Chapter 13
Henry sighed, bored out of his mind.
He had been in the cell for a week now. Dmitri had come by to mock him often, but that was all. Henry also hasn't heard of anything from the Toppat clan, but he doubted that they just abandoned him. Just probably thinking of ways to try and get him out. Henry was the first to successfully break out after all in fifty years. He probably made it harder for anyone to do so now.
Henry wondered how Charles was doing. He hoped that the pilot wasn't blaming himself. Henry would rather be locked up than someone as sweet as Charles is locked away.
Henry's thoughts were interrupted when he heard his door open, expecting to see Dmitri at the doorway, coming in to mock him again.
What he didn't expect was to see Ellie, wearing one of the uniforms. "Henry. Come on." She told him, tossing him an outfit. "We're breaking you out. Cozy cell you got here."
Henry grinned, quickly slipping on the outfit and throwing on the hat. "Wondering when you guys would show up." Henry signed. His throat was still sore.
She looked concerned at his signing but he waved it off. Outside was an undercover Toppat, and was that a military officer? Henry recognized him well.
"Charlie managed to convince the government to help. They aren't happy with you though for lying, but agreed since they want the wall shut down as well." Ellie explained as they headed to the elevators.
Henry nodded, wincing as he realized that he couldn't go see Charles at the military base anymore. At least, he would probably definitely have to be more careful about it. Henry would still go see the pilot as long as he was there. He would probably give Charles heart attacks doing so, but Henry wouldn’t care, escaping was the easiest part of being him.
The group walked to the elevators, being careful not to seem out of place. The Toppat insider and Ellie chatted about a few things, Henry being in the middle of the group while the two military officers were behind him, making Henry surrounded so he wasn’t easily seen.
Once they were in the elevator, Ellie was on him in a second. “Is your throat okay?” She asked worriedly, making Henry snort.
“It’s sore but that’s probably because I talked too much when I got here. Not to mention I’m dehydrated, they barely feed maximum security prisoners.” Henry told her, making her frown. The Toppat, Wallace if Henry was thinking right, handed him a bottle of water.
“Here you go, Henry!” He said, making Henry nod with a smile, chugging down the water. Wow, that was refreshing. Henry didn’t realize how nice water was until now.
“So. Once you get to the surface, both the Toppats and the military will be attacking this place, so we need to hurry and get you out of here as soon as possible.” Ellie told him, making him almost choke as he looked at her.
“Wait. They’re bringing this place down?” Henry asked her shocked, making Ellie nod.
“Yeah, this place apparently has broken too many laws for holding prisoners and prisoner rights. Not to mention they imprisoned you twice now while you are pardoned, and Charles hasn’t even broken a law yet they imprisoned him so they’re also unlawfully impersonating people.” Ellie told him.
Henry turned to Wallace. “All Toppats out to the surface now. Dangerous in here if they attack.” Henry told him, his throat stinging still. Doc was going to kill him, Henry realized. He probably messed up his throat already.
“We should probably get as many prisoners out as soon as possible. This place was dangerous when we started a prison break when we broke out before, imagine when there is excess fighting above as well? People are going to die in those cells if not at least freed.” Ellie told him. Wallace nodded, leaving as soon as the elevator stopped at a floor.
“Someone should probably help him. One person isn’t enough to realize everyone in time and he could be killed in the process.” One of the military men said, nodding to his partner before heading off after Wallace to help him. Henry couldn’t help but blink in surprise, shocked to see it happen.
Henry, Ellie, and the military man in disguise named Todd headed up to the surface. Along the way, Henry looked at Ellie. He had options showing up to either Stay on the elevator or go through the stairs.
“We should switch to the stairs the next few levels. I have a bad feeling if we continue here.” Henry told her.
Ellie frowned. “This is the fastest way up. Though the stairs would have us less of a chance to be caught. Not many would use them after all.” She replied, making Henry nod. Todd looked at them.
“This is the fastest way, and what’s the worst that could happen?” He asked, making the two sweatdrop.
“Everything,” Ellie replied, Henry, nodding in agreement. “Especially now that you said that.”
Todd sweatdropped, Ellie, being quick to stop the elevator as they walked out. “The next floor is where the offices are at, so it’s best if we don’t go on the elevator and get stuck inside them if something happens,” Ellie told him, Henry following and heading towards the stairs nearby. Todd just rolled his eyes, following them.
“Sure sure. I guess I’ll trust your thief instincts thing, seemed to work for you a lot so.” He said, following them to the stairs.
“Trust me, you would want to trust my instincts on this.” Henry signed, Ellie translating before looking at him curiously. He made a motion for her to ask later. He didn’t plan to tell about that ability. It helped but sometimes, he would rather not have it.
The three went through the stairs, Ellie in the front and stopping them, looking around the corner as they heard talking.
“He has been a good little inmate. Afraid of us taking his precious pilot friend again. I never thought it would be so easy to capture him or I would have done this from start.” Dmitri spoke, walking towards the elevator with his right hand Grigori. Henry clenched his fists tightly. He wanted to punch him
Ellie seemed to have the same idea, but held back, pushing them further in the stairwell as the two passed.
Once they were gone, Todd blinked. “Wow, glad we didn’t go on the elevator after all.” He remarked, making the thieves nod as they hurried up the stairs.
Alarms blared, signaling that the prisoners had been freed, as they made it to the surface. Henry snickered lightly, watching as Todd pulled out a walkie and said something into it, Ellie texting someone at the same time.
Suddenly there was a loud boom, as something was shot into the courtyard, making the prison guards scatter in alarm. Henry could see the airship over the horizon, along with several military helicopters and vehicles in the opposite direction, making Henry grin.
Suddenly options appeared, he could Go through the middle, go around the fence, or join the fight.
Henry noticed quickly it was timed and decided to just rush the middle of the chaos, running through with the two as they tried to get out of the chaos.
No such luck for stickmin, as they were quickly seen and shot down, someone thinking they were apart of the wall because of their disguises.
Fail! Your disguises work! They couldn’t recognize you!
Henry gritted his teeth a little in annoyance, deciding to just join the fight. He threw off the hat, taking off the top part of the uniform before seeing some guns nearby, tossing Ellie one as he grabbed another.
“No way through except through the chaos huh?” Ellie asked with a grin, making Henry nod back with a grin as he shot down one of the prison guards. The jerk was the one that hit Charles he found out once inside and it felt nice to shoot him down. Did that make him bad? Who knows but Henry didn’t care the bastard shouldn’t have hit Charles.
They started making their way through, trying to get to one of the sides. Todd ended up joining in the fight with other military personal, leaving Ellie and Henry to try and find a way out of everything. Henry could lead them towards the Toppats or the military.
Before Henry could pick, however, his options disappeared. “Henry Stickmin!” He heard, making him turn to see the warden Dmitri coming at them. Henry’s eyes widen, grabbing Ellie, and running through the chaos. They needed to getaway.
“Henry!” Charles called, making Henry smile slightly. He and Ellie rushed towards the pilot, who threw out a rope for them to grab from his helicopter.
The two were quick to climb up, Henry sighing in relief as they did. Until he saw the options jump! And swerve! Pop up with a quick time event bar draining rapidly.
Before Henry could choose, a rocket hit the helicopter, causing it to blow up and kill the three of them.
Fail! Man! Your life is on the line! Think quicker!
Henry gritted his teeth, running over to Charles and swerving the copter to try and dodge the rocket. Unfortunately, it was apparently a homing one and crashed into the helicopter, blowing it and them up.
Fail! Hmm… Seems like they updated their defenses.
Henry quickly grabbed Charles and Ellie, seeing the rocket approaching them before jumping out with them both from the helicopter, it blowing up not even a moment later.
Henry let go of them both, the three landing roughly in the snow. Charles looked at his helicopter with wide eyes, looking sad. “Aww, I liked that one!” He remarked, making Henry shake his head fondly, getting up with them. He winced when he felt pain course through his left arm, making the two call to him worried before he shook his head at them. They needed to move.
“Henry!” Right hand called out, making the three look before rushing over to him and the other Toppats. There were a few military people mixed in with them as they held against the wall’s guards. Reginald was beside him, shooting at some of the Wall members.
As the group moved closer, RHM stopped to turn to them, probably to tell them to hurry up.
He was stopped as one of the Wall’s guards shot him multiple times.
Henry’s heart stopped. “POPS!” Henry yelled, ignoring the pain that shot through his throat as he bolted to his father.
Reginald looked over in an instant to see why Henry was yelling before his eyes widen. “RIGHTY!” Reginald yelled, before rushing over as well, the two making it to the man at the same time. Right coughed up a bit of blood, smiling at them.
“D-don’t worry. Somethin’ like this ain’t gonna knock me down.” Right coughed, making Henry frown, tears in his eyes as Reginald put his head in his lap, holding him gently as he yelled for some Toppats to get him out of there and treated.
Henry took a gun, looking at the wall guard that did it, growling and shooting him in the leg. The man yelled out, dropping to the ground as Henry shot him a few more times, making sure he was good and dead. Then a few more times to get his anger out.
“Henry!” Charles called, making Henry look at him. “Come on! We gotta go!” He told Henry, who nodded, starting to follow the pilot to one of the escape pods.
Henry’s heart skipped a beat when the option came up. Block with the time disappearing quickly, almost not enough time for him to think.
He was quick to grab Charles, hugging him close as a bullet was shot, hitting him in the back, making Henry cry out. “Henry!” Charles cried in shock and worried as Henry leaned against him for support.
“I will lose everything here because of you stickmin! But not before taking you with me!” Dmitri yelled out behind them, aiming his gun at Henry’s head. Henry gritted his teeth, waiting for the shot to come.
He heard a bullet shot but felt no extra pain as he looked over.
Ellie stood beside the dead body of the warden, gun in hand as she glared at the body. She looked over at the two and grinned. “What? I’m not a good right hand if I don’t protect my boss.” She remarked, making the two smile softly. Henry cried out in pain as his legs collapsed, the pain making the world spin as the two called out to him in worry.
“Henry! Fuck, We need help over here!” Charles called out as Henry gripped his hand tightly.
“C-Charles… Love you…” Henry mumbled, closing his eyes as the two stood over him worriedly.
The world went black.