[It’s the next morning, 7:30. Liv is walking along through a nearly empty town with the black cat still following after her. She’s now wearing a red shirt and purple hoodie with black jeans and shoes. She’s hobbling slightly from her wound and looking down at the cat, purring loudly.]

Liv: You… you’re just going to keep following aren’t you?

[The cat rubs against her other leg, making her stop.]

Liv: Can you at least be a little bit quieter?

[Her phone starts to buzz. She pulls it out, seeing the name and answering.]

Liv: Hey, Sissel, how are you holding up?

Sissel: Fine enough… where are you now?

Liv: Um… town, just heading to College-

Sissel: Sod it off.

Liv: Excuse me?

Sissel: I need you to come to the old house.

Liv: [confused] Seriously? I’ve said before, that place is a death trap.

Sissel: It’s not caved in yet, also the group need you in.

Liv: [confused] What? Why? Why there, not just at College?

Sissel: [shouting] Look, I am not arguing with you! Can you just come over and bring the sodding cat?!

[Sissel hangs up before Liv can ask another question, leaving her staring at her phone in confusion.]

Liv: [confused] Um… hey fuzzball, you fancy a longer walk?

[The cat purrs in agreement and she starts walking again, looking around. It transitions to her making it to the rundown house with the purple door, wide open. She walks though and looks around.]

Liv: [loud] Hello?

Vince: [distant] In here!

[Liv moves into the room and finds the table surrounded by the group. Sissel is wearing the same clothes from yesterday, looking as if he hasn’t slept. Leigh is wearing a shirt with a picture from Sweeney Todd on it. Chelsea is wearing a white shirt with blue stripes downwards on it. Vince is wearing a brown hoodie over his clothes. Gary has a white shirt with a yellow tie design on it with the bag from yesterday on his back. Liv immediately moves focus onto Sissel.]

Liv: Um… have you slept?

Sissel: No. Come join please.

[Liv comes over to the the table, the cat jumping up. She groans and picks up the

cat, putting it back down.]

Liv: Come on, buddy.

Leigh: When did you get a cat?

Liv: He just… he hurt his leg, he’s been following me ever since.

Sissel: Is that why you were limping?

[Liv looks at Sissel, confused.]

Liv: [confused] Sorry, what?

Sissel: You healed the cat, but you got the wound on your leg now. That’s how it works.

[Liv looks between the rest of the group, looking between each other in confusion.]

Liv: [confused, worried] Um… Sissel-

[The cat jumps back up onto the table. Sissel reaches over and starts to pet the cat.]

Sissel: Oh, hello Cheshire…

Chelsea: Cheshire?

Leigh: Did you name the cat after the club?

Liv: We are not keeping the cat, it is going back to its owners when I find them!

[Sissel looks to the group.]

Vince: Cecil, you might as well tell them what happened.

[Leigh, Chelsea and Liv look between each other.]

Sissel: Right… right, okay then…

[Sissel stops petting Cheshire, looking to the three.]

Sissel: I know that you have superpowers.

[They look between each other again, now with Vince and Gary included.]

Gary: [confused] That is not even... close to what we were thinking of, sorry, what the fuck are you on about?

[Sissel looks to Gary and Vince for a second to speak, then stops himself. He looks back at the group.]

Sissel: Um… okay, I’ll prove it them.

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[Sissel takes off the shoe and quickly comes up, throwing it at Leigh. Leigh holds up his hands in a panic, making it stop quickly in front of his face. Gary’s jaw drops in surprise, the rest of the group looking at it. The shoe very quickly drops to the floor, Leigh panicking.]

Leigh: [panicking] Okay, I don’t know why that’s happening!

Sissel: If it helps, she can heal people.

[Sissel points to Liv, very shocked.]

Liv: [shocked] Um… okay, sure, it is, but I thought that was the cat.

Sissel: No, that’s you. Chelsea told me in the future.

[Vince punches the table, getting attention.]

Vince: [confused, annoyed] Cecil, mate… I love you, you know that, so pardon what I’m about to say… can you talk outside of fucking sense please?

[Sissel nods, very quickly]

Sissel: [slight panic] Okay, um… thinking, um… okay, so turns out that lightning storm gave us superpowers apart from me and Gary, for some reason.

[Gary perks up, frowning.]

Sissel: [slight panic] Chelsea travelled back in time and told me that, Leigh is basically a psychic, Liv can heal people by touching them and she didn’t tell me what Vince can do.

Vince: [surprised] Wait… wait, I have one?

Gary: [annoyed] Wait, I DON’T have one?

Chelsea: [surprised] I can time travel?

[Liv and Leigh look at each other. Sissel covers his ears.]

Sissel: [shouting] Please stop yelling at me, I have had a very stressful day!

[Leigh looks at Gary, nodding to him. Gary notices.]

Gary: Um… how about we talk about our thing then?

[Gary looks to Vince who nods.]

Gary: So… turns out that Goldberg may have possibly murdered that… um…

Leigh: [shocked] Tweedle. Evan Tweedle?

Gary: Yeah! Um… me and Vince saw him… ditching the body in his trunk.

[Sissel moves slightly closer to Vince and Gary.]

Gary: And based on what happened yesterday… I think it’s best that we try and deal with the whole “murderous teacher” shtick that he’s got going at the moment.

[The group look between each other again, surprised.]

Sissel: I also have a separate thing that I need help with… please.

Leigh: I-I don’t know if-

[Vince hits the table again.]

Vince: [annoyed] Oh… come on! We have superpowers, actual superpowers, that we have just seen! What, we’re not going to use them? Use them to stop a killer? I mean Cecil a bow and arrow and give Gary some cleavage, we’re basically the Avengers!

Leigh: [shouting] I had a gun pointed at me yesterday, I’d prefer not to do that again!

Vince: [angry, loud] And if they fire the gun, then you can stop the bullet!

Leigh: [shouting] I don’t even know how! You expect me to start catching bullets now?

Chelsea: [shouting] Stop it!

[Attention turns to Chelsea. Sissel very slowly moves the hands away from his head.]

Sissel: [worried] Um...

Chelsea: I’m in. I mean… if what Sissel and you two are saying is true, which I can believe since he just did THAT, then I guess I don’t have a choice.

Liv: Yeah… yeah, so am I. I mean… as long as I don’t get the cat killed… please tell me that doesn’t happen.

Sissel: Chelsea didn’t tell me anything bad happened to Cheshire.

Liv: Good… good…

[Attention moves over to Leigh, looking between the rest of the group. He sighs.]

Leigh: [annoyed] If I get a gun pointed at me again, I’m gonna scream. Fine! What is the plan?

[Gary grabs the bag, unzipping it and pulling out a map. He unrolls the map and shows an overhead view of the college.]

Gary: Right… here’s the plan then...