Michael placed a box full of decorative-looking spheres, all varying in color from one to another, in front of a door in the empty hallway, then left a note beside it for the recipient. He knocked on the door and then ran away to the nearest corner.

Pulling out a camcorder from his leather pocket, he turned it on.

"Ok, Yuri, everything is set on my end! How are things looking for you? Over," he spoke into his earpiece.

"Just hold the camera still and zoom in a bit more," the voice of his friend came through. Yuri was currently in Michael's room on his laptop, receiving a live stream of his current location.

"It's an excellent idea to pick Selena as my next taste subject for my surprise bubbles dish. Where'd you come up with it, Yuri?" Michael asked excitedly.

He used to have Sho and Hayato as his taste testers before Selena, but frankly, they weren't currently available today, hearing they had gone to the hospital on the mainland to get their stomachs pumped for some unknown reason. Luckily, his friend, Yuri came up with a backup tester...which happened to be someone special.

Michael had been running out of taste testers for the dishes he was making with his molecular gastronomy kit...something about upset stomachs or being sick or something like that. So he jumped at the opportunity of having Selena trying his treats.

For Yuri, it was just merely out of revenge that he had suggested Selena to Michael. The reason why Yuri chose Selena as the fallback was for a personal reason: when he has a conversation with her about how great the Professor was for finding Academia and continuing to lead them as their leader, she decided to cut him short...A WHOLE HEAD SHORT! She almost cut his head off with the blade of her duel disk, leaving him lucky to live with nothing more than a few missing strands of hair.

He knew Michael could create dishes from looking at the instructions and having them taste superb, but whenever his friend went creative in making a dish, he didn't want to be on the receiving end. And it had only gotten worse when Michael ordered that kit online to try some girl-cooking styles from a manga he was reading..."Food Wars" he believed it was called.

The only problem to having Selena as a taste tester was that she wasn't going to agree to do this if the offer had been from Michael or him, considering their reputation in Academia...as well as just flat out hating him and not even bothering to hide it from the rest of the school.

Another thing was that Michael required feedback for all dishes to know what to change in the future, and that's where his plan came into play: suggesting a video recording as the next best thing.

"What friend would I be if I couldn't help you out? Besides, I notice: that Selena never got the chance to try any of your new dishes. So why not?" Yuri replayed all of this from the safety of his dorm room, getting a live reaction of Selena's downfall.

"Oh, she finally came out!" Michael spoke quietly, but the excitement could still be heard in his voice.

Looking at the computer, Yuri noticed that what Michael had said was true. Selena responded to the knock, opening the door from the safety of her room. She read the note in one hand and then looked at the box in another with a curious look on her face. Yuri merely chuckled once he saw Selena opening the box.

She plucked one of the small colorful spheres from within the box, rolling it around in her palm before throwing it in her mouth. Her eyes snapped open once the seemingly harmless orb popped in her mouth, her lips puckering from the sheer sourness of the liquid before spitting and coughing and hacking out the remains.

"Awww, she didn't like it. Oh, well, at least I have some data on this batch." As he continued to record Selena actions, Yuri was holding back the laughter threatening to come out of him from the live stream.

"By the way, Michael, what flavor was that yellow one she picked up?" he questioned, naturally curious to see what was the content that would've caused that reaction from the girl.

"Judging from the color...I think its lemonade, but I forgot to add the water and the sugar, so its practically just lemon juice," he answered.

"Oh...oh, I think I globbed up." Yuri automatically got his grip together to look at the computer screen to see what was being broadcasted to him...Selena running towards the camcorder. The next thing he noticed was the video shaking and changing the point of view from an empty hallway to a raging Selena hot on his heels.

'Seems like Michael is running.' Yuri continued to watch.

The only noises he heard were the ragged breathing from Michael and the stomping of feet in the background. Pulling around the nearest hallway, Michael stood against the wall, waiting for the perfect opportunity to stall Selena long enough for him to make his escape.

Hearing the noise of shoes clicking, he immediately pulled out his leg, tripping Selena in the process who seemed to still be carrying the box of the failed batch with her.

Michael took the chance to continue running back to the safety of his room to catalog all of this.

"HEY!" He looked back to where Serena had fallen, which was his mistake as he was greeted with one of his creations being thrown directly at his eyes.

"AWWW, CITRUS!" Michael threw the camcorder behind to rub the stinging acid out from his eyes.

Yuri was greeted by a static screen for a few seconds, only to see Michael getting kneed in the gut by Selena hard enough to launch him in the air, getting his breath knocked out of him. Falling harshly against the floor of the corridor on his back, he was unable to get up.

Selena was slowly walking towards Michael, while he tried desperately to crawl away from the wildcat beast...only to be stopped by her grabbing his ankle and pulling back.

"I should've known if was you from the start." Her voice was filled with venom, causing Michael to shiver in fear. His chances of escape were cut off as soon as she made the grab for his neck, pinning him against the cold floor.

"It's time to learn your lesson that your actions have consequences." Pulling one of the spheres from the box beside her, Michael's eyes widened, getting the idea of the type of torture she would put him through.

"Please don't do this! I'm sorry!" He begged while Yuri could only helplessly watch as Michael's face got stuff with his own medicine. One by one, Selena practically punched each of the colorful orbs into Michael, getting a mixed reaction from each one in the process.

"Yuri, save yourself," was the last thing Michael said before fainting and the screen turning back to static.

With no need to be convinced, Yuri locked his door, closed his laptop, and went to the window to throw down the ladder that Michael had made so they could get to each other's room easier as another means of protection, waiting out the impending doom of Selena.