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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[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.

[clobberin_kid]

"Ooookay, we're definitely not getting out through the walls." Oh wow, this was not good. Jacob... really didn't know what to do here. His skillset largely consisted of breaking things that were in his way. This was going to require a more precise touch.

[innameof]

"Oh shit. Oh shit." They're going to die.

"This is.... QUICK! What do we have in our pockets?"

[aqua_gambit]

When Remi came down from inspecting the roof to meet up with Ryan, he was not happy. He hadn't found a way in.

And then there was a door back where it was supposed to be.

"What in Davy Jones' locker?" Sometimes the nautical slipped out. He stepped over to the doorway and stuck his head in.

"And where'd everybody go?"

[realstarpower]

"Dude!" Ryan placed a hand on Remi's shoulder. "Maybe you shouldn't do that. In case the building decides to behead you." After a beat, he added, "I don't...know?"

[ngm_ff]

For any of the trapped Imaginauts that looked out the small window in the doorway, they could see the Atlantean and Ryan. However, they can't hear the duo.

[stormy_skrull]

"It's Remi and Ryan!" Mary shouted. "Hey! Hey guys! Get us out of here!"

[innameof]

Griffin is checking his pockets for useful things. He has six paper clips, a stick of glue, a small spiral note book that appears to be half used, a laser pointer and a few other odds and ends.

Oh yes and a light saber. A small one.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob joined Mary over by the window to look out at Remi and Ryan. It occurred to him, then, that if the eggheads in here couldn't get them out, they'd have to rely on Remi and Ryan.

His brother who often lost battles with simple machines like toasters...

Yeah, they were so screwed.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi was not remotely worried about being beheaded. This was not a peasant revolution. It was instead a giant space mystery box.

He blinked at the ceiling where Mary's voice seemed to be piped through a speaker. He stepped fully into the building.

"Mary? Imaginauts, where are you?" From Remi's position, he couldn't see the small window in the wall across the room.

[realstarpower]

Ryan hesitantly followed Remi into the room. He looked around the room, brow furrowed. He spread his hands out and let some cosmic energy spring to life around them. He started shining light into the darker corners of the room, and saw something glint back at him.

"Uh. Remi?" Ryan walked over to the tiny little window and saw Mary and Jacob staring back at him.

He grinned and waved at them, excitedly. "I found them!"