Young Writers Society

Ringo yawned as he rolled around in his new bed. The foam seemed to hate him. No matter where he rested, or how the bed seemed to form a special bump just to unsettle him. By midnight Ringo got too frustrated and exited his room.

Trying not to wake up the others he slipped onto the very large lounge and let out a sigh of relief, "This is so much better!"

Perhaps he could claim the couch as his bed?

He grinned and rolled onto his side, unaware that in this happy mood that he was he had turned into a purring cat. Ringo closed his eyes and slept.

Sunlight peaked in through the windows and with a satisfied grin Ringo stretched.

"You look like the cat that got the cream." sounded a voice.

Ringo fell off the lounge in shock immediately transforming into a bunny rabbit, as if to make the threat he thought he had sensed think him only small and not worthy. The bunny was too short not allowing Ringo to see who it was who had spoken.

After the shock disappeared he turned into a lamb. Perhaps he was feeling sheepish?

(Well, anyone can grab that comment. )

Alida~~

I floated through the tower towards the large room, I guess on earth this is called an "Early bird catches the urn?" Humans are weird, I thought to myself. My feet touched to the ground when reaching the large living space and noted the sunlight fanning through the large glass windows. A body was on the couch, it looked like the team got a new pet, or it was just Ringo.

"You look like the cat that got the cream," The words were unsure in my mouth as they fumbled. As he fell off, I quickly apologized, "Oh I'm so sorry on your planet would we call this a "rude awakening?"

"It's ok Alida," He changed back into his human form, "It looks like you've done some work on your phrasing though!"

"Oh so I guess we are both being the birds that catch the urns?" His face looked puzzled as I blurted that out.

(Ringo can't change back into normal shape unless he, somehow, gets his feelings under wrap.)

Ringo raised an eyebrow, "Sure, that's about right. Actually since I got here first, I suppose I would get the urn and you wouldn't . . . "

He shook his head, "Wait, it's worm! Not urn . . ."

She frowned, "So I would get the urn and you would get the worm. Oh, I do not understand these sayings at all!"

"Takes a while to get used to it." Ringo replied with a chuckle.

He turned into a dog because he was so happy. Ringo frowned in his dog like transformation. Maeve walked into the room, "What smells like dog?"

As the alarm went off, all of Androids systems came online. Groggily, she reached around and pulled the cable from it's port in her pack. She was starting to hate mornings now. With a groan, she climbed out of the oversized egg-chair she used to recharge in. Sleep mode wasn't much different from actual sleep, accept she couldn't hit snooze and go back to sleep when her alarm went off. It would slow down her systems when she went to wake back up, making her grumpy and lethargic.

She felt those, alright. Her human half wasn't sleeping in it's robotic shell. Brain, heart, and several other organs were still in there, but most of her less important organ networks were robotic. They acted like regular flesh organs, but with a mechanical bonus.

She walked out of her room, pulling her hair into a loose ponytail, and went to the living room that led to the kitchen. She needed food. Now. Her stomach, which had been left in her, was growling menacingly.

"What smells like dog?" She heard Maeve say as she turned the corner. Ringo was panting a few feet in front of Alida.

"Taking a wild guess," Andy said, walking past them all, "I'd say the dog. Ringo, get ahold of yourself before you start shedding." She disappeared into the kitchen, heading straight for the Froot Loops. Six bowls should do it. Maybe.

Ringo frowned and closed his eyes to regain control over his emotions. When his mind was completely blank he opened them and realised he was once again human.

He grinned, "I'm starting to get a hang of this whole, empty your head of thoughts."

"It wouldn't be hard for you," joked their captain as he entered the longue room as well.

(I think I'm just going to post my new character in the DT since we've already started the story. )

Anthony

He'd heard Ringo's latest comment and jokingly replied, "It wouldn't be hard for you. But anyway, Andy's not in the best of moods this morning, eh?"

"Hmm, I wonder," Maeve snorted.

"Yeah...anyway, I think I'll join her," Anthony replied, rubbing his hands together. "Nothing like a full meal to start off the day!" As he also disappeared into the kitchen, the others glanced at each other. Then they too went down to the kitchen, watching Andy and Anthony piling up the Froot Loops.

*Haha! That's funny. *

Ringo blanched in distaste as he stared at the sugary ingredients listed in Froot Loops. He muttered under his breath, "76%* Pure Sugar."

Maeve cast him a look, "What did you say?"

The look scared him into turning into a mouse. He squeaked. Andy gave Maeve a did-you-have-too-look and Maeve gave back an equal look which said yes-I-did-have-to. Ringo scuttled onto the table in front of Anthony and picked up a Froot Loop which he began to nibble on.

(*Absolutely made up. I'm sure its somewhere closer to 98, )

Anthony

He sighed. "Geez, guys. Do we really have to do this again? And Ringo, if you were that disgusted with the Froot Loops, then don't eat them in the first place."

Andy didn't say anything, but made sure to avoid eye contact with everyone else at the table.

There was ominous silence for about 3 minutes in the kitchen.

"Er, well, um...eh, when did you wake up today, Anthony?" Alida nervously tried to get everyone friendly and talking again.

He grinned. "Sometime before 5 AM."

"What?! But then, wouldn't we have had--er...no, um--wait, b-b-b-but we could hear you, right?" Alida started growing panicky for some reason.

"Hey...calm down, Alida. I was up on the roof, waiting for the sun to rise. And after it did rise, I stayed up there until I got hungry. There. End of story. No need to get panicked, is there?" Anthony asked, smiling at her.

Ringo squeaked. He seemed to be saying, No, you really stayed up there until the sun half-blinded you, and then you were really hungry when you first woke up! Am I right? I said, am I right?!

Anthony laughed, then abruptly got serious. "OK, that's enough of that. Ringo, calm yourself down. Everybody else, clear the kitchen. We've got work to do," he said, gathering all the plates and putting them in the dishwasher.

Maeve gave a small smile, knowing that anything bigger might cause an explosion or two. She loved waking up in the tower with her friends, but could not show it too much. That was dangerous, and she had already destroyed too many of their household objects. Moving over to the counter, she slipped up Ringo into her hands. As he squeaked out in protest, she nuzzled him against her face, and he quieted down. It was the most emotion she could show without everything flying of the shelves, and it helped her in the mornings.

"Come on. Cap'n says its time to get out of the kitchen." She carried him into the living room and sat him down on the couch before he could randomly morph again.

"Ok, what do we have this morning guys?" She calmly asked, looking at everyone's sleepy expressions.

As Maeve placed Ringo onto the couch he turned into a blushing lamb, and baaed his way over to the other side of the lounge. He need some space if he wanted to be normal again. As a tired wave overcame him form his sleepless night, he yawned while instinctively closing his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again he looked down only to find he had become a sloth. Ringo let out a moan. Then he concentrated. Anthony droned on about something, but Ringo was too concentrated on making his mind blank.

Finally Ringo turned back into human, just as Anthony wrapped it up with, "Okay, everyone got that?"

Ringo raised an embarassed hand up, "Not really . . ."

Alida~~

"Oh joyous moment!" I exclaimed with a large smile.

Ringo turned into a sheep beast again and Anthony didn't look happy with him. Android shared my excitement but wasn't as into it as I was and Maeve was her usual grimacing self.

"This means we can go and 'pew pew pew' now and then we will make the city happy again and then we can celebrate with pizza and the fizzy drink of coke!" My body began to float a bit, too excited from the news. My body fell again with Anthony's face that was in a hard line.

"Is there a problem?" Again the cheer level was down again.

"Oh he is just mad he wasn't the one to find him," Android brought it down to a whisper with a hint of joking, "His pride is hurt just a tad."

"Who?! Find who I'm so lost in the conversation- see I'm here," Ringo pointed to himself.

"Slade," Anthony whispered, his nerves shaking himself a bit.

Ringo went silent. The way Anthony was reacting to this news obviously meant something was wrong. In Ringo's concern he suddenly transformed into a large brown bear, famous for being overly protective of their family, and due to his large size pushed everyone around him off the couch.

Including Anthony.

Ringo roared apologetically and glanced at Anthony carefully. At least he had been knocked out of his nerve shaking fit. As Ringo saw this it calmed him down a bit and he turned into a panda.

She sighed. They were getting no where fast. Between Ringo morphing every two seconds and angry emotions, the place was a big mess. Maeve was levitating behind the sofa, just watching, about a foot over it. She moved her hand out towards Ringo, and circled him in a big ball of energy. She often did this to calm him down. He knew that once he turned back into a human again, for good, she would let him out. Ringo glared at her, then sighed.

"Thank you, Maeve." Their "Captain" said.

"Just continue." She nodded and waited for him to tell them their next move against Slade.

Alida~

"Apparently he turned himself in," Anthony mouthed seeming to let the words just seep out, "Somethings up but- gah!" He brought his fists down on the table making a loud thump.
My own eyes went soft, sitting next to him I watched as Ringo transformed back into his calm human form and Maeve went back to her own levitating form.

"It will be fine maybe he finally had a change of heart?" I attempted to exclaim but it was more of garbled nonsense that maybe a parent would tell thier kid 'that Mr. Bubbles ran away to join the herd of fish in the sky".

"Like in hell," Android chuckled, attempting to lighten up the mood.

Anthony looked tense, I gingerly tapped his back with my hand like I had seen in the Soapy Operas which seemed weird because they were most definitely not in a bath half the time.

"Well, we can't just sit around and do nothing." Andy finally said. "I can hack into his files, find out the security on the place, and keep tabs on him." She shrugged. "It's better than nothing."

"Andy's right." Maeve said. "If we do nothing, we'll be setting ourselves up for whatever plan he has. At least keeping our eyes on him will calm a little." The others nodded.

"Alright, then. Andy, go set that up." Anthony said. "Then we can head into the city for a while."

"Gotcha, chief." Andy said and hurried off to the Tower's control room.