Max is in Kai's basement on his computer. Remi texts Max. She tells Max that she is there. Max walks up the stairs and lets her in through the door.
Remi: What is going on? Kai said to come to you after they release me-
Max: He did, did he?
Remi: What is with your tone?
Max: You look awful. Why don't you go home-
Remi: What's going on?
Max sighs.
Max: Kai gave himself up to the police to set you free. He said one day. If he isn't back by today then he might have actually been captured.
Remi: One day?
Max: If he doesn't break out in one day.
Remi: Why would he do that?!
Max: He had a plan. I don't think the plan worked.
Remi: Why?
Max: Because I saw him at the docks with the cops. If he was going to a regular prison he wouldn't be at the docks.
Remi: Then where is he?!
Max: I think he's in Alcatraz.
Remi: He was put in Alcatraz because of me.
Max: No, because of me. I sent you on the mission that started this whole spiral.
Remi: We can't blame ourselves for this. All we can do is try to get Kai out of there.
Max: How?
Remi: I think I might have powers.
Max laughs.
Max: Again, how? Mutants are born with powers. Didn't you watch the documentary?
Remi: What documentary? You know what, nevermind. I'm not a Mutant. I'm a meta. When I was captured a woman stuck a syringe in my neck. Once the pain stopped something came out of my hand.
Max: Then let's test your "theory." Let's go outside.
Remi: Alright.
They both walk outside. They walk past the pool, and over to an area that nothing is really around.
Max: Show me that you have powers.
Remi puts out her hand. After a few minutes Max starts to get annoyed.
Max: That's what I thought.
Remi: Just one more minute.
Max: I'm not wasting my time.
Max is about to walk away. Remi moves her hand almost like she is throwing something. Then yellow sparks appear in her hand. They almost look like tiny sparks. Remi throws the sparks. They all spread in the air. Each spark explodes. One after another the sparks explode. Max is looking at Remi with his jaw dropped.
Max: What was that?!
Remi: I-I don't know.
A month later Remi trained trying to use her powers, and make her new Meta-physique stronger. Max has been planning how they will get Kai out of prison. Remi is doing push ups while Max is sitting in a chair under an umbrella typing on his computer.
Remi: Why do you have that umbrella up? Why don't you just let the sun hit you. It couldn't hurt to get a tan.
Max: I have figured it out. I know how we will get Kai out of the prison.
Remi: How?
Max: Kai will have to get out of the actual prison by himself, but we are going to bring a boat.
Remi: That doesn't seem all that helpful. How will he even know when we are there?
Max: I'll tell him.
Remi: Max, they record phone calls. Why don't we take longer to plan this.
Max: We don't have any more time!
Max turns his computer around and plays a video. Remi walks up to the computer.
Reporter: The terrorist group W.A.T.K.H has been slaughtering. Their body count goes up every day. They are killing humans, and turning others into Metas. We have reason to believe that they are going to start doing this same process to other cities. They call it the cleaning-
Max turns it down.
Max: We need to do this now.
Remi: Okay…
Max walks inside the house. He grabs his phone. He breaths and thinks.
Max: Just how I planned it.
The phone is picked up.
Officer: Every prisoner gets one call a month, the phone call is recorded, and there are fees for calling a prisoner.
Max: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I accept.
Kai is sitting in his cell meditating. The door opens and an officer walks in.
Officer: You have a caller.
Kai looks surprised and gets up. He is led by the officer to the elevator. They go up a few levels. Then the elevator stops. Kai walks out of the elevator. They walk into a room. The room is completely metal. The officer leaves the room, and Kai picks up the phone.
Kai: Hello.
Max: Your late birthday is June first. Be there.
Kai: What? It's June fifth. What in the world you are talking about?
Max hangs up the phone.
Kai(in head): Has Max gone crazy in the last month?
The officer opens the door. He leads Kai out of the room, and into the elevator. Kai is led into the cafeteria. Kai sits down at one of the tables more confused than he has ever been. Payne sits down at a table with Kai.
Payne: Yo.
Kai: Hey.
Payne: What's wrong with you?
Kai: My friend just called me, and told me something like a code. I have no idea what he was talking about.
Payne: What did he say?
Kai: Something about June first.
Payne: Boating day?
Kai: How do you know that?
Payne: There is one of those bullshit calendars with one thousand holidays is over with the lunch lady.
Kai: I saw that.
They both start thinking and it instantly clicks in their minds. They both whisper it.
Kai/Payne: He's bringing a boat.
Kai: I can escape.
Payne: You have to take me with you.
Kai: Why?
Payne: How are you going to break out of this prison, huh? You have been here for a month. I have been here for a year.
Kai: You know how to break out.
Payne: I can break out, but I always needed a boat.
Kai: Wait, when is he coming though?
They both think for a second.
Payne: Maybe next month on the first?
Kai: No, he wouldn't wait another month. It has to do with the first.
Payne: Maybe it's just tomorrow, and he was trying to just tell you he was bringing a boat?
Kai: If it was tomorrow why would he stress that it's a boat, and tomorrow is too short of a time to tell someone to break out of a prison. That also seems unlikely.
Payne: I got it. June first was on a monday.
Kai: Yes. That's it. That gives us a few days to prepare., but we also break out quickly. It's friday right now so we have to wait a couple days.
Payne: I hope you're right about it being on Monday.
Kai: I hope. He'll be here at night.
The next days of nervousness and anxiety tick by slowly. On Monday Kai and Payne are talking in the yard.
Payne: All you need to do is the first step and I'll lead you through everything else.
Kai: What's the first step?
Payne: Your bed is placed there for a reason. It's on top of the vent to let air inside your room. Your bed is extremely heavy, but you should be able to pick it up. Get into the vent, and I will be there. I have been in the vents a lot. I know my way around. What inmate name are you. They name you after your room.
Kai: 5687.
Payne: I'll be there.
They look around.
Kai: Why does everyone seem so… content.
Payne: Do you think these Mutants couldn't eventually find a way out of here if they really tried? They want to be here. They would rather be here then be on the outside. You get free meals a day, and the guards aren't that bad.
Kai: They sucked.
Payne: They are tougher on new inmates. I bet they already stopped pushing you around.
Kai: They did.
Payne: They would rather be in prison then talked down to on the outside. I was released from the slave camps a year ago. The President said he would give us all jobs, but that doesn't mean he actually did it. I couldn't get a job anywhere. So I had to resort to crime or starve. I mean, I could have become a hobo. I just didn't really want that kind of life. I committed a few successful bank robberies, but I got greedy. The cops caught me and now I'm here. In the basement of this fortress is one of the strongest mutants the world has ever known. He is said to be some monster that is a hybrid of a land and sea creature. If he can swim why wouldn't he have already escaped? He would rather be here than any other life. The only other life he could have is living in the sea with the fish. No human would want that.
Kai: I get it. When I get out of here I will try to help Mutants.
Payne: I hope you can do something because I know I won't be able to.
The officers call everyone back inside.
Payne: You know the plan.
Kai is brought back into his room. Kai waits until the lights dim. Kai meditates breathing in and out. Kai can hear everything around him while meditating. He can hear people in other rooms. Kai then hears noise in the vents.
Kai: It's time.
Kai grabs the bed. It's reinforced with steel onto the floor. Kai grabs the bed and pulls. The hinges break off and the bed is thrown to the side. Kai rips off the vent and hops in. Payne crawls over to Kai.
Payne: Move. move, move!
They start crawling through the vents. Payne leads Kai through every turn. Kai sees that there are marks made with a marker on the side of the vent at each turn. They hear the alarms start to go off. They keep walking through the vents. Kai sees a vent above him. With sky light coming through it. Kai punches the vent. The vent breaks open and Kai starts to climb out. Kai sees the officers. They shine a light over to him. Kai hides back in the vent. He hears the officers run away to check other areas. Kai climbs up the vent. Payne does the same. They are fenced in by electric wire.
Kai: What now. Neither of us can touch that.
Payne: Yeah, that's why I have this.
Payne takes out a pen.
Kai: Is that what you use to make marks on the vents?
Payne: Yes, but they can be used for other things.
Kai: What?
Payne: Turn around.
Kai does as he is told not without suspicion. Payne sticks the pen into the right side of Kai's collar. The collar opens. Kai takes the collar off.
Payne: Now me.
Kai takes the pen and opens Payne's collar.
Kai: We will still fry if we touch that.
Payne: But now we can use powers.
Payne Puts his hand over his other hand. Then he slowly moves his hand off of his other hand in a straight line. When he stops Kai sees that Payne has a white sword. Payne starts hacking away at the wires. Everytime he hits the wires sparks shoot out of the electricity. He cuts the wires enough, and kicks it. They run down the pathway. They stop at the door. Kai punches the door as hard as he can. The door doesn't open. It doesn't even budge. Payne hits the door with all his might and nothing happens.
Kai: What are we going to do?
Payne looks shocked.
Payne: I have no idea.
Max and Remi are on the boat. Max is steering the boat. They are pulling up to the docks. A group of three cops start shooting at them. Max and Remi duck. The boat crashes into the docks. The docks scratch the boat. Remi gets sparks in her hand. Remi throws the sparks at the cops. The sparks explode, blasting the cops back. The cops hit the wall and become unconscious. Remi runs up to the man that controls the door. He picks up a gun. He shoots at Remi. She dodges it, and grabs his wrist. She punches his arm. He drops the gun and she elbows him in the stomach. He drops to the ground and she punches him in the head knocking him out. Remi presses the button to open the door. Nothing happens.
Remi: What do I do?!
Max: Blow the door open!
Remi walks up to the door.
Remi: Get back!
Kai and Payne here her voice. They walk back a few feet. Remi makes sparks again. She keeps the sparks in her hand. She holds them, and puts them up to the door. The sparks explode. The door blasts back. Kai and Payne duck as the door flies over their heads. They see Remi untouched by the explosion.
Remi: Let's go!
They all run onto the boat. The boat starts sailing away. Cops run over to the docks. They start shooting at the boat, but all the bullets do is scrape the sides of the boat. Eventually the cops stop shooting. Max looks at Kai.
Max: When did you get jacked?
Kai shakes his head smiling. They make it to New York's ports by dawn. They all get out of the boat.
Kai: Max, is that your boat?
Max: No, they would be able to track me down. I stole it.
Payne: I best be on my way.
Kai: So soon?
Payne: I got things to do. Places to see, but I'll be back.
Kai: I wish you the best.
Payne chuckles.
Payne: Yeah, you too.
Payne walks away.
Kai turns back to Remi and Max.
Kai: Two questions.
Remi: Ask away.
Kai: What happened while I was away, and does Remi have powers now?
Remi and Max look at each other then back to Kai.
Max: There's a lot to explain.