Author Notes: Chapter ten? Already? How time flies… well not much to say at the moment. Ummm I suppose I have a shameless plug for my new fic I started. It's far more ridiculous and I'm nervous if people will like it. It's called 'Kurt and the Biscuit Hammer' a weird title I know but give it time haha. Anyway please enjoy the next installment of GLEE!
GLEE!
Quinn stepped forward, pushing her way past two heavy wooden doors that opened to a dimly lit room. She cocked her hip and crossed her arms. The person in front of her was just staring, impassive as always.
"If you don't turn up the lights your eyes will deteriorate." Quinn quipped, wanting to get the ball rolling so she could leave all the sooner.
There was a soft half chuckle half indignant snort. "Watch it, that tone could be considered disrespectful to some." The other person leaned forward onto the large desk at the far end of the dark office.
Quinn fought the urge to roll her eyes, 'Perish the thought'. "That would be unfortunate Ms. Sylvester." She straightened the files she was holding before walking closer to the desk.
Sue watched her, reclining a bit in her chair. "Not as unfortunate as you turning alien medicine man and running down to join the freak show." She sipped her coffee, her eyes never breaking the stare she and Quinn were sharing.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, if I remember properly it was you who transferred me." She gave a quick 'bring it' smile. Restraining herself enough not throw the file at the woman, she settled for impolitely sliding it across the desk.
"One of my better decisions…" The taller woman pulled on her glasses and looked down with a securitizing eye. She was now playing a new game, avoid eye contact to show superiority, a personal favorite.
Quinn tapped her foot impatiently. She knew when the woman was buying time, waiting for the next little phrase or movement that would spring the newest pit fall she constructed for Quinn. One could live for a thousand years and never come close to understanding Sue Sylvester's vendetta making. Where one person may feel slight annoyance from any one slight caused to them, Sue turned it into a challenge. A declaration of war.
"Of course… if CHEER doesn't step in to fix their latest inadequacy we may still not be far enough from the resulting aftershock. Personally I prefer to leave this planet on much different term… which is why I constructed several mirror filled labyrinths in Guatemala." More flipping through pages that would be ignored. Sue was in rare form today.
"I'm sure CHEER is more than happy to get their hands on anything they can exploit." There was more edge than Quinn intended, she was not proud of her self for letting her former boss get to her.
Seeming satisfied with where this was headed Sue glanced at her again. "That'd girl, I knew you still had a bit of CHEER in that six valved monstrosity you now call a heart."
"I'm done here. I gave you the file and I trust I won't hear from you again for a very long time." She said in the most pleasant way possible, adding a cutesy smile at the end for extra sugar, hoping the resulting cavity would infect Sue's brain and kill her on the spot.
"I've already lined up therapists to prepare me to look upon you're disgusting half breed body next." She responded in the way one talks about the weather. Quinn doesn't listen she's already out the door, calling the base. She's out of the loop.
GLEE!
Blaine shielded his eyes from the sun, all three GLEE members were looking up now. A large black helicopter was descending near them. Kurt had been the first to notice it, Blaine thought he heard him curse. In fact both men seemed to be rather tense but neither seemed too keen on explaining why. Blaine hated being out of the loop.
"Blaine I want you to stand back behind me." Finn suddenly commanded. Blaine didn't question the order and walked back a few steps. Careful not to get to close to the beeping alien super thing, he briefly wondered if he should get his gun out.
"First sign of trouble… run." Kurt squinted as the dust started to settle. The helicopter had touched down a few yards away, on some poor person's lawn. It was shining in the daylight, black and intimidating, well armored. Blaine read the side of the air craft, CHEER? What was CHEER?
HE got his answer all too soon, the side of the helicopter opened. Blaine expected some sort of armed platoon of gun wield soldiers to jump out and start gunning them down. He did not expect two rather attractive girls to step out, wearing some sort of red and white leather suits, very form fitting. The word CHEER written on the chest of the ensemble, it was like they were advertising it or something.
"Normally I'd expect to be walking into a disaster zone when you freaks are involved. How's it going Stretch, Homo 1 and Homo 2?" A sassy Latin looking women said as she strolled confidently closer to them. She had this condescending little smirk on, she was already scanning the area with her eyes, making sure she had insulted everyone, not wanting to leave anyone out.
"Hey Kurtsie, Hey Finn." A sweeter simpler looking girl said from behind her companion. She had an unreadable face, it was like a cross between a practiced straight face and one of complete and utter cluelessness.
"What are you doing here? GLEE is more than capable of handling this situation." Kurt got right to the point. You didn't have to be a psychic to know that he was starting to feel uncomfortable. Blaine had never seen either of his co-workers so unnerved.
The darker skinned women gave them the best sideways, 'Oh Please' look Blaine had ever seen. The blonde girl didn't respond at all, he didn't see why the others were so intimidated.
"Sorry RuPaul but the president wants CHEER to handle this, must be tough knowing that you're sad little island of misfit toys gets passed over again." She walked past them and right up the black device.
The beeping had been increasing in frequency the closer she got. Taking something from her pocket the others drew their guns instantly. She gave both Finn and Kurt and eye roll, not intimidated by the firearms pointed in her direction. She waved a small shiny black object to show its harmlessness.
"Do you even know what this is?" she played with the object in her hand, looking bored. When no answers were given she smiled.
"I don't know what it is either." The blonde one admitted quietly, mostly ignored by every except Blaine who gave her an odd look.
"Thought so… well boys and girls, and in your case Kurt it's still up for debate, what we have here is a Sub-space vortex manipulator." Both Blaine and Brittany shrugged, this information lost on them. Kurt and Finn's however widened with this revelation.
"Santana… no way… seriously? How do you know?" Finn asked stepping closer to the alien device.
"Cause unlike you, CHEER is actively taking an interest in the "Void"" She held out the small black thing in her hand. Now getting a good look at it, Blaine could see it was covered in the same etchings at the device they were all standing around. It quivered a bit then flew out of her palm and into one of the holes that covered the machine. Slowly but surely the beeping died down and it returned to the state it had been when they arrived.
"What just happened…" Blaine said finally getting tired of not having any clue to what was going on, he hated being the new guy.
"It must have some sort of regeneration field, it calls back pieces of itself that fell off when damaged." Kurt said wagering the best guess he could. This type of technology was way beyond his understanding.
"CHEER found that little hunk and several others over the past couple years. They don't give off any signal or energy so they don't register on any normal scans." Santana explained, her voice a bit more businesslike. "After studying them and comparing them to remnants we found from that species we determined what they were part of."
"Why the main body show up now? After so many parts already fell through?" Finn asked, now running his hand over the silent machine.
"Don't know, don't care, CHEER said it might be due to some type of time space disruption along the sub-space corridor but it was during manicure so I didn't listen." She blew on her finger nails for extra emphasis.
"And I suppose CHEER's intentions with it are all wholesome." Kurt shot with a bit of vemon, he was glaring at Santana. Blaine wished he could contribute something, seeing Kurt so worked up made him nervous.
"CHEER works for the betterment of man-kind…" Brittany said, all eyes suddenly on her. She nodded, "I read that on a broacher once…"
Kurt squinted and shook his head, "Really…"
"Calm down Hummel, you know how we roll. We study it then we use it, and if possible, we sell it." She leaned on the egg like thing, "You both got a crash course in that."
Finn glared at her, hatred burning in his eyes, it was scary. Blaine thought he might go all bio soldier on her if she wasn't careful. Kurt shared a similar look, his eyes already glowing slightly.
Santana didn't look impressed, "Did I hit a nerve?" she cooed, standing up straight.
"Guys calm down…" Tina's voice on their headsets called out, "You know she's just trying to make you give her an excuse to cause more problems for us."
Kurt took a deep breath and nodded, "She's right Finn… we need to be leveled headed right now." Finn clenched his fist but stood down, Santana looked a bit disappointed.
"Smart move… now if you'll excuse us, we have a prize to take back to Ms. Sylvester." She patted the Sub-space whatever and with a grin.
"GLEE was here first and…" Fin was cut off by her hand.
"Global Liaisons to Extra-terrestrial Entities… that means you talk to the squish hippie aliens that like to visit from time to time and make sure they leave." Santana motioned to the sky. "Counter Hostile Extra-terrestrial Entities Reserve, CHEER is in charge of all things that might potentially give us a bit of protection from the not so nice aliens." She motioned around her, "That includes big beeping Sub-space vortex manipulators." She finally rested her hand on top of the machine.
"So many words…" Brittany mumbled.
"As if you guys can be trusted. Who knows what CHEER might do with something this powerful?" Finn crossed his arms, not ready to give it up without a fight.
"You don't have to trust us jolly green, you just have to deal with it." Santana grinned and pressed something on her collar. Soon more helicopters started to descend in the area, all with the CHEER logo on them.
Men dressed in various red and white themed fatigues jumped out and surrounded the GLEE members. They had their guns all trained on them, looking like they couldn't wait for an excuse to fire.
Blaine put his hands up, not knowing what else to do in a situation like this. Finn growled and motioned for Blaine and Kurt to follow him back to the SUV. An unwinnable battle is different from a lost battle.
Into their headsets Tina whispered that she still was analyzing the scans they had taken. She assured them that the machine was far from ready to be activated so it was better to let CHEER think they won this little battle rather than get killed.
Blaine had to agree, he didn't want to die on his first field mission. Once all three of them got back into their vehicle Kurt looked back at him. His face was stiff and unreadable, like he wanted to explain something but after a few moments he just shook his head and looked forward. From the SUV they watched as the CHEER members loaded the thing into their helicopters and fly off.
Finn slammed the dash board with his fist, causing a sizable dent in the fixture. "Damn it…"
"At least no one got hurt…" Blaine offered weakly, he received a glare in return.
"Yeah..for now. If they figure out how to get that thing working it could mean a whole new world of trouble." Finn motioned to the sky where they could still be seen flying off, "You have no idea what that thing is…"
"You're right. I don't, I have no idea what happened at all just now!" Blaine threw up his hands. "There is another "secret" organization that deals with aliens? Kind of a big thing to leave out of the manual."
"Look shut up Blaine, it's not like it's that simple ok…" Kurt shot back, seething a bit. "We don't like talking about CHEER… none of us do." Kurt pulled at his sleeves, he looked torn. There was a vulnerability that up till this point had not shown its self. The normally cool confident Kurt now looked fragile. Blaine felt the urge to hold him, almost forgetting completely about his own confusion and anger.
"Well…fine… but what is a Sub-space… vortex thing?" Blaine said moving on to the next topic.
"Something to be explained once we get back to the base." Finn said quickly, "Tina will be able to give a better explanation… I'm no good with this sorta stuff." He looked like he had cooled down a bit, he regained his composure and Kurt looked grateful for it.
Blaine sighed and sank into his seat. The adrenaline roller-coaster of today had suddenly caused him to feel very tired. They all looked tired, the drive back to base was slow, not the fast paced shit show of earlier. The weight of what happened seemed to linger over their heads.
'Hooray…more awkward silence… I was starting to miss it…' Blaine thought sadly, too many unanswered questions made him restless. He felt like he did back in the GLEE holding cell a month ago. So useless and confused, feeling like he was in over his head. It fucking sucked…
GLEE!
Author Notes: This was the weakest chapter to date I think… not very interesting at all. It kind of suffers from middle child syndrome where all the explanation and wrap up will be done next chapter and this just had t happen to get us there. Not that the explanation will be too fascinating haha. Oh well we got to see a bit of CHEER and GLEE interaction. Santana let it slip that there is a deep connection between the two organizations. Fun stuff right?
Anyway please read and Review, my numbers have been slipping and it makes me cry. ;_;