Jory grinned at Ronnie, pleased that she had joined them but he was keeping a keen eye on what Aron was doing. Yep. He took a few steps back. Merlin! Aron was irritated!
.................

Whatever the other Ministry employee had done seemed to have gotten the phone working for Jory could hear the faint dial tome. Cool! Ohh! Volunteers! "I'll go, too,'' he said. He was curious, ya know. Not just because Ronnie had volunteered also.

Jackson heard a clicking sound coming from inside the phone booth. Was it working now? Did the spell the man cast work? Get into the phone booth? Jackson shrugged. Why not? It wasn't like they weren't looking strange as it was....a whole bunch of people examining a phone booth. So a whole bunch of people getting in a phone booth?

Just another walk in a park.

"Count me in." Jackson told everyone as he stepped into the phone booth and made his way to one corner.

Victoria was standing alone watching quietly. Still a little put off by the obviously and the fact that he turned and did the work himself anyway. She wondered what the point was of coming, but was glad he was doing something. So she just watched and her ears perked up a bit thinking she heard something. Did something happen? Was it working? Would they be back in their offices? The only thing she really wanted was coffee from the coffee cart.

When Aron turned and asked about how many to fit in she just looked at him puzzled. Why would they cram everyone in at once? Couldn't they just do the one at a time thing. Maybe he should go first and see if it was really working. Since so many were volunteering she just gave a shy quiet smile. "I think I'll just stay right here and make sure it works first. If all of us are in their and it doesn't work, someone might have to go get more help or get the rest of you out." She was thinking like a mom, Bart had gotten stuck in plenty of places. So that was her first thought seeing all of these adults cramming into one little phone booth.

Where was her camera when she needed it.

......Seriously? A simple spell like that was all they needed? >__>

Derek couldn't help but think how silly all of the Ministry people were for not having tried that before. Seriously??? Although... they must have tried it, because come on... come on.

He watched as his boss invited people to join him to go down and, as much as he wanted to go back into his lab, Derek was not getting in that tiny phone booth with that many people. That meant touching people and yeah, no thanks. Disgusting. He was going to wait right there.

Besides, if those people going down needed any sort of help from the outside, they wouldn't need to wait for ages to get some help.

Okay, Lawrence was quite late. He had just seen the notice on the announcements board and rushed to the first place he could think of - the legendary phone booth. He had to contribute in getting back to the ministry, after all, he had been very disappointed when he first knew where he was going to work at.

He ran from a distance and heard the dial tone from the phone booth. Was it working? People were walking inside. "Hello, sorry I'm late. Lawrence Lee from the Minister's Office. I'll go with you." He said out loud, stepping up. The work a man should do. Lawrence pulled out his wand, just in case.

Okay, she had to admit that the Announcer just announcing things was outright creepy!

But when Aron asked for volunteers to go with him, Jade immediately put her hand up. She wanted to see where this led. "I'll go with you." She said and moved forward. It would be crowded but it was a magical phone booth. And if not she was certain that they could magically expand the inside to fit all the people.

Smiling when Jory offered to join, Ronnie made room for him to stand by her. "Hi," she said with a smile. She then watched as more people gradually began to fill up the phone booth. She chuckled slightly at this. Really, how many wizards could fit in a phone booth? She squeezed back as tightly as she could into the back corner so that more people could fit inside. Well, it was a good thing she wasn't claustrophobic or anything.

SPOILER!!: INVESTIGATION TEAM HOOOOOOO!

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Ronnie frowned at Aron's comment, realizing she had kinda asked a dumb question. Ah, well. At least she was sounding helpful. Mentally shaking it off and moving in closer to the phone booth, she began observing it along with the others. Then, a spell was cast and she could hear sounds coming from inside. She raised her eyebrows at this, and nodded towards Aron. "I'll come with you," she offered, stepping in after him into the phone booth. Then as she stood waiting, she realized they hadn't quite met before. "I'm Ronnie, by the way. Ronnie Hawkins." she told him with a smile, quickly taking a glance out to see who else was coming.

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Jory grinned at Ronnie, pleased that she had joined them but he was keeping a keen eye on what Aron was doing. Yep. He took a few steps back. Merlin! Aron was irritated!
.................

Whatever the other Ministry employee had done seemed to have gotten the phone working for Jory could hear the faint dial tome. Cool! Ohh! Volunteers! "I'll go, too,'' he said. He was curious, ya know. Not just because Ronnie had volunteered also.

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Jackson heard a clicking sound coming from inside the phone booth. Was it working now? Did the spell the man cast work? Get into the phone booth? Jackson shrugged. Why not? It wasn't like they weren't looking strange as it was....a whole bunch of people examining a phone booth. So a whole bunch of people getting in a phone booth?

Just another walk in a park.

"Count me in." Jackson told everyone as he stepped into the phone booth and made his way to one corner.

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Okay, Lawrence was quite late. He had just seen the notice on the announcements board and rushed to the first place he could think of - the legendary phone booth. He had to contribute in getting back to the ministry, after all, he had been very disappointed when he first knew where he was going to work at.

He ran from a distance and heard the dial tone from the phone booth. Was it working? People were walking inside. "Hello, sorry I'm late. Lawrence Lee from the Minister's Office. I'll go with you." He said out loud, stepping up. The work a man should do. Lawrence pulled out his wand, just in case.

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Okay, she had to admit that the Announcer just announcing things was outright creepy!

But when Aron asked for volunteers to go with him, Jade immediately put her hand up. She wanted to see where this led. "I'll go with you." She said and moved forward. It would be crowded but it was a magical phone booth. And if not she was certain that they could magically expand the inside to fit all the people.

Alright, Derek, you don't need to look so disgusted with the notion. "Alright then, you two make sure that the Muggle Repelling Charms stay in tact while we go down," he nodded at Victoria and his own employee. He would have added that she make sure Derek didn't freak...or faint. Merlin his lab wasn't even visible right now. Was it the bits of chewed gum? Smirk.

Once everyone was inside, Aron snaked his arm around a few people - hello Jade's waist - and pulled the door shut. Merlin was it cramped in here...had all of them showered? There was some awful body odor stench going on up in here. "Wands at the ready..just make sure you don't poke someone's eye out due to our cramped conditions. Keep whatever pleasantries you have until after we are done." No more idle chit chat..hmmmmmmmk?

Giving Derek and Victoria one last wink before he dialed 62442 on the dial pad. Here we go!






















Hopefully.

Victoria just watched them and couldn't believe so many were just so confident this was going to work. It couldn't be that easy though she was hoping it would be. Keeping her wand covered in her holster she walked over towards (Derek) the man that decided to stay back as well. "Do you really think this is going to work?" She had to ask to see if she was the only skeptic around.

As she saw them go into the small cramped phone booth she couldn't help but laugh a bit. "This is so entertaining really. I wish I had my camera." How awful if they got stopped and couldn't get out though. There couldn't be much air in there with that many people. For their sake she hoped Aron knew what he was doing, but he was Department Head for a reason. Glancing around she wondered if any of these people were from transportation this should be their area of expertise too if she was thinking correctly.

Ugh she didn't care who did it or what department if this entire issue could just be over. She didn't mind the hanger, but all the unnecessary training and meetings about muggles she was tired of.

Sky blinked all of them were going to go in there? How... Whatever how she was getting in! All of the rest were confident it was going to work, she however expected something to go wrong.... It couldn't be this easy. Hearing Victoria speak to the man she didn't know she was interested, did they think it was going to work??

"I cramped photo of us all in here would be pretty funny." she responded to Victoria. Hopefully nothing would go wrong though... How dreadful would that be! Glancing around yea seemed like a good group to be with just in case something did go wrong. Specially since a department head person was here.

As soon as the Department Head dialed, the phone booth shook violently and then slowly began to descend until the street was level with the shoulders of everyone inside.

*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK*

All movement came to a sudden stop, throwing everyone inside up against the walls.


Uh oh.

Oooookay it was really uncomfortable and why wasn't anyone thinking about doing an expansion charm or something? Jade thought in a huff. Then she realized that maybe they actually couldn't because of the whole mess of the MoM disappearing.

Trying to see what Aron was dialing was tough since she was squeezed in and couldn't see him clearly. She supposed that he was dialing the common magic number to access the Atrium. And they were off going down slowly. A few seconds later, Jade regretted coming along as she was thrown unagainst one of the booth's walls--getting squished in the process by her fellow co-workers. So. NOT. Fun!

"Ufff!!" *groan*

Derek simply shrugged when the random woman asked him if he thought that would work. He hoped so, but he knew that if it did work, Derek himself would get really mad. It would be like they had spent all that time locked out of the Ministry for nothing at ALL.

He watched intently as the phone booth started going down and he could already feel the mixture of relief and anger growing in his chest when the booth shook like crazy and suddenly stopped. Merlin! Was anyone dead??

The lab technician got closer to the booth and crouched next to it to make sure everyone was... well, still alive, at least. ...Apparently they were. Not very happy, but at least they looked alive. Derek didn't know, however, if they would like him to try and send them back up or if it would be beter to just try and get them down there once and for all.

"I have... some acid here." Corrosive stuff and all. Derek told his boss. He tried his best not to look at the other people - hopefully they were too busy freaking out to look at him speaking to his boss. But anyway, he had some corrosive with him. For metals. Just in case.

But WHAT was he doing?? A shiver went down his spine when he realised he was speaking when so many people could stare up at him. Urgh. The former Gryffindor glanced up at the random woman who was waiting outside with him (Victoria) and gave her a look that meant 'keep an eye out for Muggles'. Hopefully she'd understand the message without him having to speak to her as well.

Pulling out his wand and just deciding it would be better to send them down - they were already trying to go down anyway - Derek, copying his boss' idea, muttered 'Descendo Maxima' and then... watched.

If that failed he'd go for the acid. Maybe he could find a way to pass the vial to Aron and they could melt the floor of the phone booth and then use a spell to float down or whatever. Derek didn't have to do all the thinking and definitely not all the talking either. So he kept quiet, hoping his spell would work and they'd get down because he wanted to know how his lab was doing.

Ronnie nodded towards Aron as he gave instructions, taking out her wand from her pocket and holding it to her side. This was actually really exciting! She turned and watched as Aron dialed the number and the phone booth began to go down. But suddenly, it stopped with a loud creaking noise. Ronnie's eyes grew wide at this and she winced at the sound, quickly looking to Jory next to her, wanting to grab his hand or arm or something. But she could barely move she was so squished. Swallowing hard, she looked towards Aron to see what he'd say to do, her hearbeat starting to quicken.

.....and I guess now everyone's realized that a whole load of bodies in a small phone booth would make for a very uncomfortable tight squeeze. Jackson turned to look who was standing next to, behind and in front of him. Then tried to squeeze his body further into the corner he had acquired.

Before people started getting too close for comfort, Jackson took out his wand when instructed to, before he wouldn't be able to later.

Then he sniffed the air inside type enclosed phone booth and wondered whether someone had forgotten to take a shower because the odor was strong. Jackson began thinking about the bean salad he had eaten earlier.

Okay tummy you will not do anything while we're all in here, Jackson thought to himself as he clenched the required muscles trying to hold in whatever gas that might be forming inside his anatomy.

Then the phone booth came to a sudden halt throwing everyone off balance and surprising even Jackson.

TOOOOOT!!! The gas emission was a silent one so no one heard it...but the smell!!

....it filled the entire phone booth.

Okay...

Was this for real? They were going down with all these people. There were people everywhere and being a rather big man it was hard to keep his body parts away from people. Especially he didn't want to touch any of the ladies on a wrong spot for reasons. Merlin...he would be so embarrassed if that happened somehow!!! So even though it was literally impossible, the auror tried to occupy a smaller space.

And...what was this...odour? Really? Maybe some people considered him gross yet Josh Carter never left home before taking a good shower. Seee? Who is gross now? He could tell who; it was whoever in the phone booth who hadn't taken a shower for at least...what?...a month? Good thing he was used to bad odours since he had a stable of horses back at home.

He avoided making any comments as the phone booth started to move as his mind was busy with things; like considering how successful he was at avoiding touching people at wrong spots. Then...something happened...the booth suddenly stopped and even though there was hardly anywhere to move, he could feel the hit to the booth wall.

Then something else happened. The smell was....bleargh!!! Even the horses and stables did not smell that awful. Seriously? What were those people eating at breakfast? Apparently it was bad for them. Raising his eyebrows, Josh eyed the guys in the phone booth. Cause it was so obvious that such an awful odour wouldn't come from a lady.

Why was he here again?

Security, yeah.

Jackson put on an innocent face even as he looked around at his fellow phone booth passengers. He studied each an everyone's face, watching to see their reactions once the smell of his accidental gaseous release hit their nose.

....and the first person to notice was the Joshua. Wasn't he the one who had admitted he had peed in the corridor at the makeshift Ministry of Magic? Jackson surreptitiously glanced at Josh before quickly glancing over at the ladies in the booth. Could he pin the smell on them?

Ladies were known to have tummy problems too even though they didn't want to admit it. They would definitely be the last to admit that they even smelled anything for fear that someone would think it was them.

Jackson could still feel his tummy gurgling. They'd better find a way out of this phone booth soon. For the sake of everyone's noses.

TOOOT!!...another silent one...but whew! this one was ten times worse than the first. If they didn't get out soon, the smell would be on everyone....clothes...hair...everywhere.

While previously the spell had worked, this time the enchantment does little more than cause the phone booth to jolt and shake without moving downwards much at all.

It seems as though the magic HAD taken hold, but something made it vanish.

Curious.

His body unable to lunge forward due to being packed into the booth tighter than a sardine, only his face lurked forward from the neck and smacked into the glass. Nose first. His eyes watering from the contact, he cursed under his breath and would have punched a hole through the glass had his arms not been so restricted.

As if the throbbing of his nose - which was also bleeding, by the way - wasn't enough, the addition of a strong odor on top of the human waste stench of the phone booth was enough to make him want to throw up. "So help me Merlin I will make sure your pay is cut in half if you let another one loose," he barked at no one in particular. Josh was a urineator, not a fart maker, so he was pretty sure that the auror wasn't the one behind this. "Keep it to yourself."

The phone booth gave another jolt, but moved no more, and Aron was just barely able to make out Derek through the tears caused by the pain from his nose and the stench with his wand in hand. "No more of that," he called. Seemed like it wasn't working anyway. And he wanted to do what with what now? Acid? "Will it just corrode through the roof of this thing? Not drip on to us and....corrode heads? We might asphyxiate from the smell down here."

He could always just blast a hole through the roof if he could wiggle his hand free too. Or...through the door... Through the door.

Lawrence squeezed his way into the phone booth with the investigation team. His wand was about the only thing that made him feel safe. He edged closer to the door as the booth descended, because of a strange odor coming out. Bad decision.

WHAM! Lawrence was slammed face-first into the door, causing him to swear under his breath. Oh and great. Another TWO smells was emitted in the crammed space, but Lawrence did not bother to find out what, or who did it. He distinctly heard someone from up above say the spell that worked a moment ago. It did not work this time. What had made it vanish?

Lawrence was brought back to real world by the department head talking to a man. Was that a potion up there? Whatever it was, it probably was useful at this situation. "I'll blast the roof apart or something, and you can throw that down." He yelled at the two men. Glad that Lawrence's wand hand was free. "Stay back, guys... Expulso!" *cough*

Derek watched as the phone booth... pretty much did nothing. Merlin. He couldn't help but be thankful for not having gone there with all of them. Imagine if he was there stuck with all of those people in there and argh. Merlin.

Aron didn't understand his purpose with the acid, apparently. "No, I mean on the grou-" But before he could finish his sentence, someone else was already saying they were going to blast the roof apart or something and WAIT, WHAT!?

All Derek had time to do was to throw himself backwards on the ground to get as far away as possible from the booth that was bound to blow up. Or so he thought.

Wha....wait a minute!! He was going to blow roof of the phone booth apart? Jackson's first instinct was to duck! The second?....well he actually did both at the same time. The moment the man cast the blasting spell, Jackson ducked his head while at the same time cast the shield charm over everyone inside the booth.

"Protego!"

On top of being inside a phone booth that was stuck and which could possibly plummet to the ground below at any moment, the idea of flying debris and shrapnel falling on you was definitely not Jackson's idea of a nice phone booth ride.

What made the phone booth stop working? Jackson thought to himself.

Think....think...Jackson.

The man whom some called Aron had cast the spell to make it descend and that had started it back on. It continued to work when everyone got inside and the numbers were dialed...but only for a few seconds.

So what was the trigger that made it stop working?

The number of people inside the phone booth or the punching in of the phone numbers or something else?

One thing was for sure Jackson knew it had nothing to do with his contribution of smells in the phone booth. That had happened after everything went wrong.

Well on the bright side, with the booth now really ventilated, all the smells would be sucked out.

Victoria was wondering if the man near her was mute or something since he didn't really answer her. Well then people were just overly friendly in other departments now weren't they. She was feeling like she should have just went to the same place Mariel was and not thought about Gavin's advice. It really wasn't working out very well when she heard a loud noise and saw the phone booth stop going down.

Oh Merlin how did she know this was going to happen. Glancing at the other man outside with her she gave him a look to match his. She wasn't a mind reader if he wanted something he needed to say it. Her brown eyes glanced around more annoyed then ever. Of course this would happen with all these people in the phone booth. You know average day in the muggle world seeing a phone booth full of people stuck. Hopefully the charms would hold. She pulled her wand to make sure to keep them there as much as possible.

Did the man really ask about acid? Was he trying to harm them? She really needed some headache potion right about now. Hearing some of what was going on inside the booth Victoria's eyes widened was someone really trying to blow it up? She hurried towards the man who ruched to the ground and put a shield over them both.

Ronnie looked around worriedly as the people in the phone booth began talking, wondering to herself what they should do. Then, suddenly a horrid stench struck her nose and she plugged it immediately. Bloody hell. Definitely a silent but deadly one, that was for sure. Ugh. So, they were stuck in this shaking phone booth, tightly packed, and someone was stinking up the whole thing. She wanted OUT.

Then a voice from the group of squished people in the booth said they were going to blow the roof off. Ronnie's eyes widened. "Well," she said to his suggestion, "it would be nice to let some air in, get this stench out." she joked. But was the man serious...? Was he really gonna blow the roof off of-

He was. Ronnie let out a yelp as he cast the spell and she put her hands over her head, letting out a small sigh of relief as someone cast the protego spell over them. She worriedly looked over everyone in the booth to see if they were alright.

Bad idea.

While the spell succeeded in giving everyone inside fresh air to breathe, it did that and then some. The entire top blew off, sending bits of metal and wood everywhere. As an unfortunate consequence, it also drew passing by muggle attention thanks to the noise and debris.

Seems likes those Muggle Repelling Charms may have been blasted away as well. Whoops.

Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops.