Lauren Lopez stepped out of her car into the brisk, November air of Ann Arbor and took a deep breath. She looked up at the all too familiar Walgreens Center at the University of Michigan, her lips playing into a smile. She strode through the entrance and hiked up the stairs to rehearsal room four. Pushing open the door, she laid eyes on some of her favorite people in the entire world.

"About time!" Joey shouted, bouncing over to give the petite girl a hug.

"I know, you were all desolate without me," Lauren gave an exaggerated sigh, flipping her hair over her shoulder; "You may begin now."

"You have no idea," Julia smiled and rolled her eyes, "Now, if you're done Queen Lopez, we have more pressing matters to attend to..."

"What?" she gasped in mock horror, picking up a British accent, "More important then moi? Insolent peasants!" To make her point, she flopped down on Brian's lap and sat on him like a throne. "I should cast all of you into my dungeon."

"Find another chair Lopez!" Brian said scathingly, dumping her out of his lap and into Joe Walker's.

"YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO TOUCH!" Lauren shouted at the top of her lungs.

"Jesus, Lo!" Walker yelped, clapping his hands over his ears, "We're all going to go deaf because of you!"

"I'll never understand how someone so small, can have a set of lungs like that," Meredith marveled. The rest of the group fell into loud banter, arguing back and forth about it. Jaime and Julia sat next to each other, silently watching the scene unfold. Finally, Julia grew impatient and tried to get the group's attention.

"Guys?" she asked, clearly exasperated, "Guys!" Finally, Jaime stepped in to help.

"SHUT UP!" Jaime screamed at the top of her voice, causing everyone to stop short. They all simply turned to her and stared, Jaime didn't normally raise her voice the way Lauren did. "Julia has something to say, if you don't mind."

"Thank you," Julia remarked, looking at her friend gratefully, "But anyhow, I received this envelope earlier today." She held up a plain, white envelope with nothing but the words, "Team Starkid," written in neat scrawl. "I figured that we should open it as a group." She ran her finger under the seal and pulled out a letter. "It says, 'Hey Starkids, you didn't think I'd forgotten about the SPACE tour did you? I'm sorry that I can't be there for the LA shows, but I wanted to send you guys a present for good luck..."

"Where's the present then?" Joe asked curiously, "Did anything else come with the note, Jules?"

"Hold your horses, Walker," she smiled, "There's more, let me finish reading. Before you ask 'Where's the present then?'"Julia stopped and smirked at Joe after reading this. He simply shrugged his shoulders and motioned for her to continue. "There's a catch. I've arranged a scavenger hunt with a series of clues, which will take you all over Ann Arbor. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to follow all the riddles until you've reached the end, where you'll receive your break-a-leg present from me. The first clue is on the back of this letter. This mission will be dangerous; I wish you the best of luck. Love, Darren."

"Leave it to Darren to come up with something like this," Dylan commented, "Only him..."

"What could he mean by 'dangerous?'?" Joey gulped, "You don't really think he's serious do you?"

"Who cares?" Lauren cried enthusiastically, "Read the riddle already, Jules!"

"Alright, alright," Julia complied, flipping the letter over, "Chuckles, guffaws, and giggles, laughs to name a few. All are things our friend Meredith, has earned at this venue." The entire group looked expectantly at their aforementioned friend.

"That's an easy one!" Meredith grinned, "It's where I had my first stand-up gig, it's the Comedy Showcase on East Liberty."

"Well, what are we all doing waiting around here for?" Walker announced, jumping up from his seat, "Come on!" The Starkids grabbed their stuff and stampeded down the stairs to the parking lot. Meredith jumped into the driver's seat of her SUV and Julia claimed the passenger seat, while Jaime and Lauren scrambled in behind them. Joe took control of his large truck, Brian taking the role as copilot while Joey and Dylan jumped into the back.

"Follow me!" Meredith yelled to Walker, making a left out of the parking lot.