Last time:

Ryoma saw a metal plate above the first window to a row of ten others. He wiped it and saw 'I'.

'Roman numeral I? Then wait a minute…'

He wiped the window and saw a boy with green hair and grayish skin. He wiped the plate on the second window, II, and then the window. This time, it was a girl. Ryoma looked away quickly. She had reddish hair tied into two pigtails and a beauty mark under her eye. But some parts of her face were missing and Ryoma could see her bone. He looked back at the plates. 'Yamamoto' and 'Osakada' were under each number. That must've been their names.

He skipped three windows and went to the fifth one.

'If this is what I think it is…' He wiped the window but no one was in it. 'The name plate,' he wiped it and it read 'V- Tezuka'.

Ryoma brought his hands to his mouth. He stepped back and looked around him; these were the people before Tezuka.

Next to what would have been Tezuka's space, was another window that was frosted over. The ones after it weren't frozen. He wiped it and saw that that too was empty.

'This is…' He wiped the plate and read it before falling to his knees. 'VI-Echizen'.

"What is this place?" He whispered as tears fell down his cheeks.

Tezuka was by the beginning of the hall and looked at the crying boy in shock.

'NO!'

--

This time:

Tezuka was frozen to his spot. Ryoma rose and looked around before he saw Tezuka.

"He's the only person who always knows what's happening around here. There are places that nobody but him and the most experienced staff knows."

'He knows,' Ryoma thought as Fuji's words rang through his mind.

"What is this?" Ryoma whispered as he waved to the rows of windows. "What is this place?"

Tezuka eyes began to glow green and little explosions by the ceilings erupted. Ryoma jumped at the sounds and realized he was blowing up the security cameras.

"This is The Island, and they are failed experiments."

"What? They're humans!"

"No one is a human here except for the adults. You're not even supposed to be here."

Tezuka looked around him quickly, we have to leave. Now."

Ryoma followed Tezuka through another door. "Where are we going?"

"Sakaki will find out that you know. Once he knows, you're not safe here."

"So I'm leaving?"

"Unless you want to die…"

"No! But, we're on an island."

"I've seen maps of this area before, just a few hundred yards away is the main land. This island is in the middle of a small lake."

"We're going now?"

"No, we're going to the dorms. We have to leave at night."

"I feel like I'm in a movie or something," Ryoma said as they ran through the trees to the mansion.

They stopped when Ryoma slid on ice and knocked into Tezuka.

"Atobe," Tezuka said and said boy stepped from behind the trees.

"You're breaking out? Ore-sama wants in," The silver haired boy said with an air of finality.

"Un," Ryoma whined slightly as he rubbed his butt. That was going to hurt.

A tree twisted before falling and Yukimura and Fuji stepped forth. Another tree burst into flames before Sanada stepped from it. "We all want in."

"Why?"

Fuji turned to Ryoma with his eyes open, "Nobody wants to stay here. Everyone wants out. This place tortures you for hours and then spits you back in bed after you've collapsed."

"The most powerful ones," Sanada began, "Like us, are used as the Head's lapdogs. The Head tells us to do jump and we say 'how high?'- nobody wants to be here for a day more if it's avoidable."

"We all have families who we haven't seen in years and some of us were less fortunate," Yukimura said. "Some of our parents died because they tried to protect us when they came. I, Fuji, and Tezuka know that too well."

"Ore-sama's parents have been looking for me for years. They've sent out police forces around the world. After they head that more kids went missing much like Ore-sama, they expanded the search. As you can see, this place is practically off radar, not to mention it's not on any map except the ones that they give out here."

Ryoma looked at everyone, "I feel as though…it is impossible."

"I know a way, but Atobe's going to have to be the main force behind it. Sanada's going to have to be the battery."

Yukimura's eyes flashed purple and the trees formed a dome around them.

"Speak Tezuka," Sanada said, clearly he was not happy with being referred to as a 'battery'.

"Atobe can use his ice to 'convert' us into water, disturbing as it may sound."

Fuji gasped as he understood. "I see! The reason why we need Sanada is because he can use Ka (fire) to melt the ice into water. Atobe could use that water and transport us via the lake to the other side."

"But how are we going to get to the shore? We're too far from it to go there without being caught."

"Damn you Echizen, you just had to wash us down the drain didn't you," Atobe mumbled. Tezuka lifted a brow.

"That just might work. If we can synchronize a time, Atobe and Sanada can be in one room, Yukimura and Fuji could be another, and Echizen and I would be in our room. At a certain time, we can run our tap simultaneously and Sanada and Atobe could go into one of the other rooms first. When they collect two of us, you'll move onto the remaining room before we go down the pipes that empty into the lake."

"You want Ore-sama to go into the sewers?"

"No, there's another system that's connected only to the sinks in the bathrooms. That water is always clean. We have to go through that one. Who has a roommate?"

Echizen raised his hand- Tezuka knocked it back down because they were roommates- and Sanada and Atobe raised their hands as well.

"We are roommates."

Yukimura chuckled, "That makes it even easier. Fuji, you can come into my room for a 'visit' between the sadists."

Fuji nodded, "Okay, but we need a blue print of the mansion and the plumbing systems." Everyone turned to Tezuka.

"I have a copy in my room. Let's go."

Sanada transported them into Tezuka and Echizen's room where Tezuka brought out many sheets and a highlighter.

"We can use this route," He highlighted a route and Atobe and Sanada looked at it.

"We can memorize it."

"No need, I can imprint it in your mind." Tezuka's eyes began to turn hazel and he looked over the map again.

Atobe and Sanada began to feel slightly dizzy as, through their eyes, they began traveling the route. They could feel the cold water rushing past them and hear the roar of it.

The vision stopped and they came back. "We got it."

"What time is this going to happen?"

"Good question Fuji," Echizen said and looked at Tezuka.

"At two thirty in the morning, Atobe and Sanada will go to Yukimura's room and at two thirty-five, they'll come here."

--

Yukimura looked at the clock; 2:29 AM, and looked at Fuji.

Fuji nodded and turned the tap on. It began running before it began icing over, Atobe's face shown like a reflection on the ice.

"Stand back a bit, this might feel weird." The two stepped back and Sanada's face joined Atobe's.

Fuji giggled a bit when their bodies became ice. Sanada used Ka to melt them and Atobe guided them to the sink. The ice thawed and they were zooming down the pipes.

They continued until a spout on the side opened up. They went up it and saw Tezuka and a sleepy Echizen standing a few feet back.

They repeated everything and they were on their way.

"Now that we're here, we go out the tap way."

"Hn, Ore-sama is cold."

"You control ice and you're a cold bitch of a diva, shut up Monkey King."

"Stupid brat!"

"Sa, let's not fight."

"Yeah, listen to the smiling freak for now."

"I need a pill."

"Mm, I concur Tezuka."

They passed through a large vat and found themselves spat into the lake. Atobe semi-froze everyone and they swam to the shore.

Sanada took over and converted everyone to Shadow to safely run into the neighboring forest.

Everyone returned to their normal figures and walked further into the woods and away from the hell hole.

--

It was about four in the morning when Tezuka woke everyone up.

"We have to move. They'll realize we're gone by seven. I'm normally in the labs by then."

Tezuka picked up Echizen since he was still sleeping and they trekked further away from The Island.

"I can't believe it. Just like that, we're gone," Fuji said in a small voice.

"I feel like it's a dream."

"Where are we though?" Yukimura asked after Sanada.

Ryoma's ear twitched slightly. "I hear cars. There's a highway nearby." Sanada transported them to the side of the highway, but still in the bush.

'Catskills' a sign read.

"We're in Upstate New York."

"How are we going to get anywhere though? We don't have a car."

"Yet," Yukimura said as he eyes the guardrail and some scraps of rubber and tire along the stretch of road.

He moved them towards him and into the forest. He melded the metal together in the shape of an SUV and the rubber scraps into tires. He formed every other part of a car and put it all together. Above them were streetlights, which he made into head and tail lights.

"We need chairs."

"We also need windows." Yukimura brought forth the broken glass on the roadway and made them into perfect windows.

"We still need seats."

"Echizen, I'm working on it!"

The blue haired boy caught sight of some abandoned cars and grinned. He ripped the seats out of them and placed them in the SUV.

They all climbed in, with Tezuka in the driver's seat.

Fuji zapped the car and though it didn't roar to life, it began to move. Tezuka drove the car up to an entrance before driving onto the highway.

"We need a license plate." Yukimura looked back and drew some extra metal to make a Canadian plate that said 'YAOI N LUV'.

"Why are we going south?"

"We're going to Pennsylvania. We have to stay in big states so it would take longer for them to find us."

Ryoma sat back and rested his head on Sanada's shoulder.

'We're free.'