A holow silence swept through the whole lair. This was it. The TDMs were done and tested. Now, all they had to do was put them on and change. The four mutant teens stood in a circle, each holding a small, Oreo sized device with small needles on one side. Bree and George had tawels wrapped around their bodies for when their shell's dissapeared. They shivered at that thought. Their parents all stood around them, Mikey even held Cody's hand. Bree gave her parents a single glance before turning to her cousins.

"On three?" She asked.

The others nodded.

"One." She began.

"Two." Everyone exposed an area of skin on their sides.

"Three." They thrusted the TDMs to their sides, needles sinking into their skin and activating.

They all felt their bodies begin to change. It was like a strong rippling throughout every cell. They all squeezed their eyes shut at the burning that coursed through them. A blur of black hair, who Bree assumed was Katie, shot out of the crowed of adults and hugged Bree tight as she morphed.

The burning stopped and Bree looked up. Her newly skin coloured face went bright red as she saw grey eyes looking back at her... but they weren't Katie's.

"A-are you okay?" Dan stuttered at lightning speed, looking into her maghony eyes.

Bree tried to open her mouth and respond. Insted, she felt a odd growth placed above her upper lip and froze. A familiar, five fingared, hand rose up and touched the bump on her face. A nose. She looked down at her body. Not much had changed other then her skin and shape of her legs. Just then she relised that she was shirtless and covered only by the tawel she had wrapped around herself, Dan noticed too and both of them turned red. Dan turned around covering his eyes.

"Sorry!" He squeeked.

"It's fine." Bree responded, tugging the tawel up.

Her parents rushed over to her. They began asking if it had hurt her as they admired her new form. While they did this, Bree took time to look at her cousins.

Cody looked almost exactly the same, with the exception of his skin tone, nose, ears and usually four fingered hands which he seemed intreeged by as he wiggled his five fingers in front of his face.

Rhonda, still wearing her pink, long sleeved, unitard, now had slightly tan skin and hair that took the original shape of her head. Her eyes were still green but now looked entirely human and she had a small button nose, much like Cody's. She ran a hand through her new hair in wonder.

George was almost unrecognisable. He had pale, slightly yellow, skin much like his mother's, and straight black hair that hung an inch off his head. He seemed to be having some trouble tightening the tawel around his waist with his human hands now that he didn't have a shell to broaden his waist. Karai walked over to him and helped him fold the tawel around his thin but muscular body.

"Thanks mom." George smiled up at her a little.

Karai ruffled her son's new hair and matched his smile.

Bree smiled and turned back to her parents.

"Can I have a mirror?" She asked them, to which they handed her a small, hand held, mirror.

Bree tucked a lock of orange hair behind her new ears, they looked just like her mom's, so did her nose. Light freckles peppered her cheeks as she pushed them up, along with her lips, to reveal her teeth. Her gap was still there but it was much smaller, due to her now repressed mutant DNA. She liked her new face. She also didn't notice how Dan was staring at her... but Cody did.

...

Well... Dan was back to staring intensely at the floor non stop.

He didn't know what had happened. Bree always made him nervous but, for some reason, seeing her human had hit him the wrong way. It's not that he didn't like her human form, it was cute... wait. ARG! Never mind, back to the point. It was nice, it just wasn't... Bree? No, it definitely was Bree. It just wasn't HIS Bree. NOT THAT THE MUTANT ONE WAS HIS! He definitely did NOT own Bree!

"Dude, are you okay?" One of Dan's friends (well... mostly Katie's) asked him, her pink, braided, hair grabbing his attention.

"Oh, hi Rose." Dan greeted the black skirt wearing girl, "Yeah, just lost in thought."

Rose hummed. Her pale, freckled face, did not look satisfied with that answer but she decided not to press too hard.

"Wanna come sit with the gang? It's been a while. We miss you man." Rose offered.

Dan smiled a little, it was nice knowing they noticed his absence at the table.

"Thanks but I'm supposed to eat lunch with my cousins." He told her.

"Bring em' along." Rose shrugged.

Dan blinked.

"Really?"

"Why not? Introduce us why don't cha'?" Rose smiled.

Dan didn't really know how to respond. Eventualy he just nodded, causing Rose to grin.

"Sweet. See ya later man." She said before walking away with a small wave.

... okay, first his cousins show up out of no where and now the group that he follows around like a lost puppy are actually interested in being his friends!? The only thing that could possibly make this better was... Dan's face went red.

Nononononono! Don't think about that! Bad imagination!

There was no way that was going to happen. He just had to keep telling himself that and eventualy it would sink in... eventualy.

Whatever. Just focus on making friends.

Dan asked Ella and Dove to sit with him and Katie's gang at lunch. They were exited, to put it simply. Dove asked if she could bring her boyfriend, Milo, to which Dan promptly answered with a surprised and enthusiastic 'YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND!?'. Dove smiled brightly and nodded. Dan smiled as well.

"That sounds great." He told her.

The three teens said their goodbyes and wandered off to their classes.

...

Dan walked through the crowds of chattering teens, getting bumped every once in a while, with Dove, Ella and Milo. Milo was around his cousins age and was tall, but not as tall as Bree's Dad, with lanky limbs; he had black hair that got a little spiky on the left side, blue eyes and wore a yellow t-shirt with faded jeans and big yellow shoes. He seemed nice enough but Dan wouldn't lie that his flirty nature around Dove made him a bit uncomfortable.

"Dan! Over here!" Rose's voice called.

The boy turned his head in the direction of the loud teen and saw her waving at him from across the lunch room with her, bright green-haired, brother, Joseph. From what Dan could see of the freckled boy, Josheph was wearing a bright smile, like his sister, as well as a white shirt with green sleaves to match his hair. Dan weaved back, shyly, and began making his way over to the table of seven people.

As he got closer, Dan recognized two of them as Lilly and Kathrine Reo. They were around the same pale skin tone and shade of raven hair. Kathrine was a little taller then Lilly and they both sported blue t-shirts with Lilly wearing a white long sleeve underneath and Kathrine wearing a black one. Lilly's shirt also had a ying yang symbol on the front. Dan doubted that they were the ones who Rose had claimed missed him. The Reo sisters wern't mean to him but they never really paid him much mind. Dan was pretty sure the only reason they sat with the group was because they were cousins with Rose and Joseph. But at least they came at all. Their younger brother didn't even bother showing up.

Of course, Katie was there with her boyfriend and girl buddy, Britany. The well muciled girl gave him a small smile with her plump lips as Ryder got up and pat him on the back. Ella tensed as he did this. People that look like Ryder usualy aren't all that nice to people who look like Dan, pretty much everyone in her family knew this from personal experience.

"'Bout time Dan." Ryder grinned, "Thought you were board of us."

A few people at the table giggled and Dan nervously joined in, it was nervous but it was sincere.

"S-sorry about that." Dan started, rubbing the back of this neck, "U-um, these are my cousins Ella and Dove. Milo is Dove's boyfriend."

"Welcome to the radest group of people in the school, ma dude." Joseph grinned, offering Milo a fist bump.

Milo let out a small laugh and excepted the shorter boy's fist bump, making Dove smile.

"Thanks." He said.

The four teens sat down at the table and Rose cleared her throat. Her face became unnaturally serious as she looked everyone in the eye, one by one.

"Now..." She deadpaned, "Down to business."

She slammed her her skinny hands on the table, making Dove, Ella, and Milo jump. Even Dan flinched a bit and he was used to Rose's unesisary extraness. The girl raised one of her pale hands off the table and pointed at Katie.

"YOU ARE COMING TO THE DANCE!" She insisted, "I REFUSE TO LET YOU MISS OUT ON DANCING AROUND WITH US LIKE A DORK AND HAVING AN AMAZING NIGHT JUST BECAUSE YOUR TOMBOY ARSE REFUSES TO WEAR A DRESS!"

"What she said!" Josheph added.

"Preach!" Britany threw her hands in the air, earning a giggle from Kathrine and Lilly, both Asian girls pressed their mouths into a thin line to stop from smiling.

Katie shrugged.

"Sure, I wasn't planning on skipping." She adressed, nonshalantly.

"AHA!" Rose continued, "I THOUGHT YOU'D SAY THA- wait what?"

"Dan already convinced me, sorry Ro." Katie said.

And, just like that, all eyes were on Dan. The boy froze up, unsure of how to react to his freind's unreadable faces.

"Way to go Dan!" Dove clapped, Ella quickly joining in.

Pretty soon, everyone at the table was cheering for the red faced boy, while Katie sulked at how big of a deal it was. Ryder put an arm around her shoulder and gave her a cocky grin.

"So. What was it that convinced you?" He asked.

Katie grinned back, eyes narrow and eyebrows raised. She gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

"I'll never tell." She teased.

The table exploded into laughter as Joseph gaged and Rose covered her eyes dramatically.

"WHY MUST YOU ROB US OF OUR INOSENTCE!" She wailed.

"You've been proven guilty of too many pranks to be inosent you two." Britany joked.

"Ouch!" Joseph leaned back with a hand on his heart

"I came here to have a good time but I honestly feel so attacked right now." Rose spoke.

Dan doesn't remember too much after this because he choked on his juice from laughing too hard and Ryder had to resuscitate him...

Good times.