15. Releasing the Prisoners
Initially, Alex's plan was to have Pietro handle all the tasks.
After all, Pietro was a speedster. Since he could bring Alex inside and collect all the cell keys without alerting other soldiers and the warden, it proved that Pietro was perfectly capable of opening all the cells in a short amount of time. Unfortunately, this plan was not feasible.
The entire power supply system of the secret mutant prison was located in the above-ground facility, and the two were interconnected. If anything went wrong in the secret mutant prison, the power supply system would immediately activate the automatic defense system.
This automatic defense system was a highly advanced electric barrier. Anyone passing through it would be electrocuted into charcoal, and the barrier would instantly envelop the entire mutant prison, making it impossible for anyone inside to get in or out.
Even if a few powerful or special mutants could get through the barrier, what good would it do? They would be recaptured within days, and a few escaped mutants wouldn't achieve Alex's plan. So, this idea was unworkable. Similarly, the plan to destroy the power system first to prevent the electric barrier from activating and then release the prisoners also wouldn't work.
Destroying the power system would put the entire mutant prison on lockdown, with the military surrounding the place. Pietro couldn't dodge bullets in such a confined space. The only outcome for him would be death. Even if he succeeded, how many mutants could he release? The plan would be as ineffective as the previous one.
To achieve the plan, there was only one choice: release the prisoners first, then destroy the power system from outside to disable the electric barrier. This way, more mutants could escape, and the soldiers outside wouldn't stand a chance against so many mutants.
For this to work, Alex and Pietro had to divide tasks. The power system was heavily guarded, and Alex wasn't confident he could destroy it in such an environment, so that task fell to Pietro. Alex himself would handle unlocking the cells.
With their tasks clearly divided, Alex and Pietro immediately set to work. Alex hid the keys and pretended to be a exchange shift guard, strolling casually out of the room. Walking through the prison corridors, the dampness, cold, stench of blood, and the smell of rotting flesh mixed with the noise of chains dragging on the ground, created a hellish atmosphere.
Alex kept his head down, trying to minimize his presence. At the same time, he curiously glanced at the mutants locked in cells on either side of the corridor. Some were asleep, while others were awake, watching Alex with cold eyes. Although they didn't know Alex, they recognized his uniform. In the mutant prison, offending the guards was very dangerous.
Alex had to admit that Warden Fisk had trained these prisoners well. Many familiar faces were among them: Siren, Psylocke, Sprite, and other former X-Men members from his previous life. There were also some who hadn't shown identifiable mutant abilities, so Alex couldn't identify them.
The entire prison was in a state of dull atmosphere, even among the guards. As he passed a drowsy guard, the man merely glanced at Alex before closing his eyes again to nap. Water dripped from the prison ceiling, and in the darkness, the sound of sewage flowing through pipes added to the oppressive, depressing atmosphere.
Alex couldn't imagine the inhumane conditions these mutants endured every day. If it were him, he knew he would be driven mad within three days.
As he descended the stairs, the stench grew worse. On the third level, Alex saw those who had turned into monstrous bestial mutants, like the Nightcrawler, Pietro had mentioned. Besides him, there was Angel, who had lost a wing, and Beast, who had become a large blue creature.
There was also Kitty Pryde, merged with a pillar. When Alex passed her, she didn't react, her lifeless eyes suggesting she was already dead inside.
"Is it that early today?" a guard yawned upon seeing Alex. He was surprised that his colleague was so diligent as to come early for the shift change.
"Early? I think I'm late," Alex replied blandly.
In the next moment, Alex pulled out a silenced submachine gun and fired a burst at the drowsy guards. No one expected Alex to act suddenly, and in their drowsy state, they had no chance to resist. They were turned into Swiss cheese by Alex's bullets.
The gunfire instantly alerted the prisoners, who were now excited. Smelling blood, they pressed themselves against the bars, reaching out towards Alex like sharks sensing blood in the water.
"Quiet down, you freaks!" Alex knew that the moment he fired, the surveillance cameras had caught him. There was no other way. He had to move quickly.
"I'll let you out," he said, taking off the soldier's jacket. Instead of using the keys, he extended his left hand, gathering particle beams and firing a repulsor blast that shattered the nearest cell door.
Inside the cell was Beast, who immediately rushed out, glanced at Alex, and then at the metallic gleam of Alex's left hand, seemingly fearing its destructive power.
After a few seconds of hesitation, seeing that Alex wasn't stopping him, Beast roared and pounced on the soldiers' corpses, devouring them voraciously. It was clear he was starving. Witnessing this, Alex took a few deep breaths. Despite having been in this world for so long, he still hadn't gotten used to such scenes and still felt a wave of nausea.
Ignoring the feasting Beast, Alex quickly went to the other cells and used the keys to unlock them.
After blasting Angel's head to pieces because he tried to attack him, the process went more smoothly. These monsters, though their minds were overtaken by their feral instincts, retained enough rationality to understand that antagonizing the human helping them escape was not a good idea if they wanted to survive.
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