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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agamon" data-source="post: 1063362" data-attributes="member: 184">Jaya entered the darkened room where the walls of energy blocking the cells hummed and bathed everything in a low, yellow light.  She moved to the control panel next to the cell holding Kiro Shiantsu.  “Kiro, wake up,” she whispered.  She punched some numbers into the control panel and the glow in front of his cell dissipated.Kiro awoke at the whisper, not with a start, but calmly, as though he had only been lying down with his eyes closed.  “Doctor?  It’s late, what are you doing?” he asked as he sat up on his cot.“We’re leaving,” she replied.  “All of us.”“We’re leaving?!?” a shrill voice shrieked from across the room.  Samantha was standing at the barrier of her cell, looking anxious.  The others began to awaken at the sound of Sam’s voice“Yes, but be quiet!” Jaya spat back.  “Or you won’t be going anywhere and I’ll end up in here with you.”“In here with us?” Kiro said as he left his cell.  “So you are an elite, just as we are.  I suspected as much.  Why, then, are you one of the scientists experimenting on us?”“That story will have to wait.  We’re in a hurry,” she said, moving to the next cell, Tyrone’s.“Nuh-uh,” Tyrone said, shaking his head.  “You better be telling us now, girl.  Why should we go with you?  I don’t trust you further than I can piss.”Jaya unlocked the cell and replied, “What exactly have you got to lose?  I can tell you that, even though it may not look like it to all of you, I’m just as much a prisoner here as you are.”“You’re right, it don’t look like that to me,” Tyrone answered back.“Hey, man, she’s letting us out.  And we’re going to complain about it?” Miguel asked.  “Let’s just get the hell out of here and sweat the small stuff later.”  He stepped out of his cell as Jaya removed the energy field.“What about our abilities, will they ever come back?” Sarah asked Jaya as she moved to open her cell.Jaya stopped what she was doing for a brief moment, considering the question, and then finished opening Sarah’s cell before replying, “There is one more of you, an older gentleman named Brian, who I can’t release.  They keep him in a separate room near here, but I haven’t the clearance to enter it.”  She moved to the next cell.  “It’s his power that nullifies all of your powers while you’re in this room.”“What?  We gotta get him out!” Sam stated emphatically as Jaya opened her cell.“I told you,” Jaya said, briefly glancing at Sam before moving to the next cell, “that’s impossible.  I don’t want to leave him here any more than you do, but we need to be realistic if we’re actually going to make it out of here.”Max was still sitting on his cot as Jaya came to his cell.  The large man seemed to be trying to calm himself before standing.  “When will our abilities return?” he asked Jaya as the energy field in front of him disappeared.“As soon as we leave the room.” Jaya told him.  She turned to the others and added, “But don’t use them if they’re obvious, we’re trying to sneak out of here.  Using force from the get-go won’t get us anywhere.”“You infer that the use of force may eventually become necessary, however?”  Kiro asked.  “You do have a plan to escape, do you not?”“Sort of,” Jaya said as she moved to the last cell.  “Well, not really.  The hallways are relatively empty this time of night.  We just need to be careful."  She turned toward the others.  "Once we get to the entrance, however, it might get tough…I don't think they'd try to kill you.  The experiments are too valuable to shoot you and start over.  From what I understand, it'd be a waste of many millions of dollars, so I'm pretty sure they'll try to recapture you.  Me, I'm not sure what they'll do to me if I get captured.  But I don't care, because I don't intend to get caught.  So are all of you with me?”Each of them nodded and spoke in approval, though the speech obviously caused some unease.Jaya finally turned back and opened the last cell, entered it, and kneeled near the cot where the boy was still sleeping.  “Aaron?” she said, gently shaking his shoulder.  “Aaron, you need to wake up.”After a few more prods, Aaron’s eyes opened.  He squinted in the darkness at the doctor.  “Huh?  What’s going on?”“We’re leaving this place.  Are you alright to walk?” Jaya replied.Aaron smiled faintly.  “Cool.  What are we waiting for?”</blockquote>

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