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As Zack watched the two heroes tear into one another, it became increasingly difficult to feign a look of confusion. Things didn't have a right to work out so perfectly! As Josh left, Zack was about to ask Cait if she was going to be all right. She spun, however, and Zack found his answer in her eyes: not at all. She was determined to hide that, however, and Zack realized that he, too, would have to get down to business. He walked up to the front desk and asked if there were any other witnesses he might be able to interrogate.

"Th-there is one p-p-prisoner who m-might have seen s-something," the terrified secretary answered. Zack managed to coax some directions out of her and, within minutes, had navigated his way to John's cell.

John kept on reading the paper Drew had just given him. It read something like: "Doctor Clean is a brand new super menace who is running around trying to help when he is only making things worse. What is worse is that this new menace, Doctor Clean has famed an innocent bystander, Jonathan Johnson, just because he was there all three times Doctor Clean was there. We at Cleaners Daily think that Doctor Clean was created by none other than Mr. Snottsborn of Snottsborn Industries and it is a ploy at getting back at us for being in his building investigating. Speaking of which Geter Garker..." John was cut off from reading the rest. He heard a door open.

Suddenly two figures slid into the room. One was a girl dressed up in a costume of Duct Tape. The other was a man sporting a cape. Both looked pretty weird. 'What the hell! What did I do now?' John thought to himself.

The girl got in front of the cell and it looked like she was trying to smile, but did a poor job of it and she introduced herself as some Duck Girl and the man behind her in the cape was her partner. She asked if he knew anything about what was going on here. Boy did he ever! He looked up at the two and both were expecting a quick answer. So John decided it was best to give them that.

"Well hello there.... Duck G-G-Girl and p-p-partner. M-M-My na-a-ame is..." John stopped though. Was it a good idea to give them his real name? The name John Johnson wasn't as popular as it used to be. The name John Johnson was now assosiated with the explosion of Snottsborn Industries and turning Geter Garker green... he didn't think it was such a good idea. So he lied. It was lucky for him that the cell was dark, or else he would not have gotten away with lying and they would have found out who he was immediately.

"My name is Doctor Clean! But please... I know that the name Doctor Clean isn't a great name to have right now. I mean I am the 'new menace' in town. But I assure you that that is not true!" John said bravely, with no stutter. "I shall answer your question as best as I can though. A man by the name of Geter Garker was transformed by an egg-head scientist today by accident. I came to investigate and Geter and I had a little fight as you can see. A police officer shot him and he disappeared. The officer got to me and since I don't like interfering with the law... well I went quietly. I hope that I helped." John, or now known as Doctor Clean said.

John saw that that Duck Girl or something and her partner were standing right in front of the monitoring camera, making it a great chance to escape this already dangerous place. "Now if you'll excuse me..." John didn't finish his sentence. He grabbed the newspaper and poked two eye holes out of it quickly and wrapped it around his head, just in case they saw him when he was trying to escape, they wouldn't see who he really was. He thought hard and produced his vacuum from his back. He slammed the vacuum hard on the cell door and it gave way, throwing itself down upon the two menacing people in goofy costumes in front of him. He started to run, but something caught his foot. 'Damn' he thought as he went falling towards the ground.

Zack pushed Cait to the side as the cell door came crashing down. He bent forward and flipped the door over his back, lunging for John as he tried to escape. He caught the prisoner's foot, sending him to the ground. Wasting no time, Zack grabbed John's arms and pinned them against the giant vacuum on his back.

"Alright, punk, I think you need to answer-"

"Hey, who are you three? Don't even think about running away from me." Zack shot the newcomer a look of exasperation.

"Why the hell would I run away from you? In case you haven't noticed, my hands are a little full right now." Zack looked over at Cait, "Duct Tape Girl? You mind dealing with this clown? I'll handle the human Hoover..."

"Well isn't he accepting," Austin muttered under his breath as the tan guy with the cape decided that the description of "clown" fit Austin. He told the girl in Duct Tape to "deal with him" as he tried to take out Human Hoover. Was that really his name?

"Look guys, I just want to help," Austin informed. He was quickly being overcome by second thoughts. He probably should he stayed home and learned of his abilities before he came to play hero boy. He felt extremely close to turning away and trying to find out more about these "special individuals" later on. It didn't seem like this guy who was paying attention to him was the sort he wanted to get mixed up with. He decided to wait and see what this Duct Tape Girl was going to do with him. He wanted some way to say he was on their side and meant no harm without sounding like a complete loser.

"We don't have any idea what is going on, if you know, please share whatever information you can give us. And no, I don't want you to leave, we could use all the help we can get in this chaos..."

Cait sighed, the tension showing around her eyes. This newcomer had calmed down slightly, and she hoped he would have something useful to share with them... Everything was so confusing, and Josh still weighed heavy on her mind. She just needed to start making sense of some of it...

"I'm sorry I don't have much information. I am sort of -" Austin stopped. How much should he say of his new abilities? He didn't know these people. "I'm sort of different. Not like a geek or a nerd different, but in other ways, if you kind of know what I'm saying?" Wow, how dumb did that sound, Austin wondered to himself. Couldn't he just like meet them all and be best friends or something. Life wasn't that simple. "Once again, I'm a good guy. I hope you both are too. If you're not going to kick me out, I think we should start trying to figure things out. How though? Oh and you with the cape, I really don't want to fight. Don't call me a clown please." Austin took a breath. Maybe something could become of this...but what?

"You don't have to worry about this becoming a fight," Zack muttered, "I don't fight clowns." He sighed and looked back up at the newcomer. "Sorry, I'm a little stressed right now. I'm sure you understand. My name is Commander Bronzed." He looked over at Cait, "Ixnay on the ackzay." Then, he once more addressed the newcomer, "I'd shake your hand but mine are a little full. Actually, on that note, I have to agree with Duct Tape Girl. Would you two help me get Super Jeeves here into a new cell? You might want to seal off the vacuum nozzles, Duct Tape Girl, I'd rather not have him blowing another cell door down on me..."