The Juggernaut Club: Part 57

Inside, Talon, Shaco and Fizz watch Vi and Caitlyn enter the monument's inner structure from a hidden vantage point up on the raftings.

: All this blasted interference. Now we can't find the fools that shot that rocket at us!

: Pretty sure I already know...

Seeing the two that had come in, Shaco points them out.

: Hey! They aren't the Juggernaut Club-

Talon puts his hand over Shaco's mouth.

: (Whispering) Shh! Didn't I tell you to whisper?

: Mpfggphhff... (Well they aren't...)

: (Whispering) Shut up! They're about to spring one of the traps!

Fizz points to the door that he and Shaco rigged with the "Bucket of Water" trap. Talon's eyes dim in displeasure.

: THAT one?

: Oh come on, gotta make your own fun sometimes.

Vi opens the door that Fizz and Shaco have rigged.

: Knock knock! Jinx, you in-

CLUNK!

The water bucket falls off the door and gets Vi soaked! Caitlyn is stifling her laughter as best she can.

: Wheezing, Stifled laughter

: MGDDHUFF!

: Oh it is too funny!

Vi shakes her head to try and get the bucket free, but it doesn't seem to want to come off.

: MPDGDD MURGGA PHFF!

: The bucket's stuck on your head?

Vi angrily nods her head yes as she tries to pry it off with her gauntlet-covered hands.

: Careful there! You know how powerful those mitts are; you might pulls your head off in the process!

: MMRRGGGHHSASDF!

: Yes, yes; you say that every time that we hunt her down and catch her, that THIS time you're going to kill her. Surprised she managed to set up a trap like that so fast.

Caitlyn looks around, seeing that the room (The meeting room of the Juggernaut Club, the one with the big circular table) is much different from what she was expecting.

: What IS this place? A meetinghouse? For whom, or what?

Jinx and Ezreal, on the other hand are laughing at Vi's misfortune from their own hiding place. Or at least, Jinx is and Ezreal is being forced to muffle her laughter by putting a hand over her mouth.

: You WANT us to get found and sent back to jail?!

: Ohh, sorry. It's just so like Fat Hands to fall for something like that.

Shaco points to another trap he had rigged on one of the Club's chairs set around the table.

: Ooh, ooh! They're gonna set off another one!

Caitlyn comes up and inspects one of the chairs. As she pushes it back, it pulls a tripwire, which reveals a small Hex-Tech projectile-launcher in the nearby wall!

: What the!? Oh crap!

It fires! The projectile released is... a whipped-cream pie? It flies straight for Vi just as she gets the bucket loose.

: Ahh, got that stupid-

SPLUT!

Vi falls flat on her back when the pie collides with her face, making her a now wet and sticky mess!

: Oh dear! Vi, are you alright?

As Caitlyn comes up to check on Vi, Talon turns and looks angrily at Shaco.

: A whipped-cream pie?

He rolls his eyes as Shaco just smiles. Talon shakes his head in anger as he looks back at Caitlyn and Vi.

: (Incredulously) What's next? A piece of fish dangled on a string over a pit?

Fizz raises a hand, but then stops and thinks, and finally gestures with his thumb in the direction of the door.

: Umm... I'll be right back.

Fizz slips away as Talon facepalms.

: This is SUPPOSED to be the cool kids club! You know, the edgy, assassin-types!?

: I thought we named this one the "Obliterator's Order".

: It's in the spirit of how we present ourselves, not a literal interpretation!

Elsewhere in the Clubhouse, the other Piltoverians (Jayce, Camille and Heimerdinger) have found the back entrance to the monument.

: Score! Secret Entrance!

: You were QUITE fortunate to have found that the seemingly innocent-looking iron bar sticking out of the ground outside was actually a switch.

: My my, that Swain, or was it his predecessor... that Darkwill fellow, spared no expense when creating this place, did he? Secret entrances, secretly housing a mad zombie-creature...

He continues muttering things to himself as he walks inside ahead of the other two.

: Hey, wait for us, Professor!

Due to his light weight and small size, Heimerdinger walks right over the pit without tripping it, much to Fizz'z surprise, as he had moved to check on this trap.

: How?

: Best be careful, never know what that nutcase Jinx has rigged up for us- AHH!

: EEH!?

Both Jayce and Camille promptly fall into the pit and land on the bottom on their rear-ends.

Camille calmly stands up and dusts herself off. She sees Heimerdinger standing at the edge looking down at her and Jayce.

: How befuddling! A pit? Yet I did not trip it? Wondrous! What other exciting secrets are to be found in here?

He wanders off down one of the many hallways.

: Professor, wait! You'll need a bodyguard!

She shoots out her Hook-Shot, hitting a wall at the entrance of the pit. She promptly pulls herself out with it. Turning around, she looks down at Jayce, who is getting out his Mercury Hammer as he grumbles to himself.

: What's eating you?

: This pit trap; that's the second time I've fallen for one this month!

: Was the first-

: Jinx, Yes.

: Are you sure you won't need a hand getting out?

: Nope! Watch this!

Jayce heroically leaps into the air using his Hammer, similarly to his taunt. However, he didn't quite gauge the height he would climb with the jump correctly, and hits his head HARD on the roof of the hallway! He falls back into the pit in a daze!

Camille just watches all this with a dry expression. Once Jayce is down and out, she just shrugs her shoulders and walks off, looking for Heimerdinger.

Fizz, on the other hand, is wondering WHY Heimerdinger didn't fall into the pit. But, he comes up with nothing.

: How...?

Outside, Sion is about to ram into the building with all the force he's gathered via his Ult-run.

: Crap, crap, crap! Gotta slow down!

Kled and Skaarl, who had landed on the ground from their "flight" a few chapters ago, are regaining consciousness.

: Guh... Skaarl, when I say whoa, I mean whoa!

He turns and sees Sion coming at them!

: WHOA!

Skaarl sticks out his tail on command, and Sion trips on it!

: AAGH! NOOO!

CRASH!

Sion just smacked face-first into the side of the building, rumbling it yet again! He's now dazed from the collision.

: So much for being a drift-master, eh Sion? HAHAHA!

Zed and Kayn have also arrived.

: Man, this place is popular.

: You're not kidding, Master! We'd better take the sneakier way in.

Kayn uses his Shadow Walk to slip inside through one of the walls. Zed lifts a hand to stop him, but he's too late.

: I SAID we're here for a vacation! You'd better not get yourself in trouble! Arrgg...

Zed uses his Living Shadow to slip inside as well, not wanting to go through the front door.

To Be Continued...