WORLDS COLLIDE: TALES FROM AN AWESOMESAUCE PARTY

Prompt #2: Who Invited These Guys?

The prompt:

Here’s what you need to know: Just as things are getting into full swing, a loud siren begins ringing through the Command Center. Someone has infiltrated the Cahill Estate.

The doors fly open, and standing in the doorway is a trio of the nastiest villains that the Cahills, Hystorians, and Greencloaks have ever come up against—Pierce, Tilda, and Zerif. And right behind them is a whole squad of Piercer goons, Time Wardens, and Conquerors with their spirit animals.

“Split up,” says Pierce. “Grab the Infinity Ring and whatever talismans the Greencloaks have on them.” 

He kneels down and rolls a small mechanical ball into the center of the room. The ball lets out a single beep, and then it explodes, filling the Command Center with a thick, impenetrable fog.

My response:

Amy Cahill was having a lovely time at the party, which was a surprise, considering her pre-clue-hunt-super-shyness. It hadn't quite worn off yet, but she was making progress. She was...mingling. And smiling. Like, at the same time.

  That is, until the alarm went off.

  Amy started to run to one of the computers that had been shoved into a corner to make room, weaving through the party guests, almost tripping over a giant, lumpy, black and white floor mat. The computer controlled and monitored the security/surveillance system. When she was just halfway across the room, the doors banged open and she whipped around. What? she thought. How did they get up here so quickly? The alarm should have been tripped at the front gates!

 Standing in the doorway was none other than J. Rutherford Pierce, looking cold and nasty as ever. Next to him were two others--A woman with bright, flaming red hair and lips that reminded her of black licorice. Her close were a bit strange. As if they were from a different time period. Some time in ancient Greece, if she wasn't mistaking, though the history of clothing wasn't really her thing.

  The other was a man. He wasn't nearly as impressionable, or, quite frankly, as bizarre, as the woman, but there was something...different...about him. His clothes also seemed quite out of place for this time.

  Another thing: They had a small army behind them.

  Amy took all this in in the few seconds they had taken to walk in. For a few seconds, nobody moved. Then:

  "Split up. Grab the Infinity Ring and whatever talismans the Greencloaks have on them."

  That was Pierce. He then crouched down and rolled a weird metal ball-thing into the middle of the room. It beeped, then exploded on the spot, filling the entire Command Center with an impossibly thick fog. The room erupted into chaos.

***

Jhi, who had finally woken up after being kicked by the silly-little-Cahill-girl, just wanted to go back to sleep. But when the doors slammed open, she realized that that wouldn't be an option. Then the smoke filled the room. When she tried to get up, Meilin tripped over her, falling onto her back.

  "Ugh!" she cried. "Stupid, lazy, useless--"

  The rest of her sentence was cut off when what she took for one of the Time Wardens stepped on Meilin's gut. Jhi was thankful for that. She had really thought that Meilin had gotten past all that. But that didn't give the Time Warden a right to step on her bond-partner!

  Meilin had managed to worm her way out from under the guy, who had fallen on her after nearly maker her discharge her lunch. Jhi got up now, taking a few steps sideways so she could sit on him, but just as she was about to plop down, he rolled out of the way and into Meilin again, who was just regaining her footing. This time, though, she wasn't letting him off so easily. She sat up quickly and felt around until her fingers found the offender's throat.