Hi Guys!

I'm making up for my holiday by writing quickly. Also, it's all getting exciting now so I dont want to lose momentum. I might be able to do another chapter tomorrow or even tonight but in case I dont I'm sorry. I wont be able to write next week either as I have work experience.

Hope you like this one!

Karen's P.O.V.

In the two weeks since I'd been moved to solitary confinement I had drunk about five cups of water and I was starting to feel like there was a desert in my stomach. The water they gave us with every meal was one tiny cupfull crammed with suppressants that kept our powers down. Our abilities, if they were dangerous, were crushed by a drug slipped into the water. So, in preparation for The Great Escape I had poured my cupful into the toilet bucket and been donated half of the safe water of the girl in the cell next to mine. Her power was freezing people but she could only do it on a full stomach. We had a deal that she would donate half her safe water to me, and I gave her half my safe food. That way, we could both be as strong as we could both be.

It was night-time, I thought, the lights stayed on all the time. But it had been a long time since our last meal and I was starting to get hungry again. That meant that it was probably 2 or 3 in the morning. The latest patrol had gone by and their footsteps had faded into the distance.

"Ready?" I whispered to the women around me. They all smiled with excitement and nodded.

I closed my eyes and opened my mind, sending out a mass telepathic message for all to hear.

Sean? It's time.

One by one the women all took up my words, sending them radiating out to all the people in the cells. We deliberately ignored the guards, and freed people, aiming instead for Sean, trapped who-knows-where.

The call went on for five minutes, with more and more voices joining in until it was like a signal beacon that Sean could no way miss.

I opened my eyes and grinned at them all. "That was brilliant. Right, Jenny, let's go."

The girl who could freeze people stuck her hand out of the bars and gave me thumbs up. I'd never actually seen her; neither of us could stick out heads through the bars. But her action made sense.

I sat in the front corner of my cell, letting my hand flop onto the floor through the bars. I closed my eyes.

"Help!" Three of the women opposite started screaming. More joined in and we could hear the pounding of heavy footsteps running towards us. "Help, she's collapsed!"

A guard ran down the corridor and stopped when he saw me. He was young, and not as angry looking as the others, I saw through my nearly closed eyelids. "What happened?" He barked.

A woman opposite me, Prudence, started crying. "She started raving, like she was going mad. Then she collapsed and hit her head against the wall. Please help her!"

The guard came very close and crouched next to me. I felt his hand reach through the bars and gently felt the back of my head. Suddenly there was a clang and I looked up to see the guard lying unconscious on the floor, shoved against the bars. Jenny had subtly reached through her bars, and shoved the back of his head into my bars, knocking him out cold.

"Very good." I mused and gave her a lame high five, not easy when you can't see your partner.

I grabbed the guard's leg and pulled him closer, going over his pockets until I found the universal over ride key that every guard carried in case of emergencies. I'd seen them use it when one of the women helping us feigned a fit and had to be roughly pulled away from her cell mates who she was pretending to attack. I smiled at the thought of her winking at me and grinning as she was pulled away.

It involved some contortion getting the key into my cell lock but as soon as I stepped outside I knew we'd done it. It took five minutes to get all of the women on my corridor out, and we moved all the frail, ill, or weak into one of the cells, to keep them safe from the guards. One of my allies, a woman called Zara had the power of making her hands glow white hot, so she fused the lock together, meaning no guard could take them out. We did the same with the unconscious guard, after tying his hands, feet and mouth with ripped sections of my blanket.

As soon as we were free we all crowded around a woman from the cell on the other side of me, Rachel. Her power was electrical interference but she needed help. The strongest of us crouched in an open cell with her, holding hands in a circle to channel our power. I saw someone whose hands I recognised. Jenny gave me a grin and whispered, "I thought you'd be shorter, you have tiny hands."

I smiled but was hushed by an older woman.

Rachel frowned as our powers flocked towards hers. We all jumped when we heard a sharp buzz and she opened her eyes with a satisfied smirk. "Cameras are down."

I clapped her on the back and we started running down the hall. "Right, let's do the guards first. It's gonna be hard but do what you can. Anyone with a power not great for fighting, stick with someone who can. We take out the guards before freeing the others."

"Where are you going?" Jenny looked worried as she started towards an empty corridor.

"I have to find a phone. We need outside back up and I know where to get it."

She nodded and we sprinted out separate ways. When I passed an empty corridor I hastily let out another five cells worth of women. The others cried out at being left but I yelled that I'd be back. A few guards saw me and yelled at me to stop. They were reaching for their guns when a woman I'd just let out held up her hand and they both collapsed, their heads lolling to one side.

I stared at her.

She shrugged. "I can change pressure. I just made their brains feel a little squashed, they'll be fine."

I whistled with appreciation. "Cool. You wanna stick with me?"

She nodded quickly. "I'm Alice."

"Karen, you ok to run?"

She nodded and we started sprinting down a corridor. She took out guard after guard as we passed them, only stopping to take their guns and throw them to freed women.

When we reached the corner of the compound we both leant against the walls, our captive bodies not used to this sudden exercise.

"You ok?" I asked, breathing heavily.

Alice nodded, gasping and clutching a stich in her stomach. "Fine. You going in there?"

She pointed behind me and I turned to see a small red metal door labelled Offices.

I nodded and smiled at her. "Gotta get backup and find my soulfinder."

She laughed. "God, this is way too much to handle."

I laughed with her, the first really one in a long time. "We'll all get used to it."

I straitened and she handed me a gun. "If you see Eva, shoot her for me will you?"

I patted her shoulder. "Take out some more guards."

I turned and walked towards the door. But I remembered the other women. "Alice!"

She turned and I threw her the override key. "Let out the others. Leave the young and the old till later as we need the stronger ones. Make sure the ill and weak are safe."

She nodded and pocketed the key. "Good luck!"

I waved until she turned a corner.

Then I squared my shoulders and opened the door to a barrage of silence.

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