"Albrecht, for ze last time, zere is no such thing as a poltergeist!" Dementor shouted into the radio.
"I'm telling the truth, Herr Professor. We saw toilets explode, water fountains burst and the soda machine was throwing cans at us. The men are scared."
"Scared? SCARED?!" shouted the mad-scientist,"Wait untill I come down zere und shlap some sense into zem! Zen zey can be scared!"
Dementor slammed the radio on the table, then turned around and stomped out of the laboratory, muttering curses in perfect bavarian german and not forgeting to activate the sentry guns upon exit.
"Poltergeist?" Kim rose her eyebrow as she watched Dementors stubby figure disappear out of sight,"Seems that Dexter and Ron are having some serious fun."
She pulled the snake-cam out of the ventilation grate and put it into a pouch on her belt. A little something Dex wanted her to have.
The grate itself was a piece of steel enforced concrete, installed into the ceiling constructions. Chances of kicking it down were as real as stepping on a mine while talking a walk on the moon. Luckily enough, she had her laser pen with her.
Just a few moments and the grate dropped to the ground.
"Let's hope Dex set the radius right." Kim said pulling the plastic safety of the two EMP grenades. She quickly leaned out the hole in the ceiling and threw them into the opposite corners of the room. Before the turrets could do much, two strong magnetic waves swept through the sentries, frying their circuitry.
The girl opened her right eye and took a look around. The stinging ,cold wave had not touched her. She was fine.
Kim gave a sigh of relief, then vaulted out of the vent and landed softly on the ground.
No alarms. No henchmen. No blaster-fire. All - quiet and calm.
She felt a strange shiver crawl up her back as she walked up to the table where Dementors would-be doomsday weapon laid in it's formless, deconstructed state.
Open circuits, that should speak volumes of their, supposedly, malicious purpose, were silent to her untrained eyes. The only part she recognized was a blue-coloured square, socketed in the largest section of the machine. The 'Lynxtorm' chip.
The teen reached her hand out and removed the device. She looked around the lab one last time. Everything was quiet.
"KP!" Kim almost jumped out of her boots when she heard Rons voice through the earphone of the Kimmunicator, "You done?"
The girl pumped her fist, silently cursing herself for being taken aback so easily.
"Kiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiiiiiiim!" the speaker drawled.
"I'm here, Ron." Kim sighed, frowning a little,"What's the sitch?"
"Did you get the chip?" Ron inquired.
"Got it."
"We just saw Dementor storm out of his lab. Dex told me to 'get your status', while he goes to 'whistle for the birdie'." he made a small pause,"Whatever that means."
"I'm still in the lab. There's some strange device lying on the table, but I can't tell what it is. Let's just hope that it won't function without the chip."the red-head said, twirling the small square between her fingers," Say, Ron, you wouldn't happen to know anything about that poltergeist that's been haunting this place, would you?"
"Oh, that? Yeah. That was us."
"Typical." she sighed,"Leave the two of you for a moment and you turn a decent evil lair into a 'Haloween house of horrors'."
"Hey!" an annoyed squeak came through the earphone.
"Three of you." the girl corrected herself," Sorry, Rufus."
"S'aright."
"We didn't really think of doing it, but Dex forgot his trip-wire, so we had to find something else instead. We stumbled onto a locker filled with hygene supplies, mainly - dental floss and toothpaste. It kind of snowballed downhill after that."
Kim rose her eyebrow.
"How can you make toilets and water fountains explode with dental floss and toothpaste?"
"And a naked molerat."
"Riiiiiiight."
"We simply loosened up the pipes a little bit, then filled it with toothpaste and cooled it with nitrogen. Then we rigged the walves to a counterweight, held by dental floss. When one of the henchmen tripped on it and released the counterweight that turned the valve and released hot water into the pipes, building up pressure and causing the loosened pipes to burst, compromising the integrity of the area waterworks, thus draining the toilets, which exploded because the toilet water from the floor above dropped down quickly, causing a blow-out bellow."
Kim listened in silent shock and amazement.
"Simple hydrodynamics." Ron added, in a casual tone.
"Simple?" the girl repeated,"How can this be called 'simple'? How can YOU call this 'simple'?"
"Don't make me get technical,KP!" threatened the earphone.
Kim sighed in defeat.
"Fine."
"Uh,oh. Kim, I just saw Dementor turn around. He's heading back to the lab." Ron poured out.
"How much time before he comes back?"
"About, thirty, maybe fourtyfive seconds." the guy counted,"If you're still there - get out."
Kim looked at the chip one last time, then tightly clasped it in her hand.
"Gone."
AN: The strangest thing is - I wasn't drunk when I wrote it.
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