The Juggernaut Club: Part 60
: Yikes!
SHING!
Camille barely avoids an axe as it shoots out of a wall, courtesy of yet another tripwire that Heimerdinger sprung.
: More traps? My my, Swain certainly didn't want anyone coming in here, did he?
As he walks along, he crosses another tripwire, activating another trap.
A panel on another wall slides away, revealing a crossbow, which promptly fires!
: Eek!
Camille jumps up in the air, similar to her W, just barely dodging the crossbow bolt as it lodges itself in the wall!
THUNK!
She wipes some sweat off her brow, then turns to Heimerdinger.
: Professor! Would you PLEASE slow down, and watch where you step?
: But I must examine the traps...
: Examine them WITHOUT setting them off, PLEASE!
: By the way, where's Jayce?
: Back in the hole at the entrance.
A distance up ahead, they hear another trap go off.
: Is someone else in here setting off traps?
: By the sound of it, yes. Let's go see who!
Heimerdinger runs down the hall.
: Professor, wait!
We now go to Darius, Draven, Yorick and Mordekaiser. Draven is the one that set off one of the many traps, having just barely avoided a hidden Hex-Tech device that shoots spikes. Yorick and Mordekaiser are examining the hole in the wall the now lodged spike just made, and Darius is staring angrily at his brother.
: (Through clenched teeth) THAT'S. NOT. HELPING. THINGS.
: Draven SAID he was sorry, bro!
: You keeping track of these?
: Yup, another hole in the wall Sion'll get to fix.
In his hand, Yorick holds a piece of paper, having written down all damage that has been incurred to Sion's Monument thus far (Including what they've seen with Jinx and Ezreal, and the traps that Draven keeps setting off by accident, among other things). He adds "Hole in hall leading to back exit" on the list.
: Man, he is going to be one BUSY fella, what with all these repairs.
: Hey, it's done him good, he's learned quite a bit of carpentry and other building-related skills.
: Ooh! That gives Draven an idea! Sion could become a house-builder if Swain ever decides he's not useful for fighting Wars and stuff!
: Can we PLEASE keep on task? Find Talon and his cronies.
From a hidden area, Talon and the other "Obliterator's Order" members watch (With the still unconscious Nocturne lying atop Shaco's clone's shoulder, he having found and hidden him before Illaoi, Shyvana and Udyr arrived at the basement entryway).
: Tch. Garen's not with them. I didn't expect him to bust through the door to the basement and escape.
: You think he got kicked out of the club again? Was just curious as to why he didn't go off with the others when they first left.
: Yeah, what with all that "I'M BAAAACK" thing, I'd say-
In that moment, Fizz had forgotten himself, and said the "I'M BAAAACK" just as loud as Garen did when he re-entered the Clubhouse.
: Hey! Who just said that?!
: It came from over here, Dictator!
: Crap. Scatter!
The "Obliterator's Order" members promptly scatter, with Shaco using his Q to become invisible and his Clone following suit, Talon using his E to vault through an opening leading elsewhere in their hiding places up in the rafters, and Fizz following close behind by balancing on his trident like with his E.
The 4 JC members (And Draven) go to where they heard the noise, and Mordekaiser feels around with his hands on the wall. Similarly to Garen with the hidden entrance to the Foosball room, Morde finds a groove, and pulls back a sliding wall, revealing a stairwell that no doubt leads up to the rafters that the "Obliterator's Order" members have been using to hide!
: Jackpot!
: What do you mean, jackpot? I don't see any gold in there!
: Draven bets that the Obliterator's Order people made this!
: Man, they must have been burning the midnight oil to do it!
: But how? It wasn't here when we left!
: Well, we HAVE been away a long time.
: Yeah, feels like a year, maybe longer.
: We wouldn't have been if it weren't for...
Everyone looks at Draven.
: Hey, it's not ALL Draven's fault! He points a finger at Mordekaiser HE Sicced Bubbles on Draven!
: Because you mocked me saying that I shouldn't really be allowed to break the Fourth Wall like you.
: You SHOULDN'T! Only Draven should! Especially in his Primetime skin!
: Well, considering I've been ONCE AGAIN passed over for a VGU this year, I can keep right on doing it!
: Draven can't control who they put on the Champion Roadmaps!
: We're getting off-task again! Up those stairs, after those morons!
The 4 run up the stairs, heading up into the rafters.
Meanwhile, via another route through the inner halls of the monument, Volibear, Nasus and Trundle have found the hole that Heimerdinger made (And where Jayce still lies dazed).
: How'd they manage to dig this hole?
: And how'd they get Jayce in it already? Is he dead?
(Dazed): I'll take.... your lunch-money, Viktor, you big dumb nerd...
: Nope.
/ : Aww...
: Well, we're gonna have to get him out.
: Yeah, Dictator did say Priority 1 was getting the Piltover nuts out.
All three try to reach inside to grab Jayce and pulls him out, but their arms aren't long enough. Volibear and Trundle give Nasus a glance. Knowing what their glance means, he shakes his head no.
: No can do. Told you back in the Freljord, out of Sand Energies. Gotta go home and re-charge.
Trundle puts a hand to his chin as he thinks. He snaps his fingers in realization.
: Hey, I've got an idea! RAAAAH!
Trundle uses his E, summoning his Pillar of Ice right underneath Jayce, lifting him up into the air and filling the hole at the same time! With him now easily in reach, Volibear reaches over and grabs him and lays him over his shoulder.
: Hey, nice work!
: Killed two birds with one stone! We got Jayce, AND filled the hole!
Seeing Jayce's Mercury Hammer had fallen to the side as he was lifted into the air, Nasus grabs it.
(Dazed): And.... now that I've got your lunch-money, I'll bat you away...
Jayce in his stupor, snaps his fingers, not realizing he's already got his weapon in its Hammer form, thus switching it to it's Cannon form. He then clenches his hand into a fist, and the weapon automatically shoots a blast similar to his Q, blowing another hole in the wall next to Trundle.
: LISSANDRA'S BEARD! Don't DO that!
: It wasn't me! It was him!
: Let's get him out of here before he blows another hole in the wall!
Volibear carries Jayce over to the door that the three Piltoverians had used (Jayce, Camille and Heimerdinger) and opens it. Unceremoniously, he flings him out the door, and the dazed Jayce lands in a heap next to the still-dazed Kled.
: AND STAY OUT!
: And take your dumb cannon too, before it causes any more structural damage to the Clubhouse!
Nasus throws the Mercury Cannon and it lands next to Jayce. Both Volibear and Nasus dust off their hands.
: That's one down!
: Yeah, but we still gotta find the other two, AND the so-called Police officers.
: Not to forget that Talon and his cronies are somewhere in here too...
To Be Continued...
