A full day later, the process repeats. The inmates are ordered out into the courtyard, and the thirty-five armed guards watch from the walkway that lines the perimeter. Lacertilia and Elevatô meet Hammer and the triplets at the same picnic table as the day before.
"The best time to try is right before the shift ends," Hammer suggests. "My guy will be impatient and edgy a good 15 to 20 minutes before the scheduled time, so he'll be our start signal."
"Agreed," Lacertilia says. "Which meansss we all need excusssesss to be outssside our cellss at that time."
"Bathroom breaks?" Elevatô suggests.
"That won't work for the three of us," Tic says.
"The guards won't believe us if we say we all need to go at the same time," Tac says.
"Pretend you're all sssick," Lacertilia says. "It is likely to happen sssince all three of you ssspend sso much time together."
Everyone agrees, and separate again, the triplets getting dirty in a game of Bruiser Ball with some of the other inmates. It'll help make the sickness excuse a little more believable if they can claim they got it from someone else.
Parallel with yesterday's schedule, the inmates are rushed inside to their cells. Some time passes before Hammer's guard gets anxious. The plan begins as the last twenty mintues of his shift count down.
Across the way, Hammer can see Lacertilia ask for his restroom break. The guard lets him out, and they head to the restroom near the guard trade station. Hammer waits five minutes before he takes his turn.
"Hey, buddy," he says. "I gotta go to the restroom, breakfast ain't sitting well."
The plain-looking guard looks around, on edge.
"Okay, fine," he says as he deactivates Hammer's plasma wall. "But you better make it quick, I've got to leave soon."
As Hammer gets out, Elevatô asks for his guard to let him use the restroom. The guard sees Hammer being escorted to the restroom, then back at Elevatô. A few agonizing seconds pass as the guard mulls it over.
"Fine," the guard says, letting him out. "But let's make it quick."
Hammer enters a stall, and a moment later, so does Elevatô. In order to keep up the charade, Elevatô unzips his pants. He also uses the zipper's sound to mask any sound made by the dropped lock-pick he made out of his breakfast spork.
Hammer, sitting in "#2" position on the closed toilet, picks it up with his smaller arm and hides it in his prison uniform's sleeve. Hammer flushes the toilet and gets out of the stall. A minute after he and his guard leave the restroom, Lacertilia and Elevatô "finish" their business, and head back with their guard escorts.
As Hammer is herded back, the triplets are herded forward, feigning nausea.
"What's wrong with those three?" Hammer's guard asks.
"The three of them must've contracted something from someone here," the triplet's guard answers. "Saw 'em playing Bruiser Ball, probably got too close to one of the slobs."
As the two groups pass by each other, Hammer quickly jams the sharpened handle of the spork into the lock of the clamp on his arm, busting it apart. It falls off his arm and onto the floor with a clunk.
*BAMF* He backhands his guard into the wall, and the guard falls limp to the ground.
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