<span style="font-style: italic">Impossible.</span>Ryan's voice... echoing in his head... Was she hallucinating? He sounded like he was dying! Whatever it was, she was going to take it as a sign that they needed to hurry up. Velneir had located the prisons on the surface. He was going to pack up all their things and put them back on the ship. All except for half a dozen probes which they could control remotely in hopes of collecting more data. Meanwhile, Uriel, Rhofel and Anak would invade the prison and save Ryan. They would all meet back at the ship in twenty minutes or less.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"That prison fits their death row criminals with electric collars,"</span></span>Velneir said.<span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"I managed to trace their signals. Most of them are dormant; only one is currently active, so that's where Ryan is."</span></span><br/><br/>Uriel ran over the directions he'd given them in her head.<span style="font-style: italic">We're coming, Ryan,</span>she thought to herself.<span style="font-style: italic">Just hang on for a few more minutes.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"If we're going to do this, let's do it now,"</span></span>Rhofel said.<br/><br/><br/>Immediately upon entry, they were confronted by human guards. The prison was off-limits except to designated personnel, and, of course, the criminals who inhabited it. Uriel and her comrades weren't outfitted for battle and had nothing to protect themselves against the human's weapons. They needed to make a decision here: all or nothing. Anak was the first to rush forward, being the strongest and fastest of them. He shot up to the nearest human and pressed his antennae on either side of the guard's head. Then he "screamed."<br/><br/>Screaming was the ultimate weapon of the Vortians. Essentially, their vocolizations were vibrations in their blood, and they could raise vibrations to such a level as to turn enemy creatures to liquid. Two second in and the human's brain was soup. His body collapsed and Anak moved on to the next one. By now, Uriel and Rhofel had joined in. They didn't leave any survivors. They couldn't risk being shot from behind. They raced down the halls until they found the room Ryan was supposed to be in. Uriel and Rhofel took out the guards on either side of the door and Anak faced off against the steel door itself, reeling back and then hitting it with one massive sonic wave. He aimed for the side with the latch, and the door swung open. Sometimes Uriel was jealous of Anak's power, but didn't much care for what came with it. Indigo's had it rough despite, or<span style="font-style: italic">because</span>of, Sylvatier's blessing.<br/><br/>Uriel rushed in and gasped when she saw the state Ryan was in. She saw the collar he was wearing and remembered the warning Velneir had given them about taking it off. She found the battery on the thing and slipped one hand under the collar, behind the battery. She readied the claws on her other hand and stabbed right through the thing, cutting off it's power. She pried the broken machine off the man's neck and held her other hand (which was bleeding, because she'd used it to keep from piercing Ryan's neck) over his wounds. The Violet blood dripped down and entered every orifice it could find. Uriel's own wound had sealed already, and her blood would help the human's healing process. She helped hoist the man onto Rhofel's back, and they started their escape.<br/><br/>There was no one in sight. Until they to the exit. One man, who they must have missed earlier, was blocking the doorway, and had his gun out. He aimed at Uriel, right for the heart. His face was horribly scarred. "Oh no," he said. "I'm not losing this one again." He was smirking, and seemed quite deranged. The gun went off...<br/><br/>And there was Anak, shielding her, pulsing furiously. He tried to block the bullet with a wall of sound the likes of which Uriel had never seen.<span style="font-style: italic">So this is what an Indigo is capable of,</span>she thought, awestruck.<br/><br/>The guard saw that his attack had failed and fired more bullets. One by one, they were caught in Anak's sound barrier, suspended there as if time had all but stopped. Finally, it was too much and his blood gave out. Just in time for one last bullet to slash his right antenna. Uriel's eyes opened wide in horror. An inch to the left and that would have been a crippling blow. The blue Vortian cried out, cradling his injured appendage in his arms. Uriel was on the human in a second, eyes full of rage. She gripped the human by the neck and hoisted him up above her head. Pressing her antennae on either side of his head she screamed at him so hard his face started to liquidate. She tossed the human aside.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"Anak!"</span></span>She exclaimed, rushing over to him. She helped steady him and she and Rhofel shared a look: half worry for their friend, half determination to get out of there.<br/><br/>They hurried to the ship. Velneir had finished up his end of things and was waiting for them anxiously. When he saw the state Anak was in he called out,<span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"What happened?!"</span></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"He got shot,"</span></span>Uriel answered, and they got both the injured people inside. They laid Ryan down on a bed built into the side of the ship and got Anak into a chair while they examined the gash. It hadn't stopped bleeding yet, which means it had cut pretty deep.<br/><br/><span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"How do you feel?"</span></span>Uriel asked softly.<br/><br/><span style="color: #8080FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"Bad,"</span></span>he answered shakily.<span style="color: #8080FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"But I will live. Check on the human."</span></span><br/><br/>Uriel nodded and let the others tend to Anak as she made her way to Ryan's side.<span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"Ryan? Can you hear me?"</span></span>she said softly.<span style="color: #BF80FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"I'm sorry to do this to you, but we're leaving.... Take a last look at your planet."</span></span>