As I walked out of the dark elevator, the brightness of the main room caused me to have everything be a blur. I saw a green blur, a brownish red blur and a blue blur all at human height. Meanwhile, there was a very tall black blur with a white blur on top. Lastly there was a huge orange blur that was clearly why the room was so big.
As it got clearer I saw that the green blur was some type of ancient mid-evolution amphibious mammal. The blue blur was literally a type of goo/putty/ooze/slime blob with one eye. The brownish red blur was a regular man with a bug head with big eyes. The tall black blur was a giant woman! Lastly the huge orange blur was a huge orange butterfly insect!
Uh, hi, I say nervously worried I might provoke them.
The blue blob went right up to me and stuck out a hand and said, Hi, I m Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate, but you can call me Bob. I shook his hand.
Next the fish- ape approached me and extended a hand and said, Good to meet ya, my name is The Missing Link, but every one calls me Link. I shook his hand and he increased his grip so I did too. He chuckled.
The bug-man came up next and put out a hand and said in perfect British accent, Pleased to meet you my name is Dr. Cockroach PhD. I shook it and I knew right there and then that he was the tech expert of the group.
Now the giantess stuck out a hand and said, Hi I m Ginormica but you can call me by my human name, Susan. I reached up and grabbed her pinky and shook it. You don t have to be nervous, we re all friend here Paulankey. Trust me I had it worse, they just put me in here and then I met them and I freaked. I smiled because that was relieving.
Screeeee Grunt Snort said the large butterfly.
She said Hi Paulankey nice to meet you my name is Insectosaurus but you can call me Insecto said Link, I can understand what she says.
Monger then said, Well you re off to a good start well, I ll let you be and in an hour or so I ll come and get you because we need to find out and register your powers.
He left with a sudden shot upwards to the ceiling on his jetpack where a hole had opened.
Well so now there is another girl in the group, Bob just states out loud.
Bob, he s a teenage boy, Dr. Cockroach replies to him.
But he doesn t have any boobies! Bob blurts out.
Bob, do we need to have the Talk again? Link asks Bob.
Bob just stares up at the ceiling and realizes that he was being spoken to, Whoa, guys, did you know we have a ceiling? Wow! Wait, what did you say?
Pardon him for as you can see, he has no brain. Dr. Cockroach tells me apologizing for Bob.
The beeping of the time for breakfast had begun to sound and so everyone went to their tables. I walk over to a chair at my table next to Bob and Link while Dr. Cockroach sat across from me. Susan was at her table while Insecto just stood where she was. The tube for Link dropped out a bunch of raw fish. Dr. Cockroach had gotten a pile of trash. Out of nowhere I heard a cannon shot and saw the next moment a ham stuck to Bob be absorbed and being digested in apparently his body. Out of the wall, a huge bowl, I mean huge, like a small lake sized bowl appeared and was filled with sugar water that clearly was for Insecto. Then my tube came out and plopped a lump of oatmeal along with a spoon.
You eat oatmeal too? I heard Susan ask as she got hers as well.
Yup, I said looking up at her sheepishly, I m sorry if I m seem shy its just that this is all new and sudden to me.
It s ok Paulankey, like I said before we re all friends here, Susan says nicely. That smile made me blush, I hope it wasn t too bad.
You don t have to call me Paulankey, I say more comfortably, My real name is Paul Leger.
Ok, Paul, Susan says. So, how did you get here?
No its kind of corny I reply but somehow it seems hard to say no to those huge blue eyes.
I bet it won t be as corny as Bob s, he was made in a snack food factory. Link states and Bob nods in agreement.
Yes, Paul tell us, we haven t heard an origin story since Susan first got here. Dr. Cockroach chimes in.
I give in, Alright fine it might seem corny but here it goes
--End Chapter 5--