Guacamole is for Winners (Penny and Chase)

Bliss slid down an elevator shaft, catching the soles of her red white boots on the edge of the ajar elevator doors. "See? I told you it would work." Bliss unhooked the line from her utility belt, a white accessory standing out against the black dress she chose to make her new suit. The collar ran up her neck with a small listening device for communication while the shoulders failed to become sleeves, because Bliss hated sleeves. The skirt stayed functional with enough movement to keep Bliss as fashionable as she was lethal- but she told her sister to go with fashionable if a struggle came up. "You coming?"

"I have to get hooked up; give me a minute." A brunette in a red outfit matching Bliss, slid down, grabbing hold of Bliss for support. "I didn't say it wouldn't work. I said I didn't want to do it if we could take the stairs."

"I made a resolution not to take the elevator, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't break it." Bliss let go of Ashley's hand with a smile and turned towards a large chamber filled with vats letting off gaseous coolant. "Get in. Get out. And everything is perfect." A shadow shifted in the rafters above the duo as they made their way towards a mainframe at the end of the chamber. A circular walkway carved out a small antechamber as another seven chambers met to become one. "There's enough nerve agent here to take down half of California if it goes airborne and half the Pacific coast if it gets in the water system."

"What happens when we disable the system?" Ashley kept look out while Bliss worked her wonder on the computer, accessing everything in the CPU in a matter of seconds.

"It stops cooling. When it stops cooling, the chemical balance goes awry and the toxicity begins to neutralize." The tapping of Bliss' gloved fingers drowned out the rattling of the pipes above them. "It does it slow enough so it isn't a problem. This stuff is really only dangerous when it goes from a frozen state to a boiling state very fast. Which it-"

"You're not supposed to be here." A very downed voice for such an accusation drew Ashley and Bliss' attention towards an off chamber in the blindspot. "No one is supposed to be here."

Ashley moved to meet the gaze of the man, dressed in a black sweater and black pants with a black hat. "Well we're-"

"You're going to leave us alone and let us continue-" A push moved Bliss past Ashley and closer to the man. Several other people entered the chamber with wheeled flat bed rollers. A thud rang out behind Bliss. "...And no one gets hurt-"

Silence came over Bliss as a sudden twist of her neck rendered her unconscious. Her body fell down a few feet away from where Ashley laid in the same position, dropping her communicator to the grated ground. "Let's get the juice loaded up. These two as well."A woman with a black mohawk hanging in the middle of a pair of red sunglasses pushed Bliss with her foot for a check to make sure her work was done. "We'll find out all kinds of stuff about them back at base." A flat foot smashed the device into a completely unworkable device- unworkable now, but as the foot smashed the device, it sent out a message with mission details and an alarm to one special individual.

A beeping sound rang from Danny's bag. Part of her wanted to ignore the sound as she never heard it before, but her new position of power and status as a hero, did mean chances were, someone needed her help. A coded response came across the touch screen of her communicator.

EMERGENCY
COMPROMISED SITUATION

AGENTS
BLISS W FUKUYAMA
ASHLEY D FERRIER

DETAILS ENCODED
PLEASE REPORT TO THE PENNY ARCADE AND SEEK OUT BROKEN QBERT MACHINE

"What the Hell is Qbert? Can I text back Bliss to tell her I was born in 2003?" Nothing about this made a whole lot of sense, but Danny knew she would be the one needing to bat clean up on this one. "So, I don't get to have nice days. Cool." At least she could ruin other people's days. Chase, meet me at the Penny Arcade. I think we have hero business, or we might just be pulling a crabby, rich ladies nuts out of the fire. Either way. Don't make plans for today.

It only took Danny a few minutes to get dressed and down to the arcade with a bag. She felt weird walking down the street in her battlesuit, so she kept it tucked away in her bag while she just wore her regular jeans and T-shirt. No one ever gave that a bad look to something so simple. No one gave any look at all. Nothing wrong with fitting in. A few minutes past four in the afternoon and the place looked like Danny would assume an arcade would look like, but where a Qbert machine would be blew past Danny's understanding. "Hey Joust!" The one thing Danny knew about arcades called to her.

Penny elegantly waltzed through her arcade, moving up and down each row of game cabinets, occasionally stopping to spectate, or to butt in and play a round or two with a few of the costumers. The arcade was as busy as always, nearly every machine had a small group huddled around it, either spectating or eagerly awaiting a chance to take a crack at the games. After making her rounds, Penny retreated into her office for a brief drink. There she leaned up against her desk, chilled glass in hand, as she peered through the horizontal venetian blinds. From her office she had a perfect view of the entire floor, a bird’s nest where she could keep an eye on the goings on of her prized business.

Nothing brought a bigger smile to Penny’s face than to see all the fun everyone was having, and with that she plopped down in her comfy leather chair, flipped on her DS and began to play a new rpg game she had picked up earlier on her way to work. Her little break only lasted about thirty minutes before she heard knocking on her office door. “It’s open!” she shouted. The office door creaked open slowly, revealing behind it a tall and lanky teen wearing one of the arcades t-shirts. The young man stood silent for a few seconds before finally speaking up with a shaky voice.
“um…um Miss Penny. The change machine’s acting up again…..” He paused for a moment looking down at the ground and twiddling his thumbs. The teen was a recent hire named Reggie. He had been a regular at the arcade ever since it opened, but was always shy and timid. Penny had hired him on in the hopes of helping him become more outgoing.

“I’ll take care of it Reggie. And here!” Penny said, closing her DS and rising out of her seat. She approached the nervous teen and gave him a pat on the shoulder before handing him the key to the storage room where they kept most of the prizes for the prize counter. She didn’t need him to tell her they were running low on prizes, Penny could see the line at the counter from her office, and could also see how barren the shelves behind said counter were getting. Reggie took the keys and gave her a shaky nod before heading over to restock the prizes.

On her way over to the change machine that was on the fritz, Penny noticed a costumer head over to the classic games section, which was odd, since it was one of the lesser used sections of the arcade. Penny walked past the small line that had been forming by the machine and gave them all a quick smile before giving the faulty machine a swift kick, and prompting the kids waiting in the line to have at it. From there she decided to check out who that young girl was that had gone into the classics section. The classics section of the arcade was more like a museum slash trophy collection of sorts, while Penny had made it a priority of hers to have all kinds of games in the arcade, having a collection of some of the old school cabinets was something she took pride in.

Seeing her girl deep into a game of Joust, Penny decided to just sit back and watch, as she leaned up against one of the other cabinets opposite the Joust machine. Normally she was the one playing, so actually watching another individual hit up the machine was a nice change of pace. “You know, it’s not every day I see someone willingly enter this section and play on one of these old machines.”

Chase woke up and groaned. He reached for the iPhone right beside his bed. He held down the home button and, hearing the beep that signifies that Siri was turned on, he asks " Siri, tell me all new notifications." After listening to a couple updates about the whether, news, and various other things at obnoxiously slow, Chase assumed his phone was broken. She then told him that he had one new text from Danny. "Siri, read the new text message."

"Chase, meet me at the Penny Arcade. I think we have hero business, or we might just be pulling a crabby, rich ladies nuts out of the fire. Either way. Don't make plans for today." With that, Chase got up out of bed, put his superhero suit on with his regular clothes over it.

He walked out of his room and went to the elevator, pressing the button to go down to the lobby. Chase waited. He started tapping his foot impatiently. The light indicating that is was coming up to him was on, but it just wasn't showing up. After waiting for what seemed like several minutes, he walked away, opened the door to the staircase and made his way downstairs.

Chase was now in the lobby. Hungry after sleeping for a week, recovering from the massive head trauma he endured, he was ecstatic to see that the lunch buffet was still open. Swinging his red and black stick around to give people the illusion that he was blind, he made his way to the buffet. After getting a plate with some macaroni and cheese, a muffin, and a sandwich, he sat down and just listened to the world around him. He was observing everyone around him when he noticed everyone's faces slowly contorting into pure confusion, horror, and/or shock  as they inched forward around him. Oh shit, this looks eerily like when I'm sound, except they're moving even slower. How fast am I moving right now? Chase thought to himself as he ate his food.

When he finished, he made his way out the front door, trying to get the perfect speed in which he walked the same speed as everyone else. He made his way to Penny's Arcade. When he got there, he pulled Danny aside from the woman she was talking to. "How important this, what we're supposed to be doing right now? If we're only here to play games, I think it'd be in my best interest if we went somewhere else and figured some shit out." Chase said frantically, trying to slow down his speech as best he could but assuming he was still talking a little faster than he should.

"That really is an adorable outfit." A turn of the gears brought an examination table to a ninety degree angle. The woman with the sharp mohawk walked from the wall and towards Bliss, strapped to the table with metal cuffs.

Bliss gave the restraints connecting her to the table a jerk for good measure. "Thanks. Why don't you come come a little closer and I'll show you how good it is in action."

"That's okay. I saw what you could do before, and-" A sharp acrylic nail with black and white designs poked into Bliss' collarbone. She slowly leaned next to Bliss' ear. "...I wasn't really impressed."

"Why don't you-"

"Why don't you shut up." The gears in the room began turning while the mohawk woman pulled over a console. "We detected a signal go out from your communicator-"

"Oh, did you break it? Well, you owe me for that; I'll bill it to you. Personally." Bliss tried to pull out some telekinetic power, but felt it suppressed. She was merely a normal woman strapped to a table. "Maybe you shouldn't break things without knowing what they do."

"That is the reason your head is still on your shoulders and your girlfriend isn't dead yet. Maybe you should take my advice and just shut up until I ask a question." Once the focus shifted from the dialogue, Bliss could see a number of the vats lining an open chamber beneath the room they were in. Even if they did not grab the entirety of the stockpile, they looked to have taken enough to pose a considerable threat. Or at least enough of a threat to an incapacitated Ashley, whom laid unconscious and held to an examination table in the same fashion as Bliss. "Now, for that first question. Where did that signal go?"



For the second game in a row, Danny found herself knocked off her mount in the early stages of the game. If she could just get a good angle on the incoming lancer, she would put herself in perfect position to take him down. She reached in her pocket to pull out another quarter. In fact, after her first loss, Danny used her card to empty out the entire quarter machine. Did it mean no one else could play games? Yes. Did Danny think of that? No. She just thought of how sweet it would be to knock that smug pixel off his buzzard and hope the pterodactyl would just stay home this time.

Then a voice came over to her. "Oh yeah, I remember these games from computer class in middle school. Don't remember much about the class though." Just as she felt the quarter move towards the coin slot, a realization came over her of what was missing from the room. "Hey, you don't by chance have an out of order Qbert machine do you?"

A hand grabbed Danny and pulled her off to the side. A rather rude intrusion of her attention, but her vitriol subsided when she saw her partner making his move. Then he spoke. "Calm down. This is important and we're figuring stuff out here, because it has the technology I need to get to. Now, if you don't mind, we're going to talk to-" A blank stretched across Danny's mind as she turned back to Penny. "I don't think I asked your name. I'm Danny. And about that machine?"

Penny continued to watch the young girl play, it was entertaining to watch her fail over and over again, it said something about how much harder some of the older games were despite their simple mechanics. Penny let out a rather loud sigh when the Qbert machine was mentioned. She thought back to that day when Bliss waltzed into her arcade and thought that turning one of the cabinets into a mission briefing device was a could idea.

“oh what’s the worst that could happen?” Penny had said at the proposal, now regretting the fact that the tampering left one of her prized machines in a state of disrepair.

Before Penny could lead the young girl to the busted machine, another kid approached and took the girl by the hand, his words were rushed. The intrusion was rude for sure, but the two seemed to know one another, and if this *thing* they were talking about concerned the busted machine than Penny had to help. “whoa there speed racer, we were talking.” she said addressing the new arrival. Penny rubbed her brow before speaking once more after Danny introduced herself.
“Names Penny Quartermaine, Owner of this fine establishment. Give me one second and I’ll show you where the cabinet is at.” With that Penny rushed out of the Classics section and over to the prize counter where Reggie was.

“I’m gonna be heading out for a bit Reggie. Hold down the fort for me!” She said giving him a friendly wink and pat on the shoulder.
“I…I wont l..let you down Ms. Quartermaine” he shouted as she jogged of.
“I know you won’t!” she shouted back as she made her way back to the two teens. “now then…about that busted machine.” she said walking past the two of them, and motioning with her hand for them to follow.

She led the two to the very back corner of the arcade where the cabinet in question rested. The rather old and beat up cabinet wasn’t quite as covert as it should have been especially as it sat resting between a pristine Wreck It Ralph cabinet and a restored Asteroids cabinet. The Qbert cabinet was the only one in the whole arcade that actually looked its age. The edges were heavily weathered, the buttons and art were faded and the screen was a bit dusty; It stuck out like a sore thumb needless to say.
Penny turned back the two and gave them a smile “well here you go, as messed up as the day Bliss decided to fiddle with it” she said grinding her teeth a bit. She flipped a gold token in Danny’s direction, before stepping aside to let the girl use the machine.

Chase breathed in and out relatively slow- well, for himself, that is. Okay, this is important. Stay calm, be slow, help out. Chase thought to himself repeatedly, trying to convince himself to stay to help. Chase heard Penny call him "Speed Racer", causing him to chuckle. After that, he didn't pay attention to their conversation. He was too busy trying to stay still, not fidget, breathe to fast, or anything else that would make people look at him strangely. He started paying attention again when Penny rushed off to Reggie- Chase heard that was his name when she told him to hold down the fort- then came back to lead them to another area of the arcade. As he walked, he constantly caught himself walking too fast. He frequently had to stop himself from stepping on the back of Danny's foot, wait a little while for her to get ahead of him, then try his best not to do so again.

They had reached the classic section without Chase running Danny down, luckily. They stood in front of a worn out Qbert cabinet, seeming oddly out of place next to the two machines beside it looking in vastly superior condition. In the time Penny had flipped Danny a gold coin and stepped aside from the machine, he had completely contemplated on how he had no idea what they were doing there, why this old cabinet was so important, and how amusing it would be to him if in the split of a moment, he grabbed the coin in the air, put it in the machine and watched the two become confused on where it went.

Now things looked to be falling into place. Except for any explanation or comprehension on how Qbert worked. Wait, was the little guy with the nose Qbert? "Is the bubble over his head just one long line of obscenities? Is he like the R2-D2 of arcade video games?" She had one golden quarter to get this right. If anything went wrong with the game, any hope of retrieving the details of this deed. She slid the quarter in and took a breath before gently placing her hand on the joystick. "So, I turn lights on and then it will-" The screen turned to black and a crawl took its place outfitted with an LED screen. "Oh, so I'm not even doing-well that's okay. I probably would have killed all of us like in joust."

Mission details. Night time raid on Fullman Pharmaceuticals. Objective: Storage area of toxin prepared for weaponization. Goal: Plant neutralizing subprotocol within mainframe to render toxin harmless. Members: Fukuyama, Bliss, W. Ferrier, A, D. Tamamoa, D, R

"Well, thanks for telling me Bliss." Danny watched as the screen continued to scroll. It sounded easy enough to try and figure it out, but something went wrong to trigger the emergency message to go to her. "I guess these pharmabros captured them or something. We just gotta figure out where they are I guess?" Calling Bliss never occurred to Danny for a second check, but this far into the operation, she really did not want to attempt the embarrassment of crying wolf. If she did, Danny would take it to the grave. Thankfully, the wolves abounded.

A crash came from upstairs and a number of yells ensued with the chaos. Three heavy duty bruiser bot 3000s made their way into the primary game room, armed with canisters of smoke grenades and stun guns. They carried the prime directive to abduct anyone seeming to have information pertaining to the cabinet within this arcade, and since the gamers seemed knowledgeable enough, they were primary targets for abduction.



"We found them." The woman with her mohawk walked back to Bliss and tapped her finger to Bliss' forehead.

"Oh that's so great. i seriously hope you die of excitement." Bliss navigated her forehead away from the presumptuous finger.

"You need to be more forthcoming with information. If not for us reversing the signal on the tracker, we would have needed to gas your girlfriend. Now, let's get off on a better foot. I'm Viper."

"Fucking really? Like that's it on your birth certificate? It isn't Bertha, or Martha, or Louise? We're going with Viper?" The restraints around Bliss' wrists tightened. A noticeable cringe came over Bliss as she tried to bite down. "That. Actually. Kinda hurts."

"Oh, I know it does. And it's going to hurt a lot more. There's one problem you aren't seeing. No one knows where we are. You don't know who we are. We broke in to steal these vats, so it isn't like Fullman hired us to do that. Do you really want to know who we are? Then, you need to start being more useful."

The loud crash was enough to catch everyone’s attention in the arcade, but most of all it caught Penny’s the most. She quickly rushed out of the classics section and onto the main floor, coming face to face with three large robots. There was immediate panic following their arrival as the gamers in the arcade all made a mad scramble for the door, hoping they wouldn’t be attacked. It was bad enough that these bots had crashed through the roof of the arcade, but they had also scared everyone off, and the last thing Penny wanted was a reason for people to not want to visit the arcade ever again.

Penny approached the robots, cracking her knuckles and letting out a slight groan of irritation. “Ya’ll came to the wrong fucking neighborhood.” she shouted. The three mechanical menaces turned to face their new target and challenger, the eccentric loud mouthed arcade owner, who stood before them. Before the machines could begin their assault, one of them was sent flying out the front of the arcade and onto the beach by Penny, who had tagged the bot with a bat made of solid light. She wanted to land a follow up blow on the one she sent packing, but the two teens she was with, were still in the arcade, and so were the two bots, and the last thing she wanted to do was leave them unprotected.

Instead she began shooting tiny and weak bolts of light at the other two wrecker bots, hoping to get their attention. She wanted to drag this fight out on to the beach and as far away from her arcade as possible. “Over here you worthless piles of scrap” she shouted hoping the machines would take the bait. If they did, Penny would have no problems going all out on the robots and putting an end to this quickly, but she wasn’t about to let loose inside her arcade. If the bots didn’t take the bait, she would have to drag them out by force.

Bliss seems to be a reoccurring name, Chase thought to himself as he continued to ponder on what they were doing there. From the way Danny reacted, it seemed as if something important was on the screen, but, since Chase was unable to hear light, he couldn't comprehend what was on the screen. Piecing everything together the best he could, some pharmaceutical stole... Well, someone

Chase was suddenly yanked out of his pondering when he a Crash from the room above, followed by three heavy-duty robots packing some smoke grenades and stun guns. The arcade became a mess of screaming and teens trying to get out of the building. Instead of running, Penny approached one of the bots. She punched it right through the doors, leaving Chase baffled. Instead of doing nothing, he glanced at Danny, then decided he found comfortable, showing Danny why he was freaking out a moment ago. To the rest of the world, he rushed from one side of the arcade to the other. Seeing Penny was dealing with what Chase thought to be the two remaining bots alone, shooting tiny bolts of light at them, he walked up behind one and pried open the back of it, leaving his hands bloodied and the robot's circuits open. Not knowing what else to do, he just starting fucking with shit, yanking out circuits and exchanging wires until the robot seemingly could not move anymore and collapsed to the ground by itself.

He then looked towards Penny. "Funny how it seems there's never just one meta in a building, isn't it?" Chase said slowly for himself so she could understand, smiling before taking a few steps away from the other robot.

Just as Danny got over her surprise at the robot attack, she succumbed to the surprise of Penny going Babe Ruth on one of the robots. Whatever structural damage the robot made coming in, looked twice as bad going out. It did leave a robot wrecked across the street. When Penny began to bait the trap, it left Chase open to dismember one of the bots in a manner that would make C-3P0 vomit screws. One left.

As Penny continued to pelt the pursuing robot, Danny made her move to put the robot directly in between her and the blasts from Penny. Two stray bolts flew past the robot and broke against a turquoise shield, keeping Danny among the healthy living. Once she felt the sand under her shoes, she also felt the impact of running directly into the back of the robot she pursued.

A stun baton stabbed into her shield. She felt it shift, allowing a window to crease through the off balance attack. A blade formed from Danny's offhand and riposted towards the robot, cutting through his primary power source. Her blade split off, creating a splintered blade, dividing into four blades pulling out from different sprouts. The blade began to rotate with enough speed to slice the robot in half, sending the torso to ground, crashing on Danny's shield.

"So, we can go ahead and assume they know where we are. Now we just need to figure out 'who' they is. Oh, wait, we need to find out 'whom' they is. Any ideas?"

Penny had all the intentions of dismantling the robots herself, but was actually surprised when the teens had sprung into action and dispatched the metal foes in as little time as Penny. It was good to know that she didn’t have to worry too much about them from here on out, but their safety would still be her top priority, especially if they were going to go after the people who sent the bots in the first place, and rescue Bliss if she was in danger.

The three robots had been dealt with in about the same time it took them to smash through the roof of The Penny Arcade. Penny stared at her beloved arcade with a twitching eye and clenched fists, as she looked at the damage caused. Three robot sized skylights, one robot sized doorway, and a tipped over game cabinet. All in all the damage was pretty minimal, but the fact that someone had the audacity to attack Penny or her costumers, in her arcade infuriated her beyond all belief. Penny had seemed to almost ignore what Danny had asked, and just walked back into her arcade, not speaking a word as she did.

Moving to the downed game cabinet, Penny lifted it back up and put it back in its place, despite its busted screen, and the pile of quarters that had erupted from it when it was tipped over. After putting the cabinet back, Penny made her way back into the classics section and took note of the pharmaceuticals plant that was mentioned in Bliss’ briefing. A few moments later Penny reemerged from the arcade and approached the two teens. “You guys have everything you need? Cause were about to go on a little field trip.” she said forcing a smile.

With that, she handed her phone over to Danny, on the screen were directions to Fullman Pharmaceuticals. “I figure if that’s where Bliss was at when the distress signal went out, then it’s more than likely she’s still there, and so are the people that did this.” she said motioning towards the three robot carcasses and the damaged arcade. Penny was determined to get even with whoever thought it would be a good idea to send a small squad of killer robots to her arcade.

When Danny had rushed outside, it didn't take her long to cut the remaining robot down. Looking incensed, Penny seemingly ignoring Danny's question and just walked into her arcade, examining the damage down. He didn't need to move, with all the different frequencies of sound bouncing off the building making a perfect image for him. As she seethingly examined the damage done, Chase answered the question with silence, not knowing what to do next..

Chase held up his right hand to observe. He had been able to tear into the robot, but the metal just as easily did the same to his hands. Grimacing, he put his hand down in a fashion that mostly hid the cuts. No matter how many times he has hurt himself in the past, he can never get past the pain. I guess I'm no stronger than I was before, just faster.

When Penny walked back out asking if they were ready, he realized that he wasn't quite sure where his cane was. Not that it mattered, he just usually had it so people weren't confused when they saw a blind man walking around with ease.

The weight of the dead robot took a little shifting to get moving, but Danny finally flipped the metal husk off of herself. Both of her legs felt strained, but she could not get a grip on whether it came from the chase or the melee- let alone get a grip on keeping her immediate balance. "The company? Might be a pretty nasty place to get- wait, you've already decided you're breaking in there?" Good thing Danny had a change of clothes. "You just met us before the robots- oh yeah, the robots messed your place up. Let me go change right quick and we'll get on our way. Oh, by the way, how are we getting there? Having Chase carry us seems like asking a lot of him since he had a run in with a brass knuckle and a car."



Nestled next to immediate river access on the outskirts of the business district, no one inside the five story pharmaceutical lab thought twice about the dangerous chemicals nestled in the basement- because no one within the company knew about the weaponized elements of the formula. All public information on the product listed it as a cleaning solvent used to get out 'hard to clean stains'. Stains like civilization and clean air. With public patents and good publicity, the company made the trial run, and to its credit, the formula does get out stains. It just unfortunately can vaporize a city if the temperature changes in such a drastic way as to make the substance volatile.

The agency of Netherwise sold the formula to Fullman Pharmaceuticals and made it past every test the FDA ran on it. The only hiccup came when Bliss accidentally drunkenly put the bottle in the freezer one night, then woke up and put it in the microwave to try and get it back to room temperature. She needed a new kitchen after the disaster, and decided payback- and justice, was warranted.

Now the Agency of Netherwise had her as their prisoner and convinced a company to manufacture a chemical weapon within their own city limits. "So, you're just going to ransom off the city or something? All this and that's your end?"

"We're not telling anyone about this." Viper made her way back from the observation deck to the examination table. "If we told people, they would come try to find us. We are being as quiet as possible."

"Didn't you send robots to blow up an arcade?"

"So the police can go investigate that. They aren't going to see a crime scene, snap their fingers, and assume the real threat is in the basement of Fullman Pharma." Viper looked over the manacle on Bliss's left wrist. A small hole existed on both cuffs. A metal clasp could fit in those holes to turn the examination shackles into a pair of more mobile binders. "We're going to blow this place up. And everyone in the city. You and your girlfriend will be first of course."

"What does that even accomplish?" A sudden snap to Bliss' senses drew her in every direction but the one that made sense. "It's like-"

"We want a massive death cloud. There's something-"

"Are you a cult? You guys are some kind of weird death cult?! God, I hate cults so much. All you do is-"

"That's enough!" It only took one press of a button for Viper to jolt Bliss with enough energy to put her a more agreeable- albeit unconscious, state. "Move her down to the storage area. She and her girlfriend can get front row seats."

Penny gave a slight nod to Danny, she was going to go with them “Don’t get me wrong, both of you seem entirely capable of handling whatever’s going on over there. But I couldn’t in good conscience let you both go alone. Besides, someone’s got to be held accountable for the damage to my arcade.” She said with a smile before watching the two teens disappear into the arcade before reemerging a few moments later, dressed for a fight. Penny gave a slight chuckle as Danny and Chase walked back over to her. “I’m gonna go ahead and assume that this wouldn’t be your guys’ first Rodeo.”

As they came out of the arcade, Penny moved past them and over to the entrance of the arcade. She reached up and pulled the large metal shutter down with one hand and locked it with a padlock she had stashed away in her hoodies pocket. She stepped back for a moment and let out a loud sigh as she looked at the large robot shaped hole in the wall next to the arcades main entrance. *What a pain* she thought before being struck with a half decent solution. She quickly rushed over to the metal carcasses that were lying on the beach, grabbing them by what she assumed was their collars. Penny then proceeded to drag the bots back over to the arcade entrance, before stacking them up in front of the hole, to form a makeshift barricade, until the wall could be repaired later.

Penny then made her way back over to Danny and Chase, to address the issue of transportation to the pharmaceutical factory. “Behold Deus Ex Pennica….or would it be Deus Ex MachiPenny? Or just Deus Ex Penny? Meh whatever, just hold on tight guys, and try not to throw up on me please.” with that Penny placed her hands on both their shoulders and in a flash the trio vanished from the beachfront Arcade.

The three were teleported to an alley way that rested between two of the factory’s buildings. Penny stepped away from the two and began to look around, it was a good thing she moonlighted as a superhero, it allowed her to explore the city and mark places to fast travel to. “Now, if I was hoarding a highly volatile and dangerous chemical where would I store it?” she said to herself while stroking her chin in thought. She then turned back to Chase, she remembered back to earlier when he had displayed his super speed. “How fast could you search all these buildings?” If they could utilize his speed, they could essentially scan every inch of every building until they found any sign of Bliss or the ones responsible for wrecking her arcade.

"Hey, company's always appreciated" Chase told her as he walked into the arcade. Once in, he turned into sound, the glasses and clothes he was wearing falling to the floor. He quickly returned to the world of the solid, wearing his friction resistant suit he had put on before leaving the hotel. He pulled the sleeves down until he could put the gloves over his hands, followed by putting his mask over his head.

He came out of the arcade before Danny did. After waiting for Penny to put the robots in front of the hole in the building's wall, she walked over and placed her hand on both of their shoulders. Before Chase knew it, he had been teleported. He lost his balance, and for a brief moment, he was blind. The environment around him went from being the arcade and the beach, then he suddenly didn't know what was around him.

After a moment of gaining his bearings, he responded to Penny saying "I could be in and out of all these buildings in a flash, but I don't need to do that. Chase paid close attention to the buildings surrounding them. "I don't know about the 'dangerous' chemicals, but there's a girl in shackles in that building" he said, pointing to the building to his right.