The Diffrent Ways of Coming Into A Room
‘’Where here so what’s our next move?’’
‘’Our next move is breaking into a government facility of course’’
Now inside a rundown motel room the young heroes sat in a circle eating some chinese food from a restaurant just around the corner from the cheap motel. After the amount of time spent in the aircraft the group was tired, extremely jetlagged, and hungry. After they had gotten off they had taken a taxi to the outskirts of Washington D.C; Cassie had suggested a hotel that her and her mom frequented when they found themselves in the Capital.
As the taxi entered the avenue it was on, it was clear that its counterpart in this Universe was a far cry from the four stars hotel that it was back home. Having no knowledge of their surroundings and limited money they paid the taxi driver and reluctantly walked towards the front desk. They were met by a short, plump,brown-haired woman who introduced herself as Dawn, the owner of the motel. After a bit of small talk she gave them the only room she had left; the room contained two queen sized beds, a boxed tv, a bathroom, and an amazing view of the corner of the street below where there were a handful of prostitutes and drug addicts posted.
Eating their chinese food as they talked about light hearted things that were going on in their lives, the conversation turned into a more serious one with Cassie’s question. Tim explained the plan he had come up with during the duration of the flight.
First, he explained the details he had gotten from the computer search, next, he explained that they would have to go classic,old style cat burglary. This meant they would have to get black clothing and something to cover their faces, they would have to sneak in at the drop of night, make their way to where the gun portal thing was being stored, take it and go home.
All aware of the plan and done eating they decided to take shifts sleeping, it was likely that nothing would happen but Tim had been trained by the world's greatest detective and taught to never let his guard down especially in an unknown location. Some would call it paranoia; he would call it being prepared. Cassie and Bart were the first to take a nap while Kon and Tim stayed awake.
Tim sat on the floor in front of the boxed T.V admiring such vintage technological pieces of equipment; he was exaggerating of course but even though these types of T.V's weren't extinct, it was still rare to find one in good condition. As both teens mindlessly turned through the channels they stopped at what appeared to be a local news channel.
“-you Ryder. As you can see I'm standing at the site of destruction that was caused during a fight against some of the X-Men and Bolivar Trask's sentinels. Now there-” the blonde caucasian reporter said as she stepped around uneven terrain.”Bolivar Trask that's the guy we're going to be stealing from” said Tim not taking his eyes off the news. “He's the one that made the portal thingy?” Asked Kon looking towards Tim. “No, some other guy made it, he just..I guess keeps it safe” responded Tim shrugging .
“I wonder who these x-men are? “ Tim asked aloud, focusing on the news in case they answered his question;but the universe was that good to him, meaning he didn't get his answer but he did learn that people had mixed feelings on this x-men.
”-they should get fixed. They are sick individuals, ” a red head woman had said.
”-they saved my life, they're true heroes” a curled black head woman had said.
“-Well folks that's all by my end. Betty Blair signing off “.
After the women had signed off they stayed on the channel a few seconds before switching it to ‘Love,Lucy’. Kon and Tim were sitting next to each other both immersed on the T.V; each passing moment their hands inched closer to the other both faintly touching. Both frozen, they continued to watch the show ignoring their hands, they stayed that way during the rest of their shift until Cassie and Bart awoke and beckoned them to take a nap.
After a well deserved nap,Tim was up and planning. While Kon and Bart had gone out during the break of daylight to buy them breakfast Tim and Cassie went through their alternative selfs bags to find any type of black clothing. Luckily they were able to miss and match different clothing garments saving them a lot of money and time they would have otherwise had to spend trying to buy and find a bugler's outfit.
‘’So how Steph? Haven't seen her for a while.” Said Cassie trying to fill the void of silent awkwardness. “She's good, she's just been too busy with some cases. So she hasn't had time to visit but she should be coming to the tower next weekend.” responded Tim as he folded the black clothes.
After that they turned to meaningless conversations mostly about how the other was doing. They hadn't seen each other in a while with Tim stuck in Gotham working an Anarky case, and Cassie busy tracking down Circe, they hadn't had much time to talk.
‘Maybe this was some kinda messed up blessing from the gods’ Cassie had taught, she had been planning on calling all three of them up for a little road trip through route 66 before spring break ended. I mean don’t get Cassie wrong she loved the rest of her teammates, Greta,Anita,Jaime,Virgil,and Cissie, they were her family but sometimes she missed when it was only the four of them. So when she found out that the four of them were the only ones to have been transported to a new dimension she had found it kinda fitting.
After a while of doing nothing Bart and Kon finally showed up with a bag full of four breakfast lunches and four medium size orange juices. Even though Cassie would have preferred a coffee and she knew Tim too, they both drank their juices with gratefulness ‘’Beggars can't be choosers’’ Tim had said when Kon handed him his food and drink. They all sat down on the pair of twin beds as they began eating.Tim was sitting down by the headboard on one of the beds while Kon sat by the end of it while Cassie and Bart sat on the opposite bed on the edge and middle of the bed.
As all four of them eat their breakfast Bart rushed towards the T.V turning it on and grabbing the remote before coming back to his spot. Switching to through channels rapidly until Cassie pointed at the T.V ‘’Wait, Bart go back’’ going back a channel there was a man with deep hazel narrow eyes, who sat in an orange faded egged shaped chair position in the middle of two oranged red armchairs. On the chair to his right was a heart-shaped faced woman, she wore a white peasant blouse that contained embroidered flower detailing,her arms were crossed and brown eyes narrowed.
Across from her sat a middle to late age man, he wore a black suit jacket with a white dress shirt underneath, and a red and blue polka dot tie on top. ‘’-Trask how do you respond to the concern of people that the sentinels you created can affect the good work of the x-men?’’ said the hazel eyed man, rotating his chair towards the other man.
As the camera zoomed toward the man a title card on the bottom of the screen appeared ‘Dr.Bolivar Trask’ it read in red letters on top of the faded blue card. ‘’Well, Mr. Chance the public already knows how I feel towards the X-men so it will come to no surprise to say that the X-men get in the way of the sentinels working. And what good work don't make me laugh.’’ said Trask leaning back on the red chair. ‘’Okay, thank you Doctor. After a short commercial break, will have Doctor Ro-’’ ‘’Sorry Chuck, but Mr.Trask how can you sit there and act as if the X-men haven done any good. They literary saved your life like last week.’’ interrupted the woman whose apparent name was Shelly McGinnis according to her card.
Watching the heated discussion on T.V was entertaining yet still it wasn't the fact that crew members were holding both parties back that caught Cassie's attention, it was that they kept mentioning ‘the x-men’. From what she had gathered from Trask and Shellys’ interaction, the x-men were a big contagion point in this universe.Going based on what Shelly had said about the x-men saving Trask they probably were some superhero group,this could bring problems to their breaking and entering into a government based plan.
‘’Do you think the x-men are going to affect our plans?’’ she asked, her gazed still fixed on the full on fight ensuing in the T.V. ‘’There’s a possibility but it's low. From what the woman said and from yesterday's news report , the x-men seem to be more involved in big threats and not more normal crimes.’’ said Tim, his gaze too on the T.V and his mind in possible futures. ‘’So in conclusion the x-men are like the Justice League’’ said Bart as he twisted and turned a small piece of silver wire that Cassie had no idea where he had gotten it from.
The fight on T.V had cut the program short and the hours of mindless T.V had added to her stress over the mission instead of taking it away. After the program they all had taken turners showering and getting into their robbers outfits, now they were trying to occupied their minds, Bart had started to try balancing different object on his nose while he walked to one side to the other of the room, Cassie and Kon had taken to playing charades while Tim read a book that he had found in his bag. The T.V was on its light illuminating the room ‘’Breaking news, as you can see behind me the x-men are fighting what appears to be the Friends of Humanity’’. That seemed to take over everyone's attention ‘’ We should go’’ said Tim. With nodes they gathered themselves and walked off the motel. It was around 9:00 which meant that they were executing the plan earlier than they originally planned.
Under the moonlight sky the cold wind blew on their faces as they walked to their destination. The motel had been close to their target meaning it only took them about 10-20 minutes of walking to get there.
Hiding behind some bushes the group saw as people left the building and the lights deemed. Crouching as they walked they found themselves faced with a white wall with an air vent. Standing on Kons’ shoulder as he floated barely above the green grass, Tim took out a red swiss army knife using the flathead screwdriver. Passing the vent window down to Cassie to take Tim pulled himself up the vent after pocketing the swiss army knife.
He dragged his body across the metal vent for what seemed like an eternity, finally he stopped on top of what seemed like a laboratory, using his x-ray vision Kon ,who even though being the last one in the vent, deemed the room clear of any tripe wires and lasers. Opening the hatched Tim dropped down, Cassie,Bart and Kon following his lead. While the other looked around for the lab Tim went directly to the gun portal thing.
The gun was encased in a glass box cutting a circle on the front with the swiss army knife was easy enough, Tim had seen Selina do it a million times he had taken notes and now they seemed to have come in handy. Taking out the perfectly cut circle he placed it on the ground, he took out the gun with delicacy, inspecting it once in his possession. The vials of blue liquid that probably made the portal work were in the same case saving them the search. The gun was easy to understand and putting the vials in he walked towards the trio that were by another case. As he powered the gun it made a rumbling sound, blue electricity circled the gun and just as the blue electricity was going to shoot out of the end of the gun a burning red light cut through the side of the wall.
The grey wall fell casting a wave of smoke and dust, through the opening a group of people stood. As the smoke and dust cleared it was cleared to Tim this where the so-called ‘x-men’.
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‘’Put down the weapon’’
‘’Yeah, No’’