Those Darn Dogooders

8

Jinx

I think I may have found an escape route.

It's not intensely creative or anything, and it may even be dangerous if the security in this place isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. For my plan to work, the security and defense in this prison has to be blind to internal threats but also extremely aware of them.

I cut a deal with Ted, the guy who shares my cell. He's a rapist, who would proudly recount his victims at a dinner party. I've heard him talking about it, just muttering under his breath-2 girls under the age of 16, and another 2 who are about 17. He's a sick man. Sick, disgusting, and perverted, I have no doubt where he's going after he dies. I'd personally escort him there, if I could.

We get 3 meals a day, but the guards bring them to our cells. We only get escorted bathroom breaks, and even those require an advance guard. They haven't brought us dinner yet (the cook isn't too precise about time, and it's torture for us not only for its being late, but because it's like crap on a fork), so when I hear them unlocking the door, Ted is going to attack me.

It's all fake, of course. If I wasn't in such a mess, I would never even talk to him. But he's going to pretend to attack me, while I scream and yell and get the guards' attention. They'll probably stun him, and pull me out of the cell to have me transferred to another one. That's when I'll attack. Normally there are only 2 guards bringing the food, and I'm a good enough hand-to-hand combatant to take them out without my powers. I can grab their keys, find a way to unlock my inhibitors, and from there I can use my powers to get the hell out.

It has to be quick and clean, and if I'm lucky (I hate that word), then none of the other guards will come either. But in planning my escape I had to make a deal with the devil. I said I'd bust Ted out later if he helped me.

Of course I won't, though. People like him deserve to be here. Even the Brotherhood of Evil would agree. The Brotherhood is made up of all types of criminals-robbers, blackmailers, super-geniuses, metas, ninjas, and I think only one assassin. But villains have a weird honor code; the Major Leaguers of crime wouldn't ever condone rape, senseless murder, terrorism.

Maybe that's because most of the members of the Brotherhood were the victims of those kind of crimes, which, I think, drove them to their current…professions.

I've been collecting my strength for the entire time I've been here, which has only been about an hour or so, but Ted filled me in on the way things work here. He's been here for a while, I can tell.

There's not much to do here but wait, so I'm trying to think of where I'll go after I get out of this dump. I most definitely can't go back to Jump, not while Kid Flash is around, and I can't be anywhere within 5 states of this place. I'll have to lay low for a while, maybe I'll just skip around. I'm not sure whether I'd be better hidden in a big city or a small town. Big cities like New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco are easy to blend into, but small towns are more rural and so they'd be harder to come across.

As I mull it over, Ted starts fidgeting. He wants to attack me, and get outta here. Or maybe he just wants to attack me. He's a rapist, and I'm the only girl here, so it wouldn't be too far of a stretch. Except, we made a deal, if he lays one slimy hand on me before the guards come and I'm let out, then I'm doing nothing for him. So he'll keep his distance. He desperately wants to leave this place, too.

…I've never been to California before. So Los Angeles it is. Summer all year long and cute movie stars. It sounds like the perfect place to go until I can pull myself together.

Soon as I'm out of here, I'm going to hit the mall, get some new clothes, and actually pay for them, to throw off suspicion. Once I'm in some civvies, hopefully no one will recognize me. I'll take a train to Gotham, and then an airplane that'll probably stop in Metropolis and go on to L.A. I'll pull some money out of the H.I.V.E. Five's hidden vault (which I made sure was located in Star City, of all places, so that if one day we were caught, at least the stolen goods wouldn't be found). I'll take up a civilian identity, one that wouldn't in any way link me to Jinx the villain, until I can contact Madame Rouge andearn my way into the Brotherhood.