The Danger Room: Chapter Two
Elithiel stared into the darkness around him. He was beginning to wonder when they'd hit the ground when the stopped abruptly. He held his balance as they shook. He looked around him but could see nothing.
"Hey…what's going on d'you know?" he asked to the other boys. There came three "uh-uh"'s and Elithiel nodded.
A buzzing sound came to his ears and he started. He looked all around him trying to find out where it was coming from. Then a white light sprung up, blinding them all. Elithiel shielded his eyes with his arms. Then they all felt a tugging sensation as their feet left the ground in unison. All of them let out screams as they were hurled into the white spectrum. For a few seconds it felt as if they were being compressed and then, it was over.
Elithiel fell foreword onto his chest hard on the ground and was winded. He felt the ground tremble as the other three hit the ground around him. He groaned as he crawled back up to his knees. He looked around to see that the others had landed some feet away from him. It was not them that he was concerned with. They were not in the rectangular room any longer nor were they in the darkness. They were in a city. People moved about on their seemingly day to day activities. The city was large and had many different sky-scrapers. The sun was bright and cars honked as they rushed to and fro.
People had turned to stare as Elithiel stood along with the other four. He was donned in his normal red hoody with the Evanescence symbol on it which was orange. His long jet black red streaked hair swayed in the breeze as it slowly washed over them. He had on long baggy jeans with a fire design rising halfway up them. Evan was in an O'Neil shirt and shorts that fell just below his knees, and for shoes donned brown Vans to match the rest of his attire. Bobby was in a light blue polo with faded jeans and white and blue shoes, and Kurt was in a navy blue hoody with dark jeans on and blue Vans. Compared to everyone else they were out of place, as they were the only ones not wearing suits in this city.
"Uh…vere are ve?" Kurt asked as they stared up at the buildings surrounding them.
"Los Angeles," Evan replied. Kurt looked at him quizzically and he simply pointed to a large green road sign above the street. Indeed it read; "WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES". They looked back to each other and moved together. They all had no idea what it was that they were supposed to be doing here. Elithiel looked sideways to Evan who shrugged. A beep sounded from Elithiel's ear. He jumped sideways and put a hand to his ear at the same time Storm's crisp voice rose above his shock.
"Elithiel, you've been placed in charge of this mission," she said briskly.
"But….what mission?" he responded.
"You've been assigned to save the other three," she answered. Elithiel gaped.
"What? A rescue mission then?" he said. The others were looking as if he had gone mad. They had no earpieces.
"It's quite simple. Find them and rescue them. Use your surroundings. You have no time limit….but the faster you can pull this off the better," she said before she was replaced by silence once again. Elithiel nodded and looked up to the others.
"Well….we have to move," Elithiel said, moving off. Bobby stepped out in front of Elithiel.
"Wait. What about the others? Aren't they coming soon?" he asked.
"They're already inside. We have to rescue them," he said to Bobby. Bobby blinked.
"Well, we won't get much done if we stay here. We should split up. Evan come with me. Iceman, you and Nightcrawler head west and fan out from there. Stay close," Elithiel said as he headed off with Evan.
Not long after they were engulfed in the people. They had to fight to move down the often crowded streets. Elithiel stopped ashe came to a stoplight.He was at the head of the crowd. He sighed glad to be out of the mass.
"One question…how are we supposed to find them? Are we just gonna walk and hope we find them?"Evan asked as he emerged beside Elithiel. Elithiel looked sideways at him. In truth he had no idea how they were supposed to find them. He looked up at the building in front of him, which was noticeably the tallest here.
"We could try getting a sky view," he suggested as the light turn green for them to walk. They rushed foreword as to not be swallowed again by the crowd.
"I'm game. Anything to get away from this," Evan said as they were pushed to the other side of the street. They practically ran to the building and pushed through the glass spinning doors. The inside was nice and neat and people at counters were holding phone calls or talking to people and looking very professional. Evan and Elithiel looked at each other before moving on towards the elevator. They stepped inside and looked at the floor selection. 75 floors. Elithiel sighed and pressed the top floor. It'd be a long ride.