The rest of the group stands waiting in the lobby as Emil comes down the steps closely followed by the Group Leader. Emil with a look of disgust and contempt in his eyes looks at the Group Leader as he walks by him towards the front of the group as they all stand waiting in the front lobby.
The Group Leader looks around the old hotel as the ever continuing eerie silence fills the room. Biting his lower lip he turns and looks at the rest of the group looking on in quiet anticipation and says, " Okay, we need to get the power going again." Paulina, a woman in her early 30's with short black hair reminiscent of Ellen Degeneres, multiple piercings in her ears, nose and eyebrow raises her arm showing the large elaborate sleeve tattoo of roses and thorns. The Group Leader noticing the raised hand responds," Yes, this isn't school you don't have to raise your hand!" " And how are we going to do that? This place is older than shit and what power it must have had has to have died!" The Group Leader removes his backpack from his left shoulder, he walks over to a large round cherry oak table in the middle of the lobby and places the back pack on it. He opens the backpack, digging around furiously until he pulls out a folded set of faded blueprints and places them down on the table saying," With these!" Keith looks down at the faded blueprints as the Group Leader unfolds them and sarcastically says," With a faded and brown stained treasure map that smells like ass!" Suddenly Maria's hand gently cuffs Keith across the back of the head cursing at Keith,"Estúpido idiota! That is not a treasure map! Those are blueprints, your ignorance gives me a headache!" Maria takes both her hands and starts to rub either side of her head. Keith turns around and says," God your violent!I knew they were blueprints, it's called sarcasm. I'm beginning to think you like hitting me just so you can touch me!' Maria with a sassy tone rolls her eyes and responds," You wish gringo!" "You want me!" replies Keith with an even more sarcastic tone. The Group Leader clears his throat and exclaims," If the flirt fest is over can we get back to the situation at hand?" Maria and Keith stand silently and both nod theirs heads."Good! Now by the blueprints there are two separate reset stations. One is up in the tower room on the very top floor of the hotel. The other is in the basement, so we will have to split up into two teams." Paulina asks," Why? Couldn't we just hit the reset in the basement? That would be easier." " If only it were that simple! The system runs on self sustaining gamma gel that never need replenishing but has to be reset from the roof unit first to get the gel flowing and than the basement switch can be flipped after ten minutes to completely reset the system." replies the Group Leader. " And how are we going to know when one team has the roof unit reset? I don't think a tin can on a string will stretch that far!" Paulina asks. The Group Leader reaches into his backpack again and pulls out seven walkie talkies. Grace looks at the walkie talkies lying on the table and asks," Where in the hell did you find those ancient things...a museum? You don't expect those things to work do you?" " Yes I do! They are made up of the same power source the hotel uses only smaller so they will work perfectly! Also I tested them!" responds the Group Leader. " Why reset the system? The storm has stopped why don't we just leave?" asks Hannah. " That would be a good idea if the storm actually did stop! This is a lull in the storm, it only lasts about an hour or less before it kicks back in! So we are stuck here for a while cause these storms last for weeks on end."responds the Group Leader as he starts to hand out the walkie talkies to Keith, Maria, Preston, Grace, Axel and Paulina keeping the last one for himself clipping it to his belt. " Now Keith,Maria,Emil, Preston,Paulina and Priya you guys go to the roof tower to hit the reset. Here is a map on how to get there, the rest of the group will come with me into the basement to look for the other unit." says the Group Leader.
The Group Leader walks up to Preston and whispers," Can you come with me for a second?" Preston nods his head and the two men walk away from the rest of the group and towards the back of the lobby behind the old concierge desk. Preston quietly says to the Group Leader as the rest of the group look on," What's going on?" " Preston you need to do me a favour?", the Group Leader silently responds. Preston with a confused look on his face and asks," Okay? What do you need"
The rest of the group looks on at Preston and the Group Leader quietly talking. Emil turns to Greg a man in his early 30's with a crew cut military style haircut and a 5ft 11inch bulky but yet muscular body build and says," I wish I knew what he is saying to Preston?" "Me too but I know from experience in the past it's best not to know and just follow orders!" responds Greg. Emil quietly says back,"I don't trust him! There's something up with him! Who is he exactly and why choose Preston?" " I don't know why? Or who he is exactly? I only knew him as that strange old hermit in town. My cousin knows him better guess that's why he chose Preston! All I know is he knows his way around out here and we need to follow him otherwise it could end bad!", replies Greg. Emil turns to Greg and says, " You used to be in the Global Military Service didn't you?" Greg nods his head and replies," For 10 years and when all government services were disbanded I came back home!" Emil stands silent for a moment and than asks," What about Preston? Was he in the service with you too?" " No he wasn't! He stayed and worked as a local Zone Officer. Why all the questions?", replies Greg. Emil smoothly resounds," No reason! Just feel I should get to know some of my teammates, I was talking to Hannah up stairs earlier. for some reason the Group Leader took offence at it! I think he has some obsession with her! We need to watch out for her and the others, he's been alone for so long it is kind of creepy!' Greg nods his head and says," Agreed! I was wondering why he went up the stairs and only Hannah came down than the two of you after!" Emil and Greg look back at Preston and the Group Leader.
" Okay, so you know now exactly where to go know and how to reset the gamma gel generator. Keep in constant contact! Be careful on those upper floors I don't know what the state of the structure could be up there.You will have to get off the south stairwell on the 7th floor, a big chunk of it is missing so you will have to cut through that floor and go to the north stairwell. Lastly keep a close eye on Emil! I already had to put him in check!", the Group Leader silently says in a serious tone. Preston nods his head as he casually turns his looking back at Emil and replies," Yes! On all of that! Do you really think it was a good idea to recruit him? Isn't there another way to get this done without having him?" " There might be? But I'm not sure it will work! So for now it's both our jobs to not let it come to that and watch him!", responds the Group Leader with concern in his voice. Preston again nods his head in agreement as to not draw suspicion from the rest of the group. " Now we better get this power back on! We need it in more ways than one!",says the Group Leader. Preston and the Group Leader shake hands and walk back towards the rest of group.
As they return to the rest of the group the Group Leader looks grabs his backpack off the large round cherry oak table, places it on his back. He pulls the walkie talkie from his belt and turns it on. Looking at the whole group looking on in a commanding tone he says," Okay everyone knows which team they are in! Roof team, Preston is in charge and will direct you! I gave him instructions, so listen to him! They will help keep you safe! Basement team we I will fill you in! Now lets get going! We need to get the power back on asap! Those I gave walkie talkies to we are on channel 12! Alright lets move people!" The group start to move into their assigned teams, Emil casually places his hand on the left shoulder of Greg as he is about to go and says with intent in his voice," Remember what I told you, keep an eye on him!" Greg quickly glances at Emil and replies," Of course!" Emil removes his hand quickly from Greg's shoulder as not arouse suspicion and walks towards Preston. Greg tightens the straps on his backpack and makes his way towards the Group Leader and the remaining group members.
The two teams go their separate ways. The roof team make their way up the marble steps and the basement team follow the Group Leader down a short dark hallway at the back of the lobby.
As the Group Leader makes his way down the short darkened hallway followed by the small team of six. He stops in front of a metal door with chipped black paint, places his right hand on it wiping off the many layers of dust and dirt revealing a small metal sign on it simply saying basement on it. The group Leader wipes the dirt from hand on his pant leg and grabs the door knob and turns it revealing it to be unlocked. Axel sarcastically says," Wow! That is quite convenient!" He pushes the door open, stops reaches back and unclips the small lantern attached to the side of his backpack, lights it and turns to the team and says," Okay stay close lets go!" The Group Leader walks down the stairs into the dark basement illuminating the stairwell as the others follow him. The metal door closes quickly loudly echoing throughout the stairwell and startling 6 of the seven people. The Group Leader stops and looks back to see the others frozen in fear. Hannah with fear and panic in her voice screams so loud it could break a pane of glass. " Jesus Christ! I'm standing right here! Think I'm fucking deaf now!", exclaims Greg. Liam a tall lanky man with jet black hair and a neatly trimmed beard and circular metal framed glasses responds," Think you woke the dead with that scream!" "Well we are close enough, they just might have heard her!", says Grace with heavy sarcasm in her voice. Hannah her hands over ears and sits down on the steps rocking her tiny body back and forth crying and singing the lyrics to Unwell by Matchbox 20 over and over. Axel looks down at Hannah as she tries to calm her fear and remarks," What the hell is wrong with you?" Grace pushes Axel aside and quickly sits down beside Hannah wrapping her left arm around Hannah and with frustration in her voice responds," She's scared stupid! Can't you see!" " I just thought she was crazy or something!" replies Axel. " Nice! That's really compassionate of you asshole! Men!", says Grace with an ever angering tone. Hannah stops singing and rests her head on Graces shoulder continuing to cry. Grace wraps her other arm around Hannah and rocks with her like a mother calming her child and softly says," It's okay my dear! Nothing or no one is going to hurt you here!" The Group Leader walks over to Grace and Hannah, he kneels down in front of them and ask," Is she alright?" Greg with an arrogant tone in his voice interrupts and says," It's pretty obvious she isn't!" The Group Leader turns his head and shoots an icy glare at Greg responding," Did I ask You? No! So keep your opinions to yourself! All of you!" Greg hangs his head down and sheepishly says," Sorry!" The Group Leader turns his attention back to Hannah and Grace, hovering his right hand over Hannah's knee but not touching it he says," We will rest here for a bit until Hannah is ready to go. We have plenty of time until the other team reaches the roof peak." The remaining members of the small team sit on the steps.
The Group Leader grabs the walkie talkie from his belt, presses it and says," Team two be advised we have to take a small break for personal reasons. Keep me informed of your progress!" The voice of Preston comes through the speaker responding," Will do Group Leader! We are currently just making our way onto the third floor but will keep you updated! Hope everything is alright!" " It's fine! Nothing to get too worried about!", relies the Group Leader. The Group Leader looks at Hanna her eyes red from the tears and quietly says," No one needs to know and I will tell the others not to say anything!" A big smile comes across Hannah's faces she whispers back,"Thank you!" Just than the voice of Keith comes over the walkie talkie asking," Seeing as you guys are taking a break and so I don't have to hear Maria yell at me for whatever stupid thing I will eventually say. How about continuing your story?" The sound of a hand slapping Keith's head can be heard over the walkie talkie with Keith yelling out," Hey!" " I guess I can! Now where was I? Oh yeah!" replies the Group Leader.
The scene starts to change but it gets all cloudy as the voice of the Group Leader says," Let's see! Hmmmmm! Oh Yeah! Now I remember!" The voice of Keith chimes in," Thank goodness thought you might have been having a senior moment!" " Let the man talk otherwise we might be waiting,especially if he is having a senior moment." replies the voice of Preston. " Haha! You all are comedians! I am impressed though, I would have expected Maria to have said something to Keith or slap him across the back of the head!" exclaims the voice of the Group Leader with a sarcastic tone. The voice of Maria replies," Oh I did! I just waited until he was off the walkie talkie!" " Oh yeah now I remember where we were! Well for a year and a half baby John"Pops" Brilliant has been in a high level government research lab." the Group Leader says as the scene becomes clearer and the group is transported back to 1949 inside a secret government facility in northern Ontario called Fusion Labs.
Dr. Peter Ulysses a man in his early 50's is the head of the research team. Dr.Ulysses stands behind a two way mirror watching as two junior scientists Dr. Lionel Waters a rather young man of 25 and the newest hire to the team thanks to his families political connections. The other is the first female scientist to be placed at the facility Dr. Evelyn Gunn a raven haired 32 year old woman. Dr.Gunn's hair is pulled up tight in a bun and wears such a serious expression on her face that if she smiled her face might crack. The two scientists are getting ready to start more tests on baby John"Pops" Brilliant setting out the tools they will need to conduct their experiments. Into the observation room walks a man of average height and thin body frame in his late 40's with slicked back salt and pepper hair wearing a dark grey suit with a black tie. Dr. Ulysses turns around to the man and says," Hello! You must be Mr. Pervus the man the Federal Government told me was coming to observe. Are you from the CSIS? You government agents all looks alike!" Mr.Pervus walks up to Dr. Ulysses and stretches out his right hand. The two men shake hands for a few seconds and casually release their respective grips. Mr. Pervus walks up to the two way mirror looking into it. Dr. Ulysses grabs his clipboard sitting on table behind him and stands beside Mr.Pervus looking out into the lab. The uncomfortable silence fills the room as the two men stand silent for the next ten minutes until Dr.Ulysses asks," So what does the CSIS have in mind for a toddler?" " What makes you think I am CSIS?" replies Mr.Pervus. Dr.Ulysses starts to walk away and than turns back around with a curious tone to his voice asks," Well than who are you?" Mr.Pervus reaches his right hand into the inside of his suit jacket and pulls out a small leather identification wallet, he flips it open and hands it to Dr.Ulysses while keeping his gaze on the two scientists in the examination room. Dr. Ulysses takes the identification and looks at it. A confused look comes over Dr.Ulysses' face and he says," You're from the CBC? I don't understand? Why would the government send someone from the CBC to a top secret lab?" Mr.Pervus extends his left hand out and Dr.Ulysses hands the identification back to him. Mr. Pervus places the identification back into his inside jacket pocket and replies," It's a bit above your pay grade! But I was told to tell you anyways! The CBC is the real power in this country! We distract people with our radio broadcasts while we our agents secretly take down world threats. What did you think that Canada was all polite and nice? The USA is actually afraid of us and has called on our agents to help them out in the past." " So!..... You want to make Pops an agent?", asks Dr.Ulysses. " In a way! We will be branching out into television in the next few years and this child will be perfect! Until than though we will put him on an American broadcast with the cooperation of our neighbours to the south.", replies Mr.Pervus. Dr.Ulysses starts to flip through the papers on his clipboard for a few seconds studying his papers. He flips the papers down and asks Mr.Pervus," This is crazy! How do you know this will work? He is a unique child and you are going to use him as a sideshow act!" " Oh! We know what we are doing and have been at this for a while! He is no sideshow act! In time he will be one of the biggest names in the world! His unique ability is just what we need to cause distraction. It's either this or operation Beachcomber, which you don't want released it has proven to be to mesmerizing! Complete and total distraction! Now, when is the examination going to start?",says Mr.Pervus. Dr.Ulysses with a stunned look on his face replies," In a few minutes.
" Oh come on! How do you know that actually happened? You're telling me the CBC was really a secret spy network that wielded great power? Now you are just getting ridiculous old man! I really think you have been alone for too long!" says Greg as he gets up from the steps and starts to walk down the basement steps. "Where do you think you are going?" asks the Group Leader. Greg stops and looks back at the rest of the team and replies," Um to find the generator! In case you haven't forgotten we still have to do that! I love story time and all but someone needs to find this thing!", exclaims Greg. The Group Leader gets up and walks towards Greg, he places his hand on Greg's shoulder and with a calm but yet stern voice says," We all go together or we don't go at all! We don't know what conditions are like down there and need to stay together! In case you didn't notice not all of our team is ready to continue, now sit down!" Greg looks on as Grace continues to hold a severely distraught Hannah in her arms. The voice of Keith comes over the walkie talkie saying," Sit back down Greg, we are only at the 5th floor! You have time, it's going to take a bit till we get to the eighth floor and cross it to get to the other stairwell!" Greg walks back over to the top step and sits down and says," Okay keep talking old man! But I find it hard to believe this!" " Oh it's true! I did some research, it all came out in the downfall of 2021." says Grace as she continues to console Hannah. "Continue please! It helps!" says the quiet and scared voice of Hannah.
An older grey haired nurse walks into the examination room holding the hand of baby John as he walks into the room still bald headed, sporting a little pot belly, wearing a checkered black and grey dress shirt, black dress pants, small octagonal metal framed glasses, white running shoes, a piece of beer sausage hanging out of his mouth like cigar and cup of apple juice. As they get to the examination table baby John takes the piece of sausage from his mouth and takes a big swig of the apple juice finishing off what remains in the cup. He tosses the cup at the grey haired nurse and exclaims in his deep raspy voice," Now that was fucking fantastic apple juice! I would have rather it been schnapps or a glass of scotch! Don't know why the fuck you assholes won't let me have a real drink!" " That's because you are only a year and a half Johnny! Toddlers don't exactly drink hard alcohol not to mention that it is illegal to let a minor drink.", responds Dr. Waters in an arrogant tone. John takes a bite from his piece of beer sausage and immediately spits it into the face of Dr. Waters causing Dr. Evelyn Gunn to let down her serious demeanour and crack a smile along with a quick giggle. " Look asshole! My names not Johnny! It's John and I have repeatedly asked you to call me "Pops"! You must be some kind of fucking moron, who did you blow to get this job?", exclaims baby John as he takes another bite from his beer sausage. Dr. Gunn tries to regain her composure and show her usual professionalism but is having a hard time as she continues to chuckle at baby John insulting Dr. Waters. " Now I will not take no guff from anyone especially a toddler! What are you laughing at?", exclaims Dr.Waters as he wipes the bits of sausage and spit from his face. Dr.Gunn regaining her composure for a small second stops laughing and replies," Nothing! It's just that, to be honest! No one has had the guts to say anything to you because of your families connections until "Pops" here just did!" Dr. Gunn loses her serious demeanour again and continues to laugh. Dr. Waters walks up to Dr. Gunn, standing face to face with her he looks her straight in the eyes with an even cockier tone in his voice says," You keep laughing and we will find out how long you have a job here! In fact you just stand there and I will be doing the tests! Nurse please take the food from the subject!" The grey haired nurse shakes her head in disagreement. "Nurse! I said take the food from the child so I can start the testing!",exclaims Dr.Waters. The grey haired shakes her head in disagreement again." Dr.Waters face turns a darker shade of red from anger and frustration and he exclaims," Fine I will do it but you both are done here!" Dr.Waters takes the beer sausage from baby Johns mouth and immediately is bitten on the hand dropping the food on the floor and yells out in anger,"WHAT THE HELL!" " That will teach you for touching my sausage! What's a matter you spoiled rich ass mama's boy? No one ever put you in your place before? Well get used to it!", responds baby John. " You little.....", Dr.Waters starts to say as baby John stands and pulls down his pants proceeding to urinate in the face of Dr.Waters. "Haven't had enough? Keep at it asshole! Why don't you leave and let the nurse and hot doctor examine me!", exclaims baby John. " I don't have to take this from a child!", retorts Dr.Waters as he spits out the urine that got in his mouth on the floor and wipes his face with a handkerchief from his shirt pocket. " What's a matter mama's boy intimidated that your penis is probably the same size as mine and I haven't even hit puberty yet!", responds baby John. " Well I never! I should spank you", says Dr.Waters. " Oh you like spanking you sick pervert and yet children! You touch me and I've got another surprise for you coming out of my ass and it don't smell so good, but I will take pleasure smearing it in your arrogant face! If you can't figure it out, it's shit!", exclaims baby John. Dr.Waters walks up to baby John with anger and his hand raised to spank baby John when the voice of Mr.Pervus comes over the speaker," Dr.Waters don't you lay a hand on that child! Come in here, Dr.Gunn you and the nurse continue the tests please!" Dr. Waters storms out of the room slamming the door behind him. Dr.Gunn walks up to baby John and with a motherly compassion in her voice says to him," I'm so sorry 'Pops" I just have a few tests to do and than we are done! I will get the nurse to get you anther piece of sausage?" Baby John zips up his pants and taps Dr.Gunn on the left shoulder saying," Okay, but I would kill of some toast instead!" Dr.Gunn nods her head in agreement with the great haired nurse who leaves the room to get some toast for baby John.
Dr.Waters walks into the observation room greeted by Dr.Ulysses who walks up to the young scientist and immediately puts his right arm around Dr.Waters and says," Dr.Waters you are new here to Fusion Labs and while your family has some great political pull you just can't put your hands on an important test subject like that!" " But Dr.Ulysses you have to understand that man like child is out of control, a little discipline wouldn't hurt!", responds Dr.Waters. Dr.Ulysses moves his arm from around the shoulder of Dr.Waters and points to a chair in the back of the room saying," Have a seat this gentleman here would like to speak with you for a minute." Mr.Pervus still facing the exam room watching Dr.Gunn test baby John's reflexes. Mr.Pervus reaches down and presses a large black button for the intercom in front of him, he bends down and with a deep smooth voice speaks into it," Dr.Gunn that will be all! Can you please bring "Pops" in here!" Mr.Pervus releases the button of the intercom and turns around to face Dr.Waters. In the background of the two way mirror Dr.Gunn grabs the hand of baby John helping him off the exam table and they walk out of the exam room holding hands with baby John chattering to her a mile a minute with no clue as to what he was saying. Mr. Pervus walks up to Dr.Waters places his hands on the table as to look down at the cocky young scientist to invoke fear and in a calm but yet threatening voice says," You will pack up your shit and leave here! You are done and if you thinking of throwing your families political clout! Think again, my authority far outweighs your families! With a snap of my fingers I could ruin your family!" "But,but! Where will I go?", asks Dr.Waters with a scared crackle in his voice like that of pubescent teenage boy. Just than Dr.Gunn walks in with baby John who had just caught the tail end of the conversation and baby John says," Haha! Looks like someones in trouble now! Hey asshole!" " See what I had to deal with! He disrespected me from the start! I'm innocent", replies Dr.Waters. Baby John lets go of Dr.Gunn's hand and walks up to the three men gathered at the table and exclaims," Prove it asshole! You got all aggressive with me and they saw it! Did you think that mirror was there for you to look at yourself?" Mr.Pervus with an icy glare in his eyes says," He's right! We saw the whole thing! Now get out before I have you escorted out!" Dr.Waters gets up from the chair and starts to make his way towards the door when baby John yells out," I rest my fucking case!" Dr.Waters turns and replies," You are going to regret using that little monster." Mr.Pervus points to the door and exclaims,"Leave now!" Dr.Waters walks out of the room in huff almost knocking Dr.Gunn over.
Mr.Pervus pulls out the metal chair from under the table and sits down in front of baby John, he stretches out his hand to shake baby John's hand and says," Pops it is a pleasure to meet you! I am Kevin Pervus, I work for the CBC and the government wants you to be one of our agents." Baby John shakes Mr.Pervus's hand and replies," Nice to meet you Mr.Pervert!" "No Pervus.", replies Mr.Pervus. "What does the worlds most secretive and feared spy agency want with me?", asks baby John. Dr.Ulysses with a stunned look on his face asks baby John," How do you know that?" Baby John looks up at Dr.Ulysses and replies," Cause I'm a fucking genius that's why doc!" " Yes you are Pops and that's why we want you! You are perfect for the entertainment business, witty and funny the perfect distraction while we do our thing! What do you say? Deal?",responds Mr.Pervus. Baby John looks around the room thinking and just than the grey haired nurse walks in with a small plate with two slices of toast and places it on the table by the other metal chair still pulled out from when Dr.Waters left the room. Baby John climbs up on the chair grabs a slice of the toast, takes a bite and slides the plate with the other over to Mr.Pervus and replies," What do I say? I say yes! And no better way to seal our business deal Mr.Pervert than with some toast!" Baby John and Mr.Pervus takes their respective pieces of toast and touch them together as if they were wine glasses and than take a bite of them. Baby John swallows his toast and exclaims," Pumpernickel! I love it!"
The voice of Keith exclaims," Why did you stop? Never mind I see why!"
Back in 2177 the roof team makes their way throughout the scattered remains of hotel furnishing strewn about in the hallways of the old abandoned grand hotel on the 8th floor. Gigantic cobwebs cover the doorways of the empty rooms and layers of dust hang from the light fixtures like large grey icicles. Preston suddenly stops in his tracks and holds up the lantern in his right hand showing a large pile of heavy oak dressers,bed frames, old mattresses and chairs blocking their way to stairwell. "Son of a bitch! Sorry Group Leader to interrupt you but we have a problem!", says Preston with a frustrated tone. The voice of the Group Leader comes over the walkie talkie saying," What's wrong?" Preston responds," The access to the north stairwell is blocked! It's going to take us some time to clear it!" " Alright keep me informed! We are going to get moving in bit here!", replies the Group Leader. Emil walks up to Preston and with an arrogant tone in his voice asks," Why the hell did we get off the south stairwell and come this way? Lets just go back and continue up! Or do you always listen to the advice of crazy old men?" Preston turns grabs Emil by the collar of his tan canvas jacket pushing him up against the wall knocking the dust off the walls and light fixtures creating a cloud of dust. " Look you devious, arrogant little prick! I don't know what your deal is? But I do know all about you and your type! But don't you ever disrespect me or the Group Leader again! He's the reason we made it this far!", exclaims Preston. Emil with a cocky look on his face and tone to his voice replies," Bet you want to hit me! Go ahead! Do it! Just proves that you are just as secretive as the Group Leader! But do it! The others will see it and lose all respect for you and him! Than maybe they will have the balls to ask why we are all here in the first place!" Maria walks up to Preston as he tries to restrain himself from slamming Emil through the wall, places her right hand in the small of Preston's back and calmly says," He's not worth it! Don't let him get to you! Let's just clear the path and get out of here. He's a jerk who peaked way too early in life who thinks his shit don't stink!" Emil continues to looks at Preston with an cocky glare as he stays pinned against the wall. Preston regains his composure and calmly lets go of him the canvas collars of Emil's coat slowly slipping out his hands. Preston turns around and walks away closing his eyes and taking some controlled deep breaths. Emil fixes his jacket and brushes the dust and cobwebs that fell on him, he walks up to Maria and arrogantly says," Thanks! I could have kicked his ass but that's okay I don't mind a girl helping me out! If you want, we could get together some time and I'll show you some appreciation!" Maria lifts her right hand and motions for Emil to come closer. Emil moves in closer and Maria says," I would never let your slimy, arrogant, douche bag ass ever touch me or any part of you! Now get out of my face before I punch it!" " Your loss bitch!", replies Emil. In a flash Maria swiftly kicks Emil square in the balls causing him to bend over in pain followed by a strong right upper cut that sends Emil back hard into the wall knocking him unconscious. " I warned you! That's as much you will ever get to touch me! Oh and it's Maria not bitch! Fuck face!" As the rest of the team look on with stunned expressions Keith and Preston walk up to Maria and Preston asks," Are you okay?" "Yes I am, I'll be fine!", replies Maria. "Thought you said he wasn't worth it!", asks Preston. Maria flexing the knuckles in her right hand says," I lied!" Keith replies," Come on Rocky lets look at that hand to make sure it's alright before we start clearing that pile." Maria continues to flex her hand and responds as she walks towards the barricaded doorway,"It will be alright,this isn't the first asshole I've cold cocked! Lets go clear this." The rest of the group follow Maria to the pile of furniture blocking their way and start to move it. Preston looks at Keith and quietly says," Guess we better go and help so we don't get punched out too!" " You don't have to tell me twice! I am not angering her, she's already struck once!"replies Keith as the two men make their way towards the other and help them clear the path to the stairwell.
On the top of the stairwell the Group Leader stands up and casually walks over to Grace and Hannah, he kneels down in front of them and quietly says," Are you alright to go? We should really get on our way but if you don't feel ready we can wait!" Hannah her eyes filled with a mix of kindness and a little fear stands up and says," I think so! We can get going." "Are you sure? We can wait a little longer if you need to?", asks the Group Leader. " I'm sure! Grace said she would walk with me and if you keep telling that story it would help take my mind off my fears?", replies Hannah. The Group Leader stands up, presses the button on the walkie talkie in his right hand and says," We are on our way down into the basement now Preston, let us know your progress when you can!" The rest of the team stand up getting ready to move along down the stairs. The Group Leader says to Hannah and Grace,"You two stay close to me." The two women nod their heads in agreement and follow close behind the Group Leader as they make their way towards the stairs and start down them with the other team members making their way down the dark stairwell lightly illuminated by the lanterns in their hands. "Now where was I said the Group Leader? Oh Yeah... ", says the Group Leader as they walk down the stairs.
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