serendipity - rusty ryan x oc

uneducated idiots

"Tomorrow, the day is yours. Do with it what you like," Lulee says as she sits down on a couch next to Rusty.

"Call is at 5:30- makeup and costume," Rusty says. "Saul's package arrives at 7:05. Linus grabs our codes. All goes well, we're a go. 7:30 Yen gets locked in. We're committed. From this point, we have 30 minutes to blow the power or he suffocates. Once the electricity goes, all access points to the vault and its elevator will automatically shut down for two minutes. That's when we make our move."

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Yen gets wheeled into the fake vault everyone created inside the money cart. He opens the top and climbs out, crouching on top of the bins.

"Okay, it puts you in the middle of the room, ten feet from everything. You have to get from there to the door without touching the floor," Rusty walks over to the rest of the group. "What do you do?"

"Ten says he shorts it," Turk says.

"Twenty," both Livingston and Frank say. Yen then does a backflip from the carts to the top of the shelf behind him. He lands it perfectly sitting down. Everyone claps in amazement.

"Window or aisle boys? And Lee," Basher walks in, looking like a mess. "Yeah, we're in deep shit." Lulee grabs a rag from nearby and walks over to Basher and hands it to him. Everyone gathers around Basher, wondering what happened. Basher pulls up a crate and sits on it "That poxy demo crew haven't used a coaxial to batten the main line, have they? They've only nosed up the mainframe couplet. Nosed it right up!" Basher takes off his sweater as he rants and throws it on the floor.

"Do you understand any of this?" Reuben whispers to the people around him.

"I'll explain later," Livingston says.

"Listen, they're so ponied that they've gone and blown the backup grid one by one like dominoes," Basher continues his rant, not making any sense to half of the people in the room.

"Basher, what happened?" Danny asks.

"They did the same what I would have done, only they did it on accident," Basher explains. "Problem is now they know their weakness and they're sorting it out. They're fixing it."

"So-"

"So unless we intend to do this job in Reno, we're in Barney," Basher cuts Danny off. Everyone looks at him confused. "Barney rubble- trouble!"

"We could always-"

"By tomorrow?" Rusty cuts Danny off, shaking his head.

"Hang on a minute. Hang on. We could use a pinch," Basher says. Lulee looks at him smirking.

"What's a pinch?" Danny asks.

"Uneducated idiots," Lulee mutters.

"A pinch is a device which creates like, a cardiac arrest for any broadband electrical circuitry," Basher explains. "Or better yet, a pinch is a bomb, now, without the bomb. See, when a nuclear weapon detonates, it unleashes an electromagnetic pulse which shuts down any power source within its blast radius. Now, that tends to matter in most cases because the nuclear weapon usually destroys everything you might need power for anyways. But, see, a pinch creates a similar electromagnetic pulse but without the fuss of mass destruction and death. So instead of Hiroshima, you'd be getting the 17th century."

"For how long?" Rusty asks.

"About 30 seconds," Basher responds.

"Could a pinch knock out the power of an entire city?" Danny asks. "Like for instance-"

"Las Vegas? Yeah, I think it might," Basher says, nodding. "But there's only one pinch in the world big enough to manage it."

"Where?"