Around the school offices to the Rocky Bits, Saturday morning
After an urgent chat with Cameron, The Tick raced to the men's room down the hall from his office with a determined look on his face. There was a bomb in there and, egads, it needed to be removed!
He reached the bathroom and found the object that seemed out of place. "Hmm. Smaller and less ticky than what I used to deal with in The City, but there's definitely a certain bombiness to it. So, status report to self. I have a bomb. I know what it looks like. I know that there are probably more of these. Obvious question: If I were a bomb, where would I be?"
The Tick stepped out of the restroom and looked around. If there was one bomb in the area of the faculty offices, it made sense that the rest of the bombs would be in the same vicinity. "If you're looking for needles in a haystack, the fastest way to find them is to dive into the haystack and grab anything that pokes you. It's time to dive in! SPOOOOOON!"
With that, he checked the ladies room. With his eyes covered, of course, until he was sure there was nobody in there. Nothing.
He rushed out and checked everywhere he could think of. Inside trash cans, above the ceiling tiles, but when he started trying door knobs only to find some offices open, he knew where the rest would be.
Any unlocked door he found, he did a quick search of. Obvious places first. On a book shelf in one office, another office with one on a bulletin board, one where the bomb was on a novel, one cohabiting with a fish, a couple under desks, and one in the middle of the floor of an office with a feather boa wrapped around it. The Tick left the feather boa. It didn't seem dangerous.
In the offices where the bombs weren't immediately apparent, it took a little bit of searching. But whether they were under piles of stuff, or in a trash can, they were located.
Eventually The Tick was holding a bunch of bombs in his arms. Convinced that he had grabbed all of them (Because it just didn't make dramatic sense for him to have missed any. It's logic that makes sense in a superhero world and luckily happened to work out in this case), The Tick dashed to the nearest exit (a window) and jumped out of it.
"If I were a bomb, where would I go to explode and not hurt anyone?" he asked on his way down. "The Rocky Bits! Nobody to hurt there but rocks!" Within a couple minutes, he arrived and dropped the bombs in a pile. "Okay, self, you have the bombs and brought them to a safe location. Now to disarm them!"
The Tick didn't know how to disarm a bomb, but the first one he found had a loose wire. That was probably a good start. The Tick pulled a wire on one of the bombs. His antennae stood straight up as he realized that the wire on the other bomb was a different color.
The Tick threw himself on the pile of bombs as the one bomb exploded. This explosion detonated the explosive material in the other bombs, so they exploded, too. This caused some rocks to fall but there was, conveniently, a brand new crater for the rocks to fall into. Unfortunately, there was also a Dean of Students in that crater.
The Tick rose and pulled himself out of the rock pile. He looked dirty, maybe a little singed, but there didn't seem to be a scratch on him or his costume. He smiled as he headed back to the school and made a phone call. Bombs didn't explode on him nearly enough anymore. Good times.
[OOC: Establishy!]
He reached the bathroom and found the object that seemed out of place. "Hmm. Smaller and less ticky than what I used to deal with in The City, but there's definitely a certain bombiness to it. So, status report to self. I have a bomb. I know what it looks like. I know that there are probably more of these. Obvious question: If I were a bomb, where would I be?"
The Tick stepped out of the restroom and looked around. If there was one bomb in the area of the faculty offices, it made sense that the rest of the bombs would be in the same vicinity. "If you're looking for needles in a haystack, the fastest way to find them is to dive into the haystack and grab anything that pokes you. It's time to dive in! SPOOOOOON!"
With that, he checked the ladies room. With his eyes covered, of course, until he was sure there was nobody in there. Nothing.
He rushed out and checked everywhere he could think of. Inside trash cans, above the ceiling tiles, but when he started trying door knobs only to find some offices open, he knew where the rest would be.
Any unlocked door he found, he did a quick search of. Obvious places first. On a book shelf in one office, another office with one on a bulletin board, one where the bomb was on a novel, one cohabiting with a fish, a couple under desks, and one in the middle of the floor of an office with a feather boa wrapped around it. The Tick left the feather boa. It didn't seem dangerous.
In the offices where the bombs weren't immediately apparent, it took a little bit of searching. But whether they were under piles of stuff, or in a trash can, they were located.
Eventually The Tick was holding a bunch of bombs in his arms. Convinced that he had grabbed all of them (Because it just didn't make dramatic sense for him to have missed any. It's logic that makes sense in a superhero world and luckily happened to work out in this case), The Tick dashed to the nearest exit (a window) and jumped out of it.
"If I were a bomb, where would I go to explode and not hurt anyone?" he asked on his way down. "The Rocky Bits! Nobody to hurt there but rocks!" Within a couple minutes, he arrived and dropped the bombs in a pile. "Okay, self, you have the bombs and brought them to a safe location. Now to disarm them!"
The Tick didn't know how to disarm a bomb, but the first one he found had a loose wire. That was probably a good start. The Tick pulled a wire on one of the bombs. His antennae stood straight up as he realized that the wire on the other bomb was a different color.
The Tick threw himself on the pile of bombs as the one bomb exploded. This explosion detonated the explosive material in the other bombs, so they exploded, too. This caused some rocks to fall but there was, conveniently, a brand new crater for the rocks to fall into. Unfortunately, there was also a Dean of Students in that crater.
The Tick rose and pulled himself out of the rock pile. He looked dirty, maybe a little singed, but there didn't seem to be a scratch on him or his costume. He smiled as he headed back to the school and made a phone call. Bombs didn't explode on him nearly enough anymore. Good times.
[OOC: Establishy!]