"You can use it to open the cells if you have to, but I'll make sure to keep them busy," Hank said, gripping his bat in both hands in a faux batting position for a moment, before dropping one of his hands so that he could walk. He ran over to the door of the cell block and went through it and closed it again (or just stood there if it was locked).
He kept his bat up, holding it one-handed at the moment as he looked around for any Nazis who had decided to run towards the pair of loud explosions.
Guess Who?
As soon as he was released, Tyler bounded over to Cell 1 and inserted his drill into the lock, having no need to change the type of screwdriver as he'd come prepared with the correct 9.53cm lock bit. With a simple press of a button, the drill began doing its work and, if successful, the lock was soon destroyed.
"Search the guard for the keys, and anything else you find useful, Doc. Then you'll get to show off your flashy powers to the injured ones. I'll use a bit of brute force in the meantime. Use the hammer if he disturbs you, or just for the hell of it." Sliding his sledgehammer to Nicolas, Tyler gave him a grin that ended up making him look rather crazy, the drill not helping matters. Moving on to Cell 3, Tyler would continue to try and free the mutants via his drill until Nicolas found a key, or he was interrupted from doing his duty.
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Full-Conversion Cyborg
"Leave her," Toriar replied to Alex. "We need to secure the prison; that takes priority."
Relinquishing the guisarme stuck in the downed officer for now, he unsheathed his dagger, knelt down, and slit the man's throat.
Gesturing at the guard with the leash, he commanded, "Make sure this one doesn't do anything stupid. Bind his hands with that if you can."
Toriar pulled the taut crossbow from his back and, loading an Adamantium-headed bolt, ran after the rifleman.
edited 21st Aug '14 2:08:46 PM by StygianEmperor
Flesh is a design flaw.
Amanda's stunt with the dog had worked perfectly. The dog and guard had taken each other out, and the secretary was alive to pump for information. Who knew, maybe she'd even join them to thank them for saving her life? Stranger things had happened.
Yet the work was still not done. Another guard was tearing off towards the cells, apparently bent on executing the prisoners. Amanda wasn't about to let that happen. She gave chase, lined up a shot. and fired, aiming for center mass.
Forward, boys! For God's sake, forward!
Nicolas took the sledgehammer too, but not without a sheer look of confoundedness. Why was everyone giving him all of those weapons? Especially the sledgehammer, considering that he couldn't exactly put down his crossbow pistol to use it effectively.
"I… Guess I'll check the guard again, just in case. Schrödinger, try talking to the prisoners, or look around for the keys yourself."
With that, Nicolas put down the sledgehammer and knelt next to the unconscious guard, rifling wherever he could for any key or other valuables.
The Fantabulous
Sjan flinched when she heard the mutant call her a bitch for looking at the prisoners but turned to the big pink man with a well practiced expression of bemusement. She left home to avoid abuse, not get verbally attacked for showing up. The chimp-man was nice at least, "Don't sweat it, I've been called far worse by closer." She smiled, noting the bruises with a flash of anger at the bastards who kept them here.
Mr. Durant asked the most important question before she had the chancre after being handed a ludicrous amount of weapons. "Yes, that would be helpful... is this all the prisoners in this block?" Sjan asked to be sure then raised her voice so othera could hear, "Anyone injured or can't run?" Tyler was working on the locks with his drill but she wondered they might need to work faster, "Want me to help get them out?"
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Alex rolled his eyes when Toriar told her to leave the secretary alone, then replied "Ye, ye." She then leaned towards the secretary and whispered "Don't be scared of the big scary man, he's just grumpy, just stay where you are and we'll treat you right."
She stood up, opened the secretary's desk's drawers and the officer's corpse and bagged whatever valuables she while also trying to find something to bind the guard with. This is a prison after all, Alex thought, they gotta have some handcuffs somewhere. She turned to the surrendered Nazi sometime to check on him, then warned "Don't do anything rashed, okay, brah? Or the big man with an overcompensating spear will come over here and..." she deliberately left it blank to let his imagination fill out the blanks.
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Alex would find a lot of documents in her search for valuable items in the desk. Some of them had the potential to be valuable or informative but it was hard to tell which ones they could be. There was also a grey desk lamp, a wastebasket, and a telephone.
"Let's hope so...and we don't have any alcohol." the surrendered Nazi guard muttered as Alex high fived him. The secretary, however, was unresponsive as she just moaned in pain, clutching her bleeding leg. The injury didn't look life threatening but you never could tell.
Toriar's move to slit the officer's throat wasn't really necessary - the man was pretty much dead anyway but it did make things a bit quieter without his moans of agony. Speaking of which...
The young Nazi guard let out a tremendous moan of agony as he ran smack into Hank's baseball bat. It was audible even to the Toriar, Amanda, and Alex. The surrendered guard actually looked concerned.
"If you can, try not to kill the kid. He's only nineteen and he's been brainwashed." he begged. Meanwhile, the kid in question tried hurriedly to get to his feet after Hank's hit but he was struggling. Tyler's attempts to get the cells open was successful but it was slow work. The mutants he had freed looked grateful - if a bit battered and weary - and they currently just stood around - waiting for direction from their rescuers.
Nicolas wouldn't really find anything of value on the guard - except a nametag in his pocket. The chimp man met Sjan's smile.
"All of us can walk. But if you can get us out of here quicker, that'd be helpful." he said politely. His companion just grunted. Meanwhile Amanda had just now come into the cell area.
Amanda looked over the assembled mutants. "You know who we are, and you know what we're fighting for. Anyone who wants to sign on would be greatly appreciated. If you don't want to fight, that's okay too. We'll do what we can to keep you safe, though I can guarantee we don't have enough room at our base for all of you."
She turned to face the gigantic hole in the middle of the wall. "Now, follow me! FOLLOW ME TO FREEDOM!"
Forward, boys! For God's sake, forward!
The Fantabulous
Sjan grinned a little to the now freed mutant, understanding the sentiment and doing a quick head count of those assembled, "Alright, I think I do that - I'll fetch the buggers still in cages, you folks already out follow Mandy over there..." She pointed to her comrade currently yelling about freedom and disappeared, moving to the furthest cell from Tyler's efforts on the locks just behinds its occupants. "Hold on." With a thought she appeared in the alleyway the bus was parked, releasing the mutants and immediately reappearing in the next cell. Schrodinger would continue on teleporting prisoners from cells to the bus until either they were all free or she collapsed. She wasn't sure which would come first
Sjan was feeling increasingly ill and transporting the mutants harder, inbetween moves she gripped the walls to stay up and tried to ignore the aching of her skull. Nevertheless she pushed through this to the best of her ability, hoping the others would be alright subduing the guards.
“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Full-Conversion Cyborg
Lowering his crossbow, Toriar praised Hank's strike, "Good hit. Perhaps I'll get the chance to forge you a proper mace in the future." Looking up at the ceiling, he remarked, "Gods only know why you blew two holes in the place, but I suppose they won't be using it again."
He made to jam his Adamantium dagger into a lock on one of the holding cells, unsure how easily the steel would part, then considered, "Are we sure this structure is secure? We have two of the enemy enemy captured in the front office, being looked after by the girl. Another two dead," He glanced back down the hall, wondering if they would be in capable hands. His attention returned to the cell block, "And it looks like one injured and one dead or severely injured in here."
"I'll search the building," he volunteered. Toriar would then retrieve his polearm, using the opportunity to check up on Alex before exploring any remaining rooms in the prison.
edited 22nd Aug '14 9:37:00 PM by StygianEmperor
Flesh is a design flaw.
Nicolas just tossed the name tag to the side. (At that point, the NOA would learn pretty quickly that the Berets were starting to make noise in Green Bay, no matter what. Discovering the fingerprints of a known fugitive mutant would just solidify that fact for them.) Not finding anything else, he got up, deciding to simply let the sledgehammer rest on his left shoulder until Tyler got the sense to take it back or if someone else asked for it.
He was one of the ones to really recognize Sjan's efforts in the back—and the obvious toll it was costing her.
"Schrödinger, you're overexerting yourself—you can't help anyone if you-!"
It didn't seem like she heard him, though, considering that she teleported away with a few more mutants.
"End up unconscious," he finished with a defeated shake of his head. All he could hope for was that she either stopped in time or collapsed in the safety of the bus.
edited 22nd Aug '14 9:50:11 PM by BlackRevolver
Alex was a bit disappointed that there were no alcohol around here, what else they would do to break the monotony of a working life if it weren't for alcohol, but then her thought was crashed when she heard the agonies of pain from the cell, then observed out loud "Well, there goes your friend there, mate." Now with the threat in the office are now dissipated and with the assumption that any threat within the cell section are dealt with by the flanking team, she believed that their mission is completed and are now preparing to exit.
She could not stop thinking about the secretary, though, poor woman must've had the worst pain she ever had in her entire life and Alex did not have the heart, and possibly the brain, to leave the secretary behind. She had an idea.
"Tell you what, brah," Alex presented a proposition to the surrendered Nazi guard as she checked his uniform to see if he has anything that he might use for a weapon, and if he does she'll confiscate it, while she was pointing her knife at him to warn him if he does anything funny she'll cut him up. She did not bother to try and take his valuables, though, she's a scavenger, not a thief, she has standards.
"You seemed like a normal guy, hell, you could be a nice guy for all I know and you're just being bullied into conscription by the NOA. We're the infamous Black Beret, I'm not wearing a hat because it looks fucking stupid, but we are and we're aiming to topple the government to get freedom and all that sugary stuff. And we-" She was not sure if the other members are on-board with her decision but she felt that this is the best way to sway the Nazi onto her side."-wanted to help people like you, not just mutants but all of us."
Once she's done patting him down, she took a step back to adopt a friendlier stance. Even with the knife in her hands, she swayed it back and forth casually, though she still needs to strike if she need to. "We could've just cut you guys up like we did with your officer or leave you to your fate when the Nazis come and blame you two for letting this slide but we would do such a thing because we care."
She gave the guard a bro slap on the back to demonstrate said care. "So, hey, join us, we always have room for recruitment, even for a person like me. And if you do join us, we can give this lady a proper medical treatment, and then maybe give her a warm company~" She shook her head briefly to get herself out of her daydream. "And we'll treat you right and equal, plus you'll be fighting the good fight. So what do you say?"
Alex wiped her mouth off some sweat and metaphorical bullshit that remained, because that's largest amount of bullshit she has ever spewed in her life, she almost sound like a politician on tv but hopefully the guard, and the lovely secretary will turn coat.
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"Thanks," Hank said to Toriar as he left.
Hank placed a foot firmly on the teenage guard's chest as he tried to get up from the ground. If he had a gun or had dropped it nearby, he tried to shove it away using his baseball bat. "Well if you give up and don't do anything stupid like try to kill me, or someone else, I don't see a reason to kill ya," he said. "But I gotta help that young woman over there," he nudged his head towards the secretary. "So if you could do me a favor and tie yourself up with some zip ties or handcuffs or whatever you keep in stock, I'd be much obliged."
"Unless you could keep an eye on him," he added to Alex.
Guess Who?
"Just put the hammer on the floor, I'll collect it later. Just assumed that you wouldn't want to shoot the guard if he wakes up." Pausing from his task for a few seconds to tell Nick that, as he saw how it was inconveniencing the medic, Tyler gestured at the guard that had been taken out by Hank. "Oh, and would someone collect that kid's rifle? We need the guns."
Getting back to his slow and loud task, while Shrodinger used her powers and the other mutants secured the area, Tyler made a mental note to buy a more efficient drill next time he was meant to liberate a group.
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Coming back to attention after Sjan's disappearance, Nicolas nodded at Tyler's suggestion before putting the sledgehammer down.
To make himself feel more useful, he began to follow and quietly help usher the group of freed mutants out through their impromptu exit, keeping his crossbow pistol up in case of a surprise appearance.
"Alright," Alex heard the command."But could anyone help treat this lady? Seeing as she's in so much pain? And also keep an eye on my brah while I keep mine on yours."
Alex dashed to the downed guard and quickly stuff the rifle into her bag, then patted down the guard as well and, again, did not try to bag any valuables that he may have. She was more focused than usual because she tries not to take a peak at some of the grotesque mutants, she felt that it would be better to not look and pretend you're focused on the job rather than looking at them, get grossed out, then making them feel bad about their own unfortunate appearances.
"So do we have all of the mutants out already? Because my bag's full and heavy now and I can't bagged anymore larger stuffs..." She took a deep breath, awaiting several scorns hurling at her for her plan "And we should get our 'hostages' on the bus as well. I think they could be useful."
She was not so certain about the useful part.
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"Lady - we'll figure out who's going where once we're free!" one of the penguin mutants shouted to Amanda right before Sjan teleported her first mutant to the alley with the bus.
"Holy COW!" Jimmy exclaimed, drawing his machete when Sjan suddenly appeared. He was actually about to strike before recognizing her.
"Geez - not gonna get used to that..." he muttered to himself as he set about helping the mutant to a seat. While doing so, he suddenly realized that the minibus could only fit about thirteen people in it. Maybe more if they piled on the roof. He started doing some calculations as how to cram everybody in at once. He told his concerns to Sjan - hoping she'd figure something out.
After seven teleportations, Sjan (while already feeling pretty sick) would be able to tell that one more was about all her body could take until she got some much needed rest. Fortunately, all mutants not teleported to the bus were out of their cells and were running towards the bus.
For Toriar, the only remaining room of note was the bathroom. While the base could always use more paper towels and toilet paper, there wasn't really anything else to loot there.
Meanwhile, Alex's offer of recruitment made the guard stop and think.
"Conscripted...? No - not me. I was as bad as the other idiots who joined. It was only after doing all this horrible shit that I realized I made a huge mistake. If you guys would have me, I'll join you. Can make up for all the evil that I've done." the guard said, his neutral face brightening somewhat.
"We should probably fix that girl up, though if you want her to live. Apply pressure and elevate it." he said. Evidently, NOA forces' basic training covered first aid. Unfortunately, the younger guard had a much different reaction.
"FUCK YOU!?!??! YOU KNOW THAT??!?!? FUCK YOU!!!! YOU PIECE OF JEWISH, MUTANT-LOVING PIECE OF SHIT!!??!!? KILL ME IF YOU'RE GONNA BUT DON'T BULLSHIT AROUND!?!?! THE NOA WILL FIND YOUR ASSES AND SHOOT YOUR DICKS OFF!!! FUCK YOU!!! FUCK YOU!!! FUCK YOU!..." the teenaged guard continued to ramble. He was, evidently, a hardcore NOA fan.
"I'm trying to," Hank said to Alex and the calm guard. He indicated the crazed teenager he was stepping on. "But this guy is making it a bit hard to do that. Would someone kindly take care of him?"
"Gnarly, brah," Alex congratulate as she gave the surrendered guard a pat on the back. "Welcome to the team. I can't do first aid though, especially when there are this dude right here can heal her nicely-"
It got interrupted when the crazed guard threw a tantrum, made Alex jumped in surprise. "Geez, is he off his meds?" Then she heard the doctor's request, she shrugged, bashed her kneed onto the guard, held his mouth with her left palm with the knife on the other hand. She solemnly said "Man, we coulda at least spare your ass but nooo..."
She attempts to slit the guy's throat in one swipe. She would close her eyes when she felt the metal of her knife encountering resistance when it gets through the flesh, just in case if there were any blood splatter, besides, she does not need to see the gory shit.
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Hank stepped back as Alex did whatever it was she was going to do - she was probably just going to detain him like he asked - and went over to the injured woman instead.
"Miss," he said, setting down his backpack next to the woman. "I'm going to help you, but we're pressed for time. It's important you stay calm and don't freak out while I do this. Now let me take a look at the wound," he started to look at the gunshot to see how serious it was.
Full-Conversion Cyborg
"Clear. What's all the-" Toriar walked back in the cell block just in time to witness Alex execute an unarmed prisoner.
"Gods! What the hell did you do that for, you maniac!?"
Flesh is a design flaw.
Amanda kept shooing freed mutants out the door, then, when, everyone was making a break for it, she acted as a rear guard, noting grimly that her pistol was out of ammunition. When she got to the bus, she realized there was a problem.
"Oh, shit."
She didn't panic, though. Basically, what she saw was the world's biggest game of Tetris. "All right, I want all seats filled, but you're gonna hafta stand. Skinny guys, take the gap in between seats. We are getting you all out of here, but it's gonna be cramped for ten or fifteen minutes."
Forward, boys! For God's sake, forward!
"Please try to keep the seats for those that need it most," Nicolas added to the mutants. "If you can keep standing for about ten or fifteen more minutes, please stay in the aisle."
Nicolas gave a pointed glance at his crossbow, as if to say "eh, I already have something in my hands at the moment," but took the revolver anyway, although with slight hesitance. He reached behind himself to tuck it under his pants and coat.
"Just make sure to swing first," he finally said to Hank before side-stepping past him and over to the cell that had the two mutants that spoke to Sjan.
"Do you know where they keep the keys?" he asked, looking between the two. The potential state some of them were in made him uneasy, but getting them out of their cells had to be their first priority.