[h1]Gintoki[/h1]
"Come on now, I wouldn't think anyone would be that foolish..." Gintoki trailed off as he heard Saber's comment. Wait. Was this girl serious? She sounded serious. No way that was right, right?

"Erm... I'm... Not going to ask," he sighed, shaking his head in disbelief before walking after Nono and the loli vampire into the mansion. The maid... Well... To be fair, Gintoki himself wasn't sure what to make of her. A ghost? An alien? Some sort of time paradox that faded in and out of existence every so often?
...
Well, that wasn't worrisome for now. Right now, all he really wanted to do was to get out of this freakin' cold weather and get in the damn mansion!

[h1]Suwako[/h1]
"Fixed in place, huh...?" Suwako mused to herself before taking a few steps back and waving her right hand over the sand beneath them. Well, there was definitely SOMETHING metal lodged underneath them... Which meant more of her moving the stuff out of the way. Sand was never fun to mess around with; always got in her eyes one way or another. But if they were going to try and leave the region...

The sand very quickly flew away from the group, further out into the desert to clear the way for the gate to become perceivable to everyone not with electrical circuits built into them or a goddess who could control earth. Needless to say, the gate was... A lot larger and more ornate than Suwako had initially expected it to be. But what kind of group set this up here in the first place?

Actually, that didn't matter as much as figuring out how the heck it worked. Without that, then what was the point of coming here at all?

"Uh... So... Anyone... Got a key for this or something?"

[h1]Kakine[/h1]
Nodding to Marisa and 10032 as they both agreed to head to the Windowless Building, Kakine led the two out of the facility and into the less-than-developed District 21 hillside that the laboratory was built into. Since it was much too dangerous to attempt such experiments within the residential or industrial complexes, it was only natural for the interdimensional portal to be set up here, if anywhere. The Windowless Building remained on the horizon, standing tall among the tall skyscrapers and such. As ominous as it seemed, nobody really had business there unless there were direct orders to do so, which the three of them just so happened to have. That itself wasn't the issue, though. The problem now was...

"Hey, 10032. You think we should just walk there, or take the subway? Flying isn't allowed inside city limits, barring the airlines coming in and out of District 23..." he trailed off before he began to massage his forehead.
"...And the shortest route either way is through District 15. This is going to be fun."

An exasperated look on his usual calm face betrayed the irritation he had regarding the situation. Bringing a kleptomaniac into the city's shopping district AND mass media center? It was almost as if he was asking to get the authorities after them.