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"Sir, wake up sir!."
"Hungh?" Came the croaky unintelligible response from the captain, his words muffled into the mattress before he rolled over and stared at the roof.
"I feel obliged to inform you that Chad, Ryan and Chris are all awake and alert. They are mingling on the dining room floor."
Steve rubbed his eyes blearily as he processed the words of the AI who woke him up. As soon as he registered that the kids were, in fact, awake, he sprang onto his feet, hastily replacing his warm pyjama clothes for a pair of casual blue slacks and a long sleeved olive green cotton sweatshirt that hugged his muscled figure, grabbing his shield on the way out.
Bleary eyed and a little frantic, the concerned soldier rushed down the hall and into the waiting elevator, which took him to the dining room floor without having to utter a single word. He drummed his fingers against the vibranium of his shield impatiently, annoyed by the delay of the elevator.
The soldier was considering wrenching the doors open himself and finding another way to the dining room, but luckily for his, the metal box stopped and released the pacing man from its confines. Steve rushed into the dining room, looking frantically around for any of the three kids.
They were nowhere in sight. This made Steve panic even more, as he rushed around the kitchen, opening up all of the cupboards, pulling out anything that might block his view or that a small child could hide behind, checking under the table, chairs, benches, even in the fridge. They were nowhere to be found. His keen hearing caught a faint yell from a floor up above him, and Steve rushed back into the elevator.
"Jarvis, take me to whatever floor that yell just came from."
"Yes sir."
Steve found himself in Natasha's Room, only a floor above his and three above Thor's, which made it floor forty-five. He had to swallow the bile rising in his throat, out of all of the floors dedicated to the Avenger's team's personal living, Natasha's was most-likely the dangerous. She had weapons haphazardly strewn about the place, ranging all the way from ever-favoured knives, to disassembled guns, to tasers that could take down a bull-elephant, even a specially designed staff with an elongated blade at the end that always sat gathering dust in the corner in her private bathroom, more so a decoration than anything else.
Not to mention the perfectly hidden weapons shoved into every possible nook and cranny the damned woman could find. Steve had admired her dedication and cleverness, but now all he saw was a horror house in waiting. Steve gripped his shield even harder, so hard that he might've left dents in it if it was made from any normal metal. He had to get there as quickly as possible.
"Jarvis, are they still in here?" The soldier asked frantically, scanning the room for any signs of disturbance. The bed wade unmade, the patterned rug was folded over itself in places, and the staff now sat leaning against the doorframe of the bathroom, not in the bathroom, where Steve knew it had been before. Not only that, but the bed unmade. Steve was bored and feeling bored one day, so he went and made all of the beds on every floor, something that Clint would probably scoff at, and give Tony a little more evidence towards his Captain Goody-Two Shoes theory.
"Jarvis, where are they now!" Steve half yelled.
"There seems to be some kind of struggle on your personal floor Steve, in the training room."
"Right, Jarvis. Lock down all potential threats and dangers in that room, anything that could harm them. Lock the doors and keep them in there. Get the elevator ready for me to go there."
Steve rushed back down the wide hallway filled with different kinds of beautiful paintings and decorations that he usually loved to admire, but right now, paid no attention to. He was feeling relieved that he had found a solution to keeping them all in one place, and aside from all of his fear and worry and panic, he was actually very curious to see exactly where they had been and what exactly they were doing, and how the hell they had jumped between floors so quickly.
After only a minute of impatient foot tapping and pacing around the elevator, Steve finally rushed through his hallway, all the way down to the grey steel doors of his training room, hastily muttering the lockdown override code to Jarvis, who let him in.
Steve actually had to take a minute to process what exactly what going on. Chad was running around barefoot on the ceiling, trying to peel off the two boys clinging onto him for dear life and screaming with pure joy. He could see that Chad didn't want to just drop them; he was trying to grab their hands so he could walk over to the wall and drop them down, or at least drop them onto the balcony. 'God, how did they get so high?"
Since it was a training room, it needed a relatively high ceiling to cope with Steve's harsh training regimes and workouts. Tony had specially designed targets to drop down from the ceiling, or to holographically project an image for him to attack. The solder needed a wide space, so that's what he was provided with, a ceiling so high that it took up part of Natasha's floor. And all three of the kids were up there.
Chris had managed to climb up Chad's upside down body and cling onto his leg, while Ryan was holding onto Chad's arm in a death grip. Chad looked terrified, making small sparks jump off of his shoulders.
Steve immediately started yelling instructions to Jarvis. "Open up the floor; move the mats directly beneath them, do it as quickly as possible." Jarvis obeyed, and the line in the concrete opened with a mechanical whir, revealing specially designed mats designed to safely catch somebody jumping from the top of the empire state building. Amazingly, but not surprisingly, it took a challenge from Clint and less than a week for Tony Stark to come up with this revolutionary idea. It was supposed to be released for commercial sale a year after, but Ash hit, and it kind of abandoned everybody's minds. Thankfully though, Tony had managed to put them in all of the training rooms.
"Steve!" Chad yelled as Jarvis moved the mat into place. "I can't hold on!"
Steve panicked and glanced at the mat, which was still a good twenty feet away, and moving slowly toward them, controlled by the mechanics in the floor.
"Steve, you have to catch him! Get ready, he'll slip any second now!"
Steve didn't hesitate, and rushed forward, covering the distance in mere seconds, just in time too, because as soon as those words left Chad's mouth, Ryan slipped from his grasp fell, his gleeful laughter turning into screams. Steve made a split second decision, and dived into the air, using the strength of the super soldier serum to launch him forward and catch the young boy just as he hit the ground.
The mat came just in time, and if Steve had of had positioned himself better, he would've landed safely, but he didn't. So as he wrapped himself around the small boy in his arms, he braced for impact, and had the breath knocked out of him and saw stars as he hit the cold hard cement.
The soldier lay there for a few seconds, just as dazed as the six year-old in his arms, before Chad's strangled yell snapped him out of it and made Steve jump back onto his feet, still cradling a wide-eyed Ryan. With a quick glance at the boys in his arms, Steve set Ryan down and got back to the other little boy and the struggling-to-hold-on teen still attached to the roof.
"Steve! I'm pouring as much static as I can into my feet but I'm exhausted!"
"It's okay!" Steve shouted up at them, cupping his hands around his mouth and sparing a quick glance at the mat, which was now in the correct position for them to both land safely. "Chad! Chris has to drop down onto the mat! I know that it's a long drop but that mat is specially designed to catch people from big heights, so he'll land and still be perfectly fine! Can you hang on until he drops off? I don't want you two landing on each other and hurting yourselves!"
Steve saw Chad give a slight nod, and bend his neck forward at a ninety degree angle to look up at Chris, whose laughing face had now turned to one of pure terror, and was visibly shaking from his position on Chad's leg.
He heard Chad murmuring to the frightened young boy, telling him that he had to jump, and saw Chris shake his head I response. Chad groaned in something that sounded like annoyance and exhaustion, and made Steve worry even more. Chad was going to drop any second, the amount of energy he was using to keep his feet sticking to the steel beam must've been exhausting for the fourteen year old, and Steve found himself eyeing the sides on the walls, judging how long it would take him to climb them. Steve was not a fantastic climber, and would probably take a good few minutes to get up to where the boys were.
Ryan, who still hadn't said a word since he had come to the tower, clung to Steve's pants, his oddly coloured hazel and gold eyes shining with worry for his brother and Chad. "Chris, you have to jump down! Otherwise the both of you are going to fall and hurt yourselves, so you have to jump!"
"Sir, I must advise you that Mr. Od-" Chad gave a loud groan, now obviously in pain, both cutting Jarvis off and almost making Steve stamp his foot in frustration. He actually would've done so, if it weren't for the child clinging onto his leg. Huh. It looks like both him and Chad could relate rather well to the situation.
Chad tried to swing himself up and grasp the steel girder he was attached to, but due to Chris holding onto him and lack of flexibility, he wasn't able to, and flopped back into his upside-down position in defeat. Chris looked like he was about to cry, Steve looked like he was considering springing up there himself and attempting to coax the kid down, and Chad looked like he was about to pass out from both pain and exhaustion.
"Chris!" Steve yelled, completely exasperated. "You have to come down! I promise that it won't hurt, it'll be like landing on a fluffy pillow!"
Chris just shook his head and clung even tighter onto Chad's leg, making the teen clench his teeth together and let out a low hiss. Just as Steve was seriously about to reconsider climbing up there, when the doors to the room whooshed open, revealing a battle-ready Thor, a deadly-looking Natasha and (much to his surprise) a wild-eyed Clint, who all, in their own different way, looked ready to kick some ass if they needed to.
"Steve! Jarvis has told us you needed our urgent assistance! What is the problem!" Thor boomed, his voice as loud as the thunder he summons.
Everybody turned in surprise at the sudden intrusion, simultaneously causing Chris to drop from the ceiling in shock, letting out an ear-splitting scream as he went, and landed safely with a minor bounce, quickly scrambling off of the mat to join his brother. Chad sighed in relief upon seeing Chris clamber off the mat, and silently dropped down, landing safely on his back with a slight 'oof', but not getting up.
Steve shot a half surprised, half worried glance at his friends, before hurrying over to the teen, who was staring blankly at the ceiling he had just fell from. "Chad!" Steve said, kneeling down on the mat beside him and shaking his shoulder. "Chad are you ok? Talk to me!"
Chad mumbled to himself before staring in mild surprise over the soldier's shoulder. "Uh, yeah, I'm fine. Just a little dizzy is all, need to lie down for a moment." He muttered, his slight accent sounding much more prominent mixed with his muttered words.
Steve turned to see what in the world the teen was still staring at over his shoulder, and knocked heads with Clint, who cursed and rubbed the spot where Steve's forehead had made contact with his. Thor and Natasha were there too, looking amused at Clint's injury, curious at the boy in front of them and worried all at the same time, not to mention a little confusion thrown in with the whole mix.
"What would we do without you Jarvis?" Steve sighed, relieved that the AI had basically taken care of the situation, and inadvertently solved the problem.
"I'm always happy to help, sir." Came the reply from the speakers in the room. Steve gave a watery smile before walking past his fellow Avengers and over to the two stunned boys, standing side-by-side and gaping openly at the three other adults in the room.
"Hey, boys, we'll talk about what just happened later, but for right now, I want to introduce you to a few people. These are some of my dearest friends, There's Thor," Steve said in a calming voice, pointing at the hammer wielding thunder god, who had puffed out his chest when the boy's gazes turned toward him.
"There's Clint, aka Hawkeye, and Natasha aka-"
"The Black Widow." Ryan breathed out, starling Steve and Chris. Even Chad lifted his head momentarily to stare at the young boy in confusion.
"Did Ryan just talk? Hell yeah!" The teen shouted, pumping his fist in the air before letting his head fall back down onto the mat with a huff.
Steve turned to the confused faces of his team members and smiled sheepishly. "It, uh, looks like I have some explaining to do."
"Wait, so let me get this straight. You actually took Tony's advice?" Clint asked around a mouthful of food, completely dumbfounded with the idea that Steve had listened to Tony and taken his advice, not that fact he was illegally harbouring superhuman kids in the Avengers Tower.
Steve eyed his friend warily over the lid of his mug as he took a long silent sip of tea. Since he had left the training room about fifteen minutes ago with Natasha, Thor, Clint, Chad, Chris and Ryan, the questions had not stopped. They had continued when Steve prepared breakfast for the kids and Clint (Natasha and Thor had already eaten before they'd left), carried on when Steve had prepared a pot of tea, and didn't show any sign of stopping now that everybody was seated around the table.
Steve sighed, placing the delicate china back on the coaster and ran a hand through his hair. Chad was seated next to Clint with Steve on his other side, and was resting his head in his hands, his eyes slightly drooping due to the amount of energy he had exerted before, but was trying his hardest not to fall asleep in the presence of the other Avengers. Ryan was seated next to Natasha, who wouldn't stop staring at her. Who knew that the quiet little kid could be a real chatterbox when he wanted to, asking the Black Widow dozen of questions and playing small games such as thumb wrestling and paper scissors rock, all for the fun of it. Steve didn't worry about them, seeing that Natasha delighted in it.
Next to Ryan was Chris, and on the other side of Chris was Thor, who had been boasting about some grand adventure in the mountains of a faraway realm purely to entertain the star-struck child. Everybody's attention focused on Steve when Clint asked that question though, making the soldier nervously clear his throat.
"Well, uh, yeah. I don't see why that's such a surprise, really. I mean, I know that I used to really resent some of Tony's ideas in the past, but it's not like I rejected all of his advice."
Clint gave him a deadpan look and wolfed down another forkful of the syrupy Asgardian fruit salad. Chad glanced at him and smiled slightly, a wistful look in his eye as he observed the archer's antics.
"Are you talking about Iron Man? What advice did he give you?" Chris asked, his attention torn between ogling Thor's hammer and his interest in the conversation at hand.
Steve thought about his answer very carefully. He didn't want to say anything to upset them, didn't want the kids to think that he didn't want them there, because he did, even after this morning's misadventures, he loved having them all there, and was even planning to take in more kids as soon as everything settled in the tower.
"Well, uh, basically I didn't have anybody with me in the tower, and I was living all by myself, so Tony, ah, Iron Man, suggested that I get somebody to, ah, move into the tower, so I'd have somebody to talk to." He finished lamely, causing Chad to roll his eyes a little.
"We're those people, aren't we Steve? It's good, because we like talking to you and Chad. Chad makes funny jokes and you tell good stories." Ryan said, making Chris nod his head eagerly.
Natasha smiled warmly across the table over at Steve, and Thor gave a hearty laugh, causing Steve to give a sheepish smile and take a sudden interest in inspecting the complicated patterns across the porcelain of the tea cup.
"Hey, boys, do you want me to put a movie on for you both to watch?" Steve asked, seeing that both of the brothers had finished their breakfast and were poking each other on the shoulder, getting rougher with the little game by the second.
"Yeah! Can Thor come with us? What's your favourite movie Thor? I'm sure that Jarvis has it! Jarvis has every movie, don't you Jarvis?"
"My movie library is very vast, and you are most welcome to use it, Chris." Jarvis politely replied to the exuberant young child.
"Yes, I'm sure that Thor would love to join you, wouldn't you Thor?" Steve asked the demi-god, who nodded vigorously.
"It has been a long time since I have watched an entertaining form of midgardian media, it will be most enjoyable!"
"Good then, take the boys down to the media room and get started, we'll probably end up joining you."
Thor nodded, striding down the hall into the waiting elevator with the brothers hot on his heels. Faint laughter could be heard as the trio disappeared into the elevator and to the media room.
"They're amazing Steve, do their eyes have something to do with their powers? And talk about powers, you have some special gifts yourself Mr, don't you?" Natasha said, inclining her head to where Chad was still a little bleary-eyed, but looked to be more alert than he was a few minutes ago.
The teen's head snapped up, meeting Natasha's cool gaze and clearing his throat. "Uh yeah. Ever I got better, I've been able to climb walls due to my ability to manipulate static electricity."
Clint's eyebrows furrowed, and Steve quickly intervened with an explanation. "Remember that time when Tony had that trampoline installed in your training room, and you told Thor to roll around on it and it made his hair stick to the surface?"
Clint thought for a moment before grinning and nodding. "Well, it's a lot like that, but Chad here manipulates it so that instead of making his hair stick to things, it makes him stick to things." Steve explained, looking to Chad for conformation."
"Like if you rub a balloon on your head and the hair sticks to it." The teen confirmed.
Clint let out a grunt of confirmation, finishing off of the last of his food. Steve saw Chad concentrating very carefully on Clint's shoulder, much as the teen had done to Steve on multiple occasions.
Steve moved a hand to cover his mouth, looking at Natasha and removing his hand to very quickly mouth 'watch this' at her before returning to over his lips to smother his smile. The red-headed assassin flicked her eyes over to Clint and Chad in confusion but looked on anyway. Chad was still concentrating, taking longer than usual do to his energy drain. Clint, upon noticing that everybody was staring at him, looked around and swallowed the last of his food.
"What are you- AHH! What the hell was that!" The archer asked, leaping out of chair so quickly that it toppled over and clattered to the floor.
Steve let loose the laughter bubbling behind his hands, joining Natasha in her fit of guffaws in seeing Clint's obvious distress.
"He-he can also z-zap things!" Steve breathed out, trying to recover. The look on Clint's face had been too funny, and it was rare to catch the man so off guard. Clint's gave Steve and Natasha a dirty look, before picking up his fallen chair and moving to sit over next to Natasha.
"I'll admit kid, that's pretty cool. It also explains why you were hanging upside down when we first saw you, which is even cooler. Do me a favour next time and don't test it out on me, ok? That hurt."
Steve, Natasha and Chad each rolled their eyes in unison, before Steve posed the question he had been craving an answer for ever since he woke up.
"Speaking of hanging down, what exactly were you guys doing running around the tower and hanging upside down in the training room?"
"Well, the boys knocked on my door, and then ran off. I found them in the media room, and chased them almost everywhere, until they finally settled in the dining room for a few minutes. I was about to get them breakfast and wake you up when they took off again. They had found another elevator, and we ended up in somebody's room, before they found yet another elevator and took off again. I found them in the training room, thanks to Jarvis, and get this; they were literally freaking dangling from the roof. There was this weird platform thing that was lowering back into the floor just as I got there, they must've set it off somehow and climbed on. Anyway, I was halfway through climbing up the wall when the doors shut, locking us in. I got up there, and they started laughing and climbing all over me, they thought it was a game! Chris was climbing my torso when he kneed me in a very… unfortunate place, making me bring my legs up to my chest, because damn, it hurt. One of my hands slipped so I stuck my feet up there and hung upside down, which was probably the smartest thing I could've done, to be honest, because my hands were beginning to cramp. A minute later you came in!"
Natasha was smiling again, making Steve feel like snapping at her. This was very unusual behaviour for the two boys, even though they had only been here for a few days, it greatly contrasted against their usually docile antics.
"Well, I guess that we'll have to start bringing a little more food to feed all of you then. Tony's gonna be stoked to hear that there's finally some little rascals running around the tower. Heck, he'll probably visit next week with Thor! Me and Tasha'll be at an archery contest Fandral is dragging us along to, but I'll try and see if Bruce will want to fly down for a visit. It's been, what, months since he last came here?"
Steve gave his friend a pointed look, joining Natasha in her scrutiny. "Clint, you know exactly why Bruce doesn't like traveling between dimensions." The redhead said flatly.
"I don't exactly like being jetted through the universe either, but I still come here and see Stevie just like you and Thor do!" Clint exclaimed, making wild gestures with his hands.
Steve frowned. "Clint, you don't have to visit just to see-"
"Shut it soldier. We're not having this conversation again. I may not like the method of travel, but I miss you Steve, we all do. So if you can't come to us, we'll come to you. The bifrost is always open to you in case you ever feel like visiting."
The soldier gave a small smile, silently thanking Clint for his nonchalance about the topic, especially while Chad was around. He really didn't want the young teen to know about the big blowout Steve had had with the rest of his team only a month after he decided to leave Asgard and stay at the tower. They had all wanted Steve to quit his 'foolish hope that the world will miraculously get better' and to 'please stop this Steve, we miss you.'
It had torn him apart to stay, especially because he really didn't want to. But he just couldn't sit around in Asgard drinking beer and feasting on chicken wings and knowing that the earth, his home, suffered. Not that he held anything against all of the other Avengers, of course. They all had their reasons for leaving, mostly because they wanted to keep themselves, their family and their friends safe from Ash, and be able to live peacefully in Asgard amongst Thor and his kingdom.
Chad shot Steve a worried glance shortly before engaging in a complicated-sounding conversation about Chad's powers and the physics involved with it. Clint was busy listening in, and occasionally poking Natasha in the back to make her squirm, or flicking miscellaneous pieces of food at Chad, then pretending nothing happened when the teen looked to see where'd it had come from.
Steve rolled his eyes, before clearing away the dishes and moving everybody from the dining room to the theatre room, where Thor, Ryan and Chris were happily settled on the large white sofa, their fixed attention on the enormous movie screen, watching a movie that contained a white-haired boy that had magical ice powers.
"So, what did we decide on guys?" Steve asked.
"Rise of the Guardians." Thor answered without taking his attention off of the screen.
Steve nodded slowly, vaguely recalling the movie title from somewhere, and settled down next to Chad, with Ryan on his other side and relished in the moment where everybody laughed at one of the antics of the whimsical characters. Things were getting better, it wasn't so lonely anymore. He had his twisted little version of a family, and whether he knew it or not, he already loved them just an older brother would, and he knew, that he would do anything to keep them safe, especially in a world like this.
The kids and the Avengers were halfway through their third movie, not showing any sign of relenting any time soon. They were all quite enjoying themselves actually, and Natasha, Thor and Clint had all promised to stay for dinner, much to everybody's delight.
Steve was in the middle of updating his journal, keeping a wary eye on the two boys, who kept trying to showcase their powers and show off to the other Avengers. They weren't helping much, secretly encouraging them to make little holographic objects and move them about the room. So far, Steve had caught them making a balloon, an arrow, and a small little man jumping on an even small trampoline no bigger than the size of Steve's palm.
"Clint, don't you even think about it, I see what you're doing over there." Steve said warningly to the assassin who was slowly but surely scooting his way over to the boys in an attempt to whisper another request in their ears.
Clint frowned and stayed where he was, making Chad give a slight giggle. Steve returned his focus back to the current movie they were watching, a move about aliens and secret government organisations. The irony was getting better by the second, and Steve felt himself be drawn in by the humour and action of it all.
A flash to Steve's right alerted him that the boys were up to no good again. "Natasha! Leave them alone, I don't want them passing out again for gosh sake!"
The boys only pouted at him as Natasha moved away. Steve was about to suggest another snack break, when his super senses picked up shouts from outside. Steve just wanted to ignore and get on with the movie, but his conscience and curiosity came knocking, and the soldier found himself standing up and wandering over to the barred window that Chad had once snuck into the tower through, and peered outside.
Uh oh. This didn't look good. There must've been five or six scruffy looking men, between the ages of twenty-five and forty, and they were circling around something.
"What the hell are they doing?" Steve wondered. Clint, curious as ever, got up from the couch and wandered over, nudging Steve over a little so he could see what was going on.
The question Steve was about to ask Jarvis slipped from his tongue when the youngest-looking man pumped his arms toward the middle of the circle the rest of his gang had created, blowing somebody back. A girl, by the looks of it, leaving a smaller girl in the middle of the circle. The smaller girl began to scream, and Steve made a move.
Grabbing his shield from where it had been resting against the leg of the dining room table, he bolted out of the room and into the elevator. "Clint, Natasha, come with me! Thor, stay here with the boys!" Steve instructed.
Chad looked like he was about to argue, but thought better of it and rushed over to the window to see for himself what was happening.
The three avengers weren't exactly geared up, with Steve in his casual slacks and t-shirt, Natasha in traditional Asgardian robes and Clint in baggy dress pants and a drooping tunic. Luckily, they stopped very quickly at Natasha's old room to let the assassins collect a few weapons.
Clint chose a small handgun and knife, while Natasha rushed into her private bathroom and grabbed the personalised staff that Tony had made for her a while ago, much to his surprise. They had no time to discuss a plan as the elevator dropped down to the lobby, releasing the three Avengers so they could rush out into the street.
Steve got there just in time, as the man who was blowing the girls away (quite literally) brought his hands up for another attempt at his target. The solder threw the vibranium disk, knocking the attacker out cold. Steve guessed that the group of men were a gang of some kind, and that they had managed to recruit an adult with powers, which was a rarity to find nowadays.
The rest of the gang looked up in surprise, staring in stunned silence at the snarling trio of Avengers.
"I don't freaking believe it!" One muttered.
"Did we really have to do this in front of the god damned Avengers Tower?" Another exclaimed.
"Guys we should-"
"Get the hell out of here, before we kick your ass." Natasha growled, her voice low and threatening.
The others took a quick look at their fallen team mate before backing away, but that wasn't the end of it. The girl who had gotten blown back before was now up on her feet, and boy, did she look mad. Her fiery red hair streamed behind her as she ran, every step active with the intent of doing damage.
First, she was twenty feet away, then she was ten feet away, then she was punching one of the older men straight in the nose, only to disappear again and reappear behind another man, successfully kicking his knees out from underneath him.
The girl gave a huff of satisfaction, before disappearing again, this time out of Steve's sight. The soldier groaned, rubbing his hand through his sandy blonde locks. "More superhuman kids? I was just getting used to the last pair."
But overwhelmed or not, these girls were in distress, and Steve had had enough of denying people in need, it was something he vowed to never do again, and made himself vow to give people a second chance instead of hiding away like a coward. If they needed help, he was damned-well going to help them.
Hey guys! Sorry ofr the late update, truly, but I promise that I've got a schedule now. Since I've got two stories going on, I'm typing 1000 words a day, for each story. So I'll type 1000 for one, then the next day, 1000 for the other, get it? I hoped you liked the introduction of the new characters, I'm sure there's a certain someone out there who did! Are things moving a little too fast for you? I hope not, and I just wanted to say that these new charcters we just saw will be the last for a while, while everything settles down, then there'll be some major things going on. Is there anything you want to see written, anything you want to see? Tell me all about it in one of the fantastic reviews you guys have been leaving, you guys are truly amazing!