Almost immediately after closing what both children were very sure was absolutely a portal to hell, there was a loud woosh, and the two turned.
"Hey! Ruby wants us all in the playground now." Said Julio, who had just came up behind them. The kids nodded.
"Awesome! We got a plan?" JJ said. Julio nodded.
"Yup. We already have what we need to do since we were making it together, but Ruby still needs to tell you two what your jobs are." He replied. Noah and JJ grinned at eachother, before rushing off to the lockers. Julio had already shot past them when they got there. Within the next minute, both children had been safely deposited into the playground. Ruby was at the head of one of the tables with a few papers in her hand. She waved JJ and Noah over and they sat down.
"Alright, so, I'm going to give you the lowdown on what we're gonna be doing. Noah, you're staying here with Heathcliff first of all." She said. Noah frowned but accepted it. He didn't really want to get upgrades, so it made sense.
"Yeah...fine." He huffed slightly. JJ patted his shoulder.
"Maybe next time bud." They said with a laughing tone. Noah rolled his eyes at them. Ruby snapped at them, drawing their focus.
"Hey. Kids. Focus." She said with a dissaproving frown.
"JJ, you're coming with us, but you're staying back for if anything goes wrong. You're going to be staying on one of the buildings and keeping watch to make sure they don't come around and catch us by surprise while we're in there. I might be able to sense that myself, but its better safe than sorry. After we get our guy, you are going to be staying there to make sure that nobody notices one of them is missing. Matilda and Duncan will be with you on that part. I can't stress this enough, but this is a STEALTH mission JJ. I know you love to run in and make a rucus, but if you do that here, it might blow our cover. No charging in and screaming " for narnia" OK?" She explained. JJ snorted.
"Well, I mean, you gave me the idea now." They said innocently. Ruby glared full force at them.
"JJ" She growled warningly. JJ put their hands up in a placating manner.
"Alright alright, geez Ruby no need to get mad." They said, sweating slightly. Ruby sighed, shaking her head.
"And for reference, we will be using our codenames when we are out in the field. Yours was fidget right?" She asked. JJ nodded.
"Thats the name, don't wear it out." They said smugly. Ruby did not look very amused to say the least.
"...Tough croud huh?" They said over to Noah. He made a poor attempt to stiffle his laughing. Ruby tapped her fingers, waiting for the poorly concealed laughter to finish.
"Are you two jokesters done yet?" She asked with a raised brow.
The children nodded, turning their attention back over to her.
"Alright. JJ, there are a couple things that might be useful to have that Heathcliff and Duncan want to give you. Why not go get them? They should be up in the work room." She said, pointing over to the exit. JJ nodded, waving bye to Noah before running off. Soon enough they got to their destination. They briefly considered kicking the door open, but decided that would do more harm than good, and simply walked inside like a normal person probably should. Like Ruby had said, Heathcliff and Duncan were both there.
"Sup guys. Heard from Ruby you got some things for me." JJ greeted. The two waved back at them.
"That would be correct! Come over here a second." Duncan said.
JJ trodded over, and Heathcliff handed them something. It looked like a watch.
"So, we were able to get most of the things that were here up and running again, as well as refurbish them and add a few new features." He said.
"What you are holding there might look like a regular watch, but I can assure you that it isnt. For example, it can do this." With that said, he reached onto one side of the watch, pressing a button on it. A thin red laser quickly shot out of the front of it. It burned into the table in front of them. He angled it down, and it cut a clean, straight line down the middle of it. JJ's eyes sparkled in awe.
"Whoa." They breathed. Duncan nodded.
"Whoa indeed." He said, smiling.
"It has a few other features too. Like a map," Heathcliff said, pressing another button, which caused a small hologram map of the town to appear, as well as a small green dot, which JJ assumed was the watch.
"A communicator," he tapped a few things on the watch, and one of the other on the table began to ring out a small tune.
"A lockpick," once again, he pushed a button, and two small metal pieces came out of it with a click.
"And a flashlight." He finished, pressing down on the watches face, which caused a bright light to come out it.
"If you ever need it, there's also an sos feature for if you're in trouble and there's nobody near you. It'll track the watch and track where it goes so it can send it to the others. We picked up a good few of these things, so there's enough for everyone. We cant find the nose coms, so these will have to do for now." He said. JJ raised a brow.
"Nose coms?" They asked. The two adults nodded.
"Nose coms. They were tiny communicators that were implanted in your nose. They worked pretty darn well if I do say so myself." Duncan said. JJ gave a slight skeptical look, but brushed it off as just one of those spy things.
"That's not all though. We have a little thing that would probably be a much better to carry around for riding then that other thing you use." Duncan said. He reached back around the table and pulled out two things. One looked kind of like a snowboard. It was made out of metal and painted black and green. There were two things on it that were apparently where the feet went. It had a few lights on the sides as well. The second thing had two black arm straps that were connected to a grey circle with a green center.
"You can fly around on this without having to worry about falling off or anything, and I'd say it would be a LOT easier to carry around. It has a couple cool features that could help you out. I'll show you." Duncan said. He pushed down on one side of the board. It buzzed for a second before hovering in the air slightly.
"For one, you can let yourself hover without having to use your upgrades." Then he went to the other side of the room, and pressed the center of the strange harness thing. It began to glow slightly, and so did the board. The board suddenly zipped over, attaching itself to the harness.
"You can get the board to come back to you from a good long ways away." He pulled the board from the harness. He tapped on it three times, and a bright light came out of the front.
"As you can see, it also has headlights for traversing at night. There are a few options on how bright you can make that. And that's pretty much it." Duncan finished.
He handed JJ both of them, and JJ attached the board onto the pack...harness...thing and pulled it onto their back, doing a small clip strap across their chest. It was pretty snug and didn't shift around when they moved. They grinned, eyes sparkling.
"Fuckin awesome. Thanks guys!" They said. Heathcliff and Duncan gave them a thumbs up.
"Well, we all probably get back to the playground. We're probably going to start the mission in a couple hours." Heathcliff said. The other two nodded, and they all exited the room and went towards the lockers. JJ was quite nearly shaking with excitement, a wide grin stretched across their face.