Tales of the World of Freedom – Breakout – Chapter 2: Blackstone Penitentiary:
The Lighthouse, some miles above the Earth, 12:00 Noon:
Callie "The Raven II" Summers looked at the screen with a slightly worried look on her face: All across the world, somehow, something had gone wrong at all 52 super-prisons, with thousands of super-criminals now trying to escape from each of them.
She had alerted the Freedom League and had contacted various other super-teams and super-heroes on the matter, only to find that all across the world, heroes were responding.
Callie and her team, the Freedom League, were heading for Blackstone, in Freedom City.
Blackstone Penitentiary, Freedom City, 12:00 Noon:
Glimpse was a killer, but he didn't see himself as a criminal. He saw himself as a hero. He saw himself as stopping evil before it could start.
When the alarms started blaring, the cells began opening, and the warden's voice began speaking over the intercom, telling any visitors to head to a safe place, he suddenly realized that he had somehow turned invisible again, meaning the power nullifiers were off.
With a smirk, he stepped out of his cell, and into the hall. This was going to be fun.
Callie had handled a lot in her time, but hardly anything like a breakout of this magnitude. Understandably nervous (for once), Callie took a few deep breaths before she addressed her team: "People, the situation is grave. The villains may have even taken hostages. We need to get in there, and mitigate the damage as much as possible. Daedalus, I need you to override the security systems and bring them back online."
Daedalus nodded: "You can expect nothing less than my best. I did, after all, leave a back door that only I can open, just in case."
Callie turned to Lady Liberty: "Reports from inside claim the Mad Hatter got to some of the guards."
Lady Liberty smiled: "The voice of freedom shall break their mental chains."
The Raven spoke to each of her teammates. Each of them understood their appointed task. She felt a bit more confident now, knowing that her team knew what they were to do in this situation.
Glimpse walked through the corridors, occasionally taking out a guard here or there. He overheard one of the more dazed-looking guards passing by mention something about "serving the Earth King", and knew the Mad Hatter, Long Fei, was out of his cell.
He heard the Anarchitect in the cafeteria, making some sort of speech. Becoming visible, and stepping inside, Glimpse took his place next to a buddy of his, the large, white-furred wolf-man known as the Obertaen, who acknowledged him with a nod.
The Anarchitect claimed he had been contacted by someone who could help them all break out (this was met by a roar of approval from the assembled crowd of convicts), but that the "capes" were coming to clamp down on their fun (here, boos and hissing were heard).
"I'm with you folks! I just need us all to work together 'til we get out of here. After that, you all are welcome to go your own way!" the Anarchitect said. "WHO'S WITH ME?!"
The roar was deafening. Glimpse also joined in, and the Obertaen howled with delight.
The stage was set at Blackstone.
The question was, who would win?
