I'm kinda on a roll with this one at the moment. I have the whole weekend planned out (yes I know it's currently weekdays) So there's this one a couple chapters to come in the next day or so. Tonight we have Spiderman, but still to come I feature Ghostbusters and others. Enjoy.
Chapter 4: Spiderman
Ranger was out of town. Crime was at all time low. Lester and Bobby were stuck with Bomber duty for the weekend. They had orders that Steph was not to leave the Rangeman building unless it was absolutely, vitally necessary. Now they had to find a way to entertain her for forty-eight hours until the big boss man returned to claim his prize. This could get tricky.
They were assembled in the seventh floor apartment, watching as Steph sprawled languidly across the leather couch and sigh out her utter boredom. Santos and Brown stood stock still in the doorway, unsure of what to do. She let out another sigh and suddenly sat up to stare directly into their eyes. "Come on!" she exclaimed. "It's Friday night! What do you do on a Friday night when you're not working?"
A quick glance at one another to assess what the other was thinking lead them to confess, "We do voiceovers on old security footage from the building."
Steph blinked a couple of times before saying, "Are you serious?"
"Deathly," Bobby told her. "We choose a movie, comic or cartoon and quote it over the film. It's hilarious."
"Why don't we do that then?" she asked eagerly.
"Are you sure?" Lester inquired. "You're usually targeted a lot."
"Of course I am." She rolled her eyes and the guys quickly got their stuff together, plugging the first tape into Ranger's VCR to play on his "ultra mega huge wide screen TV" as Steph like to call it.
"A theme!" Bobby exclaimed, holding his hands above his head for several moments.
"Spiderman!" Lester cried.
Steph looked bewilderedly between them. "Spiderman? Really?"
"Sure, why not?"
Steph shrugged and the boys took a moment to compose themselves and get their quotes in the fore front of their brains. The moment passed in complete silence before Bobby pressed play. The picture came up dark, almost as if there was nothing but blackness in the area being filmed. They looked at each other, doing their ESP thing and Bobby ejected the tape again to inspect it. He showed the label to Lester who drew his eyebrows together.
Eventually they got the tape working. It was the tape from the main elevator. Hal stepped in dragging some dead beat crim or another, being none too gentle with him. The crim spat on Hal's shoe and Hal just shrugged and mumbled something.
"You give off bad vibes, shocker!" Bobby filled.
They fast forward through their ride, then skipping over a bit of a brawl between Lester and Tank before they came to Ranger and Steph entering from what must have been the parking garage. Ranger's hands hardly left Steph's body, but she kept shrugging him off. When he gave her a questioning look she spoke. "Peter, I'm getting married." Bobby said.
Ranger gave a half smile and replied, Lester filling in his words. "I've always pictured you getting married on a hill top..."
"Who's the groom?" Bobby spoke again as Steph's lips moved on the screen.
"You haven't decided yet."
Steph glared at the men on the couch across from her. "Is that what you think?" she asked, anger flaring.
"Beautiful, we just quoting. Besides, it's not what we think, it's what Ric thinks. He's always going on about how you seem to be yo-yoing from pillar to post."
Shocked, she sat, mouth hanging wide open for long moments, until finally Lester changed the tape. The hallway outside Steph's apartment came up, shocking her even more. "You have access to my building's security?"
"Honey, we provide your building's security."
Diesel turned up on the doorstep and all eyes returned to the screen. Steph opened the door and leaned against the frame.
"Oh! I know this one! It wasn't long after that time that I quit bounty hunting!"
"Nice," Bobby muttered, just before a dialogue began. First came Diesel. "Hey it's me again."
Lester filled in an imitation girl voice as Steph replied on the screen. "Hey."
"How was your audition," Bobby voice overed for Diesel.
Steph narrowed her eyes. "How'd you know?" Lester squeaked out.
An easy grin crossed Diesel's face as he replied to the sound of Bobby's voice. "The hotline. Your mum, told my aunt, told me."
"That line would have worked better if it was Morelli," Steph grumbled.
"So you just came by?" Lester supplied for the Stephanie on the screen as she moved her mouth.
A shrug from Diesel as he once again contributed to the conversation. "I was in the neighbourhood, needed to see a friendly face. I took three buses and a cab to get in the neighbourhood, but... so how'd it go?"
"Oh," Lester began. "They said I needed acting lessons. A soap opera told me I need acting lessons."
Diesel took a look at his watch before stating in Bobby's voice, "Lemme buy you a cheeseburger. The sky's the limit up to." A quick feel of his pockets for before making his wallet appear in his hands. He flicked through it. "up to seven dollars..." He tipped some coins into his palm and counted them. "And eighty four cents."
At that moment the phone rang. The three of them jumped at the sudden sound and Steph leaped up to snatch it from the wall. "Hello?" she greeted.
"Babe," came Ranger's voice. "Have they pulled out the tapes yet?"
Steph glanced over at the boys, changing tapes yet again. "As a matter of fact they have. When were you going to tell me that you've got my building wired for video?"
"When you needed to know," he stated evenly.
"Oh, so like, I don't need to know that when I steal across the hall to grab the paper in my underwear that people can see me?"
Three voices simultaneously exclaimed, "You leave your apartment in you underwear?"
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