CyKo had been in a cell for what seemed an eternity. Finally, a door to the cell opened, and a white, red eyed MUPPETZ entered. It had claws that must have been over three inches long... and fangs for teeth. The Muppetz half-closed the door, then approached CyKo with a slow but smooth walk. It was holding a needle, a long, dreadful needle. Of course, they had to go all out and make the needle supersize.

CyKo had never been one who enjoyed shots, not anything with needles. Mostly due to the fact that when he was a kid, he'd poke people with a needle then zoom out of the room before they could find out who did it; and later on, once the others had caught on to who had poked them, a small, rambunctious twelve year old by the name of Elmer Fudd (who, aside from his pudge, bore no resemblance to the cartoon character) left a needle upright on Cy's seat. Owch...

The Muppetz was now staring at CyKo directly in front of his face. CyKo's strength had been drained from the frequent dosages of sleeping drugs that the Muppetz injected into all of his food and drinks (overboard, much?), but he was already devising a plan of escape.

Three mutant muffins accompanied the Muppetz into the room. I think I could take them out, depending on the skillz that the white one has... His mind rushing from place to place, from option to option, from muffin to Muppetz, his plan really depended on what was outside of that door.

The White Muppetz whispered into Cy's ear something that he could not understand, then, in a still silent voice, "... through the door are two corridors. To the left is certain doom; a mutant muffin training facility. It is there that some of the worst prospects for you lie. To the right corridor is a triple edged fork leading to three more corridors, the one on your left would lead to the barracks. The one on the middle will lead to the particle mutation lab-- this after a long array of locked doors and passwords and the like. The one on the right is the one you're looking for, follow it at a running pace for ten minutes; keep an eye out for a black mass. This is a passageway that leads outside and into the courtyard. Here you will find many, many Muppetz.

There are three ways out- the front gate, which is nearly impossible to scale and needs a password to unlock; there is a secret way which I cannot tell you--- but I suppose I shall--- leading from Ellemo's quarters to the outside of the wall. But that's unimportant. The way you want in order to get out is to climb up the boxes of radiation- pure radiation held within a metal encasement. You can climb up them and scale the rest of the wall, and you will be immune to other Muppetz shooting at the boxes, for risk that they would trigger an atomic explosion.

Once out, you can run into the many craters that surround this place, jumping from crater from crater until you are out of sight."

Once the Muppetz was finished speaking, CyKo removed the needle (that he had taken from the muppetz shortly after he entered) from the muppetz's neck. Standing up, CyKo punched the Muppetz in the head, knocking him out, and quickly dashed out of the room, kicking the mutant muffins out of the way.

Cy ran down the corridor on the right. He ran into two mutant muffins there, they grabbed onto his leg and began gnawing on it. Trying to remain silent, he kicked his leg up against the side of the corridor, effectively smashing the muffin to death. It released its grip, and broke into bits and pieces. The other one had a much stronger grip. Its teeth implanted in Cy's leg, he sat down, brought his leg up to his face, and took a bite out of the muffin's head. It immediately let go with all but it's teeth, which CyKo removed it manually.

CyKo came to the fork in the corridors- careful to avoid getting disoriented and walking into the left one--- he ran into the middle corridor. perhaps I can find out something about these particle mutations he was talking about...

He came across a door. He opened it, revealing that it was merely a screen door (:P) covering a larger, vault-like door. The vault had four keys- the numbers 1, 2, and 3. He thought deep and hard... "if I were a Mutant Muffin Scientist, what would I make my password? O_o" ... *hits 1, then 2, then 3, and the door swings open* interesting. I think I'd make a pretty good mutant muffin, then.

He saw in front of him hundreds of plans scribbled onto whiteboards. One stood out- the largest of the bunch. It had a drawing of a mutant muffin. CyKo approached it. The whiteboard read, "Mental reconstruction into a separate species". CyKo read it aloud- "Mental reconstruction could very well be the future of science- and the furthering of our cause- by reconstructing the brain from a standpoint of a human into that of a separate species, such as a horse or an ox, or even a parrot or an ant. This reconstruction works by the injecting of a mutated hemotoxin into the bloodstream---"

CyKo stopped, He looked at the back of his arm, a needle stood out, a drip of liquid rolled down his arm. His head spun around, his eyes remained fixed on the whiteboard- his body fell downward. He quickly passed into unconsciousness.

The water churned beneath the raft after Jaws dived down. Lia looked at the determined faces of the other agents. There would be no getting out of the cold swim in the dark lake. "Ooh," said Lia. "Would this be a good time to tell ya'll that my secret weakness is cold, dark water?" She considered a moment. "No, it wouldn't. So forget that I even said anything."

With that, she plunged down into the dark, cold lake.

(OOC: *pokes RP* We should probably get this going again. )

Echo stared at the place where the shark had disappeared, wondering where it was going. For one fleeting moment she imagined a freshwater-shark kingdom lying fathoms below...then shook the thought away, finding it too ludicrous to be true.

"You can't possibly be thinking of following him, can -"

Her words were cut off by splashes as, one by one, her comrades dropped into the water and disappeared.

Cherry climbed up to Echo's shoulder and peered down at the rippling water. "Arewegoingtofollowthem?"

"We probably should," Echo replied hesitantly, shaking her head. They're crazy! How are we going to breathe?

"Hang onto me," she told Cherry. Then, taking a deep breath, she leapt from the raft.

But even as her feet cut through the cold water, a thought raced through her mind as quick and clear as lightening: I have a bad feeling about this.

Jaws was a shark with a very spontaneous personality (or sharkality?), and therefore he rarely thought before he carried out a plan that had entered his head. His main goal in life was to have fun. Anything that led to him having fun of any kind was something he loved. So naturally, he jumped (literally) at the opportunity to make new friends and...talk to people! He also believed that everyone else loved the same things he did. If he loved diving hundreds of feet below the surface of his lake, everyone else loved it too, right? Alas, he was a shark of a small brain.
Carrying on, after jumping from the raft back into the water and waiting for his new friends to follow, he swam toward the nearest one and said, "Come on. Grab onto my fin and I'll take you for a ride. "

When Jaws spoke underwater (and when she was able to hear it), Lia squealed a stream of bubbles and swam towards him hesitantly. She was still not very thrilled with the idea of going with a shark (even if he was just a white shark) to his underwater (and possibly scary) abode. She closed her eyes against the salt water and felt her lungs burn from lack of oxygen. Lia opened her eyes for one last glimpse of the blue water and then everything went black...

"Muffin #4586, please step forward," ordered a red-frosted Mutant Muffin.

Muffin 4586 did so, walked forward, stopped, and saluted. The red-frosted Muffin nodded, then walked on, repeating the process of inspecting his troops. He stopped in front of CyKo, who was also in line. "What is this outrage?! Who is this?" yelled the muffin, quite angrily. A small, blue-covered muffin ran up to the red-frosted muffin, and quietly explained: "That is one of the experiments. #028, to be exact. The first successful transfer of human to muffin mentality. Treat him like a muffin and he won't know he's different."

The red-frosted muffin glared at CyKo (rather, what was left of him). Then, turning back to the blue-covered muffin, asked, "What am I supposed to do with him?" "For the experiment's testing, you must train him as you would a normal muffin. He will be pulled back into the lab later this afternoon. Until then, he is yours."

The blue muffin scurried away, leaving the red-frosted muffin standing with CyKo. CyKo (or rather, Mutant Muffin #028) stood with his tongue protruding from his agape mouth, his eyes off center. He was a pathetic sight to behold... But in his head, he was indeed a mutant muffin, displeased to the core of his sugary oat ingredients.

When Lia regained consciousness, she was in an underwater cave. Somehow she was still breathing, despite the whole 'underwater' thing. However she did not consider this for very long. Jaws was sitting across the cave, smiling at her and the other agents.

"Would you care for some tea?" Jaws asked hospitably once they were all in the cave. "I don't much care for it myself, but I've had some for years, just waiting to meet some humans that I could invite down for a cup. You aren't British by any chance, are you? That would be too good to be true! I've always wanted to invite British people in for tea! It would make me feel so complete! I've been practicing how to hold a teacup at just the right angle too! However, I find it hard with my fin..." he said, waving the feature in question. Abruptly changing the topic (as was his way), he suddenly asked, "So, tell me about yourselves. How did you come to be in these waters?"

Dr. Weirdsworth the III used his Jetpack to leap to the top of the highest tower on the MUPPETZ base. He timed it exactly right and he landed just as the watch tower changed Guard. He waved his hand to his companion, signaling that it was her turn.

He dropped the Jetpack onto the roof that he was standing on and pulled his FN SCAR off his back, the fully automatic battle rifle was upgraded with a grenade launcher and a decent scope.

Joe had removed his usual white lab coat and in process, revealed that underneath he was outfitted in black combat clothing. A belt of ammo was slung across his chest and around his waist was a belt, which was currently being weighed down by fifteen grenades, a combat knife and a Colt 1911.

He dropped to a kneeling position, the strong wind nearly blew his black baseball cap clear off, in order to counter this he turned it around backwards looks cooler like that, anyways Joe thought and he planned his and his cousin's next move.

Weillyn Rachelle Weirdsworth Do followed Doctor Weirdsworth the III, using her own jetpack to leap to the top of the tower. She landed by him and pulled out her own gun, an M4.
She also dropped her jetpack onto the roof, and crouched down, looking to her cousin for instructions.

"Alright, first thing to do is to take this watch tower, and to take it quietly" Joe said, motioning towards the roof under them. He produced two rolls of rope from his backpack, he took them and fixed the rope to the apex of the roof, where there was a flag pole.

Then he took it down to edge, "Okay, watch what I do" he wrapped the rope around his waist twice and nodded at Weillyn to do the same. He wasn't waiting though, better to clear out most of guards before she got down there. Joe didn't doubt her abbility, but it was in his DNA to be protective of his friends and relitives.

With that being said, jumped off the edge of the roof, the rope grabbed him and sent him flying through the glass windows that surrounded the uppermost part of the watchtower.

Joe cut the rope that was threatening to rip him out of the tower and then used his knife to slice the throat of the nearest MUPPETZ before he could respond. The next second the knife was flying through the air, and with a soft crunch it found a home in the skull of the second Agent, Joe lifted his SCAR and very carefully checked the rest of the room for any remaining MUPPETZ, waiting for Weillyn to arrive through the busted window. "I should of left one for you" he said, as he knelt and pulled his knife out of the MUPPETZ's head, Joe wiped the blade off on his shirt and slide it back into its seath.

Weillyn tied the rope next to Joe's and swung through the busted window after him, cutting her rope as she landed and pulling her throwing axe off her belt. She went over to Joe, and after quickly scanning the room, checked to see that her M4 was loaded. Though she knew it was, she had developed the habit of checking when she was impatient.
She looked eagerly towards Joe, hoping to continue deeper into the tower to find more MUPPETZ.

Muffin #028 (CyKo) skipped up and down the court of the gym. It was mandatory for muffins to work out during specific portions of the day. This day was different, however.

For the last two days of his apparent visit to the M.u.p.p.e.t.z. headquarters, he had begun socializing with the other mutant muffins around him. They were all kinds of cool, he thought; war heroes and new enlistments filled the establishment as muffins went about their daily errands and duties.

One of these muffins stood out from the rest, however: not too much different from the others in appearance or detail... #028 felt that there was something special about her .

He set his mind to a plan- a plan to win her sugary heart. The muffin looked at #028 as he was staring into her soul. Her eyes were abnormally large; she had pink frosting upon the top of herself. Her eyelids were made of gumdrops. Her lips were of a gooey licorish.

She glared at him upon seeing his stare, and turned away.

#028 ran to his quarters, crying the whole way.

then he awoke.

As if awakening from an alcoholic hangover, CyKo found himself lying in the Mutant Muffin barracks. He saw the she-muffin and for a split second felt a sense of longing; he quickly shook that aside as the muffin winked at him.

He wondered what had happened the previous hours, still a blurry image. Afterwards, he remembered how he was imprisoned in the MUPPETZ HQ, and his attempt to escape- up to where he was stabbed with the needle upon seeing the mutant muffin transformations. He immediately realized that once the MUPPETZ found that he was awake and 'sober', that he would be once again imprisoned or needle'd. NEEDLEss (get it? that's a needle joke. ) to say, he had to continue portraying his muffinified version of himself, lest worse things come afoot.

As he thought, he looked up and saw the she-muffin towering over him.

"Okay, first things first. We need data. I'm going to hack into their computer network, I'll need you to watch the door. If Cyko is in here, the computer will know it" he went over to the computer that the watchtower was provided with.

Luckly the MUPPETZ that he had just killed had the computer already unlocked (they were watching something on MyTube... Something about Harley Bitted Mah Finger), hence it was a simple matter of hacking into their database. Which he did with a few taps of the keys, "Ahah, I've found the head scientist's journal, apparently they've turned him into some kind of Muffin/Human hybrid. Crap, so now he's one of them... We've got to get him out of here"

Joe walked over to the window he had smashed and looked out, the Muffin army was in formation, so he scoped them out, he could of sniped any of them, if he wished.

Using a bit of thought, he came to the conclusion that they had to be keeping Cyko in the barracks. No other place to hide him "follow me" Joe turned on his heel and walked to the door "Stay close" he lifted his gun, bent his knees and slowly made his way down the hallway, keeping an eye out for Muffins and MUPPETZ.

Weillyn watched the door while her cousin searched for Cyko's location. When he finished, she continued watching the door as he walked over to the window. A moment later she followed him down the hallway as instructed, keeping close as she also pulled her gun up, scanning around to see if they were followed.
Her finger was itching to pull the trigger, but she knew that it would be best if they didn't meet up with any Muffins or MUPPETZ at all.