OPEN

"Are we ready?"

"Almost Sir."

"Good. I want this done as quick as we can"

"Sir, why Wertham again?"

"It's still in its testing stage. It needs to be perfected before we move it. Wertham has the perfect climate for it"

"But it's been 5 years since it last happened. Surely it ca-"

"It HAS to be perfected. Is it ready?"

"Yes Sir."

"Good. Start it up"

"Yes Sir."

30 Minutes Earlier

Luke

I stood amongst the others as the probation worker informed us of what was going on.
"You are on community service. You will serve the community, giving back the time you took from all of us." He said. He stood there in front of us, a large beast-like man. His arms were forcing their bulgy muscles out of his shirt. A tight-fit shirt he obviously didn't pick carefully. "If that wasn't clear enough for you, you're going to clean stuff up and help people" he added with a sarcastic tone. "You have one hour before we start, be in the community center in one hour sharp." He ordered. He gave us all one last look before walking to the community center.
"Well he's not the friendly type is he?" I said, watching him as he walked.

Hugh

This probation officer seemed like a complete prick. What happened to the last probation officer I got? Tony I think his name was, he was a good guy. This new guy looked like he had been pumped up on steroids. I looked around at the other offenders taking part in the service. They didn't look the brightest bunch but that didn't bother me. When the social worker left I watched him as he walked away, just hearing someone make a sarcastic comment. "No he isn't is he".

Angel

"Definetly not the friendly type." Angel spoke after watching the giant oaf of a man practically storm away. She then scowled down at her orange jump suit. Not a flattering color on her she thinks. She tried to punk out the outfit as much as she could. With one thing.

Adding a chunky belt to better show her figure. Made quite the difference she likes to think. She looked down the line at all her other accomplices.

Luke

I looked down the line and raised an eyebrow. "Now, I never thought I'd see girls on community service. What about you sweetcheeks" I said looking at Angel. "What'd you do?"

Pepper

Whistling loudly as she worked, the only thing currently bothering Pepper was the dirt under her nails, which she wasn't used to having not being a terribly outdoorsy person. Still, she was hard pressed to ever be in a negative mood, and seemed pretty focused apart from occasionally moving her gaze to the other youths.

Angel scoffed before looking down the line to Luke, "Okay. First of all, on't call me sweetcheeks. Second of all, none of your business." She wasn't gonna tell strangers how she got here. She's trying to forget and bringing it up won't help.

Luke

"Alright hot tits, your call" I said. (G2G)

(Bye!)

Now Angel was getting pissed off. "Don't call me hot fits either." She said glancing down at her chest before looking back to Luke. "I have a name and it's Angel, use it."

Pepper stopped whistling momentarily. "Now there's no need for that, no need to fight. We're all here because we did a bad thing, and nothing can change that now." She looked down and went back to her song.

Luke

I smiled. "Alright, Angel." I said. I sat on a nearby bench. I smiled at what Pepper said. "Yup, we all done bad things. And now we're here getting ready to work our asses off." I said. "Oi you!" I shouted to Hugh. "You um, you look like that guy of the IT Crowd. What's his name... Roy! You know, the fat one? Good show."
I looked at Pepper. "What about you? Care to enlighten us on your criminal activities?"

She pouted a little bit, shrugging her shoulders. "They wouldn't let me see my boyfriend. I don't know why. He'll be waiting for me when I get done here, though."

Luke

"They won't let you see your boyfriend" I repeated to myself in amusement. "A restraining order?"

Hugh

"Never seen it" I said to Luke. I watched as the others bickered. They were all as stupid as I thought. At least this would be an entertaining community service. The one with the typical community service boyfriend story made me smirk. I had heard it a million times. It seemed yo happen with nearly every single woman who had community service. I assume half of the men just got sick of them and lied. As I thought I laughed to myself suddenly realizing It was out loud.

"Yeah, I guess." She looked down at the ground sadly, but then perked up again. "But that's alright~ It'll get better~"

Luke

"Of course it will" I said, sympathising her. Above us, clouds gathered. Thunder was heard rumbling across Wertham, "Come on," I said standing up. "Don't want to get caught up in that"

Hugh

I looked at Luke. "Oh you think not eh?" I retorted sarcastically. I mean seriously who did this Luke guy think he was. He was acting like he was our leader. Do this, do that. I don't think I could put up with him for the whole community service time with his stupid remarks. The onyl person who had not said much so far was the other girl, Angel I think her name was. So I wasn't too sure how what she was like. Hopefully not as dumb as the other two anyway.

While everyone was talking and stuff Angel just watched. Even though she didn't look like she was listening, she was. Especially when the girl brought up her reason for being there. Restraining order? There's always that one. She'd glanced up at the clouds as there was thunder starting. She'd heard the guy, Luke, say something. She wasn't sure what though.

So, while everyone was distracted, she began heading inside.

"Oh, that's a good idea. I don't like storms at all, let's go inside where we'll be safe." She smiled at Luke and turned to go in.

Luke

I got up. I heard a loud bang and the ground shaking. Right behind me, where I sat only a couple seconds ago, a large ball of ice had destroyed the bench. "What the fuck?" I shouted. More ice fell to the floor. "MOVE!" I screamed and ran

(Just to note, don't actually go inside)

Hugh

What the hell was this storm? It was like nothing I had ever seen. I was honestly scared (A feeling I wasn't used to). I could see I wasn't the only one. At least I wasn't being as idiotic as Luke. I stood in silence for a second until a scream from Luke startled me and I also began to run into the community centre. At the last minute I turned around to see Luke nearly getting hit by ice. I couldn't let him die. I ran at him and pulled him out of the way of a piece of falling ice.