Does Anyone Know How to Drive This Thing?

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Brandon, Malik, Marcus, Olivia and Alison wake up imprisoned in the bowels of a cargo ship, their powers not working and strange collars around their necks.

Morning of Jan 28th, 2013.

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Olivia Sterling
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Olivia woke with a start. She could have only been out for minutes. That was the longest any sort of tranquilizer worked on her these days. However as she became aware of her surroundings it seemed highly unlikely only a few minutes had past. A steady hum vibrated throughout the poorly lit room, the walls all steel. It was small, clean and for the most part empty. There was a thin roll up mattress in one corner with blankets and pillows, where Liv had woken up, and something that looked like a bed pan in the other she supposed they expected her to use. The door was solid looking, metal, and reminded Liv of ship like in a Hollywood movie. Most importantly though was the tight feeling around her neck. She reached up to feel something smooth and solid around her neck like a shackle, except it wasn’t attached to anything and she could feel no joint on it. What was the point of a collar with no chain and how did they put it on if it didn’t have a joint? More importantly, how was she going to take it off?

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Marcus Wells

"Welcome to the party." Marcus grumbled when he saw Olivia had woken up. It was hard to tell exactly how long but he had been out but when he woke up, he had begun counting. Fifty three minutes. That was how long he'd been waiting and the fact that it wasn't all that irritating a wait told him all he needed to know. Well that and the fact that he couldn't phase through the wall or collar around his neck. It wasn't hard to figure out why. Nothing had changed except for the fact he now had a stylish collar on so process of elimination said it was suppressing his powers. "Sorry about the lack of refreshments."

Date: January 28, 2013 | Alias: Whiplash

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Brandon Russell

Brandon sat with his back to the wall facing the door, mask less and unarmored, his eyes scanned the door, waiting for the smallest movement and his chance to escape. He had done and inspection of the room after waking, from the sounds of the walls and the distinct dampness that clung to them he suspected that they were probably in a ship and probably under the water line if he had to guess. It reminded him of the trip to Nova, that had been equally unpleasant now that he was thinking about it. He looked across at the boy who lay motionless a few feet away from him, it seemed that they had been separated from the rest probably in an effort to reduce their overall power. If he remembered correctly the kid had some sort of bone power, although he suspected that the stylish neck brace they were both sporting was an effort to stop things like that. Once he was awake he would have him help and try to think of a way to escape. He was distracted by a noise in the corridor and craned his neck to listen for the sound again. The sound of the speedster echoed down the hall and Brandon was immediately on his feet and up against the door trying to locate their location. "Hello? Can you hear me?" He realised he was taking a bit of a risk by calling out but at the same time he was already stuck in a cell, it wasn't like they didn't know where he was. He retreated back into the room as he waited for a response, wary of the door suddenly opening on him.  

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___________________________Malik_Winter

Ugh... what the hell happened. Who's weird fetish did he have to deal with to get knocked out, they better have paid well. Wait he had been in jail. Then they were attacked and he was punched out my Mr beefcake. Sitting up he found a metal collar on his neck. he spotted Brandon in the cell with him. "Dude you figure out where the hell we are?" He said rubbing his face. He didn't see the others, something felt off though... He usually wasn't this sore....

 

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Olivia Sterling
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“Some party. No food, no drinks. At least-“ She stopped as she heard Brandon shouting, followed swiftly by a male voice telling him to shut up before banging on something metal, presumably the door to whatever room Brandon was in. Liv sighed. “I was going to say at least the company is decent, but it turns out that isn’t the case.” Why Brandon and Liv had shown up at the bar together in the first place must be quite the mystery by now, seeing as the pair seemed to have an outward dislike of each other. “Any theories on our new necklaces?” She had a pretty good idea, but the only real way for her to test it was to injure herself in some way. Mostly she was stalling for time though. She had a pretty good idea of how they might get out of this room, but didn’t know how to communicate it. If the room was bugged, or the guard outside the door heard, then the plan would fail and she didn’t exactly have a plan B.

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Marcus Wells

"Power suppressant collars. Anything else and we would not be in here right now." Marcus responded dryly. "Worst thing that was ever useful." The collars would certainly have been useful in other situations but when you were wearing one it kind of sucked. His entire body felt wrong. It felt sluggish. When you were so used to the speeds he was, anything else was painful. He didn't pay much attention to the noise from around him, he just focused on trying to think a way out of the collar.

Date: January 28, 2013 | Alias: Whiplash

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Brandon Russell

As soon as Brandon heard the guard attempt to quiet him down he started laughing. It hadn't been his intention, if he could have kept up his usual stoic facade he would have done so, but without his mask that proved difficult. "Or what?" He motioned for Malik to get behind the door just in case the guard was foolish enough to actually open the door. A long minute passed, then another and finally Brandon walked across the room and crouched down a few feet from the door, he was concerned that if he stood the man would simply shoot him through the window. At least if he crouched it wouldn't be such an easy shot, might even give Malik opportunity. He listened closely, but the only sounds he heard was his and Malik's breathing. He approached the door slowly and and looked through the slots at the hallway outside, the guard was nowhere to be seen and he wondered if there had even been anyone there in the first place now. He retreated to a corner and looked at Malik, not recalling if they had actually spoken before this point or not, if they had it would have been brief. "Brandon." He gestured towards himself then put his head in his hand to rest. "Some sort of ship, something quite large and probably off the record if you know what I mean. Nobody will come looking for us, we are alone." He smiled slightly, realising that he wasn't making things better. "Sorry. Why don't you try to get the guard back so we can smash his face in. Careful though, they might shoot you." He thought it was better if he delegated that task to Malik to give him something to do that wasn't sitting in silence.  

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Malik simply watched Brandon antagonize the guard. The guy must be crazy. He listened to Brandon introduce himself and complied when he wanted him to hide. What where these metel bands on their neck. Hmmmm obviously not a fashion statements. He decided to test something. He tried to create a bone spike from his arm and nothing happened. Well that would explain why he was sore. His power was blocked likely by the neck band. His attention was grabbed when brandon sugedter hetting the guards attention. Being careful he banged on the door. "Hey other dude not looking so hot in here I dont think you want him dying in here!" He called out to a guard. Mabye that would work?

 

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Olivia Sterling
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A few seconds later the guard reappeared in the window. “Do you really think I’m that stupid? The guy was just walking and talking fine. Now sit down and shut up.” He barked at the pair before patrolling down the hallway again.

It sounded like Bardon was doing a wonderful job annoying the guard and not accomplishing much else. Olivia gave a short airy snort of amusement at Marcus’s comment about being the worst thing that was ever useful. “If only you knew what these people are really capable of.” She wasn’t about to sit around and wait for Brandon whose plan seemed to be to annoy the guard into opening the door. Another person might feel guilty for what they were about to do. For Olivia it was just survival. She gave a sigh and then looked at Marcus. “This is all your fault you know. You and that other girl. If you hadn’t pulled that stupid prank we wouldn’t be in this mess.” She stood and with each word her voice got louder while she took the two steps to put her right in front of Marcus. “Maybe I can’t get out of this room, but I sure as hell can make you pay for putting me back in their hands.” And with that she aimed a swift kick at Marcus’s ribs.

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Marcus Wells

"It won't save them." Marcus responded. The last person who had captured him did not get off so easy. Neither would these people. Then again he didn't have a face to put it to yet and- oh Olivia was still talking to him. Marcus had tuned her out until she started walking towards him, throwing blame at him for where they were now. He rolled his eyes and a moment later was reminded that his powers were gone. She went for the kick and he saw it coming, he knew it was coming at him but he couldn't move fast enough to get out of the way or catch it. So instead her leg drove into his ribs and he let out a grunt, wrapping his arm around her raised leg as it his him. It hurt, and he was still adjusting to the speed, but he wasn't going to lose a fight you Olivia of all people. Yet it didn't take more than a second of holding her leg to realize the use to what she was doing. With an almost sadistic grin, Marcus let go of her leg and pointed to his left eye. If you were gonna beat a man, may as well give him a black eye.

Date: January 28, 2013 | Alias: Whiplash

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Brandon stared at his cellmate for the longest time at first in surprise, it was simply too difficult to comprehend how stupid the kid had been. Sick. He could have said anything and he chose the one thing that made the least sense. He surprise quickly dissolved into sheer contempt and he had to physically restrain himself from walking over to him and stomping on the deviant's face until the guards would have trouble recognising him as human. Brandon breathed out through clenched teeth. "Nobody is that stupid." He didn't take his eyes off Malik as he answered the guard, his tone clearly expressing his frustration. He waited until he heard the guard walk away and breathed in, it was still strained but he had regained some control of his emotions. "I'm going to sleep. You keep first watch. Wake me if you hear a guard or something happens. We'll change shifts in about three hours." He looked at him with a mild level of disgust. He paused as he heard Olivia shout and rolled his eyes at her moronic idea. "Oh, and do me a favor, tell those idiots that if they want to waste their energy fighting each other nobody will stop them." He paused, then added. "Actually call one of them Brandon, that'll give their fight a little attention." With that he rolled over and closed his eyes, whether he was pretending or not didn't really matter, talking to Malik wasn't exactly top of his priorities anymore.  

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Malik shot a look of you're the dumbass who told me to do it. Fine if they wanted out then he was going to try it his way perhaps it would work. "Hey don't be so uptight the uniforms already tight enough on you already." He said as the guard started walking away. The statement made the guard turn and look back. "What you say to me?" He asked. "Well if you come closer I can tell you more, don't need others hearing us." Malik replied smoothly. Come on take the bait. The guard paused for a moment and walked up. Good. "Just saying a man like you deserves more than guard duty, surprised your not an officer. They don't know what they're missing." Malik replied keeping his voice low. It was subtle but this was what he did for a living, reading people and playing off the signals they gave off. This guard was trying to maintain composure too much. He was on the hook now to reel him in. "You know being on this boat gotta suck, how bought you and I ditch these losers, find an interrogation room, heck use those handcuffs you be surprised how well I can work with them. Ill have you back by shift change beside you'll have all the power..." Malik said. this is where it could backfire. luckily it worked. The guard opened the door pulled him out and had him cuffed and the door closed fast enough to impress Malik just a bit. the guard turn just for a moment and Malik had the cuff around the neck. "See told you you'd be surprised." He said before the guard dropped well knocked out. He scooped the keys off the guard and unlocked the cuffs. He proceeded to unlock the cell doors. "Now you guys don't need to beat yourselves up to get what you want"


(DT and I came up with this XD malik needed to pull his weight)

 

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Olivia Sterling
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Marcus caught on quick and Liv wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Hopefully the guards didn't also know what she was doing, though if there was a camera the grin and Marcus pointing to his eye might have tipped them off. Unfortunately it was the best idea she had at the moment. Olivia pulled back a fist and hit him in the eye. She didn't give him long to recover though before driving a fist into his stomach, then proceeded to shove backwards with all her strength. She was holding back. After spending the majority of her life locked up and experimented on Liv had spent her freedom training herself so she couldn't be taken again, however she didn't exactly want to showcase those skills to catch the guard off guard when he came to stop them. Besides Marcus wasn't fighting back. “Not going to fight back? Is it because you know I'm right? Maybe I should just kill you then!”

Olivia heard the door click open. It was working. She was careful to keep the fake anger on her face though. She charged forward once more and clocked Marcus on the jaw. Except instead of the hands pulling her back that Liv expected she heard Malik's voice instead. “Malik?” She whirled around in surprise to see the blond male standing in the door way. “How did you get free? What happened to the guard? s**t.” Well they were free of the room, but she figured Marcus was less than pleased with her.

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Marcus Wells

Marcus took the hits with the thought that it would lead to freedom but when Malik appeared that faded and a very uncertain anger appeared. He wasn't sure whose neck her wanted to break. Liv's for hitting him or Malik's for rendering it pointless. All he knew was that eventually he was going to get both of them back. When he saw Malik his eyes narrowed and he walked out of the container. He needed his damn collar off. Then they would have a lot less trouble doing anything. "Make another smart comment, I dare you." Marcus mumbled as he passed Malik. It was bad enough that he had let the attacks come and Malik made a joke. "He have the key to these?" Marcus asked as he tapped his collar.

Date: January 28, 2013 | Alias: Whiplash

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