Snowy looks to Anchors. "Now, I'm not a major fan of adventure novels, but I must say that that is the most trap-likely pedestal I've ever seen."
"It varies. I've seen obvious traps but sometimes it is out in the open. Remember that the chest the Wand of Incomparable Green was supposed to be in wasn't all that well hidden. I'd recommend trying to pull it with your magic but I don't want to put you at risk if you don't want to try it."
Snowy eyes the pillar, carefully gauging the distance off the floor and the size of the chest. "We're here for a drum, right? I should be able to drag the chest off the pillar, but I can't make any promises about it surviving the trip to the floor. At a guess, I'd expect a drum to be sturdy enough to survive inside the box, especially a magical one, but it's tough to be sure."
"Want me to try and catch it?"
"I think that defeats the purpose of staying as far away as possible." He stops to consider for a moment. "Maybe we should start carrying around some light wooden planks. Gravity wouldn't be such a big deal if I could make stairs for falling objects." Though most of the time when he dropped something there wasn't much time to build a staircase, he silently admits.
"It doesn't seem big enough for the really big drums. Do you think you can just lift it with your magic? I mean, it's a training exercise so I seriously doubt the real thing is in there. If it looks like you can't carry it, Misty could swoop in to catch it."
Snowy rubs his head, remembering the last time he had tried to grab a falling object with magic. "I can try lowering it to the floor slowly, then pulling it over to us. Don't overestimate me." He reaches out and wraps the small chest in his magic, making certain to buoy it up off the pedestal as much as he can before pushing it forward with what little magic he had left. As he watches the chest inch slowly towards the edge of the pedestal, he prepares to switch all of his force to pushing against gravity.
Snowy Skies found that the treasure chest was abnormally light. It seemed more like it was empty, in fact.
Static sighed. He really couldn't see how this was going to help. He pushed the hell out of that door. If it hadn't moved yet...heck with it. She was in charge. Besides, given how things have been working so far, maybe Ms. Iron really did build this specifically so they'd have to do it together. With a shrug, he walked up to the door. "Together it is!"
Once Rhapsody was in place, he started to push it in time with her.
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"Look on the bright side." Rhapsody states as she sees Statics dour reaction to the news.
"If this doesn't work, then we get to break. So either way we get through." She says as she joins him and trying to get the door to budge.
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Static grins.
"I like your style." He had a fleeting thought that he might truly be sorry if this worked and they weren't able to shatter the door.
As Static Signal and Rhapsody began to push, they felt the revolving door slowly moving. They also heard a mechanical grinding that grew louder until the entire revolving door broke off its hinges and shattered into many pieces. In front of them was a small room with another tunnel directly across from them. Suddenly, four bright light on the ground turned on and pointed at something on the ceiling. There was a pony sized sphere hanging there that was painted black with a sizable amount of glitter on it. While there was a faint smell of still wet paint in the air, what wasn't faint was an increasing pulling force from the sphere that was trying to drag Static Signal and Rhapsody towards it!
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"Woah, hey! I think we found the 'meteorite'."
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The magnetic force was too much with all the camera and radio equipment. Static's hooves began to pull off the ground.
"Oh crap! Hooves not on the floor again. This trip has had too much of hooves not on the floor!" Static starts to panic.
"No no no. It's okay. If the magnetic field can lift me up, it won't drop me to my death. I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay." Static gives a panicked look to Rhapsody.
"Help?"
Rhapsody pushed along with Static, but whoever put this door here didn't seem to have planned on Rhapsody's strength being a factor, since while the door started to move, and kept moving as it flew off and smashed into many tiny shards.
"Huh, so rather then an either/or option, it was 'both', they certainly don't build ruins like they used to." She giggles and then notices the broken shards starting to rise up off the floor... and then the familiar sound of yellow panic horse. Rhapsody closes her eyes and braces herself, using grounding technique she knew from Sky Lynx to keep herself steady.
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Thinking fast she realizes that they never removed the make-shift harness from the previous 'hooves off ground' scenario and tries to grab at it in her mouth before its completely out of reach, in hopes she can use it to tug her partner back down.
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However it proves harder then expected, since keeping herself grounded requires quiet a bit of focus and is unable to reach it before its completely out of reach for her.
"Alright. Maybe this can work to our advantage... Since you're up there, maybe you can try and dislodge it?"
Snowy grimaces, a mite embarrassed. "I think it's empty." He says, levitating it over. "Either that or filled with some light-weight powder." he comments, undoing the latch and pushing the lid of the box open.
