Arizona's POV.
I don't know how long I've been here; I think it must be a good few hours having fallen asleep and woken up not too long ago. I've tried to break out of the restraints holding me to this table but I can't seem to break the bonds trapping me. I can hear muffled noises coming towards me but nothing seems to be clear.
The noises come closer and I try once again to break away from the table until the door to the room is flung open and a large mean looking man tears into the room followed by a smallish man in a lab coat. "Good morning Dr Robbins, how're we this morning?" He looks at me; I just silently glare at him. "Okay…Well Dr Robbins today you shall be undergoing an operation to take a biopsy on your lymph nodes to investigate what hormones cause this growth. Then we shall be experimenting with your wings, I'm sure you wouldn't mind us finding out how much force is needed to break the radius within your wings do you?"
I go to say something but suddenly feel a sharp jab in my side. Things start to go hazy… "I thought not. Such a lovely talk Dr Robbins." He sneers at me before things once again fade to darkness.
In a downtown hotel room.
"Okay so if I pretend I've got a lead on another mutant while you and Callie sneak into the facility?" Teddy asked Mark while I eyed her suspiciously.
"And HOW do you expect we could do that?" I ask incredulously.
"Callie, you turn invisible, how could you not?" All eyes are on me as I self-consciously plucked at some lint on my trousers. "Who would you use as a mutant?" We all sat there considering our options until Mark jumped up. "No, no we won't do that. Teddy, you were in the army?" She nods. "Alright then, I'll go to them saying that Teddy is the mutant, and then we'll take down the guard, right Teddy?"
The morning goes on like this until we're standing in front of the facility Teddy with her wrists tied together, mark "roughly" holding her by the neck and coloured in an orangey/ brown tinge. I flicker for a few seconds before completely vanishing at Marks side. "Know what you're doing Torres?" He whispers as we see a guard heading towards us. "Yeah I think I've got the idea." The guard comes to a stop in front of us before asking us what our business was. Upon learning that Teddy is a mutant he seems pretty chipper explaining that we should follow him into the facility. He opens one of the side doors, ushering us in.
And is hit in the face with a large fire extinguisher that had been attached to the outer wall.
The smug look on Marks face is all I need to tell me that was his doing. "Okay Marcus, You and I are going to find anyone we can save. You Callie are going to find Arizona. Stay invisible okay?"
Arizona.
The first think I remember is the pain, the undeniable pain I had bursting from my shoulders, down my back and down my wings. I couldn't recall another time in my life that I had been in so much pain. I felt the pain before I'd even attempted to open my eyes.
When my eyes finally do open all I can see is white light, the blurring around me refuses to become focussed. I am back in the room I was in before, I go to sit up but realise once again I'm in the same constraints. God, please let Calliope be alright, please tell me they haven't found her. The door opens and the man in the lab coat returns. He has a snide grin plastered on his face, I can tell he's about to tell me his next step in his plan. He opens his mouth to speak-however before he can do so he appears to have an impact to his face and is knocked out cold.
Callie appears in front of me shaking off her right fist. "Arizona are you alright?" She rushes over to me concerned. I try to speak but can't, my throats too dry which causes me to cough. Instead I nod once again trying to remove the restraints while Callie pulls at them. She notices the tears I hadn't realised I was shedding. "No, no oh babe what have they done to you?" She cradles my head stroking my hair quietly. "I need to get you out of these things." She goes to pull on the ties across my chest and shoulders, this causes a sharp pain to overcome me and I cry out. "Shhhh, babe it's ok. I'm so sorry." She kisses my forehead. "I need to break these chains…. They've attached them to your wings so that you wouldn't be able to fly. You're going to have to have surgery." At this I start crying.
"I'm sorry Calliope, I'm sorry I'm such a freak that some government nut job policy wants to disrupt our lives." She shakes her head before leaning in to give me a chaste kiss.
"This is going to hurt." She roughly pulls at the clasp that attached the devices together snapping it; she then found another weak point in the chains snapping them to allow me to move. "Good thing I brought these pliers with me isn't it." She says smugly. I get up to move, only to release a sharp hiss of pain as a new wave of agony comes over me. "Oh my god, this bastards!" I turn to Callie in confusion at her outburst, as I do I move my left wing unconsciously, realising that there is an acute pain coming from it. I look to it and realise that not only is there a chain coming out of it (this is obviously what was used to tie me up so effectively) but there seems to be a metal structure pinning the areas in which my bones would be in place. "Arizona, I think you need an X-ray STAT." I nod at her, doe eyed.
"Callie, I'm scared." She pulls me up from the table using her body as my support.
"I know honey, but right now. Let's get you out of here." We run out the room into a fairly mundane looking corridor. We then turn into another one to find Teddy and a greying male attempting to support another man in a similar way in which Callie is holding me. This man seems to have a gift that causes him to have large spines protruding out of his body, he seems younger than the rest of us, he comes across as gruff obviously awkward about the need for help. I take a second look at the older looking man to find that he's… Markus Sloane. God, I haven't seen Mark in years I admit to myself, glad for the friendly face.
We manage to get to what seems to be an exit before five guards with guns come between us and the door. Shit. "Stay right where you are!"
"Not a hope in hell." Mark shouts roughly. A chair that was sitting in the corridor seemingly has a mind of its own flinging itself at the two guards to the right of the group before falling in a noisy clang to the floor. The two men hit the deck out cold before anyone else could react. They start firing at us, however once the bullets come close they stop as if a force-field is placed around us. "HOLY SHIT I HAVE A POWER, GUYS GUYS… I WISHED FOR IT AND IT HAPPENED!" Teddy all but screamed at us.
"Great, now I lost my hearing too." The random guy grumbled. The bullets that had been shot at us hit the deck as Teddy turns to glare at the stranger. He glances at her before vigorously moving his right arm; a spine shoots out of his palm and hits one of the guards. He swiftly moves on to the other two guards and shortly all five are on the ground.
"Come on, we need to hide. They'll be out looking for the two of you once they realise you've escaped." Mark scratches his chin in thought. "I know the place."