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]

"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.

[realstarpower]

"On it!" Ryan replied, doing exactly as he was told. He worked quickly, sparkling energy pouring forth from his fingertips. It wasn't difficult, holding the door and getting to the other side of it.

The more difficult part would be keeping it open until the others could get out.

[innameof]

"Alexa. Give me the device, I'll go last," Griffin orders her sounding tense.

"You and the baby need to get away from this." He is pretty adamant on this right now.

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob hurried over to the wall when it began to rise. He held his breath and reached down to slide his fingers under the bottom edge and help Remi pull the wall up. He had to trust that Mary, Alexa, and Griffin would be close by to get out as fast as they could.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary really didn't like the idea of Griff being last out. But he had a point. Getting Alexa and the baby out took priority over anything else.

She nodded, and altered her shape again, retaining the same basic form, but pressed nearly so flat as to be too dimensional. From there, it was easy to stretch and slide through the small space.

[ngm_ff]

The wall started to rise faster with the added strength of an Atlantean behind it. Though the lifting did have a price. The glass shattered along that wall.

The swirling, orange gas did not get to escape however as it met with Remi's invisible shield containing it.

The door to the outside started pressing hard against Ryan's shields to trap to trap most of the Imaginauts inside.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi grunted as he pulled up harder to get the point where he could start pushing up. He tried not to step on the green and white plane of teammate near his feet.

"Mary. Out," he grunted as he lifted the wall higher. "Ryan's. Holding. The. Door."

He decided the next time he decided some lift and shielding was needed, he was going to have the Grimm brothers do it. He could ignore the bickering.

[realstarpower]

Ryan struggled against the door, his forehead breaking out into sweat. "Guys," he said, straining, "hurry!"

[soulstealingstark]

Alexa started to argue with Griffin but quickly realized that this was just not the time.

"You'd better hurry or I will come back in here and kick your ass before dragging you out," she said and pseudo-army crawled her way to the door, wiggling her way out when room was available.

[innameof]

"Of course," Griffin agrees seriously. He just has to be sure they will all get out safely.

He is making sure everything is going exactly as they need it to and then he crawls towards the door still planning on getting out last. He just needs to be closer in vase things go wrong.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary pulled the rest of herself through, assuming her normal form. "C'mon... c'mon..."

[clobberin_kid]

The door was high enough now that Jacob could have ducked under and gotten out, but he didn't let go yet. He looked over to Griffin and gestured to the door. "Move it, let's go."

If he had to let go of the door to grab Griffin, he was going to be really unhappy.