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]

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!"

[stormy_skrull]

Okay, why couldn't she hear them? 'cause she could see them.

"Get us out of here! There's deathy-stuff in here!"

[soulstealingstark]

"We can't hear them because of the acoustical design of this place."

With her pockets now empty Alexa stood up and pinged a small metal object not unlike a tire gauge against one of the walls. The sound vibrated out but no echo returned.

"Sound goes out but does not come back. The cycle is broken. We are in a very distinctly separate area in this structure and it appears to be rigged against physical attempt at escape. Which means we have to rely on technology. Griffin, do we have anything that might help us look for alternative power sources?"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi glanced around at the technological machines in between him and the far wall. He didn't see a big, red button that said 'Push For Safe Exit.' He scratched his head to distract himself from the worry simmering in his gut.

He approached the small window Ryan had pointed out. That he could only see Mary and Jacob did not set him at ease. Thankfully, he heard Alexa in the background with technical jargon a-flowing.

He looked around for some sort of seam to take advantage of. "Okay. Lift the wall or punch the window?"

He had to ask because there had to be a reason Jacob wasn't punching his way out of there.

[innameof]

"Hold on. Re-adjusting the interface on my gauntlets. I can start scanning for another energy source right... now." The gauntlet takes on a bright orange glow.

"I'm picking up different wave lengths. Some of them don't appear very strong.... Re-calibrating again."

They should be able to find something.

[realstarpower]

"Hold on," Ryan said, stepping back. The glow that encased his hands surrounded his own body, and then spread out to cover the wall in front of them. If there were any hidden seams, any little cracks that they could use, the light would pool into that area, illuminating in, and giving it a way in.

Except he couldn't see anything of the sort.

He frowned.

"That's...not good."

[clobberin_kid]

"Crap. They do not look encouraged." Jacob wasn't either, to be honest. He didn't understand half of what Alexa and Griffin were saying and if technobabble was their key to getting out, Remi and Ryan were... not the guys for the job, really.

[soulstealingstark]

"Keep trying. I have a small arc reactor we might be able to somehow rig to override the power source once we figure out what and where it is." She looked around again. Maybe she could construct some sort of protective gear...

[stormy_skrull]

Mary was, in her own way, actually rather intelligent. She knew her way around just about any kind of engine, and had a whole heap of biology. But Griff and Alexa were the real eggheads and she was out of her depth here.

She resumed her Skrull form. "There has to be a way out. All death traps have a way out. It's villain cliche number two, right after the monologue."