Breaking Rad: Escape the Ship

Arc Task

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The ebbing sounds of the ocean greeted Radley as he slowly opened his eyes from his sleep. Radley blankly stared forward as he groaned from the headache splitting his head. He regretted the actions of whatever he had done the previous night. As he reached out an arm to sit himself up he heard a dragging of chains. He peered his eyes down to the source, to find that his arms and legs had been shackled. His eyes widened a bit as he began to put together the situation he was in. He sat himself up and took a look around at his surroundings.

The undulation of the floor and sound of ocean was enough to tell Radley that he was currently on a ship of some kind. Looking at himself, Radley saw that he was in black and white striped prisoner garb. About the vicinity, Radley saw a few others dressed similarly to himself. Using that information, Radley came to the conclusion that he had been taken prisoner somehow. "Hey." Radley gruffly, got out, "How'd I get here?" he asked to the others in the hold. One chuckled, " You were passed out when they brought you in here, that sounds like your problem." They said. Radley considered the possibility that he had drunk too much. He was fairly certain it wasn't because of who he was as a supernova, he'd been under the radar training for so long his wanted poster no longer matched his current appearance. With his disheveled hair, beard, and dusty clothes, it was possible they just thought Radley was some rowdy drunk.

Radley shrugged and groaned at the dull pain in his head, "Well, I'm not really feeling like sticking around." Radley said grabbing the base of the chain on his wrist shackles. He gave a few test pulls before yanking the chain from the cuff of the shackle. With a second yank, Radley had separated the chain from the cuffs. He set the chain off to the side and did the same thing for the chain on his ankles. The others in the room looked on in awe. " How'd ya do that?" One asked. "No normal person should be able to break those." Another said. Radley stood and stretched "Who said anything about me bein' normal?" He said as he cracked his neck from side to side. " I didn't spend all that time training so I could be normal." Radley then bent down to pick up the chain's he'd separated from his shackles. He draped them around his neck. " Rest'a ya want-"

Before Radley could finish his sentence a crash sounded from outside as boot steps started to pick up above deck. Then from outside the door of the hold, something was yelled but it was too muffled to make out what was said. Suddenly the door bursts open as a figure now stands in the door way. A woman with blue braided hair looks in at the bunch of prisoners and Radley. "Huh, you're not my crew."

Radley and the prisoners looked back and forth between themselves sharing equally confused looks with the woman that had just shown up. "ugh, Damn! I got the wrong ship!" The woman said out loud before muttering to herself for a bit. Radley and the prisoners looked at each other. "Oh, Okay I got it." The woman piped up. " Alright, We don't have much time to chit chat, but I'm looking for some of my crew that got taken by the navy. I followed the wrong ship and found you all. If you all promise to help me I'll free y'all and let you out of those chains." She said.  Meanwhile Radley had been breaking the others' chains. "Sorry, what? I was getting these guys freed." Radley said.  Nora looked flustered, "I just said I'd do that if they help me, you-you undermined me." she said. " Yeah, well actions speak louder than words, an' you were takin' too long with ya words." Radley replied.  Nora huffed. " Well, we've probably already set off an alarm on the ship." Nora said. "and y'all need a ride out of here." She pointed out. "Aye." Radley said. " Though fighting is kinda my specialty, an' besides we gotta get information on ya' people." Radley said. " How about we see what the captain o' this vessel knows?" Radley asked. " Though I think a bunch'a us would like to find our stuff and get outta these stripes first, ya dig?" Radley suggested. Nora looked confused at the information Radley had just given her. At first he had just seemed an aloof thug, but he'd heard everything she said and formulated a plan better than what she'd originally had. "Oh-kay." she replied slowly. " Great, let's go get our stuff!" Radley said. A cheer rose up from the prisoners as they collectively left the holding areas.