Mikey had revealed to the emergency crew that once upon a time, he had dreamed of just doing street magic. "I have mad ninja reflexes, dudes." He said, showing that he had Pete's watch and Johnny's penlight. "But my parents said there isn't a good future in that, and so I became a city official. Maybe I should do that as my night job though…" "You definitely have the skills." Jon answered. Mikey was about to reply when something big hit the door, causing it to cave a little.
They all stared at it for a moment before Jim said, "That chopper better get here soon." They all nodded, and were a wee bit curious what could have caused the door to cave like that. Hopefully whatever it was, wasn't usable again too soon. Just in case they had Mikey move back and get behind an air ventilation shaft for protection.
They heard sounds from below, the "rioters" shouting or whatever, but they couldn't think about that right now. Pete was half tempted to call in and see where the chopper was, but he didn't want to discourage anyone if they weren't close. He knew time was running out for them, he didn't think that the chopper would be back in time to help, but he couldn't let the others know that.
From behind the door he heard the voice of leader saying, "We got you trapped like rats. Soon we will open the door and that chopper won't be back in time to save you." Pete motioned for everyone to be quiet, hoping that the "rioters" would all think that they had gone, but no such luck. "I can see you, you can't pretend that you aren't there. In the distance, Pete started hearing the faint sound of the chopper returning. If only they could delay these men long enough for the chopper to fly them out of there.
"What's your deal? It can't be what you told me below." Pete yelled through the door, "Or at least it can't be that in its entirety, the whole city has been shut down, and I assume it's by others like you." The leader laughed manically and said, "Guilty as charged. Yes we are tired of the government getting it wrong, that's true, but you are also correct that that isn't the whole story. We want to rule the world, and what better way than taking over our home country piece, by piece. Slowly making it what we want into our image. True we could have gone through legal channels and slowly and sneakily created laws, etc. that would have suited us, but that would take longer than this course. This way we can offer wonderful recruitment options, such as join us or die, and what could take years or even lifetimes otherwise, will just take us months, if that."
"Once we rule this country, we can move on to others, slowly making the world the way we want it, we shall be kings and queens!" "With what to rule? If all get to have a say in it I mean." Pete asked. "Of course not all will have a say in it!" the leader spat back, "Only those with it from the start, the rest of you will serve us until your dying days." Just then he seemed to notice the sound of the chopper. He cursed under his breath and yelled at his minions to, "BREAK DOWN THAT DOOR!"
"Freeze!" came voices from behind them. Pete recognized the voice as his Captain and as the chopper landed he turned to the others and said, "We're safe. You two go on ahead to Rampart, us four will help clean up the rest of this nightmare. If you're all still there when we get back, we can chat about what happened today." Mikey and Johnny nodded, and taking the rest of supplies with them, climbed into the helicopter.