Hey guys! So, the YDC chapter turned out a lot longer then I expected it to be, so I've decided to split it up into two or three parts so you don't have to wait weeks while I write it :) Also, the SYOC is now officially closed! I'm so happy with the ammount of characters I've gotten and I can't wait to write about them all :)
If there was one problem with being in prison, Kara Costello would have to say it was the boredom. Sure, the place was full of psychos and some people may say that there was the moral guilt of having committed a crime, but none of that mattered to Kara. The so called 'psychos' had become her best friends in the six months she had been locked up here, and moral guilt? She'd been bored, and her little grand theft auto had been fun. End of story. It wasn't her fault it had been illegal.
But now, she was bored again.
The rhythmic tapping of her fingers on her leg cut through the silence of the cell in a repetitive four beat pattern as Kara wracked her brains for some way to pass the time.
"Ugh, Kara can you stop that? You're driving me insane" Phoenix scowled from the bottom bunk, looking up from her third book that week.
"Phee, you burned down your house, I think you're already insane" Kara said.
"Yes, and you're just the picture of sanity, aren't you?" Phoenix said sarcastically.
"Meh, who'd want to be sane? Sanity's boring" Kara smiled, leaping from where she's been sat on the top bunk and landing in a crouch on the floor before promptly falling on her butt.
Phoenix cracked a smile at Kara's landing, "Yeah, that failed" she said with a grin.
"Epically" Kara smirked.
"Not so epically" Phoenix corrected.
"Fine, lie to yourself if it makes you feel better about how awesome I am" Kara joked, jumping to her feet and pacing over to the barred window. She looked out of it for a second before an evil grin crossed her face.
"Oh God not that face" Phoenix said.
"What face? This it my normal face"
"No, that is your 'I'm Plotting Something Incredibly Reckless That Will Probobly Land Me In Solitary' face" Phoenix explained, her tone similar to one you would use with a small child.
"Actually, it's my 'I've Just Had An Awesome Idea' face" Kara grinned.
"Same thing for you" Phoenix said, standing up and walking over to her cellmate. "What are you planning anyway?"
"Badaas superpowered prison break" Kara grinned, gesturing to the pebble beach that lead down to the sea.
"Oh great" Phoenix muttered under her breath. She knew better then to try and stop Kara though- once she'd got an idea into her head it was near impossible to talk her out of it. "Just don't let the guards see it, okay?" She said, stepping away from the window. Who knows what would happen if the world found out about an insane ADHD juvinile delinquant with superpowers.
"You know I won't" Kara grinned, looking out of the window and focusing her mind.
She could feel the earth outside, a strange feeling in the back of her mind that let her sense where all the rocks were. When she was outside it felt like energy was flowing into her from the earth, making her stronger, but on the concrete floor of her cell she could only sense the earth. Still, she managed to single out four decent sized stones, and concentrated on calling them to her. She felt a pull in her mind and the stones rose up off the beach and flew towards her.
Grinning, Kara flattened herself against the wall as the stones smashed through the window, zooming through the bars and ramming into the door, two hitting the lock and one hitting each hinge.
"YES!" Kara cried, punching the air as the door collapsed outwards, "You gotta admit that was cool"
"I don't have to admit to anything, Rock Head" Phoenix smirked, "But it was pretty good" she smiled kindly.
"Hang on, a complilent? What the hell have you done with the real Phoenix?" Kara laughed, stepping out of the cell. "Hang on a sec, shouldn't the guards be here by now?"
"Yeah..." Phoenix said, a slight glint of silver catching her eye. "Okay that can't be right" she said, picking up the key and the radio next to it from the floor.
Kara looked at the radio in suprise, "Is it like, April Fools Day come early or something?" she said.
"I doubt it" Phoenix said, walking down the corridor and peeking into the survailence room. "There's nobody in here"
Kara followed her, her eyes running across the screens. "...Not possible" she said, her look of confusion mirroring Phoenix's.
There were no adults. None at all. The cell doors were still locked, the kids inside still showing up on the cameras, but there wasn't an adult in sight.
The two of them looked at each other, a look of understanding crossing between the two.
"Superpowers"
Kalel Darcy was having a pretty normal morning in prison. As usual, her friend and cellmate Tanya Moran was practicing her Katas in the small space of the cell, narrowly avoiding crashing into the walls every time she did a spinning or jumping kick. Kalel was sitting on the bed, focusing on creating a portal large enough to fit herself through.
...Yeah, it would be fair to say that Kalel's definition of normal was just a little bit off. But then again, who could be normal when you're a portal creating kleptomaniac?
Still, this was for Kalel a pretty typical morning until Phoenix and Kara came along.
"Kal, Tanya, you in there?" Kara's loud voice caused them both to lose focus, Tanya almost overbalencing from her punch and Kalel's portal teleporting her pillow to God knows where.
"Kara? What the hell are you doing here?" Tanya asked, looking out the window to see the small brown haired girl looking up with a grin.
"The adults have gone bye bye so we thought we'd pop over" she smiled.
"The adults have gone bye bye" Kalel deadpanned, "How do you mean the adults have gone bye bye?"
"Wait, you mean you don't know?" Phoenix's voice called through the door.
"Nope" Kalel said.
"But, we thought it was you" Kara said, "Didn't you like, portal the adults off somewhere?"
"I wish, I can't even portal myself" Kalel scowled, shooting her hands a death glare.
"So, you mean the adults have mysteriously dissapeared, and we have no idea how" Tanya summarised.
"Basically, yeah" Phoenix said. "We've seen the cameras, it's just the kids".
"Not even that, all the older ones are gone too" Kara said.
"Okay..." Kalel said, "We need to find out what's going on. Phee can you get us out?"
"Well, I've got the key, but..."
Hearing the crackle of fire, Kalel and Tanya quickly leapt out of the way as a blast of flame and a volly of rocks blasted the door off its hinges.
Kalel and Tanya were pressed flat against the wall, sheilded from the damage by one of Kalel's portals.
"Oh, now you work" she muttered as the portal faded away, brushing some dust from her arm as Phoenix extinguished the still burning door.
"Way to be inconspicuous" Tanya smirked, "I bet no one heard that"
"Meh, there aren't any guards" Kara smiled, "Might as well have fun"
Kalel sighed, "Well that's great and all, but guys?"
"Yeah?"
"Next time, use the bloody key"