Boom!
The enormous explosion jolted Wade awake.
[Alert!][Alert!]
A shrill alarm rang throughout the prison.
"What's going on? Why's it so noisy?"
Wade groggily climbed to his feet. He saw Russell pressed against the transparent wall, his ass sticking way up as he peered outside with an anxious expression.
The guards below seemed to have received a message. They all abandoned their monitoring stations and ran toward the entrance.
Just as Wade and Russell were wondering what had happened, another roar rang out. With a violent explosion, someone breached the prison entrance from outside.
Guards lay sprawled everywhere, and the Icebox's central control system had stopped working.
[System failure][System failure] [Cells 7, 12, 14, 27]
"Back in your cells, you filthy mutants! Get back!"
The remaining guards aimed their weapons at the prisoners who had escaped their cells amid the chaos and shouted orders. But with the cell doors now practically useless, the prisoners were like fucking alpacas off their leashes, yearning for green pastures of freedom. They didn't give a damn about the guards.
"Holy shit!"
Wade muttered a curse at the chaotic scene, then turned his gaze to Russell beside him.
"We gotta go, kid. Something's wrong."
Russell stared nervously down below as he murmured, "Wait, Deadpool. Do you think that girl called Hu Tao came to save us?"
"Nope."
"Why not?!"
Wade grabbed the back of Russell's collar, intending to leave.
Heave...
He couldn't lift him.
Another try...
Still no luck.
"Ahem. Of course it's not my Little Star, unless she got a sex change overnight and had a titanium-alloy fucking eye installed."
Wade released Russell's collar, took his face in his hands instead, and turned it in a certain direction.
"Who's that?"
Only then did Russell get a clear look at the