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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[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?"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi had a rattlesnake in a force bubble when Ryan landed next to him. He pitched it out into the desert and stopped concentrating so the snake would be out of the way.

"So it fell into place hard, but possibly not from space? I'd expect a crater from a huge impact." He scratched his cheek. "And they're inside do the scientific thing. All we have are crabby reptiles."

[innameof]

Griffin finds it odd that he can't detect anything outside. He takes more scans of the metal wanting to see if it was something he could study in more depth at the lab.

His mind is lost in the possibilities at the moment.

[clobberin_kid]

For his part, Jacob just stayed close to Alexa like he was told. The egg-heads were the ones who were necessary here... figuring out alien technology and crap. He was on standby until something appeared that needed hitting.

[soulstealingstark]

And Alexa just barges inside, looking at the bisecting wall with the opening.

"Well, I don't know about anyone else but this looks like a doorway so I'm gonna go through it. Might be neat."

[ngm_ff]

Once all those inside the structure were distracted with readings, options, or keeping an eye on the redhead, the door to the outside slammed shut. The doorway immediately seemed to melt and solidify, making it seem like there had been no doorway there at all.

[realstarpower]

Ryan turned towards the sound of a door slamming shut.

"Uh. What was that?"

[stormy_skrull]

"Nothing good," Mary said. She banged the detector again. "Why. Isn't. This. Thing. Working?!"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi turned with Ryan. His eyebrows knit together as he approached the structure. "There was a door here, right?"

He rapped his knuckles lightly against the wall where the door had been. He got back the solid sound of metal. He was getting a sinking feeling.

[innameof]

Griffin looks up and frowns softly.

"We have a problem." Way to state the obvious.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob whirled around at the sound and his jaw dropped open when he saw the blank wall where the door once had been. Nothing good could come of this development. "Mary, move."

He waited until she'd stepped aside and then lowered a shoulder to charge the door, battering ram-style.

[ngm_ff]

On the inside of the building, the team got a nice CLONG from Jacob hitting the wall and bouncing off it. The wall looked unscathed from the impact.

Alexa, being on the other side of the wall, was not affected the floor starting to rise and tilt toward toward the opening the redhead just went through.

To make matters even more interesting, the wall Jacob just tried to ram through started to move forward. It moved at a slow yet relentless pace and would smash anyone who stayed in the room.

On the outside, the pair of blondes would be treated to the sounds of nothing coming from the giant metal structure in the desert.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa heard the Jacob-sourced noise and turned around to try to sort out what was going on. She looked back out the opening she had passed through.

"I take it that didn't work so well."

[innameof]

"No. And something isn't right.... I say we take a note from Doctor Who."

He pauses a beat. No one is running yet?

"RUN!" And he runs!

[stormy_skrull]

"Fleeing!" Mary transformed into a humming bird, zipping ahead of the others.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob leaned against the wall, trying to slow it while the others fled. Once the room was clear, he followed after them. Damn it. Of all the times to spring a booby trap.

"We're gonna have to find another way out. There's no way we're getting back through that way."

[aqua_gambit]

Remi learned punching the side of the building made his knuckles hurt. Possibly because he did it about ten times. He shook his hand and glanced around.

"Ryan, check around the sides for openings. I'll check up top."

With that, Remi was airborne and scouting out the roof for an opening, a seam to tear, or any other way to get inside.

[realstarpower]

Ryan nodded and stared moving around the area, checking the walls, trying to find something.

He started with the area where he was sure the door had been, and then started moving counter-clockwise.

There had to be a way in somehow, right?

[ngm_ff]

Once everyone was relatively safe on the other side of the wall, they could watch as the far wall settled right against the opening. There was a momentary metallic shriek.

What followed happened all at once.

The metal facade on the walls fell away, revealing massive glass panels with bright orange gas that detected as hydrogen cyanide mixed with other deadly chemicals.

The thin metal plates on the ceiling above them pulled into the walls to reveal a thin membrane of glass. The glass was supporting glowing, light blue goo that detected as highly acidic.

The blocked doorway turned into a large panel giving read-outs on the various systems ready to trip if anyone tried to leave the room. Though there was a head-sized spot where the Imaginauts could peer through to the other room.

If they looked, they would see control panels had raised out of the floor and the door back outside reopened.

[stormy_skrull]

"This..." Mary said, still a humming bird and landing on Griffen's shoulder, "is all kinds of not good."

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa remained weirdly calm. She sat on the floor and started emptying her pockets wordlessly.