Roval Arms

[Terrador Bellator]

Knowing they were constantly being watched sent a chill down the Geomancer's spine. His brutal rage against the harmles door was sure to catch the camera's attention. This would ultimately cause an uneeded confrontation from the dog lady. A slightly nervous chuckle quitly escaped him at the very thought. Giichi's question sprung him out of his mental trance.

"I couldn't agree more. Let's go." He replied. Too much action had ocured today, so appearing as normal toursits was an excellent idea.

"What about you two?" He asked, trading glances between Am and Bruce.

[Giichi Twinkieland]

[Three day absence rule]

Bruce walked over to the gangster still trapped in the stones that Terrador had moved.

"Release him, please. I don't like the guy, but we can't have him downstairs here forever. I'm gonna take him up to Lizzie and have him thrown out."

The gangster spat in Bruce's face, who returned the favor by socking him in the jaw. The trapped gangster grunted, with a little blood coming out of his mouth and dribbling on his clean, pressed white dress shirt. He got an irritated look on his face at the new stain.

Am didn't seem to be responding. Giichi blinked a few times and waited for him to say something, but he never did. Shrugging, the cat patted Terrador on the shoulder and motioned for him to come.

"Let's go. He can find his own way out."

Before long Giichi would be heading upstairs and back to the lobby, where they hadn't finished checking all the murals yet.

[Echo]

(sry, I've been really busy the last few days with the airshow and the celebrations going on in my home town.)

[Terrador Bellator]

Terrador almost wanted to push the gunman into the trap door and have him leave the premises that way. However, at the bear's request, he placed both palms on the stone pillars after the crook suffered the punch to the face. His hand markings glowed and ths pillars were reduced to sand.

"If any of you require any assistance from Giichi or I, you know where we'll be." He said before following the sand cat.

[Echo]

Am stood in a state of shock while he processed the revelations about this building. His whole mission, compromised. He quickly snapped out of it as he realized that everyone was leaving. He wasn't too keen on staying around here anyways.

"hey, wait up"

He chased up the stairs after them. As far as he was concerned this mission was over. There was no way that guy hadn't seen him land on the roof. That being said, there was now a distinct possibility he could observe these aliens up close and in detail.

"mind if I tag along? I really have nowhere to be right now." he shrugged.

[Giichi Twinkieland]

"I guess it's OK," Giichi said, smiling at Am as he decided to tag along. It looked like there was too much going on today and too many unknown variables for him to steal anything, so he might as well keep up his cover and just plan to return at a later date.

Bruce roughly grabbed the gangster by the scruff of his neck and started dragging him up the stairs behind the others. As they entered the lobby, they found Lizzie still sitting in the corner on her big poofy chair, as if nothing had happened in the past hour or however long they'd been around.

She peeked over her magazine briefly, and saw Bruce dragging along the crook. While this might get someone else's attention, Lizzie seemed to treat it as if it were an everyday occurrence and went back to her magazine.

"Just taking out the trash, ma'am," Bruce said, as he walked by. Lizzie didn't even give a nod. Sighing, he turned back to the other three. Lizzie never did lift a hand for anything unless it put more money in her pocket. "Would you three mind helping me with the door?"

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After everyone had left the basement, the metallic door leading to Evan's command center gently nudged open. A brown dog's head poked out, with its eyes peering around the room through thick wireframe glasses. As he edged into the room, a black jacket ruffled over a faded collared green shirt, with khaki pants and a beanie hat rounding out the outfit. Feeling safe with everyone gone, Evan quickly rushed over to where Bruce had found the statue, and started hitting the block with a hammer. It was hard work, so he took off his jacket and beanie hat and continued to pound away.

"Can't believe he found it so easily! ARGH! And to think I've lived here almost my entire life and never knew where it was!"

Before long, the Tikal statue hidden in the wall earlier was exposed once again. Evan smiled at the rough-looking statue as he picked it up and admired it in the dim light.

"This is it. This is the key to everything! Now I just need to get Mom to tell me how to use it..."

Evan quickly started making his way back to his room. However, he didn't get far before he felt someone strike him on the back of the head, causing him to collapse to the floor with the statue clattering across the floor. The mysterious assailant quickly picked up the statue and took off running...

[Terrador Bellator]

Terrador remained completely quiet and responded with a simple nod to answer Am's question. He then followed the group to the lobby where he was oh-so delighted to see the dog lady, to the point he did not even acknowledge her presence.

“Sure thing.” He replied to Bruce as he approached the door.

[Echo]

"yeah no problem" Am said pushing open one of the doors for Bruce.

"make sure you put him in the extra slimy can, the one they throw the compost in hahahahaha"

Am smiled as none of them had a clue. He was interacting with aliens and he was fitting in perfectly. All that training paid off after all. AM felt like a child on the playground, he didn't know where to start.

[Giichi Twinkieland]

"I don't need to do that. This'll be a much worse punishment," Bruce said, grinning to Am.

After the two opened the doors, Bruce hurled him right through the door, sending him tumbling rather painfully down the steps. And since this place was based on an old Echidna pyramid (and by extension, Mayan architecture), he had quite a few steps to fall down.

He went howling and screaming with pain all the way down. Giichi winced as he watched the man continue to slam hard into the stone stairs again, and again, and again. Finally, the gangster landed in a heap on the sidewalk with his clothes completely dirtied and torn, not to mention speckled with blood in places from all the impacts.

"That's a little harsh, don't you think?" Giichi said, looking at Bruce. The bear grinned rather diabolically as he watched the man just lay there, groaning in pain.

"It's everything they deserve, and more," he said, turning to head back inside. "They let me get sent to prison, then right after I get back all they care about is collecting on my debts. No welcome home parties, no old friends showing up, nothing...except for damn bill collectors."

Giichi raised an eyebrow, as he continued to say all of this right in front of his landlady. But as usual she appeared completely oblivious to everything around her. As far as the group were concerned she may as well just be a statue sitting in the corner.

"I hope more of them don't show up," the cat mumbled, as he watched the man writhing in pain as he got back to his feet, roughly shoved his fedora back on his head, and limped down the sidewalk.

"The security system will keep us safe, don't worry." Bruce gave Giichi a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

SNAP.

Suddenly, all of the lights in the front hallway went out. Aside from the sunlight coming in the front glass doors, darkness enveloped the lobby completely. Finally, that seemed to catch Lizzie's attention, considering she couldn't read her magazine in the dark.

"Evan must have blown another circuit breaker..." she muttered, as she headed for the basement. "Security system's a real drain on the power."

And with that, she pulled out a flashlight and headed for the stairs to the basement. But right as she opened the door, she let out an ear-piercing scream that ricocheted around the front hall's walls and columns. Standing there was a man dressed in a olive green suit with sunglasses, clutching the Tikal statue that Giichi and Terrador had seen earlier. The man wasted no words, as he did a karate chop sending the screaming Lizzie out of his way.

However, he paused when he saw the small group still assembled in the lobby. Striking a martial arts pose, he waited for them to come attack him.

[Nail Strafer]

(Hey guys, what's the holdup? Anything I can do to help?)