Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 2

Escaping

"Escaping"

Ship: Thunderblink (Love).

Word count: 521 words.

Rating: Teen.

Square: O1 "Survival instinct".

Summary: Clarice and John need to use their abilities to escape from danger.

Warnings/Tags: Escaping, Sentinels, Purifiers.

A/N: This is my entry to the​ Marvel Rare Pair Bingo Round 2 2023. Annie MRP-066.

Clarice and John found themselves in a dangerous situation. The purifiers and sentries were relentlessly pursuing them. They knew that to survive, they had to use all their instincts and make the most of their abilities.
In one of the many escapes, the enemies cornered them in an abandoned warehouse. The place was dark and full of shadows, which gave the mutants a small advantage. Clarice opened a portal, and the two quickly entered, escaping their pursuers.
However, the Sentinels did not give up, so they somehow tracked the portal to Clarice and John's new destination and found them in a lush forest.
The pair moved quickly through the trees, avoiding enemy attacks. John managed to make it difficult for himself while managing to protect Clarice as he opened a new escape portal.

The mutants finally reached an old, abandoned subway shelter. They knew they had to find a way to disable the alarms and security systems to avoid detection. After they succeeded, they went deeper into the shelter.

As they explored the shelter, Clarice and John discovered that it was full of other mutants who had been captured by the Purifiers or the Sentinels. They listened for a while to what they were being told by them as they tried to see how to rescue them and get them out of the place.

The pair also wondered if they had been caught in a trap, so they were also on the lookout for enemies. They had managed to free the other mutants; now the important thing was to get out of the place.

Although they did not know if they were walking into a trap carefully prepared by the enemies, everyone kept their senses alert, listening carefully for any sign of enemy presence.
Meanwhile, the captured mutants were telling them about their terrible experiences, how they had been taken from their lives, and everything they knew. Clarice and John felt the urgency to rescue them and get them out of that place, but they also knew they needed to be cautious not to walk into a trap.

They thought they were in a relatively quiet area, seemingly without danger. Clarice used her ability to open portals and explored the different corridors and rooms of the shelter to find a way out of the place.

Meanwhile, John made sure to protect him as well as be on the lookout for any signs of danger. Just in case, he managed to set some traps with the help of his strength.
Finally, after an exhaustive search, they found a central control panel that controlled the shelter's alarms and security systems. Fortunately, one of the mutants was a technology specialist, so it was easy to deactivate everything, but they still had to hurry; they didn't know how much time they had before they were discovered.
They all managed to escape from the subway shelter and went into the darkness of the forest. Although at some point they doubted the mutants they encountered, they decided to trust them; they would take them to one of the subway mutant shelters until they could do something else.