I just landed on the mainland away from the guards and their dogs. The storm was finally passing with a light drizzle of rain. If I want to get out of here I'm going to have to get out of this straight jacket. I looked around and started running; I ran into the middle of the forest and stood next to a tree in hiding so no one could see me in the pitch black of night. I have to get home, but it's in New York and I'm in California. Hmm, teleporting wouldn't work because it's too great of a distance. I guess I could set up a mind link with Diana and have her pick me up. But they might get her for helping me. Then again I don't really have a choice. I thought, looking at my bindings.
"Diana…Diana." "Huh, who's that?" "It's me Rudie." "Rudie, is that really you? Where are you?" "I'm not close, I'm in California." "Then how are you-" "It's a long story, can you come get me, then I'll tell you everything." "Alright" "When you come can you bring me some clothes, and you might want to come with some sort of disguise." "Why would I do that?" "…I broke out." "YOU WHAT?" "I'll tell you when you're here." "Alright, I'll try to get a ticket, call back or whatever, in a few hours so I can give you the info." "Alright" "Okay and Rudie." "Yea" "Be safe" "Okay, thanks" "Bye" "Bye"
A Few Hours Later:
Hmm, I better check up on Diana, it has been about 3 hours she should be done by now. I thought as I got out of my meditative trance and concentrated on making a mind link with Diana. "Diana are you there?" "What, oh, yea, I'm here, I was wondering when you were going to contact me. Anyway I'm on a plane heading your way. I'll be there in about 4 hours. Can you hang on for that amount of time?" "Of course and it will give me time to think of a plan." "Hold on a flight attendant is coming." "Don't worry I'll cut the mind link now." "Okay good-bye." "Bye" As I cut the mind link I slowly flew up into the air, slowly becoming familiar with the sensation of flying again after spending years of not using my abilities and also noting that it was early in the morning seeing as the sun was just peeking over the horizon. I'll admit I was pretty rusty. Well I'll just have to fix that now won't I? I thought as I flew to the tops of the trees but still stayed hidden as I stretched my senses, taking every aura there was within a 25 mile radius. I can tell where everything is. This technique was very useful for foiling sneak attacks and staying hidden, unfortunately I need to really concentrate to do this. (Think of it like the Hyuga clan's kekkai genkai in Naruto) As I looked around I noticed I was in a really dense forest that stretched to the end of my sight. Thankfully by the time it did the forest was dwindling meaning that just beyond my sight there was a town or city of some sort. Damn that blasted place. Now my powers aren't up to their full potential. I cursed as I slowly floated across the treetops searching everywhere for some kind of human movement to show if someone was looking for me or not, more specifically the people from the asylum.
After what seemed like forever, although in actuality it was only about an hour, of slowly floating around I neared the end of the forest which settled near a small town. As I hid among the shadows I stretched my sight to cover the whole town to look for an airport. I strained myself by stretching my sights beyond its limitations and effectively gave myself a headache and hurt my eyes a little. I looked over the town and found an airport on the opposite side of the town. At that moment a small rabbit came nearby and froze the moment it saw me. My stomach growled signaling that I hadn't eaten for a good while. I'm not really going to have to eat that am I? I thought with disgust, and as if my stomach was talking to me it gave a growl indicating that I would have to indeed half to eat the innocent ball of fluff. Oh my God I can't believe I'm doing this. I thought as I used my powers to grab the rabbit and suffocate it until it finally stopped squirming indicating that it was dead. Great, now how am I going to cook it? I thought as I looked around the forest ground finally finding a lone lighter just lying there. Why is that there? Oh well, you know what they say, one man's garbage is another man's treasure. I used my powers to put together a small pile of twigs, light a fire with the lighter, and skin the rabbit. When all this was completed I held the rabbit over the fire, slightly turned it all the while. After a good 45 minutes of waiting my breakfast was ready. I spent a good half hour picking at the thing trying to imagine what I was eating was actually a burger or something. It didn't work. When I finally finished my 'meal' I noticed that I still had a couple of hours until Diana's plane arrived, so that left me with sometime for some much needed rest. Just before I went to sleep I put up an alarm spell that will automatically wake me up the moment someone comes within 20 feet of me, giving me enough time to hide.
What was that? I was jolted out of my nap as my spell sent a spark to me to signal an intruder. Oh crap I better hide. I thought as I jumped to my feet and slowly flew into a tree on one of the lower branches. I hear twigs snap and fallen leaves crunch under the weight of the intruder. "Hell? Anyone there? Rudie?" Is that…? I quickly floated down from my perch just in time for the bushes in front of me to part and reveal the face of a middle-aged woman with light brown hair wearing a scarf, a hat and sunglasses. "R-Rudie, is that you?" The woman said in a shocked and thick voice as she took off her sunglasses to reveal hazel eyes. "Yea Diane, it's me." I answered in a relieved voice. Diane rushed out of the bushes and enveloped me into a bear hug. I usually don't like to be hugged, but given the circumstances I guess you can say we both needed one. "Look at you, you've grown so much!" She said as she released her death hug and cupped my cheek. "My child's all grown up." "And look at you, you don't look at day over 35." I said with a smirk. "Oh hush up." She said in an equally playful voice. "Come on the plane leaves in a couple of hours. We gotta get you dressed and fed. You look like you haven't had a decent meal in ages." "That's because I haven't." She gave me a sympathetic look as she took off her bookbag and started loosening the straps to my straight jacket. "I brought you some clothes to change into. Wouldn't want you walking around in these, people will think you just escaped a mental hospital." "I wonder why?" I said sarcastically as she playfully glared at me. "There that should feel much better." She said as she unstrapped the last buckle, letting the jacket fall off my under fed body. My arms felt like dead weight from not using them for so long. "Here, change into these." She said as she grabbed a pair of clothes and boots while I flexed my arms and hands to try and get the feeling back in them. After successfully being able to move my arms around with minimal pain I gratefully took the clothes from her. Diane quickly turned around as I quickly turned around as I quickly slipped off my very large dress. Yes dress, the employees found that the only thing they could get on me when they brought me to that hell hole. Apparently thrashing around when men are trying to undress you is a bad thing when you're there. My dress was a few sizes too big, the sleeves went down to my elbow while the actual dress ended just below my knee. In big bold letters on the front it read Property of Alcatraz Penitentiary while the design had the stereotypical white and black stripes. I quickly put on my new clothes and inspected myself. Of course Diane would bring these clothes. She did always love seeing me in dresses. I don't really like dresses. In fact, the day I was captured was the day Diane convinced me to wear a dress. But this outfit wasn't that bad. It had black and white stripped tights and matching long sleeved shirt. Over that was a purple halter-like dress with short sleeves and a black and gray studded belt. With this I wore purple bands on my wrists and dark brown boots. "Ok Diane you can turn around." When she turned back around she beamed with pride as she looked me over. "You look gorgeous darling." She said in a fake Brooklyn accent. "You're only saying that because I'm wearing a dress." I said with a blush lightly dusting my cheeks. I awkwardly crossed my arms over my chest as Diane turned me over to get a better look. "Alright now all we need to do is fix this hair." She said as she lifted up a strand of my long, black, greasy hair. I took hold of my hair and the elastic band Diane gave me and put my hair in a high ponytail with my front bangs lightly framing my pale face. "There all better, you know until you wash your hair." She said as she stared a bit disgustedly at my hair. "Anyway let's go, you must be famished." "You have no idea." I said, and at that moment my stomach gave a growl, as if in agreement to what had said. "Haha ok let's go." She said as she picked up my old clothes and straight jacket and put them in a plastic bag to throw out.
"Ok spill!" Diane exclaimed as if she was a teenager about to be given some juicy gossip. We had finally ditched the old clothes and found a small restaurant to eat at. When we finally got settled down Diane found it appropriate to interrogate me on everything that's happened to me when I was in that God forsaken place. "What do you mean?" I said playing dumb. "You know what I mean! What did you do in there? How was it? How did you escape?" She asked in a hushed voice. "Oh you know everything was just kittens and sunshine." I said sarcastically as I playfully glared at her. "Haha very funny, now tell me." She practically whined. "Alright fine. To put it bluntly, the place was a dump, it had horrible food, and some of the employees were creeps. Then there was the constant screaming or crazed mumbling and groaning that would keep you up at night." "So in other words it was a complete hell hole." "Well yea, but what did you expect, a 5-star hotel?" I gave her a 'come-on' face. "No I guess not. So how did you escape?" "Well last night there was a huge storm that hit here. Didn't you see all the tree branches everywhere and how the ground was all muddy?" "Yea, it was so bad we heard about it all the way back in New York." She said thinking back on what was on the news. "Well during the storm the power went out. I was able to use the shadows around me to make a portal out of the building. Then I just ran away off the island." I whispered to her as the waiter approached with our food. "Wow that must have been terrifying." "Actually it was more exhilarating than terrifying." I said as I took a bite out of my sandwich. After we were done eating we went to the airport to catch our flight.