He creates a copy. "Can you understand me? It's Stephen." The copy says while the still invisible Stephen picks up the syringe to administer on Davin.

Alex stares in the copy's general direction for a long moment before he recognizes him.

"...Ste-," his voice is hoarse, and he starts coughing again half-way through the word. "...Jay?" He asks after he's finished coughing, and taken another long moment to marshal his thoughts.

Davin sees the syringe coming and redoubles his efforts to escape his captor's grip, twisting out of it and kicking the man in the side. Then he lunges for the door. 

Stephen-1 lunges at him with the syringe. 2 does the same. 3 is focusing on releasing Alex.

"I think we should go inside."

 "Right." He doesn't bother asking what went wrong, climbing out of the van and heading for the back of the house, where whatever entrance Stephen used must be. 

He turns the handle and then tugs the door open forcefully enough that it hits the wall with a bang, waking the sleeping minion and alerting the one watching TV. He slips to the right of the door, just barely dodging the syringe, and then Stephen-2's lunge catches him just as he's slipping out into the hall, sending him crashing back down to the ground. 

Formerly-sleeping minion rolls out of bed and charges for the door, cursing when he finds himself locked in. He starts tugging and pushing on it to try to get it to open. 

TV-minion goes rushing for the basement stairs. 

"Minions are aware." Percy warns in a hushed but worried tone.

Sawney, Franklyn and Aaron follow right after James.

Well, that is escalating, so Stephen-4 pops into existence. And the invisibility of original flavor Stephen pops. Oh, well, they make a collective effort to drag Davin away from the door and close it.

They have a fight on their hands, but they manage it just as TV minion gets down the stairs. Once the door is closed and locked there's a pause, and then the door shakes as the minion kicks it. 

"-that door's meant to keep people in, not out," Davin mentions breathlessly from where he's pinned to the ground. 

"Too bad for them."

Formerly-sleeping minion finally manages to get the door to the temporary bedroom open just as Jamie, Aaron, Franklyn, and Sawney reach the basement. 

Jamie reaches out and tugs the air from his lungs, wincing at the strain, sending the man to his knees as he gasps ineffectually. The other one stops trying to get through the torture room door to turn and face the four of them. 

Sawney approaches the one with air being drawn from his lungs and says. "Don't do anything."

Aaron lunges at basement door minion his open hands sparking with electricity.

Basement door minion pulls back out of Aaron's reach and tries to sweep his feet out from under him, eyeing his sparking hands with wide, wary eyes.

Jamie stops pulling the air back, continuing towards the door. The minion stays where he is, as Sawney ordered.

Cute. Aaron just jumps over the feet, like this is a coordinated dance. Then he makes contact with the minion.

And down he goes, with a strangled shout. 

"Don't do anything." Sawney repeats.

"We have subdued them."

A Stephen opens the door.

Jamie pushes inside, stopping in his tracks when he sees Alex, and then Davin. 

He kind of can't breathe.

One of the Stephens had managed to get the syringe into Davin while they had him pinned to the ground. He's still conscious, of course - the point of the cocktail is to keep the drugged one awake, capable of feeling all physical sensation as normal - perhaps even heightened - but unable to focus on anything for more than a moment. He stares at nothing, twitching occasionally when someone moves in his line of vision.