The Venom

Captured

      Tiger woke up, packed into a tight group of people. They were all locked within an Insurrectionist prison wagon, being transported to the prison camp. Tiger stood up, looking out into the empty distance, watching the land move by. The sun was high in the sky, and Tiger was wearing a set of prisoner clothing now. Tiger wore an old and tattered sleeveless shirt, and a pair of pants that reached down halfway past his shins. The pants were held tight by a sash around his waist. Tiger looked down to see he was barefoot as well. Tiger pushed and squeezed his way to the bars, grabbing onto them. "It's no use, Tiger." Panther said, walking up behind Tiger. "We've got to get out, we need to get back to Pacifica." Tiger said. "We can't. Not right now, at least." Panther said. "We've failed our mission, and we're being taken to the prisoner camp, like are parents have been." Panther said. Tiger slammed his hand into the bars, before turning back around.

       Tiger was conversing with Panther, when two other prisoners started heading over to them. Tiger and Panther turned to look at the two, crossing their arms. "So, you two attempted to take down the Boss's assistant?" Said one of the prisoners. "That's right." Panther answered. "Drev was our target, and we almost succeeded." Tiger said. Panther flashed Tiger a look, but Tiger continued looking at the two prisoners. "Well, we feel we could work with you two. By the sound of it, we'll all be placed into the solitary cells, where we will be awaiting torture and execution." The first prisoner said. "Who are you two?" Panther asked. "I'm Hasuto." Said the prisoner, from Azathorian descent. "I'm Thomas, from the city of Cappedenia." Said the other. "Pleasure to meet you two." Tiger said.

       The wagon came to a sudden halt, as it was being examined by Insurrectionist patrolmen. A few minutes pass, and the wagon is cleared to enter the prison camp. As the wagon pulled into the entrance, Tiger looked at the many prisoners in the prison camp. The prisoners worked hard labour, and were beaten for insubordination. "Keep your head high, we will get out of this the chance we get." Panther whispered to Tiger. "I know we'll get out, I just wonder if our parents will be here." Tiger replied. "Let's focus on that, if we've the time." Panther said.

      The patrolmen unlocked the wagon's doors, forcing several prisoners out at a time. The patrolmen would routinely beat, and mock prisoners, even holding someone down and beating them senseless for trying to escape. "That'll teach you to try and defect, coward." Said one of the patrolmen. Panther and Tiger were led out of the wagon, along with Hasuto and Thomas. They were directed to a separate line, heading towards the solitary division of the prison camp. The four were forced to stand in line with the others, as they were being beaten by the Insurrectionist militants while they waited to be taken to their cells. "I don't want to die!" A prisoner yelled, as he was being carried inside the building. "Everyone, keep moving! I don't want to have my militants carry you inside, nor do I want my patrolmen to assist." Yelled the Warden.

        The four walked their way into the prison camp, while under the watchful eye of militants, patrolmen, and watchmen. They walked through several dark and dreary halls. The halls echoed with screams and shouting from ongoing torture sessions, as well as the moving of corpses from executions. The building had a stench of dried blood and waste. Tiger passed a cell, where a mortally wounded prisoner was finished off by a a quick slash to the throat by a patrolman.

        Tiger was thrown into the cell across from Panther. Hasuto and Thomas were taken down the hall, and placed into their cells. Panther sat in the center of his cell facing the wall, as Tiger stood at the bars, shaking them as hard as possible. "Damn. I'll need something tough to break these rusted points of these bars." Tiger muttered to Panther. Panther turned around, before standing up. Panther walked up to his bars, where he glared at Tiger. "Are you stupid? Why the hell are you wasting your time? There's nothing that'll help us get out right now, we're better off taking some time to figure out our surroundings." Panther said angrily. "I'm just seeing what's available for us." Tiger said. "At least take some time to acquire something before thinking of a plan to escape, or at least see if there's anything to get on the way out." Panther muttered. Tiger kept quiet, and Panther slowly returned back to the center of his cell, where he sat back down.
  
       Tiger looked around his cell. A lone pillow sat in the corner of the room, with cobwebs attached to it. Tiger walked over, brushing away the system of old, and dusty, webbing away. A dead spider rolled off of the pillow, and laid still. "Seems scavengers like you die here as well." Tiger thought, as he looked at the spider. Tiger laid down on the concrete ground, resting his head onto the stiff pillow. "We're going to need some efficient teamwork to get out of this situation." Tiger thought, staring at the ceiling.

        On the mountain ridge, outside the prison walls, Mary and Hayden scoped the prison camp. "I knew we should have at least went with him." Mary said.  Hayden sighed. "As I've said before, Tiger wanted to get ahold of the convoy and take down the Boss's lackey. We did our best to support him." Hayden said. Mary looked at the prison camp with sorrow in her eyes. "We failed to assist him. We were too caught up with the watchmen to prove ourselves as useful teammates." Mary said. "Don't be so hard on yourself, Mary. We did the best we could." Mary turned around and took an aggressive step towards Hayden. "Our best clearly wasn't good enough. We left him to die, just like the rest of our team did with Six. Left to get captured abd executed by the Insurrection." Mary said.

       Hayden took a moment to think. "Six's death was beyond our control. We can't blame ourselves on something we couldn't control." Hayden said. "Of course we can, he's dead and so will Tiger be if we don't act now to get him out of there." Mary said. "How exactly do you plan on breaking him out of there as of now? We have no idea where his cell is, what kind of security they've got, we don't even have the knowledge that someone has been able to escape." Hayden said. "Give me some time. I'm sure I can come up with something." Mary said. "Fine. Talk to me, once you've got something in mind." Hayden said, turning his back.