The Bunker of "Safety"

[othellovonryan]

[You find yourself in a large stone room. It has enough room to stand up, even for the tallest, and plenty of space to walk around. Likely Donnie absolutely exploded the insides of this rocky area to make this much space. The walls and corners are cut cleanly thanks to his mystic tools.]

[In the ceiling, recessed with some metal holders are crystals that shine with a warm light. A magic sunlamp.]

[There are a few inches of water on the floor, and probably most impressively is he's managed to make it so the water cycles through to the ceiling to make a light waterfall across all the walls. There are some polished boulders that provide some dry spots in the room.]

[But do make it very hard to try and write or carve things onto any surface in the room.]

[There is also a door with no handle on this side. It's half slid into the stone and has a metal cover, though any investigation will reveal the door is very thick, so probably stone makes up its center.]

[When people being dropped off]

[They can tell Donnie is coming back because the wall with the door is suddenly covered in a purple pink wall that will be shoving them across the room to push them away from the door. Then he'll open the door and drop off the person he's caught, or the food for people.]

[Each time the wall comes up, almost everytime, the walls seem to be getting...pinker.]

[Just for you guys: The Things Donnie is collecting from his connections for all this nonsense]
-Space Titanium to make Fabrications stronger from Korone
-His strength Plus Korone's strength when she's nearby until she bites someone else.
-Glyphs from Hunter
-Ninpo is always a thing
-Kraang things from Danger Memories
-Sedatives, so many sedatives
-Randy's orbment which comes with tech magic like FIRE, strength buffs under conditions, up his crit range for harder hits, makes him faster.
-Crow's guns

Comments

[bluediligence]

I can move anyone anywhere as long as I can "see" the target and have the destination clear in my mind. You're close enough. The cage won't make a difference.

[ She closes her eyes. Inhales. Concentrates, and finds that thin thread of red magic binding the pendant to her. Exhales. Yanks that thread just like Akako-chan taught her -

And the pendant settles back around her neck, safe and sound. ]

[pyrighteous]

[ !

Hunter watches, holding his breath. ]

That - that worked!

[bluediligence]

[ W H E W ]

[ Smiles, and while it's brief it's much closer to her usual ]

That's step one. Like I said, I don't know how far I'll actually be able to get you … [ If she even can at all. Goddamn glitchy powers. ] If you make it out of the bunker, get to Leo-kun as quickly as possible, okay?

[ Clasps her hands together around the pendant and focuses REAL HARD. REAL REAL REAL HARD.

AAAAAAAND

Teleports him!! ... Or tries to! He could end up: not moving, outside of the cage with her, with Leo, or somewhere (non-dangerous) in between ]

[pyrighteous]

[ Hunter squeezes his eyes shut, bracing for the teleport -

And he disappears for a moment! Did he make it? It seems like he did??

Right before he reappears inside the bunker with a yelp. Instinctively, he shifts back to witch form and winds up face down in the water with a splash. ]

[bluediligence]

Shit — Hunter-kun, are you okay?

[ WELL. HE'S DEFINITELY OUT OF THE CAGE.

THAT'S GOOD. Bright side…!! ]

[ Takes a careful step his way ]

[pyrighteous]

I-I’m okay! I’m okay, I’m out of the cage so - that’s a start.

[ He stumbles a bit, reaching out for Korone in turn. Frankly dizzied by being human sized again after being a bird for a whole day. ]

[bluediligence]

[ The moment she feels his hand, she pulls him (carefully, mindful of the feathersword she's still holding in her right) into a hug ]

It's a start. I — need a minute, but then we can try again. [ She's still woozy from the drugs. And, though she won't admit it, from the terror and panic she's shoving down as deep as it'll go. ]

[ As long as she manages it before Donnie comes back. ]

[pyrighteous]

[ He clings back to her gladly. ]

Y-yeah. That’s fine. Take a breath. You were out for a long time.

[bluediligence]

Maybe I just really needed the nap.

[ a soft laugh ]

[pyrighteous]

Yeahhh that didn’t look like normal sleep.

[ He hugs her again. ]

He drugged you, didn’t he?

[bluediligence]

... Yeah. As soon as he realised I wasn't going to come quietly.

[ Hugs him back gratefully ]

He used constructs. Krang tentacles, just like Leo-kun said. Whatever's going on with him ... it's bad.

[pyrighteous]

[ Hunter shivers at that. ]

He denied even using them. On Leo. He tried to tell me Leo hallucinated them.

[bluediligence]

He was trying similar tactics with me.

Hard to keep your guard up around someone if they're making you question and doubt yourself.

[pyrighteous]

… yeah. Yeah, I know that tactic.

[ He looks down at the water on the floor. ]

I fell for it again.

[bluediligence]

Not your fault.

[ Shifts to sit back down on her rock, gently pulling him along with ]

Ugh.

[pyrighteous]

[ He huddles next to her then. Splashes a hand in the water? Tries to draw a glyph with just that liquid but… it doesn’t stay. ]

What do we do?

[bluediligence]

... Good question. I'm — plans and strategy aren't exactly my strong suit.

First step is getting out of here. I'm gonna try to get you to Leo-kun again in a minute. I ... I don't wanna put all of this on his shoulders, but he knows his brother best. We're gonna need him.

I'll stay behind for now. Might be able to help anyone else be brings in here, and maybe I'll be able to distract him.

[pyrighteous]

Are - are you sure? He’s going to be angry if he comes back here and sees I’m gone.

[bluediligence]

Totally sure.

I'm not afraid to be a thorn in his side.

[pyrighteous]

…

You are pretty tough. Yeah. I’d - probably get convinced again.

[ He rubs at the earring still in the one ear. ]

[bluediligence]

[ ALAS that she can't see that ]

Don't be so hard on yourself. You're easily as tough as I am. [ Lightly nudges her shoulder against his. ] Way tougher, actually, in my humble opinion.

1/3

[pyrighteous]

Yeah, well. Neither of us can do anything now. If I had glyphs, we could try heating up the door, or getting water in the cracks and freezing it...

[ He drops his hand - and winces as his finger catches on the back of one of the posts. Stares down at the single drop of (saplike) blood forming ... ]

[pyrighteous]

[ Blood. Blood is dark enough - sticky enough - ]

[pyrighteous]

[ And suddenly Hunter stiffens as an idea occurs to him. ]

-- Can I borrow your feather knife?

[bluediligence]

[ she can feel that sudden tension and she's not sure she likes it ]

Uh, sure. What for?

[ It's a full-sized sword rather than a knife, but! She offers it over anyway, "hilt" first ]

... Wait, are you thinking of drawing glyphs in your own blood?