Belle Reve Penitentiary<br/>Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana<br/><br/>Andrew laid on the large bar of iron they called his bed, redistributing the body mass of his back to make it more comfortable.  Practicing his powers was all he could do here, aside from reread the consolation trophy of a letter he received earlier.  Maybe he’d tried testing exactly how much fire would set off fire alarms later, just so he could get a foam bath.<br/><br/>But as he contemplated possible avenues of distraction, he heard the sound of yelling and running outside his door.  Looking through the small plastic window in the door, he saw inmates running through the hall, an escape seemed to be in effect.  Deciding now would be the best chance he’d get, he decided to bust out too.<br/><br/>First he modified his hand, combining all the fingers into a single meaty spike.  Then, he absorbed his tail, redistributing it’s mass into his arm and hand to beef them up.  Finally he took the metal from his tail spike and placed it onto the end of his hand, capping it to a shiny point.  Using his new hand-ram, he shattered the window, and moved on to step 2.<br/><br/>Taking the extra mass back from his arm, he reformed his tail, but this time it was significantly thinner, and longer.  And at its end his tail spike now resembled a replica of his cell key, a year was plenty of time to memorize its teeth.  Threading his tail through the broken window, he inserted his key into the slot, and opened his cage.<br/><br/>Stepping outside, he sucked in a breath of air.  Looking about the hall, he noticed many other doors had also remained unlocked.  As he followed the stream of fellow escapees, he noted most of the cells were full of the kind of men he would happily let rot in there, until he noticed Livewire.  He remembered her from the tv, and last he checked her crimes consisted of electrical damage and attacking Superman.  While she wasn’t women of the year, she didn’t deserve to get locked up for life on something like that.  And more importantly, she was a powerful meta, and that’s a friend he could use right now.<br/><br/>Reforming his battering hand, he motioned her to back up then shattered her window.  Sticking his arm through the glass, he separated his hand into two parts, placing the metal to form a pair of scissors.<br/>“I can get the necklace off you, if you work with me to get out of here.”  Andrew said gesturing with his scissors.  “That work with you?”