<strong>Ropes</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Muse only</div><div class="spoiler_body">Jennifer lightly touched his shoulder.  "Ok, take down the Security first, and make sure you remember to gag them so they can't call out.  I'll come be your 'hostage' after you enter the lab and take care of the technicians and any cameras there, OK?<br/><br/>I'll be watching you, so three fingers, then two if you need me sooner!  Love you!" She kissed him gently on the cheek.<br/><br/>One moment he was in the parking garage, then a moment later, and a momentarily disorientation he was there, on the 27th floor of the Roane building, standing silently behind the guard, a smallish heavy set caucasian man, who was escorting the Janitorial staff, 2 Asian women.<br/><br/>They had not yet noticed his arrival.<br/><br/>He was standing in darkened cubicle space, facing the elevator lobby the guard and janitors had just exited.  The group had turned left and when exiting, and he was now standing behind the small groups of three, the guard escorting two Janitors.<br/><br/>The group look like it was headed towards the restrooms, though they would not reach it for some time at the slow pace they were moving as the Janitors cleaned each area and emptied each cubicle's trash.<br/><br/>The window shades had thin pull cords he might use, other than that, he spotted no spare rope like objects on the floor outside of the Guards belts.<br/><br/>He remembered the drawing Jennifer had made the night before.  The outer office of the 27th floor was mostly cubicles, and a sole kitchenette, inhabited by programers during the day.  The inner portion of the floor held the elevator lobby, the lab, the restrooms, a stairwell, and the NDR room.  She hadn't been certain if the lab had hidden cameras in it, but the rest of the floor only had cameras covering the two entrances to the elevator lobby, the stairwell, and the NDR room.  The lab door actually had no camera watching the outside, nor was it labeled as anything important, though it did have a card reader.<br/><br/>He knew that the Guard's badge would get him through that door.  And Jennifer had placed the Guard's back roughly 20 feet from him. He smirked.  Easy pickings.<br/><br/>Moments later the guard was hog tied and gagged, and Ropes removed the man's key card casually.<br/><br/>The two women were holding each other, looking quite frightened, and another time Ropes might have indulged himself a bit.<br/><br/>But they were on a tight schedule, so he simply tied them together, gagged them as well, and moved swiftly towards the lab door, avoiding the camera watching the stairwell door on his way.<br/><br/>Reaching the lab door, he frowned slightly.  <em>HE</em> couldn't see through walls.  Had the noise alerted the techs inside?<br/><br/>Just then, his Bluetooth ear piece binged in his ear, an incoming call from his sister.  Grinning he tapped it.<br/><br/>Her voice in his ear was breathy and urgent.  "Capes downstairs, brother!  American Star and some new guy, Dynamo something I think?  Star's got past Security and has gone inside, Dynamo's outside the door, arguing with the guard inside... let me follow Star... she's wearing that tiny red skirt again, cute!"<br/><br/>Ropes grinned.  Even with the increasing danger, she remained his little sister, rambling when she saw a pretty girl.<br/><br/>He said, "What about the Lab?" softly into the mic.<br/><br/>There was a moment's pause. She said distracted.  "Aww, she's not sure how to use it... she'll have to go get that Guards help... oh, the lab, right. Let me see?"<br/><br/>A slight pause.  "Nope, the techs are still oblivious.  Listening to Led-Zeppelin sounds like."<br/><br/>Ropes nodded.  The lab must be sound proofed.<br/><br/>He approached the door, badge out.<br/><br/>As he placed it on the lock, it clicked open.  He opened the door quickly.<br/><br/>Moments after doing so, a thin sounding alarm came from somewhere above him.<br/><br/>Moments after that, the floor went dark, emergency lights coming on next to the stairwell being the only source of light.<br/><br/>The lab was dark, and the technicians cries of alarm told him they were as surprised by this as he was.<br/><br/>He grunted out a breath of air.<br/><br/>Showtime.<br/> </div></div>