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[sup]________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sup][/COLOR][img]https://i.imgur.com/SU0x74p.png[/img][/CENTER][indent][sub][COLOR=silver][B]Location:[/B][/COLOR] [I]Pacific Royal Campus[/I] - [I]Dundas Islands, Pacific Ocean[/I][/sub][sup][right][COLOR=silver][b]Take On Me #3.046:[/b][/COLOR] [I]Hell Or High Water[/I][/right][/sup][/indent][COLOR=dimgray][SUP][sub]____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________[/sub][/SUP][/COLOR][INDENT][sub][color=silver][B]Interaction(s):[/B][/COLOR] [I][@Skai] - Haven Barnes[/I][/sub][SUP][RIGHT][COLOR=silver][b]Previously:[/b][/COLOR] [I]Broken Bones[/I][/right][/SUP]
[INDENT]Having sedated Haven again, Daedalus moved to a sink to scrub up for the procedure. Pained groans from his other subject echoed from a covered cage nearby eliciting a snicker of amusement from Daedalus as he looked around the labyrinth-like sub-basement that lurked beneath the Academic Quadrangle. This area was off-limits to staff and students alike, having been condemned due to flooding in the foundation years ago. Previously used by Isabella Christianson as a lab while she was in the employ of Yakob Kowalski, it had since been locked up while the Academic Quadrangle had been lifted onto a new foundation through a feat of Hyperhuman ingenuity. 

That left the sub-basement disconnected and completely vulnerable to rats such as Daedalus.

Behind him, seated around a small card table were the three Hyperhumans in his employ, his agents who carried out the retrieval and disposal. They sat there content with a couple of bottles shared between them and a greasy pizza from who knows where. Cards in hard, wagering bottle caps from pillaged Hyper-Aid. 

[color=#ffffff]“Gentlemen, and lady,”[/color] Daedalus interrupted, leaning over the table, [color=#ffffff]“I’ve put the girl down for a sleep, nothing worse than operating on an anxious subject. In the meantime, I should like to drain the boy of his blood, where have you placed the body?”[/color]

[color=#ffffff]“The boy?”[/color] The first man asked only for the woman across the table to shoot him a glare. Massaging his temples, Daedalus took a deep breath before explaining.

[color=#ffffff]“When I sent you to capture [i]Haaaveeen[/i], you said there was a boyfriend. As we can’t afford witnesses, I told you to kill him and bring me the body. Her boyfriend contains the very blood type we need to continue these experiments, it would be comparable to Subject Y except more readily accessible. Now, where’s the body?”[/color]

Two blank stares met Daedalus’ face as the woman began to shrink in her seat, her glare intensifying.

[color=#ffffff]“We didn’t bring no body.”[/color] One of the men stated as the other eagerly agreed.

[color=#ffffff]“Yeah, we injected him with the sedative, same as the girl and left him there so as not to arouse suspicion over two missing students.”[/color]

[color=#ffffff]“You left a witness?”[/color] Daedalus snapped only for the one male to shake his head.

[color=#ffffff]“No, he was sedated, he didn’t see anything.”[/color]

[color=#ffffff]“You were supposed to use the poison.”[/color] The woman snapped, suddenly growing bold enough to speak only for a stern eye from Daedalus to quiet her again.

[color=#ffffff]“Oh,”[/color] The first man replied, the realization suddenly dawning on him.

[color=#ffffff]“Right,”[/color] The second man interjected, [color=#ffffff]“Oh, right. The poison. The poison for the boy, the poison chosen especially to kill the boy, the boy’s poison.”[/color]

Reaching down to the discarded belt and bag, Daedalus picked up the syringe loaded with the poison, holding it up as if to prove his point before driving it into the neck of the second man. Injecting the syringe, he watched with a cruel sneer as the man’s eyes rolled back into his head, foam appearing at the mouth before blood poured out of his eyes and ears. 

[color=#f3f3f3]“What did-”[/color] The first man protested only to find a pair of blood-stained gloved hands on either side of his head. The last thing he heard was the sickening snap of his own neck before his lifeless body slumped into the chair and landed hard on the table. 

The click of a gun caused Daedalus to pause as the woman managed to stand and draw her weapon before the madman turned on her too. The twisted surgeon simply smiled as he threw his arms wide.

[color=#ffffff]“Oh please,[i] please[/i] shoot-”[/color] The sound of the gunshot echoed through the thick concrete walls as Daedalus looked down to see a patch of crimson quickly pooling beneath his clothing. He laughed wickedly before an ethereal-like form discarded the body, the wispy blue essence swirling through the air before merging into the woman’s body. She staggered backwards for a few seconds before cracking her neck.

[color=#ffffff]“Please shoot me.”[/color] She laughed looking down at the weapon and holstering it. Looking at their previous body, Daedalus smiled wickedly before skipping away merrily from the corpses. Wheeling their supplies on the nearby transportation pad, Daedalus rounded up their samples and victims before taking one last look at Haven.

[color=#ffffff]“I told you, I won’t let anyone take you from me.”[/color] She sneered before pressing a button that set off a chain reaction of small explosives. Water from springs within the island began to rapidly flood the sub-basement as Daedalus and his experiments were whisked away by the transportation pad leaving Haven to suffer a watery grave.[/INDENT][/INDENT][/COLOR]