Chapter 2 Warp Pipes
Serendipity's point of view
Claudia, Constance, and I surveyed our hard work.
"People are starting to arrive"
"Urgh! President Johnson sent General Ross through first…"
"Let's test the button."
"OK"
Constance pressed the button on the gallery wall and with the noise that a wrong answer made on Family Feud General Ross was banished to the plexiglass prison in the far corner of the lower auditorium with a vacuum hose…
She let out an evil laugh.
Others began to arrive.
"OK we need to process them before we can use the button again, Metatron and God both said that we could have one scapegoat" I said
"One scapegoat in total or one scapegoat each?"
"One scapegoat in total"
"Nuts" said Claudia
"We need to test the mobility equipment"
"OK"
"There are manual controls on the seats, and there's also an override button on the console."
"OK. That's a good idea."
Even though I didn't need to use the mobility equipment, Claudia and Constance both did and both were under 16 so it was safer to have me go with them.
"Great. It works like a charm."
A queue was beginning to form by the door of the auditorium, so I took my opportunity.
"Welcome, everyone, to the viewing room. We are about to embark upon a serious, very necessary, and very time-consuming mission. Once we start, we will not stop."
I pressed a button on the portable console. 8 more sets of double doors opened. I pressed another button and security equipment buzzed into place.
"Form an orderly queue at each door please, the security equipment is self-activating once I do the primary activation. Please step through one at a time and follow the audio instructions. After your security scan, the person at the front of your group will say their name and your group's name and purpose."
"Anthony Edward Stark, representing the Avengers"
"Steven Grant Rogers, representing the Avengers"
"You cannot both represent the same team"
"We did… once upon a time"
"Yeah, and you betrayed me."
"How? How did I betray you?"
"Your best friend attacked my parents"
"Tony, I AM ONLY GOING TO TELL YOU THIS ONCE, BUCKY WAS NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND THAT NIGHT"
"I DON'T CARE, HE HURT MY MUM"
"ENOUGH!"
CLANG!
"Until you learn how to behave, Steven Grant Rogers, you and your team are in prison."
"Vincent Kennedy McMahon, McMahon family"
"Paul Michael Levesque, WWE"
"Nurse Phyllis Crane, Representative of the new Nonnatus House, in Manhattan, formerly Poplar."
"Kristin Amanda Thomas, Babysitters Club"
"Anastasia Elizabeth McGill, WWE Learning Academy. Call me Stacey. Who do I speak to about dietary requirements? I have Brittle Type 1 Diabetes and my diet needs to be extremely well controlled."
"We all ready know Ms McGill."
"Good"
"Peter Benjamin Stark, Junior Avengers"
"Ross Eustace Geller, the Manhattan Six"
"Anthony Soprano Junior, I go by AJ"
"Hadrian Edwin Stark, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I am also known as Harry Potter. With me is my soulmate, Severus Snape."
"Agent Margaret Elizabeth Carter-Stark, co-founder and co-director of the Strategic Scientific Reserve or SSR and the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division, or SHIELD"
"All right everyone, please be seated… and we will tell you about the mission, and the rules…"