In that moment, something shone through to Thunderclaw, telling him that now was the perfect time to strike. Victory was at hand. With Firedemon off-guard, caught up in protesting at the other two, without warning he punched Firedemon in the face.
"One pun!" He shouted as his opponent staggered back, taking the hit directly to his jaw. "Two pun! Ow!" He followed up by stepping forward and swinging his left at the back of Firedemon's head. With no pads and no training, this didn't accomplish much besides bruise his knuckles a little, and sprain his amateurishly protruding thumb. Actually, with all the adrenaline coursing through him, he barely felt it. If anything, he'd just shouted reflexively.
"Oh, no you don't!" He roared, as Firedemon's hands came up and he stepped back to protect himself. "You don't get off the hook that easy!" He charged forward, swinging his right arm around for the finishing blow, when Firedemon suddenly stepped in and brought his elbow up...
The room spun.
There hadn't been any pain, as such. The elbow strike had smashed up into his chin, his field of view jerked around a little, and now...
He stared dumbly at the people in the room. He was aware of distant shouting, but it all reached his ears as if distorted and muffled through ten feet of water. He turned back to Firedemon, who looked like he was about to hit him. Shouldn't he be doing something about that? He tried moving his arms around a little, and saw them move. Strange. He couldn't seem to feel them. Couldn't feel his legs either, come to think of it. Or anything, really.
He gave this some thought, and then a fist smashed into his face, knocking him to the floor. His head struck the cold tile, and everything went dark.
Pain.
He woke up to aching limbs, bruises, welts. His head throbbed. His joints objected to the rigid flooring.
Darkness.
He blinked, then blinked again. No change. A cursory feel for his surroundings told him he hadn't been moved from the locker room.
Silence.
He heard his own breathing, and even his heartbeat felt like it was pounding nails into his skull, but that was it. Lights out. Room empty. Everyone else must have gone home.
Groaning, TC staggered to his feet, and gingerly felt his way around to the door. He tripped over something metallic on the way there, cursed viciously, but eventually managed to reach the exit. Locked. A moment later, he flipped on the light switch, and harsh, fluorescent white light flooded the room.
He looked around the room as his eyes adjusted. There was the torn-off locker door he'd tripped on, bent into an 'L' shape by the force it had been ripped out with. A little further on he saw a discarded towel, and nearby, the locker in which his clothes were stored. Finally. He opened it and put them on, while trying to think of a way out of here. The gap under the door was pretty wide, so... but then again, the ceiling tiles were loose-hanging. Maybe he could...
How does TC break out?
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