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 cursed and threw up a shield of cosmic energy around himself and Remi, his eyes darting around, trying to figure out where the hell the sound was coming from.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary thought for a second. "Got it," she said, starting to shift, until she had become a small, alien spider of some type. Falling as she did so, she landed on Alexa's hand.

Carefully, she began to excrete a clear, but strong webbing to hold the bits together.

[innameof]

"You're wonderful," he tells Mary as he adjusts things just a bit.

He is pleased with how things are looking so far. Then he decides he should always carry extra things like paperclips just in case they need them. It's good stuff. He makes a few adjustments quickly then looks at Alexa and nods.

They are good to go.

[clobberin_kid]

"I've got all kinds of cracking going on here, guys. We need an exit like now." Speaking of cracking... his reflection was definitely starting to weird him out. What was worse was that he was becoming sorely tempted to stick his tongue out right back.

He glanced back at them and then at the Mary-spider. "Can you, very gently, stick some of that on this glass? Keep it from breaking any further?"

[aqua_gambit]

Remi was extremely intent on the control panel. His jaw was clenched tight enough he could chew marbles. They just needed to tell him what to do. Then this simpleton could get his team out of the building.

[soulstealingstark]

"Yeah, this is perfect. Okay. Let's turn it on." Using the tiny-size arc reactor she had fashioned out of Griffin's light saber thing and the guts of her cell phone Alexa powered their homegrown device. It sparked blue and then settled into a steady glow one shade lighter. It was perfect and performing normally. She made sure it was positioned close enough to the barrier between them and Remi and Ryan to be effective.

"Okay guys, we're ready to start pushing buttons. There are three red switches going across the top of the console. I want you to flip them in a one, three, two pattern." She paused. "By that I mean flip the first one, skip the second, then flip the third and go back and flip the middle one. Okay?"

[realstarpower]

Ryan nodded and did so, without saying a word.

[ngm_ff]

"Oh! You know what would be fun? If by saving yourselves, you doomed the two men trying to save you! Let's watch and find out how that goes."

Jacob's reflection started to do a strip tease. Considering what Jacob wore himself, there wasn't much to strip off. But if you hummed along, you could pick up the beat the white pants were slowly sinking to.

From the speakers next to Ryan, the Friday the 13th theme started playing.

[innameof]

"I will enjoy hitting this man so much." At least his little lightsabre thing had died for a good cause. The power source was useful and the other pieces in it are very handy.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi glanced over his shoulder at the door. He made force field constructs to keep it open. He turned back to the panel, nodded tersely, and did as he was told.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary leaped from Alexa's hand to Jacob's shoulder, and with Griff's compliment, she'd be blushing if she was in humanoid shape.

Instead, she concentrated on trying to seal the crack. Or she did. Until she saw what Jacob's reflection was doing.

"My eyes!"

[clobberin_kid]

"Now's not the time, Mary." Jacob groused, glad he couldn't blush with his stony complexion. Dude! Some things were private! He glared at his reflection and hoped Alexa and Griffin got the damn door open soon.

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa breathed a sigh of something akin to relief when the first sequence of actions didn't destroy them all. That was positive. She looked again at the drawing in front of her.

"Now hit the blue button and turn the knob on the right to the left until you reach the third hash mark on the dial. Griff, when they do that I want you to max the power."

[realstarpower]

Ryan was staring at the direction from where the music was playing. "Uh. Sure," he said, still following orders.

[innameof]

"Of curse," Griffin says seriously. They needed to not kill each other. He knew that he could trust the others. Himself?

Oh god his hands are sweating but as soon as they do that thing he will do his thing.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi grabbed the side of the control panel to keep him on task. His fingers made indentations on the underside as he did as Alexa instructed him.

Get them out. That was all that mattered at the moment. Despite the many jabs to his pride.

[stormy_skrull]

"I am never going to be able to unsee that," Mary groaned. "Uh... no offense, Jacob."

[clobberin_kid]

"Don't make me swat you," Jacob warned Mary. He turned away from the reflection and looked over to Alexa and Griffin. It sounded like they were making progress, but he didn't know if they were making it fast enough.

He turned to look out the window at his brother and Remi. "They can do this. They can definitely do this."

They kind of had to.

[ngm_ff]

While Mary was fixing the cracks over the reflected Jacob's crack, one of the glass panels on the right hand wall fell to the floor with a crash. The noxious orange gas hung in the air for a moment and slowly started to spread into the room.

The music playing right next to Ryan went from Friday the 13th to a more dissonant piece. The volume was also turned up to make harder to ignore.

[soulstealingstark]

"Juice it!" Alexa yelled when the glass panels crashed to the floor. She looked at the orange gas and then yelled again.

"Shirts over faces if you've got 'em, don't breathe deeply, someone throw Jacob a sock or something and for the love of the goonies GET ON THE GROUND." The gas, while spreading, appeared to be a bit light...which meant the good air would be on the floor at least for a little while. It would buy them some time.

She hoped it would be enough.

[innameof]

"You heard her," Griffin barks climbing to the floor.

He puts it on full power and prays no one dies as he tugs his shirt over his mouth to filter the gas if he has to.

[ngm_ff]

The scientific gambit Alexa and Griffin were testing worked! In a fashion.

The wall they were stuck behind began slowly rising.

Meanwhile the doorway out tried to come down but found invisible force fields blocking its downward motion.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary dropped to the ground, transforming back to her Skrull form as she did so, pulling the tunic of her unstable molecule shirt up over her mouth and nose.

"I could... probably squeeze out of that..."

[aqua_gambit]

"Alexa!" The sound of the breaking glass had made Remi's heart sink. They'd done everything right...

... though he had no time to dwell on it as something pushed against his shields holding the door open. He glanced at the wall everyone but Ryan was behind. He didn't like it's slow pace.

"Ryan, use your shields to hold the door out open. Then get on the other side of it. I'll make sure the others get out and follow right behind." He stepped up to the rising wall and crouched down to slide his fingers underneath. He wasn't nearly as strong as Jacob. He knew he was half of everything his father was, but he had to get Alexa and the baby out.

He stopped holding his force field to keep the door out open. Instead, he had his shields go on the inside of the wall he was going to lift. He could contain anything he triggered. He had to.

One deep breath in and Remi was desperately pulling up to speed the wall's ascent.

[soulstealingstark]

"Go for it Mary! Once you're out you can help Remi and Ryan get everyone else out."

Alexa kept an eye on their device, making sure it continued the high level of energy output. It just had to work long enough to get them out. Mary first, then Griffin or Jacob if they could manage it. Warily, Alexa kept an eye on the gas. It was making her eyes sting.