"Twenty Euro's for a ticket, ma'am," said the gum-chewing, rather obnoxious ticket salesman.
"Euros? What? Can't you just use money like regular people?" Elle asked. Standing in line for ten minutes had made her angry. Very angry.
Mohinder slammed his palm against his forehead. Of course! He should've known that they wouldn't take dollars or yen. Mohinder looked up at the gondola Noah and Adam were in. They probably hadn't even paid for their ticket...
"I'm sorry ma'am," said the very obviously not sorry ticket salesman, smacking his gum loudly.
"Listen, buddy, we really need to get through-" Elle started.
"And we really need to keep the line moving, so if you would please step aside," he made a shooing motion with his hands.
Elle stuck out her thumb and index fingers, as if she was a kid playing guns. She closed one eye for aim, then pushed down her thumbs, sending two bright blue lightning bolts at the surprised salesman. He shook violently, then fell to the ground in a smoking heap. Elle reached into the ticket booth, and pulled out three tickets.
"Well, I suppose that's one way to do it," said Mohinder. They began walking towards the station. Elle made sure that there was nobody else in line.
Elle snapped her fingers at the car-operator. "Come on. Get us a gondola."
"All the cars at this station are gone right now, but if you-"
Elle (who was getting very tired of these sorts of people) gave the unfortunate worker a two-handed blast of lightning.
"Elle! Who's going to work the gondola now?" Ando asked.
"Oh, well, I guess I'll have to now," Elle hopped over the booth, and stared at the control panel for several seconds. She pulled a lever, pushed a button, zapped something, and soon a bright red gondola car was in the station. Mohinder and Ando quickly boarded.
"Elle, take us up so we're even with Noah and Adam," said Mohinder as the door shut automatically.
She nodded, too involved with the controls to reply verbally. Slowly, they began to rise off the ground, and out of the station. They quickly gained altitude, and the town shrunk beneath them.
There were two padded benches in the gondola, and the walls were made primarily of glass to allow maximum view of the town below. If they been in the car for slightly less epic reasons, the trip would've been an enjoyable one instead of a nerve-racking one.
Ando pointed out the window. Another car was on the cable next to them. Noah and Adam were fighting savagely inside.
Mohinder stared for several seconds, then remembered his super-strength. He kicked the window of their car, and it shattered. Cold air flooded in, temporarily taking his breath away.
Ando extended his arms, and red energy shot from his fingertips, breaking the windows of Adam and Noah's car. Ando took several steps back, then ran forward and leaped out the window into the other gondola.
After a long pause in which Mohinder had many visions of the strange variety of people that would attend his funeral, he did the same.
Noah, armed with a crowbar, was attempting to push Adam out of the shattered widow, and Adam, armed with his samurai sword, was trying to decapitate Noah. Both of them had to occasionally dodge Ando's red lightning, which he was shooting at them from the corner of the car.
Mohinder, in a moment of sheer terror, took a step backwards and nearly fell out of the car. He grabbed at the wall, and somehow managed to pull himself back up.
Mohinder, never a man for violence, said, "Noah! You and Adam have to stop fighting! You're-"
"Mohinder, can't you see I'm busy right now? Tell me about your science-project later," Noah said, as he ducked to avoid Adam's blade.
"This isn't about that! This is about-"
"Hello, this is our captain Elle, speaking," said a scratchy, radio-sounding voice, "And it's time for some Gibraltar fun facts!"
So that's where we are, thought Mohinder.
"Gibraltar has a population of twenty-eight thousand, seven-hundred ninety-six, which surprisingly, is also-"
Ando stepped forward, and tried to send a wide wave of red energy towards Noah and Adam, but he succeeded only in hitting Mohinder, who collapsed unceremoniously. Noah reached into his coat pocket, and pulled out a large, square, black pistol. He threw his crowbar at Ando, and it hit his forehead with a surprisingly loud thud. Training his gun on Adam, he fired off three rounds. They hit Adam soundly in the chest, and, staring down at the three large holes in his body, he tumbled backwards out of the car to the ground below, leaving Noah alone with Ando and Mohinder.
The ground below, however, was not in the least bit empty. In fact, by a strange coincidence, the ground below was currently occupied by Hiro Naukamura.
Hiro was on the ground below because there was also an ice-cream truck on the ground below. He had run off from the group because his trained nose had picked up its scent, much like a wild dog picks up the scent of a gazelle on the savanna. The wild dog, however, does not have to deal with currency problems.
"But yen is better anyway!" Hiro pleaded.
The ice-cream man was a large, bearded man, who was not moved in the slightest by Hiro's dilemma.
"Listen, if you don't have euro's, just go away."
"But you don't understand! I-"
Adam hit the ground with a loud thud. As he slowly got to his feet, Hiro could hear bones snapping back into place, and tissues and organs re-growing- which was not a pleasant noise.
The ice-cream man ran away in terror, which is really what Hiro should've done as well. Instead, Hiro stared at Adam, completely dumbstruck.
Adam blinked his eyes several times, looked around, dusted some dirt of his very blood-stained shirt, then looked at Hiro. His expression changed to one of pure anger. "CAAAARRRP!!!"
Hiro tore off down the street, Adam in hot pursuit.
Author's Note: Alright, action returns to the story! I will tell you now that I actually know how this story is going to end. I have planned out the rest of the story (to a certain extent) and its going to be awesome. But, every time you REVIEW, the story gets 16% more awesome.
Disclaimer: I don't own Heroes or any of the Heroes characters.