We worry about what the child will become tommorow

[icy_heavens]

Who: Henry, Danielle, Toushirou, Phillip, Dani, and Katie
What: Little children sticking their noses where they don't belong
Where: Thundercorp compound
When: June 23, while the barrier is down.


Tomorrow would be the final day of inspections; if they don't do this now, there's not much time for another chance. They've spent days planning this, worked out strategies, divided themselves into teams. They've thought this through, surely.

Between Danielle's invisibility power and Toushirou's speed, they get across the where the barrier had been and past initial security without a hitch. The sensation of an Echo should hit each one of them as they cross it, however. What they bring may or may not be relevant to what they're doing.

They split once they're past security, a private Network connection set up between Toushirou and Danielle to keep the groups in touch without alerting the Network as a whole to their operation. Any of them can speak and hear over it.

The idea is simple enough. Explore as much as they can without being seen, maybe get some evidence of anything shady Thundercorp is doing this time, and get out. Ideally, there'll be no need to fight anything.

But they're ready for that if necessary, too.

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Network Chatter

[icy_heavens]

[Anything the teams communicate over the open Network connection can go here.]

Team 1 - Danielle, Phillip, Katie

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Team 2 - Toushirou, Dani, Henry

[icy_heavens]

[darkhourdear]

Phillip is probably the least well equipped to do anything sneaky, since his Shadows don't listen to him, his other form is really big, and also he's not the most observant of the kids in general. Still, he at least knows to be quiet when sneaking around the building. And also recognizes that Danielle's probably in charge so he should listen to her.

Still, not even that can stop him from being curious, so once they're in and he's seen something interesting he goes over to look at it. It's nothing secret or special or anything, probably, but... he knows better than to touch it.

[mimicery]

If Phillip was the least equipped person to do anything sneaky, he wasn't the only one. While Katie managed to wear a lot of dark clothing, that was the most she had. Compared to the rest of the group, she was probably the only one who didn't have any abilities to back her up. Keeping as quiet as she could, she was waiting to see what they could do.

Of course, that was when Phillip wandered somewhere else.

"Hey, what are you doing? Don't go over there" She whispered over to him hoping that he would come back.

[ghostly_heiress]

Danielle was, surprisingly, very good at sneaking. Such was the way of her needing to get out of her own house and back in again undetected. Not to mention when she was feeling stir crazy in the hospital in the middle of the night. The invisibility helped, but with the limit, she knew it'd be better to just try straight up sneaking as much as possible.

(Though she was also secretly gleeful in having an excuse to wear the black pants and hoody. It wasn't often she risked the less...fancy clothes outside.)

She kept the ear piece in for the Network chatter and made sure the others had cameras. Whatever they saw wouldn't mean much if they didn't have evidence, after all. Still, it was...different having to monitor others so directly. So she was feeling a bit tense when Phillip just wandered off.

"Keep close. Nothing really important will be outside, too many ways to zoom in. Come on, the door's this way." They did need to get inside, after all.

[darkhourdear]

"Ok, ok." Instead, Phillip will just take a picture of... whatever it was (making sure to not have flash- he remembered!) before falling in line behind the girls. "So if we're not looking for stuff out here, then what are we looking for?" Because if he knows, then he can take pictures of it. And then they don't have to figure out what it is right then and can look at it later!

[prismaticdestruction]

Dani was fairly quiet, as she had wrapped her wings up to keep them from making noise. That had been her only worry when it came to this whole mission at the beginning. But now that they were in, she was now looking around at EVERYTHING, but sticking close.

They didn't have much to worry about...for now at least from the 9 year old. "What now?"

[mimicery]

Out of all the children here, Katie knew Phillip the longest. Despite that, she couldn't help but roll her eyes at taking a picture of whatever that thing was. Whatever made him happy, she guessed.

However, he did bring up a good point. "I agree, what are we looking for Danielle?"

[ghostly_heiress]

"Anything that looks like they're trying to hide. It won't be obvious, just out of the way enough to not be noticed in inspections or behind a locked door. Files, pictures of those would be good. Anywhere that security's hanging about, discourages people from lingering," Danielle said. Though files were probably the best place to strike gold, she figured. That's why the cameras were important, anything up with those wouldn't be immediately obvious, and not something inspection would look anyway.

[darkhourdear]

"Right! Ok!" Phillip gives the other two girls a thumbs up before before looking around very carefully now. This is actually a useful thing, since it keeps him quiet and reasonably sneaky, and he'll be on the lookout for anything suspicious. It's a good way to keep him occupied and being relatively useful.

[mimicery]

The brunette simply sighed before investing around the area. She will can't believe that she agreed to joining this team but it was too late to back up now. Thus far, she couldn't see anything that was worth looking over. Between the strange objects and whatever was lurking around, nothing stood out. Of course, that was when she accidentally bumped into something.

"Ah..." Luckily it didn't fall over but it did make an interesting sound though. "What was that?"

[icy_heavens]

True to what he'd said in the planning stages, Toushirou had come without his weapon. Too big to worry about when finding hiding spots, too difficult to explain away if they get caught. If there was trouble, he had to rely on his other powers -- and his teammates.

Dani was one of the kids that he wasn't all that familiar with. He'd first met her when Henry had first called everyone together and suggested the group. But she was being quiet enough and smart enough, so that much was working out. She wasn't a pain, at least. He could deal with that just fine.

"Just look for anything that might seem out of place, or any areas the employees might be paying a weird amount of attention to."

[ghostly_heiress]

Danielle herself was splitting her attention. Trying to listen for anyone approaching. She had to be quick, she was the only real protection they had without turning violent, after all. (It didn't help that things felt Off since the echo of entering the compound.) She was looking around, taking a picture of anything she couldn't figure out an immediate use of in case it was an 'in plain sight' deal, but she didn't keep still long.

Then Katie spoke. "What?" She asked, looking over to the other girl to see what got her attention.

[darkhourdear]

Phillip will go ahead and take a picture of whatever it was Katie bumped into before moving over at her to look at it. "I don't know," he said, squinting at it, "Was it that thing that made the noise? It sounded weird... I hope nobody else heard it."

[mimicery]

"I hope not, we're already in danger as it is!" She whispered before making a light knock against the item she hit. So far, the object appeared to be hollow but it was clear that there was something inside of it. With another light knock, she just stared back at her two teammates with a knowing look.

"You think this is what we're looking for?" For the first time in a while, Katie smiled.

[ghostly_heiress]

"It might be. Let's try something." Danielle stepped forward, placing a hand on the item. "Thirty-three," she muttered under her breath to start the count. She had a time limit on invisibility, and she didn't want to lose track.

She focused on the object, turning part of it's outside transparent to see what was inside.

[darkhourdear]

Phillip... takes a picture of Katie smiling. It's rare, ok?

He is, however, following right up behind the girls, and as soon as the interior of the box is visible he takes several pictures of whatever it is inside. He knows Danielle can't keep that up forever. So this way, even if they don't figure it out in time they can come back to look at it later. "Can you tell what it is?"

[mimicery]

Watch it, Phillip! As he took a picture, her face quickly turned back into a frown as she took a glance to see what might be lurking inside. Although, once she got a closer look, she gave another sigh.

It might not be what they were looking for but it was something golden hidden in the object. "Well, what do you think?"

[ghostly_heiress]

Danielle leaned closer, spreading the transparency until the light filtered in. "Oh." She said. It was a key. She pulled her hands away. "It must be a spare! In case of emergencies or something, but if it's a locked door, it's gotta go somewhere important," she said, picking up the container, looking for a way to open it.

[darkhourdear]

Awww. Well maybe he caught it on the camera. If not, he'll just have to keep an extra good look out for her smiling in the future!

"A key?" He lowers the camera, covering over to look at the box and poke around at likely places to see if it does anything. It does look like there's some kind of slide to it that he tries. ...Hopefully that's the way to open it and not something else.

[mimicery]

Katie thought for a few minutes trying to figure out how to open said container. As she looked around, there didn't seem to be any way to open it but at the same time, there has to be. How would the others get to the key? She continued to give it light taps to see if it could go anywhere. So far, there didn't seem to be anything that stood out.

Well, maybe except that one part of the object sounded a bit off.

[ghostly_heiress]

Danielle glanced towards the door, looking for movement. She didn't hear any footsteps, at least. She looked back at the object, seeing Phillip try the slide, hearing the sound. "Oh, keep pushing that," she said, reaching out to touch the object, feeling something like a seam. "I think it's locking it in place, if there's no hinge, there should be-ah, there it is," she said, pushing the other slide to pull the top off.

[darkhourdear]

Once the top is off, Phillip reaches in and pulls out the key. "Cool! I wonder what it goes in? It's probably something nearby, right?" Why would they put a key somewhere far away from what they needed it, after all? "Let's look for something!"

[mimicery]

"Hopefully it's somewhere nearby. The sooner we finish this, the sooner we get out of here!" And not get caught at all!

As she started to look around for a door, she started mumbling to herself. Despite wanting to be normal in a setting such as thing, she will admit one thing though. "At times like these, I really wish I did have the ability to glow. This would be so useful in finding wherever this key goes!"