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Actually, Schrödinger didn't cry for that long. A minute? Less? He vented harshly and quickly, relieving most of the initial stress. Good. The less he felt, the calmer he could think.

Now he had to figure out what to do here.

While staying in the same curled position, still in the middle of his cage on the floor, the boy began to unconsciously list some things, attempting to soothe his jerking shoulders.

1. He didn't know where he was, or how he got there, but Grandma or Grandpa couldn't hear him.
2. There was something here that felt a little bit familiar. A bit like...him?
3. The last he knew, it was supposed to be curry for dinner. He liked curry, and frowned at the thought of missing dinner.
4. Not everyone was in cages.

When he reached the fourth one, Schrödinger paused mid-sniffle. Peeking up from his folded arms, he took note of Jean.

Oh.

She knew something about this. He had to get her attention. Ask to go home.

The nine-year-old scrubbed his bare arm across his teary face, and got up. He ambled towards the metal slot opening and cleared his throat.

"Um, excuse me, lady? Can I go home now ple--"

The binging of a bell interrupted the sentence.
 

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Abi wasn't sure how well the other people would be able to collaborate with them. After all many people seemed to be freaking out. Perhaps the first step was to try and reassure some pf the other people. Calm them down, and get everyone to cooperate. Especially with their abductors, considering there was nothing to be gained by resisting from the position's they were in.

"Yeah.. Alright. Why not." She shrugged at Havoc before rolling forward onto her knees. Nearby there had been a kid who had been yelling for his grandparents. She took the last bite of her nutrient cube, pushing it into her mouth with a quick bite, before grabbing her water pouch and moving to the glass wall that put her closest to Shrodinger.

"Hey... Hey, kid. You ok yeah? They didn't hurt you or nothin?" She asked positioning herself so that she could sit comfortably against the glass wall. She punched a hole in the water pouch and sipped at it tentatively. How many kids were here? What exactly were they testing that they required such a broad range of people?

Part of her wondered if this had anything to do with the march virus outbreak, but she dismissed the thought from her mind. After all, it had been wrapped up hadn't it?

 

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At first, he didn't realize he was being addressed.​

But when no reply came, Schrödinger looked over curiously, only to have a pretty face with pretty blue eyes meet his expectantly.

He didn't know her. She looked nice though.

And she was in a glass box like him.

The boy walked over towards the wall closest to her, hands fidgeting. An eye blinked open on his left hand, twitching when fingernail scraped a bit too close for comfort. "...I'm confused," Schrödinger answered honestly. He pointedly ignored the plate and ruined food on the opposite side of the cage. "And little bit scared. Are you? You seem really calm."

Amber-red eyes flicked to Havoc seemingly nervously. "He seems calm too. Do you know what's going on? My room just beeped."

The eldritch bit his lip. "And I, um, can't get my Boxes. This thing--" he made a gesture to the bracelet-thing, "--feels weird when I try." A genuinely worried and heartbroken expression crossed Schrödinger's face. "I want to go home."
 

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Aedan had remained calm through it all, the panic that would have overtaken most had been absent in him. He sharp eyes had slowly looked over everything, taking everything in. This was a familiar situation to him, locked away in a cell, to be tested and experimented on, it was something he'd had experience in. He'd been trained to remain calm in any situation, his PTSD often conflicted with the training, but for now, he had a military level calmness about him.

He looked over at the other captives, so many were as young if not younger than him. This was a bad situation, he knew that, but panic would only scare them.

Aedan wasn't one for words, he was good with kids, but given the situation not many words would feel reassuring to them.

Taking a breath he walked to Abi, she seemed military, something that could be useful.
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Abi offered the kid a weak smile. Despite her own calmness, she was internally nervous. Experience had taught her that things like this rarely ended well. But there was no reason to get excited just yet. "Naw, Not calm. Just used to it I guess." As she spoke she lifted up her hair so Schrodinger could see the 031 tattooed onto her neck. She had been the center of countless experiments since she had born, back in her future.

"Listen Kid. These people, the ones who have us. They don't want us dead. Not yet. We need to keep calm. We need to comply with their rules. Just until we know what's going on. I don't know what they want, but I am gonna figure it out. And then I'm gonna show them just how rude it is to put people in cages." She had turned to look at him now and pressed her hand to the glass wall. She was nearly his size despite their drastic age difference. "That Ding means it's your turn for something... Hold tight ok."

With that said Abi stood up and dusted off her clean gown. She stretched out her arms a bit before walking up to the glass wall that ran alongside the walkway and slammed an open hand into making a loud bang. She had no discernable power, so the bracelet had nothing to subdue in her. She was just as strong as she ever was, which for her size was incredible. More importantly though, was her ability to process information and react to it. She was going to use this more than anything to try and figure things out.

"Hey... Hey... Why Didn't I get dinged? What's going on? How is this kid the favorite huh? Why don't you guys thing me. Hey.. Can you hear me?" She shouted, slamming her open hand into the glass wall again. This small structure that held her was made of incredibly reinforced glass, and there was no chance of her being able to break it, but her impacts were certainly loud.

No part of her was panicked, if anything she was annoyed. Mostly because she wanted a cigarette. It was a simple luxury they had not ptovided for her. On top of everything, she was hoping to get their attention, possibly draw their focus from the kid to herself.

Nearby She had noticed Aedan in his cell. He had roused from his own sedation and had approached the cell wall they now shared. He seemed calm, or at the very least like he knew how to hide his anxiety. Regardless, he wasn't screaming, weeping or crying, so that was something. "Can you believe these guys? Dinging this kid, instead of me? Like really?" She spoke loudly, making sure that any observing bodies might here her unique complaint. This was all helping to gain attention to herself, or at least she hoped. Maybe she could find out what was going on.

 

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Jean ignored the rest of the banter between the captives, finishing up her rounds of handing out food before slinking off through a steel door at the far end of the cavern.

The voice crackled back in over the intercom as Abigale began pounding on the glass, shouting and making a scene.
"Anthony. Patient 3-B is in extreme distress. Please sedate."

It was several long seconds of no response before something happened. Abigale felt a pulse of static electricity fill her cage before Anthony appeared in the cage with her, a cloth soaked in the same sedative he had used on LuLu earlier in his hand.
 

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When he saw the man appear in Abigale's cage, Shrödinger let out an alarmed gasp, stumbling away. "Lady, watch out!" he cried. He hoped desperately that the strange man didn't hurt his new friend, but it seemed at the moment that Abigale would most definitely not be alright.

When the kind lady showed Schrödinger the numbers printed on her neck, he couldn't quite comprehend exactly what she meant by showing him those. But they made her seem less like a person...and more like an object. She new what to do in this kind of situation, even going as far as to give him half-instructions.

She had been through this sort of thing before, then.

(Also she was very nice, and Schrödinger wanted to talk to her some more. She was a good person and could probably help him get out. Then he could go home.)

Schrödinger hit the wall of his prison as hard as he could, but the glass didn't even shake. The sound of impact wasn't even loud. Shadowy limbs began to manifest around him, some snarling with sharp teeth and glaring with glowing eyes. Somehow, they felt wrong. Like something was weighing them down. (The bracelet, he thought fleetingly. Feels so, so wrong.)

"Hey!" the eldritch shouted and Anthony, hitting the glass again. Unease shone in his eyes. "You leave her alone! Please, leave her alone!"
 

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For only a brief moment Abigale was shocked by the sudden appearance of Anthony in her cell. She hadn't been expecting her abductors to be so easily baited, and yet, here he was, unarmed no less. His sudden appearance and the static like tingling across her bare skin suggested that he was a teleporter. A neat trick to say the least, but it wouldn't help him if she got her hands on him.

Behind her in the next cell She could hear shrodinger pleading for her safety. She wanted to look at him, to let him know not to worry, but she dared not take her eyes off Anthony, not for a second. She could see a cloth in his hand, and she suspected it had chloroform or some sort of drug similiar to it. A big part of her hoped that Havoc and the others were paying attention to this. There was alot of information to be learned here. For starters knowing that Anthony can teleport was a big deal. There was even going to be a better chance at learning how they sedate, and even what they do with sedated patients. She hadn't seen what had happened with Lulu, but she had a feeling that something similar to this may have occured.

For now though she was gonna wallop this guy good. He dared to come in here, unarmed, with only a drug to protect him? That was a big mistake, she was going to teach him that. She took a step back, pressing her back to the cold glass that seperated her cell from Shrodingers. The boy wouldn't be able to see it, but she was smiling now, as she cracked her knuckles. "I don't suppose yer hear to give me a cigarette eh? It would help calm me down." She said taking a step away from the glass and approaching the man.

There wasn't alot of room to move around in here, so she didnt have far to go before she was close enough to touch him. Once in range hpwever Abi changed drastically, launching herself at Anthony with a burst of speed, that few would have expected. She wrapped her arms around his midsection, lifting him off balance and slamming the man down onto his back. She hoped that might have winded him, but wasn't in the mod to wait and find out as she jumped onto him and began striking at his chest and face. She wasn't trying to kill him, as that wouldn't help her get out of here. Instead she wanted to try and hurt him bad enough that he might try to escape, or someone might come to his aid.

As of this point she had all but forgotten about the cloth, covered in the unknown sedative that he still clutched. She was unaware of its ability to sedate her with skin contact, and had dismissed it as a threat, thinking that it needed to cover her mouth toi be effective.

((OOC: Aedan and shrodinger would have the best views of what was going on as their cells would be on either side of Abi's.
Havoc = 2A
Shrodinger= 2B
Abi = 3B
Aedan = 4B
Does that seem about Right so far?))



 

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He wanted to smile, but knew better. Abi was smart, he could tell what she was doing, trying to get one of their captors in her cell. Placing his hand on the glass, he watched it unfold, for now there wasn't much he could do.

Aedan turned to Schrödinger who appeared to be panicking, they were scared. "Easy kid, stay calm," they had to keep their minds clear if their to get out of there. Through it all he'd been trying to build up ionic energy, enough to blast through the walls, but nothing was working.

His eyes went back to Abi, he took a breath and readied himself for whatever happened. It wouldn't be the first time he'd escaped from such a place. He let the cold calmness his training provided take hold, he didn't like that he was able to do that, but it was useful.

Looking to Havok, he didn't know him well, but he had always come off as military. This whole thing wasn't going to be easy.
 

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Once most of the screaming and noise from people awakening to their situation had passed, LuLu could hear some commotion coming from the cells on the end. Being in the middle, they couldn't see very well though. Someone yelled about getting dinged or some such, but the eldritch couldn't tell much more than that.

They couldn't cooperate with their captors if the captors didn't come back. And they couldn't communicate very well except with the people in the cages closest. Which was probably the point of having everyone in separate cages. Whoever had caught them wouldn't want everyone ganging up. Also, it might be possible for another captive to remove the bracelet even if they couldn't seem to get it off themselves. LuLu thought they might be able to reach a tentacle across into one of the other nearby cages, but they weren't sure what that would accomplish, even if they weren't seen. They didn't really have a plan at all. People seemed to be calming themselves down, or perhaps being calmed down in the same way they had been. They didn't have much of any escape attempt plans either, other than ones they'd considered for themselves. They weren't even sure how they could help if one of the other patients wanted to attempt an escape. And the layout seemed to make collaboration as a group impossible.

However, communication wasn't entirely impossible. They could still talk to the people in the closest cages and perhaps some of them would have more ideas. So LuLu turned to the nearest patient who was awake and spoke through the glass. "Greetings other cage person. We wish to know if you have any more information than we do?"