In the dorm room, the pagers went off at 7 a.m. exactly.

Arnie got out of his bed at quite the speed and even got into his clothes just as quickly.

Nori and Rice also got out of their bunk bed and went to Yikk's bed to take the covers off of them.

"Wha…" the dark blonde youngster mumbled before looking in the eyes of the twins. "Oh, g'mohnin', Nowi an' Wife…" They took their thumb out of their mouth, dried the finger off onto their sleepsuit and arranged their comfort blanket and dolls neatly before heading to the wardrobe to pick their clothes.

"Good morning to you too, sleepyhead" Rice said, as they patted their fellow crewmate's shoulder.

About five minutes later, everyone in the dorm room was out of their bed and in their usual clothes, and had their hair brushed and such as well.

As soon as breakfast was served, Lava, Navy, Vienna and the children also came to join, all dressed and prepared.

Half an hour later, everyone was ready for the day, and the pagers of 7 crewmates went off.

"Ooh" Choco said, "I apparently got chosen as one of the crewmates for the next mission at the Mira HQ!"

"Hey, me too!" Nori said.

At 8 a.m. exactly, Yikk, Arnie, Navy, Nika, Vienna, Neri, Yuri, Rice, Choco and Nori departed for the spaceship to go on their mission.

"This is an interesting stay-at-home group now" Billy said, once they closed the door after having said goodbye to the missionary crewmates. They stayed at home with Lava, Squee, Charlie and Pop today. "I wonder how it'll go."

"I surely do hope that I'll go to Mira HQ someday, too" Lava said. "Like, if I'm an impostor, I get unlimited access to the universal vents there!"

Squee, Billy, Charlie and Pop sighed in slight disapproval.

"You all are just a bunch of lame butts. Don't look for me – I'll be spoiling my lungs upstairs." The snob went upstairs, to her balcony.

"Hear who says that we're lame butts" Squee said. "She's lame herself."

"There's still some chores to do" Charlie said. "C'mon, they're not going to do themselves now."

The foursome started doing some randomly assigned chores around the house before settling down for some free time half an hour later.


Meanwhile, the 7 other crewmates successfully arrived at the Mira HQ, and looked their eyes out once they already saw the launchpad.

"So shiny…!" Yikk squealed as they saw the clean yellow and white tile floor that sparkled in the first few rays of sunshine.

"So modern…!" Vienna said with a hint of excitement in her voice.

After having admired the first few impressions of the building, the crewmates all looked onto their pagers for their assigned tasks. Even Arnie, who actually had fake tasks since he was the impostor this time.

5 of the crewmates soon went to the rest of the building, while Arnie, Navy and Nika stayed behind on the launchpad.

"Arn, what are you doing?" Navy asked.

"You know" Arnie replied, "just doing diagnostics." He pointed at the diagnostics computer, even if he didn't really press the space bar to start the diagnostics just now.

"Uh… I don't trust you?" The formal crewmate felt dread with the former private nearby. "Don't look, Nika." He even feared the worst while saying that… which soon came true with a hard punch that knocked him out cold.

"Daddy!" Nika gasped, having heard the groan with which her father was swiftly knocked out. "That was very stupid of Arnie to do…! Guess there's only one thing left to do…" She laid down next to Navy, closed her eyes and pretended to be unconscious as well.

Arnie swiftly disappeared into the vent, and headed for the laboratory, where nobody appeared to be.

At the reactor, however, Choco and Nori were busy starting the reactor and unlocking the manifolds.

Hmm, Arnie thought, where to start a sabotage…? He looked at his pager for a few options, and chose to sabotage the communications.

Everyone's pagers immediately showed the 404 error message.

"Dammit!" Yikk said upon seeing the error message. "Now I dunno the west of my tasks anymowe!" They headed for the nearby communications device in the office and frantically entered each code as seen on its display screen. "Pweeeaaase wespond!"

"What's the matter?" Rice asked, seeing their fellow crewmate be enraged at the device. "Hey, take a careful glance at the display screen…"

"I no cawe at this point! I jus' wan' the tasks back!"

"Alright, be that way. I'll be at the communications room, if you're looking for me." The crewmate in white swiftly walked their way towards the darker and smaller equivalent of the office to enter yet a different code on the display screen of the communications device there.

Within only just a few seconds, the communications and tasks were back to normal.

"Phew" one could hear from both the office and the communications room. And a genuine one, too.

Nori and Choco just passed through the decontaminations corridor, and saw Arnie on their way.

"Hey, Arn" Choco greeted the former private.

"Hey, guys" Arnie replied, feeling a tad nervous before the door opened and he swiftly got away.

"Something seems amiss with him" Nori said before heading back to the launchpad to complete his diagnostics task.

"I kinda agree. Perhaps he's just a little hyper, but we'll see about that." The chocoholic immediately fidgeted with the wires in the wire box next to the door of the decontaminations corridor.

Not much later, Nori reported Navy's unconscious body, and an emergency meeting was soon held.

"I was at the decontaminations corridor with Choco before" he said, "and I went back to the launchpad to finish my diagnostics task, when suddenly, Navy's body was there."

"Anyone suspicious neahby?" Yikk asked, while rubbing the sad and scared Nika over her back.

"Sadly not."

"I'd say we skip" Arnie stated, "we don't have enough proof just yet."

"You think so?" Rice said, as they voted Arnie.

Choco and Nori also voted Arnie, while Yikk, Vienna and Arnie himself skipped, thus making it a tie and sending nobody out to do tasks elsewhere in the building of the Mira HQ.


Back in the living building, Squee and Billy were watching cartoons on the latter's laptop.

"Man" Billy sighed, "if only Yikk would be here, I bet they'd like this a ton, too…"

"You just cannot stop thinking about Yikk lately, huh?" Squee asked.

"Sure can't. I just… feel this thing for them. Something positive, that is, but I can't quite describe it, to be honest…" The Latinx sighed deeply.

"You sure you're not in love with them?"

"What? No, of course not! I think it's just… that I've grown quite dependent on them since we're best friends as of not too long ago."

"I don't understand, but alright."

"Neither do I, Squee amigo."

Pop eventually came into the dining room with a platter of fruits and biscuits, while Charlie took care of a few cups of tea for everyone.

"Ooh, yum, tangerine!" Squee said upon seeing their favourite fruit, immediately grabbing it.

"Hey, save some for me" Pop said in a slightly strict tone.

"Sorry."

"Thanks, Charlie" Billy said upon accepting a cup of mint tea from the tomboy. "Man, I really needed this, I'm a tad cold." They gently grabbed their cup and blew a little before taking their first sip.

"Would you like a biscuit with that?" Charlie asked, offering one part of the platter to her fellow crewmate.

"No thanks, I'm good."

"Alr… you sound a bit off, are you sure you're good?"

"In that respect, not quite…"

"I know why" Squee said with a sneaky smile. "Billy's got a crush on Y-"

"Shut up, of course I don't, you idiot!" Billy smacked their dumb fellow crewmate hard on their cheek.

"Ouch, sorry, man! I didn't know you were cross with me!" The lover of oranges had slight tears in their eyes.

"Well, then my apologies for overreacting, but I'd better whisper the rest in Charlie's ear to prevent you from gossiping further…"

"Alright" Charlie said, "I'm all ears." She let the Latinx lean towards the ear closest to them.

"And it's not quite nice of you to gossip out loud either, Squee" Pop said after swallowing her second apple bit. "Such rumours can spread quite easily with others around."

Squee simply groaned in response and stuffed their cheeks full of tangerine bits.

"Well, uh…" Billy whispered so quietly that the rest couldn't overhear it, even if they did their utmost best. "I kinda have this thing for Yikk for the last few hours… something positive, that is… it's not love, but it is true that I cannot stop thinking about them lately, and it kind of feels like I cannot even live without them…!"

"Oh my" Charlie responded. "Quite difficult, since I don't quite know a good word for this, but I do know the feeling. Back in middle school, I felt the same for someone else, and I talked it out with him, and now we're on good terms again."

"So you think I should discuss this with Yikk?"

"Of course, Bill! You can do this, man!" The tomboy patted the Latinx's shoulder quite hard, but still well enough to make them smile a little. "And if you need help, feel free to ask me for whatever tips you need, I don't bite, I promise."


At the Mira HQ, Arnie was one sneaky impostor all along, specifically when one of the crewmates was apparently not careful enough while near him.

The other minute, he knocked Vienna out in the laboratory, which left Neri in such a high state of shock that it left him crying out loud with many tears, and again, he 'infected' Yuri with the crying.

Yikk was doing their best to prime the shields at the office, which was done quite quickly.

But just as they wanted to head for the greenhouse to clean the oxygen filter, Arnie suddenly jumped out of the vent behind them.

"Boo!" he exclaimed.

The childish youngster screamed helplessly and wanted to run for their life, but tripped hard over the large digital table, and the former private subsequently easily cold-clocked them hard in the face, leaving them unconscious and with quite the nosebleed.

"3 down, 3 to go!" He jumped back into the vent.

Yikk's spirit emerged from their unconscious body, and was sobbing in a gross fashion.

"Ow, my knee and nose…!" Ghostly blood was apparently also dripping from the poor soul's nose, but for some reason, it didn't leave any stains or whatsoever anywhere.

The sobbing went on and on, until both Navy and Vienna's spirits were suddenly there.

"Yikk, are you alright?" Navy asked.

"I could hear you all the way from the laboratory!" Vienna said in a concerned tone. "Poor you… Arnie shocked you hard, huh?"

"He shocked youh powe sweet chiwdwen even hahdah! I jus'…" The poor lime crewmate just couldn't get their facts straight, they burst out in another fit of loud and gross sobbing.

"Poor Nika, Neri and Yuri indeed…" Navy put his arms around the sobbing Yikk's shoulders. "I hope they'll be well. For as long as the three of us are ghosts, we'll protect you, we promise."

Vienna nodded in agreement, and gave Yikk a gentle embrace as well.

Soon, Nori and Rice discovered Yikk's unconscious body after following a seeming trail of blood that trickled all over the floor.

"Oh my gosh, that poor soul…!" Nori said in shock of seeing where the blood came from.

Tears stood in Rice's eyes, and they grabbed a clean paper tissue from their pocket that they ripped in half and carefully put into the unconscious crewmate's bleeding nose in an attempt to stop it, before reporting them.

"Arnie" Choco said once the emergency meeting only just started, "it's you, isn't it?"

"What makes you think that?" Arnie asked.

"Well, your unusual behaviour, and that small dot of blood on your chest."

"Yeah, show us your hands!" Rice said. "We saw blood in the hallway!"

"Well, alright…" Arnie reluctantly showed his hands, of which the knuckles of his right hand were slightly covered in blood. "Vote me out, I deserved it."

"You bet your sweet ass you did" Nori said, as he grabbed his pager and voted the impostor out, "for shocking the poor kids like that as well." He pointed at Nika, Neri and Yuri, who sat elsewhere in the cafeteria and were still scared and sad.

Soon, Arnie was kicked out of the current floor of the Mira HQ and was forced to do worse tasks elsewhere in the building.

Nori, Rice and Choco brought the unconscious Navy, Vienna and Yikk to the medical bay. Afterwards, they tended to the three children.

"Would you guys like a little something to drink in the meantime?" Choco asked, as he guided Nika and Neri towards a table. "A little water, perhaps?"

"Yes, please" the two answered in unison.

"Could you please stay with Nika and Neri?" Rice asked, "while Nori and I will head back to the medical bay? Yuri needs a literal bath at this point, the poor thing." They slightly turned their head and scrunched their nose to quite some point as well, not being able to handle the smell of a loaded nappy very well.

"Sure thing, take all of the time you need." The chubster tapped two cups of water at the nearby faucet and gave those to Nika and Neri. "There you guys go."

Undressing and pre-cleaning Yuri were quite the unlisted tasks regarding intensity, but both of the twins did it very well, as well as the bathing of the baby themself.

"You poor, sweet thing" Rice said, as they slowly poured a cup of water over Yuri's head. "That wasn't quite nice of Arnie to shock your mum like that, huh?"

Nori carefully cleaned the most pre-cleaned spots with a wet washcloth and a little soap, wanting to make sure that those spots were the cleanest very soon.

Meanwhile, the spirits of Navy, Vienna and Yikk were watching the whole event happening. The latter had calmed down somewhat in the meantime, and was still in Vienna's gentle grasp while sucking their thumb.

"Nori and Rice are taking excellent care of Yuri" Navy said, "I should complement them once I wake up."

"Even if they cannot handle that humongous amount of feces" Vienna stated, "they're still doing the best they can."

"An' Nika an' Newi awtho be doin' well, huh?" Yikk lisped. "Thoco jutht gave them thome wathah thoo calm down."

"I bet they'll be quite happy to see us again once we're back awake. Would you like to have a glass of water soon as well, Yikk?"

The dark blonde crewmate nodded quietly, as even their spirit was feeling quite thirsty at this point.

Some time later, Yuri was all clean, dried off, and dressed in nothing but a nappy since the rest of their clothes were currently in the washer due to their slightly stained state.

Slowly but surely, the three spirits went back to their respective bodies and slowly woke up.

"Whuzzat in my nose…?" Yikk mumbled upon noticing the now quite bloody paper tissue that Rice put into their nose not too long ago. "Oh, it's paypah." They carefully took it out. "Aah, that feels painful…!"

"Mama?" Yuri cooed once they heard the lime crewmate speak.

"No, Yuwi, it be me, Yikk. Mum still be waking up."

Nori chuckled a little at the situation.

Navy rubbed their eyes upon having fully woken up.

"As a spirit" he started, "I saw you and Rice take care of Yuri just now, and you guys did great, despite the disadvantages that came with it. I complement you to the fullest…!"

"Thanks" Rice chuckled, as they tried to make Yuri comfortable in the dry towel that they temporarily wore. "Their clothes are also in the washer in the communications room, because they were slightly stained… yuck, even the feeling makes me feel queasy…" They breathed deeply in an attempt to decrease their nausea.

Nori rubbed his sibling's shoulder to comfort them a little more.

"How are you doing?" Vienna asked both Navy and Yikk.

"I'm thihsty" the lime crewmate replied as they tried to get out of their bed, but felt their sore left knee again. "Aaah!" Some tears formed in their eyes as they grabbed their knee and rubbed it with their thumbs in an attempt to ease the pain. "An' I kinda need to go potty as well… my powe bwaddah is about to expwode…"

"Here, lemme help you with that." Vienna carefully got up, even if her head slightly throbbed. "Easy now, Vi…" Subsequently, she carefully took Yikk in her arms to bring them to the nearest bathroom, of which the latter approved to the fullest.

Once the dark blonde youngster had been settled in the closest water closet, the purple crewmate went on towards the cafeteria, where Choco still sat with Nika and Neri.

"Mummy!" the two children cheered in unison as they went towards their mother to hug her tightly.

"Oh, thank goodness you guys are alright." Vienna looked at Choco. "I'm also alright, minus the slight throb that's going on in my head right now."

"That's good" Choco replied, "and as for the throb, a teeny tiny painkiller could possibly do the job." He got up and went towards the nearest first aid box to get his fellow crewmate a painkiller.

"How's Daddy doing?" Nika asked.

"Dad is okay" the mother replied, "but still at the medical bay to recover. Yuri is also alright, as well as all clean thanks to the twins."

"Oh, poor them! The sight and smell of dark matter must've triggered their poor eyes and nose so much!"

Vienna and Choco chuckled a little about the intelligent statement that the small dark blue 'crewmate' just made.

"But Yuri's clean" Neri said, "and I think the twins think that it's been worth it, too, because if poor Yuri sat in their nappy for way longer, they'd be off way worse."

"Yeah, that's right, li'l bro." Nika ruffled her younger brother's hair.


"Today was quite the day" Nori sighed as he let himself fall onto his part of the bunk bed.

"Tell me about it" Billy sighed just as much as they crashed onto their bed.

"Ahnie was the impostah an' he huht my knee an' nose" Yikk said, "but my knee be off way wohse…"

"What happened to your nose?" Squee asked. "It looks okay to me."

"Tons o' bwood. Nowi an' Wice saw it an' wehe shocked at its sight."

"I'm still not sure which sight of bodily matter is a worse sight to see" Rice said, "quite the large puddle of blood from a mere tiny nose, or a toxic nappy that stained poor Yuri's clothes in the process, too."

Yikk giggled upon hearing the word 'tiny nose', as they had quite the tiny nose themself.

"How about both" Nori said. "We've both definitely seen worse."

"Yeah, I guess you're right."

Charlie eventually came with a damp and cold washcloth that she put onto Yikk's bare, sore left knee.

"Thanks" the childish crewmate said, yawning and popping their thumb in afterwards.

"I hope tomorrow will be better for the most of us" the tomboy said as she headed to her own bed.

"Oh, you poor soul…" Billy said, as they slowly came out of their bed just to sit beside Yikk's. "You got beaten up quite hard, huh?" They petted their best friend's head as if they were a cat.

The dark blonde youngster took their thumb back out to speak properly.

"I missed you in the meantime, Biwwy… I wanna see you mowe…"

"Yeah, I wanted to speak to you about that…" The Latinx blushed deeply and took a deep breath before speaking again. "I've developed feelings for you ever since we became best friends… it's not love, however, but something else…"

"Hmm, pwatonic feewings, pewhaps?"

"Ah, thanks, now I finally have an appointable term for it! Yeah, I guess I feel those platonic feelings for you indeed… but I don't really know what to do with it…"

"Just wet it all sink in for a wittle bit, an' take youh time. Eventuawwy, it be up to you what ya wanna do wif it, otay?"

"Oh, amigo, you're the best advice-giver ever, man! Thanks a ton! I could never come to a clear conclusion without you…!" Billy smooched their best friend quite hard on their cheek.

"Ah, so you are in love, huh?" Squee chuckled.

"Shut up, Squee!" Billy, Yikk, Pop and Charlie exclaimed in unison.

The dumb blonde rolled their eyes, sighed deeply and crashed hard onto their bed.

At 8:55 p.m., Arnie and Choco were the last two to head to the dorm room for the night.

"Yikk, my fellow crewmate" Arnie said as he stood at his crewmate's bed. "Again, I'm very sorry for beating you up that badly today. I know it's a usual thing that impostors among us do, but I couldn't help but feel heartbroken at the thought of you crying so loudly out of so much pain…"

"It be otay, Ahnie" the childish youngster replied. "I do hope my knee be healed by tomowwow, though, because I no wanna walk in some weihd fashion duwing a mission."

"I hope so too, but if not, here's the deal: if the both of us are regular crewmates during tomorrow's mission – or the day after tomorrow's, depending on what Mack will say –, and your knee is still sore, I could piggyback you at times, alright?"

"That be a good idea." Yikk gently grabbed Arnie's hand and kissed it. "Nighty night, Ahnie. Sweet dweams." They popped their thumb into their mouth and closed their eyes.

"Goodnight to you, too." The former private gently tucked his fellow crewmate in and gave them a peck on the cheek before getting into his own bed. "And, of course, a good night to the rest of you, too."

"Sleep well" and all that similar jazz soon sounded from everyone's mouths before it became as good as quiet again.

Since it's been a long day, everyone fell asleep quite quickly.