A trail of aching derrières- next time they'll be more thoughtful

[gone_byebye]

The 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?"

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Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[gone_byebye]

For all that he is large, and not in good shape, Jannot can really move when the need to do so is sufficiently urgent. And this? Very, very sufficient.

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, Matilda has been busy. The cubicle farm is not so much a cubicle farm anymore as a big room full of burning rubble. Also, she has invented a simple process for discovering whether a wall is load-bearing or not: propel a chunk of flaming desk at it at speed. If it goes partway or all the way through, the wall is safe to blow up without endangering any surrounding structures.

Needless to say, she is putting this newfound knowledge to good use.

She selects another innocuous brown package from her bag (it has gotten lighter while K was talking to Jannot, but her supply is not in danger of running out anytime soon) and launches it at a wall that passed the Can I Blow This Up? Test. BOOM.

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[k_in_black]

K returns from Jannot's office, adjusting his tie with the air of a man having a very satisfying day.

He looks around the burning rubble with great approval. "Nice work, Matilda. Very nice work."

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

She pauses in the midst of removing the next bomb from her bag.

"Thanks!" she says with an adorable grin. "I never knew blowing stuff up was so much fun." She aims for another safely explodable wall. "How was your time in that office? Whose was it, anyways?"

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[k_in_black]

"A guy named Jannot. One of the men who was in charge of this place. I thought he should know that if he tried to rebuild it, we'd be coming back."

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"I see. That makes sense." She starts walking towards the large hole where this cubicle farm used to have walls. "What's your scanner say about interesting stuff near here? Anything I should refrain from blowing up so we can take a look at it first?"

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[k_in_black]

K pulls the scanner and flips open the holographic display. And what a difference there is. Alarm systems blinking, infrastructure collapsing all throughout the complex.

He shakes his head. "Not much left anywhere really."

He points. "But if you think you can get through that wall, there should be a way out."

He smiles. "If you think you can do that."

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

She giggles. "It shouldn't be too difficult so long as it isn't a load-bearing wall. Those are harder to blow up, and if I accidentally manage it, bits of this place will be falling on us, which would be bad. Hmm, let me see." She gives the familiar Look to a twisted wreck that was once a piece of high-end computing equipment, lifting it into the air and then propelling it at the indicated wall. It imbeds itself in said wall fairly deeply.

"Should be no problem then," she comments cheerfully, taking out two bombs. Ffft-woosh-fffffft-boom. The wall has seen better days than this. Ffft-woosh-fffffft-boom. The wall will trouble no one any longer.

"Shall we?" she asks grandly, picking her way among destroyed cubicles to the promised exit.

Re: Assault Force K-Tilda

[gone_byebye]

It is an exit, all right. A lovely, beautiful, bright-shiny exit.

Maybe not to anywhere in Foliage Census or the White Flint Mall, but damn if an exit to Milliways isn't still an exit.