It was the perfect summer day, not so warm but warm enough that taking a dip In the lake was wonderful.
Anne stood in the center of the lake, she had her eyes closed, and was counting.
"98…99…100, Here I come."
Anne opened her eyes, and tried to spot the two younger Plantars. The only frog she could see was Hop-Pop on the bank with her parents and best friends preparing the picnic.
She knew she should be helping them, but no, she was going to goof off with her best friend and her adoptive little sister.
That's when she felt something swim against her legs, so she stuck her head into the water.
Swimming away from her was the familiar shape of Sprig.
Smiling, she swam towards the frog boy, hoping to scare him. When he rose, Anne followed, she looked around the land and saw that he was sitting on a lily pad, looking away from her.
Slowly creeping up to him, she climbed up onto the lily pad, she crept towards the small frog.
Step by step, she made her way towards him.
She was about to grab him when Sprig spoke up.
"I think you forgot something," said the not so distracted frog boy.
Anne froze, she thought about all the things she hadn't been paying attention to, that's when the shadow overtook her, a twisted laugh filled the air she turned to see a reed flying towards her.
It hit her, it wasn't too hard, but she fell down.
"Prepared to face my wrath," said Polly, as she hit Anne again and again. Eventually, the human grabbed it, and looked at Polly with a smug smile on her face.
"Now what?"
Polly didn't back down, she just smiled, "Now."
Before Anne could ask what she meant, something grabbed her legs through the lily pad.
She was pulled through the lily pad and into the water. Quickly, she swam away from the lily pad and surfaced again. Standing on the water plant were Polly and Sprig, smiling over their victory.
"We win."
"No you didn't, we were playing hide and seek, not fighting."
Before the two amphibians could argue, a voice rang out from the shore.
"Anne, Polly, Sprig! Dinner's ready."
Polly jumped into the water and swam back, Anne and Sprig followed slowly.
"You sure we shouldn't try and catch up?" asked Sprig.
"Nah, we can wait, just enjoy the water for a bit longer."
They swam in silence for a few seconds before Sprig spoke up.
"Hey Anne, how are you going to live without us?"
Anne turned to Sprig, "What?"
Before Sprig could ask another question, a loud ringing filled the air.
The next thing Anne knew, she was no longer at the lake, but in a hallway.
She was wearing her SJMS shirt and skirt, to her right was her mother looking at her worried, her dad was doing the same on the left.
"Anne, are you alright?" asked her father.
It was just a dream, she wasn't hanging out at the lake in Amphibia she was… home.
"Yeah," said Anne nodding, "Sorry, nodded off."
"Trouble sleeping?" asked her dad.
Anne shook her head this time. "Not really."
She had been having trouble sleeping. It had been two weeks since she had returned from Amphibia, and she was doing great.
She was getting up every morning going downstairs, doing her chores, some homeschooling and walking.
She was perfectly fine.
"If you don't feel you're up to this," her mother started to say, only for Anne to interrupt her.
"No, I'm fine, I can do this."
Before her parents could respond, the door to principal Murphy's door opened and a middle-aged Caucasian woman in a cardigan peered out, "Boonchuy."
Anne stood up and walked to the door, giving the security a nod: "Hey Gladys."
"Good to see you're alive, Anne," said Gladys politely.
Anne looked around the office and remembered the last time she was here. So much had changed, she was no longer the doormat who would be influenced by others, now she was brave and could stand up for herself.
Sitting at the desk with a polite smile on her face was Principal Murphy, next to her an Asian woman in a suit, on her face was a frosty expression.
"Anne, Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy, good to see you."
Anne stepped forwards and sat down in the chair in front of the desk, her parents quickly followed.
"Thank you, principal Murphy," said Anne in a friendly tone, her parents nodded.
"Now, I'm glad that you want to come back to school as soon as possible but well-"
"We don't know if it's safe for you to be here," said the woman next to her.
Anne blinked. "What?"
Murphy frowned at the woman next to her. "What Mrs Chen is trying to say is that… There are certain factors that have been brought up to the school board and, well. We're worried about your behavior since you've been away."
"Is it the puppy party? The time we dressed the school founder statue in drag?" she paused for a second, "I'm not taking responsibility for the gym room fire, that was Marcy."
"It's always Marcy," said Principal Murphy, whispering.
"I still remember the kitchen fire." said Mr. Boonchuy, staring at the wall, "The stove exploded."
"If I can bring things back to the matter at hand," said Mrs. Chen.
"I thought I saw the face of Satan," said Mrs. Boonchuy shivering.
"The matter at hand," said Mrs. Chen, ignoring that last line, "Is the fact that your daughter is a safety risk."
"For what?" said Mrs. Boonchuy.
"Well, let's go down the file." Mrs. Chen, pointed to the file lying on the table. It was the size of Anne's fist.
Anne looked at it, then back at Mrs. Chen. "Huh… I figured it would be bigger."
"That's just for the past three months."
Her eyes widened. "What?"
Mrs. Chen opened the folder, "You were found at the mall during a large incident, Grand Theft Auto, unauthorized access to a museum, rumors of a fight at the Thai temple, explosions at your home, your parents engage in reckless driving, causing chaos at a Hollywood set, complaints from a Doctor Frakes for damaging a scientific exhibit and setting back scientific discoveries by decades, and worst of all, ruining a Christmas parade."
"None of those were her fault," said Mrs Boonchuy.
"Well, the museum one might have been-"
"Nevertheless, your daughter is a troublemaker. Just because she's in a movie doesn't mean she's above the rules."
"This is ridiculous," said Anne's father, "This is just you trying to find things to ban her for."
"And why wouldn't we? Before she vanished she was a troublemaker, her grades were in the toilet, and she was extremely disrespectful to staff. She's no longer welcome here."
It didn't take long for her parents to fight the allegations. Anne just laid back in her chair and sighed.
"Anne," said a gentle voice. Anne looked up and saw Principal Murphy smiling at her. "How about we get something to eat."
Five minutes later, the two were in the school cafeteria, eating mediocre pizza.
"Sorry about all this," said the principal, "You're not going to get expelled, the school board is mostly on your side. It's just that Mrs. Chen raised some legitimate concerns."
Anne nodded, "Yeah, I know."
"So, where did you go? We've been told you were in a movie, but I don't believe that for a second."
"Really?"
"Nah, I saw the robots and I saw you fighting a giant newt in a robot suit. There's something more going on."
A part of Anne knew she should have told her that lie Mr. X had been feeding the world, but another part of her wondered why not? It would be good if someone else knew.
"It's cover up, but…" she froze.
"I knew it," said Principal Murphy doing a small fist pump in celebration, "I told those jerks on the forum that… Oh, Sorry, I'm not going to tell anyone."
"It's cool," said Anne.
"So where were you, alien planet? Another dimension? The quantum realm?"
"The second," said Anne, "a world of living talking Amphibians."
"That explains the giant newt," said Murphy, "So I guess I should tell you that you don't need to give me that letter. I think I got the gist of things from your fight in the sky."
Anne smiled, "Yeah."
"So what are you going to do next, then?"
It was the question Anne hadn't really thought of. "What?"
"I mean, what are you going to do next?"
For the first time since Anne had returned from Amphibia, she realized something: She had no idea what she was going to do with her life.
"Well, I… um I… You see…"
The sad thing was that this was something Anne hadn't thought about, just three weeks ago, she was fighting a homicidal tyrant, who was going to destroy earth then invade the multiverse, her only goals were to stop him and his invasion, and go back home.
The only problem was that a part of her didn't know if this was home.
She thought back to last night, to every night she had spent back home, trying to sleep, being unable to because of just how quiet things were, not seeing Sprig, Polly or Hop-Pop snoring alongside her. Just living every day one thing at a time, no threats, no adventures, just normal life.
Heck, for all she knew she hadn't come back, this body she was in, the guardian said it was a copy but was she still the same Anne?
Were the two people arguing with Mrs Chen really her parents?
Did she really choose to sacrifice herself for Amphibia?
"Anne?" said Principal Murphy, "Are you okay?"
The girl jumped at that. "Oh, yeah, just… I was thinking, I don't really know what I'm going to do next."
Principal Murphy nodded. "That's fair, after all you've been through. I think it would be a good idea to pace yourself."
"Yeah," laughed Anne.
Murphy stood up. "I'm going to see how your parents are, hopefully they haven't murdered Chen."
She left, leaving Anne alone, wondering what to do next.
…
"Anne," said a voice from the darkness.
Shifting in her bed, Anne tried to ignore it, she was not going to deal with whoever or whatever was talking to her.
"Anne," said the voice, sounding annoyed.
"No," replied Anne.
"Wake up Boonchuy!"
Groaning, Anne slowly opened her eyes and sat up.
She wasn't in the Plantar's basement, she was in a nicely decorated room. Standing in front of her was Sasha, with shadows beneath her eyes. Anne closed her own eyes again and yawned, "Where are we again?"
"Yunan mansion, remember? We finished the evening here."
Anne left the bed, she was currently in her underwear, slipped her clothes on, and turned back to Sasha, "Where's Marcy."
"She went downstairs, said she wanted to talk to us about something."
"Is it over breakfast?" she asked.
"Yeah, we're having it in a separate room from General Yunan and the kids."
"Oh yeah," said Anne, nodding, "I wonder how their night went."
There was a slam and the two women turned to see a toad boy, a wide smile on his face. His eyes twitched, and he stood there, trying to look heroic.
"IDIDITIDIDITISTAYEDUPALLNIGHTANDWEHAVETHEGREATESTSLUMBERPARTYEVER."
The two humans looked at him, then at each other.
"Oh," said Sasha, realizing what the boy had just said, "Yeah, good job, Lucian."
"YESISTAYEDUPALLNIGHTWEALLDIDWEWEREAMAZINGANDAWESOMEAND-"
He stopped talking and fell face forwards on the floor, snoring noises emanating from his body.
Max and Marcy Yunan walked in and looked at him, then at the two adults.
"Yeah, so He was really committed to impressing you, Sasha. He might have downed a boat load of coffee."
"Not the first time," said Marcy Yunan, shaking her head. She knelt, grabbed her friend by the arm and started to drag him.
"Need some help?" asked Max.
"Please."
The human took the toad's other arm and dragged him along.
The two humans watched as the three kids walked off. Anne turned to Sasha and started to laugh.
"Remind you of anything?"
"You mean the time Marcy drank three cups of coffee and thought she was a goddess of dice?"
The two stepped out of the room and started to make their way downstairs, passing by antique furniture, painting and the maids and butlers who bowed at their passing.
They stopped in front of two large doors, it was a small room off to the side of the mansion.
Sasha knocked on the door.
"Come in." said Marcy on the other side.
Anne and Sasha entered the room to see Marcy was standing in front of a board, the surface of which was covered in pictures of animals, amphibians, even humans.
"Marcy, is everything okay?" asked Anne.
"No," said Marcy, "We've got a problem."
"What is it?" asked Sasha.
"Us."
The two humans looked at each other, then back at their friend.
"What do you mean?"
Marcy turned around and sat on a chair. "I stayed up all night last night trying to figure out what's been causing the recent odd behavior in the wildlife."
"Oh yeah," said Anne, nodding, "You mean like the mantis in the nest."
"Those animals in the cages were acting a little weird," said Sasha, rubbing her chin.
"Yeah, but it's worse, I think we're the ones behind this."
The room was quiet for a few seconds, Sasha was looking at Marcy, not believing what she had just said, Anne however just looked at her curiously.
"What do you mean?"
"It's the portal, I think it's been causing the animals to act strangely."
How?" asked Sasha confused, "How can that cause this."
"Radiation, the portals might be sending something out that could be causing the Amphibian wildlife to act even more dangerous than usual."
"Okay, that's just not really evidence," said Sasha, "It could be anything."
"Really? Because I looked into everything, the weather, new species, habitats, nothing changed except for us arriving here. The portal is the only thing that could be turning nature against the town."
Sasha just stood there and turned to Anne, "Is she right?"
Anne shrugged, "Possibly. I don't really know what kind of effects the radiation of the portal can have on animals, especially magical ones."
"I think," Marcy started to say before pausing, "I think we need to talk about what we do next."
…
If the flying chariot was supposed to be a tool of conquest, the very thing Andrias Had grown to hate, and yet he had to admit it was pretty cool.
The large flying device was modeled on a chariot being pulled by two centipedes, it was bronze and covered in sharp edges.
He couldn't help but smile as he soared through the skies.
"Bah," said the cantankerous old newt sitting next to him, seemingly reading his mind, "It's not that impressive."
"Are you really complaining about a free ride?" said the former monarch.
"Yes," replied Val, "It's a reminder that the technology I invented is being used for the wrong reasons."
"How?" asked Andrias
"You made this thing for war, correct?"
"This wasn't going to be used for that, just to scare off our enemies and convince them not to mess with us."
"Oh good," said Val sarcastically, "intimidation, not evil at all."
"You know you're a ghost," replied the former king, "Why don't you just fly there."
"Because I don't like to show off."
The king rolled his eyes. He would have preferred if they flew in silence, but he needed to ask: "Before we tell anyone, I want to tell Marcy, alone."
The ghost just sat there looking ahead, "Why? Is this some sort of attempt to make up for you did to her?"
Andrias didn't respond. He just kept looking at the sky, where he spotted Lady Olivia flying alongside the chariot.
"You did what you did," she said, her voice taking on a gentle tone, "The man who destroyed Amphibia and the man who helped defend it."
"You're wrong," said the king quietly, "I am him, I'll always be him."
In the distance he spotted Wartwood. A faint smile crawled its way onto his lips. He was near his home. It was funny how just ten years ago he would have loved to see it destroyed.
As the ship flew past the town, Yunnan manor came into view, the Newtopian architecture looked nice. A part of Andrias wondered what the inside looked like, it had been years since he had been into a building that wasn't designed for his body.
Lady Olivia flew into view atop her bird, she briefly turned back to Andrias, giving him a thumbs up. The bird started to descend.
The former king knew that his former advisor wanted to talk to her wife, Andrias would land in a nearby field and walk over to the house, he expected Val to do likewise.
That's when the old newt turned to him.
"I will go now, see the mayor, and try to find other human girls, warn them about what's coming."
Before the king could respond, she floated out of the bottom of the ship.
Andrias wasn't surprised by her rudeness, she had other things to do. Politeness could wait.
…
As Val floated down, she realized something.
"Oh, I should have said goodbye, now he's going to think I'm rude."
…
The unit held on to the outside of the chariot. It had spent days undetected, hanging onto this vehicle. It knew its mission was to spy on them, long years of waiting, soon it would be seen. As they flew over the town, the creature let go of the chariot and fell. It landed on the outskirts, just as a blue frog with an eye patch walked by. The impact it made with the ground caused a small crater to form.
In response, the blue frog ran off, screaming something about invaders.
The unit ignored him, he was unimportant to its mission.
All it needed to do now was to wait for them to arrive.
It was only a matter of time before it activated and the chaos began.
…
General Yunnan was used to disorderly breakfasts. She was a soldier of course, she knew the chaos of having twenty newts just eating lunch.
This was nothing compared to four children, who still seemed to have enough energy despite barely sleeping.
"AIM FOR HIS MOUTH," shouted Max, throwing a piece of toast at Lucian, who was standing there with his mouth open. It hit his face and flopped to the ground.
"Where else would I aim?" replied Marcy, throwing a piece of bacon that hit Lucian in his right eye. Yunnan could see a greasy tear fall from his eyes.
Nicole threw a muffin that hit Lucian in the stomach.
General Yunnan stood there appalled. She couldn't believe what she was seeing.
These children had terrible aim, including, to her displeasure, her own.
"Right, that's it, pass me an apple, I'll show you how it's done."
Max threw her an apple.
"Listen up, privates," said Yunnan gruffly, "This is how you do it."
She threw the apple, and it landed in Lucian's mouth, the toad boy swallowed it.
That's when the door opened, and her wife entered.
Lady Olivia looked around the room to see food lying on the floor, splattered against the walls, and five extremely guilty faces looking at her.
"What is this?" she said in a stern tone.
"Target practice?" replied Yunnan, "Honestly, these kids need it, their aim is terrible."
"Boo," said Max and Nicole.
Marcy stood there looking terrified of her other mother's reaction.
Olivia held up a palm and shook her head, "Okay, I'm going to ignore this because I need to talk to my wife and daughter alone."
Marcy's three friends stood there.
"That means get lost," growled the former advisor, glowering at them.
The three ran off, leaving Marcy and her other mother to deal with an angry Olivia.
Marcy turned to her mom, "I'm sorry, I was just playing with them and-"
The young frog's pleading was interrupted by a long sigh from Lady Olivia, who then looked at her daughter with a smile, "I'm not angry at you." She shot a look at her wife, who cringed, predicting her upcoming dressing down.
"Oh," said Marcy slightly calmer now, "so can I join them?"
Before Marcy could respond, there was a knock on the door. The door then opened, and Human Marcy popped her head in.
"Hey Guys, um, when you're done, can we talk?"
Lady Olivia nodded, "Yes. By the way, you have a visitor outside."
The frog girl's human counterpart closed the door and Olivia turned back to her daughter, "Now with all that settled, we have to talk."
"About what?" asked Marcy.
Olivia closed her eyes, "About your future."
…
Max stood there dumbfounded, standing in front of him was a giant face he had seen before.
Being only ten, most adults were taller than him, however since arriving in Amphibia he was surprised to be taller than a few of the adults, the only exception were some newts.
However, the familiar figure standing in front of him was different.
He knew the face, though, even if their beard was more shaggy and untamed. Their robe was clean, yet it looked old, worn.
Max turned to see if Lucian could see him as well, the toad boy just glared at him, like he was trying to channel all his hate into that one look, like this one figure was the most evil being in all of Amphibia, Nicole just stood there looking nonchalant.
"Andrias," growled Lucian.
"Hello Lucian," said the deposed king, "New friend?"
Lucian stood in front of Max, trying to block him from the king, "Wouldn't you like to know."
"I do know," replied the King politely, who waved at Max, "Hello there new human."
"Umm, Hi?" replied Max. He had no real way to react to this, he remembered the king being threatening in the fight ten years ago. But this guy seemed nice, though of course he knew from the Does that this could just be a cover for something far more sinister.
"I'm guessing you came with Marcy?"
"Well yeah, she invited me to this sleepover and… Oh, you mean human Marcy."
"Human Marcy?" replied the king.
"Yeah, I thought it was unfair that everyone seems to call her frog Marcy, So We're calling the other Marcy Human Marcy to be fair."
"Do you dislike human Marcy?"
"No, It's just my Marcy's one of my best friends, so why not?"
The two young Amphibians nodded in agreement.
The king smiled at that, Max was surprised just how friendly it looked. Unlike the friendliness during the invasion, this one looked genuine.
Andrias then turned to Nicole. "Hello Nicole. How're things?"
"Pretty good," said the shrugging, "I've got some work to do today… First I got to go to the orphanage, though, check in with the Matron."
The king nodded, "Well, do you know if human Marcy is in there? I need to talk to her."
Before Max could respond, the front door opened and out stepped the three older humans.
Max saw that Anne stood there confused, a scowl appeared on Sasha's face. Human Marcy, however, started to smile.
"Andrias," said the former ranger, "You're back."
On the king's face a smile appeared, it was small and embarrassed. "Marcy. It's good to see you again, I need to have a word with you…alone."
"Like hell you will," growled Sasha. Marcy held out an arm and stopped her. "Sasha, wait, he's changed. I told you he saved me a few days ago."
The blonde looked at her friend suspiciously, then nodded, "Okay fine, but I'm keeping an eye on him."
Marcy nodded, "I'll see you guys at the portal."
The two women nodded, and walked towards Bessie, who was snuggling next to Lady Olivia's snird, which looked quite embarrassed. Anne turned back to Max. "Come on, Max, we've got to get back to the farm."
"You too, Lucian."
The toad ran towards them.
Shaking his head, Max walked towards the snail, he watched as the king and human Marcy walked off, wondering what they were going to talk about.
…
"My future?" asked Marcy Yunan, "What about it?"
She looked at her mother who had a stern look on her face, "It's where you are going next week. While I was away, I got some interesting messages."
"Really?" said Marcy.
"Yes, about how the town was attacked by predators, how you were kidnapped and rescued."
"Oh, well, I'm fine now. Though last night, we went to the graveyard, but Mom was keeping an eye out for us."
Olivia turned and gave her wife a withering look, Yunan shuddered, Marcy fought back the urge to smile.
"Regardless, this is not the first time you put yourself in danger over the last few days. There were the hybeenas, being in the middle of that riot, and I got a letter from Monty's parents saying you attacked him."
"He hurt my friend," Marcy shot back.
Olivia looked at her for a second, for a brief moment there was a shocked expression, but the fire quickly returned. "Regardless, I think it's for the best that we send you to Lady Webbington school for proper young ladies early this year."
Marcy jumped in surprise at the news, "But we're not in term yet, It'll just be me there, alone."
"You'll have plenty of time to learn about the staff, and they will give you extra lessons on how to be a proper young woman."
Marcy turned to her other mother, the orange newt stood there and rubbed her arm, "It might be for the best," she said.
She stood there looking at her mothers. A part of her wanted to fight back, argue with them.
But that wasn't her, she couldn't go against the women who raised her.
"Okay," she muttered weakly.
"Good," said Olivia politely, "You should pack, you're leaving tonight."
She turned and slowly walked towards the door, but froze just before she reached it, slowly turning her head one last time. She looked at her mothers, "Can I go to town one last time, to say goodbye to my friends?"
Olivia stood there for a brief second, Marcy swore she saw her swallow something, "Yes, you can, just don't be too long."
With that, Marcy walked out the door. She blamed herself for not saying anything, for not standing up for herself. She felt the hot tears on her cheek as she walked towards town.
…
It had been a week since the portal had opened, and a week since Mr. X had been able to have a good night's sleep.
To sum it up, the portal had opened, dozens of humans had travelled to Amphibia, monsters could attack at any moment and worse, the government might discover the portal being open. Which might cause some sort of interdimensional incident, and cost him his job.
To make things worse, his husband suspected that something was wrong.
He sighed and turned to Jenners who was standing next to him looking at a clipboard.
"Do we have anything new to say about this mess, or do I just have to hope it will go away on its own?"
Jenners stood there showing him the clipboard, on it was written a large red "NO"
Sighing, Mr. X placed his face in his hands, "Wonderful, can this get any worse?"
He looked up at his colleague, they were probably worried about him at the moment.
"I'm fine," he responded to a question that wasn't asked, "It's just… There's something wrong here, something missing, it reminds me of Bangkok."
The blonde didn't respond to him. X knew that they understood, he had told them over drinks a while ago.
"Something big is coming, and I don't think anyone's going to be ready for it."
A loud buzzing sound filled the warehouse, X turned towards the shutters, he rushed to the security station, on the screen was a group of humans, Doctor Jan, Terri, Jess and Ally were there. Standing next to the two engineers was a small boy wearing green shorts and a blue shirt with a gear on it.
The last member of the group was a small man in a suit, he was holding on to a cane.
Mr. X sighed, the majority of this group had already been to Amphibia, a part of him was jealous that he still remained here. He reached for the intercom.
"No."
There was a series of moans from the monitor.
"Come on, Mr. X be cool."
"I am cool, and quite frankly I'm not risking any of you getting hurt in Amphibia, you're deep enough into this madness, I don't want you getting into any more trouble."
"Oh, come on," said Ally, "I want Issac to meet Polly just once."
"And I have to see Hop-Pop again," said the old man, "I don't have long left on this earth."
"Humphrey, I read all of your medical reports, you have at least another twenty years left in you," replied X, annoyed.
"Really, how?" wondered Jan, looking at the older man.
"Carrots, and a Lot of them."
"Whatever," said the extremely annoyed government agent, "None of you can come in, go back."
The majority of the group let out a chorus of groans, Only Terri remained quiet.
"Okay," said the scientist, "I guess I can't do some research on the other side of the portal to help close it."
Mr. X rolled his eyes, this was not going to work, "Really that's all you have to convince me to let you in?"
"Okay," Terri shrugged, "I guess you can figure out how to close the portal on your own."
Through the camera, he glowered at the scientist. She was probably bluffing, but he couldn't risk it. Pressing the open button upon the door caused the group to cheer. He left the security room to look at them as they walked towards the portal.
"Two hours, and if you ever ask something like this from me again, I'll have you arrested."
He sighed, hopefully this would be over really soon.
That's when Jen's phone started to ring. She paused and looked at her phone, "Oh shoot, it's the museum board. Sorry, Terri-bear, I need a few minutes."
Terri nodded, "Okay I'll see you later," Jen kissed her partner before they walked off
Mr. X sighed and turned to Jenners
"I need some coffee, could go and get my usual?"
The blonde nodded and walked towards the entrance.
X sighed. Today was going to be difficult.
…
Frakes sat in the van, watching the warehouse from a security camera from across the road, and a human with spiky hair left the building.
"We've got one person leaving, should we wait for them to return?"
"No, let them go.," replied the voice in her earpiece, "We can capture them when they return."
"Gotcha," Frakes turned behind her, standing in the back of the van were four different junkyard robots, each of them looked different, they looked like some twisted art piece, the closest one to her had a computer monitor for a head, a shovel for an arm and a clothes dryer for a chest.
She smiled. Soon, Anne Boonchuy would pay for what she did.
That's when the robot nearest to her let out a sharp ding. She opened its chest, took her lab coat out of it, and sighed.
"There's nothing more comfy than a warm lab coat."
Peep: Yeah i'm enjoying these flashbacks to, and sorry for the problems, I hope it work out.