"... you can put my leg back together right?" Kevin frowned.
"Have more faith in me, honestly…" Edd huffed. "If I can see how Xavier builds, maybe I can figure a way into the CLOUD."
"Edd, a leg and a death machine aren't exactly similar."
"Says the man who landed a three story jump on that leg."
"Good point.
Edd looked the thing over, tracing the paneling along the sides. Xavier loved chrome, but it was super expensive to use. It seemed to be the same material the CLOUD had been made of with the exception of a few brass plates. Edd wrote that down. Perhaps the entrance wasn't the best place to start, but rather those plates… He poked around the leg itself, he frowned when he saw a latch on the side.
"Was this always there?"
"Ah… no actually, Xavier did some maintenance on it just before the CLOUD went up. Then he kinda disappeared."
Edd pulled at the latch and frowned. "It's stuck…" He tried prying at it with his screwdriver.
"What are you two doing?" Jourdon frowned, walking in.
"Trying to open this latch currently…" He sighed and dropped the screwdriver.
"Let me see…" Jourdon crouched down. "Wait… I've seen this before…" She pushed down on it, sliding the latch down the leg after she'd pushed it in and a compartment opened. It was literally that, a containment unit. Inside was this keycard.
"This is the same latch on the door…" Edd frowned. "How did you do that?"
"I have this music box he made… he said only I could open it because only I knew how which is what made it so special… if it's the same latch, it should open the same way."
"What about the keycard?"
"I'm not sure…" Jourdon frowned. "I've never seen it before…"
"We'll give it to you then, when we enter the CLOUD, we might need it."
Jourdon was quiet. "Do you think my brother left this to help us?"
"I do, actually." Edd smiled. "I was sure he wasn't trying to get us killed. So I'm glad we found this… How did you not know this was here?"
Kevin shrugged. "It takes him a long time to fix this thing up, I usually just fall asleep."
"We really could have been in and out sooner if you hadn't…" He sighed.
"Dude we wouldn't even be able to get into this thing without her!"
"Seems we have a lover's spat." A wild Nat has appeared.
Jourdon snickering, the other two boys stopped short, Edd's face burning up and Kevin shooting a glare to his friend.
"Nathan this is not the time or the place for-"
"He has a point~" Jourdon piped up. "You two fight like a married couple."
Edd sputtered, not sure if he was embarrassed or infuriated. "Y-you two stop that this instant there's nothing-"
"Suuuuuure." Nat snickered. "Totally believable."
"At least I'm not the one crushing on brooding teenage angst incarnate."
Nat grinned. "My heart longs for the angsty ones~"
"You have lost all shame."
"Never had it to begin with~"
"Well whatever, there's nothing going on with us so just leave it alone."
"If there's nothing then why the push?"
"Because you're annoying."
Jourdon was laughing so hard she'd started snorting. "So is 'nothing' what you were doing last ni-"
"Shut up!" Kevin hissed.
"Whoa what?" Nat grinned. "Are you kidding me?"
"Nope~ My tent is riiight next to his."
"This is too much."
"WOULD YOU TWO GET LOST?!" Kevin snapped, face now just as red as Edd's was.
Jourdon snickered, waving as she skipped off, dragging Nat behind her.
Kevin just stood abruptly and walked out of the room, despite his leg's hatch still being open. This left Edd standing, so red in the face that he might pass out. What on earth had just happened? He was so confused… regardless, he didn't have time to think about this, he had to get ready to approach the CLOUD. Now that they knew how to get in, there would be no stopping their campaign.