I'm Setting Booty Traps.

[ngm_miscellaneous]

In the desert outside of Sedona, Arizona a large, metallic structure appeared after an evening of strange lights swooping and whirling around in the skies. A couple locals went into the one story structure to check it out. Their truck was still sitting outside of the strange building a day later. The police were called in. The local sheriff didn't trust the federal government, but he knew superheroes could probably handle whatever this thing was.

He put in a call to the Future Foundation. Then he sat back and waited. Also, he kept an eye on making sure no one else did something dumb like go into that thing like Larry and Daryl.

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[aqua_gambit]

When Remi got the call to assemble the field team, he was certain Alexa would have liked it to have happened 15 minutes later. Though he did get a team assembled to fly across the country to this alien building. Once there, he introduced himself and his team to the local law enforcement.

When they were past the cordon, he turned to the team. "Ryan, get into the air, see if there's anything the locals missed. Circle out about a mile and come back. I'll check around the immediate premises. The rest of you work your way inside, and be careful. Two people have already disappeared inside it."

He glanced toward Jacob, mostly to make sure the big guy kept an eye on the hot redhead scientist with them.

[realstarpower]

"Ever notice how the weird stuff always happens either out in the desert or in New York City?" Ryan asked. "I sometimes wonder if Cairo or Mexico City feels left out, because they're not special enough to get attacked." He lifted himself up into the air, a shimmering purple aura surrounding his lean, toned form. "Be back in a couple, Remi," he grinned and was off.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary peered at the structure. "Definitely never seen anything like this before..."

She checked the device she was carrying. "The detector isn't going ding, so I don't think there's stuff. Or at least, not stuff it was designed to scan for."

[innameof]

"Jacob.... I respect you more and more. You're a very.... chill guy." It was the best way to put it. He is activating his shield before they go in and had a few tools for scanning out.

"This shouldn't be too difficult."

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob flashed Remi a thumbs up and nodded. He had the hot scientist in sight at all times. Not difficult to do, really. Griffin's comment made him blink, he didn't feel any more chill than usual, but that was nice to hear, he supposed. "Thanks, dude."

He headed inside, making sure to keep Alexa in his sights.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa was already irritated that they had been called out during a very private moment so caution wasn't really at the fore of her mind. When the others headed in to the structure Alexa hurried right on in, pushing past Jacob if need to, grumbling the whole way.

[ngm_ff]

Ryan could see from his flight around that there were some cracks on the ground that spread out. Like the structure had made an impact, but not large enough to make a crater.

Remi's scouting brought up nothing more dangerous in the immediate area than a disturbed rattlesnake.

For those that went inside, they found a large cavernous one story structure. The interior was all smooth metal. The large space was bisected by a large wall with an opening in the center.

The readings on the metal confirmed that it was not terrestrial in origin and not of any known alien metals the Future Foundation had come across. Though now that Imaginauts were inside, the scanners could not detect anything outside the building.

There was something of terrestrial origin on the far side of the building, beyond the opening in the wall.

[realstarpower]

Ryan came down towards Remi. "It's like a bunch of cracks on the ground, Remi," Ryan said, touching down on the ground. "Like a starburst pattern of cracks coming out from underneath the structure." He looked around for a second. "Where's everyone else?"

[stormy_skrull]

Mary gave the side of the detector a good smack. "Stupid thing. Whatta ya mean there's nothing outside?"

[ngm_ff]

Ryan's attempt at helping Remi find a weakness netted him nothing. However, some of the work stations in the room with the blond duo hummed to life.

The readings on Griffin's gauntlets could only find very weak and intermittent energy to tap into. Most of the energy he could find that might have been usable was on the other side of the glass panes holding the gas in the walls and acidic goo on the ceiling. There was some energy under their feet, but there were readings down there of the same concentrated acid that was above their heads above the energy.

A voice coming from speakers set into the floor at the far wall started up. "Welcome, welcome trapped Future Foundationites. Hopefully, you'll be more entertaining than the brothers dumb who are nothing but residue over on the floor here."

[realstarpower]

"Uh, we prefer being called the Imaginauts, Mister Disembodied Voice Ma - did you say ...wait, what?" Ryan blinked and looked back down on the floor. "Oh god. Oh god, Remi. This is it." He turned back to Remi. "They turned Saw into a reality show, and we're the guinea pigs!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi's eyes widened at the hysteria behind him. The Atlantean turned on Ryan.

"You will keep calm," he ordered. "If you panic or do not think your actions all the way through and Alexa or the baby she's carrying gets hurt, you will regret it."

There was an idea to take Ryan down to the crushing depths and watch him implode. It took Remi a second to remember to add on: "Or your brother. Or the other two. Because they're the ones in danger. We have an exit."

He nodded toward the still wide open doorway.

[clobberin_kid]

"I don't want to sit through a monologue." Jacob grumbled, still looking out the window at Remi and Ryan. Something his brother said or did must have ticked off the Atlantean. Remi was glaring daggers at him.

[innameof]

".....Great. So someone doesn't like us and wants to torture us," he mumbles. The readings indicated he could do next to nothing with the energy in here.

[realstarpower]

"Alright, yeesh." Ryan replied. "Forgive a guy for having emotions and reacting like a normal dude," he added. "So what now, oh great Imperius Vex?"

[aqua_gambit]

"We aren't normal, Ryan. We don't have that luxury." Remi shook his head and went back to the window. He tapped carefully on it with his knuckle.

"We can hear them. Maybe they can help us with using those machines to get them out of there." Once the Atlantean had someone's attention, he gestured to the metallic consoles behind him to see if anybody had an idea what to do with them.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary couldn't hear the tapping, but she was watching Remi and Ryan carefully.

"Eh? What?"

[ngm_ff]

As the Imaginauts scrambled out of the death trap, the ground under their feet rumbled. Mostly because the alien structure itself shook. A self-destruct sequence had been activated.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi went a little limb as Jacob yanked him along. He was kind of the last one out. Or tried to be so no one else had to explain things to the hormonal redhead.

When the ground rumbled under his tired feet, he tried to yank his arm out of Jacob's grasp. He glanced back at the building of death they had just gotten out of.

"Mone defoncer," he muttered to himself. "Everyone get behind the police cordon! Ryan, be ready to back up my shields!"

The Atlantean kept moving toward the cordon. He didn't know how much more he could stretch his shield strength, but he was going to try to keep this contained. From a safer distance.

[realstarpower]

Ryan could help with that - and was.

He shot a worried look to his teammates friends and brother.

"That could've been us," he said softly.

Damn, that was close.

[stormy_skrull]

"We're ALIVE!" Mary screamed. "ALIVE! Not dead! Yay!"

She spun and faced Griffin. "And if I ever hear you pull that "I'm going last" thing again..."

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob let go of Remi when he pulled away. It wasn't a big deal now that they were out of the death trap. Ryan was the one who could help now, not him.

He frowned a little, watching the building shake. His fists clenched and he looked down at his enormous, rocky fingers. No good for this sort of thing... when finicky little buttons and circuits needed to be manipulated. Even if he'd known what to do, he couldn't have pulled it off.

[soulstealingstark]

"Guys, we can celebrate and argue when this is over...that thing's gonna blow!" Alexa watched and worried as Remi prepare for doom.

[aqua_gambit]

When the explosion came, Remi had to stop moving toward the cordon and turn around. He placed his hands on his straining shields. He tried to will strength he did not have.

"Ryan, mine are failing," Remi shouted over his shoulder with a small edge of panic creeping in. "Jacob, cover-"

The shield breached right in front of Remi. He was sent flying over the cordon.

[realstarpower]

As soon as Remi called out to him, Ryan threw his shields up, worry marking his face as he did so.

"Someone catch him!"