out of range of the lizard's claws.

"Why do you keep attacking me with no provocation?"

Dragonfly simply growled back. This man had been stalking him as long as he could remember. And he had had enough of it.

"Who are you!"

The man's smirk vanished, and his face contorted into a more solem look. "I am nobody."

Dragonfly cocked his head to the side, staring at the man intently. To anyone else, it would've looked like he was yelling and staring at nothing but air.

How could this man be nobody? Nobody could be nobody. "Thatss not posssible." Dragonfly growled, coming a bit closer. "You have to be ssomebody." Dragonfly let go of his intent to kill this person for a moment, his predatory persona replaced with a curios one. The man sighed, and shoved his hands into his hoodie pockets. He stepped forward, causing Dragonfly to snarl and snap for a moment. The man retracted his hand, and Dragonfly relaxed. The man tried again, slower this time, and placed a hand on Dragonfly's scaly shoulder.

"I am you."

Dragonfly's eyes lit up in fire and he backed up, spinning and going low, sweeping his tail across in an attempt to trip the man, who simply jumped over with inhuman reflexes. "How can you be me?! I am me!" Dragonfly roared, trying to lunge yet again only for the man to side step and allow Dragonfly to plummet into the water. When he surfaced, he looked up to the man who seemed to be offering his hand to him. "You are correct, and I am too. You are me, and I am you." The man said as the lizard took his hand and attempted to pull him into the water. But he was strong, as strong as the lizard, and stood his ground. "I am Henry Olin."

Dragonfly looked up to the man before him, and surrendered to his help, and allowed himself to be pulled back onto the dry land. "Why are you here, Henry Olin?" Dragonfly questioned, looking down to the person before him. "Dont believe me, do you? That's alright, I didn't expect you to." The man seemed unfazed by Dragonfly's angry stare, in fact he seemed bored. As if he had seen better. "You wouldn't know me, but I know you. I am you. Look into your history, look into your world and you will realize that you have seen me before." Henry said, staring intently to the lizardman before him, like a father would his son.

"Let me ask you a question, Dragonfly." Henry said, walking a few steps away, and sitting down. "A question of the philosophical kind." Dragonfly growled as the man stared at him. Asking himself how the man even knew his name.

"What would you do if you can trust no-one? Not even yourself?"

Dragonfly's face contorted into confusion as Henry asked the question. If he could trust no one? Not even himself? He did not know. He opened his maw as if to speak, before closing it again. Henry looked knowingly at the dragon for a moment, before giving a soft smile and standing back up. "It's okay, Dragonfly. It took me four years of straight thinking to figure out the answer. Maybe you'll get it faster than me?" Henry said, before turning and walking off down the sewers, not looking back. "Until next time." Henry's voice sang out, resonating throughout the sewers from what seemed to be every direction. Dragonfly cupped his head where his hear holes were, trying to block out the sound as it hurt greatly. He began to feel pressur ein his head and he began snarling and screeching like a rabid animal as a result.

And then black.

Drake, Lily and Victoria

Lily looked rather shocked at the animal-like appearances of her fellow class-mates. She immediately stopped dancing and started gawking them. She had remembered the bird girl from last night... The others were a mystery to even her. A girl with a bat face, and a dog mixed with a manatee or some other abomination against god, a bird-like girl. The person in the hoodie looked like the only human. "Who are these people...?" Lily says to Nicole, the only person. Only to be stopped by Drake who put his arm out in front of Lily and spoke to her in a soft voice,

"It's cool... I know them," He started off, before pointing at each person in Nicole's group, "That's Nicole, Toby, Bones, and Leafnose." He spoke much quieter than before so that Nicole's group wouldn't hear him, "I know for sure they're nice people, they're just different, you know. Give them a chance." Before he pat Lily on the back to address Nicole and her group, "Sure, you ain't interrupting nothing. Ya'll can party with us. Only the four of us have been here for hours. I'd be nice to mix ya'll into the party." He spoke in a large and grandiose tone.

Lily closed her eyes for an awkward amount of time and let out a sigh. C'mon, girl. He said to give them a chance... She thought to herself before realizing that she was just standing here like a retard. She quietly yips, "Hi..." Before looking around.

Victoria looked at the group approach but didn't have any particular reaction other than the obvious "Meh". She had already known (and prepared herself) for some odd looking people. Because it'd be obvious that there would be meta-humans that'd have altered appearances. Victoria is already resistant to the weirdness that life can throw at you. These people may be different, but deep down they're just as human as anyone else. She did greet them with a soft, "Hello."

Drake looked around. It was odd, Jia-li was gone. She's probably swimming somewhere else, "Where's li...?" He said worryingly, out loud. Before turning back to the new group, "Well! Let's party!" Trying to hide the concern in his voice and demeanor.

The song shortly changed.

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Jake

Jake was buried in the awkwardness of the situation. He declined responding to Carole since he didn't feel like putting together some reasoning for his actions only to have it rendered moot. He was thinking about how he can follow through Johnny's orders with TJ around. He was going to tell Johnny that he didn't know that TJ was here if push comes to shove. They needed to get on with the mission, now. As they spoke, Jake was pulling together some reason for TJ to leave her before trouble starts. Johnny's likely going to tell him to leave right when they meet. Right when he was getting the gall to speak... His heart sank when TJ spoke these two sentences....

Maxx Toron wrote:: "I broke in earlier today." TJ said to Jake in that usual, almost carefree tone "Claire's in the room I just came out of. Sylvia and Johnny beat the tar out of her. I suppose it serves her right, but I couldn't exactly leave her there, even if she was being a royal pain".

Jake looked shocked--- If Claire's here then she's a liability to the plan. If a fight breaks out in here, then anything could happen. This was one big change in plans, and Johnny didn't know that she was here. He knew that he was more or less useless against her energy (even his technique against Energy types won't too well here), and Johnny and Sylvia were pretty much the only people who could stand up against her in an even fight. They weren't here, it was only him... and Carole. "... Where is Claire...?" Was the only thing that Jake could say that he had in mind at the moment. As he thought, he figured that he'd explain the situation, without revealing that Johnny wanted to claim this place for himself, "Johnny's in the hospital on the floor above us... We're looking for our sister, and I want this to go without bolts of lightning being thrown around like Frisbees. Nor do I want to get fried, myself."

"And we need to get to the forth floor, fast." He said, loudly, as he was getting rather worried about a fight getting out.

An ominous buzzing could be heard in the distance....

Sylvia

Sylvia had floated the first empty room that was out of sight from Taylor, right now she'd rather be alone while they check her out. Upon entry in the room there was a Doctor Eye and it greeted her with an electronic and monotone, "Hello, student. How may I help you?"

She had groaned since she would have to go through this process, "Okay, robot man. I have a burn on my arm." She says to the Eye.

The Eye examined her being, "Please remove all articles of clothing so we can examine the wound."

"F*ck no!" She snarled, before taking off her leather hoodie and letting it drop to the floor, then the shirt underneath. Revealing her small white bra (which was overshadowed by the burn), "Is this enough you pervy robot." The Eye immediately flew over to Sylvia to examine her arm when Sylvia presented it.

"This is quite the burn." It blankly states in it's monotone machine voice. As it scanned the burn on her arm.

"No sh*t. Are you going to fix it or d*ck 'round?" Sylvia snarled again.

"Sit down on the bed, this will require immediate treatment. Have you cleaned this off? It could get infected."

Sylvia groaned and sat down on the edge on the bed and said, "Yes, before I came here."

"Good, good. Let me begin..."

Nicole didn't say anything, although with her super hearing, she knew every word Drake had whispered to the other girl. It was quiet enough for everyone else to not hear, but it was impossible to hide the faintest of noises. When you had hearing that exceeded that of an owl, you could detect a mouse's heartbeat under a foot of snow as though it were clear as day. People often saw so much of her wings and sense of smell they often forgot that her eyes and ears were just as powerful. Of course, because she was colorblind, and saw things in shades, Nicole sometimes saw things as fuzzy, and often relied more on smell to find her way than sight. She was often so good at navigating by smell, nobody could tell that certain sights were actually confusing. Pretending she hadn't heard, she turned to the others, "Well, I'm gonna skim some water on the lake and do an air show, in that case, although I'm not sure how I'm going to sync with the music." She said. She was extremely good at dancing in flight, using various movements that mimicked different birds, namely storks and tropicbirds. Unfortunately, that was more like ballet, than the current beat.

Toby raised one eyebrow, the wrinkles on his forehead dramatically emphasizing the expression, "Well, I would sing an opera, except that people automatically find it boring, for some reason, when they've never listened to it, or heard someone who's been trained since a young age." Bones looked at him and gave him a small smile, of which seemed slightly crooked, the left side being wider than the right. "Well, I feel weird admitting it, a lot of people heard you practicing in the theater. Not a lot of tenor singers, these days, you're very good." Toby seemed surprised, "You like opera?" He said, shocked. Bones shrugged, "Well, if I help make costumes for your plays, don't you think I would be curious to see them in action? Operas have stories, too. Besides, I'm a bit old-fashioned, old styles are becoming popular again, although most people don't see the disco beats creeping into the more popular songs." Toby frowned, "That's disco?" He asked. Bones then had a confused expression on her face, "Well, maybe, maybe not. I'm not exactly very good at identifying genres. Sometimes they get blurred together." Leafnose walked up, "Why are you guys debating on music, when you should be dancing?" She asked. Bones looked horrified, "Goodness, no! Have you ever seen my dancing? I have two left feet!"

Leafnose gave a fang-toothed smile, "It's not that hard, you don't have to be an expert to dance." She laid one hand on Bones' arm, and immediately withdrew it, looking concerned, "Yikes, you feel like you have a fever. Are you well?" She asked. Bones immediately looked more panicked than before, "Uh, no, that's normal, no need to panic." Toby frowned again, "Do your powers do that?" He asked. Bones just nodded, although still looking freaked out. "Yes, I don't have any physical mutations...on the outside, but internally speaking, I wouldn't fool a doctor." Leafnose looked quizzical, "Bones, what's your power?" She asked. Bones immediately dodged the question, "Why do you need to know?"

TJ, Carole, and Claire

TJ leaned back against the wall, and looked at the portal. He slowly started to piece together that Jake and Carole weren't the only people in there. Obviously, so was Johnny, and perhaps Sylvia. TJ frowned, and tapped the portal, causing a rippling effect as if it were a puddle of water.

"She's through this portal." he blankly stated "This leads to the third floor. I wouldn't worry about her; she's not exactly in a fighting mood now." TJ was proven wrong, however, when an annoying buzzing filled his ears and the hair on the back of his neck stood up. He jumped as the railing he leaned on was shocked, and turned to see that Claire was standing there in the hospital gown, her hand bleeding slightly from where she pulled out the IVs. Her hands began to coarse with blue electricity, and her eyes lit up the same color. Her blonde hair stood on end, and she began to shake with rage, causing more static electricity to shock TJ.

"I'm always in the mood to fight this f*cker!" she seethed "Where's your f*cking friends? Are they here too?"

"Claire, calm down!" TJ said, rather angered now.

"Shut up TJ!" Claire yelled, her hands glowing brighter "I need to teach this f*cker a lesson!" She cocked her right hand back, as if to throw a bolt of lightning. TJ sighed, and clenched both his fists, causing the portals to close. A loud crashing noise could be heard as Claire's lightning bolt hit the elevator door up above. She began to bang loudly on the doors, and blasted them with more lightning until an eye floated by.

"Please refrain from damaging school property, miss." the robot said. Claire turned around to blast it with lightning, but instead became faint and fell on her face. The eye extended an arm from itself, and grabbed her by the left shoulder, dragging her into a room and placing her back in bed. TJ threw his head back against the elevator wall, and sighed audibly. Carole reluctantly stepped in the elevator, keeping her space from him.

"So, um," she stuttered "Do you want to help us, maybe? Something tells me Claire really doesn't want to see you right about now, and we could use the help. Is it alright with you Jake?" she turned to him, and put on her best puppy dog face.

Jake

Jake was utterly terrified when Claire was shouting out of the portal. That means that as long as the portal was open then Claire could leap out of the portal and kick their asses. The girl just never learns anything. She got defeated by them once, that would be enough for even Johnny to avoid fighting--- But, she just doesn't get it. She'll have to learn how to control herself or die. Fortunately, TJ has the common sense to close the portal. Jake sighed out in relief, then realized something; they have to warn Johnny. Or else the whole mission could fall apart. He took steps into the hospital's elevator and said to the pair, "We have to warn Johnny! Yes, yes, you can come, TJ. But, you have to keep Claire on a leash." He pressed the button for the third floor with ((Presumably)) TJ and Carole, on board.

The buzzing got much louder, and loud thumping could be heard in the same pattern as footsteps. Something is getting close.

Johnny & Lemontea

Johnny and Lemontea had just about finished searching the second floor of the hospital. Ready to move on to the third one and so forth. So far they haven't encountered any danger--- Or found Gabriela. All they've found were empty rooms, and injured people. Johnny was going to leave these people be until they were ready to get up and leave. The two of them were quiet, and didn't say too much to each other other than throwing plans at each other, awkwardly. One of the only things that Johnny did was keep his eyes on her at all times. He wanted to read her emotions at all times. There was something else he wanted to know, he called to her, "Lemontea, you got a sec?" He wanted to know why she was here working with them. She had already given them her reasons, but that wasn't too convincing. Lemontea obviously didn't get along with them, so there was some ulterior motive behind their alliance.

She stopped dead in her tracks and turned her head to him, "Yeah...?"

"There's something I want to know, now that we're alone up here." Johnny puts one hand in his pocket and started walking over to her, "Why are you working with us? From what I see you don't get along with us, and I've dealt with your type before... You must want something from us...." He quietly chuckled, "Otherwise you wouldn't want anything to do with us and our stupid plan--- Personally, I just want to know what you want." Johnny put empathize on what in his statement.

Lemontea gave Johnny a dead stare and narrowed her eyes, "I don't know what you're talking about; I don't got any evil schemes and ulterior motives. I'm just apart of your stupid gang to help survive out here----" Before she was cut off by Johnny.

"It looked like you were doing just fine when I saw ya--- But, let's cut the rhetoric already and cut to the chase. Your emotions, looks, and body language tell me that you're hidin'." Johnny was observing Lemontea in every way he could (even detecting her emotional presence).

Lemontea just sighed, signifying that she had just caved into Johnny's pressuring and just decided to tell him, "Okay, I don't know how long you've been here nor who the f*ck you've met. Have you heard of a place known as Stasis?"

Johnny had indeed heard of the place. While this school was active and he was a student he's learned quite a lot about the school through gathering a wide variety of friends. The Headmaster was extremely secretive about the place, to the point where he'd give students a week in the Detention Center if they're even heard speaking about it. Those that come close to finding it get far worse punishments (including exile). These drastic measures to keep the place a secret only gave away that the place existed. From what he's heard; that's where they put the bad apples of the school. Something along the lines of that. The rumors vary from person to person, but one thing is consistent; Stasis contains something. Only those who've seen it know what it is. Johnny immediately figured out what Lemontea wanted, "Yeah... You want us to help you find it, correct?" He spoke in a skeptic tone, trying to figure out Lemontea's intentions.

"Believe me, Johnny; there's someone in there I need to get out before I even think of leaving here." Lemontea spoke in a saddened tone, "I know you and other people want to leave here, but I just want him out before we leave."

Her statement made Johnny laugh loudly as possible. He had other intentions in mind than leaving, "Hahahahahahahahaha, I'm not going to leave here any time soon. Now that the AF's are gone that means that this place belongs to us! The people who are strong enough hold the place." He did see the advantages of the staff being absent. The school really doesn't need them to be inhabitable, the place is pretty much ran by the Eyes. Plus the large amount of resources he has here. Now all he has to do is keep his sense of control over the place. "I'll return the favor..." He looked over his shoulder, breaking both his rule and eye contact with her, ".... But, if it's what I think it is, I'd rather not let a bunch of psychopaths run loose in my paradise..." He spoke in a stern and serious tone.

"You don't need to worry 'bout that. I just want one person out and one person alone. The rest of those f*ckers can rot." Lemontea said,

"Great. Now let's get a move on, after we have this place as an HQ we'll look for Stasis for you." Johnny stated before Lemontea silently nodded and they advanced to the third floor of the hospital.

Drake's Group

Lily looked with a bit skepticism and said quietly to Drake, "Quite the group of friends you have here." Before laughing. So far Drake's report on them had been correct, they're people just like herself in terms of personality. Just that right now she was trying to move past that they didn't look human in the slightest. She shrugged and resumed dancing by herself as Drake addressed the group.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Well, I'm gonna skim some water on the lake and do an air show, in that case, although I'm not sure how I'm going to sync with the music."

"Haha... Never thought of having entertainment here." Drake smiled as he scratched the back of his neck, "I guess you can try that, might be pretty cool. The thing we've been doing for the last few hours was dance, talk and go back to the dorms to get food." He spoke in an supporting tone. He did want to see what everyone could cook up for the party since it was dying down right now.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Well, I would sing an opera, except that people automatically find it boring, for some reason, when they've never listened to it, or heard someone who's been trained since a young age."

Lily tightened up noticeably and looked rather awkward, she didn't want to hear some dog thing sing opera. That just doesn't look right in her head. She yips again, "Please don't." Trying to be polite as possible.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Why are you guys debating on music, when you should be dancing?" She asked. Bones looked horrified, "Goodness, no! Have you ever seen my dancing? I have two left feet!"

Drake tried cooking up some response for Toby, most of which are sarcastic jokes. "Have you just tried wiggling? Hahaha, it's easier than it looks." He said sarcastically, not being in the slightest way serious.

ViperaUnion wrote:: "Why do you need to know?"

Drake quietly listened to the exchange while his facial expression slowly changed to a skeptic face. He wasn't exactly on good terms with the girl, especially because of their less-than-stellar first interaction. It wasn't inspiring trust in her if she didn't want to share her powers with the group. Especially because of her hostile reaction to being asked. Then again, he nor his sister were really being forthcoming with their powers. They were keeping the truth of their powers a secret, lest they want to inspire even more distrust in the group. The truth of their power was being capable of copying powers from anyone, except he can't copy powers from people who can already do that. Because he already embodies power replication by default. Drake cut off his thought pattern and decided not to say anything. Bones will tell her power when she's ready.

Toby shrugged, "Eh, fine, I'll practice later." He said, before walking off. Nicole, meanwhile, was hovering over the lake, with one toe pointing down, the other folded like a crane's. She then did a back flip, still visibly trying to synch with the beat of the song. After a moment of apparent thinking, she flipped forward, and then flew up, making a wide ark and coming back to where she had been earlier. Slower songs were easier to dance to, as aerial maneuvers were more graceful, and couldn't be energetic without some sort of dance partner. Of course, being the only one present with wings instead of arms, that wasn't really possible. Right now she was just doing her best to avoid looking like an insane hummingbird of sorts.

Sandy just frowned at Bones, also wondering why it was that she kept her powers secret. She was aware some powers were embarrassing, her own abilities to control pheromones and hormones was weird, because they were linked to all sorts of bodily functions, some of which made life extremely awkward because she was forced to think about them constantly. Sandy also had a sneaking suspicion that Bones was hiding something other than her powers. If she wasn't running a fever, and was aware of her higher body temperature, she couldn't feel cold in a normal setting. If anything, she would feel warm all the time, in which case the hoodie she was wearing would be uncomfortable. So what would she want to hide so badly that she would go through such discomfort?

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