BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUN

[maskormods]

WHO: EVERYONE
WHERE: THE STREETS OF THE CITY
WHEN: Duration of the event
WHAT: PRISONER TRANSPORT/RESCUE
WARNINGS: Violence and language likely
OOC NOTES: This is a starter log to help kick off the event. Feel free to use or post your own!

The transport process isn’t a fun one. Captured Metas are outfitted with power-nullifying handcuffs and collars, chained into the back of a heavily armored prison transport vehicle. Normally there’s a huge procession that goes alone with this: more back up vehicles, overhead support, government loyal metals in every vehicle. But this rush of new arrivals has pushed the system to its limits- there’s never been a need to accommodate more than a specific number of known Metas. It has the guards in the vehicles on edge, jumpy as they try to navigate through the City without the usual back up. And it’s a strain the resistance is more than ready to push to the breaking point.

In addition to transporting new arrivals to their reprogramming, there are the already-present Meta prisoners that must still be shuffled around, causing a mix of old and new in the vehicles. And irresistible targets for liberation for the resistance groups. When the transport is hit, which will the new Metas side with? Your captors you may still be able to gain a comfortable life working with? Or the rebellion fighting their way into the vehicle?

Comments

[drivesadesk]

"Sounds nice," says Jonathan in a dismissive tone. "But that's not how things work here, so unless you have a way back to that universe, it really doesn't matter."

He turns toward Jacob, taking a step closer. "Here you fight for what the government tells you to fight for. And if you don't...you'll be locked up and tortured until everyone has forgotten about you except for the government, and your only way out is to agree to do whatever they say."

He looks away again, glancing to the outside of the vehicle, just to check on things.

"It's a rough transition, but you'll get used to it."

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

"What if I told you there was a way to that universe?" Jacob says, lifting his chin. "Not through the Porter. But by changing this one."

He can't gesture with his hands tied, so he kind of points with his chin at the transport containing them both.

"Back there, we fought people who wanted to make a world like this one. And we won. It's possible - I've seen it happen."

[drivesadesk]

He laughs. This guy...clearly doesn't know how bad things are here.

"Wow, that is so amazingly cheesy and naive. You're adorable, I love it. And I'm sorry, I tried that here. Didn't work. I try that again, I just get tortured for who knows how long. Again. That's not a risk I can take."

[darkpants_warmfeeling]

Jacob shakes his head. He is not laughing.

"Every day you spend working for this is a day you're sending other people to go through the exact same thing you went through," he says quietly. "Can you really just keep living with that? Because the Jonathan I knew couldn't."

He'd refused to go along with evil before. Jacob has to believe he can do it again.

[drivesadesk]

He sighs and looks away.

"What other choice is there? Let you go, where you'd just get captured and dragged back by other enforcers, and in the mean time I get dragged down and go back to..."

He trails off. He can't go back there again. He's terrified of what they'd do to him if he ends up needing to be reprogrammed again. He looks back at Jacob, panic clear in his voice.

"I can't go back there."