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The girl in the cage snapped to attention from the jolt, wincing in pain. “Ah! What...What is this place? Why am I in a cage? And who are you?” She seemed confused beyond belief. However, she was also deathly afraid as she leaned herself against the back of the cage. “Who’s Cindy? What Beacon? I remember...I was driving down the street to get groceries when a little girl jumped on the hood. She...She was immodest in dress, I think, perhaps a cosplayer, but next thing I know I woke up here. I think she knocked me out!” When she heard Shane demand a contact, she quickly patted herself down. “What is this black coat?” She quickly removed it, revealing that she was not a magical girl, but a civilian. “They must have taken my phone and wallet. Oh, this sucks...”

Despite wanting to pay attention to the girl, each moment increasingly told him that she was not part of Beacon. Worse still she was a civ used as a pawn. He was glad he only used a bit of a shock to speed things up. Great. First things first. He sighed a bit and visibly relaxed to put the girl more at ease. [color=lightblue]”Alright, I think someone’s played an awful prank on all of us. Let me get you out.”[/color] He turned and headed to the door. [color=lightblue]”Jane, let her out. She isn’t part of Beacon, or even a MG. We’re being played!”[/color]

Jane sighed, and opened the cage, resulting in the girl running right over to Shane and hugging him.
“Thank you! I was so scared!” She trembled as she held him, and then just as quickly released him. “So uh, what is happening here? Can I go home now?”

Though he couldn’t see what was going on in the other parts of the warehouse, it sounded like things were getting unusually rough, it hadn’t quite exploded at that point though. [color=lightblue]”You’re going to want to get out of here before whoever did this finds out the jig is up. I need to go stop my friend from doing something we’ll regret. Jane could you please help her outside and get her number in case we need proof?”[/color] He motioned that he needed to go and took a tight grip on his spell book. He didn’t wait for a response before he took off running back to the room with the secret door. As he passed anyone still remaining in the room he managed a couple short sentences. [color=lightblue]”Someone used an ordinary girl to attack Cindy. Someone wants her out there.”[/color] 

Roughly shoving the door out of his way he opened his book and the magic began to well out of it. Firmly planting his hand against the pages the lightning arced and jolted through his body. Not waiting for anyone else he accelerated down the tunnel with the boost of his magic. Whatever may be happening at the warehouse will have to be handled by someone else. While he was quick, the others had a head start on him. Cindy was going to get there first. There was no way of knowing where anyone else he knew was. Debating internally for a moment he pulled out his phone and dialed a number.

Soon, Shane heard Sylvia’s voice on the other hand. “This is the Penrose Beacon support line, how may I help you?” She asked in a neutral, mildly uninterested tone. Shane could hear mechanical sounds in the background, like the turning of bolts and welding of metal.

Oh good, someone familiar at least. [color=lightblue]”Cindy Ford is on her way to Penrose Park to attack the Cardinal. Someone planted a fake Beacon member to attack her. I don’t know who but someone is out to incite a war.”[/color] He continued running but stayed on the line.

Sylvia seemed to have taken a sip of coffee in the midst of listening to Shane, as the sound of a spit take could be heard. “WHAT? Why is she there?” Soon, the sound of rummaging scrap metal followed by running steps were heard as she continued talking. “I’ll get back to you in a moment!” Then, she suddenly hung up the call.

Pulling the phone away from his ear he glanced at the phone briefly. [color=lightblue]”Note to self: Get more people’s numbers.”[/color] This was bad, but if anyone could beat them there it was Beacon. He just hoped it wouldn’t make things worse.