Say Hello to Squad Number Two

is the seventh episode of Fantendo - Side Stories. It was written by and first aired in May 2017.
==Synopsis==
A new squad is formed by Naomi so the first squad can have proper backup. The teams go out on a task almost instantly and take the time to get to know each other better.
==Transcript==
Terry is seen early in the morning, walking into the F.A.N.T. base with a coffee in his hand.
:Terry: Being an acting Director's hard.
He is about to slump down in Naomi's seat as he notices Naomi is there.
:Terry: ...Oh.
Terry walks out of the office and goes to his own desk. He almost dozes off but just as he's about to, he hears some talking. He goes into the back room of the building to see Nadia Brodeur lifting a crate telekinetically, as he also sees Yvette Shaw and a couple of others.
:Terry: Who are you guys?
Nadia slowly lets the crate down as she turns to see Terry.
:Nadia: We were invited here. Ms. Richards wanted us to form a new squad.
:Terry: Oh.
Nadia walks up to Terry as Terry begins to shift around.
:Nadia: ...Are you okay?
Terry nods as Nadia notices his face becoming red. She looks to Yvette.
:Nadia: Every time.
Terry waddles away, embarrassed. He then walks back into the main room as he goes to Naomi.
:Terry: Who are those guys in the back?
:Naomi: Oh, that's Squad 2. They consist of Nadia Brodeur, Yvette Shaw, Bob Rose, Chauncey Thompson, Tyshawn Phillips and Kaori Tsukuda.
:Terry: Is Nadia the hot one?
:Naomi: ...Nice to know you already have affections.
:Terry: Hey, if you were into girls, I'm sure you would've gone weak at the knees too.
:Naomi: I am into girls, you idiot!
:Terry: Oh yeah. Forgot. But still, why do we have a second squad?
:Naomi: I started assembling it after the mission in Boston. It reminded me that we're not indestructible. I assembled it so we had backup whenever we were against the wall like that again.
:Terry: I guess that's fair.
Terry slowly walks out of Naomi's office as the rest of the first squad comes in.
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The first squad are seen with the new squad.
:Isabel: Yo, Nadia, what's Paris like?
Nadia looks at her.
:Nadia: Je ne suis pas de Paris.
The first squad and some of the second squad look lost.
:Yvette: She said she's not from Paris. She's not used to talking English full time yet.
:Isabel: Oh. That's fair, I guess.
:Howard: Did you at least go there, though?
Nadia searches her memories.
:Nadia: Non. Depuis que j'ai eu des superpuissances, je n'ai jamais vraiment quitté ma ville natale, sauf si c'était à des fins de modélisation.
The squads look at Yvette.
:Yvette: She said no and that after she gained her powers, she stayed in her hometown unless it was for modelling.
:Kareem: Weren't there modelling shows in Paris?
Nadia clenches her fists as the crate she's focusing on begins shaking.
:Nadia: Regarde, je ne suis pas de Paris, je n'ai jamais été à Paris, alors arrête. Putain de. M'interrogeant sur Paris!
The crate is crushed from Nadia's anger as the debris barely misses everyone.
:Howard: Jesus, calm down!
:Yvette: Nadia's basically pissed about people asking about Paris.
:Howard: Oh. Uh...
Bob, the new squad's leader, steps forward.
:Bob: So, do you guys have any powers?
:Isabel: I have super strength and laser vision but that's about it. What about you guys?
:Yvette: Nadia and I have as many powers as we have fingers.
:Isabel: Combined or indiviually?
:Yvette: Combined.
:Isabel: Oh thank god.
Yvette smirks. Naomi then comes in.
:Naomi: Hey, I need you guys for a minute.
The two teams nod as they go through to the main room.
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The two squads are seen in Naomi's office.
:Naomi: So, have you guys taken the time to get to know each other yet?
:Benedykta: We only know a bit about Ms. Nadia right now.
:Naomi: Hmm. Well, I found out about something that'll require more than just one squad.
Chauncey, one of the new squad's members, steps forward.
:Chauncey: What would we be doing, exactly?
:Naomi: Well, I went to check the cells when I got in this morning and when I came across Warner's mom's cell, she'd disappeared.
:Isabel: Oh boy.
:Yvette: Who?
:Naomi: Warner's an affiliate of ours. You've not met her yet. She has telekinesis like Brodeur does.
:Yvette: Huh. Sweet.
:Naomi: She comes from a very different background.
:Terry: I think we're all from different backgrounds. Chauncey and I are from a basketball background, Howard's from a pyrotechnics background, Isabel's from a...
Terry tries to think of what background Isabel's from.
:Chauncey: How do you know my name?
:Terry: Not important.
Terry snaps his fingers.
:Terry: Isabel's from a genetic mutation background.
:Isabel: What?
:Terry: The eyes.
:Isabel: Oh, fair enough, I guess.
:Naomi: Okay, okay, so. Warner's mom is out on the streets somewhere and we need to take her down before she does anything dangerous.
:Bob: What makes you so sure she is gonna do something bad?
:Naomi: She tried killing my mom last week. I injured myself defending my mom.
:Yvette: What's the issue with your mum?
:Naomi: Severe PTSD.
:Yvette: Oh.
:Naomi: Anyway, just head out and find her and get to know each other a little better.
The two teams nod as they go out into two cars and set off.
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Benedykta is seen in a car with Nadia, Yvette and two other new agents, Tyshawn and Kaori.
:Benedykta: So, where are you guys from?
:Yvette: I'm from Scotland. Ayr, born and raised.
:Kaori: Just outside Tokyo.
:Tyshawn: Pennsylvania.
:Benedykta: Nice. I always end up meeting people from other countries doing this job. I'm Polish myself.
:Yvette: You ever run into aliens?
:Benedykta: I've run into a demonic cult once.
:Tyshawn: ...What.
:Benedykta: There was once a cult in Georgetown. We went to investigate it and it turned out to be a group of demons. We fended them off though.
:Yvette: If all our jobs are like that, I can't wait!
:Benedykta: Oh trust me, Ms. Shaw, you'll go places in this job.
:Yvette: Woo!
Nadia smirks.
:Benedykta: Out of curiosity, how did you get your powers?
:Yvette: Me and Nadia were walking through Nadia's hometown. A thunderstorm started while we were walking and these two bolts came down and struck us. It's why we have these.
Yvette raises her right arm to show a lightning bolt sleeve tattoo.
:Benedykta: Oh, that makes sense now.
:Yvette: Nadia has an identical tattoo. We both got them when we were legally able to get tattoos. As a kind of reminder of how we got our powers.
:Benedykta: Aww.
Tyshawn raises his eyebrows. Kaori then suddenly speeds up the car.
:Tyshawn: What the hell are you doing?!
:Kaori: Trust me, I can do this legally.
:Tyshawn: But what's with the sudden turn of pace?!
:Kaori: It looks like that woman Ms. Richards was on about has invaded a building down the street.
:Benedykta: What makes you so sure?
:Kaori: Well...
Kaori points to a vandalised building with "Marie Warner" plastered on it.
:'Nadia: Are the people you take down usually as unsubtle as this?
:Benedykta: You'd be surprised. People in this world are terrible at hiding their bad side.
Kaori makes the car drift as she manages to park it in between two cars perfectly.
:Kaori: Let's go.
They all get out as the others arrive and enter the building, alongside Emerson.
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The teams are seen in the main entrance of the building.
:Nadia: Right. Ms. Baráth, do you have some sort of plan for this?
:Isabel: I believe Emerson has one.
Isabel points to Emerson.
:Emerson: I do indeed. I'm probably best heading this operation because at the end of the day, it is my mother.
The first squad nods in agreement.
:Emerson: So, from living with her for 18 years of my life, I know one thing that pisses her off.
The second squad, who seemed a bit reluctant to listen to Emerson, suddenly start paying attention.
:Emerson: So, from what I remember, my mother hated any mention of the south of England. She thought all the people down there were just stuck-up.
:Yvette: None of us can do an accent like that though.
:Emerson: (in a failed Cockney accent) Ya sure 'bout that, guv'na?
:Yvette: I'd say that was more Sydney than Hackney.
:Emerson: Really? Everyone in high school said it was a perfect accent.
:Chauncey: I've been to Australia for an FIBA tournament and you sounded more like them than anywhere in London, honestly.
Emerson frowns.
:Yvette: Just stick to the Northerner accent.
:Emerson: Fine. Plan B then. She hates electronic music.
Isabel grabs Kareem by the collar.
:Isabel: We're sorted already.
The first squad smirks.
:Nadia: What's so funny?
Isabel unplugs Kareem's headphones as dubstep blasts out of Kareem's phone.
:Kareem: Hey!
:Isabel: Trust me, it's gonna come in handy later.
Kareem frowns.
:Emerson: Right, so now we have our plan done, let's get going before it's possibly too late. I know what my mother's capable of. She was torturing someone the day I moved to the US.
The second squad raise their eyebrows as they head off to go through the building.
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Naomi is seen sleeping on an air mattress, clutching her stomach. Natsumi comes in and notices her.
:Natsumi: You alright?
Naomi slowly wakes up.
:Naomi: No. I feel god-awful. This stupid injury's taking its toll on me.
:Natsumi: Oh. Well, uh, your mom's here.
Samantha comes in and goes down to Naomi, hugging her.
:Naomi: Hey...
:Samantha: Hi, dear.
Naomi sits up.
:Naomi: I think this is the first time you've actually seen this base.
:Samantha: Yeah, it is. I meant to come around last week but I was kidnapped and you injured yourself.
:Natsumi: How bad's it this time?
:Naomi: My stomach's completely black now. Damaged my left lung. They said I was close to damaging my heart.
:Natsumi: Oof.
Naomi puts her head back. Samantha has a concerned look on her face.
:Samantha: Hey. You don't deserve to be stuck in here 24/7. You're an amazing person.
Samantha smiles as she puts her hand over Naomi's stomach. Naomi's stomach is then seen going from black back into the pale pink that it was originally. Naomi's look of pain slowly drains from her face.
:Naomi: Did you just heal my stomach?
:Samantha: Yeah. I can't stand to watch you be stuck in this little office the entire time. You need to get out and do stuff sometimes.
Naomi grins and hugs Samantha tightly.
:Naomi: Thank you so much!
Samantha grins as Naomi then sets off to the building the squads are in.
:Samantha: Does she usually make snap decisions like that now?
:Natsumi: Usually, yeah. I think she's just excited to get back into the field.
Samantha smirks.
:Samantha: I guess I'd feel the same way if I got rid of my PTSD. But far too much happened to me to forget what happened during my days as a vigilante.
Samantha sighs as she walks back into the main room and sits in there.
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Marie is seen in a room on the top of a building, as Arnie comes in.
:Arnie: Marie, those F.A.N.T. people have come.
:Marie: Excellent.
Marie opens a door to show Isabel's mother, Terry's parents, Howard's mother and Kareem's father tied up.
:Arnie: Okay, I know we're meant to be the bad guys in all of this, but I think you're about ten levels above me in terms of evilness.
:Marie: My daughter left me behind when she was 18. I'm wanting to take her back to England with me.
:Arnie: Why did that need to involve kidnapping people?
:Marie: Leverage.
Arnie looks at Marie, as he walks away.
:Arnie: I made a huge mistake.
Arnie goes to the elevator and presses to open it. Further down, the squads are seen walking through the corridors of the building cautiously.
:Tyshawn: Why couldn't we just take the elevator?
:Isabel: It's always better to move through the building in case of any other threats being in here other than the person who we're after.
Yvette stops as she looks at a wall.
:Yvette: There's something behind here!
The teams stop and look at her.
:Terry: That's a wall.
:Nadia: Yvette has X-ray vision. She can probably see something through the wall.
:Terry: Oh.
:Isabel: What is it?
:Yvette: Looks like... a guy coming out of the elevator.
Isabel knocks the wall down to see Arnie.
:Emerson: Who are you?
Arnie stares blankly.
:Isabel: Didn't we lock you up?
:Arnie: Yes, but some Marie woman set me free.
The first squad look at each other.
:Emerson: Motherfucker!
:Arnie: What?
:Emerson: That's my mom! We came here to take her down!
:Arnie: Wait, really?
:Emerson: Yeah. Why are you so surprised?
:Arnie: Well, you seem nice and your mother's... y'know.
:Emerson: Mad?
:Arnie: Yes.
Emerson smirks.
:Benedykta: If you don't mind, sir, where is Ms. Warner?
:Arnie: Top floor.
:Benedykta: Thank you.
Tyshawn makes a run for the elevator but is pulled back by Isabel before he can do so.
:Tyshawn: Fuck.
The teams then continue through the building.
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Naomi is seen pulling up to the building the squads are in.
:Naomi: Wow, Warner's mom is really unsubtle.
Naomi parks up outside the building. She walks in as she instantly spots the elevator. She takes it as she attempts to catch up with the squads. The camera then shows Isabel leading the squads, as they enter a dark room.
:Isabel: Keep alert.
The teams nod as Isabel fires a laser. The lights come up as a group of soldiers start to charge.
:Isabel: Oh shit. Get prepared!
The teams prepare themselves. Yvette forms rocks around her hands as Nadia starts to levitate. The rest get into a fighting stance as they run into the soldiers. Yvette and Nadia combine their terrakinesis and telekinesis to launch rocks at soldiers, knocking them out. Kaori shoots beams of ice that send multiple soldiers to the ground, Isabel used her strength to send soldiers into walls and through windows while the others engage in hand to hand combat. After taking another soldier down, Nadia has a brief vision. She sees a row of flames going through the room. Nadia looks at the agents as she covers herself and them in a psychic force-field.
:Terry: What the hell?
:Nadia: You will thank me in a minute.
The agents look confused. The team then sees what Nadia saw just prior and are protected by Nadia's force field. When the fire clears up, they see Naomi.
:Naomi: I'm back, bitches!
:Squad #1: Naomi?!
:Nadia: Ms. Richards?
:Naomi: Damn right!
:Terry: What about the injury?
:Naomi: My mom healed it up. She's got healing powers.
:Emerson: Sick! Radical Richards is back!
:Naomi: Hell yeah!
Naomi high fives Emerson.
:Benedykta: What do you mean by healing powers?
:Naomi: My mom can heal up injuries simply by focusing on them. She's the reason my great-great-grandma lived for 120 years.
:Benedykta: Interesting.
:Naomi: Anyway, I'm just ready to kick some ass! Especially with what this woman did to my mom!
:Emerson: Let's go then.
Naomi smirks as the team sets off.
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The teams are seen at a door as Naomi busts it down. They swarm in to see Marie standing there, as if she had been anticipating them.
:Marie: Ah, perfect.
Naomi lights her hand up and walks to Marie.
:Marie: I wouldn't do that.
Marie opens a door to show most of the first squad's parents. Terry, Isabel, Howard and Kareem look shocked. Benedykta narrows her eyes, looking disapproving.
:Terry: Why did you do this?
:Marie: Because you messed with the wrong person.
Nadia looks at the parents and looks at Marie, narrowing her eyes as well. Nadia begins to levitate.
:Nadia: Let them go. Now.
Marie scoffs.
:Marie: Or what?
Benedykta's eyes start turning green. Isabel's mother looks to Isabel.
:Isabel's mother: (in Hungarian, subtitled) Isabel, your colleague's eyes went green. Is this normal?
Isabel's eyes go wide.
:Isabel: Oh shit.
Isabel steps out. The squads, Marie and the first squad's parents look confused as the squads follow her, save for Benedykta.
:Benedykta: (in Polish, subtitled) Don't even try and threaten my boyfriend or his family!
:Tyshawn: What's going on in there?
Benedykta clenches her fists together as she fires an EMP shockwave off. The shockwave knocks Marie back and knocks her out and is shown to be so powerful the door protecting the teams snaps in two. The first squad is shown wide-eyed and shocked while the second squad raise their eyebrows while Tyshawn whistles. Benedykta's eyes go light blue again and clears her throat.
:Howard's mother: Are you my boy's girlfriend?
:Benedykta: Yes. How did you know?
:Howard: My mom's Polish.
:Benedykta: Oh. So I'm guessing she knew what I said then.
Howard's mother nods. The teams walk in as they get the parents loose.
:Howard: How long have you been able to do that?
:Benedykta: Since I was young. That's the first time I've used in about 15 years. I've kept it well hidden.
:Naomi: It was definitely new to me.
The squads nod. Benedykta lets her hair down and hugs Howard, seeming fatigued.
:Naomi: We should detain Emerson's mom. Take her to an even more secure part of the building. Where she hopefully shouldn't be able to get out this time. She's too dangerous to be in a regular cell.
The first squad nods in agreement. Emerson looks at them.
:Emerson: You fucking kidding? My mum can break out of virtually anything.
:Naomi: We have a straitjacket.
:Emerson: ...Actually that could work.
Naomi smirks as they take the unconscious Marie back to the f.A.N.T. building and take the first squad's parents home.
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The first squad are seen in the main part of the F.A.N.T. building, presumably tired.
:Terry: That was... definitely interesting.
Howard comes in, with Benedykta in his arms.
:Isabel: She alright?
:Howard: Yeah. I think using her powers just drained her.
:Naomi: Not surprised. She had so much power behind that.
Howard nods as he puts Benedykta in her chair.
:Kareem: Where's Emerson's mother now, then?
:Naomi: In a room five stories underground. It's got a big heavy door. Hopefully, she won't be able to get out of it this time.
Samantha comes in, and notices the team.
:Samantha: Oh, hello.
:Naomi: Oh, mom! What're you still doing here?
:Samantha: I ended up chatting with Natsumi. Ended up falling asleep in a hammock she has in the back.
:Naomi: Huh. I went to go after Emerson's mom again. She's under the weird belief that her daughter wants anything to her after she tortured people and kidnapped people's parents for the sake of leverage and so on.
:Samantha: Oh. Her. If it weren't for my PTSD, I'd probably beat her ass into submission. She's fucked up.
:Isabel: This time it was my mom, Howard's mom, Kareem's dad and Terry's mom and dad. It seemed like it'd be a struggle but Benedykta unleashed some EMP.
:Samantha: From herself or from a machine?
:Isabel: The former.
Samantha looks at Benedykta.
:Samantha: I didn't even know she had superpowers.
:Terry: We didn't either. That pretty much means I'm the only one in this team who doesn't have a superhuman ability.
:Naomi: You can jump hella high.
:Terry: I can't jump any higher than high jumpers.
:Isabel: They have to go horizontal. Your jumps are vertical.
:Terry: ...Screw you. It's called being athletically gifted.
The others smirk.
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Nadia is seen collapsing back onto a bed, exhausted.
:Nadia: That was exhausting.
Yvette is seen with a hot dog, taking big bites.
:Nadia: Where did you get that?
:Yvette: From the hot dog stand right outside the building.
Nadia looks out of the window to see the hot dog stand. She levitates down as she comes back up a minute later with a hot dog.
:Nadia: How did I miss that?
Yvette shrugs.
:Nadia: So. We witnessed a woman driving really dangerously but staying safe at the same time, our boss unleashing a pyrokinetic plume, a professional scientist unleashing a wave of EMP from her own body...
:Yvette: All in all, a normal day for us.
:Nadia: This is weirder than what we had back in Orléans. We didn't nearly get blasted by EMP back in Orléans. We just had supernatural storms and a massive flood.
:Yvette: I don't see how a supernatural storm's weirder than a woman expelling large quantities of flames from her internal organs.
Nadia shakes her head.
:Nadia: We should sleep. Chances are it's going to be like this again tomorrow.
Yvette nods as the two get into bed and go to sleep. As the lights go out, Nadia hears Yvette still chewing.
:Nadia: Sainte merde, allez-vous dormir!
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Emerson is seen looking at her mother in her cell.
:Emerson: She's off her rocker.
Emerson turns around to look at Naomi.
:Naomi: She shouldn't break out this time. She's got everything on to stop her breaking free.
Emerson nods.
:Emerson: Hey, if your mum didn't have serious PTSD, would she work with us?
:Naomi: Oh yeah, definitely. She loves you guys.
Emerson smirks.
:Emerson: Doesn't she live with you now?
:Naomi: For now, yeah. She's a bit scared to go back to Baltimore.
:Emerson: Can't blame her. Especially after the shit she's been put through.
Naomi nods as the two walk out, leaving Marie alone in her cell.
==Reception==
TBA
==Trivia==
TBA
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