[COLOR=GRAY][INDENT][INDENT][i][quote=@Lord Wraith] [COLOR=WHITE]“If you come home, I will unfold your future. It doesn’t lie here, in this military academy. This is built to appease those who are beneath you. To restrain and limit you, I give you a world with no limitations, I will unfold your future.”[/color] [COLOR=#B8860B]"Alright, settle down Squid Game. We've got enough bloody fun and games on the itinerary already... Red Light!"[/color] Hyperion’s head seemed to swivel free of its neck as the cold empty eye sockets of their mask landed on Banjo. Something in their demeanour changed as they gleefully pushed students aside until Banjo was centred out by himself. [COLOR=WHITE]“Don’t you get tired of feeling alone, having to always wear that armour you lug around? You have so many looking for you,”[/color] Hyperion paused and even with the mask, Banjo could practically see the smug grin on their face. [COLOR=WHITE]“I’ve met them, your parents that is. Don’t you get tired of running? Have you ever wondered if he truly has your best interests at heart or if you’re just a burden of obligation? Stand with me instead, I assure you I want you by my side and there will be no more running.”[/color] [COLOR=#B8860B]"Yeeeeeeah... the kind of dynamic I suspect you would want you and I to have..? I'm pretty bloody sure I'm gonna clash... sorry, correction, don't want to give you the wrong idea... [b][i]I WOULD MAKE IT MY BUSINESS[/i][/b] to ensure that I clash."[/color] With a twist of his wrist, Hyperion lifted Banjo into the air. Holding Banjo briefly, the masked figure pulled the suspended teen closer, inspecting the boy. [COLOR=WHITE]“I’ll give you one more chance to answer.”[/color] [COLOR=#B8860B]"Go fuck yourself."[/color] Banjo smirked. [COLOR=WHITE]“I’ll be back for you later.”[/color] He hissed directly into Banjo’s ear, out of earshot of the others before tossing Banjo into the air. The force of the momentum sent Banjo sailing much to the horrified gasps and screams of the gathered student body. [/quote] Banjo saw the grounds, and student body shrink away from him. His arms thrown forward from the force. As he was hurled skyward. "Well, this is gonna get a lot worse before it gets any better." He thought to himself. Can't fly. Long way up. Far below him he saw blue flashes and the quick white light burst of gunfire. Hey, maybe Sparky McGee's got nut about him to actually get this done. He searched for Calliope in the crowd, hoping she was safe, as he came to the apex. As he got closer, he could see the fear on her face. "Hey, your last words really were 'Go Fuck yourself.', I mean it was probably always better than 50/50 odds that that'd be the case, but that was pretty bada--" He came to earth. [/i] [/INDENT][/INDENT][hr][CENTER][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1070792705547980842/1079957264212971520/image.png[/img][/CENTER][indent][sub][COLOR=SILVER][B]Location:[/B][/COLOR] [I]Pacific Royal Collegiate & University - Infirmary[/I][/sub][sup][right][COLOR=SILVER][b]First Class: # 2.03[/b][/COLOR] [I]New Awakenings[/I][/right][/sup][/indent][sub][hr][/sub][INDENT][sub][color=SILVER][B]Interaction(s):[/B][/COLOR] Nil[/sub][SUP][RIGHT][COLOR=SILVER][b]Previously:[/b][/COLOR] [I]In-Tents-ive Care. I Don't Know. Titles are Hard.[/I][/right][/SUP] [INDENT] The steady rhythm of the patient monitor was occasionally drowned out by the tube that was keeping him breathing. At first he was on the ventilator because of the collapsed lung, with the other fast on the way. Now it was necessary predominantly because of the induced coma to ease the head trauma, to keep him breathing. Five broken ribs, a torn spleen, a collapsed lung which almost became two, a bruised kidney, some head trauma and a partridge in a pear tree... But he'd live. Which not everyone who was there then could say. [color=darkgoldenrod]"Mmm... Mmm-mi-mo-mmm!"[/color] He stirred and with an outburst tried to sit up. Searing white-hot pain seized him first from his core and radiated throughout, and then the darkness took him back. [i]Stupid...[/i] [color=white][sup][sub]"Doctor![/sub][/sup][/color] [i]So bloody stupid...[/i] [color=white][sub][sup]"...Stabili--...--emove tube... --gained conscious--...notify..."[/sup][/sub][/color] He was floating on a drugged out cloud of semi-awareness. The next time he awoke, the tube was gone, but he found himself strapped down to the bed. Whaddid they think he was going to run..? The last time he tried to sit up too fast he blacked out. Seems a little unwarranted. [color=white]"G'day... ...Oi. Mornin' kiddo, I know you're awake."[/color] The Butler. Figures. Next of kin, probably guardian was all they'd likely let see him. [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Throat hurts. [sup][sub][sup][sub]Not gonna shut me up though...[/sub][/sup][/sub][/sup]"[/sub][/sup][/color] [color=white]"What was that?"[/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"I said my throat hurts... but don't think for a minute it's gonna bloody shut me up though."[/sub][/sup][/color] The Butler laughed hard in his chair. [color=white]"Nah, mate. I wouldn't imagine it could. They had to tube ya. First when your lungs collapsed, and then to keep you going when they put you to sleep for a bit. That's why it hurts. You've uhh-- You've been out for the better part of a week."[/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"I know why it hurts. I woke up with a bloody great tube down my gob."[/sub][/sup][/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"So whaddid I miss? Who took that colossal masked prick down in the end?"[/sub][/sup][/color] The Butler looked furtively. [color=white]"Look. Ya did a Hell of a thing. Not too many people have stepped up to that guy and walked awa-- well, you haven't walked yet. But you will! You're a tough little nugget..."[/color] Banjo glared at him. [color=white]"No one took him down. He waltzed out. With a few kids too. And... he killed one."[/color] Banjo winced. And wincing made his... well, everything... hurt. Which made him want to wince again. Then his mind kicked in to hyperdrive. Calli. Her father's a senator with an anti-Hyperhuman agenda. The potential statement-- [color=darkgoldenrod][b]"WHO?![/b][/color]" He growled gutterally, at the expense of his throat. More wincing, more pain. [color=white]"Easy mate... shit. Some kid called Cassander Charon. He was in your group. They're having a funeral for him tomorrow."[/color] Banjo furrowed his brow. [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Our group? Which one was he?"[/sub][/sup][/color] [color=white]"He had this explosive kind of fireworks power. Had a not too dissimilar upbringing to you. You'd have probably got on."[/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Fuck... [sup][sub]That's what I saw when I took the bloody express elevator up--[/sub][/sup]"[/sub][/sup][/color] The Butler looked at his reaction with quizzical interest. [color=white]"There was--- ah-- some girl, who's been asking and trying to come in to see you. They keep sending her away. Family only. That's why you just asked, isn't it? Is that something I'm going to have to be concerned about..?[/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Go fuck yourself."[/sub][/sup][/color] The Butler grinned. [color=white]"Whoa-ho, mate! Back on that wagon already, huh. And the doctor's tried to tell me it'd be a while til you're back to normal..."[/color] Banjo chuckled, then winced, then more pain. [color=darkgoldenrod]"Ah shit... [sup][sub]Don't make me laugh, you arsehole.[/sub][/sup]"[/color] The Butler laughed himself, then shook his head in disbelief. [color=white]"You really came face to face with one of the most powerful hyperhumans on earth... And told him... to his face. To go fuck himself. I mean, I always knew you had more sack than sense, but..."[/color] [color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Well, how many other times would I get the chance?"[/sub][/sup][/color] [color=white]"[b]HA![/b] True! Catch ya tomorrow at visiting hours. Don't go running anywhere til then!"[/color] Banjo hummed a barely audible respnse. It did hurt to talk. He figured it would to wave. It hurt to be, at the moment. But he was alive. He was awake. [center]- - -[/center] [quote]The Butler laughed himself, then shook his head in disbelief. [color=white]"You really came face to face with one of the most powerful hyperhumans on earth... And told him... to his face. To go fuck himself. I mean, I always knew you had more sack than sense, but..."[/color][/quote] [quote][right][color=darkgoldenrod][sup][sub]"Well, how many other times would I get the chance?"[/sub][/sup][/color][/right][/quote] [quote][center][COLOR=WHITE]“I’ll be back for you later.”[/color] He hissed directly into Banjo’s ear, out of earshot of the others before tossing Banjo into the air.[/center][/quote] [center]- - -[/center] [/INDENT][/INDENT][/color] [color=SILVER][SUP][table][row][/row][row][cell][color=#2c2c2c]- -[/color]|◄ [url=First Post URL][COLOR=GRAY][b]FIRST[/b][/COLOR][/url][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][center]◄ [url=Previous Post URL][COLOR=GRAY][B]PREV[/B][/COLOR][/url] || [url=Next Post URL (Edited after a subsequent post is added, can be linked to current post is current is latest)][COLOR=GRAY][B]NEXT[/B][/COLOR][/url] ►[color=#2e2c2c]-[/color][/center][/cell][cell][color=2c2c2c]-[/color][/cell][cell][INDENT][right][url=Latest Post URL (Edited after a subsequent post is added, can be linked to current post is current is latest)][COLOR=GRAY][B]LATEST[/B][/COLOR][/url] ►|[/right][/INDENT][/cell][/row][/table][/SUP][/color]