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Despite her reservations, Penny made sure to arrive at the place at their scheduled time.

She was rolling through the streets of Faircrest at night on her moped... definitely an unsettling feeling. As Penelope made a note to stay the fuck away from the place on the account of there being nothing here. 'Cept for trees. And shit. Penny kept her eyes peeled, though. This felt like the start up to some horror movie, she was just waiting for a monster to pop out. But, Penny made it to it to the place. She came up to some metal gates that have been chained up, that was surrounded by a stone wall. But, she could see the massive mansion built on a hill. It was high enough for her to see the wooden monstrosity that was before her. Which was mostly reclaimed by nature given that it was damn near coated in plants, or something. She hopped off the moped for a moment as she walked over to the gate. There was a plaque or something... but it was covered in fuckin' plants. She rolled her eyes as she pulled the roots away with her bare hands to reveal the plague.

[quote][code]AUER MANOR[/code][/quote]

"Huh?" Penny said to herself as the name was familiar to her in some way. Almost as if it was mentioned in passing by someone... but who was the question?

That line of thought was brought to an end when she saw two lights in the distance rapidly approach, and figured that it could only be the rest of her group. A red minivan, followed by a white moped with Wendy and Rowan on top of it. The rest of the group came out of the minivan as Wendy got off, and took off her helmet. She let her hair flutter for a moment, as she looked at Penny.

"Here already?" Wendy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You bet." Penny said, "I've been waitin' for ya'll to get here, but you took your sweet fuckin' time as always."

She put a hand on her hip as she chuckled for a moment. "That's okay, I don't mind waiting."

"You could have just came with us, Penny," Wendy said, annoyed.

"Well, given that I'd be ass to ass in that van," Penny's eyes ventured to the uncomfortable minivan. "[i]Pass.[/i]"

Penny chuckled again, before adding on, "[i]Besides,[/i] I had to get suited up!"

And that prompted Wendy to look at the girl from top to bottom. She definitely took this seriously, but she missed an important memo. This was just an exploration, not an [i]infiltration[/i]. Given the camo warpaint underneath Penny's eyes, the large black backpack with a crowbar poking out of it, steel toe boots, and the... utility belt? It had bottles of pepper spray, and a taser hanging off it.

"Well, someone had fun,"  Wendy teased Penny, "We're just looking around, you didn't need to bring all this."

"[i]Well,[/i] given that there's a mysterious group of fucks after us," Penny said. "I didn't want to take any chances, that's why I'm prepared for anything."

Rowan took a look at her and shrugged, "Sure, because your mall cop belt is [i]really[/i] gonna spook these assholes. Might work for junkies but these people ain' gonna be junkies now, are they?" A rhetorical question, no doubt, but it was hard not to wonder just how [i]far[/i] they were going into the rabbit hole. 

"Well who fuckin' knows?" Penny asked, with her arms crossed, as she looked at Rowan. "Could be a buncha mongs hopped up on Happiness, we never know." She shrugged.

Happiness... the thing that took Baybridge by storm, Wendy heard. It was one of the things that made her feel like a fish out of water, even returning to the city she spent over five years in. Well, while Wendy wasn't ashamed to say that she and Rowan dabbled in a little drug usage during their journey, it wasn't anything like Happiness. But, she couldn't help but chime in a little, "If they were just druggies, we'd have no problem." Wendy took a few steps over to Penny, and crossed her arms,

"Well, if I were to take a guess," Wendy said with a sly smile on her face, looking at Penelope. "I'd say you're afraid of something."

"I'm not afraid of shit," Penny said, putting a hand on her hip, "What gave you that idea?"

"Oooooooooh, well," Wendy said. "[i]Reasons.[/i]" 

"But that'll help get us in, I guess," Rowan said, eyeing the crowbar peering out of her backpack.

Kumiko then got out the van, and shook her head at the kids, before looking at the fence and saying, "I gave this place a look earlier on, there wasn't anyone here for years," She started off, "But, that isn't to say that somebody could have moved in between when I looked and now."

"Yeah," Penny said as she reached into her backpack and pulled out a lollipop. She stuck it in her mouth and began to suck on it casually, before saying, "I'd feel a lot more comfortable if we get a second look."

"Well, I can go look," Wendy said as she turned her hand into paper. "But, Rori?" She asked, "would you join me? We'd cover more ground."

"Sure can do! Should be easy between the two of us," Rori agreed readily, before looking thoughtful. "Hmm... what bird has the best vision that I can turn into? Oh, I got it!" Taking a moment they turned into a red tailed hawk before hopping up and onto the fence, ready to go look around.

Wendy first turned into a paper cloud and landed on the stone fence, before she felt the night breeze as she raised a hand up into the air. She then turned back into paper and let the breeze carry her away. She reached the highest height above the mansion, before she quickly came down. So far she didn't see a single person outside, but she whirled by the windows really quickly, before she ran out of breath and had to make a quick landing. Taking a few soft breaths, she was back in the air and made several laps around the building, and could safely say that it was... clear. She went to the rooftop, before calling,

"Hey, Rori!" Wendy said to get her attention. "Did you see anything suspicious?"

Rori had been able to make a few laps in the sky, easily seeing the entire building from above with the enhanced vision of a hawk. They went by all the windows as well; just in case they saw something that Wendy hadn't. Bird eyes did have some advantages. The coast seemed clear as far as they were aware but they checked it again from up high just in case before swooping back down towards Wendy on the roof. Changing just beside her, Rori took a moment to catch their breath.

"Nope, nothing that I could see."

"Alright," Wendy said as she slowly turned into paper. "Let's meet back with the others."

Rori just nodded, and turned back into a bird (albeit a smaller one) to make their way back to the rest of the group.

"What's that leave, just us getting in?" Rowan asked, nodding towards Penny.

"I mean," Penny said as she looked at the fence - mainly the chains. She crossed her arms, the lollipop still hanging out her mouth, before she said. "Y'could just Magneto the gate open at any time."

"Let's just wait a sec for the all-clear, Rowan," Kumiko said. "The last thing I'd like to find out is that we aren't the only people there."

He nodded. "Sure. It's on you, then."

During their discussion on whether or not they should go through without waiting for Wendy, the two returned. Wendy just falling from the sky and Rori turning back from a bird just before the ground. Wendy nodded her head, and simply said, "The coast is clear." 

"Good!" Penny said, sucking the lollipop a little harder. "Now, I [i]could[/i] break the chains off with this crowbar..." She said as she reached back and pulled out the crowbar, then she turned towards Rowan and said, "But, at the same time, could you do the honors, Magneto?"

"Nah, I'm sure I'll let you handle this one, Paul Blart." Rowan said something smart and earned an eyeroll from Penny. 

"Yeah, yeah," Penny said, as she pulled the crowbar out of her backpack, and her muscles puffed up as her body fat converted into pure muscle. "You sound really manly making the small, frail, girl open the door for you." She said, very teasingly as she shoved the crowbar in between the chains, and with one hard pull she popped it with ease. Penny smiled with pure satisfaction as the chains fell to the ground, and she then kicked the gates apart from where they met. They loudly creaked, since they were old, worn, and rusted, but they showed the view of the grass in front of her when the gate was closed. Probably because she was focused on the gate. All they saw was a stone road leading to the mansion (Or, Auer Manors) overtaken by nature.

"Well," Penny said, "We got a spooky ass mansion to explore, time's a wastin' - don't want to keep all those fuckin' ghosts waiting, do we?"

Wendy shrugged, as she lead the march towards the mansion. Though, as ridiculous as Penny's statements were... the closer she got to the mansion, more ominous it seemed. It reminded her of three years ago, when she raided base after base, looking for Diana... only then, she was too driven to take into account how frightening it looked. Now... she had more time to think about her actions. As she approached the door, she noticed that it was slightly ajar. Letting in a slight whisper as the wind blew in and out of the building. She stuck a hand out, but paused for a moment.

"... Well?" Penny asked as she had both hands on her hips, and leaned forward. "Just push the door open, there ain't no such thing as monsters!"

The people who were at the mall know otherwise, as an awkward silence filled the air, and Penny shrugged.

"Well, I don't see any 'round here," Penny rolled her eyes, before she just paced past Wendy, and simply pushed the door open. Nearly causing spider webs to fall all over them. The first thing they gazed upon was absolute darkness, but they could see the rooted wooden floors illuminated by the moonlight. 

Which was a problem, mainly because the last thing Wendy wanted was for them to trip over themselves. Thankfully, Wendy always planned in advance. She reached into her satchel, and pulled out three flashlights. "Alright, guys, I only got thr-" Penny was quick to snatch one without a word, causing Wendy to narrow her eyes, as she continued. ".... I only got [i]two[/i] of these, so who wants to hold the other ones?" She held them out for her group.

"Guess I can." Rowan quietly snatched up a light, turned it on and shifted the beam towards the building's decrepit interior.

"Sure thing!" Rori took the other light cheerfully and switched it on. They could see slightly better in the dark than most, what with the bird-like eyes, but having a flashlight also made things easier!

"Hey guys!" Penny shouted to catch everyone's attention. Since she so graciously went ahead. "Check out this shit!"

Penny then shined the flashlight down the hall, and past the door was a giant foyer that had several halls leading out of it. Including several wooden, and decayed stairs that Penny wouldn't touch. But, what caught her (and by that extent, the rest of the group's) attention was the giant statue in the middle of the foyer. The subject was what elicited anger inside of Wendy. It was a brass statue of the so called "Blessed Three," styled in the manner of ancient Greek sculptures based off Gods. Each of the Blessed Three underneath a giant globe, seemingly holding it up like Atlas. Dressed in garbs similar to Greek Gods 

"So, we're here..." Penny said underneath her breath, this was a place Daniel told her about. She knew Auer Manors sounded familiar! Now she really wished Daniel was here. Before she shook her head and said to the group, "Behold! The monument to the greatest circle jerk ever to face the earth!"

Thinly veiled contempt washed over Rowan's face as the gratifying likenesses of the three came into view. Ezekiel was hard to miss with his pompous visage and Blake's olympian figure had been emphasised even moreso. The third, however , was of some woman that he didn't recognise.

"Not anymore," he spat at the foot of the sculpture, curling his fingers inwards. Rowan had seen to Ezekiel's death personally with a shard of metal in the man's gut and last they'd heard Blake had died like a bitch on the run from RAVEN, but it was infuriating to see these assholes immortalised as statues and for a moment his disgust overtook him as he tried to crush them in his grasp, only to recall that brass was a non-ferrous metal. Instead, he ceded with a contemptuous remark, "At least those two assholes are rotting."

"It's a shame that the statue is, though, the material could be worth a lot," Rori hummed slightly, stepping up and tapping a bit of the statue. The artist in them thought it looked nice enough but also didn't appreciate [i]them[/i] being done in such an ancient style. And while they hadn't been directly affected by the blessed three, not like Wendy and Rowan, their cousin had been lost to the fight in them. They definitely didn't deserve a statue. "Not that that's important! Although it could be a lot worse... Greek style statues tend to have a lot more nudity." They realised that was a bit off topic - damn their habit of rambling.

"Ah, sorry, I'm being insensitive."

"It's... okay, Rori." Wendy replied to Rori as she merely shook her head. This was what the Blessed Three wanted, wasn't it? Even in death, they are all immortalized forever. It disgusted her... it disgusted her so fucking much. She tightly clenched her fists as she nearly had an outburst. The mere thought of Blake brought up some rather ugly memories. "It... really is." 

"Well, Rori," Kumiko said under her breath, as she walked over to the bird girl. "They have other statues that are a bit more, uhhhh.... [i]detailed.[/i]"

There wasn't much else for Wendy to do other than deal with it. She nodded her eyes as a look of passion replaced the grief. She took a few steps over to the statue, before her eyes rested upon the woman, "But... who's this?" She gestured towards the woman. Instead of Kumiko answering like she expected, [i]Penny[/i] did.

"Julia O-fuckin'-Sullivan," Penny said as she turned around. "An Irish-bitch that was a 'medical genius'-" She finger quoted. "-and the third member of the Blessed Three. Wasn't as blatant as the rest of the three, but she sure as hell was crazy."

Wendy raised an eyebrow. "... and you know this [i]how?[/i]"

Penny rolled her eyes and shook her head as if Wendy was annoying her. Before she merely skipped by, "... Maybe you didn't read those notes as hard as you think you did." And that's all Penny said, annoying Wendy. "Now, I think I'm done marveling at the dick statues, so uh... where do we even fuckin' start?" 

She looked around, and she never noticed how expansive this whole place was. They could be here for [i]days[/i] checking every nook, cranny, and etc, for a god damn lead - maybe even [i]more[/i] in the dark. 

"Oh! That gives me an idea" Penny said. "How about we turn back on the fucking power... if it's possible? This whole place is rooted to shit, so it may not even work anymore."

"Or we could burn down the whole place," Wendy said.

"It's better than stumbling around in the dark for nine hours like a buncha' mongs," Penny rolled her eyes.

Kannix had been staying at the back of the pack the whole time, side by side with Rein, one of among the population of the group that did not totally hate her guts. Light illuminated from her phone, flashing a screen of brightness onto her face, casting a huge shadow back beyond her, the face of the device displaying the messages of concern form her mother again ("Out with Rein again - be back home soon!").

Though the statues that put the group's march to temporary halt were in the biblical meanings of 'awesome' and 'horrible', there was a bit of detachment facing someone/something so far beyond the seeming capacities of the human-Metahuman realm. Knowing what they'd done, Kannix could not help but wonder if it was all real. 

She took her phone and aimed it forward to have its light brighten a small scope of the room in front of them, though only managing to see the floor just a small distance away. 

"I can go walk ahead first into one of the halls. I'll yell if I see anything weird, yeah?" Kannix began her unstoppable march but not before activating and launching herself at the statue's globe. With her powers, the mass of the globe deflected against Kannix's repulsion. It wasn't enough to send the globe flying away like a baseball, but it caused the whole statue to shuffle and the globe to stress and break from the base, making it roll over backwards and fall sharply and loudly to the wooden floor. 

"Wait, Kannix-" Wendy tried to stop her, because she didn't think it was the best idea to go wandering around a dark mansion alone - but, Kannix had other... much dumber, plans. When she knocked over the statue, it went barrelling into the ground and damn near causing it to fall through the floor. As for the globe? It flying right into the wall. The sound was horrific, and she winced. It was probably heard from [i]miles[/i]. "Jesus Christ!" Wendy shouted, whilst Rowan seemed ready to pull up anything he could to shield them from the possibility of the roof coming down on top of their heads.

After the noise and the moment dissipated, Kannix, atop the globe, announced: "That might have been a bit much." She shrugged to herself and leapt off to the nearest hallway. Her selection seemed a long dark bunch of nothing.

On the other hand, Penny responded a bit less kindly.

"Hey, dipshit!" Penny shouted down the hall. "Stop before you crash the [i]fucking[/i] place dow-" But, she was gone.

Not only did this mong make a ton of noise, she was going around trashing the place. Worst case scenario, she destroys something [i]useful[/i] (far more than she was) and look! They were shit out of luck! Penny had her legs ready to go chase after her, but she had a few words 

"You fuckin' think?" Even Rowan, who had wanted to watch the statues crushed under their own mass, found himself cringing at the untold [i]bullshit[/i] that she'd potentially dragged their way

"Your friend's dumb as a bag of rocks - no, that's insulting rocks!" Penny said to Wendy. "Now we have everyone in five kilometers knowing [i]exactly where the fuck we are.[/i]"

Wendy raised a finger to object, before the finger went down as if it deflated, and sighed. "... She isn't my friend."

"Yeah, yeah," Penny said as she just decided to run after her with the flashlight. Hoping to knock some sense into her with it.

"... Uh, yeah, kids," Kumiko said as she walked up and put a hand on both Wendy and Rowan's shoulders. "It's [i]probably[/i] in our interests to stop her."

As time went on, Penny's rage seemed more and more justified. Wendy shook her head, and just gestured for everyone to come along as they participated in the chase.