Escape from New York

I wake in a holding area.
 
As I start to move around, I realize that my hands are bound, and that I’m still in my nano-suit. Well, at least there is one good thing going for me.
 
I lay still for a while, making sure that I have recovered all my energy, and I’m listening to see what is happening around me.
 
I think I hear RBC near me, but I haven’t opened my eyes yet to see if she is awake yet.
 
I think I hear an IERA agent walking towards my cell.
 
“Well, looks like those cuffs are doing their job. The blue one seems to still be asleep. I’m surprised that those two even lived after getting blasted full force. I hope that R & D is working on something stronger to take out these overpowered freaks.”
 
“Hey, just be glad that you didn’t get gassed like I did. I’m still adjusting to it, and they still treat me just like a regular agent.”
 
“Yea George, we all thought you bought the farm back at that lab on the west coast. Some of the REA supers on Force 5 can be real dicks.”
 
I hear the two of them pass on by my cell. I lay there a bit longer to see if they are making regular rounds.
 
Now to see if I can get out of these cuffs. I concentrate on making myself less and less dense, slowly this time as I don’t want to be too open to attacks. I can tell that I am getting less and less dense as I can feel myself sinking into the floor a little bit, but my hands are still bound. Ok, that sucks.
 
I activate my Walking On Air, hoping that works. I feel myself pull free of the floor and can tell that is working too.
 
I open my eyes and settle to the floor looking to see if there are any windows in this cell. No, of course not, why would they make it that easy. I have no idea where I’m at or which way to head out.
 
Einiey Meaniey Miniey Moe… It’s that way that I go.
 
I shift to my least dense form and head out of the wall to my right.
 
As I’m passing through the wall, there she is, RBC. “Well, well, they got you too. Did Claws leave you to be captured? Some teammate there. That’s why I work alone. You know, if you had agreed to hold on to me and the box, I would have flown us away and we could have continued our argument alone and one of us, I mean I, could have left with the box.”
 
"I knew you we're a Ray and attack!"
 
"Really? I'm a Ray as you call them? You see these cuffs still on my hands? Apparently, you didn't listen to what I said. I WORK ALONE. I fail or succeed on my own. If anyone was a 'Ray' as you call them, I'd say it was Claws that was with you. She took off pretty quickly when she could see that you were beat. Some teammate."
 
"Energy rebels are a tough cell we are trained to live to fight another day and accept some losses!"
 
"You may be tough, but you don't think long term, do you? If you had listened to me before that ship fired, we would both have gotten away. Oh, well, you ain't gonna listen, so, I'm outta here."
 
“Good go you have bad breath!”
 
“Goodbye and good luck. Beat on you later.” He laughs at his own joke as he continues to the wall directly across from where he entered her cell, moving parallel to the hall outside of the cells. At each wall, he pushes his face through just enough to see what is on the other side. He continues moving carefully, and listening for alarms that someone has escaped. Once he sees an outside wall, he’ll quickly take to the air and fly up and away from where he has been kept.
 
Once up and away, he’ll get his bearings and begin heading to the general area of the closest drop point. He quickly pens a note about the fact that he is bound in something that is changing its density as he does, and he needs help at a burner location to get them removed, just in case they are being tracked somehow.
 
He moves to a secondary pickup point and watches from hiding to wait for an answer.
 
Twenty minutes later he sees someone drop something in the box. He waits another 10 minutes afterwards to be sure that no one is around. He deactivates the suit and pulls the hoodie up over his head and tucks his hands under the hoodie and makes his way over to the drop box. He retrieves his reply.
 
“5th and Broadway, 20 minutes.” He destroys the note by placing it back in the drop box and activating the self-destruct. He smiles as there is a small puff of smoke that rises from the box and realizes that he can just barely make the location in the time he has left. He tucks over and makes his way towards the location.
 
Once at 5th and Broadway, he goes into an alley, and charges up the nano-suit and drops into the ground. He finds a hooded figure waiting in a small room. He drops into the room and solidifies and makes the gesture as best he can. The hooded figure nods and turns. Adam follows him.
 
After a short walk, the hooded figure stops and makes a gesture. Adam steps up next to him, and they both vanish and re-appear in a brightly lit room.
 
“Show me the cuffs” I lift my hands towards him as he reaches out. “Interesting, Hollow energy. You were right to be careful. We could track these, so I’m sure that THEY could too.” The hooded figure looks me straight in the eye. “This is going to hurt.” I’m not sure, but I think he smiled at that.
 
Sometime later, I wake up again. I have no idea how long I was out, but he was correct, that hurt a lot. I have no idea what he did, but at least my hands are free and the cuffs are gone, not my problem now. I’m still in the same room that I was in when I passed out, so, I get up and look for an exit. There isn’t a regular one, so I make my way out of the upper corners of the room. I move slowly so that I don’t just appear out in the open. I get to the edge of the street and start to look around. Good, another alley. I make my way up and change back into my regular clothes and move out to figure out where I am.
 
I’m not in the city I started in, and I’m a bit of a travel away from where I need to be. Well, I hang my head, and make my way to the debrief. This isn’t going to be a good one. This is the first mission that they sent me on that I have utterly and totally failed. I shake my head and keep going.
 
I also think I finally figured out what my favor is... I need protection from the energy fragments of the Hollow, those things really wore me out.