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I got another idea for a story in my short story series where my friends and I are characters:

Enrique, a friend introduced in the first story, sends my character to break one of his comrades, Daniel, out of some sort of prison. Once my character gets through the guards and whatever else is blocking his path and frees Daniel, they must both fight their way out of the prison (or wherever they are).

I don't know why Daniel is in prison in the first place. Daniel and my character have several disputes upon their initial meeting, but my character learns that Daniel is not only a useful ally but a great friend.

I'm considering including some sort of conspiracy about the prison unit, but I'm not quite sure what it should be.

I'm not quite sure what your question is, to be honest. It doesn't look like much of a plot yet, and I really can't tell you how to write your story. You have to figure this out for yourself.

I do have a few questions to get the creative process going for you, though.
Why was your character sent to break Daniel out of prison? Is Daniel guilty of his crime? Innocent? If innocent is the answer, why was he convicted? Do they escape from the prison or are they captured and imprisoned? Why do they have disputes? Why does your character think it's a good idea to break Daniel out? Once/If they break out, what do they do? What are they allied against? Where does Enrique fit into all this?

Answer these questions for yourself. Flesh out your plot and figure out the answers. Ask yourself new questions. You'll figure it out.

It sounds like the only thing you know you want is a scene where your guys are escaping from a prison. You want a prison break.

As Spark said, I'd figure out everything about your plot and characters. A lot of the time it doesn't make sense to put your characters into situations that are only there because you want them to be. It needs to fit into everything.

I'm going to second Spark and Birk on this one -- all we have right now is that you want a prison break. It sounds like that's all you really have, too.

You have your basic characters with Daniel and Enrique, but you don't even know why Daniel is imprisoned in the first place. While you could figure it out as you go along, it might give you a better idea of his character and the world he's living in.

On that note: What about the setting? Is it an oppressive totalitarian regime, a theocracy, a holy monarchy, a loosely socialist nation...? All of these things would affect how your prison is guarded, how well the security would work overall, the reasons for imprisonment, a lot of elements you would need to know in order to write the story with any sense of scale.

You have an idea there, but it needs a little bit of expansion so you know why that idea is there and how it came to be -- because all these things in that world's history led up to them imprisoning Daniel, and Daniel's prospective prison break will further affect the world around him. Stories don't happen in a vacuum.