A/N-I'm hoping to get this up as soon as possible because plot bunnies are running amuck. So yes, if I don't let them free my muse might shoot them and then where would we be? My muse is a mean person and sometimes he likes to be stupid...like now. :Grumbles: ON WITH THE STORY!

Disclaimer-Said it. . check the first chapter if you don't believe me.

Chapter 2- You're Fault, you're mess-get us out.

If you were to be standing on the steps of Sky High looking out at the land in front of the building, you would have seen a head peep around the corner and then disappear again. Upon farther inspection, you would have noticed two students sneaking around the walls of their school.

"You've gone here longer than I have and you can't tell me where any secret entrances might be?" Payne asked as she peeped around another corner. Warren shrugged his shoulders.

"I don't frequently sneak into school. I usually use the front door." She waved a finger in his face.

"Yeah so we can get caught and given a million years detention. My Aunt will kill me. She has 'high expectations' for me and I have no idea where she got that idea." She waved her hand to the side before pointing excitedly behind Warren.

"I found it; a secret entrance!" Warren turned around and let his shoulders slump with realization. Turning slowly back to the excited face of Payne he raised a dark eyebrow.

"A vent is your secret entrance? How do you suppose we're even going to fit?" She shrugged as she started bounding off towards the small opening in the wall.

"I know I can fit; us Japan natives are naturally short, don't ask me why. If you can't fit, well you'll just have to force your way through."

"Thanks oh so much." She stuck her tongue out at him and struggled to get the covering of the vent off. Warren created a small fire ball and hit the cover much as he had when they escaped from Royal Pain. He heard her mutter 'show off' under her breath as she easily crawled through the small opening. Eyeing the entrance, Warren wearily followed. Much to his surprise, it was much bigger than he first guessed and he was able to follow with only a few minor incidents of hitting his elbows or head against his metal surroundings. After a few minutes of wandering through the dark and listening to Payne mutter to herself, Warren began to wonder if they would ever get out.

"Payne, you don't know where you're going." He called her out. She didn't even really acknowledge she had heard him but he was pretty positive he heard her growl. Out of no where, she let out a yelp of surprise and grabbed his arm. He was surprised and was therefore not able to hold himself as they both started to free fall. Payne gripped his arm so tightly, he wondered if he was losing circulation and he felt his stomach flip violently as they continued to fall. It probably wasn't as long as it felt (for it felt as if it went on forever, especially when Payne started digging her nails into Warren's flesh in fear) but soon enough they landed-hard. It took Warren a minute to realize that Payne was underneath him and she probably couldn't breathe very well considering he was quite a bit bigger than her. He attempted to roll off but realized that was not a possibly since they were surrounded by what seemed to be walls. He heard her cough and looked downward.

"Problems?" He asked jokingly.

"Yeah, someone is smashing my lungs!" He would have laughed, had the situation not have been so awkward.

"Can't you stand up or something?" She squeaked out. He hadn't thought of that idea yet; might as well give it a try. He put his knees on either side of Payne and pushed up with his arms before bending up ward-and banged his head on what felt like a heavy metal plate. He tried pushing off but it seemed caught or locked. Heaving a heavy sigh, he went back to the position of hovering over Payne.

"The answer would be no. There's a lid or something and I can't get it off; I think it might be locked." He explained. Warren's eyes had adjusted well to the dark and he saw her eyes widen considerably.

"Are you saying we're trapped?" She whispered frantically.

"Yup." He answered.

"And no one knows where we are?"

"Nope."

"So we're stuck here and will probably die because no one knows where we are and thirty years from now, some other unfortunate children are going to stumble upon our rotted corpse's and suffer the same fate!"

"Pretty much, except that by the time the other unfortunate children find us, we'll be bones and dust." She smacked his arm.

"You are not helping." she paused for a minute as if coming to a realization. "I'm going to die a virgin!" She shrieked. Warren wanted to laugh, he honestly did.

"I guess you are, but don't worry; you're not alone in that state." There was a pregnant pause that Payne felt she should break.

"We could help each other out and change that." Warren was sure his eyes were about a million times bigger than they should have been.

"Are you attempting to seduce me while we are trapped in who knows where after we've known each other for less than a day!" She shrugged her shoulders.

"People have done worse. Have you ever heard of prostitutes?"

"I am going to forget we ever had this conversation." He stated factually and silence greeted them once again. It was a while later when Warren felt his arm strength starting to fail. He let his weight off them and came back down on Payne.

"Ow, Warren get off of me! You are squishing my small body." She whispered.

"Look, it's your fault we're in this mess so stop complaining." He whispered back gruffly.

"Well, can you at least get your stupid boot off my leg." He smirked in the dark.

"I don't think I will." She let out a whine that made it sound as if she was being shot and he rolled his eyes.

"You're not dying yet. Sooner or later someone will find us. I'm sure they'll wonder where we are." He reassured. She gazed up at him and for the first time, Warren noticed a slightly scared look in her eyes.

"Do you promise?" She whispered. He nodded silently, not used to so much emotion being shone before him. An idea hit him suddenly that he couldn't believe he hadn't thought of before.

"Listen Payne, I'm going to try to flip us over so you're on top of me. When you are I need you to reach behind you and grab my bag." He explained. "Now I need you to hand on to my shoulders and I'll do the rest." The only answer he got was her putting a tight grip around him, as if in fear of something. He put one are to hold her against himself and used the other to help him roll onto his back with Payne safely on top. She slowly let go and he felt her reach behind and soon felt his bag be added to the load on top of him. Blindly, he groped through the bag until his hand wrapped around his cell phone. He quickly checked the time, seeing that everyone was getting out of school, and quickly dialed Will's number. He could see Payne's excited look in the glow of the phone and it only rang twice before Will picked up.

"Where are you?" He questioned.

"Hello to you too, Hero."

"Warren..."

"Alright, I don't know where we are."

"We?" Layla's voice cut in. Apparently, Will's phone was on speaker.

"Is Payne with you?" Celine's worried voice came next.

"Yeah she is, we were trying to...sneak into the school when we fell down a chute and now we're trapped somewhere below the school I guess. Is there any way Ethan could track our cell signal?" Ethan had claimed he'd been able to do this and now was the real test.

"He says he can, he just needs you to tell us where you went in to...sneak into the school." Warren heard Magenta laugh somewhere off in the distance.

"If you go around to the side of the school you'll see a vent that's been uncovered and that's where we entered." He explained with a hint of annoyance. He heard them all scurrying to the place where he and Payne had begun this whole experience.

"Okay Warren, stay on the phone just a bit longer. The process will only take about 3 minutes and then another little bit to come and find you." Ethan explained. Warren growled.

"Just hurry up popsicle boy." He could imagine Ethan moving a bit faster and heard the distant typing of keys.

"What's going on?" Payne whispered.

"Ethan is going to track us down and get us out. No worries, like I promised." He whispered back. She smiled brightly and her eyes cleared considerably.

"Okay, we got the location. We'll be there in just about two minutes, it's not far." Will explained and then hung up. Warren turned to Payne with a slight smile.

"They'll be here in just a few minutes; they said we're not far. So it should all be okay." He explained. Not a long after, they heard a bang and the lid popped off. Layla and Celine peered in at the two shinning a bright flash light.

"Well, that's...awkward." Celine said plainly. Payne sat up and glared at her cousin with a bit of a growl. Warren slowly sat up and rested his hand on his knees while he waited for Will and Magenta help Payne out. Once they were both on the ground, the group pounced with their questions.

"What were you doing in there?"

"Did you realize you've skipped half the day?"

"Why didn't you call sooner?"

"Are you two hiding something?" Warren growled slightly and fixed them with a glare. Will gave him a strange look back and turned away slightly; their conversation earlier had obviously affected him.

"If you don't mind," Warren started, brushing past the group, "I have a job to get to and I can't miss my bus." He jogged slightly to his bus, wanting to avoid any long and annoying lectures about "How much the group cares about you", about "We don't care about your past", he had had enough of those and he was just ready to avoid. He climbed onto the bus and walked all the way to the back, slouching in his seat and shoving headphones into his ears. The sooner he could get the sound of Assemblage 23 into his head, the better. He relaxed slightly and shut his eyes, hoping that would warn anyone away from him. He just needed sometime to sort through everything, some time to relax so he wouldn't say something he'd really regret.

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"Seriously Payne, what happened?" Payne fixed her cousin with a glare as they entered the house.

"Nothing happened, Celine, nothing interesting anyways and definitely not what I know you think happened." Celine rolled her eyes.

"You're so boring. You know Warren is a totally hotty and you don't even go after him!" Payne snorted as she mounted the stairs.

"Please, Celine, not everyone is as boy crazy as you are alright. I'm not looking for some romantic escapade; all I'm looking for is to get past High School and move on with my life." Celine pouted and leaned against the railing.

"But you two would make such a cute couple, and I could so hook you up." Payne opened the door to the room she was staying in and stuck her tongue out at Celine.

"Baka desu yo!" She shouted and slammed the door shut in a huff.

A/N- :faints: Oh my goodness this took forever and a year! Sorry it's taken so freaking long…honestly I didn't mean to. ;; I've just been sooo busy.

Translations: Baka desu yo-she's calling her cousin an idiot.

I'll try for the next chapter…get it up sooner…hopefully…maybe…feed me and give me incentive!