Dayshift 42: Bus 2

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Before anyone could come to any decisions for their next move, the room suddenly filled with a thick fog. Faster than he could realize what was happening, it had filled up the entire room and swallowed every single one of his friends. Then there was that undeniable stench of iron, blood and... he last remembered taking a step back and feeling that slippery skid and the realization of what that was. By the time he yelled, he was sitting straight up in his bed like he'd bolted awake. Like it'd been nothing more than a bad dream. ...What the hell just happened?!

"Oh! Good morning!" The nearby voice made him yelp with a half squeak-like noise. Oh, for hell's sake. It was one of those freaking nurses again. She was beaming at him like nothing had happened at all. Before he could so much as ask one question, the hag started blathering real fast about some field trip and buses and getting changed and hurrying up before everyone left without him and... OH MY GOD, WHAT WAS SHE DOING?! She was grabbing at his shirt like she was about to start helping him get dressed (or undressed in this case).

He flailed in a desperate attempt to get away from her and yelled his consent to go along if she would get out and let him change HIMSELF. What was the matter with her?! Thankfully, she left but told him to hurry. Hell if he knew what she'd do if he took too long. So for the sake of not getting freaking stripped, he quickly changed into the clothes she'd left on the bed. Clothes being the ugliest looking white-and-black track pants he'd ever seen and a bright blue sweatshirt with a cute little penguin design on the front. This was some kind of joke, right? ...Not to say the penguin wasn't cute or anything but there was no way, no way, he was wearing something like this in public.

But the nurse had burst right in again, and before Kanji could offer much protest, he was being pulled down the hallways and through the doors of the bus. He'd yelled some things her way, but she totally wasn't listening at all. By the time they stopped, he was standing at the front of the bus with a paper bag and the nurse had run off to cart another poor sap along. Frickin' PERFECT. For the sake of not standing up there like some kind of zoo animal for everyone to stare at, he plopped himself into one of the seats by the front and sighed in complete exasperation.

[Free. No limit.]

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Tenzen raised an eyebrow. Delightful, hmm? Last night he ended up with a person who had wanted to sing, now he was sitting in a strange vehicle with a man that apparently found monsters attractive. And judging by his actions, men as well. There were strange individuals in this place, that much was certain.

Tenzen noticed ZEX leaning closer, but coldly ignored the man's actions. He had dealt with much worse, after all. He had endured clingy infants asking questions about his hair in the middle of meetings, so some horny man was not going to throw him off. Even if the ninja didn't plan on returning such things. He much rather preferred women.

Not to say Tenzen would let ZEX do as he pleased, however. Trained eyes kept good watch on ZEX' movements.

"I see," he merely said, crossing his arms. "You mean to say that the sole purpose of this prison is just to torment us?"

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He was moving those strips of hair above his eyes! What did that mean, anyway? Humans seemed to move them fairly often, but it never seemed connected to anything they were saying. Or at least, not connected in a sensible way.

At least his interest was returned, if Tenzen's eye on him was any indication, and to ZEX of course it was. Hmm.

"As far as I've gathered, yes." Smiling in spite of what he was talking about. "Perhaps trying to drive us to suicide if their monsters fail to kill us first. I haven't been able to discern a motivation for this torture so far," since ZEX certainly didn't deserve it, "but if nothing else, they seem very determined to make our time here as unpleasant as possible."

Still leering at him. "Not to say that we don't get some time to ourselves to do with as we wish at night..."

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Tenzen decided he wasn't interested in how ZEX would spend such time, even if he could guess what activities the man enjoyed doing. Not that it was necessarily a bad activity, but once again, Tenzen preferred women.

"Are there many cases of suicide?" Tenzen asked, still ignoring ZEX' leering and focusing on the matter at hand instead.

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"There are people who completely vanish without warning, and are treated afterwards like they never existed. Whether or not that was the Institute trying to hide their deaths is unclear." ZEX waved a hand. "Although I doubt that if someone DID commit suicide we'd hear about it. I imagine it'd go against the pretense of a hospital."

A moment, and he brushed his hair from his face. "I wish there was some kind of motive outside of sadism. This is too subtle for the sadists that I know. I don't understand what they have to gain. I've heard some theories that this may be some form of the afterlife..." Looking off in a different direction for a second. "There doesn't seem to be anything that confirms that hypothesis however."

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"I see," Tenzen said. The disappearances were strange, but it didn't seem like ZEX knew any more than what he had just heard. The afterlife seemed like a ridiculous theory, in any case. It would require to die, something the ninja couldn't do. Or at least not very easily.

"If there is a motive, I doubt they'll inform the ones they hold captive."

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"No, they would not." ZEX laughed a little. "I've seen many people threaten the head doctor with violence or revenge with little apparent success... he's not very inclined to tell us much of anything regardless of what we do. Solid information is very difficult to come by."

It seemed that the vehicle they were traveling in was slowing... ZEX leered at his companion some more before standing. "As I've mentioned before, there are other things one can do at night... do let me know if you need something to occupy your time." Still smiling. "I'm sure I can oblige you."