Code names picked out or not, the departure time of 8:13 (they had picked an irregular number to prevent spies or hangers-on) had fast approached the group, and it was now time to leave their meeting place for their true destination. Silently, instantaneously, one by one they filed out of the Lonely Star Bar & Grill. Footsteps clattered down the sidewalk in mostly-silence peppered by whispered bickerings between small knots of those who knew each other better. During this walk it was decided that Alexis would be "Phantom" and Simon, "Twinkletoes." Alex piped up that Marlo should be "Pizza Snatcher", and the Xanis shot back that Alex would henceforth be known as "Pizza
Face."
They boarded a subway to get to the edge of town. Fortune must have been on their side that night, as there were no mixups with the schedule to be had.
Sneaking into the Crystal Academy was easy - almost a little
too easy - the trees and statues and flower trellises decorating the campus made for a convenient cover up to the point until, finally, the entrance to the dorm hall was in plain sight.
**HANG ON WHILE I MAKE RAID TEAM THREADS**
FRANZ + ALEXISALEX + MARLOSIMON + ELZO