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The One Where They Help Save the World
"Uuuhhh..." Tom Sawyer groaned, holding one hand to his head as his eyes blinked open. "What the hell hit me...?"
Then his eyes popped open as he sat up and looked around in amazement at his surroundings.
He was in a large purple-coloured room, with two rather comfortable-looking chairs in it, along with a sofa that looked just as comfortable, set around a small table. He was sitting in one of the chairs, and Hartdegen was lying on the chair in front of him.
The sofa was currently occupied by Mina, Nemo and Jekyll, although Skinner appeared to be conspicuous by his absence at the present moment. Then again, considering that he was talking about the invisible man here, maybe he was here somewhere and Tom just couldn't see him.
As he looked for Skinner, he took the time to take in more details about his surroundings. The larger chair had a small glass table beside it, with a small white thing on it that he couldn't immediately identify.
A large window was opposite him, showing him a view of a large building with several windows on it, but little else besides. Wherever they were, he wasn't getting any clues by looking out of the window.
Behind the sofa, he noticed a small table with four seats standing in the centre of several shelves and drawers; the shelves in question were filled with all kinds of crockery. He also noticed Skinner was lying in one of the seats, his mouth leaking a small speck of drool that was smearing his face paint. He looked all right, but he'd probably have a sore head when he regained consciousness.
There was a door down at that end of the room as well, which at least suggested a way out of this place if the need arose.
Then he heard a groan come from the sofa. Looking at it, he saw Jekyll begin to stir into consciousness, and smiled a little at the sight. It may not have been much, but Sawyer was grateful that at least one of his friends was awake now.
"Jekyll?" he asked his friend. "Are you all right?"
Jekyll smiled a little as he heard the young American speak. "I'm... fine, thanks, Tom," he said, as he held his hand to his head. "Have you any ideas what..." his voice trailed off a little as he looked around at his surroundings. "Incredible..."
"Yep, that just about covers it," Sawyer said, as he looked around at the large room again. As he looked, he noticed that there were two other doors behind him, but what he could see suggested they just led into a couple of bedrooms. There was also a wooden chest of drawers between the doors, which had a huge black contraption on it, with a large blank glass screen on it.
Looking back at Jekyll, he noticed that the doctor was staring at the black thing with an inquiring expression on his face; evidently, the scientist in Jekyll was curious as to what the thing was, and was wondering if he'd be able to take it apart at some future date to figure it out. His scientific background may have been more inclining towards chemistry than technology, but he defaulted to being a scientist in these situations.
"Save the analysis until later, Jekyll," he said, getting up from the seat and stretching a little. "We've got to...."
His voice trailed off as he reached under his jacket for his Colt pistols and came up empty. Looking over at Nemo and Mina, he realised that those two had been deprived of their weapons as well; Nemo's scabbard was empty, and Mina's daggers weren't strapped to her sides either.
"Ah, nuts..." he groaned, as he looked back at Jekyll. "It looks like someone stole our weapons. We're pretty much helpless if we're attacked."
Jekyll groaned. "Dammit." And then a thought occurred to him. "And I don't have any spare samples of my serum on me..."
Sawyer nodded a little as he saw Jekyll's point. If they couldn't find any chemistries in this place, or any chemicals at all, than Jekyll wasn't really all that much use in a fight situation.
Therefore, they'd better try and wake Mina up, at least; if anyone attacked them now, Mina would be their best bet to hold off any superhuman opponents until the rest of them could find something to defend themselves with.
Sawyer looked over at Jekyll. "You try and wake Mina up," he said, as he got out of his seat and walked towards Skinner. "I'll attend to our resident thief."
"Right," Jekyll said, as he reached over to shake the sleeping vampire's shoulder. "Mina?" he whispered timidly, not wanting to wake her up and end up pinned to the ground by her before she'd fully regained her senses. "Mina, wake up. We have a... situation here," he said, uncertain what else to say. After all, they weren't in any obvious danger, but this place definitely wasn't their home time, so who was to say what could happen?
Maybe they should have thought about things more before they dived into that time portal...
"Uugghh..." Mina groaned, breaking Jekyll's line of thought. The vampire blinked her eyes open, eventually managing to focus on Jekyll after a few seconds. "Doctor Jekyll? What happened?" She paused for a few seconds as she took in their surroundings. "And where are we?"
"Well, I don't know the answer to the second question, but regarding the first, I think we were knocked out by the stresses we encountered in the time portal," Jekyll replied.
"Seems a fair enough guess to make," Sawyer said, from his position at the apparent kitchen area where he was trying to rouse Skinner. "After all, the guy who came through that portal was wearing that suit; maybe it helped him cope with the pressures we encountered." He paused a little as he thought of something. "Come to that, how come I woke up first? I mean, I'm only human; surely you should have woken up first, if anyone," he said, looking over at Mina.
"If I recall correctly, you leapt through while being held by Hyde," Mina pointed out, as she got to her feet and stretched, straining her chest forward in a manner that made Jekyll blush slightly. "Maybe he managed to protect you from the worst of the stresses. It could also explain why Jekyll woke up shortly after you did; technically, he didn't have to deal with the stresses himself."
"Makes sense," Sawyer commented, as his efforts to revive Skinner were rewarded with a slight groan from the thief. "You guys see about waking up Nemo and Hartdegen; I'd prefer everyone to be up and about before anyone comes into this place."
Nodding, Jekyll and Mina turned their attentions to the League's fellow scientists, and began to shake them into consciousness. Meanwhile, Sawyer focused on getting Skinner back to full awareness, thanks to the oldest method in the book.
Slapping him in the face.
"Ouch!" Skinner yelled, as he sat up suddenly in his seat, nearly hitting Sawyer's nose with his forehead. Then he realised who he was looked at, and calmed down somewhat. "Sawyer? What happened?" Then he noticed his surroundings. "And where the hell are we?"
"Best guess? We were found by someone at wherever that time portal dropped us off, and they took us to their apartment," Sawyer replied. "As to anything else, I can't help you there. We don't even know what the motives of the people who picked us up are; they didn't hurt us, which is a good thing, but they disarmed us, which is definitely not."
"Well, m-maybe they just wanted to make sure nobody was hurt when we woke up?" Jekyll asked, as Nemo and Hartdegen began to wake up. "After all, how would they know we weren't dangerous?"
"Uhh... valid point there, Henry m'boy," Skinner said, raising himself to his feet as he pulled his hat out of his pocket and put it on his head; a ridiculous thing to do inside, but it made Skinner feel more comfortable.
"So, what do we do now?" the thief asked, as Nemo and Hartdegen looked around in wonder at their surroundings- well, Nemo looked around in wonder; Hartdegen had already seen an even later future than this, so he wasn't quite as overawed as his friends.
"Well, I'd recommend us waiting until however put us here shows up," Sawyer said, looking at the others. "After all, we haven't been harmed yet, so we might as well see who bought us here; maybe they'll help us out with our current problem."
Mina nodded. "A fair suggestion, Tom. And, I believe, one that we shall soon be testing out."
"Really?" Hartdegen asked, looking at Mina curiously. "Why?"
"Because I can hear someone outside this room's door," Mina said, pointing at the door that Sawyer had noticed earlier beside the table area Skinner had been sitting it. "Therefore, if they have hostile intentions towards us, we shall know very soon."
The door swung open...