"It's ironic that I want to help and want to be trained, yet my personality means I am unsuited to the new phase. Oh well, I guess I better help form an independent organisation then. Anyone want to join me in a democratic and liberal group of freedom fighters, or are you all going to go off and become little fascist child soldiers?"

Wu will return just in time to hear Sienna's farewell speech. He will rejoin Mei Ling and then smile to everyone. " I have spoken with my family and I am staying with my family. For those of you who are not joining the new program, I invite you to join us. As you all know, my family is quite wealthy and while they don't have abilities such as teleportation, Money is power. We will provide a secure environment with military trained personnel. I will train those who wish to learn Kung Fu. With the assistance of a telepath, we can insure that all those who are looking out for us will be safe to our standards and looking out for our best interests. My family already employs security, everything I am suggesting would be simple upgrades to our existing structure.

I will personally see to your needs, paying for them out of my own pocket if necessary. I promise that you will have a say in your future with me and my family. In fact, you will probably become adopted if you are not careful. Who will come with us? "

Joe can hear Joey talk into the phone as he brings it over to him. "Hello, can I order a humongous-sized supreme pizza with extra anchovies, please?"

"THIS...IS....SPAR-TA! (Wait, what? It's..not Sparta? That's what my line said...Fine, Fine. I'm going to kill my agent...Where was I? Oh, yes...) THIS....IS....MIAMMMMIIIIIIII!!!!!!"

"...You're like ... you know, that awful, nasty, vomit-inducing fruit? Delorian, or something?" He had no idea what the name was. The smell had driven that memory away, the one time he'd tried it. "But, you know, once you take a machete and crack it open ... and cook it for a long, long time, it's not awful. Just takes, you know, some time to grow on you."

"I am Wu Chow, son of Deng Chow, descendant of a family that was ancient before wooden ships even glimpsed the shores of this land. I am sole heir to a tradition that calls upon me to seek to be better than I have been, better than I am, better than a common man. I live by rules, ethics and laws a that few of you can understand and even fewer can conceive of. What I do, I do for my ancestors, my true family, and lastly for myself and my few friends. Yes, I am proud. Yes, I am rigid, Yes, I am inflexible in what I believe. My loyalty is a matter of personal honor and I have never consciously betrayed anyone. I don't have to like you to be loyal to you, particularly when we share common goals. I have told truths and half-truths to the police because of my loyalty to those who live here."

--{Bastard!}-- Sienna cries out as she falls. She thrashes around in the water, then finds the right way up and quickly surfaces. --{You've just ruined my dress, and my shoes too! You're going to pay for them!}--

"I mean it was pretty cool really. When you know you're gonna die in about five seconds, unless you keep your head and do just the right thing. And then you manage to do it. Scares the pee out of you at the time. I mean it really did! But afterwards.... Woo!" He laughs. "There's no high like it."

"Look, it's not like I don't want to try new stuff. I'll try to keep an open mind about, you know, singing and dancing. Sure, a movie night sounds good. It should be fun." .oO(With lots of beer.)

When he reads Sienna's note, Gina gasps and looks at her friend. .oO(Possessed! And she couldn't tell anyone! I guess she has been acting a little bit funny... Heh... other people catch STDs. Sienna catches a psychic possession from one of her boyfriends. Too bad it isn't something I can cure. Poor Sienna!)

I am beautiful, Unktehila agrees. A piece of paper cannot resemble me.

"Hey! Would I lie to you?"

"Ha," he snorted. "Uncle Wooey. Hell, if you need a break, Wooey, let me know and I'll take a turn as a babysitter, or something. Teach the kids to be vegetarians and peace loving children of the gods just to offset your ... um ... " even he paused, unwilling to needle too much at the moment, "you know. Your you-ish-ness."

"I brought lunch. Want a roast gator sandwich?"

"My first real sexual experience was frotting on a chair."

Wu sighs softly. "Ezikiel and I are opposites. I am predominately Yang natured while Ezikiel is predominately Yin natured. Furthermore, we are both unrelenting in our natures and beliefs. I am Wu, martial in nature, a warrior by name and tradition.Ezikiel is a pacifist, eternally against war, constantly seeking to avoid active disputes. In addition, he seems to believe that I am evil or at the least, psychotic or psychopathic."

"Hiya Sam. Nice, um, motor?" She laughs nervously.

He cocked his head, grinning lopsidedly at the target. Must remember, he thought to himself. Do not call him Target to his face. Call him ... face-guy, or something.

"...Even if you had thrown the water balloons in my face, I would have just gone back inside, removed my wet attire, dried myself off and gone back to bed. I have never understood the humor of a so-called practical joke. To me they are neither practical or jokes. They seem to be another way for one person to benefit by victimizing another. But that's just my opinion about that as a form of humor," Wu told Jasper calmly.

"Well, I can do that! My cousin, who is sort of like a big brother, finds me very obnoxious! Should I practice some more on him?" she asks maliciously.

I'm not ready to settle down with just one person. I want to meet lots of people. This whole monogamy thing sucks. Being with only one person, devoting yourself to just one person ... gets boring. I need variety. I mean, I don't just eat apples. I want to eat oranges and pears and pineapples and peaches too! Peaches! Yum!"

Joe arrives at the pool area dressed in jogging pants, a t-shirt (both gray) and some slip-on sandals. He calls Joey, who appears as a dark-haired handsome man in an extravagant bathrobe and is reading from a 'script' which floats in front of him as he moves. " 'I am smoke. I am ghost. I am....' Good Lord, Who writes this crap? What's my motivation? I'll be in my trailer..."

"And, Si, for what it's worth," Zeke said as he followed her to the door, "I'm glad you're staying. I ... I don't think it would have been as much a group without you to hold us together. Jas may be the head, and Wu the asshole ... but you, Si, you're the glue."

"The neighbors think there were Haitians here. That makes me think of voodoo. Maybe they're magic bees, zom-bees," Chad puns.

"Weeellll..." Jasper drawls. "Think I might've shut that door. I'm not saying Sarah Summers is a bad person. The lady is on the side of the angels. Just, really snoopy angels."