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Umbridge High School Building, Saturday Evening

There were some clouds hanging around the spires of Umbridge High School, but not enough; there was an overlaying sense that there shouldn't be as much sunlight shining down on it as there was.

It was quiet. Kind of. There was tension in the air, a wound-up strung-up thing that ensnared the school. Somehow it seemed as if even the birds didn't want to touch down on the building itself, and the gates seemed to fold into themselves, even if they weren't quite shut.

And all that on a weekend, too.

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In comes a Batman...

In the ideal version of this assault, anyone working the library would be called down to assist with the detention raid. But this wasn't unexpected and it certainly wasn't a deterrent.

Through careful planning and determination, they had made it to the roof with short lengths of rope for their entrance. Because of course Bruce's plan involved a flashy entrance crashing through a window. Of course. He gave the signal to the team and swung down, making an entrance for anyone who didn't want to smash through glass themselves.

The assault had officially begun.

Well, this would mark the first time Ender had entered a building through the window.

He was a quick learner, though - after watching Bruce go for a few seconds, he swung in behind him through the glass. The landing was more familiar, and he hit the ground running.

They were in.

Cassie heard them breaking in and she came around the corner.

"Get out!" She said, power moving along her hands.

...and right at Ender, too.

He scrambled to hide behind one of the bookcases, rifling through his pockets in search of one of the syringes. If he managed to sneak around behind her, he could take her out, little violence necessary.

Stupid hope, his gut told him. He was normal and she wasn't; he'd have to even the odds somehow.

The bookcase right next to his exploded as lightning slammed into it. Cassie knew the books could be replaced, but the High Inquisitor would be pissed if the library was taken over by the blasted rebels.

... Yes, that wasn't going to work.

Ender began to move along the length of the bookcase. "Stop," he called. "Stop!"

If he could distract her...

"You're the one that's attacking us," Cassie pointed out. "You have no right being here."

She called up power and sent another shot of power towards Ender. This time it was a fireball.

"You have no right to occupy this island," Ender said. If she kept firing on the bookcase he might be able to wrench it loose...

He ducked underneath it and felt the heat scorching it on the other side.

"This is High Inquisitor Umbridge's island," Cassie pointed out. She moved to the side to hit a second bookcase, hoping to make it and him explode.

It blew out a good portion of the bookcase, but Ender had been fast, had seen it coming.

Now that there was a chunk of it divorced from the rest of the case, though, he had a shot. He rushed forward to push the still-heavy case on top of her.

Cassie yelled and dove to the side, throwing a blast of power at Ender as she rolled.

It might not have been completely on target as she had still been working on attacking while on the move before this happened.

No time to go for a syringe.

Ender threw himself towards him as the power went searing over his head. He snagged a piece of broken-off wood as he went and, hoping that her powers took a few seconds to kick back in, lashed out at her head with it.

It did take a few seconds for Cassie to be able to do spells, so Ender did indeed have time to hit Cassie.

She had a moment to feel shock at the idea of someone getting close to her, and then she crumpled in a heap.

All Ender could think of was that if he let her get up again, she'd probably end him - those blasts had already scorched part of his shirt.

So he brought the wood down a few more times against her head. Had to get her to stay down-- just enough to get her to stay down.

Or maybe not.

This was really not very...Rory. Seriously. Like, this was some Stephen Seagal-level dramatic action movie stuff. In a way, she was fangirling, but more importantly, she was worried she was going to break something. Not the glass. Her neck.

But she couldn't turn back. Anakin would have wanted her to go through, and it was that thought that had her grabbing her rope and swinging in behind Bruce and Ender.

And besides, what would they do without her? She had all their water and granola bars.

Once she was in, Rory immediately rolled under cover. She wasn't a fighter -- she was defense, and she knew it. While she had a gun, her primary goal was to start securing the library while the others fended off anything they might have swung into.

Bruce made note to track Rory as she made her way in and was glad to see she reached a secure spot quickly. She was most useful to his plans as their emergency escape, but even without that, you know, she had the granola bars and water.

She needed to be kept safe. CLEARLY.

Jack was not a fan of heights.

There was a lot of hesitation at the edge of the skylight.

But after Rory went through and down into the fray, well... it was time for a 40 year old man in a teenaged cloned body to nut up and jump down into the library.

He screamed like a girl all the way down.

"Good thing this wasn't a stealth entrance," Bruce muttered to himself. "Csrter. You okay?"

It was totally a battle cry, Bruce. Really.

Jack held up his finger as if to say give me a moment. Jack then took a brief second to push his nausea and focus at the task at hand.

"I'm fine," he said stealing his nerve and pulling out his gun. "Let's do this."

William had used windows as entry points before... he just usually opened them first.

Although really, he supposed Bruce had done that, after a fashion.

Even if Kate hadn't been pretty much seeing everything through a haze of grief and rage all day long, she probably wouldn't have managed any awe at the novelty of entering through a window, anymore.

Her landing could have gone better than it did, but she barely noticed the minor bit of pain that came from tumbling down. She was immediately getting to her feet and drawing out the knife she'd managed to get yesterday to replace her old one.

Yeah, she was here to hurt anyone who tried to get in their way.

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