Jeiel and Murdoc stared at the man who had just told them they were in Africa.
"We're on a different continent!" Jeiel exclaimed. Her eyes darting from the man to Murdoc.
"No way we're in bloody Africa..." Murdoc began but faltered the rest of his sentence as he looked around the forest.
"Yes, you are in Africa. My name is Dakarai, who are you and where did you come from? This forest is under government protection, nobody is permitted to trespass onto this territory." Dakarai told them. Murdoc looked at Dakarai skeptically.
"Then why are you here, mate?" Murdoc asked.
"I'm enforcing the the law, you two are going to have to come with me." Dakarai said leaning closer to Murdoc and Jeiel.
"We were put here. Somebody crashed our car and put us in this forest, that's not our fault and you can't arrest us!" Jeiel defended. Dakarai looked like he was about to say something when Murdoc got extremely close to his face.
"I have had a pretty fucked up day, and you don't wanna mess with me, mate. I almost got killed by a gorilla and we're miles from home. I don't give a bloody damn who you think you are, but don't think for a second that I won't leave this place without you taking a dirt-nap if you get in our way! So outta my mother fucking way!" Murdoc said then pushed Dakarai out of the way walking.
"Before you interrupted me, I was going to tell you that I wasn't going to arrest you, I was going to escort you off the perimeter." Dakarai began, Murdoc looked back.
"Oh, sorry..." Murdoc said but Dakarai continued to speak. Murdoc had pissed him off, so he was going to be an asshole.
"However, I will arrest you for threatening an enforcer of the law and by the looks of it, illegal aliens of another country. Unless you have your passports..." Dakarai asked, a satisfied smile crossing his face as the two dug for their passports but found none.
"Ugh, you just had to piss off the nice law enforcer." Jeiel said to Murdoc inside the travel van as Dakarai drove out of the rainforest into a barren desert.
"Where in Africa are we?" Murdoc asked as the van rolled down the road.
"Well we just left Ethiopia, now we are crossing into Egypt. The closest jail is in Egypt." Dakarai explained. Murdoc groaned, ready to experience prison again for what seemed like the millionth time in his life. Jeiel and Murdoc were both hand-cuffed in the back seat. Jeiel was freaking out, she had never gone to jail before.
She glanced nervously to Murdoc, who smiled and then said, "The best part of going to prison, is the mug-shots. Make 'em look creepy and people think you're dangerous." Jeiel giggled a bit, Murdoc was happy that he got Jeiel to relax a bit. He didn't like how stressed she seemed and began worrying about her.
"Ugh, are there any flat-irons in prison?" Jeiel asked Dakarai, looking at her hair from the front-view mirror. Dakarai gave her a confused looked but kept silent. At prison, Murdoc was instantly recognized for his criminal record and went to retake a mugshot. Jeiel however wasn't recognized for any criminal record, the Egyptian police had a hard time identifying her so they had to ask her for her full name. Dakarai wasn't in the room so she told them her name was, "Rose Pot." Jeiel didn't want a criminal blemish on her permanent record so she had lied. "Rose" because she liked roses, and "Pot" because she thought about 2D's last name being Tusspot, so she shortened it to "Pot". The Egyptian police had nothing to go on so they had to blindly trust "Rose Pot". They took her finger print and lead her into the mugshot room where Murdoc stood, still hand-cuffed in a corner.
When they took the mug-shot of Jeiel, she decided to make herself look dangerous. She winked at the camera with a huge grin, then Murdoc and Jeiel were put into a jail-cell together.
"Nice to meet you, 'Rose Pot'." Murdoc smirked shaking Jeiel's hand like a smart ass. He'd apparently seen her mug-shot photo.
"Hey, I don't need a criminal record." Jeiel told Murdoc. He laughed and sat down on the bunker in the small jail-cell.
Jeiel sighed loudly, "How the hell are we going to get out of here?" She asked Murdoc.
Murdoc smiled, "It's a good thing you have me as a jail buddy. I've broken out so many times before, its not even funny." Murdoc told Jeiel then began laying out plans for the break-out. After all was discussed, within a few hours the two were ready to try out their plan for escape.
"You caused this, you little bitch!"Murdoc shouted at Jeiel.
"Please don't hurt me. Guard! Help this guy is psycho!" She screamed with fear. Murdoc took her by her hair and threw her against the bars of the prison making a loud noise as she fell to the floor. A guard came around the corner to see what was happening. As he did, Murdoc grabbed Jeiel and threw her once more on the bars, this time his hands gripped her throat dangerously as she choked trying to breath. Immediately the guard yelled for Murdoc to stop but he continued to strangle Jeiel.
The guard came into the cell with full force hitting Murdoc away from Jeiel. Jeiel collapsed to the floor gasping for breath. The guard bent down towards her.
"Are you alright, Miss Pot." He asked her. Jeiel grasped her hands on the guard trying to pull herself up.
The guard helped her up as Jeiel said, "I'm fine, please get that monster away from me." She said then glared at Murdoc with anger. Murdoc only stared back with the same intense anger and a murderous look. The guard escorted him out of the cell and down the hall. Right before Murdoc was out of sight, he looked back at Jeiel with a smile. Jeiel winked back and pulled out some keys that she had snatched when the guard had helped her up off the floor. The staging of the harmless fight had worked. Step one was complete.
Jeiel counted the seconds away, Murdoc had told her that in about five minutes, she would have a small window of opportunity to unlock herself from the cell and make her way around the building to find an employee's closet filled with uniforms. Right as she unlocked herself and hid behind a corner, she watched as the guard walked out of a room with Murdoc and lead him to a different room. Jeiel silently began creeping down the hall silently hoping to find the employee closet. When she didn't find one, panic began to cross her mind.
Her judgment began to cloud as she started to panic. In the midst of her thoughts, she was no longer as stealthy as she had been and slammed into a different, younger looking guard who was walking in the opposite direction. The guard regarded Jeiel slowly. Jeiel was paralyzed for the time being, but the guard awkwardly scratched his head. He hadn't seen Jeiel yet and didn't know she was a prisoner. Coming to this realization, Jeiel knew what to do. Fake it til you make it, right? She thought to herself.
"Um excuse me, do you speak English?" Jeiel asked the guard.
"Yes I do." He said to her. Jeiel smiled warmly.
"That's great, could you please show me where the employee closet is? I'm a new intern here and nobody speaks English!" Jeiel exaggerated.
The guard smiled, "Yeah, sure follow me. I'm an intern too, I remember first coming here and getting lost." The young intern lead Jeiel to the supply closet.
"Thanks." She told him and went inside to find a uniform. Step two complete.
All of them were too big for her. They were either were too baggy or too long. Jeiel finally just threw one on and put her hair inside a hat. Hopefully nobody would wonder why she didn't have a name tag or why her uniform was extremely baggy. Making her way to the door she had seen Murdoc enter previously, she peered in through the window of the door. Murdoc was being interrogated. Behind him was a line of young looking guards. Jeiel noticed that the intern she had fooled to take her to the employee closet was in there, he caught her eyes and beckoned Jeiel to come in.
Jeiel came in sheepishly with hesitation. When she entered, the guard interrogating Murdoc looked behind himself to find Jeiel walking in standing with the rest of the interns.
"Great, another late intern." The guard said sarcastically then looked back at Murdoc. Murdoc looked at Jeiel in awe. He was actually surprised that the plan had worked so far.
"Well you get yourself a new cell-mate, try not to beat up this one." The guard finished then spoke foreign words to the interns behind him. Jeiel had no idea want he was saying, she decided to speak up.
"If I may, for extra training, can I escort the prisoner to his new cell?" Jeiel asked the guard. He let out a sigh as he thought complexly.
"Sure, since he will be in bondage and harmless. Here is the room." The guard said and handed Jeiel a room number in foreign language. She then grabbed Murdoc and walked out of the room. Step three complete.
Jeiel took the keys from her pocket and unlocked Murdoc's hand-cuffs.
"Thanks, love, that blimey bloke was beginning to piss me off." Murdoc said rubbing his wrists as they walked towards the exit of the jail. All the sudden, a guard shouted from somewhere behind them in a different language and turned on a loud alarm that blared with flashing lights.
"Shit!" Murdoc and Jeiel both yelled together, now running out of the jail. Step four had begun early.
Reaching outside in the desert-like city, Murdoc smashed a window of a car and unlocked the door from the inside. Once in he unlocked all the doors so that Jeiel could climb into the passenger seat. Murdoc then with great speed, hot-wired the car and sped out into the city streets with screeching tires. Pedestrians jumped out of the way as the high-speed chase began. Cop cars following the car. This is so familiar its scary, high-speed chase in the desert. Only this time the desert isn't barren, its a bloody city with tan colored buildings and screaming pedestrians. Murdoc thought to himself remembering the the music video for "Stylo".
Murdoc yelled, "Whoo!", with content as the wind rushed by the car, his adrenaline pumping from the chase. Jeiel clung to the seat hoping the crazy ride wouldn't end with death. As Murdoc traveled deeper into the city, he began losing Egyptian police. In the spur of the moment, Murdoc was so proud that Jeiel had gotten them out alive. He looked at her passionately. She had a scared expression on her face as she looked ahead at the treacherous path of the car.
"You are a fucking genius, love." Murdoc said to Jeiel. Murdoc noticed Jeiel's gorgeous blonde hair whipping in the wind from the opened car window. He was beginning to notice how irresistible Jeiel was to him. Jeiel finally made eye contact with him. Before Jeiel knew what happened, Murdoc leaned over and kissed her.
Jeiel instantly pulled away shocked, Murdoc finally realized what he had done and awkwardly looked to the road, still driving.
"I-uh... I got excited..." Murdoc said after he couldn't take the dead silence in the car any longer. Before Jeiel could say what she thought, Murdoc was about to hit a clueless guy with his back turned, that had no idea a 150 mph car was about to hit him full force.
"Watch out!" Jeiel screamed at the top of her lungs. Murdoc slammed the brakes of the car. The car tires stopped with a burning halt, seconds from hitting the guy who now turned around in shock of almost getting run-over. Jeiel watched as the guy looked at her with black eyes, and messily styled blue hair. 2D! She thought excitedly to herself running out of the car to him.