After an eternity of running Cubz finally catches up to Firechan, who seems to be focusing on something.

"What... *cough* wha are you doing?"

Firechan looks up at Cubz and states simply, "Security."

Cubz takes a couple more steps. He leans over to check out the situation.

Firechan rubs her eyes. "It was supposed to be a simple key to get in. Ya know, one of those three question things." She twirls the end of her hair and glances over at Cubz. "The thing is... I forgot what I set as my favorite game."

Now is the time for me to prove myself! "Um, your most liked game is Nintendo Fortnite."

Firechan closes her eyes and raises a single flaming hand. Startled, Cubz quickly backs away.

"What did you just say?"

Stressed out beyond measure, Cubz melts and absorbs himself into nothingness.

After an eternity of running, Cubz finally catches up to Firechan who seems to be focusing on a tablet.

"Hey! H *cough* ey. What just happened?"

Firechan looks up at Cubz and says, "I have a sort of Deja Vu feeling about this situation."

"I think I reset... something, somehow."

Firechan squints her eyes accusingly at Cubz. "Now why would you want to go back in time? Did you do something lewd to me?'

"Nonono... NO! I would never do that to you..."

Firechan raises her eyebrows and crosses her arms.

"Well, maybe I would do that. But I didn't, okay?"

"Oh, I DEFINITELY believe you. But take m-"

Cubz implodes.

After quite a long time of running, Cubz catches up to Firechan.

"Somehow, I knew you would arrive at this time."

Cubz points at the tablet she is holding. "Watcha got there?"

Cogs turn in her mind as she tries to remember if this has happened before.

Cubz puts a hand on her shoulder. "What's troubling you?"

"Nothing, don't worry about it. What I have in my hands, however, is a security test. But..." She twirls her hair and looks at Cubz. "I seem to have forgotten what I set as my favorite game."

Don't mess it up... don't mess it up...

"It's Splatoon 2, right?"

Firechan's eyes brighten. "That's it! That's my favorite game! I haven't played it that much recently, but I did meet a lot of cool people through it. Man, I just love the feeling of covering another kiddo with my ink." She pauses. "That's what she said."

Cubz snickers. "Well, enter it in, then."

Firechan gleams, remembering some good times. "Alright. S-P-L-A-T-O-N-2. Aaaand... open sesame!"

The door stays shut.

"Open... sunflower!"

The door stays shut.

Cubz gets her attention with a touch.

"Er, you forgot an O."

Firechan laughs and lightly facepalms. After re-entering the code, the door opens just fine.

"Okay, it's time for you to meet the crew OKAY GUYS WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING"

Shocked by the scenery in front of him, Cubz falls straight into the floor. His last thought before blacking out is damn it, not this again.

Oh! Oh, sorry, he doesn't actually black out this time. Firechan, putting her quick reflexes to action, pulls him right out of the ground and back inside his body.

"Cubz! Cubz, you good? It's okay now, they have their clothes back on."

"D-d-d-d- They were- She was [REDACTED] him- He [REDACTED] her- what even was that position- ? What!?"

She looks reassuringly into his eyes. "As I said, don't worry. They have their clothes back on now."

Cubz calms down and relaxes into her arms. "Do you guys have Capri Sun?"

Now seated in five chairs, Cubz, Firechan and three other adolescents gather around a table.

Cubz slowly raises his hand, grabs a knife and cuts some cheese to put on a cracker.

The blonde guy breaks the silence. "Yeah, sorry 'bout that mate."

"Us two were just... kinda bored, I guess." Another one of the strangers, the long purple haired guy this time.

Cubz couldn't even say a word. He WAS calm, but nothing could unshock him from the mental scars he just acquired.

He slowly turns around to the sound of footsteps and dragging plastic.

A girl with light brown hair neatly plonks her seat down. She brings out a Capri Sun.

"Umm... Firechan said to give these to you."

Cubz gladly accept the drink. After sipping on some, he finally feels able to talk.

"Hey there, I'm Cubz Hashvenotu."

The four strangers continue to look at you.

"What? Is that a strange name?"

"No, sir. What we are waiting for is your power." Said the very tall guy wearing a trench coat in a very unusually deep voice. I don't know why I called him an adolescent. Don't blame me, I'm just the narrator, not the writer. (Writer's note: shut up.)

Should I hide it?... Man, I don't want to get in trouble or anything... "Well, you all saw it. My ability is melting into the floor."

After a little whisper meeting to the side with Firechan, they seemed to be satisfied with Cubz's answer.

"Well mate, nice to meet you. I'm a true blue Australian legend. The name's Trevor. My secret power is that I'm a hermaphrodite." How is that even a power?! Cubz shakes his stuck out hand anyways.

"Nice to meet you, too. I've been to Australia once. It was sort of too dry for me."

Trevor chuckles. "Mate, you've never seen dry until you've seen the inside of my [REDACTED]." This guy...

Cubz turns to the purple haired dude. "How about you?"

"I'm Daniel McGubbins. You COULD call me Dee McGee if you want. Well, my ability is being able to sneeze really hard."

"...Isn't that painful?"

"Nah, nah. Just... I lose quite a lot of blood through nosebleeds sometimes. Those are painful." I don't really see the difference here...

Cubz sighs, just about out of energy. "How about you?"

The girl jumps, clearly losing her train of thought. "Um, umm.. Can you come back to me later please? I really can't think of anything and if I can't think of anything I was told that I shouldn't speak, or, like, there would be no point to saying anything because I wouldn't be stating a point, and then I would be talking for absolutely no reason, so I would like to come back to me after a little while please please please?"

"sure"

The girl instantly switches back to thinking.

"Well then, this must be my cue to introduce myself, then." Cubz turns his head to find the user of the unusually deep voice.

"My name? I don't have one. This is due to my power. My power itself is that I am three small children wearing a trench coat. That is not all, but the other parts to my power I would not like to reveal to you as of now."

Cubz nods. I thought he was a bit strange looking. His nose and moustache did look quite out of place on that smooth face.

"I will, however, reveal one of my names to you to ponder. That name is Karl Lenin." He stands up and begins to walk out of the room.

Suddenly, the girl screams and falls down.

Cubz runs over and catches her before she hits the ground. Firechan makes a tsk sound.

"She's seizing! Hey, anyone got a phone? We gotta call a firetruck or something!"

Firechan strolls over with a look on her face. "Well, first, it's usually an ambulance you call for those kinds of situations. Secondly, this is her power."

"What? Having seizures is her power? Isn't that just having epilepsy?"

Trevor laughs in Australian. "Mate, it isn't exactly what it looks like. She's actually having a conversation with a client."

Cubz looks in amazement at her. "So she's a clairvoyant!" Oh cool, finally a power I can get behind! Talking to ghosts could be really helpful for murder mysteries.

Karl bends his unusally long back over to tie his bootlaces. "She's having a conversation with a client on Facetime, that is."

God.

Damn it.

She wakes up. "Guys, there's been a robbery. And not just any robbery, another one of THOSE."

Firechan runs her hand through her hair. It takes a while. "Looks like we have a job to do. Roll out, Detection Detectives."

"That's... actually a great name."

"Please don't compliment me so much."

"Why?"

"It... it makes me blush."

Dang, now I feel bad for making that dry joke. Hope you have a nice birthday. 3

"A-anyways, I said roll out! Come on, let's go!"