Terror worms [Wrecker]

Now that they didn't need to fly through the tunnel, he could let down the slightly wriggling male that was latched onto his back. once that was done he ran his fingertips over the cold surface of the wall, more testing the strength of the wall more than anything else. "I don't know why theres the lead wall, but it won't be there for long." Atlas noted with a shrug before letting his hand dig into the wall, feeling the metal bend around his hands. It gave way without much difficulty and within a matter of moments sterile light would flow over him.

What lay beyond the wall was a sort of lab room, with tubes lining the wall filled with variously sized....worms within tubes. "Well I think we found where the worms came from." He muttered stepping into the room, looking for anything else of interest. "But there aren't any scientists, which feels really questionable. Maybe they're cloning the dinosaurs or something like that." Not exactly a likely idea, however it was something that would possibly happen considering the giant worm.

There were a few screens settled upon the wall with things flashing across them that he did not really understand. It might have been important stuff involving the worms around them within their test tubes. That was when he took notice of what appeared to be a camera, something that was focused upon them of all things. As soon as he took notice of it an alarm would begin to go off as the wall itself would rapidly close behind them. Within a matter of seconds men dressed within black would appear in the only door that lead out of the room with weapons trained upon them.  

"Security's here, damn."

Now caught proverbial red handed, Atlas wasn't too sure what they could do from there beyond either run away or deal with the security. Unfortunately he did not have any manner of mind control powers, so that was not a thing. "Wow, security that actually responds, well that was not something I was expecting." Atlas muttered to himself genuinely interested before returning to the fact that they were now being threatened with potentially dangerous weapons. Unless these guys weren't so prepared for metahumans, then they were in no danger at all. With wrecker probably squaring up for a fight, well maybe he should do the same.

"I take these guys out and you...keep reading those papers. Might be something important in there." With that quick imperative given, Atlas would appear to be a blur of motion as he rapidly closed the distance between himself and these guards. before they even knew it, one of their weapons was ripped from their hands, being thrown so hard against the wall that it practically broke apart. Given so little time, the only thing the others could do was turn their weapons towards him before the barrels were forcibly bent downwards to make them for the most part useless.

"I bet you were expecting this to go differently, right?" With impressive speed he knocked them all out with swift punches, but then again human guards were not as efficient against a metahuman super weapon. Should Wrecker have read through the papers further, he would have read about a strange agent known as Ichor. Mostly information about it having a strange rapid mutagenic property when exposed to live tissue in certain amounts, causing mutation as well as potential superhuman capabilities. This suggested that something more was going on than just worms.

"So, what did you find out?" Atlas asked looking down to the now unconscious guards before returning his attention to his ally.

Now pleased with his own work, Atlas looked to Wrecker who appeared to have made some advancements within their own research. "Ichor, that sounds kinda weird." Atlas sighed, taking the papers and looking them over with a cursory glance. They appeared to be talking about some manner mutagen and If that were the case then maybe someone was trying to form a metahuman army. if that were the case, then he would have to do something about that quick. "Alright this is looking pretty bad, this could probably be used to make some kind of super army. I mean it looks like it anyway." Setting the papers down he looked to Wrecker with a slight serious expression.

"If that's the case it looks like we need to stop them." The problem being that he had no idea how they would do that. "We should probably find where they store this Ichor substance and destroy all the samples. Maybe destroy their mainframe too, dunno if they have any information stored on it too." Stopping the potential for a superhuman war was the first thing on his mind, and finding out how to do that was more important than anything else. Rolling his shoulders, a low popping sound filled the room for a moment.

Motioning for Wrecker to follow behind him, Atlas stepped out into what looked to be a hallway taking a few pages from evil genetic labs 101. With it's sterile looking walls and overall clean feel to it, something told him that. "Though I guess doing all of that...may be a little harder than just saying it." Pausing for a few seconds, Atlas hummed annoyedly. "I wonder if this place has a map. Evil science labs should totally have a map. Oh well, I guess we should....follow the signs that are obviously on the wall."

While not genre savvy, these evil guys sure knew how to unwittingly help the heroes anyway. With eyes focused upon the signs clinging to the wall, a small grin crept across his face. Red lights continued to flash across the walls as the sirens would keep blaring, so maybe that needed to be dealt with too,"Ugh, that sound is getting really annoying. I wonder if I have to smash something to make it stop. I bet there's a control room for this kind of thing, maybe it has a map too." Tapping into his x-ray vision, Atlas looked downward which yielded better results than before.

Sure, some rooms could not be seen but he did take notice of a rather large computer a floor down. Raising one fist into the air, he slammed it into the ground with exceptional force, creating a hole within the floor as he dropped to the one below it. Steel, and various other metals meant little when he intended to get through them. "Okay, we just need to head down this hallway and we're golden." That was when he took notice of a few guys in lab coats staring at them incredulously.  

"Ummmm...don't mind us. We're just looking for your super computer."

"Heh I got that." Atlas chuckled to himself upon making notice of the slight pun being made, though indeed things were going to get wrecked. Sadly enough finding a super computer was rather easy considering that they didn't make any robot drones or something to protect themselves. While he was considering the logistics of dismantling computers, Wrecker appeared to force the scientists to scatter while they did their good stuff. "It's all good." He responded while punching through the wall into another room entirely as his eyes fell upon what looked to be a rather large....computer thing.

"That was.....a little too easy." Atlas noted to himself before shrugging. "Not like I'm gonna complain about an easy job though." Stepping through the new doorway made by his fist, blinking lights filling the room. It felt as if this whole room was removed from some kind of old sci fi movie, though with a likely better computer. "Okay, I guess I just punch this thing until it stops working." So that was what he would do, approaching the processor looking bit and slamming a fist with exceptional force into the center as his fingers curled around what was assumed to be wires.

Sparks shot outwards as he continued to rip more and more until he was sure that it would shut down, but instead something else had happened. Self destruct sequence initiated. Base set to explode in t-minus three minutes.  

"Oh crap....this is not good." Within a matter of seconds Atlas began to panic as he realized that...there were likely more people within the building and he could not just let them get exploded. "Okay I think you know the way out of here, right? I have a few things to do before everything blows up so......meet you at the giant worm hole?"

Having someone worry about his own well being was a new one really, granted he had lived around people that expected him to be some indestructible thing for so long that he believed he was himself. [olor=brown]"It's not that I want to leave you by a car or anything, but...as far as I know I'm the only one that can run supersonic speeds and I think there are a few people in the blast radius. Just gonna pick them up and I'll meet with ya."[/color] Atlas explained as quick as he could without leaving the male confused, offering a sly smirk and a wink visible through his mask.

"I'll be out in like....two minutes tops, plenty of time.' Atlas was hoping they would understand, though in the small chance that he could not escape, well hopefully his powers would allow him to at least protect the people within his hands. "So I'll see you there." Not really giving them much room to argue, he was gone within a flash realizing that reaching his top speed was a little easier than it usually is. The whole world still moved within it's slow motion  as he zoomed through the halls, picking up each person as he went.

They likely did not known what was happening, but then again that was to be expected when someone was moving too fast to even see. Luckily whoever ran this place didn't want too large of a staff or maybe they were working some manner of person that could multiply themselves, which would have saved a lot of money on manpower. Within a matter of a minute and a half he had around five men held now, though that was more difficult than one would imagine, and then the leaving portion came about. The problem came when he remembered that Wrecker likely would not be able to get out of here before the whole exploding thing happened.

"Wow Damian, you really dropped the ball on this." He growled to himself before taking off as fast as he could to where he last remembered the male was. He had a little room to pick the male up, so this should work in his favor, but then again maybe they didn't even need to take the wormhole as he had so caliloquetly put it considering how long it took them to get through that. "Okay Wrecker, don't got much time.....ummm...we're going up." That was what he said once finding his fellow hero, taking hold of their collar and releasing a rather bright blue beam of energy from his eyes upwards in a cone shape.

Luckily it appeared everything touched just sorta was destroyed, making flying upwards rather easy considering that his eyes were way ahead of them when it came to breaking ground. All it took was a minute and light was found as they were once again above ground and Atlas set everyone down as gently as he could manage. Letting out a sigh he took notice of the fact they were not too far off from where the worm had went down. That was when a low rumble could be heard below them as some flames were belched from the hole that he created, as the men in white oats leapt back from it. All of that physical exertion however had left Atlas somewhat exhausted, shown by his shoulders sagging and perhaps a slightly paler tone to his skin.

"Sorry about grabbing you by the ummm...collar. Didn't have much time...or arm room to just pick you up."

With his second mission completed, Atlas felt accomplished and doing so with someone else left a certain good feeling within him. It was good they didn't even hold the awkward manner of holding them again him, and yet something bothered him. It was something about their tone perhaps, but he couldn't help following after them as they walked away. "You guys....don't do anymore bad stuff or I'll beat you up. Alright?" With one last glance towards the scientist he flew after Wrecker, hovering over a few inches above the air after them.

"Lopsided? Whaddya mean by that?" He asked with a genuine curiosity, adding some speed before landing before the male. "I mean did you see when you body slammed that worm thing? I mean I don't really see anything lopsided there. That was awesome, I mean....I may have overdone it with the speed back there but.."

He paused, scratching his chin for a second. "Well...what I'm trying to say is I wanna work you again sometime. Do some more hero stuff....would that be cool with you? We could be a super awesome team like Knightwatch or GUN once was, minus the whole falling apart thing." All of it sounded great in his head, however that may have not been same with the male that he was conversing with.

That was when it hit him like a ton of bricks. He hadn't asked about forming a partnership, which would likely annoy his higher ups considering they liked to be informed about those kind of things.  Still something about what they said did make him wonder. "You're...actually right. Gimme just a second." He said holding a hand up before hovering a few feet away and softly pressing on the connection button thing. "Mission Control, I have a small request that I need to ask my handler." For a few seconds he would hear nothing before someone came on the other end.

"What is it? You said you needed me for something." The voice on the other end held that usual tone, not quite annoyed but not really in the mood either. Just hearing it made him cringe slightly, but he wasn't too bothered by it.

"I finished the mission just as ordered, but....well I encountered another metahuman like I'm sure you know. Well we worked together to take down this strange facility not too far off from the site...well I think I may have found myself a partner in heroism."

"You believe so?" They sounded slightly interested, or maybe just skeptical.

"Yeah! They're pretty cool and have this cool density power. I was hoping I could work with them more." There was a small amount of silence before he got a response.

"Well, you were meant to be a hero. Whether you work with someone or not is up to you. Just remember that the actions of your partner will reflect upon you should they become associated with you. So be sure they...won't drag your reputation through the mud." All Atlas heard however was a yes, and that was more than enough for him as he hung up the connection and flew back over to Wrecker.

"Well they seem to have no problem with that." He said, hands resting on his hips while looking down to his new ally with a smirk. Honestly he was feeling a little drained but then again not like he could let that show to his fellow heroes. Throwing an arm over the hero, he couldn't help but like his excitement show.  "Do we need to think up a cool duo name or does that come later on? I could probably think of something cool, unless you have a better one. I mean Atlas and Wrecker probably has a lot of potential, though The Dynamic Duo is a bit overplayed."