"Listening to others, considering well what they say" (Part 3: Maingate Hotel)

[cityship]

The Maingate Hotel was pretty extravagant, and an entire section of it had been eked out for the crew's use during their stay. They had several suites, three communal areas, a conference room, their own kitchen with a chef on call if they required her.

They were all teleported from the main teleport pad of the hotel into the conference room, which was a large enough room to be able to hold a group their size and had plenty of chairs arranged in a circular pattern so they could mostly all face each other or whoever was in the middle of the room.

Everyone had to settle down so they were all able to talk, and the meeting itself would have to be carefully controlled so they wouldn't all talk over each other. But they were up for the task, right?

[ooc: Guardian Setup, General Mingling, Clone Checkup, Newbie Briefing, General Briefing, More Mingling, Back to the Meeting, and The Idea Guy sections are open. Backup characters introduced to the plot can join in the mingling subthreads if they want. The opening of new subthreads will be announced here and the ooc. Please read the linked OOC post for a plot timeline.]

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[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Just trying to get a look at the goods."

Zetta had no shame. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

[thewunderkind]

Lash grinned.

...Then she took out another of the bombs from her backpack and held it close to his bookly face. Still grinning.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"No, Lash, your breasts."

[thewunderkind]

She still didn't stop grinning. "Yeah, I figured." The fact she had was probably either because she was getting used to hanging out with him, or she was starting to learn a little quickly was probably scary in itself. Lash spun the bomb around with a finger and threw it into the backpack again.

"You've got five minutes before there's a major pipe malfunction in the main kitchen warehouse."

And with that, she was gone.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Good, it'll make Step Five in Operation 'date hang out with Lash in decidedly non-platonic ways' all the easier.

Zetta waited a minute at most before Inviting his leader minion. She scooped him up, then hustled off down the hallways towards the nearest elevator.

[thewunderkind]

Meanwhile, a certain wunderkind had gone to the bathroom nearest to the kitchen. With the door closed and no cameras in the bathroom (hey, you never know), she promptly emptied out the goods and dumped then unceremoniously into the toilet before flushing twice.

The task done, she walked over and ordered a soda. You know, just to make sure she didn't look to conspicuous using a bathroom when she had one in her room.

A loud bang a minute afterwards told her all she needed to know. The waiter handed her her drink and then told her to come back later. She walked away, the orange soda in hand.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Around a corner, the book lurked patiently, cheerfully cheating with its battlefield perspective to watch the kitchen. Waiting patiently, judging for just the right moment....

Now. Everyone was out. A warehouse crashed down into the center of the kitchen, its size not quite proportionate to what it ought to be. From it, eight different jumped out. They began ransacking the place, hurling supplies back into the warehouse quickly and efficiently.

[thewunderkind]

Meanwhile, a wunderkind was busy drinking a (admittedly very delicious) soft drink listening in as the kitchen staff was scrambling to get the mopers and emo kidsmoppers and responsible people involved on the line.

Funny how most of the lines were sounding scrambled right now and their main contact system was offline. It certainly had nothing to do with Lash having played around when no one was looking.

By the time anyone would find out what had really happened, it would take at least a week or two to trace it back to their staying guests. It's not like they'd still be stuck here. Hopefully.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

It took maybe three minutes, tops, before the kitchen was emptied of food, drink, small appliances, and possibly a walk-in refrigerator. Nearly bursting at the seams, the warehouse vanished, along with the Overlord's minions. Out in the hall, the leader picked the book up once again, and the two high-tailed it back to Zetta's room in a fit of snickering and giggling.

[thewunderkind]

"How did it go?" Lash was sipping the last parts of the soda with her straw pretty loudly.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Cleaned the place out. I' m not gonna dump it off here, but we pretty much took everything that wasn't nailed down."

The fridge, by the way, had not been nailed down.

"Oh, uh, if a fire breaks out, the extinguishers I stole aren't rated for combustible metals, so try not to throw any magnesium around."

[thewunderkind]

"Did you turn off the gas at least?" she asked, putting the glass down on the side table. "Wouldn't want this entire place to blow up...well not unless we did it on purpose, tee hee hee!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I didn't steal the OVEN!" he said, indignantly. "Just the fridge! It's not like the oven was storing any food, what the hell would have been the point?"

[thewunderkind]

"Scrap metal, maybe," she said stretching her arms and cracking her fingers. "I wish this place had less cameras around the town, I would probably go steal more useful stuff."

Oh well, they had a lot of food, that counted for something.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You could steal the cameras, that would solve both problems."

Zetta logic. But as it happened he'd stolen so many pots and pans that their scrap metal needs would be somewhat alleviated. "Still, we did good. Either way, we'll be..."

He considered that and frowned. "Who am I kidding, they'll still hate and fear us."

[thewunderkind]

Lash merely shrugged as she moved at the end of the bed to push out the hundred of things they had hidden there. Combined with the two filled fridge they had a lot more stuff here too.

"Well it's their loss if you ask me!"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"We can always horde the food and lord it up over everyone who disdains us," he said helpfully.

[thewunderkind]

"That sounds like a great idea! Tee hee it's not like I really care that much about all this food anyway but using it to make others mad? I'm all for it!"

Zetta you were a horrible influence.

...but she'd probably sneak a bunch of it for the rangers and stuff like that. You know. People she pretended not to care about so she could feel better about herself and not caring.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Hey, he'd specified only the people who disdained them. Her fellow Rangers didn't do that, did they?

Magog help them if they DID.

"It's kinda fun being the black sheep of the ship. At least this way we earn the title!"

[thewunderkind]

Well maybe Ron would get kicked another time.

Eh who are we kidding, he'd get kicked anyway.

"Well, black is my favorite color. Or well my favorite achromatic if you want to get all technical." She grinned and gave him a tiny shrug. "To the victors go the spoils of war."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Admit it, they will both be slightly disappointed when they find out they weren't the first ones blamed for the hotel explosion.

"Good thing red goes well with black then. The most awesome of combinations."

[thewunderkind]

Lash would probably have felt better being tied up in a few hours, if she had known it would have involved an explosion of some sort, admittedly.

"I don't know any expression relating to red sheep with their wool on fire, mind you," she said with a teasing voice.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Her and him both, sister.

"Well make one up! You're the Wunderkind!"

[thewunderkind]

"Okay, okay, how about this one?" she took a bite from one of the energy bars and threw herself back on the bed. "No wolf would ever venture willingly into the land of the badass red fire sheep."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta rolled that one in his head for a moment.

"Yeah. Yeah, I kinda like that! Hyaaa ha ha ha ha! Wolves will fear to tread in the lands of the black sheep Wunderkind and the red fire sheep Overlord!"