Bam, Bam, Bam... There was a banging at the door.
The Curious Brothers were enjoying their day off. They were scientists at the FutureSim Labs.
They had a fairly good reputation in their community. However, they were known to be a little quirky. Also, you had to question .. three grown men making good money still living together? What was up with that? Well that was the general consensus in the town anyway. Then there was their family ties. We won't go into that just now but suffice to say it's weird. Well the world is a strange place right?
Pascal and Lazlo went to answer .. "Why in the heck did they use the back door! They always use the backdoor!" Pascal muttered before opening the door to.. Hello, what have we here?
He was taken aback as a strange group shuffled in.
Okay, this was weird stuff. He took a step back and looked at Lazlo and hoped these.. people weren't dangerous or catching. "Act natural" he whispered to his brother and went to warn Vidcund, their eldest brother.
The people shuffled and snapped around the house walking jerkly. Their mouths were stretched wide in an unnatural smile. Their eyes were opened wide, wide but their stare was blank and dead. The jerky movements they made were off-putting to say the least. Did that woman's neck actually just bend like that? They didn't seem in pain though..
The boys decided to quietly observe and pretend to be natural.
They tried to engage them in normal activities but the strange people didn't react to most things, and what was with this pollen in the air? Did they bring it in with them?
After awhile, maybe a half and hour or so the strange people suddenly turned and started to leave en mass. They hadn't said a word to each other. Just left.
No sooner had the door closed behind them Pascal noticed a strange growth in the sink.. long colorful tendrils seemed to be reaching toward him. Then the door banged open and in walked some official looking sorts in black suits.
"There is a problem happening in the community and the place is under martial law. We need to look around." The people in black then proceeded to take their refrigerator.
Pascal had had it and blew up, "Just what do you think your doing!?"
"Our job Sir.. please stand aside." The woman in black answered coldly. Then after poking around a bit more they left.
Pascal looked down into the sink when they departed. Okay, they take our refrigerator but leave this stuff? Government incompetence. He took a sample of the weird and unusal plant then cleaned it out of the sink.
He turned to give his brothers a worried look. "What now?" The strange pollen floated and danced gracefully in the air. "Well at least they didn't find our secret lab.." Lazlo said and winked.
Vidcund and Lazlo stepped out to watch the officials get into their van and have a look down the street. Lazlo heard a gasp as he watched their van disappear and looked over at his brother.
Vidcund had his hands clasped over his mouth looking at the exotic looking plant nearby.
"This wasn't here yesterday", he said tightly.
