k39zzz | OOM: so nice of you to drop in

This is just typical for him, granted he isn't thinking that as he drops from a door suspended from the ceiling with a very rapid drop to that solid, solid full of oh so many breakable objects shelving below.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH AAH AHH AAAH!"

He's going to flail wildly before getting those gauntlets equipped and aiming for whatever support beam he can hit.

klank!

Now this bit is going to be tricky, because when he reels in the line before it goes taut he forgets what happened the last time he did that.

"AAAAUUUUGH!"

Which was doing a very flaily Indiana Jones impression.

Unfortunately for Tyler, no one was around to witness that.
(Well, in one sense, it could have been good thing. But in another, he's on his own to get down.)
At least he's got a good view of where he's ended up. The Warehouse is huge, much more so than one would suspect from the outside, had he seen that first (having a mountain to dig into helps). The shelves stratch on for quite some way, sometimes breaking to make room for various larger objects - ships, airplanes, houses, you name it.
(Is that the Trojan Horse off in the distance?)

The only good thing, if anything about this could be call as such, is that when he's finally done letting momentum do it's thing and eventually wear out. And feel sick after that ride, but hey, the gauntlet will let him reel up to the support beam and get another good look to survey over just where the heck he's ended up world-wise.

A good way off in the distance, there's a relatively well-lit room that appears to have a balcony. That's probably where any signs of life would be most easily found.
As for how Tyler can get there... well, even if he were near the zip line, there's no harness nearby. If there's enough line in the gauntlet, he might be able to do a more controlled descent to the floor. Otherwise, he might be able to scramble down a support girder; they're not exactly designed for climbing, but it's doable.
Easier if you have magnets, but doable.

That's the good thing about this gauntlet. It has enough thin defendium alloy line in it that Tyler could reasonably grapple to the roof of a 12 story building. A controlled descent is just the thing..Man that's a long way to walk though, and he definitely didn't see any direct route to that balcony.

"...where the heck butt did I end up landing..."

It is certainly a bit of a walk. But hey, there's a bicycle right there!
It's more than a little old, as bicycles go, but the wheels still look serviceable. Maybe it wouldn't be ideal for off-road conditions, but he's pretty clearly inside.
Can't hurt to give it a try, right?

Definitely couldn't hurt, and it's an old enough model that it's just about his height...if he scooters along on it with his feet.

One, two, one two...

He's getting better at riding bikes at least!

Tyler perhaps didn't notice the electronic tag stuck to the shelf next to the bicycle. If he had, it would have answered a couple questions for him - where he landed, for a start, and why he really, really might have been better off walking.

C(293) 286173-00: Wright Brothers' Bicycle
Approximate origin: Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900
Date of acquisition: September 29, 1943
Circumstances of acquisition: found in a prop warehouse in Hollywood, California, alongside other items used in The Wizard of Oz
Properties:
flies and carries the rider with it

If he had seen that tag he would've been much more prepared for finding himself suddenly a few inches off the ground than normal about fifteen minutes after starting.

And probably would've been a little less likely to have pedaled for a few good feet before taking off. With that the bike is gaining altitude.

"..Oh crap."

Yeah, it's probably not going to get much better from there. There's a reason it ended up in a famous movie before it got stored in the Warehouse, after all.
At least as Artifacts go, a flying bike is mostly harmless; a lot of it's going to come down to steering. And letting anyone who may be nearby know you're coming, of course. But how best to do that?

How about what looks like a bike horn on a nearby shelf?

...Yeah, that looks like that'd do just the trick...

Tyler can't get it without crashing the bike into the shelf, but as he passes by it's easy to line up the shot to grab it with the grappling gauntlet.

Honk!

It's too bad he didn't get close enough to the shelf to, say, read that tag.

C(293) 374016-04: Adolph "Harpo" Marx's horn
Approximate origin: 1920s-30s
Date of acquisition: January 14, 1962
Circumstances of acquisition: salvaged from a circus troupe (how it got there is unknown)
Properties:
expresses bearer's sentiments
Warnings:
Bearer cannot speak while using the horn.

Jack would like it on the record for posterity that he absolutely hated this case; who am I not to indulge him? -Rebecca

(When Claudia got to this tag, after briefly meeting the latter former agent in question, she couldn't resist preserving the paper version's contents in their entirety.)

Alright, he's got the controls on the bike pretty much figured out now, pedal is to move forward and rise, and back braking results in a slow descent. The trick is to stay above the shelves and not hit the ceiling..

..and to honk that horn he picked up as often as possible to try and get someone's attention.

Come on, someone's gotta notice eventually.

...and he really doesn't like the way some of those things on the shelves just seem to be looking at him.

Claudia... has a lot on her mind right now, it's fair to say. Being dumped with no explanation just when you decided you really liked the other person in question will do that to a girl. And Doug's really, really keen on getting her out to Eureka, and the rest of Team Awesome seems to have everything under control, so she figures she'll indulge him; maybe it'll help her not think about Todd for a while.
So she's doing a round of inventory, so there's a little bit less for Artie to freak out about while she's gone... and something's honking.
"Weird," she says to herself, before checking the nearest backup terminal; it's not an alarm, but the screen's showing a pair of Artifact disturbances. "--Okay, what the hell, I didn't touch anything this time!"

And then she looks up.

"...Tyler?"

Oh there's someone down in the aisle below who SAW him! He's going to start waving and flailing and try shouting to her before realizing he can't make a sound.

HonkHONKhonkhonkhonk-HONK!

Edited 2012-02-16 05:36 (UTC)

The flying bike is definitely an Artifact (she thinks Pete's ridden/flown it around a couple times); if she doesn't miss her guess, partly because Tyler doesn't strike her as the type to carry around a horn, that's the other disturbance. Either way, she knows 'HELP!' when she hears it.
"You got a clear runway," she calls, after glancing over her shoulder to make sure. "Go ahead and land if you can."
Better that than bringing out the goo to get him down.

Yes! Landing and a way out and someone he knows! Things are looking better!

Tyler's already coming around again to brake and glide down that open stretch of aisle... This however, doesn't mean that he makes the most gracious of landings.

Wham! Crash!

Boy and bike are now in a pile but the boy is well enough that he can in fact get back up again...horn never having left his hand the entire trip down.

"Are you okay? How did you even get in here? We're nowhere near the door and I know I didn't leave it hanging open."
Since he's getting up under his own power, Claudia checks the bike (Artie will flip his lid if it's been damaged); thankfully, it's good to go too.
Then again, if Pete's taken it for a spin, it's been through worse.

Honk-honhonk! HonkhonkhonkHONK! Honkhonkhonhonkahonk!

...please understand that because it looks like Tyler is really trying to speak but no words are coming out.

Honk?

Well, she can see that now, but she really couldn't tell from the air.
"...That's Harpo Marx's horn, isn't it." She immediately starts looking around for the nearest goo hose.

...honk?

No seriously what.

"Well, you can't talk, but I still know you have no idea how you ended up in here. More expressive than I would've thought from the tag. C'mon, I think we're gonna have to goo it out of your hands. I'll try not to soak you."
There's a hose fixture on the wall nearby, sort of like something you might find on an old-school fire extinguisher.

...And Tyler's got one last honk before he's holding out his hand holding the horn like it's a moldy diaper.

Honk.

Claudia smiles, a little on the wry side. "Welcome to Warehouse 13, dude. Don't panic, the goo won't do anything to you and I have a towel with me."
Of course she has a towel with her. She is one prepared hitchhiker.
Anyway, she takes the hose down and pumps some purple goo out of it and onto Tyler's hands and the horn, trying not to hit his clothes too badly.

Sadly it does spatter onto the silver undershirt Tyler's wearing and spark a bit before..well tarnishing.

And the kid looks about twice as drained as before, but at least the horn lets go of him.

"...ugh."

Claudia hangs the hose up, pulls a towel and a pair of purple gloves out of her tool belt, hands Tyler the towel, pulls on the gloves and takes the horn.
"Okay," she says, "now that you can talk... what happened to where you ended up here?"
He doesn't know how, so she'll chalk it up to Milliways weird. But it's worth knowing how weird.

"My door opened but when I got partway through..it wasn't going home anymore." Tyler starts with how he got into the warehouse, before filling Claudia in on the way back to the office about just what is happening there.

So many flavors of doom.

At least all the doom gives them something to talk about on the way up to Artie's office. But the more Tyler has to say about how bad things have gotten since she popped in to see why T-Minus was down, the more Claudia frowns, to the point where, as they open the door into the office, she says, "...yikes. Sounds like things are really getting nasty."

"...so we may need to move the-- what's getting nasty?" Artie says from his computer; apparently, they caught him mid-conversation with Leena.

"Milliways."

"Well, I could have told you that, there's a reason--"

Claudia rolls her eyes. "No, dude, I mean the part where, alongside a metric crapton of doom and gloom, it spit a ten-year-old out into Canton sector. Which, you might note, is nowhere near the door."

"Nine and 10 months. My birthday isn't until August back home." Tyler corrects Claudia wearily looking for someplace safe to sit down.

The walk here was so absolutely tiring, really.

"Sorry."

Artie scowls. "Well, take him back, then."

"I'm not sure that's an option right now. Apparently the bar's eating itself alive or something."
And really, you know things are bad when Claudia is saying that maybe using the door to Milliways is a bad idea.

Leena, for her part, takes one look at the kid who followed Claudia in and frowns.
"His aura's a mess, Artie," she says. "At the very least, he needs a good dinner and a good night's sleep, and it's not as though much happens at the B&B anyway."

"And if we can't get him back to his world, how do we explain a nine-year-old appearing out of thin air?"

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

...Tyler's just going to be quiet at the line of 'appearing out of thin air' line and try and look very innocent.

"Really, Artie, even I'm not sure if I want to risk the door right now. And you know me--"

"Diving in even when I give you express orders not to." Artie sighs. "All right, fine, but you are to stay put when you get to Leena's, understood?"
The less people they have to explain a random kid to, the better.

"Yessir."

Beat.

"Uhm...I do have something that lets me turn invisible? It doesn't last long though."

"No."

Claudia's torn between laughing and facepalming into infinity. "Don't, Tyler. He'll make me take you back to Milliways for sure."

"I won't use it! I was just letting him know in case he wanted to use the Stealth-boy to sneak me to the B&B!"

But with that look he's digging it out of a jacket pocket and handing the little device over.

Claudia grabs it and sticks it in her tool belt, after an exchange of Meaningful Looks with Artie. (Seriously, if she tries it it'll be on her own time... I mean, what? Why would she do a silly thing like that?)
"Dude, I have a car for that. Let's go, Leena can feed you something you actually want to eat."
And then he can sleep soundly, r at least in the knowledge that the place he's sleeping won't come down around his ears overnight.

...you had him at food.

The big thick door is the one that leads out right? He can have real food and not RARs or something and sleep without nightmares right?

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