Cori knocked on the door to Donnie's lab. Donnie greeted her with a bright grin. "Hey Cori, what's the matter?" Cori rubbed her arm. "I don't mean to sound like a wimp, but I think I might have opened my wounds while training with Leo." "Why would I think you're a wimp?" Cori looked down. Her dark hair covered her face as she looked down. "Because it hurts." Donnie rolled his eyes. "Come on." Cori walked inside. The lab smelled like bleach. "Spill something?" Donnie was rummaging through his desk. "What, oh right, the bleach. Yeah I needed to clean up an experiment."
Cori pulled off her shirt so Donnie could see her shirt. Donnie inspected it with a q tip. "Yeah you opened up the wounds all right." Donnie began to put on a transparent paste on her wounds. "So how come you're always cooped up in here?" Donnie started to reapply the bandages. "Oh you know, science stuff." "Donnie." "I'm trying to find a retro-mutagen. I made some mistakes and I plan to make up for them." Cori pulled her shirt back down as he finished the last bandage.
"Well, don't get too bored," Cori said, "Or I might have to get things interesting again by getting myself almost killed." "Bye." Donnie waved goodbye but wasn't looking. He was already at his desk working on something. Cori sighed. "It wasn't your fault Donnie," Cori said before she left. Donnie looked up. "What wasn't my fault?" Cori stood in the doorway but didn't turn around. "You know what I mean." With that Cori closed the door.
She let out a deep sigh. She hadn't notice April come in. She was sitting on the couch with Casey. Cori stealthily snuck into her room to grab her mask. It was gone. "Who touched my stuff!?" She didn't mean to say it so loud but she hated it when someone reorganized her room. Mikey looked into the room. "What's up Crow?" Cori bit her lip. "Do you know where my mask is?" Mikey stared blankly as he thought of when he saw it last. "I think, I think Raphie took it." Cori smiled. "Raphie?" Mikey laughed. "Yeah, but don't tell him I said that." Cori became calm whenever she hung out with Mikey. She hadn't notice it before but she definitely did now.
"Do you know where he is?" "Yup. He's in the kitchen." Cori frowned. Casey was next to the kitchen. "Does Casey know my identity?" "Uh, I don't think so." Cori ran her fingers through her hair. She forgot she was wearing gloves. Her hair was what she called "staticy" now. "Could you ask him if he has it?" "Has what?" "The mask." "Oh right. BRB" Cori took off her leather gloves. She patted her hair to try to get rid of the static electricity. She only made it worse.
She didn't dare to go to the bathroom to fix it in fear that Casey would see her. Mikey came back shortly. "He says he doesn't know where it is." Mikey chuckled. "What?" "Nothing, mad scientist." Cori didn't have to look to tell that he was laughing at her hair. She knew it was standing up. She slid past Mikey and quickly walked to the bathroom.
Once inside she quickly slammed the door, causing too much noise than she had meant it to cause. She rushed over to the sink and poured water onto her hands. After her hands got wet she stroked through her hair to stop it from sticking. She dried off her fingers and opened the door. With luck, Casey might have ignored the slamming door. She opened the door to come face to face with Casey Jones.