((So, it's Tuesday. Two days have passed since the last events written in the Chaos. I'm not going to bother connecting the dots on how my characters ended up where they are, unless inspiration strikes.))

Salamander threw himself under the table as the wall of water crashed down. "Help!" he yelled. "He's going to put me out! Kayleigh! Somebody!"

There was a roaring sound from out in the cafeteria - the sound of a great, indrawn breath, as the monster prepared to drop a tidal wave on Sal. His borrowed body wouldn't stand a chance, even with its flames turned up to the hottest.

Then there was a flash of blue light, and a gruff voice said, "You couldn't have done that five minutes ago?"

"I would have if you'd let me grab the Remote Activator," another, very similar voice replied. "But nooo, you were too busy stuffing your face."

"This is a hungry body!" the first voice protested. "When I return to my own, I do not wish for its owner to come hunting for me."

"You don't think he'd - they'd - object to having it back crushed under a mile of water?"

Salamander crawled out, settling his flames back down, and stared: the two voices came from the same body. It was a two-headed ogre, and the two heads were arguing ferociously with each other.

"Besides," the second was saying, "what happened to 'I can take control any time I want, I'm used to multiple heads, this is easy'?"

"... shut up." The first head turned a toothy grin on Salamander. "Hi! No need to thank us, it's his fault anyway."

"It was not my-" The second head didn't get any further, as the body swung an arm up to cover its mouth. The other arm twitched, but the first head glowered at it, and it settled down.

"I'm Kyaris," the first head said, "Department of Intelligence. This is Jareth; he's a decent tracker. We heard you were planning to hunt down that missing machine that caused all this?"

Salamander shrugged. "Someone has to," he said. "And my partner-"

"Kaaaaayleeeeeigh to the rescue!" Sal ducked as Kayleigh swooped by overhead, hanging by her hands from a hoverboard. "Have at thee, foul beas- oh, it's goooo-oof."

The board came to a hard stop against the wall, and Kayleigh dropped down. She jogged across the wet floor to Salamander and waved.

"Wa- oh, sorry, I keep forgetting. Sorry I took so long, I had to get changed."

Salamander looked at her bikini and shook his head. "You didn't-" He frowned. "Wait, how did that take a long time? You were wearing a bikini already!"

"But that was my sunbathing bikini," she said. "This is my monster-fighting bikini. See?"

Kyaris tried to exchange a look with Jareth, but he was too busy glaring. "Right," she said instead, "okay. So do you actually have any ideas how to find this thing?" She looked around the bedraggled cafeteria. "Does anyone?"

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((Happy for anyone to jump on-board here.))

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