Ear Eye and Arm are not my characters. They are from a book by Nancy Farmer, titled The Ear, they Eye and The Arm, which I highly recommend to everybody here.
Mystique walked into the house, and with her, were three other mutants. She called everyone to come downstairs. Pietro had been brushing his hair, Lance playing his guitar, Toad looking for flies, and Blob searching in the refrigator, even though he already knew there was nothing.
"I see all of you are busy."she said sarcastically. "These are the Ear, the Eye and the Arm. They're detectives."she told them.
The boys looked at them.
"Hi."said Toad.
"And?"asked Pietro.
"And all of you will now be going into the detective business with them. This place is a dump! And it would help put you to good use. Instead of staying here all day, making a bigger mess than what we already have, you will help these guys solve mysteries. And earning a little money along the way. Ear has exceptionally good hearing, Eye, exceptionally good eyesight, and Arm, has excellent sensing abilities, and a bit of telepathy and so forth."she explained to them.
"Oh."
"Wouldn't people find out about us, though?"
Mystique smiled.
"Only if you tell them. No one has to know how you get the job done, just that you get it done!"she told them.
"But we're not detectives."
"Then you'll learn. That's what they're here for. To teach you something useful!"
"What if we can't?"asked Toad.
Mystique glared at him, and Toad went to hide behind Blob.
"Very well, I have to get to work."she said, as she changed into her more human form, and got into her car.
"Oh, well, welcome to the Brotherhood, yo."Toad said to the newcomers.
"It's not so different from home."said Ear, looking around. "We just need a calender is all. For our appointments."
"Well, we really don't have the money to get one."
"That's not a problem."said Eye, and he got a piece of scrap paper and attached it to the wall. "See?"
"I see."
Arm was about to swat a fly with his hand.
"AAAAHHHH! NOOOO!"screamed Toad and jumped to get it.
"Ow!"exclaimed Ear, and he folded his sensitive ears.
"Oh, sorry."said Toad.
"Keep your voice down."Eye told him. "Just not so loud. It hurts his ears. Just not so loud."
"Oh."
"So you guys are detectives? What kind of mysteries do you solve?"asked Lance.
"All kinds. We specialize in sneaky husbands."said Arm.
"Sneaky husbands?"
"That's right."
"I might like this business."said Pietro. "So, first things first, why doesn't everybody start getting to know everybody?"he ran to get some water. "We don't have anything else."he explained to them.
"I haven't felt so comfortable since...well, maybe not even at home."said Arm. "You guys give off a lot of positive energy."he said.
"Um, thanks."said Lance.
"The lady seemed much more negative."
"She's the boss."Toad shrugged.
"Well, she could put her abilities to good use, but it doesn't seem she'll be working with us."said Eye.
"Nah, she wouldn't, yo."
"So how do we get our first mystery?"asked Pietro. "How much should we charge?"
"We don't charge much."Eye told him.
"Well, from now on, we will, otherwise, Mystique'll be pissed."he said.
Suddenly, the phone rang. Everybody ran to get it, but Arm got there first. When he came back into the room, he said "Well, we've got our first case! And it sounds like a good one!"