I don't own these characters or the original premise behind this saga. I don't even own the title of this chapter. I do own: Isabel, Jason, Todd, Jayden, Raziya, Mayah, Bokuden, Aztek, Nobunaga, Romah, and Chyna.

Reason Thirty-seven: Journey to the West

All of them in one place … it's never a good thing.

The day was cloudy and it was storming on and off. The kids were all gathered at the Possible-Gooding home because the day for their parents did not slow down thanks to weather, unlike theirs. If it was pouring rain as if there was a monsoon, the kids were not allowed outside. Their parents did make an effort to get them together, though. Usually, they stayed with Monique since she worked at home, but that day, Todd decided to handle things.

Todd was off from school, even though his high school graduation was still a few days away. He could not wait for that day. His parents, Kim and Shego, were already expressing great pride in him for graduating, which he loved, even though he did not entirely understand the reason behind their feelings. He did not see why they were proud of him for doing something that they expected him to do.

Jayden was actually with her brother in his confusion on the pride displayed because he was graduating. She took it as him getting attention for something stupid and she did not hold her tongue when pointing that out. Her parents let her rant while Mayah got offended when Jayden tried to take away from Todd's great accomplishment of making it out of high school. Jayden refused to believe her brother graduating was great since it was not like he had a choice in doing anything else, as Shego would have killed him if he tried to dropout or something like that.

It was a bit weird since Shego would have gladly dropped out of high school if she could have. Betty liked teasing Shego in saying that she had finally completed her metamorphosis and was now Isabel, which Shego hated, especially since it was starting to seem so very true. Unfortunately, she could not fight it since she had to make sure to keep her kids in line.

At the moment, the group of kids was as calm as they could be, which only meant that they had not managed to totally destroy the living room and they had not killed someone. They were playing a board game … well, they were making the attempt to play the game. With them, there were always side activities that went with games, like screaming, hitting, throwing pieces, and junk like that. There was the occasional sick move by Aztek to actually eat a game piece if he was annoyed enough and he wanted to ruin the game for everyone else. Right now, they were getting into the expected shouting matches and accusations of cheating.

Todd was parked on the sofa with a book. It was hard to believe from the placid expression on his face that he was actually in the same room as the little kids. He would move if someone got a weapon or one if the younger kids were in trouble. Until then, his nose was going to stay stuck in that book.

The game went on until Jayden got fed up with everything and flung the board out of sight. "I'm sick of this shit!" the girl declared as she watched the board fly out of sight into the kitchen.

Her friends did not seem to care about the game, probably because they expected the move. Jayden seemed to have the shortest temper among them, even though Mayah ran a very close second. They were bored with the game, anyway.

"Hey, can we watch a movie?" Bokuden suggested.

"Yeah! We should," Raziya concurred.

"Hey, weird brother, we wanna watch a movie," Jayden reported, poking her brother in the side.

Todd sighed because he was going to have to get off of his ass. He knew they were going to want snacks to eat while watching the movie, which they did. Once they got their snacks though, everyone was calm and Todd was back on the couch.

While the movie played, the kids decided to talk too since they had seen it several times. They had a habit of talking through movies anyway, which did not bother anyone since their parents talked through movies sometimes as well. The only one that would think to shush one of them was Aztek and he only did that to have an excuse to butt in on a conversation.

"You know, we're going to Japan again this summer," Bokuden informed his friends out of the blue with a groan. By "we," he meant him and his brother.

"It's gonna be cool!" Nobunaga howled with joy, obviously ready to go.

Bokuden only frowned. The girls knew why Bokuden was frowning. He had developed a great dislike for Japanese cuisines. They did not understand how that worked since they knew that when his mother cooked, she made Japanese dishes and there was no way that he could get out of eating meals. So, he should have at least developed a taste for the food, but it seemed like the more he ate of a certain food, the more he started to hate it. He was becoming that way with Mexican foods, too, because his father often made or bought them Mexican cuisine. It was odd for him to be such a picky eater because he still was greedy.

"Hey, at least you get to see your cousins and go do some ninja training," Jayden pointed out to cheer up the blond boy.

"I'm gonna practice with the Lotus blade!" Nobunaga declared with a proud grin while pointing to himself with his thumb.

Bokuden scoffed, rolling his eyes too. "Dad isn't allowed to let you practice with that," he pointed out.

It was now Nobunaga's turn to scoff. He would practice with what he wanted to practice with and anyone that tried to say otherwise would get his butt kicked, the child silently declared. Depending on the person, he might actually succeed in beating the person up. Nobunaga was already showing great gifts for ninjitsu and Tai Shing Pek Kwar. Still, he wished that he were better. He wanted to be the best and, in order to be that, he knew that he would have to surpass not just his older brother, but their parents.

"What are you guys doing for the summer?" Bokuden asked his friends curiously.

"Hanging out with Grandma more than likely," Jayden answered and then she threw some popcorn at her brother to get his attention, which worked wonders. "We're hanging out with Grandma, right, booger?"

"Don't call him that," Mayah commanded while pushing Jayden a bit. She was offended for Todd, even though she knew that was one of his nicknames. She just thought that it was disrespectful for his little sister to use it.

"What? That's his damn name, so don't push me," Jayden barked while countering with a shove of her own.

"His name is Smiley," Mayah stated soundly. That was what her peers would call him while she was around or they would suffer her wrath. Todd would run, as fast as he could more than likely, if he knew that fact.

"Will you just shut the hell up and lemme get it straight with what we're doing this summer?" Jayden riposted because she had little desire to bother with Mayah and her starting-to-seem-sick-and-wrong fascination with Todd. "So, weird brother, we're with Grandma this summer, right?"

"Yup," Todd confirmed without bothering to take his eyes off of his book.

"The summer is gonna be cool," Romah hummed while practically inhaling some gummi bears. The one problem the adults had with leaving Todd in charge was that they knew he would give the kids all kinds of unhealthy snacks when they wanted some. Not to mention he would let them have all the sugar they wanted and they would be bouncing off the walls when their parents finally came in.

"Razi, you going anywhere?" Bokuden asked curiously since she had not spoken up yet.

Raziya looked away and shook her head. Her friends were always going places, especially for vacations. She went places every now and then, but never as often as her friends. Mayah and her siblings went a bunch of places because they went with Todd and Jayden whenever Isabel came around.

"Not going anywhere again, huh?" Aztek inquired in a sing-song, teasing tone.

"Shut up!" Raziya huffed and then she dumped a bowl of barbeque potato chips on his head. He did not seem to mind it much and picked up some chips off of the floor to eat.

"Yeah, she's not going anywhere," Mayah commented. It was fairly apparent considering her expression, not her actions against Aztek.

"Just to be clear, I'm not cleaning that up," Todd informed them.

"I got it!" Aztek declared and he wasted no time eating the chips that were on the floor.

"You know, Razi, you should just come hang out with us. Grandma wouldn't mind and she always takes us out of the country … even when she's not supposed to," Jayden proposed with a smile. She thought that it would be great for Raziya to come along and she honestly doubted that Isabel would mind considering the usual crew that Isabel took with her when she doing "grandma things."

"You'd think she'd let me?" Raziya inquired curiously, speaking to Jayden.

"Probably. Right, booger?" Jayden said, using that nickname again to see if Mayah wanted to start up again. Todd spoke up before Mayah could harp on his little sister again.

"Probably," Todd agreed since Isabel had no problem dragging around Mayah and her siblings as well as himself and his sister. What could one more person hurt?

"Could you be a bit more concrete than that?" Raziya requested, sounding slightly irked that he had given her a wishy-washy response.

"You'll never know what she might say unless you ask and I can't speak exactly for her since I'm not her. You might want to run the idea by your parents, though. As the mini-monster said, Grandma does have a habit of taking us out of the country at a moment's notice and your parents might not like that," Todd explained. Hell, sometimes, their parents did not like it when Isabel just got the urge to flee the country with him and Jayden.

Raziya nodded to show that she understood. She hoped that her parents liked the idea and then she had to hope that Isabel agreed with it. From the few times that she had met Isabel, Raziya believed her friends' grandmother to be very kind and she believed that Isabel would let her be with her friends for the summer. Besides, what was one more child to the tribe that she was already going to have? Still, the little girl was not sure how her parents would react to the proposal and she also had no real clue how Isabel would react. Maybe Isabel did not want to drag around a kid that was not related to her, after all.

They all considered Mayah and her siblings as "relatives" to Isabel because she took them around as if they were her grandchildren. They even referred to her as "grandma" most of the time and she casually introduced them as her grandchildren. It was mostly due to the fact that Betty had a strained relationship with her mother and that seemed to be repeating itself with Mayah and Eleanor.

Early on, Betty's children visited with her mother, but things had not been pleasant. Eleanor spoke down to Mayah, which the girl never appreciated and she expressed such, making sure to use strong language when doing so. Eleanor then began to conclude that Mayah was a "bad seed" and expressed that to Betty, which the one-eyed woman could not even listen to. So, after a while, she stopped sending Mayah to see her mother.

Eleanor did not seem to like Aztek too much either, mostly because he was a filthy child with a short attention span. He was also non-confrontational with most people, which would be hard to tell considering how he liked to get into things with Raziya and his big sister. It was just that most of the time when people scolded him, he walked off after listening for about a minute and he did that with his grandmother, which Eleanor took it as a sign of disrespect.

Eleanor probably would have gotten along with Romah, even though Betty was not so sure because her mother seemed to look for reasons to get on someone's case in her opinion. He was a calm child when not around Nobunaga. He liked sitting around playing video games, which Betty suspected her mother would have barked about, even if it did keep him quiet and he often played educational games. He just would not go anywhere without his brother and Aztek was no longer welcome at their maternal grandmother's house. Chyna was similar to Romah in that sense.

Chyna had not really gotten the chance to know Eleanor because she did not want to be around someone if her big sister was not welcome around the person. Mayah would not go near Eleanor if someone paid her at the moment, so Chyna would not go near the woman. Betty doubted that her mother would get along with Chyna anyway since Chyna seemed very determined in mimicking her big sister as best she could.

So, the Director-Jones siblings sort of adopted Isabel as their grandmother, which she did not mind. She knew them just as well as she knew her own grandkids and she liked them just as much as she liked her own grandchildren. They were all such precious, little imps in her opinion and she was rather honored with them picking her to act as their grandmother rather than just deciding their only grandparents were Dahntay's parents, who did adore the group and loved having them around.

Raziya did not have such a problem. Her grandparents on both sides were active in her life and loved her deeply, but she still wanted to hang out with Isabel over the summer because her friends were going to be with Isabel. So, she was going to have to run the idea by her parents.

-8-8-8-8-

Raziya kicked her feet back and forth as she sat at the dinner table with her father. He had his food in front of him along with notes from his work. He was trying to get things written down before Monique came into the dining room and reprimanded him for working at the table. He was not fast enough.

"Baby, I know you lost your mind if you're sitting here doing what I think you're doing," Monique commented as she came into the room with her plate and Raziya's plate. The reason that she and Raziya did not have their food at the same time as Felix was because he ate his broccoli without cheese while his wife and child would only eat broccoli if there was cheese on the vegetables.

"What? Huh?" Felix pretended to not know what she was talking about as he yanked his book down and managed to look rather innocent of all charges.

"Don't try me, boy," Monique warned her spouse as she put her food down and Raziya's food down. She sat across from Felix.

"What? I didn't do anything," he replied with a charming smile on his face.

Monique could only smile and shake her head, which let her husband know that he was off the hook for the moment. The family settled in for one of their rare dinners at the table. They usually ate in the living room while working on projects and things like that. It was all right to work on things in the living room, but not at the table when meals were going on if Monique was around anyway.

"Mommy, Daddy, we're not going anywhere this summer, right?" Raziya inquired after a few minutes of silence.

"Going somewhere like where?" Monique countered curiously.

"Anywhere because if not, I was wondering if you'd lemme go with Jade and everyone to stay with their grandma," Raziya explained.

"With Isabel?" both parents said at the same time. They looked at each other. They had heard some stories involving Isabel with her grandkids, stories that involved sudden flights over oceans and not informing parents until they were on the ground in a new time zone.

"Yeah," the child answered, missing the tone that her parents used that indicated that they were apprehensive with that plan.

"Um … we'll think about it, sweetheart," Felix said, trying his best to sound normal.

Raziya eyed her parents suspiciously. Like any child, she was skeptical when she heard a phase like "we'll think about it." It usually translated into "no" after all. She would prefer that they tell her straight out than to get her hopes up only to shoot them down later on.

"You're not gonna lemme go, are you?" Raziya inquired with a pout.

"We didn't say that," Monique argued in a gentle tone because of their daughter's expression and sorrowful tone.

"But, you're gonna. How come I can't go? I'm gonna be all by myself this summer," Raziya complained with a miserable groan. She, like her friends, was used to being around them when in Go City, but it would seem that she was going to be all alone, maybe until school started again in September.

"Did you even ask Isabel if it was all right? You can't just push yourself into someone else's trip," Felix pointed out, feeling it was a safe road to travel rather just saying plainly that he and Monique would rather not leave their daughter Isabel, especially since Isabel would already have her hands full with her wild grandkids.

Raziya conceded that one. It would not be good manners to just push her into someone else's trip, but she figured that she would need her parents' permission along with Isabel's and she could get her parents' approval much sooner than Isabel's. She was not sure what she was supposed to do if her parents did not give her permission, except hope that she got the chance to speak with Isabel sometime soon.

Well, Jayden took care of speaking with Isabel for her friend. She called her grandmother right after Raziya explained what her parents said and requested that Isabel let Raziya come with them over the summer. Isabel gave in with no problem. She was already going to have five children with her, so she did not see the problem with one more. She could keep a good eye on her grandkids, anyway, and Todd was an excellent help in her opinion. So, now, all Raziya had to do was get her parents' permission.

Monique and Felix tried dancing around the subject, but they were sort of trapped when they attended Todd's graduation. The usual suspects were all at the graduation, and some unusual, like Jason and Hego. Isabel was there and she approached Monique and Felix about Raziya hanging out with her over the summer. They skirted the issue with her, too.

"You two should think about it. I have no problem with taking Raziya with us and it's not like we're leaving for anywhere right after the graduation," Isabel commented.

"We will," Monique promised.

Isabel offered them a smile, even though she doubted that they would. She figured that they had already made their decision, but they did not want to break Raziya's heart. Of course, that was none of her business.

After dealing with Monique and Felix, Isabel went to go congratulate Todd. He grinned widely as his grandmother hugged him tightly and expressed the same pride in him that Kim and Shego did. He still did not understand it, but he certainly accepted it and enjoyed it.

"My little fire warrior, you're awe inspiring," Isabel stated and drew a blush from the young man.

"Grandma…" he groaned. She smiled and hugged him once more.

They all went out for lunch where Todd spoke about football Jason and Hego. It seemed to be the only way that they could bond, but they did not seem to mind. Jason and Hego only occasionally turned away from the discussion to glance at Jayden and they only gave her their attention because she was being loud. Jayden was with her friends and talking to the Doctors Possible about science, which they were all enjoying. She was cuddled against Ann, who smiled through everything, even the casual swearing.

Isabel was talking with Kim since they were sitting across from each other. Isabel wanted to talk about the show that was supposed to be being made based on Kim. Shego joked that her mother was trying to interject herself into production to do the martial arts.

"They probably don't have the money to hire me," Isabel boasted. She disliked working on television shows, anyway, because it was more frequent work than she wanted to do in show business at that point in her life and it cut into her second love, which was traveling. Her first love, of course, was her family.

"Probably not," Kim agreed. "They tried to get me and Yori to do it, but we don't have time for that."

"They should just get Auntie Victoria. She's like the low-budget version of you," Shego remarked, speaking to her mother.

"Don't you dare refer to my little sister as low-budget," Isabel scolded her daughter quite seriously.

Shego rolled her eyes, expecting the reprimand, and the conversation pressed on. Isabel glanced at Monique and Felix every now and then, seemingly trying to see if they had come to a conclusion yet. She also glanced down at the kids, who were having a good time with each other. She smiled fondly at the sight. It really would not bother her if she had to take all of them for the summer.

"You gonna eat that?" Bokuden asked Jayden, who was in the middle of a heated debate, arguing with Raziya as to why it was important to explore space. Raziya had made the mistake of saying that the money spent on space exploration should be spent on developing better technology on Earth. Jayden stopped mid-rant to answer the blond boy.

"You know, this is why you always end up hating certain foods," the raven-haired girl replied.

"Yeah, you always eat too much of one thing," Raziya chimed in, agreeing with Jayden who only moments ago had been her bitter enemy.

"You do that 'til you get sick of it," Mayah ended the lecture.

"You gonna eat it?" Bokuden asked in a deadpan tone. He was referring to Jayden's chicken fingers. He had already eaten a giant bowl of chicken salad on his own before downing most of his little brother's chicken fingers. Nobunaga had not appreciated the sudden disappearance of his meal, but then again, he barely noticed since he was busy eating Ron's food.

"Take it," Jayden sighed while shoving the food dish over to her friend. She knew that there was no talking to Bokuden when it came meals. He just had to ruin foods for himself it seemed.

After lunch, they all went back to the Possible-Gooding residence where Todd got presents for graduating. The celebration continued on at the house with everyone just hanging out there. Isabel waited to see what Monique and Felix were going to do.

The couple was talking things over with each other on letting Raziya hang out with her friends over the summer. They did not know to do. They decided to go for an outside opinion, but they had to wait until Isabel was otherwise engaged.

"Hey, Kim, what do you think when Isabel takes all of the kids for the summer?" Monique inquired.

"I like the break, even though I miss the kids. They always have a blast with Isabel," Kim answered.

"What does she do with them?" Felix inquired.

"She usually takes them for two to four weeks to do just about whatever comes to mind. She seems to live in an instant. She always inevitably leaves the country with them on a whim, or so it seems anyway. But, every now and then the trip was somehow work-related for her and the kids love that," Kim explained.

"What does she do?" Monique asked with a furrowed brow.

"She's a martial arts choreographer. They love going to work with her to design fights and mimic fights and stuff like that," the hero informed them.

"How can she handle all of them? It's like having five tornadoes in your living room," Felix commented.

"Hey, despite the impulsive behavior and pure insanity of the kids, Isabel has never lost anyone on a trip or something like that and she's never reported that she'd never take them anywhere else. They love it and she loves it," Kim stated with a grin.

"You think we should let Razi go with them, don't you?" Monique deadpanned.

"She'll have a blast," Kim declared, still grinning. Felix and Monique seemed skeptical on that.

-8-8-8-8-

Isabel cornered Monique and Felix late that night and informed them that she was leaving. She wanted to give them a chance to tell her what they decided. Jayden and Raziya noticed her parents speaking with Isabel and they jumped to the conclusion that it meant Raziya would be joining them for the summer. They dashed over to the three and began prematurely thanking people for letting Raziya go.

"You two should hold off on things until you have the complete picture. I would think little scientists like yourselves would know that," Isabel remarked, teasing the little kids for their enthusiasm.

"Whaddaya mean?" the girls inquired, adorably speaking simultaneously.

"You two are getting ahead of yourselves is what I mean," Isabel answered in a patient tone.

"Does that mean I can't go?" Raziya asked her parents with a pout. She looked absolutely heartbroken.

"But, Grandma, you said she could go," Jayden pointed out, sounding slightly outraged and scowling much like her Mommy did when she was upset. She felt like her grandmother lied to her and her grandmother was never supposed to lie to her.

"She can," Isabel assured her granddaughter, reaching down and caressing Jayden's cheek to soothe her. She then turned her attention back to Monique and Felix, waiting to see what they would do.

"Don't you think that's too many kids to look after?" Monique inquired, feeling that was a safe route to travel in the discussion.

"One more to my usual bunch isn't a problem. Besides, Smiley is a big help with keeping an eye on everyone. Also, everyone behaves with me, don't they, Jade?" Isabel said confidently.

"Uh-huh," Jayden confirmed, nodding deeply. "Everybody better behave with Grandma."

"That's right," Isabel stated.

"And you won't take her out of the country without telling us?" Felix asked. He was not keen on the idea of his little girl just leaving the country out of the blue, especially without him or his wife being around.

Isabel laughed a bit and her granddaughter followed suit. Jayden thought that it was impossible for Isabel to take them anywhere without a plane being involved. They always left the country when they were with Isabel. It was like a given to the kids and even to Todd.

"I don't recall making that promise," Isabel informed the couple, sounding and looking playful, but she was very serious. She would not make that promise either because she was not a liar … when she could help it anyway.

"Well, that's the part giving us a bit of trouble," Monique stated.

"I can imagine. Perhaps you should give it a chance, though. Raziya would enjoy herself undoubtedly. Besides, it'll give Jade someone to argue with when getting beaten up by Mayah grows tiresome," Isabel remarked.

"What!" Jayden hollered in disbelief and anger, stomping her foot and glaring at her grandmother. "Mayah never beats me up! Where is she? I'll kick her ass right now and show you, Grandma!" the child declared and she ran off to go find Mayah to prove to her grandmother that she could easily take Mayah. Isabel laughed.

"You just started a fight, you know that?" Felix asked, even though he suspected that Isabel was very aware of what she did.

"No, Mayah's gone home already and Jade'll forget I said that by the time she sees Mayah again. She's so easily distracted, after all," Isabel replied, smiling softly.

"Mommy, Daddy, please lemme go with everyone. I'll be really good," Raziya promised. "I'll never leave Miss Isabel's side. I promise," she vowed.

Monique and Felix sighed as their daughter hit them with the most wicked of all pouts that they had ever seen. They suspected that she took lessons from Jayden because of the expression and how it almost seemed professional. When they took a few seconds to answer, Raziya went from pouting to looking as if she was ready to burst into tears and her expression was genuine. Raziya did not want to be alone for two to four weeks and she wanted her parents to understand that.

"Look, sweetie…" Monique started to say to Raziya, but she could not make it passed how Raziya seemed so ready to cry. Monique sighed.

"Fine, you can go," Felix caved. "But, you have to call us everyday," he added.

"Okay!" Raziya cheered and her expression cleared up immediately. She hugged both of her parents.

Isabel smiled. "Don't worry about her. I'll take good care of her," she tried to assure the parents.

"Just try to stay in this hemisphere, please," Monique implored. Isabel only smiled.

-*-(New day)-*-

"Grandma, you know this isn't right," Todd commented as he started plucking bags off of a luggage carousel.

"Now, why would you say that, my little fire warrior?" Isabel inquired, looking amused because of the fact that she referred to her grandson as "little." Todd was almost as tall as her husband, which made him taller than she was. He was an impressive sight and he was still growing.

"Because you said you were going to stay in the western hemisphere," he replied.

"I never said that. Besides, we're still in the west … sort of," Isabel answered.

"Yeah, I don't think western Europe counts," he riposted with a good-natured smile.

"It's a west at least," she countered with a smile of her own.

Todd chuckled as he continued to gather everyone's bags and did not bother pointing out that anywhere could be "a west." Only his grandmother would spontaneously fly halfway around the world with six children that were eleven and under and not think anything of it. He sometimes wondered what she would do if one of them accidentally left or forgot a passport.

"Everybody got everything?" Todd asked to make sure and there were confirmations all around.

"Well then, let's go," Isabel announced.

"Maybe we could go see Paris," Mayah suggested as she walked next to Todd, who gave her a disturbed look.

"It is the city of love," Jayden commented, which caused Mayah to smile widely. That was just perfect, Mayah thought with a heavenly smile.

"Why do you even know that?" Todd asked his sister in a desperate tone.

"Mommy said so, doy," Jayden answered. How the hell else would she know something like that? She did not even get what it meant to call Paris "the city of love."

"Now the question is how would your Mommy know that?" Isabel remarked, teasing her absent daughter.

"I think she took Mom there once when we were with Grandpa and Meemaw," Jayden replied. She had been sitting there when her parents were talking about the trip, but she had not been paying them much mind at the time.

"Wow, way to go She-she," Todd muttered.

"Impressive," Isabel mumbled to herself. So, her daughter could be romantic without any help.

"So, now you can take me," Mayah said to Todd while taking hold of his hand. The redhead pulled away, not thinking about how Mayah might take the action. She did not really care and just reached for him again. Whenever he ran, she never took it to heart and only chased him more. His rejection only encouraged her from what he could tell, but it was all that he could do.

"We've not even in France and we're not going … right, Grandma?" Todd implored. He did not even want to think about how Mayah might act toward him if they were to go to France. He decided right then and there that he would not find out. If they stepped foot in France, not even Paris, just France, he would leave. They could meet up with him in Germany.

"Hmm … maybe we could swing by France," Isabel considered, a thoughtful finger pressed to her chin.

"Grandma!" Todd whined.

"I'm just joking. I have other plans for us, but first, I need to get some work out of the way. So, for the moment, all little elves should enjoy themselves in what used to be the center of the ancient world, Rome," Isabel announced with a broad smile.

"Hey, it's named after me," Romah declared. Everyone just laughed.

-8-8-8-8-

Next time: the group in Rome and then Todd comes face to face with death.