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"Well, I've been better. That's for sure." Streak said to Sam after he'd walked in. Sam wasn't in a good mood. Streak didn't need to be completely healthy to know that Sam wasn't in a good mood. He couldn't blame him. Shawn wouldn't be either if he had to deal with a main X-Men and also the Head of Security at the mansion had gone missing unexpectedly.

"I don't remember much." Streak replied to him. He thought back for a second. "It was during that tournament thing that was held. I was surveying the grounds and got a call saying some kid had snuck into the jet room. So I go down to check it out and then it goes blank. The next thing I know I'm waking up next to Lori there and we're trapped in some underground building." That was about all he knew or remembered from the experience. Aside from escaping; if it hadn't been for her he'd probably still be stuck there. He shrugged. There wasn't much more that he could tell Sam and it probably didn't really matter anyways. Even if he told Sam every detail he probably still wouldn't have been satisfied with the answers he got.

The adrenaline was draining out of him as the plane flew through the air. He looked over to see if Lori was admiring the view but she was fast asleep. From the looks of it, it didn't look like she would be waking up any time soon. He was beginning to feel sleepy as well, and hoped that they would get to the mansion soon, because if they didn’t they would probably just continue to fly until one of them woke up. Thankfully, just before his eyes closed he saw the mansion come into view just over the horizon.

Without trying to wake Lori, he slowed the jet down and started their approach to the mansion. As they got closer he input the code and the ground opened up under them. Shawn maneuvered the jet into position and lowered it back into the hangar. Once they were inside the hangar Streak cut the engines and the ceiling closed over them leaving only the internal lights from the ceiling that illuminated the jet. Streak opened the door and dragged himself and Lori out of the jet’s doors. He didn’t think he’d be able to carry her much farther than out of the jet. Besides, if there wasn’t someone that realized the jet had returned and there were two people practically unconscious on the floor of the X-jet room then he would have some serious words for quite a few people. As Streak stumbled onto the floor beneath the jet he fell to his knees and laid down with Lori next to him as he proceeded to fall asleep with lights illuminating his face.

Streak continued to push on, carrying Lori most of the way up. To be honest the weight was probably more mutual sharing than anything. He’d help her for a while then she’d help him for a while; and then they’d switch. That was probably how they got so far up the stairs without passing out. Even though he knew they were getting closer and closer to escaping it sure didn’t feel like they were getting closer. He thought it felt more like they were walking the wrong way on an escalator. No matter how hard they tried they didn’t seem to be going anywhere. Fortunately that wasn’t the case and they were actually getting closer to making their great escape. Although once they paused he could still hear their captors pursuing them.

They finally reached the roof door. If his jet wasn’t there then they just walked themselves into a dead end and the only way out would be down. And either way down wasn’t good. One would be off the side of the building and the other would be through all their captors, and right now he couldn’t even guess how many there were in the building. Once they reached the door he gave a good hearty heave against the seemingly locked door. It eventually opened for them and there on the roof sat the X-jet. Of course it was covered because who in their right mind would steal a jet, land it on a roof in the middle of the city, and not cover it up. Streak looked around for a second. Wait a minute. We’ve been in the city the whole time?

He would have spent more time figuring out exactly where he was but he wanted to get out of here and he was distracted by Lori pulling the tarp off the jets wings. “We should only need to get one side off and the rest should just fall off.” Or at least so he hoped. He jumped in on helping Lori for a second by untying some of the ropes on the tarp. After he’d gotten a few off he left the pulling of the tarp to her. Shawn ran to the jet and opened the door. “Ya I can fly this.” and once he was inside the jet he said to where she couldn’t hear him, “I hope…How hard could it be? Just push a few buttons and pull on the stick and away we should go. Easy as pie…maybe.” It took a little doing but with a few buttons pushed he managed to get the engines to roar to life. Once the jet was alive it was a lot easier to find which controls did what. Streak popped his head out the door and yelled over the din of the engines “Let’s go! Get in!” He had it working for now and he didn't know how long it would last. So they would need to get out fast before their luck ran out.

Glad to see you bringing him back Hunter.

Streak heard Lori's voice cutting through the throbbing in his head. She was right. They needed to get out of there. It was now or never. Streak willed himself to get up and he started to head out of their cell after Lori. He stared stumbling up the stairs after her.

It seemed like she knew where she was going; however, he didn't really care. His body hurt to bad for him to realize really pay much attention to where they were. Shawn was only focused on putting one foot in front of the other, and making it out of this place and to wherever it was that they were going.

When she grabbed his arm there was a slight shock that traveled between them. Compared to the previous shocks she'd given him this was nothing. This one felt like it was just static electricity. "I can turn door knobs. But without my powers..." This was the first time that he'd actually realized that he didn't have his powers. Not only that, but he was a little afraid to use them with her around. Who knows what would happen if he tried to access his powers again.

"I can't do it." He concluded and he continued walking up the stairs. Then an idea his him. "Maybe you could do it with your electricity." It was probably the best option even though she was probably just as tired and sore as he was.

"Your little electrical outburst must have done something to all these locks." Streak said hopefully. If her power surge didn't do anything to these locks then it seemed like they're little escape was short lived and pointless.

There's a distinct difference between getting shocked by an electrical item when you touch the end of the plug still connected to the wall, and getting electrocuted with your own bodies electricity. He was pretty relaxed while she was working and he didn't expect anything to go wrong. After all she'd already done this once before and nothing like this had happened. Maybe something with her powers had gone wrong. Or maybe their powers weren't compatible and so they were both backfiring.

Either way this wasn't a pleasant feeling. The electricity surged through his body like he was a giant electrical conductor. The odd thing was that with all his silver that he'd used in so many different occasions he'd never been struck by lighting or randomly shocked on a humid day. But this seemed like it was caused by something else. It went all thought his body and seemed to be trying to find it's way to his brain. His entire body locked up. He'd had this feeling only once before. When Garrett had been hit with Haywire. At that time his entire nervous system seemed to overload and fire off at the wrong times and in the wrong locations.

Shawn had the feeling that his nerves were overloading again. The only thing that was different was that Lori was pushed away from him and the electricity in and around his body was shooting for his head. He couldn't see what Lori was doing but he figured, or at least hoped, that she was trying to stop this. Streak could see the electricity jumping from her to the ground, the ceiling, the lights, the windows, and even towards him. There wasn't much he could do to stop it because his body was still shocking himself and preventing him from moving. The young man would at certain times be able to sit up and try to move out of the way. Unfortunately he was fast enough to get out of the way and he ended up getting shocked again by the electricity coming out of Lori's fingers.