Night 49: Room of Earth

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"...What?"

The door slammed shut behind them and locked with a rather distinctive click. The Doctor glanced back at the door—which was very different on this side than it had been on that side—but it wasn't the slam or the door that ended up grabbing the Doctor's attention. There was a loud rumbling that did not, he was quite positive, have anything to do with the thunder that they would have heard more clearly outside. Nor was it a sound that would have come from any construction work, had he and Dean stumbled across it. No, this was different.

"What?"

Following that hall, they should have exited the building into the field. It should led have outside, should have been raining. But in here—inside here—well... that definitely wasn't rain.

Not rainwater, at least. It rather appeared to be raining boulders in the room.

"What."

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[longlivetheking]

Scar had been busy with growing annoyed at these dizzy sensations that kept overwhelming him. They didn't do wonders for his throbbing head for that matter. What also didn't do wonders were the loud rumbling that filled the entire room.

"Rumbling? Where could this possibly--"

Any further words that would have formed were soon cut short when he saw what sort of area they had actually entered. He wasn't even going to ask where, as the what took most of his attention. A large room, with holes. From these holes, giant boulders rained down and rolled from one side to the other before disappearing into a different hole.

Scar stared, trying to wrap his mind around the scene that lay before him. On the other hand, there was also a part of him that was wondering why he was even surprised to begin with; a large room with giant boulders rolling over the ground and crushing everything unfortunate enough to stand there. This was, after all, Landel's Institute. It made perfect sense!

At the very least, it was all the more reason to head back, an idea that Scar would immediately put into practice. Or, he would...

"Locked. Gee, why am I not even surprised?!"

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"You're kidding, right?" Wally asked, though it was more from a very faint (more like rapidly disappearing) hope that Scar had some sort of hidden love of pranks and that the next comment would be something along the lines of 'haha, fooled you!'. But considering how the guy had been acting so far? Wally wasn't going to hold his breath.

He stared hopefully at the door for a moment in case it decided to magically unlock itself or turned out to be stuck or something instead, but, when both options failed to happen, sighed and looked back at the other door that could just be made out on the other side of the room.

"Right, so all we have to do is... make it over there. Past the obstacle course of rolling, bone-breaking death. Noooo problem at all, right?" He forced a smile and glanced over at Scar. He could carry the other patient that distance well enough, since Scar didn't seem like he'd weigh that much, but the problem was how well his powers would hold out. But they hadn't been that much of a problem lately, so maybe he was overreacting.

But either way, there was only really one way to tell for sure. "Okay, I think I can get us across if you can trust me? I'm, uh, going to have to carry you though."

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"Of course I am joking," Scar muttered, sarcasm dripping from his voice. "I simply love making jokes when faced with the possibility of being squashed by giant boulders." Ignoring the other man's hopeful stares towards the door as if the door was going to unlock itself when asked nicely, Scar turned and glared at the infuriating yet out-of-reach door on the other side of the room.

It suddenly seemed tempting to just wait here until the night would end, but with every rumbling sound it began looking like as if his head would explode from the worsening headache. No option, then. But the prospect of being likely squashed to death wasn't too appealing either; Scar happened to find his own life rather valuable.

Until Wally voiced an option that was nearly too good to be true. But the former lion couldn't help but to be skeptical. Before he would allow himself to be carried (trust was a different thing altogether. After all, he had only just met this individual), he had to ask:

"You can get us across? How?" Scar said with a raised eyebrow. What did he intend to do? Simply fly over the boulders?

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"Okay, geez, just asking," Wally said, raising his hands defensively. Trust him to meet someone with not only a sense of humour that rivalled Batman's, but more sarcasm than he'd gotten from anyone in a long time. Fortunately sarcasm or not, Scar was willing to at least hear him out about his plan. Now Wally just had to hope that the explanation didn't raise too many more questions.

"I can run us through it," he said, skipping straight to the point. "I'm really fast when I want to be. Faster than any other human I've met anyway." Superman didn't count, since he wasn't human and all. "I could get us across to the other side and avoid the boulders too. When I run that fast, it's like everything's standing still, so it wouldn't even be that hard..."

This was all assuming his powers didn't decide to not work again, but Wally figured it might not be best to tell Scar that part just yet. "So, what do you think?"