Taken (For the five)

[Sean Barker]

As the end of the battle against Sean's enforcers was emenent, he had a select few taken and brought here. Stripped of all equipment, and given the basic white pants with no pockets, white t-shirt, and white hospital shoes. They where all on beds that sat upright, and strapped down by metal clasps on the ankles, wrists, and neck.

He would walk into the completely white room, with the dim lighting to greet his new expiraments as they would wake up from the tranqualizer he put in them when they got here. They would of only been unconciouse for a little while anyways. They would probably notice being changed into the cloths, hopefully they wheren't modest.

"Wakey, weakey, time to say hi."

Sean would tease them to see who woke up first.

[Reverend (Dots) Teyfour]

"Wakey, weakey, time to say hi."

Huh when did Waap learn to talk i was slowly waking up from what i thought was a rad dream, kicking butt and slightly rembering geting draged away.. well i was reaching over the edge of my bed for my normal mornin bowl o ramen. knowtincing it wasent there, and i wasnt even in a bed, i sprung up from where i was laying and and looked all around for Waap. He wasnt there i hope this was good but who ever knows. i did knowtice my figting comrades were all around me in all white clothing, which looking at my self i was in. freaking out and going it to a lack of ramen shock, i knowticed the dude whos voice i thought belonged to my little furry companion. He looked like a BLOODY enforcer Errrrr.Oh he was gonna pay i once again felt my unrestained strenth and i was looking forward to using it again. suddently i felt with in me a force of pure power explode me aura felt as though it itself had become a wepon. just as the old man had told me one day the Qi of shenkiTrai would be at my desposail once i had breathed the true force of ShenKiRo, my figthing style, this would allow me to incress my speed and strength to push the limits by focasing my aura in to a extra layer of mucle and pure power around my body.... i was gonna have to keep this up my sleave. walking tward the dude who woke me i kindly asked,

"do you have any ramen, and is Waap here, oh yea and what is going on."

[Sean Barker]

"Now, now, calm down. Go back to your bed, I have no idea why they didn't have your restraints on you, but I'm going to fix that. If you dont my friends in those windows up there, will have to fill this room with tranqualizer darts."

Sean would state calmly, the kid had some balls walking towards him. But this was an order he should not refuse, or else he would be knocked unconciouse by the tranqualizer darts and miss so much of the introduction. He hated it when his expiraments didn't know what was going on.

"Your dog is being taken care of. No harm no faul. Now as for whats going on, I'll explain after your strapped in."

The boy would either comply and Sean would strap him down like the others where, strapped to their beds, or he would be pumped full of tranqualizer.

[Reverend (Dots) Teyfour]

today was becoming abad day first i wake up on the floor while they had all my comrades on beds they just dump me on the floor and now this dude was threating me with tranquilzers if i dident get to the open bed, at least he said Waap was better. I hope he dosent know Waapy tore out the throat of an enforce in that fight. just to get on his good side to keep Waap safe because they obviously have him, and because me and tranqulizers have bad history. to i walked up and sat indian style crosslegged on the bed and once a agian asked.

"so do ya have any Ramen you can spare a chap, i go a bit loony with out it"

[Bastille Amtrum]

Bastille was pissed. Nothing could describe the fire that burned her very body as she lay on the bed perfectly still. She could be mistaken for a life size doll chained for no reason. But she refused to show any sign of being awake or remotely aware of anything. She knew that’s what they wanted…reactions. And it was not in her guide book to give them such things. She for the last three minutes she had pretended to sleep. Kept her eyes shut as she calmed herself in her sleep like position to take in the fact that once again in her life. Chains connected her to something. She refused to give the slightest hint she was awake until she heard a familiar voice. The voice of a guy named “dots” if she remembered correctly. He was here too? How many others?....her curiosity got the better of her, and she could just hold reactions in while her eyes where open couldn’t she.

The light hit hard at first. She winced at it but her eyes opened slowly as the haze cleared. There was dots making out for the ramen, and there she was staring in a bored fashion at the man who was pestering them to wake up. Oh she wanted to kill him. Actually she wanted to kill everyone just about now, but that was impossible.

“Hey you!” he hissed angrily. “Why isn’t the rest of the student body strapped to gurneys!?” her voice going monotone.

She continued to sit her same stock still position her eyes her only form of expression as she glared in her apparent boredom.

[olesya]

"Wakey, wakey, time to say hi.."

"Eeeuuughghh...?"

Ohhh man, headache. Olesya moved to put a hand to her forehead but met metallic resistance. Huh? Her eyes snapped open to a sea of white clothing and metal confines. The junior shrieked in auto-response, thrashing against the restraints that cut marks into her wrists, ankles, and neck. She couldn't even move her head, so disoriented from being knocked out....

...knocked out. She'd been knocked out! Slowly her memories came back, vaguely at first as her consciousness caught up with her. She'd helped Stu over the fence and was about to climb over herself when and enforcer grabbed her by the leg and pulled her back over and she hit the ground hard, instant black out. But this wasn't the school, and these weren't her clothes...combination of the headache and the already panicked state she was in waking up so disoriented, she flipped out.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?"

She screamed, tugging at her restraints, angry eyes taking in the surroundings as the adrenaline pumped through her body. A man with dark hair was tauntingly speaking with another person in white clothing who seemed to have escaped his restraints. If he could get out then so could she. Olesya was never really one for unnecessary violence but she was like a cat thrown into a puddle when it came down to it. She wouldn't go down without a fight.

[Roland]

*FLICKER*

*FLICKER*

......

*FLICKER*

It is

*FLICKER*

What...

As I regain

*FLICKER*

As I regain consciousness gradually, the first thing I notice is the dull red light streaming into my throbbing corneas through my closed eyelids. An exploratory blink communicates in pain what my mind already knew; the room outside was bright, as stark and white as the endlessly pounding sands of time themselves. With my eyes safely shut against the stabbing light once again, I turn my attention to my other senses.

Other voices and possibly some shouting enter my ears as if through a wall of water, but become clearer as the moments pass, and I even catch clearly the last shout of "----THE FUCK AM I?" from somewhere off to the side. My sentiments exactly. Last I remember...

*FLICKER*

The Enforcers, while strong themselves, are unable to counter our offensive. Firebrand, Lockersbane and I are a trio of destruction, and form an impenetrable wall of coordinated effort. Suddenly, a forth joins us, a female student, a few years my senior by the looks of her. She charges in and demonstrates considerable rage and ability, but an Enforcer completely gutstomps her with a garbage can before I am able to even react. Her distress seems to outweigh the severity of her injury...what could be going wrong?

As I stand momentarily torn between dashing to the assistance of Lockersbane and Firebrand or backpedaling to help out the young woman in distress, a sudden impact from a source I cannot see generates no pain, yet the floor wobbles crazily before swinging up and bashing me on the side of my head. Booted feet, the smell of ancient school dust and blood. Thought ceases.

*FLICKER*

I return from my little trip into memory serenely. now I test my arms and legs. There is still a residual amount of pain from stress and injury, but I determine that I could walk and function. The only reason I do not test this speculation is that my motions are arrested by leg and arm binders.

I open my eyes very gradually, allowing them to adjust to the harsh light very slowly. At first, white is all I perceive, but I soon become aware of other shapes. Other people in beds nearby, and one man standing. The binders have by now made it clear to me that I am a captive, so presumably he is one of my captors. Wide awake and feeling no compunctions to speak, I silently observe this still blurry figure and wait. I am a very patient man, and I know when not to make trouble.

[Masaru]

"Wakey, weakey, time to say hi."

Masaru heard these words as he started to open his eyes as he was supposed to be asleep at the moment. Truth of the matter is, he was conscious right after the people holding them captive put on thier new clothes. There are some advantages of being in a secret society, where one has to learn to be immune to various poisons and tranquilizers. But, he never had a full immunity to everything because he was only half way done with his training as he was shipped off to America. Masaru silently watched the exchange of words between Dots and the Enforcer dude. soon, the other captives began realizing where they were. Luckily, the Captors dressed them in a different room, since as Masaru woke, he realized he was being dragged from the 'Dressing Room' to the cells, he got a small portion of the buildings layout. Being in situations like this before when he was being held for ransom, Masaru knew being patient and quiet was the best way to go, as to not get tortured or have any other mishap befall you.

[Sean Barker]

"Maybe later."

He would walk over and push the kid lightly down so he could strap him in. After strapping Dots to his bed once more, he would go back to where he was and hit a button so all the beds went upright, as if to let them stand, but since they where strapped in he let it stay at a slight angle so as not to damage them. Of course one of them was doing a damn good job of losing her freakin mind. He'd walk over and look her dead in the eye.

"Calm down. It's for safety."

He more or less ordered. The other where all seemingly awake, which was nice. One just starred, another asked why... His favorite question, and hopefully the one screaming would calm herself before Sean had to fill her with tranqs.

"Now as to the question why? Well durring the little schirmish against the enforcers you all showed.... Adequet potential to be more than what you are. So I have taken you all and you will be my new expiraments."

He said as if that was supposed to make them feel better. He knew no one liked being called an expirament, but that was his way of detaching himself from them so as to not think of them as people, but machines or something less.

[Roland]

"Now as to the question why? Well durring the little schirmish against the enforcers you all showed.... Adequet potential to be more than what you are. So I have taken you all and you will be my new expiraments."

So says our mystery captor in a reassuring tone of voice that is in no way congruous with his statement's subject matter.

While I am less than happy with the roughneck method of invitation employed by our captor in appropriating our services, I choose to forgive that particular rudeness for the time-being. It will not be forgotten and will perhaps be repaid later. For the moment, it would be nothing but damaging to dwell on this kidnapping, which amounts to little more than a minor impingement on my pride. By taking the idea of being a prisoner out of my reasoning, for now, I can objectively consider the man's offer without fear.

And what he offers is the prospect of power. Aside from the rudeness of the kidnapping, this man has essentially assembled us in order to offer us a gift with negligible immediate downsides. The term "experimentation" sounds painful and scary, but I sincerely doubt that our captors would do anything that might be fatal to their precious test subjects.

I decide to refrain from the obvious (and obviously foolish) question about what our options are. Our captors will experiment on us whether we want them to or not, and there is little we can do about that in our current state. However, some tests may be impossible without our conscious cooperation. In a way, my willingness to cooperate actively and peacefully is my only available commodity of value to this man.

"Since it is our bodies that are to be used for experimentation, I argue that we have sufficient stake in the proceedings that we should be informed of the goals of this undertaking."

I state levelly after a long, appraising stare at our captor. Since we are here and restrained, the man would have little to lose from revealing something of his plans to us, and has much to gain if he wishes to elicit our cooperation. Therefore, I am fairly sure that he will offer an honest answer about general goals, though probably vague as to the specific points of the plan. My decision to cooperate consciously with the experimentation likely hinges on his answer.

[olesya]

"Calm down. It's for safety."

I WILL NOT CALM DOWN I AM STRAPPED TO A BOARD YOU TWISTED SON OF A BITCH! The words were written all over her face but Olesya had stopped screaming when he came over and spoke in an orderly fashion. Her gaze shot daggers in his direction and she continued to struggle against her wrist and ankle restraints. Safety my ass, this asshole is up to no good. Her suspicions were confirmed when the dark haired man spoke again.

"Now as to the question why? Well during the little skirmish against the enforcers you all showed.... Adequate potential to be more than what you are. So I have taken you all and you will be my new experiments."

No. No no no no NO. Complete and total refusal. First of all, no one would touch her, much less perform experiments. EXPERIMENTS, was he mad?! Suddenly Olesya's choices of action were narrowed drastically. She could either give in (NO), Fight until she was subdued (slim chance of working, and once she was subdued they would do as they pleased anyway), or she could work together with the other captives to get out of here. Here were, what, five of them? And one of him. Obviously he wasn't working alone otherwise he wouldn't have been able to sudbue and kidnap all of them, but right now in this room, he was outnumbered.

"But then you know just what we're capable of you backwards son-of-a-!"

A voice spoke up, silencing the agitated junior. His voice was diplomatic and calm, but more than that, it was familiar.

"Since it is our bodies that are to be used for experimentation, I argue that we have sufficient stake in the proceedings that we should be informed of the goals of this undertaking."

ROLAND! Her gaze darted over to where the voice was and sure enough, it was her fellow band mate. Olesya felt significantly better and worse at seeing her friend. First of all she wasn't alone (well she wasn't alone, but at least now there was someone she knew) but she also felt bad that he had gotten dragged into this predicament was well.

[Reverend (Dots) Teyfour]

Occ: sorry it took so long to post. and srry for slop earlyer posts key bourd went wack.

"Maybe later."

after the dude said this to me he came up and straped me down i wasent to mad about that at least he didn't tranquize, and he said the only reason he brought us here was to make us stronger well (chuckle) i wasn't opposed to that at all i dident even mind him calling us experimen, but i felt my self going in to lack of ramen shock and i knew whatever i tryed to say would come out weird. looking around befor i spoke i reconized Roland, who has witnessed my lack of ramen before and my friend Mararu and there was this pissed off gal also. now my stomack was roaring if i didn't get ramen soon i was gonna use my new found Qi to snap out of these shackles and bash in that enforcer dudes head and feel that oh so pleasent rush again.

"Ramen, fine, need, ok, experiment, with, hungry, im, just, i, no no thats right not ahhhhhh."

yup i went in to remant shock i ment to say ok im fine with the experiment but im hungry i just need ramen.. but as normal it came out as jumbled babbaling..

[Masaru]

"Now as to the question why? Well durring the little schirmish against the enforcers you all showed.... Adequet potential to be more than what you are. So I have taken you all and you will be my new expiraments."

Hmm.... Interesting. Masaru never thought of himself as an exceptional fighter because he never really got into fights before. Complements are always welcome. As to the part about being experimented on.... that could be good or bad. What if the experiment went wrong? that could end up not being so good. Some experiments only have less than 1% chance of being successful, and over 50% of being fatal.... hopefully the experiments worked as were planned. He never really wanted to be a guinea pig for some questionably trustworthy figures, but if this is what is in store, destiny works in many ways, may as not well fight it.

"Ramen, fine, need, ok, experiment, with, hungry, im, just, i, no no thats right not ahhhhhh."

Hmm, seems like Dots started showing another side of himself. Luckily, Masaru studied the works of many insane people in the past, so he could slightly piece together what Dots was trying to say. He didn't think the captors would care if Dots didn't mind about being tested on, or if Dots was hungry either, so Masaru chose to left it as is and not translate. Now, back to what one of the other prisoners said:

"Since it is our bodies that are to be used for experimentation, I argue that we have sufficient stake in the proceedings that we should be informed of the goals of this undertaking."

Masaru doubted that the captor would answer the question, but he watched silently while trying to find a comfortable position.

[Bastille Amtrum]

Bastille stared at the wall. Her crimson hues focusing on a single spec on the wall across the room. She had no need to listen any further. Experiments, that was a relief, shed had worse. much much worse. Of course she wasn’t pleased her body would be tested on but that’s where sleeping came in handy, and just plane not giving reactions. She had no reason to give them reactions. Its what they wanted. Bastille was determined to just idol through this without getting darted. And hell if she got darted so be it, a free nap. She continued to stare at the wall now trying to remember what happened.

The people fighting everywhere. The water pouring down like a waterfall from the second floor due to the fact the fat ass had broke the water pipe. She was soaked and crushed by debris from falling a story and a half down. She felt sore and tired however she got up and fought at least two more enforcers before her body gave out for lack of better strength and she passed out standing up.

It was then that Bastille took in her new clothing. Pulling at it slightly she gave it a raised brow then dropped it and stared a moment as if trying to figure something out. Pouting her lip slightly she then let out a light sigh and returned to her closed eye, non-reactive, bored state. She listened to the others through riots and do whatever other nonsense. She was pissed yes, but there was no reason to show it at all.

[Sean Barker]

Well the dots indevidual was increasingly putting Sean in a bad mood. Seemed he was rather boring if he didn't have some sort of food after waking up. So Sean would walk to him listening to the smart one speak. Sean would have been facing Dots when his knees bent, his left foot sliding back, right arm going back, and muscle mass increasing at least to twice its original size in the arm and the fist would slam forward into Dot's gut.

"Rather distracting."

He'd then turn around hopefully that would shut this one up for a while so he could get to the intellagent one in the group. He'd move to stand infront of this one. His information on this one was interesting. Roland was his given name if he wasn't mistaken.

"Well, since you put it so... Well, heh. I'll tell you what you need to know... I am going to increase all of your physical abilities to at least two times what you think strong is, I'm going to make your spiritual abilities surface weither they want to or not, and if you refuse to take part in it, you will end up either insane, or just another empty soul walking around in this building."

He'd pace for a moment, thinking on what he was going to put these kids through.

"As a matter of fact, you dont have a choice, see you may not participate yourself in our expiraments, which is all fine and dandy, but the field tests will probably end with you beaten and bloody if you dont react to it. We have had deaths, but they where accidents I assure you... Heh."