Chapter 15: Escape

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As soon as Felix came back to the security room with Jeongin, Woojin and Seungmin quickly caught the younger up to speed and set off back through the prison. Now that the alarms were going off, they expected to run into more guards, but it wasn't until they reached the hallways leading to solitary confinement that they ran into a lot of heavily armed guards.

Before the guards had a chance to react to their sudden appearance, Seungmin held his hand out in front of him and caused every loose metal item in the hall to be pulled to the space directly in front of him, forming a metal mass consisting of guns, badges, coins, etc. Once the guards were disarmed, Jeongin stepped in front of his hyungs and let out a high pitched scream. All at once, shockwaves were sent through the hall and all the guards were blasted backward a considerable distance, their hands attempting to block out the hellish noise.

He turned back to Woojin and Seungmin with a grin on his face as the two olders lowered their fingers from their ears and the pile of metal, which had been suspended in the air, dropped. They had both just put in their special earplugs that they kept for exactly the type of situation at hand.

"Good job, Innie," Woojin praised and patted his back before shifting into a giant brown bear and charging toward the guards before they had a chance to get back on their feet. Woojin's animal instincts took over as a result of the scent of blood that was currently falling from the guards' ears, a side effect of Jeongin's scream. He used his excessive weight to knock out all the guards in the way of the entrance to the solitary confinement cells. Once Woojin was finished, Jeongin and Seungmin easily passed all the unconscious guards, and the latter easily got the locked entrance door open. On the other side, however, there was another wave of guards who already had their guns aimed at the door, ready to fire after hearing the commotion.

The sound of shots firing went off, but Seungmin was quick to repel the tiny bits of metal back into the barrels of the guns they had just left, the pressure causing many of the guns to explode. Woojin took this time to transform from a bear to a rhinoceros and charged towards the guards. Using his rhino horns, he paved a path through the first group of guards so that Jeongin could get past and use his gift on the remaining guards and back them towards the wall, all while Seungmin was navigating the bullets to find their ways into the guards instead of his friends. All of them were being careful to not actually kill anyone. They didn't want to prove they were the monsters Normies say they are.

Within the short span of a minute, the fifty heavily trained and armed guards that had been stationed at Yeonjun's cell were incapacitated, and the three Gifteds responsible for it had barely broken a sweat. As Woojin shifted back into his human form, Jeongin and Seungmin stopped to give each other a high five and hug, over excited that they were doing so well on their first mission.

"Don't celebrate just yet, you two. We still have to get out of here," Woojin said to end their little celebration. "Seungmin, can you get the cell door open for me."

Seungmin moved the gears of the slightly more reinforced door and opened it. The sight that awaited them inside caused all three of them to gasp in horror. Yeonjun's unconscious body was lying on a prison cot that was against the back wall, and there was an IV bag hanging from a rack a tube snaking its way into the boy's wrist. The worst thing of all being was the muzzle locked around Yeonjun's mouth to make sure he couldn't speak.

"What the actual hell," Seungmin spoke up first. "Do they think he is some sort of dog?"

"This is way past inhumane," Jeongin said in disbelief.

Woojin scoffed and added, "I doubt whoever called for this considered him human. If they were just concerned about him using his gift, I think the medication would be enough to prevent that. The muzzle was a statement," as he said this, Woojin carefully removed the IV needles from the boy's arm while Seungmin removed the wicked contraption covering his mouth. Woojin bent down to pick up Yeonjun bridal style and turned back towards the door as a swarm of new guards swept into the room. However, instead of the expected prison guard uniforms, they wore the black combat outfits of the IPBA special forces team.

Woojin sighed, "Jeongin-ah, could you handle them? My hands are a bit full."

Seungmin situated a spare pair of earplugs they had on hand into the unconscious boy's ears, not wanting to deafen him then he turned to Jeongin with a grin and wink, "I got you covered, Innie."

Jeongin rolled his eyes in response. 'Honestly, his hyungs are so embarrassing.'

They made it back through the prison the way they came. Jeongin cleared the way with his screams, and Seungmin protected against them against bullets by reflecting them. Even when some IPBA agents pulled out their few specialized plastic guns that the combatant agents specifically carry for Gifteds with metal manipulating gifts, Woojin's senses were quick to notice it and he alerted Jeongin in time for him to blast back the bullets and officers. At this point, the structure of the building was starting to crumble because of all the sonic wave disturbance.

As soon as they took down the group of thirty agents, they booked it to the security room before the IPBA could send in another team. They knew that the agency was probably already closing off all the surrounding roads so they wouldn't have anywhere to go, but Woojin was confident that Chan had a plan. Chan always had a plan.

As they opened the door to the security room they were met with a pacing, alone Felix who freaked when the door opened. He quickly moved into a fighting stance before calming down when he registered the faces of his friends.

"Why are you by yourself?" Woojin asked as he looked around the room. "Where's Changbin?"

"I took him back already with Minho and Jisung."

"You found Minho?" Jeongin asked, relieved. He had been extremely concerned for their new team member ever since he saw him fighting a losing battle via the cameras.

"Yeah, they showed up just before you did. Changbin wanted to stay with me, but honestly, all this jumping is starting to exhaust me, and I wasn't sure I would be able to transport five people at once. Honestly, four is even a stretch right now, but thankfully you're supporting Yeonjun's weight. Is he okay?"

"He's fine, just unconscious," Seungmin explained. "Now let's hurry."

Woojin, Seungmin, and Jeongin gathered closely to Felix and grabbed each others' arms. Once they were back in the alleyway outside the prison, Felix immediately collapsed onto Jeongin who was next to him. The younger caught him and was struggling to keep him up when Changbin ran up to them and threw one of Felix's arms over his own shoulder.

"Idiot. He pushed himself too much," Changbin huffed.

Soobin and Huengingkai also rushed the newly arrived group to get a good look at Yeonjun.

"Yeonjun hyung! Is he okay?" Huengkai questioned worriedly. Taehyun was close behind him, sympathetic for his new friend.

Soobin went to Woojin and asked if it was okay for him to hold Yeonjun instead, and Woojin obliged.

"Hurry up guys, I can hear the police sirens closing in around us. We aren't going to make it out of here if you all dilly dally any longer. Who was stupid enough to set off the alarms anyways," Jimin suddenly shouted. Woojin, Seungmin, and Jeongin were surprised by her sudden appearance, but apparently she had brought the second van which she had used to drive to the city, now returned back to its original appearance. It made sense that she would show up because they were a total of sixteen at this point and definitely wouldn't fit in one van.

Huengingkai, Taehyun, and Soobin, who was still carrying Yeonjun piled into the van Jimin was driving, which also carried Beomgyu, Ryujin, and Yuna inside, while Woojin, Seungmin, Jeongin, and Changbin, who was supporting Felix, filed into Chan's van where the rest of their team was.

Once everyone was situated, Jimin's voice was heard over the bluetooth car radio, "what's the plan now Bang Chan?"

"So glad you asked, Jimin. Just drive. As fast as you can. We are going to have to run whatever barricade they have set up, those of us with distance powers clearing the way."

"They are still going to chase us all the way through the city."

"Once we are through, we just need a minute out of their sight and we can disappear from their radar, them not even knowing we are right under their noses," Chan finished saying as he pushed his foot down on the gas, propelling them into the busy streets outside the prison.

"How...?" Jimin started to ask, but then it dawned on her. "Ooooooh, okay. I got you," Then she followed suit.

Just as they had thought, the streets were already swarming with police cars and IPBA vehicles alike, but the alley they had just come out of was directly behind where all of them had gathered outside the prison. He made a sharp left turn to go in the opposite direction, Jimin soon catching up so that they were driving next to each other.

Cars started to chase after the two fleeing vans, but everyone that could was ready to help out. The back doors of both cars were flung open so that the Gifteds had a good view of their targets, one of Minho's shields protecting against any gunfire. Changbin was freezing multiple cars in their tracks before they had a chance to gain on them, Seungmin had cars flying left and right, completely turning them over, and Taehyun was causing gigantic vines to grow from the street pavement and wrap their ways around the cars, stopping their advancements.

As they made it to the rode block, Beomgyu stuck his head and hand out the passenger seat window. He held his hand out to the barricades and cars, soon causing a tornado to start to take shape in the exact spot Chan and Jimin were driving straight for. After a few seconds of the tornado clearing a path for them, the wind settled and Beomgyu returned to his seat.

"Wow, it's been a long time since I have been able to use my gift at its full potential. It's liberating to not have to restrain yourself," Beomgyu said in relief.

"That's how it goes when you're a Rank 4 stuck hiding out in the city. BTS told you that you should have just found a small town to hideout in instead that didn't have the Gifted sensors," Taehyun responded.

"What would you know? You're only a Rank 3," Beomgyu teased the younger.

"We both know that it is borderline 4. You never know, the IPBA might have reclassified me if I had gone in for my adult examination."

"Yuck, why would you want to think about ever doing that, the examinations are hell on earth for a week and we all know that," Yuna added, butting into their conversation.

The chit chat was cut to an end when everyone was jolted to the right as Jimin made a sharp turn. Both Chan and Jimin managed to lose the agency long enough for Chan to instruct everyone out of the vans and have Jimin transform them into one semi-truck. After that they returned to the streets, disguised, and exited the city under the cloak of midnight.

Chan had been put in charge of driving the truck for their three hour ride back to the academy since he was the least likely to fall asleep and Woojin was keeping him company in the passenger seat. The remaining fifteen Gifteds had spread out in the trailer of the truck, everyone trying to catch their breath after the events of the night and finally get some rest.

They all started to drift to sleep one by one, excluding Yeonjun and Felix who were already unconscious, either due to overuse of their gift or because of how late it actually was. All except two.

Now that things had settled down, Jisung's mind couldn't help but go back to the memories that had resurfaced during his fight with Jaehwa. They were all the memories he was constantly trying to forget, constantly looking for excitement and adventure to distract him from them.

"Can't sleep?" Minho suddenly asked. He had been leaning his head back against the wall of the trailer next to Jisung. Jisung slightly looked sideways at the older, still feeling a bit flustered by the boy.

"Yeah. Too busy thinking," responded Jisung.

"Same."

There was an awkward moment of silence.

"Wanna talk about it?" Minho said to break it.

"It's just that Jaehwa kid made me think about my parents."

"Can you tell me about them?" Jisung turned to give Minho his full attention as soon as the latter asked that question which caused Minho's face to redden. "I-I mean you don't have to if you don't want to... Actually forget I asked." Even though Hyunjin had said it would be okay to ask, it still felt wrong, like he was invading someone's privacy. Why should Jisung have to tell him a probably very personal story? They have only known each other for not even two days, yet Minho wanted to be closer to the boy.

"No, I don't mind telling you. I was just surprised you asked," Jisung then returned back to looking forward rather than at Minho. He sat up from the hunched over posture he had been in and moved to mimic Minho by resting his back and head on the wall behind them, unintentionally moving closer to the older during the process. "But you have to explain what's on in your mind, too, once I'm done," Jisung said, adding an ultimatum.

"Fair enough."





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Y'all. I feel so psychic after the Boxer MV.

1) I totally have been saying since the album came out that they would do a street version to Boxer and they would totally do some sort of super smash bro tomfoolery. HAHA I called it.

and 2) MINSUNG IN A HAMMOCK
I REPEAT
MINSUNG.
IN.
A.
HAMMOCK.
bic i feel psychic.

Alright, rant done. Hope y'all enjoyed.

Alsooooo, what do y'all think of the new cover?
Made by my new and fantastic friend. Ahhh she's too great.

Q: What is your favorite candy?

Hands down, Midnight Milkyways.

Ughhhh, if heaven was a candy it would be Midnight Milkyways. I love them so much and all my friends know it, so I got like six bags for my birthday back in December. They would have been gone by now if I had remembered I had them, but I kinda forget. I realized I did, though, recently and I have literally gone through two entire bags in three weeks.

I may or may not have a problem.

Thank you so much my readers <3

~Shadow

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