Hi! I know it's been more than a week, sorry. This one's for JT Cat. Thanks for the review! I'll try my best not to use the word 'cute' too often! Enjoy!

Penny's POV

This is strange. I don't remember ever being in this room before. Well, to be honest, I never even knew HQ was built so deep into the ground, but this room is just ... wow! It appears to be some sort of laboratory-slash-invention room. It's so big, I can barely see all the way to the other side. There are so many inventions and cool machines down here, Leonardo Da Vinci would've exploded from jealousy if he saw them!

"Wow," Talon manages to phrase.

"Okay, I take it back. This room is amazing!" I reply.

I stroll around this invention lab to take a closer look at it. Some of this stuff is almost unbelievable! "Check it out! Lava resistant skis? Laser-shooting earrings? Invisible trash bag?" I say, Talon remains speechless. Okay, they're all pretty much as wacky as they can be, but still. Why would HQ hide all these odd, yet fascinating inventions in a secret laboratory about a hundred feet beneath the Earth's surface?

Talon's POV

"This stuff is sick ... and kinda weird," she states.

"Weird? That's all, weird?" I repeat her words. "I'd call it crazy! And by crazy, I mean completely lunatic and senseless! Come on, lava resistant skis!? Skis are made for snow! Laser-shooting earrings are for girls only, so that's a bummer. And invisible trash bags? Are you serious? Why do you even need those, to take the trash out without your neighbour knowing you did something helpful? You've got to be kidding me."

"You're just jealous because you didn't come up with it," she implies teasingly. I hate it when she does that! And I hate it when she's mostly right.

Then suddenly, the ground starts shaking! All the inventions start falling off the table one by one. Penny slips on a self-cleaning napkin and falls directly into my arms. The time stops when I look into her lovable bright eyes, but unfortunately the earthquake continues. There's no time to waste! Even though I don't think every second of this day I spent staring at her beautiful light blue eyes is wasted ...

"The door!" I shout, pointing at the door on the other side of the collapsing laboratory. We sprint past the tables, avoiding pieces of broken glass and deadly potions, that were spilled across the floor like a dangerously toxic liquid rainbow. We're about sixty feet away from the door, when the ceiling above us starts falling apart! "Faster!" Penny screams, we leap across the floor and manage to protect ourselves from the giant brick rock, that was about to flatten us up against the ground. We run for the exit. Penny opens the door, stops for a second and looks up. I look up as well and realize the ceiling right above Penny's head is starting to crack! Seconds before it collides with the flooring, I jump, push Penny through the doorway and close it behind us. Just then, I hear gigantic 'kaboom!' on the other side of the wall.

As suddenly as the earthquake started, the suddenly it stopped. I stand up and brush the dust off my clothes. "Thanks," Penny mumbles quietly, but loud enough for me to hear it. This time, I saved her life. Well, she saved mine twice, but at least I could repay her for one of those.

Penny's POV

So, the earthquake stopped. So, Talon saved me from that giant piece of ceiling, that was about to crush me like a walnut. So, I thanked him. So, now I'm standing here in front of him, blushing harder than Santa Claus' pants ...

Well this isn't awkward at all.

I finally pick up the courage to look into his eyes. Oh God, he looks more charming than ever. His eyes, so sparkly I can hardly even notice the lights are on. The confident smile on his face, like he knows exactly what I'm thinking about and is probably enjoying it. His hair, always stylish, even though I still think he should use a little less hair product. Is it possible for his hair to look this good after a death-dealing, life-threatning earthquake with toxic potion-rainbows and broken glass on the floor and gigantic meteors raining out of the ceiling? Where on Earth does he get so much hair gel, seriously ... but it's not like any of that matters right now.

"So, are we gonna get going or what?" I suggest.

"Get going where?" he asks.

"What?" I turn around and just then I realize this door wasn't the exit. It only lead us to another room full of inventions, that look even sillier than the ones in the other room. The only difference is, that this room is way smaller.

"Oh great! Now we're stuck in this room instead of that one!" I growl.

"At least we're alive," replies Talon.

"True ... but we still have to get out of here somehow," I walk towards the doorway that leads back to the previous room and try to open it, but it's stuck. I't must be the stupid ceiling-meteor that's blocking it! Uuughh!

"I can't believe it!" I start yelling. I turn to Talon "This is all your fault!"

For a minute he just stands there with a confused (and adorable) look on his face. And then he starts screaming back at me.

"So you're saying I'm the one who generated the earthquake? If it wasn't for you and your silly ignorant uncle, we could have went and found the exit from that creepy hallway, but nooo! We just had to go look for him!"

"You could've just went the other way and left me alone! Plus - who's the one that pulled that damn idiotic brick, huh!?" I just can't help myself but shout at him, waving my arms around like a freak. I'm just so angry! I don't even know why!

"Oh, you're gonna blame the brick!? It was your flashlight that was pointing directly at it!" he continues the fight.

"Seriously, you're actually gonna stand there and yell at me that it's my flashlight's fault we're trapped here? That makes, like - zero sense! We wouldn't even be in this mess in the first place if your loony uncle wouldn't have tried to 'rewind time' with his stupid spaceship!" the words just burst out of my mouth.

"Loony? You're calling my uncle loony?" he says with a very annoyed tone.

"You called my uncle ignorant and I didn't start crying like a little baby!" I tease.

"So what? At least I had a reason for it," he pouts (in a very cute way - though I'm pretty sure that was unintentional ... but attractive).

"Like I don't!" I yell sarcastically "If your uncle wasn't a loon, why would he try to heat the floors of his ice castle with lava!?"

"Well, if your uncle wasn't a loon, why would he think your dog is a MAD agent!?" he shoots back.

"Well, if your uncle wasn't a loon, why would he make delicious donuts to put the entire city to sleep, just so your grandma gets some rest!?"

"Well, if your uncle wasn't a-"

Talon's POV

"Okay let's stop! What are we even fighting about?" Penny cuts me off before I could finish the insult.

"I don't know!" I shout.

"Then why are you shouting!?" she shouts back.

"I don't know!" I shout again.

"Stop it," she says and turns her back on me. She wanders around the room for a while 'till she founds an enormous flying waterbed with rocket engines (these inventions just keep getting more senseless) in the corner. She lays down and looks at me. "Are ya coming?" she asks.

"On that weird floating bed? With you? Not a chance," I refuse.

"Come on, it's gotta be at least ten o' clock by now, I'm whacked and done arguing with you. I'll put a pillow in the middle; this is my side, this is yours. This thing is huge anyway, so there's enough space for the both of us. I'm only doing this because I know you're too much of a baby to sleep on the floor," she insists. Even though she's right - not that I'm a baby! But I hate sleeping on the floor ...

"Ugghhh, fine!" I give up and join her on the waterbed.

"Goodnight," she says with a sleepy voice, while yawning.

"Goodnight."