Part 4 Continued
“Ah, hell.” A thick, annoyed Texan accent came through the hallway past the horde of raptors as the familiar sight of a certain engineering fellow came. Wrench in hand, he shuffled through the raptors as he looked at the event. “I leave for five minutes to help Scandal and you boys go nasty on people.”
As Wally briefly recalled the familiar name, Diego gave a small smile at the man, motioning to our unfortunate heroes with all the glee a child had when he found a lost puppy or a free toy.
“Ah, Engineer. You arrived just in time for the demise of these fools who want to talk to you-” He was interrupted by the man himself as he gave a heavy groan, facepalming in annoyance.
Pushing the raptors aside, the hard hat wearing man lightly shoved Vega to the side, astonished that he was actually touched as the engineer gave a sigh.
“How about you, and all your little raptors friends move it along somewhere else while I talk to these..” He briefly looked at Wally, sheepish at the situation before looking back. “What’d you call them?”
“Fools.” Vega hissed, the man begrudgingly walking away with the rest of the hoard as Diego turned, spitting angrily on the wall in mild defiance before descending back into the darkness.
Finally able to relax, Wally and Takeda nearly collapsed as they took multiple breaths, sighing in relief as the engineer sheepishly rubbed his head, embarrassed at the strange turn of events that befell the very same people he assisted before.
“Sorry boys,” He apologized, holding up his well worn hands in a small gesture. “As nice as I can try and be, the others don’t exactly have that Southern Hospitality, y’know?”
“I can see that, yes.” Takeda somewhat sarcastically huffed as Wally slightly shoved him.
Right now, they needed to continue along before the prison staff caught onto the prison break about to unfold. After the last unsuccessful one, they had to be quick, fast, and effective, especially given what the Warden could do.
“Listen, we think we found some sort of escape route.” He spoke in a hushed whisper, hoping no one would catch a whiff of what was about to occur. “The problem is...we have no idea if its safe and we have some..passengers.”
The engineer took a moment to think before following along, snapping his fingers in understanding as he caught onto what the group had in mind.
“So if I’m hearing you fellas right, you want me to take care of those little buggers I heard y’all had?” He asked,questioning their intentions before sighed. “That’s mighty noble of y’all, but that aint gonna caught it for my boys. They want something out of it.. And frankly, I do to.”
Wally looked at a hesitant Takeda, the latter unsure of the speedster’s plan before the vigilante crossed his arms. He already had a plan in mind in the highly likely event the Engineer wanted a reward.
“In return for keeping those guys safe..we’ll put on of your teleporters somewhere safe in the escape route.” Wally promised, much to Takeda and the Engineer’s astonishment. “We’ll meet up somewhere safe and you can help us unshrink them, okay?”
It took a moment, but after some thinking, The Engineer gave a broad, happy grin as he shook the speedster’s hand.
“Heck yeah!”