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gone_byebyeThe door opens onto an expanse of asphalt, steel, and glass. Nearby a sign reads:
WELCOME TO WHITE FLINT MALL
BEST PRICES IN THE DC AREA
4708 BETHESDA AVENUE
CHEVY CHASE, MD
It's a big parking lot, with the mall itself only visible off in the distance. Ray gives it the squint-eye before turning to the others. "Okay, people," he says. "This is it. Johnny says it's underground. Egon's best estimates indicate three miles down. Are we good?"
WELCOME TO WHITE FLINT MALL
BEST PRICES IN THE DC AREA
4708 BETHESDA AVENUE
CHEVY CHASE, MD
It's a big parking lot, with the mall itself only visible off in the distance. Ray gives it the squint-eye before turning to the others. "Okay, people," he says. "This is it. Johnny says it's underground. Egon's best estimates indicate three miles down. Are we good?"
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Date: 2006-06-20 12:28 am (UTC)Re: And we're under way!
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:01 am (UTC)But enough with scaring local Peter, they had some extra special busting to do.
"Sure there'll be plenty for that," he remarked as he headed into the tunnel after them.
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:02 am (UTC)Naraht is making good time as he chews his way deeper and deeper. He's not going as quite as steep as he would if he was solo. After all, there's humanoids who have to walk down - and, if something goes horribly wrong, run up - this tunnel.
It takes a while...but soon they're only a few meters from breakthrough. Naraht pauses, waiting for the others to catch up.
"Okay," he says. "That last four meters is the Rubicon. Any last minute advice to bestow, admonitions to give or aspersions to cast?"
Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 01:12 am (UTC)"I believe the applicable terminology for this moment is 'let's give them hell.'"
He flips on his proton pack. So does Brown-Egon. And now one other difference becomes obvious: their packs, as they activate, emit a soft while that's JUUUUST different enough to raise hairs.
Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 01:20 am (UTC)"You know," he says in a hushed tone, "it's times like this, when I'm three miles below the civilized surface of the planet, surrounded by people who're intent on using fifteen different kinds of science and PKE to wreak incalculable physical and psychological damage on a beyond-top-secret black ops installation of the United States Government because the people involved done me wrong, that I realize.... I've got the best friends in all of Explored Space. Who all's up for a group hug?"
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:49 am (UTC)Matilda exhibits a mock-glare with all the adorability quotient of a determinedly huggable not-quite-six-year-old girl, and proceeds to hug both Egons and Ray all at the same time. This feat is accomplished through the clever application of too much cuteness for one person to legally possess.
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:50 am (UTC)Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 01:54 am (UTC)"Bwah!" he yelps. "Where the hell did you come from?"
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Date: 2006-06-20 01:57 am (UTC)Re: And we're under way!
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Date: 2006-06-20 02:10 am (UTC)One MiB-approved group hug is executed with smooth and unobtrusive grace.
But this is not going into his after-action report to Zedd.
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Date: 2006-06-20 02:11 am (UTC)Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 02:13 am (UTC)*But you can't hang back in a group hug.*
*Which is how he finds himself squooshed between Matilda, Agatha, and Naraht.*
Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 02:23 am (UTC)"Where is Sigfried?" he carols in a hideously fake, non-descript, European accent. "Hey guys! What's the hold up?"
His eyes light up at the huddle!
"Ohhh! A little love-in before the break-in! Okay, carry on. I'll just send Elmer Fudd into the cafeteria again."
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Date: 2006-06-20 02:26 am (UTC)Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 02:28 am (UTC)"'We few, we happy few!'" he intones. "'We band of brothers!' And sisters," he adds with a chuckle in his voice.
***
Out in the targeted corridor, a faint tremor is the only sign that all hell is about to break loose.
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Date: 2006-06-20 02:31 am (UTC)There's the Shakespeare.
Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 02:38 am (UTC)Then they got towards the fun part.
"Goin' ghost!"
The concentric rings of light passed over him as he transformed.
"So, what's the game plan? Other than terrify and destroy?"
A pause.
"Or wait, it's just terrify and destroy, isn't it."
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Date: 2006-06-20 02:41 am (UTC)***
In the targeted corridor, a rather bored secretary- one who's not much different from Janine, really- looks up at the trembling of the overhead lights. "Huh," she says, and turns back to her work.
Tinka. Tinka.
That was weird. The lights are still moving-
BRRRRMRMRMRMMMRMB.
And the wall gives way all at once.
***
The first sound our heroes hear?
"AIEEEEEEEEEE!"
Re: And we're under way!
Date: 2006-06-20 02:45 am (UTC)"Finally! A situation where that reaction is actually warranted!" The three-quarters of a ton of living rock glides out of the steaming tunnel. "My dear, I suggest that, for your own safety, you take yourself outside. Now."
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