And I'm back! Here's the next chapter, and as the title already says, brings more trouble for the two Normos. I'm done with exams, now I hope I passed them... This isn't the place to complain about school, so I'm just gonna reply to the reviews and I'll let you guys read the newest chapter, 'kay?

BTRlover1122: Thanks for the review, and good luck with your finals! And I can't help it if Skylar spies; it's the Annihilator who asked her to keep an eye on the Normos and everyone they talk with.

LBF: Me too, but I hope she'll become good again. And thanks for the review!

Enjoy!

-Writer207

That day, the four walked back to the Mighty Med together. All were silent; nobody dared to speak up during their walk to the hospital. Alan was unspeakably mad at Horace for not wanting his nephew to be educated at a Normo school, even if it would improve his chances of getting a proper job. Alan wanted to lead a life of his own, instead of listening to his uncle all the time and his uncle controlling his every move. Skylar stayed calm because she had a plan to follow. And this plan, if executed well, will give the Annihilator a big advantage, both on the evil and the good side. Kaz and Oliver didn't say anything, fearing the two others could say anything about to ears they couldn't trust. Oliver really wanted to tell Skylar of their plans, but held himself back and bit his tongue to make sure not to say anything about it. Nobody but Kaz and he knew of their plan.

In short, they were all thinking of their own plan.

When they had arrived in the hospital, they all went their separate ways. Skylar immediately left for the rec room, Alan walked off to his room and Kaz and Oliver stayed in the lobby for a while, picking up their clipboards saying what to do today. As they were looking at it, they talked. "We can search it while walking to our patients," Oliver suggested, "I have to be at least in four different locations in three different zones of this hospital. What about you?"

"Oh, I'm staying in the lobby all day." He said, and Oliver nodded.

"Alright. You look for it in the lobby twice on each location and I'll look for it in the corridors and rooms close to my patients."

"Sounds like a plan!" Kaz confirmed, and Oliver left for his first patient of the day while Kaz stayed in the lobby. Wherever Oliver looked in the past hours, he could not find the lost and found box, nor could he find the Dagger of Truth. Doubt began to rise. What if Optimo had returned to take his dagger back? There was no way they could contact him – until now, they haven't found anything to contact him. He decided to just get to work and hope to find it somewhere he forgot to look. But he never forgot to look somewhere.

Kaz had some jobs, but didn't have to do much. That way, he could look around for the Dagger of Truth and the Lost and Found box which they had found a few months ago and which they hadn't seen since. In between looking around for the box he spoke to Skylar, saw Alan walk out with a suitcase, helped a nurse with Surge and played limbo with some of the staff members. But apart from that, nothing important really happened and soon the boy was bored, as always. Luckily, Skylar passed him again so he didn't have to be bored again.

"Key, Kaz!" she greeted him, and he said 'hi' back to her. "How's it going?" Kaz nodded.

"I'm doing great, thanks." He answered, "You know, this is the second time you asked me today. Okay, what is it you wanna talk about?" Skylar shrugged, a smile on her face.

"Oh, I just wanted to know how your brother is doing."

"You have to be more specific," Kaz said, and Skylar nodded.

"I mean the brother who recently got out of jail. It was yesterday, wasn't it? So, how's he doing?" Kaz shrugged – he didn't exactly know how his brother was doing, but if Skylar was interested in his family for a change, he was more than willing to make up a lie which would probably be true to his older brother's feelings.

"Oh, he's…" he was interrupted by a sound. When Kaz and Skylar looked to find the source, they saw Citadel had fallen out of his wheelchair. Kaz sighed and turned back to Skylar. "Give me one moment." He walked over to Citadel and with another nurse, he helped the wounded superhero back into the wheelchair. Since this man was quite heavy, it took them some time before Citadel was back into his wheelchair. Kaz walked back to Skylar. "As I was saying, I think he's fine. He…"

"That's great!" Skylar interrupted him, "I thought he'd be broken because he now has to pick up his old life again and is haunted by this experience like forever, but I'm glad he's fine. Thanks for sharing this information with me, Kaz." Kaz smiled.

"No problem," he said, but Skylar already walked away. He didn't see why she would do that, but he didn't care why she would do that either. He placed himself on one of the gurneys and closed his eyes.

Not much later, Oliver walked back into the lobby. He had done everything he needed to do and in the meantime, he did not find the Dagger. He now hoped Kaz found it, but the chance was very small. He also saw his best friend lying on a gurney. Assuming the worst, he ran to his friend. "Kaz! What happened?"

"I'm tired!" was his lazy response, and Oliver sighed, "Did you find it?" Oliver already walked to the desks, because he didn't have time for Kaz' laziness right now. This is hopeless, he thought. I haven't found the dagger and Kaz didn't either… this is going to be harder than I thought. He stood behind one of the desks, in front of Kaz' backpack. Curiously, he took a glance. All that time, he didn't know what his best friend kept in his bag, but now he was going to find out.

He saw the usual: a few comic books, the books he took with him only because they were needed in school, some unidentified metal object and a few action figures, one of which was Tecton. Then, his eyes fell upon that unidentified metal object again, drawing Oliver's attention again. Wondering what it was, he pulled it out and surprisingly, he found himself staring at a rusty old dagger they've been looking for this afternoon. He could hardly believe his eyes: the Dagger of Truth had always been in Kaz' backpack! Why would he hide this, he wondered. Why doesn't he tell me he found it? It didn't take long before he connected the dots.

"Hey, you got it!" Kaz said when he finally had enough of lying around and had walked closer to Oliver and the Dagger in his hands. Oliver kept staring at the old metal object. "Where'd you find it?" Oliver did not do anything. He breathed, yes, he blinked also, but he didn't do anything but staring at the Dagger with those eyes widened, which was odd, to say the least.

"In your backpack," came the answer. Kaz frowned.

"My backpack?" No, he didn't believe it even after saying out loud, "Oliver, now's not the time for joking around. Now, where did you find it?" Oliver shook it.

"I can't believe you're playing dumb." Kaz' eyes widened.

"I'm not playing dumb! I don't know how it got there!" Kaz defended himself, "Now, let's be glad we have it, okay? We'll only have to contact Optimo and we can get started!" Kaz wanted to walk away, but he wasn't too happy when he noticed Oliver wasn't following him for the first time in a long time. He walked back and put his hands at his hips. "Well, are you coming or not?"

"How did this get into your backpack?" Oliver asked again, calmly, looking at Kaz as if he was gonna do something terrible. Kaz sighed.

"I wish I knew! I've had my eyes on my backpack at all times; I never gave anyone a chance to put this thing in there. Besides, I have eye witnesses who can tell you I haven't left the lobby today." He tried to explain this, but Oliver just wouldn't listen. You'd think he'd trust his best friend, who sometimes badly screwed up things, but in these times of distrust it was hard to tell an ally from an enemy.

"So you've found this before today and kept this all the time in your backpack?" Kaz shook his head.

"No, that's not it. Someone working for the Annihilator must've put it in there."

"I haven't spoken about the Annihilator yet," Oliver said, but Kaz was in a zone, so he just continued talking.

"I know, but now I'm starting about it. Maybe the Annihilator gave one of the heroes super hearing and he heard us talking and to frame me, he put this dagger in my backpack. Also, this also isn't the time to blame me as revenge because I blamed you yesterday for being the mole." He added the last part, thinking about the events of yesterday. They hadn't found anything yet to turn Blaylock into his old self again, or else he could've told them what to do and who the mole is.

"I'm not doing this because of yesterday," Oliver said, "Why don't you just admit you had this all along and we can continue."

"Continue, what?" Skylar said as she walked into the lobby. Kaz saw his chance and walked over to Skylar again.

"That's none of your business, but please would you tell Oliver I would never lie to him? Because he doesn't believe me and I'm sure he'll believe it when you say it." Skylar frowned and her attention was drawn to the rusty old dagger in Oliver's hand.

"What are you talking about? Is that Optimo's Dagger of Truth?" Oliver soon placed the dagger behind his back, smiling at the girl he loved.

"It doesn't matter. I found this object we were looking for in Kaz' backpack and it seems like he's been holding it back from me. Is that normal?" Skylar frowned.

"If it had some metal with it, then it sure was in his backpack. I saw it when he helped a patient but I didn't say anything because it looked like he was hiding it from sight. I didn't dare to say anything about it until now." Oliver looked at Kaz with disbelief, who at his turn stared at Skylar in disbelief.

"What the heck?" Kaz exclaimed, "This is the first time I see it since we met the captain. Oliver, you have to believe me." He realized this was the last time he would be begging for Oliver's mercy. This was the last chance he got to make his best friend believe he really didn't know it was in his backpack. But as he saw the look in his friend's eyes, he knew this couldn't be mended. Well, at least this can't get any worse.

"You're working with the Annihilator." Oliver said, and Kaz sighed. Alright, scrap that. This can get worse.

"I am not working for that guy." He wanted to add more details, but that would probably be taken as a sign he did do the things he described. "Listen, please, I really have no idea how that came into my backpack."

"Stop lying!" Oliver shouted, and now Kaz was getting angry.

"I'm not lying!"

"Then how did this get in you…"

"Like I said, I don't know!"

"Liar!"

"Traitor!"

Both walked away, Oliver with the dagger in his hands and Kaz after grabbing his backpack. Kaz had no idea why he shouted 'traitor', but it just sounded right after 'liar'. Skylar tried to stop him from going, but he ignored her. She was the reason he was going home now, the reason Oliver thought he was working for the Annihilator, and the reason why Oliver and Kaz weren't friends anymore.

Then realization hit him. This fight ruined their friendship. That meant he needed someone else to become his best friend.

He grabbed his phone, and typed in a random number. When he heard the familiar voice, he started to talk. He just needed to tell someone. It didn't matter who it was; he probably won't reveal any big secrets, but he still was going to be careful.

"Hey, Jordan! It's me."