Daria smiled and slowly dragged herself closer to wall separating them. Her drugs were wearing off but she didn't want anyone to see that.

"Well you're no better off than I am, but nice try." there was a certain sorrow to her word. "I always thought I'd have a more glorious death than this."

Thirteen minutes...

"No one's going to die," Mike said, tiredly, leaning against the bars. Gotta make this time count...

"Is there a panel on the top left corner by your bars? Like, a metal plate with a letter and two numbers on it?"

Daria sighed and looked up. Sure enough there it was. "Yeah, why?" she asked a slight smile forming on her face.

God I love him she was thinking but knew he probably couldn't use his powers.

"Good. What's the first letter in the code?"

Twelve minutes... then the first sweep through by personnel. Usually a mutant drone. Have to figure out what the plan is before then, or it'll be another few hours to wait.

"Um, G." Daria said compliantly.

Daria could hear a relieved sigh from Mike's cell.

"That's the best news I've heard all day," Mike said, slumping against the bars.

"Before I let the lab goons hit me to take me in, I yanked as much out of their heads as I could to make sure this could work. Behind that panel is your cell's power inhibitor. If it's code started with A, it'd be hard-wired into the main generator, and this would never work, but both of ours are individually powered."

"In short... they underestimated our powers. I've made sure not to use mine much since they found me."

"I don't know how hard it will be, but these power inhibitors have limits. We don't. We can burn them out."

Ten minutes...

"Oh..good." Daria said skeptically. "I don't think I'm going to be much help though. They injected me with a tranquilizer some kind of other power inhibitor. My sense of smell is fine and my hearing is even better, but it's giving me a headache because everything is so loud. The one thing I can't do..is see. But it is better than it was a few hours ago.." she said. She looked down at her bandages to see the crusted dried blood on the edges and the still flowing new blood in the center.

She didn't want Mike to know how badly she was hurt-it would only make him even angrier than she was sure he already was. "What do I have to do?"

"Well, since our cells are on the same row, our inhibitors should be on the same circuit. So all we SHOULD have to do is pump up the strain they're going through until they overload and burn out. I've got to flare up my psi powers, and you have to try as hard as you can to teleport. I'm talking, the biggest jump you've ever made."

He sighed. Five minutes... "The best time to do it is around midnight. Well... that I know of so far. We can't do it now... we're almost out of time."

He hesitated before continuing. "Don't... give them any excuses to drug you any more than they already will. Do whatever you have to do to keep your head somewhat clear."

Three minutes... "During the day, don't give them ANY signs that we're working together, or that we even know each other are here or up to anything."

Two minutes... "And.. I love you," he said, a little more quietly.

Daria nodded. "Where am I suppose to teleport to?" she asked laying back down to make it look like she was still too weak to move.

"And....assuming you're wearing a button up over a tee like you usually do...loan me one of your shirts please....my clothes got...taken." she said bitterly in the last few minutes they had.

"Sadly, my clothes aren't doing much covering," he sighed. "And destination doesn't matter... aim for the school for lack of a better destination. The jump won't work, it's just to burn out the inhibitor."

"We're out of time," he finished, in a very low voice.

Daria grew silent and closed her eyes slightly leaning against the hay.


Her eyes were heavy with fatigue but she tried to stay awake.

Mike sat against his wall, watching vigilantly through his bars to see what he could see.

The door to the hallways opened and In walked Sapphire Lupin. She walked down the hallways ignoring the various groans and curses that where thrown at her by the mutants. She held a package in her hand but no one could really tell what it was.

The girl stopped infront of Daria's cell, shaking her head sadly. "Damn they did a number on you, well he went easy on you this time." The woman said unwrapping the package and slidding it through the Bars of Daria's cell. It was a pair of sweatpant and a longsleeved shirt including undergarments in Daria's size.

"Its not smart to lay there in the nude, some of the guards get a bit....frisky when they see a helpless female mutant." Sapphire stated simply, sitting down infront of Daria and Mikes cell. "Fusionist is gonna kill me when he finds out that I showed kindness." The girl said, shuddering visibly.

Daria grabbed the box carefully, still seemingly weak. She eyed the girl but didn't say anything. She couldn't be blamed considering their last run in was less than pleasant.

The catwoman slipped on the clothes slowly being careful of the bandages. She cast a last glance at Sapphire but just grunted and layed back down.

"Emerald sends her love," Mike said quietly, leaning back against the wall. It wasn't said in a mean way... it was completely true, after all.