Welcome To The 80s

[Narrator]

As they're making their way to what, according to the signs, is the motor-pool, they're passed by small groups of agents going the same direction. They move more urgently and the X-Men catch snippets of conversations as well as the accompanying thoughts.

"...should I know? Code Black is all that came down."

"Then why are they sending damage control already? How bad can it..."

"Damnit, I had 50 bucks riding on that Leo kid going loud first."

The groups of people aren't all wearing the standard black suit get-up. Some are pulling on orange-yellow hi-vis vests and construction helmets, two jog past them in EPA jackets. Another has two dressed as beat cops and two plain-clothes detectives, all with LAPD badges prominently showing.

"...got any idea..."

"...go with gas leak for now until we can assess the sitch..."

"...get some sun at least."

"...bet you this is way over-blown."

"Would be real bad timing for a drill."

[Toshiro Narumi]

"'Code Black? That... doesn't sound good," Tosh said quietly. "Something more urgent must be going on. Knowing our luck, it'll be right where we need to go."

[Will Stanton]

"RIght," Will said, nodding.

"Tosh, you're about a 34-inch waist, right? 33 inseam?" she whispered, glancing at the agents making up the rear of the passing crew and sizing them up.

[Toshiro Narumi]

Tosh glanced at Will, his eyebrow raised slightly in momentary befuddlement. "Yes, but what does that have to... Oh," he said, quickly putting the pieces together. "I'll just need a spot to stash what I'm wearing."

[Will Stanton]

"Right. One moment."

Will picked up the pace, catching up to a step behind the two agents in the back, and tapped them on the shoulder. "You two. Got a special mission for you. Very hush-hush. C'mon," she said, ushering them into an adjoining hallway.

Will dropped into step behind them...and then, when they were safely out of eyeshot, reared up. She stretched out and expanded, brushing her head against the ceiling, and then folded forwards, enveloping the two agents in a wave of clay and wrapping them up tight, sealing them inside herself as she formed a sort of ball. The sound of struggling and alarm were muffled by the clay pressing tight against their mouths and noses, Will constricting around them to cut off their air flows and restrain their movements. After about 20 seconds, the struggling stopped, and the rustling began. About 10 seconds after that, the clay retracted, reforming into the young popstar. Will dragged the now nude agents into an adjoining closet, and then motioned the X-Team to come to her. She held two neatly-stacked piles of clothes and equipment, handing them towards Tosh and Miriam.

"Right, this might be a little loose fitting, but we're ready to go," she said, squinting at one of the namebadges. '"'Officer Michaels'," she smirked, handing that stack to Tosh.

[Miriam Bell]

"Lovely." Miriam says as she takes the clothes. "At least the loose clothes won't have me looking any worse than the rest of this time-period."

[Toshiro Narumi]

Tosh frowned slightly. "Not sure I look like a Michaels, but it'll do," he said before ducking into a supply closet to change clothes.

Returning, he actually filled out the uniform rather nicely. He looked like every bit the fresh, young recruit, uncomfortable with the sidearm at his hip. Actually firing the thing and hitting anything was not in his ability set, though. "Let's hope nobody we run into knows the real one."

[Will Stanton]

"You both look great, trust me," Will said, reassuringly. "And I'm sure there isn't really an 'Officer Michaels'; just as I'm fairly sure the," Will squinted, "LAPD do not have a secret world-traveling hallway in their HQ. It's all cloak and dagger shit, you'll be fine."

[Miriam Bell]

"I am going to find a way to make you pay for dressing me up as the Rozzers." Miriam says as she pulls on the police jacket.

[Will Stanton]

"Two words: curry sauce," Will said, with a grin.

And, without explaining that further, she headed out to join the exodus headed for the motor pool.

[Leo N. Eskandari]

Leo suddenly came jogging up from behind. "Good, you're still here. They're saying Ryn's gone rogue. We need to get to her before someone decides to shoot first and get themselves killed."

"She may not like me, but I know I'd want someone in my corner if everyone assumed the worst of me."

[Will Stanton]

"This doesn't seem like the loadout of a group waiting to ask questions first," Will pointed out.