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Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion

The tear gas that had filled the cafeteria had a severe effect on Julia, who was essentially a civilian. She had retreated to underneath one of the tables, and was a hacking, coughing mess, rubbing at and trying to shield her streaming, stinging eyes. She couldn't 'tough this out'. This was an awful experience. This whole thing had been a mistake. She couldn't perform a breakout! She wasn't cut from the same cloth as all these hardened criminals around her, who could go toe-to-toe with superpowered vigilantes. Tear gas was nothing to them. She had been a fool for thinking there was anything she could have done to help them, as opposed to them needing to baby her if she hid behind them all the way up.

The gas was suddenly starting to clear, and Julia suddenly found it easier to breathe, and to see. She tentatively barely opened one eye, to see that Kai, in her true monstrous form, was eating the smoking canisters. The creature then approached her and licked her face. Julia have her weak, still-pained yet warm smile, and patted her on the shoulder in gratitude, not yet recovered enough for a verbal thanks but hoping her sentiment was carried across.

As she stayed seated underneath the table, waiting for the air to clear and her face to recover, she could hear the sounds of combat moving from the cafeteria to the corridor and the prison cells. There was much more gunfire and screaming than before, and Julia was absolutely not going to go and become a liability, or collateral, but getting involved in that chaos, especially not without her full faculties.

"Hey! Is anyone in here?" shouted a male voice, as a pair of guards were searching through the mist of the tear gas. Julia got to her feet, and raised her hand to peer through the haze to see them, and they saw her. They approached, with guns aimed at her.

"Don't move! Identify yourself!"

"Julia Kray! Don't shoot me, I was just eating my lunch."

"Kray? Put your hands up! Let me see your gloves!"

The guards would then see her comply, raising both her hands to show that she was still wearing her gloves. They seemed to relax a little as they now comfortably approached her. The closest one took both her hands and reached for his manual metal cuffs.

"Alright. We'll get you back to your cell nice and easy now."

Back to her cell. They were going to take her back to her cell. While the rest escaped, she alone would remain a captive. Alone. Not even a hope of any human company, let alone friends. Nobody but the guards. She couldn't do that! She won't! But the moment that guard cuffs her, it's all over!

Even Julia was startled by the gunshot.

Before she'd truly managed to register what she was doing, she had taken the handgun from where she had tucked it in her waistline, and she had shot the guard in the stomach. He was backing up, still stunned. The other guard reached for his own gun. Julia whipped round and fired three bullets into his upper chest, killing him. The first guard was reaching for his own weapon. She shot him in the head.

She couldn't believe she'd just killed them. She felt sick. But she forced herself not to dwell on it. She had truly crossed the line now. If she stopped, or let her adrenaline wear off and succumb to the mental collapse, she would get shot. She had to keep moving forward. Smoking gun still in hand, she ran towards the cells, and beyond them, the elevators.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Perse@Klumsykrow357@Blazion@The Man Emperor@Restalaan

Julia stepped forward when she saw the first punch thrown, and was about to interject, but the situation rapidly escalated beyond her control. Ameliya had now raised a table that was glowing hot. Looking behind her, she saw several of the now unrestrained Supervillains start to attack the guards, and seal off the exits to the cafeteria. One of them was a giant hulking creature that was devouring most of the guards on the catwalk. Everything around Julia was absolute carnage and she was frozen to the spot watching it all. It was a stark reminder that the people she was in this room with were powerful, trained, dangerous and thought nothing of taking multiple human lives. They were Supervillains. She had to try and fit in with them without being a burden. A handgun from a dead guard clattered to the floor in front of her, and she picked it up. She had never fired a gun before, didn't know how to aim, and....this was a lot heavier than they made these look in the movies!

The chaos subsided almost as fast as it had started, and they had won. They had secured the cafeteria. Julia was surprised that her first thought was "The ice man shouldn't have let that guard escape alive. They might have less time before an alarm is raised now." What was even more concerning was that thought didn't make her feel guilty. Julia looked around for Kai, and for Min-Ji. She saw Min-Ji. But where was the little girl? She looked around the room, and spotted everybody that she knew, but couldn't account for who the large alien-looking creature was. That's when she out two and two together and realized that she was Kai. So that was why she wore a muzzle. In fact, Julia was possible the single least dangerous inmate in this room right now. It only hammered home to her that she didn't belong here and needed to get out.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion@KaiserElectric@Perse@Klumsykrow357

"Someone's cut the power, everything's shut down."

Julia had been waiting, and listening to everybody's conversations. Taking note of their actions. They were doing it! And it might actually work! If they could get out, she'd have a chance to start over! Another chance at living an ordinary life with friends and a job and freedom! She was getting too excited to even eat as she sat, and listened, and kept her head pointed forward. It was only after the white-haired lady two seats along from her told Kailani that one sentence that Julia felt her stomach drop. Her heart was pounding so hard, her muzzled friend could probably feel it, let alone hear it.

To test the above claim, she put her hands under the desk and looked at her gloves. There was neither a red or green light. She tried to take one off, and managed to slide it up all the way to her palm! That woman had been telling the truth! Their restraints were off!

Julia put her glove back on, and then slowly, as to not attract any guard's attention away from the distraction, reached around to the back of Kai's muzzle and unfastened it. She kept hold of it as she took it off and discreetly placed it on the seat besides her. She slid her unfinished bowl of food to Kai and gave her a pat on the shoulder and a smile, before getting up and walking over to where Ameliya and Iris were starting the distraction. When they came to blows, she was going to try and break them up, and in the process, escalate this from an argument, to a scene. Any way she could help this plan to succeed, short of deliberately taking a life.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@Blazion@twave@Eviledd1984

Kai's subtle protective gestures towards her own food didn't go unnoticed by Julia, who stared at her own food while she sifted away from the little girl slightly and focused on eating her own food despite not being that hungry. She did not want anyone so see her as hostile, or a threat, or a food thief, or anything like that. She just wanted to keep her head down. But she also needed to talk to people. Human contact was a rare and welcome return to 'normalcy' and kept her own of her own head for a while, where she could distract herself from her own thoughts.

To Julia's surprise, the girl was the one who instigated the conversation, while still smiling. Julia smiled back, but it wasn't a full smile. It was the smile of somebody who was glad, grateful and pleased, but capable of neither feeling nor feigning warmth and happiness.

"Thank you. They're special gloves. I can't leave my cell without them, because I, um..." Julia trailed off and her smile disappeared as her expression turned to sunken-eyed haunted distress at some unknown trauma or memory. Min-Ji would have noticed this too. Julia quickly managed to fight back to a smile, albeit dimmer than the previous one, and not before her eyes had developed a noticeable sheen to them now. "Yours are very nice too."

Julia heard Abby's plan from the other table, and heard the woman across the table dismiss it as stupid. Julia was no professional criminal , but the plan teamed rather basic and cliché. "If it was that easy, somebody would have pulled it off by now," Julia muttered in agreement with Min-Ji. But she'd started thinking about it.

Julia didn't want to be in prison. That wasn't a surprise. Nobody did. She'd turned herself in because she was scared of running. Scared of the constant threat that somebody would find her and end her life in the name of justice. And this was preferable to those few days of her life. But what she really wanted was normalcy. She wanted a job, and a social life, and possibly even a boyfriend somewhere down the line. She just wanted to go back to her simple unremarkable, ordinary life. She might be able to heal and move on by then. In here, she was stewing, and rotting, and couldn't ignore the thoughts that crossed her mind. She wanted out. She needed out.

Julia had made up her mind. She wanted to escape. She would help them in their attempt. She would follow them. Therein lay hope.

She heard Min-Ji say something about utensils, before realising that she had been watching the little girl eat her own spoon but was too distracted in her thoughts to have registered what she'd been seeing. That bought to mind something the girl had said a few seconds prior; 'Lock, I won’t eat you today.' Julia's eyes were suddenly quite bright and alive, and she started leaning closer before she remembered the boundary and backing off. "But you could eat the lock, right?" Julia asked the little girl, "If you wanted to, you could eat those cuffs straight off your wrists?"

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

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@twave@Restalaan@Blazion

Julia awoke to to banging on her cell door. She groaned and struggled out of bed. She threw on her prison clothes, gave her hair a quick brushing and washed her hands with a rough cloth, to prevent them from touching each other. She finally picked up the collared gloves from the corner of the room and slid them on, holding her hands up to the camera beside the door to show the guards that she was wearing them. Julia winced a little as the cuffs tightened around her wrists, locking the gloves in place and ensuring they couldn't be removed. The green LED on the cuffs turned red and the cuffs magnetically locked together. Satisfied, the guards finally opened the door.

"You're late again. When we knock on the door, that means put your gloves on. One of these days, there won't be any food left by the time you're ready," the guard wearily admonished her as they escorted her to the food hall.

"Sorry, I didn't sleep well. Nightmares," was Julia's meek answer. The guards didn't mind dealing with Julia. She was never any trouble, never violent, always obedient. But the frequency with which she was late for breakfast was an annoyance to them. They had enough else to do without waiting for her, having to avert their eyes as she gets dressed on camera.

Once she reached the food hall, the red light turned green and the magnets deactivated. Julia's gloved hands returned to her sides as she wordlessly took a tray and loaded it up with food. Now she just needed a place to sit down and eat it. Somewhere hopefully she could eat in relative peace, but maybe make some small conversation. Julia was still wary of drawing attention to herself in this place, full of villains and violent criminals (not yet truly thinking of herself as either of those) but she couldn't deny that she was lonely.

She made her way to one of the few free spaces left, just in time to hear a woman across from the table lean into the face of the inmate Julia planned to sit beside, and say "It isn't a good idea to get too close to strangers. People here will try and kill you for less." This seemed overly harsh and threatening given that is seemed to be directed at a young girl. But Julia had realised that everyone here was in here for a good reason. Julia realised she'd been standing and watching them both for a few seconds, and awkwardly and silently sat down, starting to eat and hoping she hadn't accidentally started any trouble.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

Julia Kray

Name: Julia Kray

Known Aliases: The Black Death

Age: 28

Appearance:

Julia

Julia stands at 5"6 and 125lbs with a 'healthy' build and a now pallid complexion made all the worse by her constantly haunted eyes and ever-growing crow's feet, brought on by a lack of restful nights. Her hair is just past shoulder length, light chestnut and well-maintained, as cleanliness and grooming are now sanctuaries that Julia enjoys as calming activities to break up the monotony of cell life. Her eyes are brown and dull, though once may have been slightly more vibrant and bright.

Psyche Profile: Julia is a generally well-behaved inmate who keeps her head down and never makes any trouble. She never tries to leave her cell without her gloves and every time she is prompted to, she puts them on without complaint.The one avenue where she might possibly cause trouble is her desperation to not seem like a frail doormat the other inmates can push around as a weak link. She is often seeking comfort by slipping back into old routines, so treats the wardens and guards more as middle-management team leaders than as enemies or authority figures. Going along with them is just…part of the job.

Background: It’s unknown how Julia Kray got her powers. Even Julia Kray can’t remember the night clearly. She recalls brief flashes of holding a glowing blue orb in her hands, and the sensation of burning that she felt from her pals and fingertips, but cannot remember what the Orb was, why she had grabbed it, or what happened next. Her next memory was of waking up in a field several miles out from the City.

Julia lived in Glasgow, Scotland, and worked in an office answering phones all day. Her life wasn’t exciting. She lived in a third floor apartment several train stops away from her work, and commuted every day. She was single, had no pets, didn’t know her neighbors, and only saw her parents once every few months. And she had no intention of changing a thing.

She doesn’t remember how it happened. Whether she grabbed, was grabbed, or simply brushed against them. She remembered the strange man dying in front of her as visible black streaks were running up his veins from the spot their hands had touched, spreading to his entire body, and he collapsed in spasms and convulsions. She remembered the dreams of onlookers, They fled in terror. And so did she. Some people tried to stop her, to grab her. she snatched their hands away, or shoved them. She didn’t look back. She just wanted to get somewhere that wasn’t there. It was as if she was running from herself too.

In her apartment the next day, she saw her terrified face everywhere, plastered on every news channel and paper. ‘The Black Death’, they were calling her. A terrorist. A murderer. A Supervillain. Eleven people, she’d killed that day. She went to the bathroom and threw up. The police came to her house and she was so scared, so terrified of facing down the barrels of their pistols. Every shout and command barked and screamed at her, caused her to flinch and her eyes to twitch. She lunged at them, hands outstretched, knowing that she was killing them. Then she ran again.

It was famous and beloved British Superhero The Guardian who finally found her, crumpled under a tree in the woods. She warned him not to come. She warned him to stay away from her. But he didn’t listen.

She turned herself in that day. Still holding back tears. She just wanted to be somewhere quiet and safe now, where the pain might stop. She didn’t care if that was prison.

Julia Kray, The Black Death, is one of the most hated and reviled figures in British history, infamous the world over, for being the Supervillain who killed The Guardian.

Skills, Talents and Learning: Julie has good conversational and diplomatic skills on account of her customer-facing job and ordinary social life. Mercenaries, murderers, aliens and mysterious beings may be far more skilled and knowledgeable than Julia, but could they fit seamlessly into society without standing out? She can also cook pretty well.

Power(s) and Capabilities: The palms and fingertips of Julia’s hands will spread a fast-acting, highly potent toxin through the bloodstream/capillary system of any living thing that she touches within seconds. And unless the recipient is immune to poisons or toxins, or can sever the infected flesh fast enough, that will mean death. Julia doesn’t even know whether or not this power will work on her, and is scared to find out, so never touches her own body with her bare hands

Power Limits: Besides Julia’s own reluctance to leave her hands uncovered for very long, let alone touch others, means that she’s in-effect limiting herself. Her power is also reliant on touch and Julia herself is untrained giving it a very poor range and making it easy for skilled individuals to avoid if the need arose, or even attack her from a distance, where she would be at their mercy.

Known Vulnerabilities: Julia’s hands are almost constantly covered, whether by her own volition or by her secure cuff-gloves, so she is rarely a threat to anybody while an inmate at the prison. Coupled with that, she is an ordinary human. A Civilian, in fact. Not even so much as a self-defence class under her belt. Getting stabbed with a ball-point pen to the shoulder would put her in the infirmary.

Motives: Julia doesn’t have any goals as much as she has dreams. There’s no finish line in sight but she has a carrot on a stick to keep her running and that carrot is the dream that one day she can return to a normal life of relative anonymity. Maybe to even have a family and a circle of friends one day.

Recommended Containment Procedures: She is not allowed to be interacted with, given food, or her door to be opened unless she has put on special gloves that lock around her wrists and prevent her hands from coming in direct contact with anything.

Thornwood Asylum For The Criminal Insane- A Villain Roleplay. (Closed Indefinitely)

I really like the look of this rp! I have a few old ideas I'm playing with. I really like the idea of a kind of mentally broken, reluctant villain who lashed out because they were scared. The power's roughly some kind of touch-based poison/toxic/putrid kind of thing that I think I'll only limit to the palms of his hands ( so while in prison they keep these cuffed gloves on that he can't take off).

Still working out the details.

My Hero Academia: Raw Potential

Saki could feel the back of her foot hit Yukari right on the skull, Saki formed her mouth in a wry smile as she softened the blow somewhat. It would be awful if she broke something from the poor girl. She landed right besides Yukari and saw she was still or already standing again, did that not hit hard enough to knock her out at least?! Saki stood up with a warned look on her face and suddenly felt a devastating shock through her chest. The briefcase she was holding with her tail was silently picked out from her tail.

The hit felt somewhat like a baseball hitting you at the speed of a car. Metal clunked as Saki fell backwards onto her butt. Her skin felt somewhat cracked underneath her shirt, it hurted a lot. Saki bounced back onto her feet and took a boxer stance she had learned from tv to notice the briefcase was back in Yukari her possession. This girl was a serious problem, she had already bounced herself up onto the roof of the building. Saki gulped and looked back at Nadeko.

“Take the roofs Nadeko, I’ll try to cut her path”

This was more of an ordeal she would think it was. Nadeko would probably be faster with her magnets and could move around midair more freely then her. Saki's eyes flashed green as she used her speed to catch up to Yukari while using her enhanced intelligence to track her. The crane in the distance would definitely help her up.

Dashing over the rooftops, Yukari needed to think fast. Nadeko’s quirk would let her easily take the briefcase away from Yukari while Saki was simply fast enough to keep up with her, and together Yukari wasn’t sure if she could protect the briefcase. If this was a straight up fight Yukari wouldn’t have as many problems. ”Gotta think of something!” Soon Yukari ran out of roof. She could feel the subtle changes in the wind indicating that the area in front of her was very open, too far for her to stretch without building up some tension. She knelt down for just a moment, her ears perking up as she tried to listen carefully around her. She needed to sense everything she could to get an edge against these odds.

That’s when an idea struck her. On the rooftop was one of those ventilation chimneys. Saki was still a few buildings away and Nadeko was too far for Yukari’s senses to pick up, so she needed to act fast. Yukari would pry open the vent, tossing the briefcase inside as it fell down into the building. Yukari would then hastily put the vent back into place and keep running. As far as the other two would know, Yukari still had the briefcase. So now she needed to lead them as far away as she could, so she can keep the both of them away from the briefcase so Yukari can pick it up later. If anything, this would allow Yukari to start hunting down the other briefcases since she doubts any of the hero team would think that a briefcase was in a ventilation shaft.

”Now I just need to focus on taking them out!”

Saki suddenly dove up at the end of Yukari her roof. She had been making use of her agility to catch up to Yukari via pipes and smaller roofs. It might have not been so fast as her but at least she could compete.

"You won't be able to get away from me twice villain!~"

Saki softly let herself fall as her eyes glowed red she lunged herself at Yukari by kicking herself of the roof border and punched Yukari on impact.

Saki landed with her feet on the ground and noticed by her glance looking over Yukari that the suitcase had vanished. She could only hope her teammates didn't have it. She might be able to keep Yukari to stall for time. Quickly she swiped her foot at Yukari in attempt to let her fall and lock her down so she wouldn't escape.

"See how you like this~"

Nadeko, meanwhile, had been trying to solve the conundrum of catching up. There were buildings but they were too far away, so she ran. She ran until she was confident that at max power they wouldn’t be too much interference for her to pull herself to the building where Saki and Yukari were fighting. Once she zipped over, she saw that Yukari wasn’t holding the briefcase, and it wasn’t anywhere nearby. She had either dropped it or stashed it. If the former, they’d have to search. If the latter, they’d have to get Yukari to spill the beans. But they couldn’t arrest her. What did she need that they could take away?

Nadeko had an idea. They could find a way to trap Yukari. That way she’d be unable to look for more briefcases or help out her teammates. Then they would be in a position to bargain. But first, Nadeko needed to know what Yukari could do. After the several seconds Nadeko had been standing and staring while she figured this out, she sprung into action. While Saki was both stronger and faster in close quarters, Nadeko pulled a rusty shopping trolley towards her and fired it at Yukari.

It was a good thing Saki called out her attacks, because it made it easier for Yukari to know where she was coming and be ready. Despite her speed Yukari was able to raise her guard when Saki came to punch her, rolling with the hit so she could bounce back and throw a counter punch. When Saki tried to sweep her feet she only managed to knock one foot out from beneath Yukari, which wasn’t enough for Yukari to lower her guard. If anything this allowed her to suddenly start attacking Saki with both her hands and her foot as she used her extreme flexibility to start barraging Saki with a flurry of blows.

“You’re tough, but I’m not going down that easily!” Yukari said with a grin as she could easily take Saki’s blows thanks to her rubber body and keep on punching. But Yukari was so caught up in the excitement of the fight that she realized a little too late that something was flying towards her. The shopping cart hit her dead on and knocked her against the wall. This actually did hurt though not enough that Yukari was knocked out. “Ow… I guess, oof… Maeda-chan caught up...”

Hitting Yukari with her first crept a smile on her face only lasting a few seconds however as she was quickly met with twice the speed of her punch back. Saki staggered back feeling light in her head from the punch. Saki raised a hand to her head barely able to blink she was met by another two blows staggering back even more. Ten fist, no hundred fists were launched in quick succession at Saki feeling herself being driven back.

At the edge of the roof she braced herself and took a defensive stance after realising what was happening. It stopped as a loud slam got Saki her attention in stead, her eyes trailed after the wind the shopping cart had produced with Yukari lying against a roof wall. Full of dents and broken skin Saki launched up her thumb at Nadeko.

"Nice job partner!~"

Saki smirked and strode up towards the downed Yukari. She tore the shopping cart apart into a makeshift jail for Yukari. She somewhat doubter it would keep her but maybe there were limits to how flexible she could get.

"A cozy home for you Yukari-chan~ Where did you leave the suitcase villain!"

Nadeko was doubtful that it would be that easy but nevertheless pushed against the makeshift jail and kept a very close eye on Yukari.

Yukari felt around the metal that was around her. After a few seconds she figured out it must’ve been a shopping cart. Yukari could easily escape though maybe that wasn’t a good idea right now. Instead Yukari looked in the direction of Nadeko’s voice and smirked. “Do you really think it’ll be that easy for me to spill my team's plans? No way! I already passed it along to them. Even now we’ve already found half of the briefcases, so it’s just a matter of keeping them away from you and your team!” Yukari shuffled a bit closer to the cage and tried to speak softly so only Nadeko can hear.

“And between you and me, I think we both know what’s more important right now. But you also know both of you can’t just stay here to watch me either. So how about you let me go and I promise I won’t steal any more briefcases, okay?” Yukari said with a charming smile. “Pinky promise.”

Nedeko glanced to Saki, then turned back to Yukari with a blank, unimpressed look on her face. She then held out one of her magnet arms and pulled Yukari to her shopping cart and all, before holding Yukiar tight with one of her arms. She turned back to Saki.

“Where should we go now, prisoner in tow? Shall we look for the briefcase manually? That could take us the entiiiiire exercise! Would sure save a lot of time if somebody knew where it was!” she spoke, with a sly grin on her face.

Saki annoyingly smiled at Yukari for telling such blatant lies to them and after that she even tried buying Nadeko over from what she could tell. Saki kicked with her leg onto the cage rattling the bars.

“Quiet! Prisoners shouldn’t speak without the guards' permission~!”

Nadeko held the cage now with Yukari, it honestly looked really weird. Saki laughed somewhat and queued up on Nadeko her remark.

“Maybe if dear sweet Yukari would tell us a thing or two about where she has hidden it would certainly help us~
Saki sadistically smiled towards her partner and Yukari as well before she proposed an idea towards Nadeko.

“I know! Maybe she will remember after flying through the stratosphere in that metal cage of hers or being launched away like a rubber band from the edge of the building fufu~ Which one do you like more Yu-ka-ri-chan~”

“Oh no, please, anything but that.” Yukari said sarcastically. She’s done stunts like this before so she wasn’t all that scared. “Please please, I’ll tell you where the briefcase is at! It’s over there, by the giant chicken!” Yukari pointed off in a random direction where there was no chicken. “And besides, I’m not lying. The rest of my team has already gotten the briefcases! Don’t believe me?” Yukari said as she turned towards Nadeko. She kept staring at Nadeko, letting her get a clear look at Yukari’s cloudy eyes. “Look into my eyes. Do you see what I see? Then you’ll know that there’s no way I could find a briefcase on my own. That’s why I passed it along already!”

Nadeko shrugged, and turned to Saki. “It was worth a try. Still, you were following her. If you’re a robot, do you have a memory you could play back? If if you didn’t see where she dropped the case, you could track her route and that would narrow down your search. You’re the only one who can find the case. As for me, I’ll head back to the buildings, and I’ll take Yukari with me.”

With that, Nadeko started jogging back to the towers, Yukari still trapped in the trolley-turned-cage, which was stuck to Nadeko’s arm. Nadeko wasn’t running, probably because she was having to lift Yukari off the ground.

The Promise - Second Star to the Right, and Straight on 'til Morning.

Natalie Ellis

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Ever scientist that passed Natalie caused her to have to close her eyes and try her best to convince herself they weren't there. She couldn't look at anybody they passed without remembering the contents of the room they had just left. Or Project Lion. And what those scientists did to her...

She felt Archie grab her arm and squeeze it, and relaxed a little. Passing scientists became much easier now she could focus on the fact that Archie was with her. She didn't want to think about their relationship. She wasn't sure she even wanted to look at him. Had she screwed it up? Had he rejected her? If she looked at him, she'd start thinking about those questions, and they hurt. She did get closer and pull slightly, though, as if to try to communicate the idea that she was glad he was here. Like he said, she needed to take it easy, as hard as it was. As much as it tortured her to walk past every single employee here at the Spire.

Once they made it to the elevator, he let go of her arm, and she made her way over to the opposite corner before breathing a sigh of relief. However, it was short lived as they were joined by more scientists, and Natalie quickly scanned the elevator for the buttons and stared at them. The mere seconds they all spent in that elevator dragged on for what felt like hours. Nat's fists were clenched and her knuckles were white, but as she was supposed to be a scientist, looking nervous and inwardly furious about something wasn't anything too unusual so the unwanted gusts knew better than to make any comment on it.

Once they were out of that situation, mere seconds afterwards, the alarms began to blare.

"ATTENTION. PARAHUMAN PSYCHIATRIC WARD CONTAINMENT BREACH. ALL PERSONELLE RETURN TO NEAREST SHELTER AND AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTION."

Nat's first thought was that they were in trouble. Her second thought was 'Shit! Archie!'. She immediate went to his side and now she returned the favor by grabbing his arm in order to ground and reassure him. When he seemed to realise, as she did, that they weren't the ones the alarm was addressing, he seemed to be stable enough, so she let go again and stepped back. When they started to run, she ran with them.

"Not the time," was Natalie's short response to Lynn's comment as they followed Keaton. The party then reached a door. Nat noted the keycard reader. Archie asked her if she could break it down. Nat's response was to suck air through her teeth.

"Easily. And then we'd definitely get noticed." Instead, she watched and listned as Nic and then Lynn used their own minds and talents to analyse the situation between them. By the time they'd finished, Nat found herself genuinely smiling slightly, in contrast to the situation. One thing she didn't know that this team was capable of was that kind of teamwork. Between the work the two of them have done, she would be able to open the door without triggering any alarms. Provided that Nic was right, and provided the door could be opened from the inside. Most keycard doors could.

Once Lynn had stood aside, Nat approached the door, placed her fist to the red-hot metal, inside the circle that Nic had drawn, and pushed. Being hotter, the metal didn't need to be repeatedly punched, which might have set off some kind of concussion alarm. She just pushed, and thanks to her strength and the door's slightly more molten state, she was able to push out a clean hole. She then put more of her arm in, and began to feel around for the handle, which she found, and pulled. The door was open.

Once Nat freed her arm of the hole, only then did she notice the minor burns to her fist and forearm. The pain kicked in several seconds after she saw them, and she sucked air through her teeth again, whilst shaking her arm off.

My Hero Academia: Raw Potential

@vancexentan

I'm sorry to hear that