Into the Black, Part IIIb: Team Delta

[bring_a_sponge]

Looking to the right, the hallway goes quite a ways down. There are several doors along the way, but also an open space at the far end that looks like it might be a stairwell.

Unfortunately, it's immediately clear that these hallways aren't going to provide any cover whatsoever.

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Elevator

[bring_a_sponge]

Now that the Hailleys are scattered in ruins around the Hall, Team Delta can hear that low, rumbling sound in the distance again. A quick scan of the Main Hall is all they need to see a glass elevator. Obviously that must be the way up to the Landing Bay that Zed told them about.

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[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

Jen hears that rumble, oh yes she does. The kind of rumble that probably heralds unpleasant encounters and should most definitely herald a sense of urgency.

But she spots the elevator, amidst the weird furniture, which looks straight out of a Courreges photo shoot in Vogue from 1968. Maybe Courreges was an alien, after all?

"Guys! Elevator! Let's go! Anything comes at us, it's getting tossed into next week. Go, go, GO!"

Of course, it WOULD look like the elevator in Scarface, and provide them with no cover at all. Jen runs for it - no point in trying for stealth, after all the sound and fury they've just caused, and when she reaches it, she starts looking for buttons, but of course, there aren't any, because it's just a clear tube. Just like the one in Scarface.

"Zed! We're almost at the elevator! How do we work it? Michelle Pfeiffer's nowhere in sight," she adds.

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[bring_a_sponge]

Zed is on the comm after a momentary delay.

"...Shoulda had them deported when I had the chance--. What? Walters? Just a sec."

More sounds of weapons fire.

"...Just say 'Landing Bay.' The elevator is prepped for all Earth accents. It'll take you right there."

"...Gotta go. Taking fire, kicking ass...Good luck!"

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[maxwellsdemon02]

"Sounds like they're having as good a time as we are," Duo says in a wry tone as he steps up to the elevator. The door opens automatically.

He grins and steps in, but doesn't relax. They aren't close to done yet. "Who's Michelle Pfeiffer, anyway?"

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[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

Goldy slips in next. She's mostly calm again. It's amazing what a ruthless clone cremation can do for one's psyché.

"Some chick from late 20th Century Earth movies," she offers, unhelpfully. She's not a big movie-goer, which is a shame as it really cuts down on the potential corniness of her combat dialog.

"I'm not sure which one Jen's referencing."

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[gammagammahey.livejournal.com]

"You're an alien?" is Jen's first question to that. "Or from the future, or a parallel dimension that totally rejects cinema as an art form?"

As for Michelle? The temptation, oh, the temptation.

"Michelle Pfeiffer is a film actress that won the Hasty Pudding Award from Harvard a few years ago. She does pudding with preternatural speed."

But she can't keep a straight face while she says this.

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[alwaysroomforhope]

Steph skids into the elevator, coming to a stop against the far wall, still covering the room behind them with her miniflamethrower.

It takes her a second to pick up on the conversation, but hey, why waste an excuse for snark, even if it's belated?

"Goldy's not an alien, she just looks like one."

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[maxwellsdemon02]

"I'm an alien," Duo says. "If you define alien by 'not born on Earth'."

Then he holds up one finger and tilts his head to the side.

"...does anyone else hear that?" There's quiet music coming from somewhere. It sounds a little like 'Girl from Ipanema', played on alien throat whistles, accompanied on the bongos. By someone with tentacles.

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[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

Goldy snickers at Jen's falsehood, elbows Steph (not for the first time today), then tilts her head in a similar way to Duo.

"Intermission?" she says, smirking.

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[alwaysroomforhope]

"Dance break!" Steph confirms.

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[maxwellsdemon02]

"If it was intermission, there'd be a snack bar," Duo grunts, shifting around. This elevator is crowded. Stop the ride, he wants to get off.

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[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

And they haven't even started moving yet.

"Are we going to spend the rest of the mission in a stationary elevator, boogying down with our Musak Diva here?" Goldy wonders. "Or... is someone going to say 'Landing Bay'?"

The door slides shut with an appropriate swoosh, and the elevator promptly begins to zip upwards.

Goldy nods smugly.