Chapter 3: Accidental Pull-off

Dan Cooper got back to MDPD after taking his lunch. Going in and heading straight for the elevator, he had only one thing in his mind; finishing his work. He thought that if he did, it would probably solve their homicide case and it was going to be all thanks to him. He couldn't wait.

And, yet, to his annoyance, as he came in the elevator, the irksome ticking noise was still there. It was there the last time he used he went in and that was about an hour ago. And although he was only going to be inside for a limited amount of time, he just couldn't spend another second listening to the grating noise.

He was getting sick of it.

Dan poked his head out the metal doors, glancing form left to right, making sure that there was nobody coming in with him. He drew his head back and glanced down at his wristwatch, checking the time. Pressing a button, the metal access was shutting so he readied himself. Knowing that he only had a few seconds to do it, he did not waste any time.

Noticing that the unbearable ticking noise came from the roof of the pulley, he started there. Immediately leaping upwards, the young AV expert roughly tapped the top, his knuckles hitting the lid, making a popping sound. Then, he took another huge leap and caught the edges of the square opening. Having little to no difficulty at all, he hoisted himself up.

'So all those pull-ups did pay off,' he thought, remembering the advice Eric gave him about catching the ladies with muscular arms. It didn't work for him though.

The moment he was on the roof of the elevator, he accidentally inhaled a ton of dust, making him sneeze and getting himself covered entirely. He looked like a human sized dust bunny with all the filth.

Setting aside all the dirt, he felt silly. The thought came to mind that he looked like a spy with the way he was acting and getting himself inside the elevator shaft with the elevator still moving. (And that was all because of some stupid racket, no less). But he had no time to ponder right now; he needed to find the mysterious ticking noise.

"Where, where, where?' he said inside his head, looking around. The lack of light made it hard for him to see clearly, so he ran his hands on every surface of the unclean roof.

"Got it!" he cried out when he felt an irregular object come in contact with his hands.

He quickly made a grab for it, not bothering to take a look as he became aware of the elevator's stillness and silence.

The steel doors slid open and the people on the floor saw how empty it was, which seemed to them as odd.

'Now, why would an elevator go to this particular floor and open all on its own?' they wondered. Surely if somebody pressed the button to make the thing end up on the crime lab floor, they would've entered by now, or exited.

And just then, something dropped from above, followed by a cloud of dust.

It was the Audio Visual expert, Dan Cooper.

And the second his feet hit the base of the elevator, shaking it a little, as if on cue, somebody called him and set off his ring tone, the theme song of Mission Impossible filling the atmosphere.

He didn't know people were staring at him as he went out the elevator before it closed itself shut. He began dusting himself off, patting the sleeves of his white T-shirt, continuing down to his dark slacks, his other hand holding the object he had found.

'Who the hell would put a metronome on the roof of the elevator!' Dan screamed inside as he held it up.

Everyone, agape, watched him straighten up and run a hand through his brown dusty hair. He then walked away as if nothing had happened, his ring tone of Mission Impossible still loud and following.

Where in the hell did he come from?

What's with the Mission Impossible look?

And why, in heaven's name, was he carrying a metronome, of all things?

And as if that wasn't enough, Eric and Ryan came out of nowhere, going at it with each other.

"You hid my metronome in the elevator!" erupted Ryan, looking very pissed.

"No," said Eric with a shake of his head. "I left it ON the elevator."

"WHAT?" exploded the younger CSI. "What the hell, Eric!"

"Come on! It was a good idea!" said Eric, reasoning. "I used to do it with my buddies when we were in college! It annoys people!"

"They won't hear the damn thing, Eric!" Ryan told him. There was no way you can here a metronome with all the noise the elevator was making.

"Hey!" Eric warned, pointing a finger. "Do not underestimate the powers of the all-annoying metronome."

"How am I supposed to get it back?"

"Don't worry," the young Cuban said, waving a hand to close the matter. "It's not like somebody would just go up and grab the thing in less than 12 seconds and pull-off a Mission Impossible."

"Well, yeah," agreed Ryan angrily in his isn't-that-obvious tone. "Only Tom Cruise can do that."

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Little Horatio: Okay, okay! I didn't actually do that when we were playing with the elevator. It's hard! And I don't wanna get caught pulling the stupid stunt. Though it would actually be pretty cool…maybe, I should give it a go.

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