Firehouse Oasis 118

35. Chimney

"I don't know why you guys are looking at me for an answer." Athena said, "Best I can do as far as a distraction goes is starting a forest fire. Or lighting the League itself on fire."

"Yeah, we don't really want to do either of those things." Hen pointed out, "The goal is to distract everyone without hurting anyone or provoking a military level response."

They were working out the last and final kink in the plan to rescue Buck's sister from the league. The distraction was difficult though, far more difficult than figuring out things like their entry and exit points and coverstories had been. See their was a fine line between things that were distracting and things that were dangerous and destructive. Neither were things they wanted to be, no they'd much rather be quick and unnoticed. The last thing they needed was to earn themselves a spot on the league's list of enemies, which was surely what would happen if they went with setting something on fire.

"Chim, you got anything?" Hen asked him.

"I mean, Eddie and I could catapult boulders and trees at the building, but that kind of goes against the 'non destructive' goal." Chim shrugged, "Honestly, the best plan so far has been Buck's idea."

"We are not doing Buck's idea." Eddie said immediately, not a hint of suggestion in his tone.

"Look, all I'm saying is, what if he had help. I mean we've got Ravi now." Chim tried to point out.

"Ravi will get himself killed the second he lays a finger on that dam." Buck said, not unkindly, more a statement of fact, "He can just barely manage to charge the Jackery."

"I thought you two have been going through a 'high intensive training course'?" Athena questioned.

"Which is the only reason he can even manage powering the jackery. He'd be useless trying to help take out the power." Buck said, before sending a guilty look at the boy in question and adding a belated, "No offence."

"No you're right," Ravi sighed, shaking his head, "I'm sorry I couldn't be more of a help to you."

"Don't be." Buck assured him, "You're new, that's all."

"Besides, you're already helping plenty by staying back and watching the kids. We hadn't figured out what we were going to do about that before." Bobby pointed out, clapping the youngest boy on the shoulder.

"Look, I don't need Ravi anyways, I can do it on my own. I swear." Buck pushed on, single mindedly focused on getting them back on the path towards his sister.

"No you can't." Eddie sighed, this was an old argument between the two, "You nearly died last time."

"First of all, this is very different from last time, this isn't a fence specifically designed to overload a yellow. It's literally just an entirely normal hydroelectric dam, powerful, but not too powerful for me." Buck started, ticking his list off on his fingers, "And second of all, even when it was specifically designed to overload a yellow, I still survived it. So I'll be fine this time too."

Eddie groaned, massaging his temples in frustration, "You only survived because there was snow on the ground to immediately cool you down before you fully melted."

"Then we'll go when there's snow on the ground, which is right now! It's almost January, this is the best time to do it." Buck shot back, and honestly, he had a point.

It was going to be dangerous, what Buck was proposing, but Chim believed Buck was being genuine when he said he could pull it off. It wasn't great, but no one else was coming up with anything better.