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 went a little limb as Jacob yanked him along. He was kind of the last one out. Or tried to be so no one else had to explain things to the hormonal redhead.

When the ground rumbled under his tired feet, he tried to yank his arm out of Jacob's grasp. He glanced back at the building of death they had just gotten out of.

"Mone defoncer," he muttered to himself. "Everyone get behind the police cordon! Ryan, be ready to back up my shields!"

The Atlantean kept moving toward the cordon. He didn't know how much more he could stretch his shield strength, but he was going to try to keep this contained. From a safer distance.

[realstarpower]

Ryan could help with that - and was.

He shot a worried look to his teammates friends and brother.

"That could've been us," he said softly.

Damn, that was close.

[stormy_skrull]

"We're ALIVE!" Mary screamed. "ALIVE! Not dead! Yay!"

She spun and faced Griffin. "And if I ever hear you pull that "I'm going last" thing again..."

[clobberin_kid]

Jacob let go of Remi when he pulled away. It wasn't a big deal now that they were out of the death trap. Ryan was the one who could help now, not him.

He frowned a little, watching the building shake. His fists clenched and he looked down at his enormous, rocky fingers. No good for this sort of thing... when finicky little buttons and circuits needed to be manipulated. Even if he'd known what to do, he couldn't have pulled it off.

[soulstealingstark]

"Guys, we can celebrate and argue when this is over...that thing's gonna blow!" Alexa watched and worried as Remi prepare for doom.

[aqua_gambit]

When the explosion came, Remi had to stop moving toward the cordon and turn around. He placed his hands on his straining shields. He tried to will strength he did not have.

"Ryan, mine are failing," Remi shouted over his shoulder with a small edge of panic creeping in. "Jacob, cover-"

The shield breached right in front of Remi. He was sent flying over the cordon.

[realstarpower]

As soon as Remi called out to him, Ryan threw his shields up, worry marking his face as he did so.

"Someone catch him!"

[stormy_skrull]

Mary tried to get under where he would land, expanding herself out into a big, squishy bag, like those stuntmen used.

[clobberin_kid]

Remi hadn't finished his order, but Jacob had a pretty good idea of where he was going with it. He'd heard about a hundred different iterations of 'Look out for Alexa' on this mission. He was just going to err on the side of caution and assume that was what the boss man was going for.

He stepped over to the redhead and put his rocky bulk between her and the explosion, arms carefully around her. Jacob trusted his brother's shields, but he wasn't sure what their limit was. Hopefully they wouldn't have to find out.

[soulstealingstark]

"I swear I have ended had more quality rock time than Sisyphus ever did.." Alexa grumbled but let Jacob essentially rock-hug her. "You're lucky you're cute."

She closed her eyes and hoped that when she opened them Jacob wouldn't be pebbles and Remi wouldn't be an Atlantean smear.

[ngm_ff]

Ryan's shields held against the explosive onslaught. It was over quickly until what was left of the building was smoldering.

[aqua_gambit]

Remi's landing was softer and greener than he expected. He did hiss a little though. Explosions usually meant heat, and his Atlantean physiology did not take kindly to heat. He supposed he should try to get to his feet.

Instead, Remi just laid there blinking at the sky.

[stormy_skrull]

"Oooomph!" Mary let out a breath, the impact great, even though she'd prepped for it. "You gotta lay off the calamari, Remi."

[soulstealingstark]

"Ugh, calamari," Alexa looked a little green at the thought and swallowed hard before moving away from her rocky protector to drag Remi off of Mary if need be.

[innameof]

"Well that was bracing."

Someone should tell Griffin his lab coat is on fire. He's in shock so he doesn't really notice right away.

[clobberin_kid]

Here, Griffen. Have a massive, rocky hand patting at your back. Don't worry... FF health insurance totally covers chiropractor visits.

"Easy there, smokey."

[aqua_gambit]

"Unf," was about all the reply he had to Mary's quip. He rolled off his teammate, but he didn't quite manage his feet. He was a little dizzy and crispy. He did manage to stay on his knees at least.

"Jacob," he managed. "Take over."

There were probably local constables to get things squared away with. Someone who could probably think straight and not continually say 'I hate the desert' would probably be needed. Also, it would be Jacob's call when the team would wrap it up and head back to base.

[stormy_skrull]

Mary shifted back into her normal shape. "Anybody got any water? I think he needs it..."

"Well... guess we did all right," she said. "Not dead, anyway."