New In Town | The Atbash AU

Ah. Summer break. The time for leasure, recreation.. and taking it easy. Boy, was this not it. I'm Mason Orion and my twin brother Mark just had craziest and longest holiday ever. Long story short: My brother and I had an argument at school just before the summer started, the teachers got involved and the next thing we knew we were at the principals office trying to make things right but by some.. 'unfortunate' rumor that we may or may not have started our teacher decided to in the converse between our principal and we got.. temporarily suspended. Then we started having the greatest of times! Since school ended only a few weeks after, we started having the most long, dare-inducing summer vacation ever! Until.. our parents said we weren't doing much they decided to ship us to a small town in Oregon to stay with our Uncle Mike. The small town of North Hills.

Date: June 3rd 2017 - 10 PM

The twins are standing on a bus stop ten miles from North Hills.

Mark: "Yeah - he forgot all ." Mason: "No, he didn't forget, Mark! He's running late!" Mark: "Yeah.. 'late', he just NEEDED TO BE HERE FOUR HOURS AGO!" Mike: "Okay, okay! Extremely late, then! -" Mason would check his clock. "- Where is he?" Car lights shine across the driveway all the way to the bus stop. Mark: "If that's not him..."

Mike opened the front seat enger window. "Heeeey.. Masooonn! Maaark! ..How's it going?" Mike would awkwardly try to make conversation. Mark: "Oh, you know how it's going! Where were you?" Mason: "Yeah! We've been here for four hours!" Mike: "I was in a middle of something! It was important! I was hiking and I lost the track of time.. My paycheck is late.." Mason: "Yeah, yeah, Uncle Mike. Can we just go? I think I saw something moving in the forest.." Mike: "Get in! We're going now!" Mark: "Well, that was quick! - Gee, Uncle Mike, are you scared of the dark or something? You didn't have much of a rush ten minutes ago." Mike: "..Oh, you kids don't need to worry about that. There's nothing to worry about as soon as we get some place safe." Mark: "Some place safe? Aren't we suppose to be going to your apartment?" Mason: "Uncle Mike?" Mike: "..Uh, you see kids.. My apartment is having renovation and we can't really-" Mark and Mason: "You didn't pay the rent, did you?" Mike: "NO! ..yes, but it's fine! Because we'll go to my friend's house, it's nice and remote - and doesn't have a mailbox! So on the bright side we won't get junk mail. In the morning we'll head to town so you two can get to know the place! And then we're going hiking!" 30 minutes later. Mike opens a door to his friend's house. Mike: "Well, here we are!" Mike turns on the lights. They look around the slightly bigger than average rustic shack. Mason: "..Not a bad place if I do say so." Mark: "Where's the bathroom? I haven't seen a toilet in the last four hours and I can't hold it anymore!" Mike: "Next to the kitchen. First door on your left." While Mark hurries to the bathroom, Mike kneels down to Mason and gives him his museum security guard hat. "Here you go, buddy! ..Don't uh.. don't loose it. It's the only hat of mine that says my name. I'll get a replacement from work." Mason: "I will treasure it forever. That still doesn't make up for leaving us on a bus stop fo-" Mark makes 'manly' scream in the bathroom. Mike: "Hot Belgium waffles!" Mark: "ITS A DOG! I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD DOGS IN THE HOUSE!" Mike: "Oh, that's just Wheatley. It's my pet that I.. adopted." Wheatley would give out an asking grin to Mike. Mason: "..I kind of like it." Mark: "Well, I guess dogs aren't a bad thing.." Mike: "Well - uh. Come on Wheatley. We'll go for a jog. You two just get ready for bed- actually! I'm not your dad! So you can just.. y'know. Do it yourself, eat something and go to sleep." Mark and Mason look in the fridge. Inside, there are two cans of beef jerky, a bottle of milk, and some pancakes. Mark: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Mason: "I don't know, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Mason and Mark: "PANCAKE PARTY!"

Meanwhile Mike and Wheatley have gone outside and are climbing a mountain trail. Suddenly, Wheatley starts to talk - with an Scottish accent. "Are you completely stupid?" Mike: "Look, Wheatley, I honestly can't see a problem here.. the kids are only going to be here for the summer, we'll be climbing all the way high up here, they won't even know to follow us!" Wheatley: "You do know they could potentially ruin our whole plan?" Mike: "Oh, so, you think -" They arrive on a rocky clearing on a mountain ridge with a small garden shack. "-you think that those kids, mind you MY SISTER'S kids are smart enough to walk all the way up here - and input a secret code that leads to secret facility beneath 20 feet of rock?" Wheatley: "I'm just saying it's a potential possibility." Mike: "First of all, you're not a freaking computer! You can't predict how - or will they even come to this mountain ridge and retrace our exact steps! But I'm sure the odds are like one out of a million." Wheatley: "I guess you're right. Who could possibly stop us now?" They step inside the garden shack where a stone trapdoor lies with a keypad and a strange symbol. They input the code and an elevator rises when the door opens. They step inside, and wait until the elevator lowers them down - into a secret underground facility.