Just An Innocent Day at A-Kon (Invite Only!)

Nothing about this felt right, and just for that it made sense. "It should go without me having to ask, but what are these mannequins?" Standing over the man with her arms crossed, beaming down with her gaze of disappointment in the mere fact she could make a guess at what he spoke about. "Are these some kind of manufactured super hit squads you guys are making?" She stuck around this kind of person long enough to know how their minds worked and what they wanted.

Power and Money. Anything dealing with superhumans, whether the process of creating them or selling their goods always made criminals drunk with ecstasy. "So you're just an errand boy trying to cut a deal with the big boys?" Her eyebrow raised as she began to think of their next moves. "That makes you less of a bargaining chip and more of a bad hand." Wiping away the face of failed plans and moving on to the next, Bliss began to take their next course of actions into account. "I guess breaking up a drug cartel just became one of our lowest priorities."

Nightingale kept up her spirits with her enthusiasm towards their overall goal, but her duality between toughness against people and timidness towards unexpected situations made her worry a bit about her. While she wanted to tell her they would get out of there just fine, Bliss merely tapped her fingernail against her tooth, keeping her stare focused on Tyuki. "Okay, so what we know is they won't hesitate to kill him, but they don't gain anything from killing us." A reckless plan might do enough mayhem to get them out, but they needed surprise. "I need to know what rooms are next to this one. I'll drive an ice barb through the upper wall and we can move out of the room and get a drop on the guards in the next room. Sound good?"

"We'll take the stairs." Bliss said with a smirk across her face. Knowing once she punctured the wall the room would exude loud noises much easier, she walked over to the man pressed one of the hoods into his mouth before tying the bag in place with rope. Ice began to build up trapping the man in a frozen block with only his upper body free from the frozen grasp. "That should hold him." She turned to examine the roof. "I wondered about just breaking through the ceiling and making a run for it; glad I waited for information."

One of her favorite tricks of the trade became the staircase she conjured so effortlessly to not just move up, but also to make a way for her to go up. Sticking true to her methods the ice rose in a pillar like form in the center of the room and pressed on until it drilled through the ceiling and gave them a means of escaping the cramp room with the terrible aroma. "After you." Bliss motioned for Tyuki to ascend the staircase while Bliss would follow soon after.

Once they reached the supply closet, Bliss would rummage through the chemicals to try and devise some kind of explosive powder or other material she could use to cause a large distraction. Well, something big enough to distract people from two girls who just came from an anime convention in full garb.

"Try not to spark a light in a room full of chemicals. Even I'm not good enough to keep both of us safe in the case of this whole room going up." For some reason Bliss felt even more out of the loop when she saw the lighter. She knew precisely why Tyuki kept it, and even though Bliss harbored no will to keep her from smoking the display in this manner pressed at Bliss. She was getting old. "These should be able to make enough of a ruckus to divert attention. Here's the plan." As she pulled down a few cases of cleaning supply she quickly unscrewed the lips and began pouring them into a plastic garbage bag. "We toss this up stairs and pull the guards away from the hall, and then we take the path of least resistance and vacate the building."

With the amount of liquid Bliss placed in the bag it took on a great deal of eight. Tyuki would need to carry this thing while she drilled out a hole to toss the thing into the middle of those tweaked out junkie's night club. "Carry this bag and get ready to light this..." Not wanting to leave Tyuki without a lighter for later, Bliss grabbed a roll of paper towels and tore one off for Tyuki to set on fire to ignite the bag. "...And then we can let this thing erupt like a meth lab." She thought for a moment about her last statement. "This whole place could be one big meth lab. Shit. I'll be ready to make sure we don't get exploded on."

Moving into position, Bliss awaited Tyuki to make the distraction she could get the escape plan on the go. "Blow it."

An explosion rocked the upper lounge kicking the excitement for everyone up a notch. Before the explosion erupted Bliss iced over the hinges of the door to allow it to fall as if the explosion dislodged it from its natural place. As she listened for footsteps from the hallway she tried to time out her next few actions. Bumbling footsteps charged by, but it only sounded as though four guards vacated the hallway. Bliss froze a section of her hand and stuck it out the open doorway. Two guards still remained guarding the room they escaped from, but in the excitement they started looking into the room just before the prison housing the vans for any intruders coming to save the girls. "I'll ice them over and then me make a run for it. Got it?" With a lowered voice Bliss gave the order to move out against the guards standing in between them and their freedom.

An eerie noise crawled through the walls, crying like a whale song in the twilight. Fearing the explosion ruptured a pipe within the wall, one of the guards returned to the prison door to check the walls. Water etched up against the wall and soaked through as the guard rubbed his finger against the wet surface. Looking to his finger took the guard's eyes completely off the wall and as he turned his gaze back a blunt force of ice erupted from the wall, flooring him and trapping him to the ground. Bliss shot out and jumped over the man in her effort to escape, when she came to face the second guard. Quickly she pressed both hands against the barrel of his gun to keep it from firing into her chest, while she shot out another block of ice to incapacitate the second guard.

Feeling her plan come to fruition and seeing the methods of escape come through, Bliss made her way towards the door leading out of the building before stopping to make sure no guards caught Tyuki. This seemed almost too easy.

Long into the night the plot thickened. Just in grasp of freedom a disconcerting voice came from the side as Tyuki and Bliss turned to face a large figure and two blonde twins at either side of him. "Nothing in life is easy; why would this?" Ice started to build up around her right hand to support Tyuki after she tossed the twin aside, but suddenly everything changed. With the path blocked off, Tyuki moved to engage one of the twins and found herself thrown on her back before Bliss started to help her younger companion. She fell for the confidence of a brash unproven hero; how could she rush in so recklessly. Firmly a rag forced into her mouth kept Bliss quiet while the woman overpowered her arms from behind, tension rose through her joints and felt as though any movement would shatter her arms. Only moments ago Bliss saw the woman in front of her; either a third combatant entered, or this woman exploited the slow speed of the two girls to take advantage of the situation.

With Tyuki captured, Bliss found her chances reaching zero for escape. Force shifted and Bliss found her hands tied behind her back. After securing her ankles and knees, Bliss spit the rag out of her mouth and tried pulling her hands out of the bindings. Failing to escape, the twin tossed Bliss over her shoulder with a black bag over her head. This time they skipped the van ride and angry energy of tweaked up gang bangers, but the more methodical situation they found themselves ensnared in gave her less error to work against. These people would no longer give her large openings to exploit for freedom.

Chains pulled her arms tightly to her side and wrapped her and Tyuki to each other from their feet to their shoulders. Creaking machinery pulled the two girls up and dangled them dangerously over a vat of acid. The youth of her friend freed her from her bag before Bliss could again. With no floor to brush the bag against she couldn't even find away to begin getting the bag off. A feint smell filled her nose under the hood and the hushed whisper of Tyuki filled her in on the dangerous waiting for them, a vat of acid. "Nightingale, get this thing off my head." Escape artistry never really found its way on the ice users skill set, so she needed the assistance in order to come up with a plan.

Seeing the lab around her with her own eyes failed to make the situation better. "Bitch took my hoodie." Bliss felt the chains digging into her lower chest, but due to her physiology she no longer needed to breathe. With the pressure of breathing gone she saved herself the pain of the crushing force of the suspension. Tyuki shook the chains, whipping Bliss around with each of her movements. Bliss dodged her head with each swing of Tyuki's head while she sobbed about wrong doings in high school. "Either give me room to start praying for things I've done or try to get your head level."

Catwalks along the upper scaffolding looked promising, but she needed to get there. Breaking the chains with Tyuki's strength or her ice would drop them into the vat of acid. Once she heard the young girl recant what seemed like one of her favorite past times, Bliss tried to lighten her mood. "Don't go making promises you won't keep when we're done here."

"Quiet up there." One of the twins took objection to the chatter between the two girls.

"I'll tell you my name for some of that pot you stole from the van." Angering the twins more, Bliss continued her conversation with the younger girl. "Watch for how she gets up here, and then we get better leverage for escaping." Knowing what the twins would go for next made Bliss give up one last bit of advice. "Put your tongue in between your lips."

"I know how to make them a little less talkative." The twin showing a great ability with speed picked up a roll of duct tape and ripped off two pieces before fading into the rafters. It took a few moments for her to reappear, but she followed a rafter walk and jumped from the rafters towards the two girls. With lighting reflexes she threw the tape over the girl's mouths and disappeared into thin air before reappearing next to her twin.

"Thadoumpers." Bliss tried to make out against the tape the word "Shadow Jumper," but came with a more muffled response. Not expecting the quickness, Bliss failed to follow her own advice, but hoped her companion heeded it in her wake.

Hearing Tyuki's voice in her ear filled her with some confidence. "Eel." Bliss murmured 'deal' to Tyuki. Knowing her friend could talk filled her with a feeling of accomplishment; she didn't know why exactly. While Bliss tried contorted her jaws to loosen the tape she turned to see a glow beaming from Tyuki. It began to make more sense as to why she felt better, but the thrashing she insisted on began to startle Bliss. Getting the attention of the twins to move around the vat would at least give them sometime to try and devise a workable plan.

The motion moved the suspended duo away from the center of the vat. With the rapid movement of Tyuki, they didn't move in the way that would take them to safety, but instead flailed wildly over the vat. Bliss looked up, hoping the chain holding them would keep them held up, but knowing as long as they stayed in this predicament the worse they would fare against the twins. Bliss tried to get Tyuki's attention, but the mixture of action and lack of jaw movement Bliss experienced made it difficult.

While Tyuki struggled to cause a diversion, Bliss felt the chain begin to descend. Her plan wanted to get them on the ground, but this way didn't go well for her. The twin with the teleportation operated the crane and dropped the two girls into the waiting arms of the twin with incredible strength. Once the girls dangled a few inches over the ground she stepped in front on Tyuki and pressed the tape back over her mouth. "Nice try girls. But, if you break those chains, I'll break your pretty little face."

Recklessness got them nowhere, but did show Bliss a head long assault against the twins from their situation would prove worthless. In her normal display of attitude she went from defiant to timid, letting Bliss know she needed to get them out of this. Putting the weight of the situation solely on the shoulders of an eighteen year old with no real experience didn't seem fair to begin with, but now Bliss put more effort into figuring out to get them out of this trouble, without exposing them to the unfair fight the twins would present them.

Tyuki sobbed quietly, dropping tears down her cheek and into the vat. Acid smelted the tears and burned them away with a threatening hiss. Then it hit her.

She thought back to the diversion they kicked up in the night club, the chemicals, the bag, and the lighter. Then it struck her; she ripped off a paper towel so that Tyuki could keep her lighter. Well, it looked she gave her a paper so she could throw it away later. Actually, you never know when you'll need a lighter, so she needed something else to light up. She dug her fingers into the holes in the fishnets and ripped a piece of the cloth apart.

While Tyuki hung in silence Bliss nudged the back of her head. "Aighter." She tried to make out the word 'lighter.' "Aighter. Aighter." Gazing down at the ripped cloth in her hand so Tyuki could get the message to light it up. Once she lit it up Bliss would hold the tattered garment in her hand, while she began conjuring up blocks of ice to drop into the vat. Each block dropped and began to melt away immediately. Even with the ice dissipating, it still kept a great deal of water in the vat. As the water began mixing with the acid, Bliss started to form ice around the lid of the vat.

The flaming piece of cloth fell towards the vat and ignited the acid. Ice all along the container melted and the content of the vat overcame the holding capacity. Acid poured over the sides and splashed along the ground floor. Bliss continued to pour ice into the vat while also putting just enough ice into the chain to keep the twins from lowering them into the acid as a last ditch effort. As the vat emptied, the twins retreated from the room, leaving Bliss and Tyuki separated from their captors.

With acid lining the floor, they would need to swing themselves over to the scaffolding to get themselves free. "Mury, mury." Bliss communicated to tell Tyuki they needed to get over there quickly.