In her cell, Mina restudies the walls. When she sees the traces of burning in one of them, she gets up and starts checking it. She concludes that who tried to burn the walls, succeeded; there are very tiny holes that we think the walls are just "colored" in black. So, a new plan gets in our princess' mind.
At the same time, she hears suddenly a very low screaming out the cell. She approaches the door and listens. And so she hears Chris screaming words we barely understand, she hears then a weird sound and then punches and groaning sound. After that, Chris' voice disappears and step by step all the sounds disappear too...
At lunch, the princess sits with Panthera and Chris -who he's full of punches and bruisers-. She whiners, looking at her tray:
Mina: The same food?!
Panthera: I have and still eaten it for five years.
Chris: You spent five years here?!
Panthera: Yes, and this is my sixth one.
Mina: Though this food is delicious, humans get bored of the routine, like the same food every day.
Chris: Us too.
Panthera: What's the wrong with your face?!
Chris: You didn't hear my groans?
Mina: Yes, I heard. What's happened?
Chris: I tried to melt one of walls and since I started, two guards got in my cell and attacked me, they took me out of my cell and punched me, kicked me then they took me inside my cell and warned me of a huge and dangerous punishment if I repeated my "mistake" again. And finally they left me.
Mina: I think we should never touch the walls. Anyway, is there a result after melting the wall? After all this sacrifice and effort?
Chris: No, nothing. I spent just one minute.
Mina: I noticed in my cell a very tiny hole between the traces of melting in one of my cell's wall. Means if we kept burning for a long time, we can make a big hole. Can you do it, Chris?
Chris: I don't know, maybe. But you have to know that I haven't tried once in my life firing for a long time.
Panthera: So, who's next?
Mina: You know prisoners more than I do! You tell me.
Panthera: Mm... Ha! I knew him! (Whispering) there's a man, Nironian, called Stewart McDora. He seems a very weak and coward man, but he hacked the security system of our planet!
Mina: No way!
Panthera: (whispering) They say that he knows the diagram of the Universal Jail!
Chris: Cool!
Mina: Are you sure?
Panthera: Not really. Many dangerous prisoners threatened him to give them the diagram. But he didn't give to anyone.
Mina: Maybe the idea of joining the team will make him shows us the diagram.
Chris: Does he believe in the theory of humans' innocence?
Mina: It's not a theory!! It's the truth now!!
Panthera: Actually no. Stewart isn't interested in politics. But he also doesn't like Cyrone.
Mina: Let's talk to him now before time's up.
The fighters go toward McDora who is sitting alone, looking down and muttering incomprehensible words. He's a thin blond man, tiny blue-eyed. When he sees them standing in front of him, he screams:
Stewart: I swear I know nothing and I didn't steal anything and I said nothing bad about one of you or your friends!
Chris whispers to Mina:
Chris: Are you sure he'll join us?
Mina: If Panthera is right, I'm obliged to.
Then, the princess looks at Stewart and tells him her story after she sits with Fifter and Panthera. Finally, the blond man gets convinced and says, whispering:
Stewart: OK so, listen to me; it seems that the diagram is too complicated according to the jail's form outside. But in fact, it's easy: in the two sides of the Universal Jail, there are two garages, sure you got in one of them when you came. Then, in the middle, there are three big rooms; the first and the third one are the cells rooms and we are in the first one. Anyway, the second room, which is between the two cells rooms, is divided into three little rooms: the security centre where are the guards, the control room where they watch us and control the doors and security cameras, finally the director's office. Under all these rooms there is a big room for little spaceships, made to catch the runners away and destroy the spaceships they took. But I have one question to Panthera.
Panthera: What is it?
Stewart: How did you run away from the Universal Jail?
Chris: Really! How did you do that?
Panthera: Simply, I had a friend here, like you now, we united to run away from the jail. So, we punched those guards and we wore their clothes quickly and when we passed the door, a lot of guards came so they caught my friend while I turned myself into a fly and I flew toward the spaceships room. I picked one and I ran away. But they tracked me and the rectangle spaceship -which is for catching the runners- was chasing me and shooting me those very tiny robots which damaged the engine and I was close to Earth so I had to land there.
Chris: They didn't wonder that there was a fly flying in the Universal Jail?
Panthera: No, sometimes bugs can get in Cyrone's spaceships and get out inside the Universal Jail.
Mina: Wait, how can we breathe?
Stewart: It's easy; the security center scatters the oxygen through the vents. It's not really hard.
Mina: Ok, do you believe that you're able to shoot and kill... I start getting bored of these sentences...
Stewart: Yes ma'am! So why did I say all the details of the jail's diagram?! I'm the youngest and the eighth child in my family, my father is a hunter and my mother is an artist in punching and kicking her children. My oldest brother now is in the hospital because my mother hit him despite he's fifty and she's eighty!
Chris: ... What a family!
Panthera: So why did you get afraid when we came?
Stewart: Simply I don't want to get hit again by guards or prisoners. Also, the director "punished" me once and so I "don't like" to get punished again. They are artists in pain so they make me remember my mother and simply I don't want to remember her... I hate her...
Mina: You're not the only person who hates his mother. Anyway, congratulations! You are the third fighter alien after Chris and Panthera!
Stewart: Thanks!
Panthera: So, Mina; Do you need another guy to help you and join us?
Mina: Let me think first then I'll tell you.
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