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Later on that same night, the Superstars, minus Dean, were again herded into the jailhouse-type building. Here, they waited in silence until about midnight, when the village was bound to be asleep. Then, they began to plan.
"Okay," Wade said. "Anyone have any brilliant ideas?"
"Well," Roman mused aloud, "First, we'll need to come up with a distraction of sorts."
"That would be ideal," Bray remarked. "Dean might be able to serve that purpose, since he's spending the night in that pit."
"Yes," Roman replied, "He's bound to be extremely irritated by morning."
"Then we'll sneak out?" Jimmy asked hopefully.
"It won't be that easy," Bray reprimanded. "We need a place to lie low until this whole thing blows over. Preferably someplace the hunters don't know and where we can see any incoming ships or planes."
"I saw a mountain earlier," Rob noted. "We could hide out up there if we need to."
"You sure that's a mountain?" Dolph questioned. "We're in the tropics. With all our luck, that's a volcano."
"We don't have a choice," Jey sighed. "Either we get picked off one by one here or we could withstand the elements on a possible volcano."
"And what if that thing is active?" Dolph snapped. "We'll be boiled alive!"
"It's not active," Bo spoke up, sounding certain. "There's no smoke coming out of the top."
"He's right," Rob added when no one responded.
"Fine," Dolph huffed. "So it isn't active. Why can't we just go back to the plane?"
"That would be too obvious," Roman responded. "There's shelter and food there. That's where they would expect us to go."
"So we're going to have to do the unexpected and climb a mountain that may or may not be a volcano?" Jimmy asked, clearly not liking the idea.
"Precisely," Bray replied, looking pleased in the dark.
"I don't like this," Christian grumbled. "It seems way too risky. We should just stay here, where it's safe."
"That's what they want us to do," Bray notes in a low voice. "They want us to stay so that they can make use of us. The moment we lose our practicality would be our final moment. Truthfully, I'm surprised they haven't taken any of our injured yet."
"Wait a minute!" Jey cried suddenly. "What about Seth?"
"What about him?" Christian enquired.
"He's missing," Jey answered. "I haven't seen him since yesterday."
"Then it's already begun," Bray said solemnly. "We'll move tomorrow."
"What about the distraction?" Sheamus enquired. "We haven't figured that out yet."
"If Dean fails to deliver a proper distraction tomorrow morning," Bray noted, "My boys and I will figure something out." Luke and Erick nod wordlessly in the darkness.
"If we get separated during our escape," Roman directed, "We should meet at the top of the mountain. There is no way we would be able to find each other otherwise."
The Superstars quietly agreed and settled down to sleep. They needed as much rest as they could possibly get in order to be ready for the morning's escape attempt.
That's right, folks! I'm back! Hopefully, I'll be focusing on this one a bit more in the near future. Until then, see you later!