Ben, teen, he/him, trips over a monster.

Ben: CRAP!

Ben Conveniently bumps into a glass vanity on the way to the floor, knocking a stone trinket over the edge, allowing Malcom(teen, he/him) to use his power to accelerate its descent and bullet its way through the monster’s head, killing it, ending this really long sentence that has way, way too many commas,,,, i, should, stop, writing, it, now,

Ben: ow…

Jax: are, um, you not hurt?

Ben: ow.

Callie: you’re fine. hop on up, child.

Malcom: you’re a big baby.

Ben: shut the fuck up.

Ben climbs to his feet, groaning like an old man, a raisin in need of a walker. he brushes nonexistent dust off his person, complying with the trope.

he starts toward a yellow plastic door embedded into the styrofoam wall.

Ben: we’re going through this door.

Ben flips the door open and strides through. the others follow.

Ben: why couldn’t everyone walk in a big freaking group?

Ben: Luke and Criss could just lead us right there with their cards and paperclips.

Ben: or just one of them could i guess.

Ben: instead i have to tumble and trip my way through these stupid absurd rooms, ''''Conveniently'''' finding the right stupid way to Bree and Ellis.

Ben: if i’d gotten lost with Bree, i’d probably like fall through the floor after tripping or something and end up back in Couch City.

Ben: which is a dumb name.

Malcom: the ceiling of our room is like 20 feet in the air, though,

Malcom: you’d go splat on the floor.

Ben: no, i wouldn’t.

Malcom: you’re right,

Malcom: you’d just break every bone in your body.

Ben: that’s stupid.

Malcom: yeah i agree.

Malcom: stupid, kind of like YOU.

Jax: um, that wasn’t that strong.

Jax, she/her, smiles slightly. both she and Callie(she/her) are teens.

Ben: yeah that fucking sucked.

Malcom: sure it did. i bet you’re crying on the inside.

Ben: i’m not crying, i’m cringing.

Malcom: yeah, cringing from your…

Malcom: i don’t know. i got nothing.

Ben: well look at that, who’s stupid now.

Malcom: you.

Ben: …

Ben: shut up.

Ben: no one likes your childish insults, and i’m in the middle of leading your butts to find our missing friends,

Ben: so i can do my job and get the shit beat out of me for the benefit of everyone else,

Ben: man why can’t have a cool power”

Ben: or at least one that doesn’t require me to get injured every 10 seconds.

Jax: i—i just go crazy with mine, it does no help.

Jax: um, i mean it doesn’t help.

Callie: Ben, child, quit complainin’!

Callie: you’ve got yourself a power that’s good in a fight, don’t you?

Callie: don’t go blabbin’ about a dumb superpower when i turn invisible to no one but my friends and Jax just teleports to crazy town!

Ben: ok sorry,

Malcom: also the reason we don’t travel in a big group—

Malcom: you already know this—

Malcom: is because of monsters.

Malcom: whenever we’re all together the monsters gang up on us to have an epic fight scene,

Malcom: epic fight scenes are exhausting and no one likes them.

Malcom: just like you.

Callie: smooth.

Ben: whatever. i don’t even think i’m going the right way.

Jax: well, um, you are not really.

Jax: but we’ll end up with Ellis and Bree anyway.

Ben: well no shit. i know that.

Ben: it doesn’t matter which way i go because i’m going to get thrown by a door and blow through the wall and land right in front of Ellis and Bree.

Ben: and then we’ll just sit there and wait with them because i have no way of communicating with everyone else from far away,

Ben: unlike Luke and Criss.

Ben: which is another dumb thing about the plan.

Ben: maybe if one of the others—

suddenly a section of the wall rockets outward and sends Ben flying into a cardboard door. Ben gets thrown by a wall and blows through the door and lands right in front of Ellis and Bree.

he doesn’t just sit there and wait with them because he sees a big scary sheep and screams and the others rush through the hole because screams of terror are an excellent wa6 of communicating. and the hole closes and everyone’s scared and; and; and; there’s a boring [Uppercase] chapter and